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Facebook Turns 8, And Together We’ve Grown

admin — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:40:17 +0000

I’ve been on Facebook for 2,561 days, having joined during the first year of its existence and my first year of college.

As the world’s largest social network turns 8 years old today, millions of people will reflect on the impact Facebook has had on their lives, however big or small… read more

Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.124

admin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:38:36 +0000

This is our weekly selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, thanks to everybody for their recommendations. Feel free to comment and let us know what you think.

Have you tried StylesInspiration yet? It is our web design showcase that aims to not only… read more

Hype: A Worthy Flash Alternative?

admin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:00:04 +0000

Hype, by developers Tumult, seems to have a rather appropriate title. There has been a great deal of talk about this web animation app since its release some months ago, and that can hardly be a surprise, given that it claims to allow the user to create “beautiful HTML5 web… read more

Stylitics Is an Analytics Dashboard for Your Closet [INVITES]

admin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:59:18 +0000

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.

Name: Stylitics

Quick Pitch: Mint.com for your closet.

Genius Idea: A new way to organize your wardrobe and track… read more

Like Testing New Apps? BetaBait Will Hook You Up

admin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:25:38 +0000

Name: BetaBait

Quick Pitch: BetaBait connects startups with beta testers.

Genius Idea: Access to early adopters that doesn’t require… read more

GE’s Beth Comstock: Social Media Redefines the Focus Group

admin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:43:15 +0000

Mashable’s Davos coverage is presented by BMW i, a new concept dedicated to providing mobility solutions for the urban environment.

GE’s Chief Marketing Officer Beth Comstock sat down with Mashable founder and CEO Pete Cashmore to talk about her role leading business… read more

How To Use Custom Post Types To Organize Online Marketing Campaigns

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:04:53 +0000

Custom post types add a level of flexibility to WordPress that makes this open-source Web development platform more useful on many levels. Whenever I have been faced with a Web-based task, especially one that involves organizing information, the first thing I do is examine WordPress to determine if it can… read more

How to use checkboxes and radio buttons in Flash

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:40:33 +0000

When you are developing rich and interactive applications in flash, you need to provide the best communication between the user and the application. Flash has some very easy to implement UI components that you can use with your applications. These components will save you from the hassle of designing and… read more

Meet the Developers: Dustin MacDonald of Acrylic Software

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:00:26 +0000

Acrylic Software is known for their beautiful and useful apps for the Mac and iOS. We got a chance to speak with Dustin MacDonald, the company’s Founder, Designer & Engineer. In our interview, we touched on a number of topics ranging from the history of Acrylic Software to their view… read more

Should You Keep Your Website Open Source?

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:06:10 +0000

When you enter the world of web hosting, you will find yourself inundated with options. Choosing a hosting company is only the beginning. Even after you have a domain, hosting account, and all of the preliminary tasks out of the way, you still have to build a website…. read more

8 Things You Should Know Before Building a Mobile App

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:49:20 +0000

Seth Porges is a magazine editor and the creator of Cloth, an iOS fashion app for iPhone and iPod Touch. His Twitter handle is @sethporges.

App appeal is obvious. The barrier to entry? So low! The upshot of producing the next Angry Birds or beer-chug simulator? So high! Heck, with just… read more

What to Do When Your Website Gets Hacked

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:54:55 +0000

Dallas Lawrence is the chief global digital strategist for Burson-Marsteller, one of the world’s leading public relations and communications firms. He is a Mashable contributor on emerging media trends, online reputation management and digital issue advocacy. You can connect with him on Twitter @dallaslawrence.

If an individual or activist group broke… read more

New Website Connects Language Newbies With Native Speakers

admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:05:08 +0000

Name: Verbling

Quick Pitch: Verbling is a web-based platform where individuals can pair up with native speakers… read more

How to Prepare Your Social Game for Massive Growth

admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:22:11 +0000

Colbert’s Super PAC is Back, But Who’s the Biggest Donor?

admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:25:24 +0000

One video game developer is hungry to see a “Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow” as soon as possible.

Stephen Colbert’s Super PAC (Political Action Committee), “American’s for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow” has raised more than $1 million since its creation in June, 2011. A… read more

Facebook IPO Reveals How It Made $3.71 Billion in 2011

admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:30:30 +0000

Facebook filed for its IPO today, and it revealed a great deal about how it makes money. It’s not too surprising that Facebook said it generates “a substantial majority of our revenue from advertising,” though it also revealed just how much it makes via its partnership with Zynga.

Revenue from Zynga… read more

Zuckerberg to Potential Shareholders: Facebook Is on a Social Mission

admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:21:17 +0000

The world got a peek into Facebook‘s inner workings on Thursday when the Securities and Exchange Commission published the company’s preliminary prospectus for a long-awaited initial public offering (IPO). It also got a glimpse of how Mark Zuckerberg views the company.

In a letter to potential shareholders within the document, Zuckerberg… read more

Best of Tuts+ in January 2012

admin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:00:55 +0000

Each month, we bring together a selection of the best tutorials and articles from across the whole Tuts+ network. Whether you’d like to read the top posts from your favourite site, or would like to start learning something completely new, this is the best place to start!

Psdtuts+ — Photoshop Tutorials

Create… read more

What’s So Great about Digital Photography?

admin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:19:07 +0000

Before digital cameras, the only way to get a digital image was to take a picture with a film camera, get the film developed, then have the photographic print or slide digitized using a scanner.

Digital cameras eliminate the time needed for developing and scanning. When you own a digital camera,… read more

Men Must be Graduates of Elite Universities to Join New Invite-Only Dating Site

admin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:46:28 +0000

Name: Sparkology

Quick Pitch: Sparkology is an invite-only luxury dating site for young professionals.

Genius Idea: Sparkology members… read more

Hulu’s Super Bowl Teaser Has Arrested Development Theme [VIDEO]

admin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:37:51 +0000

Hulu is teasing its new Super Bowl campaign and its plot to turn human brains into “mushymush.”

The ad will star Will Arnett (Arrested Development, Up All Night) as the latest “TV star” who is surreptitiously trying to rot Earthling brains, thanks to the magic of Hulu Plus.

As teasers go, we’re… read more

40+ Tips to Get the Most Out of Web Apps

admin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:00:01 +0000

There’s so many things you can do from your browser, you could get by quite nicely without any other native apps. The internet is full of amazing web apps, ranging from powerful tools for enterprises to little tools that do one thing great.

While the web apps and sites we love… read more

4 Inspiring Examples of Digital Storytelling

admin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:38:31 +0000

Layla Revis is vice president of digital influence at Ogilvy PR Worldwide. Her specialties include international affairs, tourism and multicultural marketing.

In 2011, Sundance Film Festival created The New Frontier Story Lab, an initiative created to foster the development of a new style of media production. As media began to depart… read more

Get More Done With Sandglaz

admin — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:00:20 +0000

It seems like every week we review a new task management/to-do list app here at AppStorm, and it’s easy to see why – everybody has trouble getting things done. And it’s no secret that things get even messier when you’ve to collaborate with people on tasks, whether it’s a software… read more

Web designers, what to look for in a CMS

admin — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:05:18 +0000

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Help Wanted: Websites For Finding Design And Programming Jobs

admin — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:00:55 +0000

There are a lot of advantages to freelancing. You will have more flexibility over the hours you work, you won’t have to commute to work any more and best of all, you are your own boss. It can be hard work landing a job. Not to mention making sure a… read more

Polling App Makes Blog Feedback Painless

admin — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:59:03 +0000

Name: Quipol

Quick Pitch: Quipol is a web application that makes creating and embedding polls on blogs easy.

Genius… read more

6 Ways to Give Your App a Leg Up on the Competition

admin — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:44:56 +0000

Paul Baldwin is the chief marketing officer of Outfit7 Inc., a subsidiary of Out Fit 7 Ltd, the leading entertainment app developer. Paul has more than 17 years of experience developing, marketing and monetizing digital entertainment content.

Spend a few minutes browsing through both the Android and Apple app stores and… read more

Clear To Do App Has Some Surprising Design Inspirations

admin — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:51:51 +0000

It’s increasingly difficult to build buzz around new mobile application studios, especially when the first app on deck is something thousands of others have attempted, like a “To Do” app. Yet that’s exactly what Phill Ryu and David Lanham, the two masterminds behind Impending, Inc. have managed to do.

Ryu and… read more

Recently in Web Development (January ’12 Edition)

admin — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:37:02 +0000

Web development is an industry that’s in a state of constant flux with technologies and jargon changing and mutating in an endless cycle. Not to mention the sheer deluge of information one has to process everyday. In this series, published monthly, we’ll seek to rectify this by bringing you all… read more

35 Highly Advanced Yet Simple To Use jQuery Plugins

admin — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:05:22 +0000

jQuery is a speedy, succinct library that make traversing HTML documents, handling events, performing animations, and adding AJAX simpler. jQuery imparts web developers the opportunity to make websites better with incredible elements without the necessity to write down dozens of lines of code.

In this compilation, you will find top 35… read more

The Future Of Screen Typography Is In Your Hands

admin — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:52:34 +0000

We do more reading on the screen today than we did even a year ago. If we are ever to have a golden age of reading on the screen, this might be the start of it.

Tablets, Nooks and Kindles make buying a book or magazine for the screen almost unavoidable…. read more

New developer tools in Firefox 10 and 11

admin — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:26:51 +0000

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Squad: Collaborative Code Editing in Your Browser

admin — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:17:36 +0000

Web development can be a sole or group task. For the former, it’s pretty simple to organise your workflow, having everything within your own hardware and your own software. However, if you’re working as part of a development group, it’s a little more difficult to organise and collaborate.

Introducing Squad, a… read more

Tech Hiring Trends 2012: What You Need to Know [INFOGRAPHIC]

admin — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:45:34 +0000

Job trend reports are pointing to big things for the tech industry, including lots of openings and opportunities for growth. Here’s the lowdown on tech hiring trends.

In 2012, there will be increased demand for mobile app developers, data warehouse analysts and user experience designers.

Consider the number of people… read more

Sound Design: Audio Branding: Airela Case

admin — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 04:24:26 +0000

What is audio branding?

“Audio branding describes the process of brand development and brand management by use of acoustic elements within the framework of brand communication. It is part of multi-sensory brand communication and holistic corporate design. Audio branding aims at building solidly a brand sound that represents the identity and… read more

Take More Photos – Keep Less

admin — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:26:10 +0000

A guest post by Sam Levy, founder of citifari, New York Photo Tours.

In today’s environment, with the development and increased mobility of digital cameras, it has become easy and inexpensive to take a large volume of photos. Compared to the early days of photography when it took a couple of… read more

Women Entrepreneurs, Example Not Exception, Video

admin — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:00:23 +0000

View engaging conference lectures, interesting how to discussions, and high quality freelance advice via video here on FreelanceSwitch.

This week we look at Women Entrepreneurs, Example Not Exception by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon. In this inspiring video she gives examples of women entrepreneurs across the world. She argues that women running… read more

Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.123

admin — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:45:52 +0000

This is our weekly selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, thanks to everybody for their recommendations. Feel free to comment and let us know what you think.

Have you tried StylesInspiration yet? It is our web design showcase that aims to not only… read more

Photo Startup Makes It Easy to Create Albums With Friends

admin — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:02:15 +0000

Name: ZangZing

Quick Pitch: Store and share your photos from multiple services in one place.

Genius Idea: Makes it… read more

Meet Beckinfield, a YouTube Show With 4,000 Actors [PICS]

admin — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 08:59:08 +0000

The make-believe town of Beckinfield is the setting for the Mad Libs-style show of the same name, which uses crowd-sourced amateur actors from all over the world who create the show’s story by posting videos.

Writers outline the plot and email a “town happenings” newsletter to actors each week. Each… read more

Relax: Twitter’s New Censorship Policy Is Actually Good for Activists

admin — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 04:20:49 +0000

A lot of digital ink has been spilled about Twitter’s announcement that it can now censor tweets on a country-by-country basis. The move has prompted a growing number of users to organize under the hashtag #TwitterBlackout and pledge to boycott the service on January 28 by refusing to tweet…. read more

Ex-Palm Chief Says Goodbye to HP, WebOS

admin — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:09:41 +0000

Jon Rubinstein, the former CEO of Palm and co-developer of the Apple iPod, has left Hewlett-Packard, the company confirmed to Mashable. Rubinstein came to HP after the company acquired Palm in 2012.

The departure, which had been planned for some time, is symbolic of the trajectory of webOS, the mobile OS… read more

What is ACTA? Why Should You Care?

admin — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:25:52 +0000

The technology community came out in force against SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act) before those two bills were shelved last week. With them gone, we can expect tech experts and Internet users to step away from politics. The battle has been won, right? Wrong. There’s… read more

Interview with Freelance Marketer Danny Iny

admin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:00:10 +0000

Want to boost your profile? Add additional income streams to your freelancing business? Release your own self published book? It’s time to have a chat with author and freelance marketer Danny Iny.

He quit school at the age of fifteen to start his first freelance web design business. The only… read more

Useful CSS Snippets for Your Coding Arsenal

admin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:01:17 +0000

CSS is a beautiful language but it can also be frustrating at times. Certain CSS solutions don’t work on certain browsers (cough Internet Explorer cough) and much of your time can be spent debugging code.

Thankfully there are lots of great CSS snippets available online that fix common problems and design… read more

Collaborate On Multimedia Slideshows With Tumblecloud

admin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:25:33 +0000

Name: Tumblecloud

Quick Pitch: Tumblecloud is a collaborative space for creating multimedia slideshows.

Genius Idea: Drag-and-drop collaboration.

The audio, video… read more

5 Ways to Get Ahead of the Competition at SXSW 2012

admin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:51:10 +0000

Mark Gilbreath is the co-founder and CEO of LiquidSpace, the mobile application that helps anyone find a great space to work now.

Approaching SXSW for the first time last year, we were not quite sure what to expect. I offered advice on what I know best — staying productive amidst the… read more

Multi-Screen iPhone Game Expands Your Playing Space

admin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:29:28 +0000

All of Apple’s iDevices — iPhones, iPads, iPod Touches — are a ton of fun, but for the most part that fun happens on a tiny screen (iPad excepted, we know).

Now one gaming app is expanding the view with some fancy Bluetooth technology that allows a shared-screen experience across… read more

The UX Research Plan That Stakeholders Love

admin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:35:08 +0000

UX practitioners, both consultants and in house, sometimes conduct research. Be it usability testing or user research with a generative goal, research requires planning. To make sure product managers, developers, marketers and executives (let’s call them stakeholders) act on UX research results, planning must be crystal clear, collaborative, fast and… read more

9 Steps to Starting Your Freelance Web Design Business

admin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:00:40 +0000

So, you want to be a freelance web designer? Ah, the glamor of it all.

Your own boss, answering only to the call of your creative muse… get up, feel inspired, do some work, go for a walk, laugh knowingly with other freelancers who have also discovered The Secret… read more

7 mistakes developers make

admin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:26:08 +0000

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Contactually Prioritizes Contacts and Communication in Email Network

admin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:08:29 +0000

Name: Contactually

Quick Pitch: Contactually is a proactive personal assistant for your email contacts.

Genius Idea: Contactually automatically prompts… read more

HP’s Plan to Open-Source WebOS: What’s Taking So Long?

admin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:31:25 +0000

Hewlett-Packard just announced it would fulfill its promise to make the code of its dormant mobile operating system, webOS, open-source … by September.

The company, which effectively stopped the webOS platform in its tracks when it killed the HP TouchPad tablet and Palm line of phones last summer, said in a… read more

Facebook Timeline-ageddon: Why Now?

admin — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:01:54 +0000

Facebook’s steady march to global Timeline coverage just turned into a dash — and it’s really the users who are running.

By making Facebook Timelines the new de facto standard for all Facebook profiles, in effect, the company just held up a starter pistol and yelled “Go! You have seven… read more

Time Warner Helps Social TV Startup Bluefin Labs Raise $12 Million in Funding

admin — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:32:20 +0000

Social TV analytics startup Bluefin Labs has raised $12 million in a Series B round of funding, which means the company will be expanding its resources to help TV networks and marketers keep track of how audiences are responding to shows via social media sites.

Time Warner Investments led the round… read more

Freebie: Colorful 3D UI Kit

admin — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:24:24 +0000

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We have a fantastic freebie for all of you web designers out there, you’ll love this:)
Designed by Land-of-Web, the Colorful 3D UI Kit comes in .psd format and is full of beautifully designed modern web elements covering almost all aspects of web design,… read more

What Successful Products Teach Us About Web Design

admin — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:01:04 +0000

Web design is a craft that is constantly evolving and yet also sometimes sabotaged. The moment a design is released, a new version is born. In the beginning, like a baby, it seems vulnerable and weak, but in time it grows up and becomes self-sufficient. Redesigning a website for its… read more

Content Managed Simply with GatherContent

admin — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:00:41 +0000

If you’re a developer or designer, chances are you’ve worked on a project where knowing the type of content the client will want to add is crucial to the design or development process. Emails are sent around containing the content but it can be incredibly difficult to keep it all… read more

What Should You Do Before Launching a (Successful) Blog

admin — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:40:33 +0000

In the past few years, the Internet has developed more and more, encompassing new online presences everyday; this can make one think about this amazing trend and when it will present a lower growth ratio. It is practically impossible to state exactly how many websites are being created each year… read more

How to make your own icon webfont

admin — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:24:25 +0000

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The New Redesign Rules of the Web

admin — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:00:31 +0000

With the ever-changing landscape that is the internet, web designers and developers are constantly tasked with redesigning some part of the web. Whether it be for our own sites or for those of a client, redesigning is a big part of working in the field right now. For whatever reasons,… read more

Web App Makes Paying with Nine Credit Cards Okay

admin — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:17:03 +0000

Name: Splitable

Quick Pitch: Splitable lets you divide the cost of anything with anyone online.

Genius Idea: Think of… read more

Tumblr Hits 15 Billion Monthly Pageviews

admin — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:14:20 +0000

After an explosive 2011, Tumblr is rolling full steam into the new year with impressive numbers that highlight the microblogging platform’s continue growth: 15 billion monthly pageviews and 120 million monthly unique visitors.

Tumblr CEO David Karp revealed the statistics in Munich this week at the Digital Life Design conference, where… read more

Lightroom 4 and Windows XP

admin — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:52:16 +0000

I’ve seen quite a few comments about the fact that Lightroom 4 Beta doesn’t work with Windows XP (and you can probably guess that the full version isn’t going to work with it either). Last week Tom Hogarty (Lightroom Product Manager) wrote about the reasons behind that decision on his… read more

60+ Fresh Examples of Modern Single-Page-Website Designs

admin — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:54:47 +0000

As you’ve already seen in our previous posts about Single Page Website Designs that showcasing your work in single page design is a hot trend now days. It’s kind of ironic to see what designers can do with single pages as modern age designers love to experiment with things and… read more

Facebook Apps: Highlights of the 60 New Integrated Applications

admin — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:38:05 +0000

If you enjoy using Spotify or Foursquare on Facebook, imagine having the same integration with a bevy of other apps. Now you can share more than just your location, music tastes and which story you enjoyed reading on the Washington Post that day using Social Reader.

Facebook’s announcement on Wednesday… read more

Open Call For International Communities

admin — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 03:31:42 +0000

At Smashing Magazine, we are big proponents of diversity and sharing. We encourage designers and developers worldwide to step up and use Smashing Magazine as a platform to share their opinions, ideas or techniques. Our editorial process is quite evolved, yet we are very open to users’ suggestions. In fact,… read more

3 Social Learning Trends to Watch in 2012

admin — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:11:31 +0000

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

According to the 2011 Training Industry Report from TrainingMag.com, total expenditures in training appear to be increasing. The amount spent on training jumped about 13% from 2010,… read more

Top Freelance Jobs from Job Board – Week 3, January

admin — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:40:42 +0000

Looking for a new client? The FreelanceSwitch job board is a great resource of freelance gigs and opportunities. These opportunities are in various fields, from development to writing to design, and come from a wide range of potential clients. The job board is hand-moderated by dedicated staff and volunteers… read more

Sigma 4.5mm F2.8 EX DC HSM Circular Fisheye [REVIEW]

admin — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:09:42 +0000

While full frame sensor camera have enjoyed the use of fisheye lenses for a century, the newly created APS-C sensor cameras have remained lacking. Use of traditional fisheye would work, but the entire circular area would be cropped.

Enter the Sigma 4.5mm fisheye. This lens is built for cropped sensors, giving… read more

What’s Hot: Mac.AppStorm Steps It Up

admin — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:00:09 +0000

You may have noticed some changes here at Mac.AppStorm this week…

It’s an exciting time to be writing, and reading about, Mac apps and Apple – to this end we’re pushing forward with a brand new, and wholly invigorating, publishing schedule! You can look forward to double (that’s right) the number… read more

Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.122

admin — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:38:21 +0000

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This is our weekly selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, thanks to everybody for their recommendations. Feel free to comment and let us know what you think.

Have you tried StylesInspiration yet? It is our web design showcase that aims… read more

StyleSeat Is OpenTable for Beauty Appointments

admin — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 10:20:28 +0000

Name: StyleSeat

Quick Pitch: Find and book beauty salon appointments online.

Genius Idea: Robust marketing tools that bring salon… read more

How Kodak Squandered Every Single Digital Opportunity It Had

admin — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 03:35:46 +0000

Kodak has finally formalized what had been expected for years — it’s gone bankrupt. In the past 15 years, digital technology changed photography dramatically, and Kodak, a former heavyweight in the analog film business, got left behind.

That’s the story of Kodak in the broadest of strokes, though it doesn’t capture… read more

Samsung Super Bowl Ad Going for Apple Tackle [VIDEO]

admin — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:00:49 +0000

Samsung, which tweaked Apple fanboys and iPhone-mania with a well-received ad last November, will go after the tech behemoth again in an upcoming Super Bowl ad.

Samsung’s first Super Bowl ad will build on the creative concept of that ad, according to a report by The Huffington Post. The… read more

Apple’s Hidden Museum Reveals Clashes in the Jobs Interregnum

admin — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:39:35 +0000

The period between when Steve Jobs left Apple in 1985 and the company’s eventual decline forced it to bring him back by buying his startup is a 12-year gap that gets little attention from historians of the world’s most valuable tech company. Walter Isaacson, in his mammoth Steve Jobs… read more

What else does HTML5 need to defeat flash? (Part 2)

admin — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:41:25 +0000

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In part 1 of this article, we analyzed the technical problems facing HTML5. In part 2, we’re going to discuss the problems facing HTML5 commercially.

Unity:

Microsoft, Google and Apple are clearky the 3 giants of the industry at the moment, and it’s really hard to unify… read more

Keep Your Digital Inspiration Organized with Sparkbox

admin — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:00:29 +0000

A big part of design is inspiration. Graphic and web designers don’t work in a vacuum, they browse around to see what’s come before, and use other designs as references and starting points. Collecting these little pieces of inspiration and reference can quickly crowd your browser’s bookmark folder or your… read more

Google Maps & World Bank Join Forces, So Why Isn’t Everyone Smiling?

admin — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:17:28 +0000

Google is now working with the World Bank to make Google Map Maker more accessible to government organizations, but some experts are questioning the terms of the arrangement.

The World Bank is an international money-lending and development assistance organization, which grew out of the need to rebuild Europe after World War… read more

LuxeInACity Means Free Luxury — If You Can Score an Invite

admin — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:04:23 +0000

Name: LuxeInACity

Quick Pitch: LuxeInACity is a social luxury city guide.

Genius Idea: An exclusive invitation-only social network… read more

What’s Next for Digital Coupons?

admin — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 04:12:31 +0000

Jeff Hudson is co-founder of Grocery Coupon Network, one of the leading coupon communities on the web. By aggregating the best digital grocery coupons and special offers from local and national brands, the company provides a reliable source for those looking to save money and time.

Couponing had seen unprecedented growth… read more

Bioshock Infinite’s Difficulty Could Hurt So Good

admin — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:34:14 +0000

Bioshock Infinite Screenshot

Villagers gather in Columbia, the game’s fictional city in the sky.

Click here to view this gallery.

If… read more

Today’s Kodak Moment: Bankruptcy

admin — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:04:04 +0000

Eastman Kodak company, one of the Pioneers in both analog and digital photography, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Thursday. Despite holding onto patents estimated at $2 billion in value, the company never managed to capitalize on the digital photography field it helped create.

Kodak has been in trouble for… read more

Free Demos Coming to Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo eShop

admin — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:55:40 +0000

The Nintendo 3DS, a portable, 3D-enabled gaming device, is getting its own crop of free demos and downloads, Nintendo announced on Thursday.

Starting Jan. 20, players can head to the Nintendo eShop to download a demo for Resident Evil Revelations with more demos to follow, such as Mario & Sonic at… read more

5 Things Publishers Need to Know About HTML5

admin — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:34:37 +0000

Pam Horan is the president of the Online Publishers Association, a not-for-profit trade organization that represents high-quality online publishers.

Last November, Adobe announced its decision to halt Flash development for mobile browsers, chipsets and operating systems.

Instead, the company plans to develop on the open HTML5 platform. While the announcement may seem… read more

The Ultimate WordPress Theme Development Glossary

admin — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:34:07 +0000

This post is an attempt to provide a glossary for the common terms used in WordPress Themes. This glossary will help new WordPress users understand the features offered by a theme and they can make informed decisions about which theme they should choose for their website.

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What else does HTML5 need to defeat flash? (Part 1)

admin — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:21:40 +0000

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Nowadays, HTML5 is like a shining star in the webs sky. However, is HTML5 ready to take the overall crown? From 2 aspects, we are going to discuss what else HTML5 needs to defeat Flash.

Technically:

First of all, I’d like to emphasize that HTML5 and Flash… read more

Tips for Keeping Focused on Freelance Deadlines

admin — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:30:49 +0000

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It can be a bummer when you’re stuck in a freelancing rut. Anybody who has worked this field will understand the grief of struggling to finish project deadlines in time. Often the work quality will suffer along with the accompanied mental fatigue. Rushing to the finish… read more

Video Inspiration #53

admin — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:56:03 +0000

Video Inspiration is a weekly(ish) post where we either feature a specific artist or show a sort of “best of” list of videos we’ve discovered during the week. Everything here may not be brand new, but we felt it worth sharing with the community. If you have good… read more

Voices of the Debate: Where Media Sites Stand on SOPA

admin — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:35:48 +0000

Many news sites, tech blogs and media companies have openly expressed where they stand in regards to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA).

By now, you know what it is, and if you don’t you can catch up here. Some sites have chosen to go… read more

11 Great Sites to learn Web Development Online

admin — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:05:19 +0000

11 Great Sites to learn Web Development Online

Wrapp Lets You Post Free Gift Certificates On Friends’ Walls

admin — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:00:36 +0000

Name:Wrapp

Quick Pitch: Wrapp provides free gift certificates that can be posted on friends’ Facebook walls.

Genius Idea:… read more

Benefits and Pitfalls of Using Code Frameworks

admin — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:31:03 +0000

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A code framework is nothing more than a collection of pre-formatted classes and functions. There are frameworks created for practically every language out there – even including frontend web development like JavaScript and CSS. Developers would be wise to follow these trends of working on… read more

Meet Friends of Your Friends and Expand Your Social Network With 3Degrees

admin — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:49:23 +0000

Name: 3Degrees

Quick Pitch: 3Degrees is web-based application that lets you meet your friends’ friends via Facebook.

Genius Idea:… read more

The Principles of Web API Usage

admin — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:39:11 +0000

Not too long ago, I wrote an article about “The Increasing Importance of APIs in Web Development.” As a follow-up, today, I’ll cover the basics of using Web APIs. Before we begin: this article does not detail the process of API design or development. That’s for a different article! Basic… read more

Why SOPA Is Dangerous

admin — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:06:07 +0000

I’m sure you’ve heard by now that SOPA is bad and would ruin the Internet, but have you actually read the bill? If not, it’s worth reading, for two reasons. First, if you are going to oppose a bill, you should know exactly what you’re opposing, not just the vague… read more

How One of New York’s Hottest Coworking Spaces Got Started [VIDEO]

admin — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:04:18 +0000

General Assembly is unique among coworking spaces. In addition to providing a meeting and working space for entrepreneurs, founders Brad Hargreaves, Adam Pritzker, Jake Schwartz and Matthew Brimer deliberately built the space using a campus model. Their goal was to… read more

5 Ways Businesses Can Use Social Media as a Tool for Progress

admin — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:55:07 +0000

Riley Gibson is the CEO and co-founder of Napkin Labs, a startup that helps companies discover insights from their fans, followers and customers. Follow Riley on Twitter or check out the company blog.

It seems like everyone talks about the value of social media, but very few businesses take full advantage… read more

Lightroom 4 Beta and Photoshop-like Cloning and Healing?

admin — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:38:09 +0000

Last week, Tom Hogarty (Adobe’s Lightroom product manager) was in town for the Lightroom 4 Beta launch. He co-hosted 4 live webcasts with me throughout the day. As we looked through the list of questions on a break, I saw one that read “Why didn’t you include real cloning and… read more

Year In Review: 6 More Ways to Top Your Best Photos

admin — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:24:21 +0000

It’s been a few years since I wrote 10 Ways to Top Your Best 2008 Photographs, and the tips are as relevant today as they were back then. In order to improve it is important to take stock of where you’ve been and where you are in terms of your individual… read more

Designing The Well-Tempered Web

admin — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:02:06 +0000

As technology evolves, so does the art and craft of Web design. New technology creates new challenges, which require new solutions. Often we’re working in uncharted territory, where the solutions demanded really are new. Other times, we’re faced with problems of a more universal nature, problems that have a history.

Given… read more

40 Fresh And High Quality Free Icon Sets In PSD Format

admin — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:46:06 +0000

Here is yet another exciting collection of high quality Free Icon PSD files for the designers that they can easily modify according to their needs and requirements. We all know very well how precious high quality PSD files are for the designers especially when they are running out of the… read more

Should designers do personal projects?

admin — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:23:45 +0000

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Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.116)

admin — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:59:52 +0000

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This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy :)
If you would like to receive our daily updates and kepp up to date with the latest and greatest articles and… read more

21 Excellent Portfolios and Design Agency Websites

admin — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:10:36 +0000

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It has been a while since we last showcased Design Related Websites here, so today we decided to check out how is it that design firms, designers, and other creative agencies are presenting their work. From design studios to brand firms and freelance designer’s portfolios, you… read more

Farfetch.com Raises $18 Million to Bring High-End Fashion to the Web

admin — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:20:32 +0000

Name: Farfetch.com

Quick Pitch: Shop the inventories of more than 200 high-end designer boutiques worldwide.

Genius Idea: Eliminates geographic… read more

Meme-Based Board Game Uses Kickstarter For the Win

admin — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:12:59 +0000

The interpipes are leaking thanks to For the Win, a new, meme-based board game that’s hit Kickstarter in the hope of getting funded. The game, created by Michael Eskue and developed by Tasty Minstrel Games, is a tile-placing game featuring lite memes such as zombies, pirates, ninjas, monkeys and aliens.

The… read more

Sonora: For When iTunes Is Overkill

admin — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:00:21 +0000

I love iTunes. As Apple’s native music player and iOS powerhouse command station, it is unlikely that anything will ever wholly replace iTunes for me. It’s an integrated hub for surfing the iTunes music store, buying iOS apps, making playlists, the Ping network (even though it’s somewhat barren), managing the… read more

Tablets Will Transform the Classroom [OPINION]

admin — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 02:29:11 +0000

Neil Johnston is managing director at Store Van Music. Neil is an award winning young entrepreneur and composer who specializes in a breakthrough link between the music industry and education. You can find out more about his pioneering work by following him on Facebook and Twitter.

Apple released the original iPad… read more

Beepl Adds a Personalized Twist to Q&A

admin — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 02:14:24 +0000

Name:Beepl

Quick Pitch: Beepl is a Q&A site that automatically surfaces relevant questions for each user.

Genius Idea: Applying… read more

Resolution Independence With SVG

admin — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:35:00 +0000

In this article, we’ll look at Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), one of the most underused technologies in website development today.

Before diving into an example, let’s consider the state of the Web at present and where it is going. Website design has found new vigor in recent years, with the evolving technique… read more

How Nations Can Be United With Social Media

admin — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:31:41 +0000

The United Nations is a huge organization: 193 member states and six major organs. As you can imagine, running the UN’s social media networks is no walk in the park. But the international organization is incredibly active on social media, using it as a tool to spread knowledge and information… read more

The One Question You Should Ask Yourself Before Taking Any Picture

admin — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:25:38 +0000

While teaching photography I am often asked, “What do you think about when you take a picture?” This can be a hard question to answer. I’m not bragging when I say I’ve been shooting for 20 years and the art of creating images has become more reflex than quantifiable thought… read more

Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.121

admin — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:07:15 +0000

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This is our weekly selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, thanks to everybody for their recommendations. Feel free to comment and let us know what you think.

Have you tried StylesInspiration yet? It is our web design showcase that aims… read more

Why Companies Need to Iterate Based on User Feedback

admin — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 08:40:21 +0000

Ryan Martens is the founder and CTO of Rally Software, which provides agile application lifecycle management solutions and services to software developers. Rally is Ryan’s fourth software startup. Follow him on Twitter @RallyOn.

Unfortunately, Twitter and Facebook have become real-time streams of rotten tomato throwing.

Just ask Bank of America, which encountered wrath… read more

How Commercial Plugin Developers Are Using The WordPress Repository

admin — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:35:29 +0000

A few weeks ago I wrote about how you can put together a great readme.txt for the WordPress plugin directory. In addition to using a WordPress readme as a tool to help out your users, you can use it to promote your commercial products and services. While commercial theme developers… read more

Make Your Time-Based Invoicing Easier with T:metrack

admin — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:04:14 +0000

Invoicing is a fact of any freelancer’s life. With all of the “glamour” that comes from being self-employed and working with companies on a freelance basis comes the joy that is invoicing, often involving tracking time and logging it carefully.

T:metrack (which, for the sake of my fingers, is going to… read more

Find Your Match on Hitch.me, the Dating Site for LinkedIn Professionals

admin — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:49:30 +0000

Name: Hitch.me

Quick Pitch: Hitch.me is a dating site for LinkedIn professionals.

Genius Idea: Connects the dating world… read more

Video Inspiration #52

admin — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:28:49 +0000

Congratulations To The Winners Of DesignModo’s Futurico UI Pro (The World’s Biggest User Interface Elements Pack) Giveaway

admin — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:51:03 +0000

Thanks to all of the participants of contest in which DesignModo’s Futurico UI Pro (The World’s Biggest User Interface Elements Pack) were givingaway. We ran the MySQL random query and selected these comments to give them DesignModo’s Futurico UI Pro.

Winners of DesignModo’s Futurico UI Pro

Tracy Robinson
Giang
Peter Steven
Monique
Gareth

Futurico UI Pro is the… read more

Treehouse: Learning to Code

admin — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:00:13 +0000

With so much of our information being pushed to the Web, not knowing the basics of web coding is going to become more and more of a hindrance. If you don’t know what a h1, h2, or blockquote is you’re going to find yourself at a severe disadvantage in the… read more

Exclusive Vector Freebie: New Social Media Icon Set

admin — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:00:20 +0000

As we are always looking for ways to show our appreciation to our readers, and provide you all with exciting and useful web design and development related resources we have a special treat that hits both of those marks. Today we have a brand new exclusive freebie for Noupe and… read more

FarmVille for Change: New York Times Columnist to Launch Social Game

admin — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 07:55:20 +0000

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has been one of mainstream journalism’s most eager adopters of Internet tools. The Pulitzer Prize winner has a sterling reputation as a human rights reporter, and is a major proponent of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. In 2003, he became the Times‘ first blogger.

Now Kristof… read more

Why I Don’t Buy Books From Bookstores

admin — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 04:00:00 +0000

I want to make this crystal clear: I love bookstores. I love going to them and checking out the bookshelves and the magazine racks, and finding some good things to read. I discovered a bunch of books and magazine because of bookstores, including the .net Magazine, the best web development… read more

Web Chat Brings Tea Party and Occupy Movement Together

admin — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 02:46:09 +0000

Can members of the Tea Party find common ground with Occupy Wall Street protesters? That’s what NBCpolitics.com will try to find out through an online-only web chat.

The hour-long web chat, to be held on Wednesday afternoon, will include three Occupiers: A graduate student at UCLA, an unemployed international development worker… read more

Top 10 Joomla Developers to Hire for Joomla Website Development

admin — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 02:05:19 +0000

Top 10 Joomla Developers to Hire for Joomla Website Development

High-End Brands Are Missing the Boat on Mobile, Study Finds

admin — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:36:33 +0000

Prestige retailers are largely failing to keep pace with developments and consumer demand for mobile shopping capabilities, a new study from New York research firm L2 suggests.

In a ranking of 100 well-recognized fashion, beauty, hospitality, watch and jewelry, and retail brands, nearly half were deemed “feeble” in their efforts. Only… read more

‘Risk’ for Facebook Pits Cats Against Zombies Against Robots [REVIEW]

admin — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:39:45 +0000

Risk: Factions

Risk makes its Facebook debut with Risk: Factions, a social update to the XBLA game of the… read more

HTML & CSS Blog Layout – Theme Implementation for WordPress

admin — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:01:22 +0000

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In this tutorial, I’ll teach you how to adapt a simple HTML blog layout into a WordPress theme. We’ll be using this static page as starting point.

Grab the code from Github

The Brilliante Layout project source code for this theme is available on Github, including the… read more

Find the Status of Job Applications and Improve Your Search for Employment on StartWire

admin — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:01:14 +0000

Name: StartWire

Quick Pitch: StartWire is an Internet job search organizer.

Genius Idea: Closes the “résumé black hole” by… read more

How Technological Justice Can Fight Global Poverty

admin — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 02:36:56 +0000

Simon Trace is the CEO of the international development charity Practical Action, which works to help poor people in the developing world use technology to transform their lives.

Human development has gone hand-in-hand with technical change. Technology (defined for these purposes as both knowledge and tools) enables people to achieve well-being… read more

7 Best Free Android Alternatives for Siri

admin — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:04:59 +0000

Now that the iPhone 4S’s Siri has been cracked, the rest of the smart phone world can indulge in their fetish for barking commands at their favorite Mobile piece of plastic.

For those wondering what a Siri is, it’s Apple answer to the Personal Assistant of the future. Like a human… read more

The Top 10 Mac Apps to Watch in 2012

admin — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:00:07 +0000

We recently went over the best apps of 2011 and it’s safe to say that last year was an amazing time to be a Mac user. Not only did our favorite apps see major updates, there was a nice influx of brand new apps that were simply too good to… read more

Frequency Makes Any Website a Video Channel

admin — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:34:50 +0000

Name: Frequency

Quick Pitch: Frequency compiles websites’ video content into television-like channels.

Genius Idea: Using both social feeds and… read more

The Real and Virtual Worlds Are Melting Together

admin — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:00:01 +0000

Arnab Sen is head of strategic planning at MRM, a global, top-five digital and direct agency in India. As a trained anthropologist, Arnab applies social science to develop working models that help decode and interpret cultures of consumption, categories and brands.

Social science studies increasingly suggest that the divide between the… read more

13 Tips for Increasing Your Company’s Google Rank

admin — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:33:44 +0000

Scott Gerber is the founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council, a nonprofit organization that promotes youth entrepreneurship as a solution to unemployment and underemployment. The YEC provides young entrepreneurs with access to tools, mentorship, and resources that support each stage of a business’s development and growth.

It goes without saying… read more

“UIWebView” Apps: Good or Bad?

admin — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:00:23 +0000

I’ve witnessed an ongoing debate in recent months over a specific part of the iOS SDK that allows developers to embed web content into their app. This specific class, “UIWebView”, has given the opportunity for some developers to masquerade web apps as native apps by simply embedding their web-based app within… read more

Responsive design in the corporate world

admin — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:02:33 +0000

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Why a Web designer Should not Ignore the Importance of HTML5 in Designing

admin — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:44:47 +0000

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The answer to the question; why a web designer should not ignore the importance of HTML5 in designing is actually very simple. HTML5 is the language of the future when it comes to web designing. Move over Flash, HTML5 is here. But why is this language being… read more

Top Freelance Jobs from Job Board – Week 1, January

admin — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:00:20 +0000

Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.120

admin — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 14:15:09 +0000

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This is our weekly selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, thanks to everybody for their recommendations. Feel free to comment and let us know what you think.

Have you tried StylesInspiration yet? It is our web design showcase that aims… read more

WordPress Development Services by PixelCrayons

admin — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 07:25:19 +0000

WordPress Development Services by PixelCrayons

3 New Tools for Promoting Your Interests

admin — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 01:31:52 +0000

Each weekend, Mashable selects startups we think are building interesting, unique or niche products.

This week we… read more

Best of the Week #204

admin — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 10:51:32 +0000

It’s time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we’ve selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what’s… read more

How to Find the Right Digital Training Tool for Your Company

admin — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 08:35:26 +0000

Peter Bray is the chief marketing officer of Trivantis, a provider of innovative e-learning software, including Snap! by Lectora PowerPoint to Flash software and Snap! Empower Flash interactions builder. Free trials of both solutions can be found at SnapbyLectora.com.

Corporate training helps to strengthen a business by focusing on one of… read more

Why College Is Still Relevant in the Age of Free Information

admin — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 02:12:15 +0000

Hansoo Lee is co-founder and CEO of Magoosh, an online test prep company with products for the SAT, GRE, and GMAT.

The rising cost of higher education has driven student debt to worrisome levels. With the advancements in digital and online education, more and more would-be college students are seeking the… read more

Confucius Comes to Life as Robotic Art Installation [VIDEO]

admin — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:54:35 +0000

The ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius has returned. Artist Zhang Huan opened a new art installation in Shanghai that features multiple interpretations of Confucius, including a giant, breathing robotic version.

The exhibit, on display at the Rockbund Art Museum through this month, addresses… read more

Be Ready When Someone Asks, “What Do You Do?”

admin — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 22:00:36 +0000

I really like the 60-Second Solutions videos on Entrepreneur.com. I thought that the recent video by communications coach Carmine Gallo on creating a 60 second strategy to tell your story was especially useful.

Sometimes it’s hard to explain to people what it is you really do. Many people hear the… read more

Adventures In The Third Dimension: CSS 3D Transforms

admin — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:45:54 +0000

Back in 2009, the WebKit development team proposed a new extension to CSS that would allow Web page elements to be displayed and transformed on a three-dimensional plane. This proposal was called 3-D Transforms, and it was soon implemented in Safari for Mac and iOS. About a year later, support… read more

Nikon D4 to blow our minds?

admin — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 10:17:31 +0000

Jared Polin from FroKnowsPhoto.com has just handed me this press release from Nikon on their new D4! Which he says is pure awesome.

Sniff test it? Yes he did… Watch the video below for Jared’s reaction to the newly announced Nikon D4

Potentially available end of Feb 2012 and coming in at… read more

New Social Network Connects Travelers with Destinations, Experts

admin — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 10:10:52 +0000

Name: Touristlink

Quick Pitch: Touristlink is a social network for travelers.

Genius Idea: Social platform allows travelers to meet… read more

5 Predictions for Online Data in 2012

admin — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:55:45 +0000

Josh Jones-Dilworth is the founder and CEO of Jones-Dilworth, Inc., a public relations consultancy focused on bringing early-stage technologies to market.

In the spirit of the new year, I’ve determined my online data predictions for 2012. And because I’m attempting to make this an annual experiment, let’s begin my looking back… read more

HBO Stops Discounting Discs to Netflix, Intensifying Battle for Content

admin — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 07:16:22 +0000

The unspoken battle between HBO and Netflix got a little uglier on Thursday when it was revealed that the premium cable channnel had stopped offering DVDs to Netflix at a discount.

As first reported by the The New York Times and later confirmed by both companies, the volume wholesale discounts that… read more

Glimpse Of Design and Tech Trends Of 2011 And Things To Look Forward To In 2012

admin — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 05:45:19 +0000

Glimpse Of Design and Tech Trends Of 2011 And Things To Look Forward To In 2012

Video Inspiration #51

admin — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 03:51:28 +0000

How to Access the Best New Features in Google Analytics

admin — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 03:22:36 +0000

Rachael Gerson spearheads the Analytics division at SEER Interactive. Follow her on Twitter @rachaelgerson.

In my last Google Analytics post, I talked about the 10 new Google Analytics features you need to start using. Now that you already know what these new features are, let’s focus on how you can find… read more

A Brief History of Kodak, American Tech Icon

admin — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:07:35 +0000

“You Press the Button…”

High school drop out and bank clerk George Eastman’s technological breakthrough in the late 1870s… read more

InstantShift’s Website Redesign

admin — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:02:31 +0000

Something has changed! Are you with us? Something has definitely changed here. As our reader strength grows day by day, we have also needed to make certain changes for both our needs and those of our readers. So starting today, we’re rolling out a brand new version of instantShift (iShift)… read more

Zurb’s newest offering for developers: Foundation

admin — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:38:56 +0000

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Citelighter Is Like a Highlighter for the Internet

admin — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:12:03 +0000

Name: Citelighter

Quick Pitch: Citelighter keeps information from multiple web sources in one place.

Genius Idea: Making it easy… read more

How to Mitigate Risk During Software Development

admin — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 01:00:16 +0000

Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). For more than 10 years, CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers.

A software development client should complete a thorough “due diligence” before selecting a developer for his critical project. Then,… read more

How To Create Custom Taxonomies In WordPress

admin — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:51:55 +0000

WordPress 3 introduced custom taxonomies as a core feature. The following release of 3.1 included many features to enhance support of custom taxonomies. Better import and export handling, advanced queries with tax_query, hierarchical support, body classes and a bunch of wonderful functions to play with were all part of the… read more

Coolest Apps From 2011 You Would Never Want To Miss In 2012

admin — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:46:25 +0000

The year 2011 has ended. We have explored and reviewed so many useful tools and resources for you all the year. Today, we are going to take a look on few of the web apps we have featured that we think you would like bookmark for 2012. I hope designers,… read more

Piet Zwart: The Rebellious Type

admin — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:00:51 +0000

“Among the few I have indicated, is there no dynamic man of action, the rebel who will help determine the aspect of the collective expression of tomorrow? Ponder this question and know that to make beautiful creations for the sake of their aesthetic value will have no social significance tomorrow,… read more

Ten Alternatives to WordPress as a Blogging CMS

admin — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:00:37 +0000

We all know that WordPress is an awesome Content Management System cum Blogging Platform. In fact, it is also the most popular blogging tool all over the internet. Name any other CMS – WordPress eats them all out for lunch!

However, as a web designer/developer/enthusiast, being knowledgeable about an extra CMS… read more

Book Suggestion Illusive 2: Contemporary Illustration and Its Context

admin — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:06:05 +0000

The book suggestion of this week is Illusive 2: Contemporary Illustration and Its Context. This book is really inspiring, there were some amazing illustrations and you can spend ours checking them out. Another amazing thing about this book is that you can always go back and there will always be… read more

Skip the Research and Let Sortable.com Find the Product That’s Right for You

admin — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:59:59 +0000

Name: Sortable

Quick Pitch: Sortable is a search engine that finds the right product or service for you… read more

Google Gets 200+ IBM Patents, Including One for a ‘Semantic Social Network’

admin — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:41:45 +0000

Google got a late Christmas gift in the form of 217 patents, acquired by way of IBM. While the patents cover a variety of topics, one in particular could give the search giant a new tool for its social network, Google+.

The patents cover many different technologies, but they mainly deal… read more

10 Easy Customer Engagement Ideas for Small Business

admin — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:01:53 +0000

Business and technology writer Efraim… read more

The Pros and Cons of Android Fragmentation

admin — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:33:47 +0000

Carmen Delessio is CTO of Layercake, an NYC startup focused on helping parents to quickly and easily manage their photos and digital memories. Request a beta invite at GetLayercake.com. Carmen’s Kindle Fire and other apps can be found at BffMedia.com.

My $99 Logitech Revue was just upgraded to the latest version… read more

The 20 Best Mac Apps of 2011

admin — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:00:46 +0000

As we bid farewell to 2011 and greet 2012, we always like to take a look back and see which apps really stood out over the last year. There’s never a shortage of amazing apps to discuss, the hardest part of this post is simply narrowing down the options to… read more

Finding New Music with The Hype Machine

admin — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 04:00:13 +0000

The Hype Machine is a music blog aggregator app that was launched in 2005. What the service does is pull streaming music from hundreds of different blogs (over 800 at the time of this writing), and compile them all in a single location for visitors to listen to, rate, and… read more

Taking Super Mario Brothers to Flash

admin — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 01:05:40 +0000

All of the talk in the video game world either revolves around Skyrim, Call of Duty; Modern Warfare 3, or motion activated technology like the XBOX Kinect. We have become too immersed in massive worlds, online multi-player gaming, and advanced technology to realize that the games we play aren’t as… read more

The Tools of Modern Mac-Based Web Development: New on Premium

admin — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:34:08 +0000

In this week’s Premium screencast, I provide a brain-dump on all of the various tools I use for web development. Sometimes, simply watching another person work can be incredibly helpful. What tools do they use? How do they work with their code editor? I’ll cover all of these things today…. read more

3 New Digital Tools For Making Connections

admin — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:19:54 +0000

Each weekend, Mashable selects startups we think are building interesting, unique or niche products.

This week we… read more

Instantly Turn Video Clips Into Movies With V.I.K.T.O.R

admin — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 09:40:47 +0000

Name: V.I.K.T.O.R.

Quick Pitch: V.I.K.T.O.R. is an automatic video-editing app.

Genius Idea: The free iPhone app makes movie… read more

Best of the Week #203

admin — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 09:29:31 +0000

5 Steps for Finding New Customers

admin — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:36:41 +0000

Ronald Brown is a successful startup CEO with an extensive background in technology and consumer marketing. His new book, Anticipate. The Architecture of Small Team Innovation and Product Success is available via iTunes, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo.

The subject of finding customers is one of the most mysterious in… read more

Where Do Browser Bugs Come From? [COMIC]

admin — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 04:38:14 +0000

Mashable Comics are illustrated by Kiersten Essenpreis, a Chicago-based artist who draws and blogs at YouFail.com.

More Mashable Comics:

1. The Earliest Social Network Ever Discovered

Handcraft: Text Driven Web Development, on the Web

admin — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 04:00:58 +0000

Here at Web.Appstorm, we’ve written about a number of brilliant web apps. Some of them I use everyday, and many have become a part of my work flow and are of great use to me. The Internet is much like this, full of great apps that can help you with… read more

Express Yourself: Logo Development Best Practices

admin — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:00:29 +0000

Travel and destination brands operate in a complex environment. Not only do they compete within the world of travel, but also with many other categories that vie for our personal free and leisure time. This includes TV, movies, video, computer games, the comforts of home, recreational and leisure activities, family… read more

Our Top 20 Posts from 2011

admin — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:22:34 +0000

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2011 has been Speckyboy’s best year yet in terms of growth. More great readers and followers, more great authors, more great sponsors. However, at the core is (hopefully) great content here on Speckyboy. And just to recap some of our best content, here are our… read more

Shoutz Connects You to the World, One 15-Second Video at a Time

admin — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 09:47:59 +0000

Name: Shoutz

Quick Pitch: Shoutz is a free social video network.

Genius Idea: Mobile-to-mobile platform for recording and sharing… read more

To the Moon and Beyond: China’s Five-Year Plan for Space

admin — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 05:18:48 +0000

The Chinese spacecraft Shenzhou-8, which launched earlier this year. Credit: DLR

The Chinese government released a report on Thursday that reveals details about the country’s plans to grow its space program — by creating new spacecrafts, satellites and a space lab in the next five years.

The white paper, called “China’s Space… read more

How to Stay Informed with Google+

admin — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 04:00:24 +0000

In my last article, I talked about all of the advancements social media made in 2011. This included the launch and relatively quick rise of Google+, Google’s shiny new social network that allows people to connect, share, and even hangout (via video chat, that is). While Google did enter the… read more

Facebook 2012: What the Future Holds for the Social Media Powerhouse

admin — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:09:37 +0000

What do you do after your site grows to 800 million users and expands to 1 trillion pageviews per month? Why, plan a $100 billion IPO, of course!

Going public is clearly the biggest thing on tap for Facebook in 2012, but the world’s most populated social network and its users… read more

Internationalizing And Localizing Your WordPress Theme

admin — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:53:37 +0000

An important part of developing a WordPress theme is to prepare it so that users from every corner of the planet can translate its messages to any language. This article covers the basics of internationalization, which is the process of designing a theme in such a way that the end… read more

Interview with Zach Klein, Designer of Vimeo.com

admin — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:00:31 +0000

Zach Klein is a designer and entrepreneur living in New York, NY. He is the brains behind the beautiful design of Vimeo and one of the brains behind CollegeHumor. Zach was kind enough to answer just a few questions about his work at Vimeo. Be sure to check him… read more

How To Make Your Flash Design Work With ANY Resolution

admin — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:49:50 +0000

One of the biggest problems that web designers face is to select a screen resolution for their style. Those days are gone when there were only two resolutions 800×600 and 1024×768. Today there are millions of devices with different screen resolutions which are used to browse the internet. In this… read more

Jewelry Site Plukka Turns Group Buying On Its Head

admin — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 09:39:29 +0000

Name: Plukka

Quick Pitch: Social shopping with a group buying twist — more jewelry buyers means a lower… read more

13 Location-Based Marketing Tips for Entrepreneurs

admin — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 06:05:27 +0000

You want to deliver marketing… read more

Occupy Facebook: Social Network for Protesters in the Works

admin — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:58:02 +0000

Occupy Wall Street activists are developing a social network called The Global Square for the generation of protesters.

“We don’t want to trust Facebook with private messages among activists,” developer Ed Knutson told Wired.

Knutson is helping build the network, which will unite members of Occupy movements across the globe. As more… read more

Amazon Goes Social Shopping: What Quorus Hires Mean

admin — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 01:47:14 +0000

Amazon is poised to make a major leap into social shopping thanks to a rash of recent hires from Quorus (formerly Fridge Door), a company whose chief product was software that added a social experience to online retailing.

When we wrote about what 2012 may hold for the world’s largest online… read more

Want to Build a New App? There’s an App for That

admin — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:28:17 +0000

The Leaders in Design Series is supported by Volvo.

Competition in Apple’s App Store is so tough that even strong concepts must be planned to perfection before any development should start. So enter App Cooker: A hot new iPad app that makes sure other apps have the right ingredients… read more

Are you being innovative?

admin — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:05:57 +0000

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Dictate to Your Mac What to Do With Vocal

admin — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:03:23 +0000

Name: Vocal

Quick Pitch: Control and dictate to your Mac computer using your voice.

Genius Idea: Vocal responds to… read more

China Launches Its Answer to America’s GPS Dominance

admin — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:49:42 +0000

Officials at China’s independent satellite navigation system announced Tuesday their GPS alternative is available to the public, reports the BBC.

Named Beidou, Chinese for “compass,” the system has been in development for more than a decade. China began work on Beidou in 2000 in order to become less dependent on… read more

Can Apple Become the Next Big Content Creator?

admin — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:49:31 +0000

Nathan Safran heads the research department at Conductor, a leading SEO technology firm. Formerly, Nathan was an analyst for Forrester Research‘s consumer product strategy group, where he researched trend studies, consumer attitudes and behaviors toward technology adoption. Nathan blogs at exceljockey.com.

The status quo for visual content has always been… read more

20 More Rockstar Mac Software Developers and Their Apps

admin — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:00:31 +0000

At AppStorm, when we get excited about great Mac software, we love to give the developers who worked hard to bring it to us the credit and recognition they deserve. Back in 2010, we ran a post highlighting some awesome software developers and the apps they make that we love to… read more