Once a foreign concept, digital art can now be seen in galleries, shops, and even the cover of the New Yorker.
While artists have had access to computer-based tools for years, we’ve also collected some resources for portable platforms including the iPhone and Android devices that have opened up a whole… read more
Everything is going 3D these days, and Adobe Flash isn’t missing out: The company has revealed it will include 3D support in a future version of the browser plug-in.
The news of the update first leaked out via the agenda of October’s Adobe Max conference, which includes a presentation entitled “Flash… read more
With today’s trends in web design, it is hard to find websites that don’t incorporate gradients as their focal point. While gradients add detail, you can still achieve a good look with a less is more approach using solid colors. This is why I have compiled a list of 30… read more
It can be argued that no consumer electronics company has captured the public’s fascination the way Apple has. Over the years it has morphed into more than just a company or corporation, but for many it has become a representation of a lifestyle or culture, and a status symbol complete… read more
Several early iPhone 4 customers have discovered critical issues with the phone’s display and reception that could pose major problems for Apple’s newest mobile device.
Multiple Apple- and gadget-focused websites are receiving reports that the iPhone’s much-discussed “Retina Display” is susceptible to a yellow discoloration, either as a thin line… read more
Brian Sawyer is an editor for O’Reilly Media’s Head First division and the co-author of Best Android Apps: The Guide for Discriminating Downloaders. The following is based in part on content from the book.
Wherever you are, if you find yourself alone and in need of entertainment, you’ll likely… read more
UK-based mobile telecommunications company Orange and renewable energy resource community GotWind are bringing attendees of the notoriously muddy Glastonbury Festival the perfect accessory: wellies that charge your mobile phone while you walk in them.
The Orange Power Wellies have a “power generating sole” that converts heat generated from your feet… read more
YouTube has just released a new video editor that lets you create video mashups and edit down clips from your library of existing video uploads.
The new service enables you to edit together separate clips, as well add or change the background music using YouTube’s commercial AudioSwap library of licensed… read more
According to several reports, at least one of the people involved with the recent iPad/AT&T security breach has been arrested.
Andrew Auernheimer, a 24-year-old Arkansas resident, was arrested when police acting on an FBI search warrant found cocaine, ecstasy and LSD, as well as unnamed schedule 2 and 3 pharmaceuticals,… read more
Google’s Street View car captured the first kiss between teenage lovebirds in Staffordshire, England, then the intimate moment appeared on the web for all to see. Now CNET has discovered that the image has been replaced by one that’s blank save for the words “This image is no longer… read more
Today at the Mashable Media Summit (which is presented in partnership with CNN) in New York, CNN has officially launched the new technology section of its website.
Aside from a new design that is quite distinctive from the rest of CNN.com, the revamped tech section includes a new “Tech Pulse”… read more
While regular production cars might not always resemble the exotics that were on the drawing board — for obvious reasons such as cost and technology — concept cars, both virtual and real, have always gathered far more attention than the ones that roll off the assembly plant. We’ve gathered 20… read more
The price of the Android-based Dell Streak 5-inch tablet has finally been revealed — $500 unlocked, direct from Dell. It will become available to U.S. consumers starting next month, and potential buyers in the UK will be able to pick up the device as early as tomorrow.
We’ve been keeping… read more
Noa Gafni is a social media consultant with a focus on women and Gen Y. She authors Webutantes, a blog about Internet trends impacting women.
Location-based services (LBS) on mobile phones are engaging a growing market — one that is expected to generate revenues of over $12.7 billion by 2014…. read more
After recent rumors that Google is internally abandoning Windows and switching to Linux because of security concerns, Microsoft fires back at critics, claiming it’s doing more than its competitors when it comes to security.
“When it comes to security, even hackers admit we’re doing a better job making our products… read more
Events have just kicked off at the D8 Conference with Apple CEO Steve Jobs taking the stage for a conversation with All Things Digital producers Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. After an introduction from Rupert Murdoch commenting on how content creators and technology companies are “finally getting along,” the… read more
Even Facebook board members are not immune to phishing attacks. On Saturday, Jim Breyer of Accel Partners became the latest victim when his account was used to send a spam message to more than 2,300 friends.
The message in question (see below) came in the form of an event invitation… read more
Animal rights activists were none too happy with Zynga’s use of pit bulls as weapons in the popular Mafia Wars Facebook game. After sending a letter to CEO Mark Pincus, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) scored a victory: CNet reports that the game’s maker has… read more
Poor iPad. It’s only been on the market for a month, and it’s already been crashed to bits with a baseball bat, blended and generally abused in every possible way.
In hopefully the last act of agression against this beautiful piece of technology, the iPad has now also been microwaved…. read more
NASA was been wowing us with beautiful imagery from Mars and of our own planet’s volcanic activity, and now the space agency has released some spectacular photos and videos of our sun; we’ve included a few below.
The recently launched Solar Dynamics Observatory has been taking some unique portraits of… read more
By Melissa Scroggins
Have you put off backing up your work? Too complicated, right? Like many, backing up your work becomes a chore that is put off and put off and finally, put out of mind. When you realize you need a backup, it’s probably too late. A glitch occurs in… read more
Go to any website and you’re guaranteed to find one thing: a navigation menu. Navigation menus enable visitors to move from page to page; without them, we would have no way to conveniently explore websites. Perhaps this is why designers, information architects, usability researchers and user experience specialists invest so… read more
In January we previewed Popbox, an upcoming Internet media center from Syabas, the people behind the Popcorn Hour devices.
Today Syabas is officially launching the Popbox SDK so that developers can start building apps for the device, which is scheduled to hit the streets sometime this quarter. The SDK will… read more
By Paul Andrew
In the 15 years since the HTML table element was first incorporated into HTML 2.0, it has been on a constant roller coaster ride. Upon its introduction it was a revelation, it was a new way for web designers to present detailed data in structured tabular format, it… read more
If you want to “go big” visually with a website, delivering complex interaction and a rich experience across a wide range of browsers, Flash is the only way to go. Right? Nope. Given the widespread adoption and advancements of modern browsers and JavaScript libraries, using Flash makes little sense. But… read more
AllThingsD’s Peter Kafka has uploaded a video interview with a New York artist named Ken Solomon, who has replicated Google Image Search results and Facebook profile pages by hand for an exhibit that will be on display at Chelsea’s Josee Bienvenu Gallery from April 8 through May 15.
Solomon strung… read more
The Social Analyst is a weekly column by Mashable Co-Editor Ben Parr, where he digs into social media trends and how they are affecting companies in the space.
On Thursday, Apple will unveil iPhone OS 4.0. It’s not the only thing the company is expected to reveal, though. … read more
Google has released a new video aimed at teens about making Google Buzz a safer experience.
The video was released in conjunction with the new Buzz privacy reset issued yesterday. This new focus on privacy and privacy options comes amidst class-action lawsuits and a request for FTC investigation regarding the… read more
Whether for marketing, science or sport, some individuals are more interested in destroying the iPad than in maintaining its luster or finding the perfect case for the device.
Case in point: The three videos embedded below. Each has a different purpose, but the end result remains the same. You better… read more
Want to know what makes Apple’s iPad tick? Well wait no longer: thanks to the FCC and some analysis from the people over at iFixit, we now know what the internal guts of the iPad look like.
The Federal Communications Commission has publicly posted a series of images and… read more
NASA undertook a very unique initiative with its HiWish program, which allows the general public to submit suggestions for where to point the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s high-resolution camera.
The first eight images below from the HiWish program have been released by the space agency, giving us incredible close-up views of… read more
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Watercolor is such an old school element. Artists have been using watercolor for hundreds of years, and web designers have adopted the style for good reason.
Watercolor is a great way to add depth, interesting subtle textures and colors. It can really give your site an authentic,… read more
The footer in a web design appears at the bottom of a page and is often ignored since the content is the main focus. However, designers should not ignore this part of a website since the total presentation of a web design creates a long lasting impression to… read more
Hey! You know what’s a new and different observation? The iPad is, like, totally just like that thing in Minority Report… and Harry Potter… and Star Trek… Yeah, I think we’re all getting sick of the comparisons/lawsuits at this point, which is what makes this new parody video,… read more
It’s been tough times for consumer electronics retailers of late, with both Circuit City and CompUSA closing their doors and being absorbed into online merchants. Now the New York Post reports RadioShack could potentially be facing the same fate.
The company is reportedly “exploring strategic alternatives,” according to inside sources…. read more
The annual Pwn2Own contest at the CanSecWest security show in Vancouver gives hackers and security experts a chance to demonstrate their ability and try to breach the security of various devices and software, and boy, were they successful this year.
Nearly all major browsers – Firefox, Safari, IE8 – were… read more
In a blog post today Twitter comments on the “State of Twitter Spam.” Once a pressing issue for most Twitizens, the graph released today shows pretty clearly a sharp reduction over the past eight months or so — so much so that the current spam volume is now down… read more
File this under “what did you expect?” Annie Levitz, a sixteen year old from Mundelein, IL has been sending 4,000 text messages a month. Yes, FOUR THOUSAND. She began to feel tingling, pain and numbness in her hands and went to her doctor who diagnosed her the the RSI injury,… read more
Last week for our usual Monday inspirational post we presented you with a showcase of web designs featuring the color yellow. Many of you enjoyed the focus on one color and even asked that we showcase another color. Since yellow is bright and bold, we thought we would go neutral… read more
College and university websites have a lot of roles to fill. They need to provide information for prospective students (both new and transfer), parents of students and prospective students, current students, and alumni. In many cases, they’re also the gateway to the school’s intranet and the public face for both… read more
<pLyons, better known as blogger Fake Steve Jobs, has apparently signed a deal with Seinfeld writer Larry Charles to create a half-hour, single camera, satirical TV show about a Silicon Valley hotshot. As of now, Lyons is only writing the pilot script for the series, but since it's called "iCON,"… read more
After many months of testing, five beta versions and 2 release candidates, Firefox 3.0 was released in June 2008. The 3.0.x branch was the major stable branch of Mozilla’s web browser for a long time, and it’s been updated to version 3.0.18 so far. Now, however, it reached the… read more
Voting ends tonight (11:59PM CT) in the Pepsi Refresh SXSW Challenge, where Mashable is supporting SparkHelp, a location-based mobile application that looks to connect people to opportunities to volunteer in their communities.
As a quick refresher, we’re competing against two other teams to help SparkHelp win $50,000 in funding so… read more
Google’s new social network, Google Buzz, is getting some additional refinement, based on user feedback. Today’s news: The search giant is testing new features that will give you control over the flood of Buzz e-mail notifications.
Google Buzz has the benefit of being integrated directly into Gmail. Not… read more
By Robert Bowen
Once upon a time, when the Internet was dialed-up and 36,600 KBPS was like lightning, I was living in a small town working for a computer retailer and Internet service provider. My boss at the time was… well, let’s just say that customer service was not his priority…. read more
Consumer Reports asked 7,000 subscribers about their satisfaction with their computer companies across categories like problem solved, phone waits, phone staff and online support. Each answer was issued a point value, with a maximum of 100 points.
Among laptops, Apple scored 86 points. The second place finisher, Lenovo, accumulated… read more
Don’t you believe it, because the critics have been wrong before. Several times, actually, according to The Week, which provides a list of five Apple products the critics thought would fail. Out of those five, only one, the Newton, failed to find mainstream success. The other four were industry-defining products… read more
Cnet reports this morning that the majority of the “Documentary Feature” and “Documentary Short” nominees — 9 out of 10 in fact — were made using Final Cut Studio, Apple’s professional video editing package. Cnet spoke with some of the filmmakers, including Dan Wilken, online editor of “Food, Inc,” who… read more
This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more
A couple of months ago we discovered Apple was in talks with major music labels about securing their permission and support for storing iTunes users’ music in the cloud. Now it looks like the company is also making the rounds with film studios, eyeing the parallel goal of allowing… read more
<pt week in this post and last night during the talkcast, we mentioned that Apple's shareholders had passed on a sustainability proposal during last week's meeting (the first time in recent memory that Apple didn't go for stricter environmental standards), but apparently the shareholders weren't just against the proposal. At… read more
Conan O’Brien once had a recurring segment on Late Night called “Guests We Won’t Have Back,” during which he would look back at guests (who were fake) that he regretted having on the show. There was bug expert Sara Wiggins, who ate a live beetle in front of the camera…. read more
Professors who wish to engage students during large lectures face an uphill battle. Not only is it a logistical impossibility for 200+ students to actively participate in a 90 minute lecture, but the downward sloping cone-shape of a lecture hall induces a one-to-many conversation. This problem is compounded by… read more
After a four year absence, the next version of Quicken for the Mac is here. It’s called Quicken Essentials for Mac and is a ground up Cocoa rewrite. I’ve been using the program for a few weeks now. Is it worth the wait? Well that depends what you need in… read more
YouTube and Universal’s joint venture music video site Vevo attracted 35 million unique visitors in its first month of existence (per December comScore data), but apparently one-fourth of those visitors are there for Lady Gaga and Lady Gaga alone.
According to Ted Mico with Interscope Geffen — part of the… read more
It’s time for something brand new and exciting on Smashing Magazine. Actually, we have quite a few things in the works, and today we are happy to reveal one of them. Over the years, we have published many lengthy articles, and now we want to write some shorter ones for… read more
Denny’s dine-in menu invites customers to “Join the conversation!” and follow @Dennys on Twitter. The problem is that the account in question belongs to a Taiwanese Twitterer — Dennys Hsieh — and not the American restaurant chain, which manages two official accounts: DennysAllNightr and DennysGrandSlam.
The inaccurate menus (pictured below)… read more
Google’s ever-expanding empire has added another branch: subsidiary Google Energy has been granted an order by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to buy and sell energy at market rates.
Does this mean Google is set to become your power company? Not yet — instead, Google wants more control over… read more
iSuppli predicts Apple will ship in excess of 33 million iPhones this year with an average capacity of 35.2 GB of NAND flash memory — consistent with a doubling of capacities across the line. 2010 sales estimates for the iPad range from 4 million units and up, and the iPod… read more
Think you’re such a social media expert that you could tweet for a living? Well, President Obama is looking for an official social networks manager, and you might be just the tech whiz for the job.
According to President Obama’s website, The Democratic National Committee and Organizing for America… read more
<pirst heard about the Parrot AR.Drone, an iPhone-controlled RC quadrocopter, back when it made such a big splash at CES, but unfortunately, since we weren't there, we didn't get to see it in person. Fortunately Parrot did come by Macworld, and the day before the show, we finally got to… read more
For one reason or another, a lot of designers use Music Players on their website. An online Music player needs no more introductions for web developers or simple users. Online Music players offer you flexibility and creativity in building your own Jukebox on your Web spaces the way you want…. read more
This isn’t the way you should learn about the death of your 17 year old brother.
According to Syndey’s The Daily Telegraph, twins Angela and Maryanne Vourlis had just woken up on their 20th birthday. Like most young adults, they logged onto Facebook to check their walls and inboxes for… read more
Netflix plans to bump the video quality of its Watch Instantly streaming service up to 1080p on some devices, CNET claims. It will also roll out 5.1 surround sound support. Both upgrades will occur by next year.
Currently, Netflix Watch Instantly is available in 720p HD on the Xbox 360, the… read more
FBI Director Robert Mueller wants ISPs to track “origin and destination information” about their customers’ browsing habits and store them for authorities’ use for two years, according to a CNET report.
That would mean monitoring the IP addresses, domains and exact websites users visit, and then storing that information for months…. read more
If you’re seeking a job in social media, we’d like to help out. For starters, Mashable’s Job Lists section gathers together all our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired. In particular, you might want to see our articles on How to Leverage… read more
Apple might have dominated the news last week with its iPad announcement, but the company hardly has a monopoly on the burgeoning media tablet market. Last night, Glen Murphy, who does user interface for Google, blogged about some Chrome OS-based tablet ideas that Google has been toying with.
Apparently,… read more
By now everyone’s familiar with the infamous Facebook Doppelganger Week(s) — it’s been going on for, like, two weeks now — but has anyone stopped to think that the trend is actually going against the social networking site’s Terms of Service?
CNET brought up the point this morning, and… read more
According to Ars Technica, Apple’s internal support system is aware of the continuing problem and working on a fix. Customers who complain about the issue are to be told that their faulty display can be replaced “…in about three weeks.” Note that the units currently for sale have a 3-week… read more
Paper publications have a problem: they want to link to the Internet, but in order to reach the destination, reader must type the link into his browser manually, which is slow and awkward.
Microsoft now offers a solution, called Tag. It’s essentially a barcode – an optical machine-readable representation of data… read more
After US Airways flight 1549 emergency landed in New York’s Hudson River last January, citizen journalism provided the first on-the-scene reporting, thanks to Janis Krums’ infamous Twitpic of the crash.
More citizen journalism from David Martin resulted in the following time-lapse video embedded below, of the Airbus A320 aircraft submerged in… read more
<pike Monoprice around here. They are a wonderful source for cables and iPhone battery backups as well as lots of other accessories and add-ons. We covered their 2200 mAh battery dongle a few months back and nearly everyone who bought one was quite happy including our own Auntie TUAW. The… read more
While we all anxiously await Apple’s announcement on Wednesday — presumably unveiling the Apple Tablet to the world — speculations have taken a decidedly greener turn. The website Patently Apple has uncovered some patents filed by the tech giant related to the area of solar cells and solar power.
Hot on the heels of YouTube’s announcement of support for HTML5 with a new player, Vimeo has launched its own player supporting the new web standard.
Like we wrote about this morning, one of the many advantages is that removing Flash as the video middleman can increase performance and reduce the… read more
Ever since Apple acquired music streaming service Lala in early December of last year, speculation has been flying surrounding exactly how Steve Jobs and company would incorporate the new assets into its wildly popular iTunes music service.
Early signs pointed to the cloud, and how Lala’s unique “upload your own music… read more
Microsoft has filed suit against TiVo, specifically accusing the company of infringing on its video purchasing and delivery patents. This comes just days after a lawsuit was filed by TiVo against AT&T, one of Microsoft’s biggest customers.
The best way to explain this complicated series of affairs is through a… read more
<p several analysts weighing in today on tablet components, there are a few items that might make you sit up a little straighter and take note — especially if you're eager for an alternative to your AT&T contract.
First, Ashok Kumar broke down his expectations for components in the… read more
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<pt, I want to take a moment to thank all of you. The response to the first open letter has been incredible, and it wouldn't have been possible without your suggestions. This is the second in a series of letters from you, the TUAW reader, to Apple. This time around… read more
After you’ve looked at a picture of an LCD, well, you’ve seen ‘em all. Audio gear comes in a vast range of sizes and shapes. The best of it looks amazing, here’s a nice selection of stellar audio that debuted at CES 2010.
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We count down the tech trends we saw at CES 2010.
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CNET experts answer common questions about 3D display technology for TVs, Blu-ray players, PlayStation3 and other home theater equipment.
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In the wake of the devastating Haiti earthquake, the Red Cross has already been able to raise $5 million for relief through $10 donations via text message, while Google has stepped up to the plate with a $1 million donation of its own.
But lots of other tech and Internet outfits… read more
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After a season of staying glued to the TV for this year’s NFL games, here’s to hoping next season gets a lot more internet-enabled. read more