Seven Reasons for Returning to Film Photography.

A quick look on eBay will reveal thousands of low use, high quality film cameras for incredibly low prices. It is perhaps the best time ever to buy a film camera, but why would you want to go back to film when today’s digital cameras produce such stunning images. Well,… read more

The Future of Trash: 4 Ways Tech Is Improving Recycling Rates

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The world is now inhabited by 7 billion individuals, and… read more

The art of charging more as a freelancer

All freelance designers and developers eventually have to face these ultimate questions; “How much should I charge for my services? Should I charge by the hour, or by the project?“

And then, once that question is answered, of course, the question becomes, “How can I charge more?“

As opposed to a traditional… read more

40 New Web, Mobile and Application GUI Kits

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It has been a long time since we last took a look at what GUI kits were freely available. So, in this round-up we thought we would bring you right up to date by taking a look at some of the best and freshest that… read more

Stop the Presses: Sneak Preview of Alfred 1.0

Big news, our favorite launcher is finally about to hit version one! It’s hard to believe that the app has received so much attention and good press while in a fairly experimental state but the simple truth is that Mac users simply can’t get enough of Alfred’s perfect combination of… read more

No Time to Buy Toothpaste? Hoseanna Offers Subscriptions to Staple Items

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: Hoseanna

Quick Pitch: Customized subscriptions to staple items such as Pantyhose, tampons and deodorant.

Genius Idea: Marrying… read more

Robot Invasion: Toyota Unveils Four Healthcare “Assistants” [PICS]

Toyota unveiled four robots designed to accomplish ambitious objectives at a Tokyo event Tuesday: Help paralyzed patients walk or balance and help their caretakers gently transport them between locations. The company hopes to commercialize the products sometime after 2013.

One of Toyota’s new robots guides patients’ strides when sensors detect… read more

Building WordPress Themes You Can Sell

When I took my first steps into the WordPress theme arena, I didn’t know much about it. I wandered blindly into the business, not knowing whether I was doing things correctly. Over time, through trial and error and making rookie mistakes, I learned some valuable lessons and gained important insights…. read more

How Freelancers Can Network Better at Coworking Space

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Freelancers have long been drawn to coworking spaces because of the opportunities to network and work alongside others from different or complementary industries and creative fields, sharing the working space and resources. However, what sets coworking apart from mere shared office space is its focus… read more

Contently Provides An Open Marketplace for Writers and Publishers To Connect

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: Contently

Quick Pitch: Contently is an open marketplace for writers and publishers.

Genius Idea: Empowering and connecting quality… read more

Top 4 Ecommerce Tools for WordPress

Brian Casel is the founder of CasJam Media, a web design shop that works with clients worldwide designing custom WordPress CMS sites. Connect with Brian on Twitter @CasJam.

Remember when WordPress was used only for blogging?

Even all of the talk about WordPress being a true CMS seems to be old news… read more

Ubuntu Wants to Be on Your Phones, Tablets and TVs

Ubuntu, the Linux distribution with a serious case of Mac-envy, has ambitions of moving beyond the PC to the tablet, smartphone and connected device space.

At the Ubuntu Developer Summit, Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Canonical — the company that funds Ubuntu development — said that the time is right to… read more

Recently in Web Development (October Edition)

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

Cloud9 IDE – Code Anytime, Anywhere

IDEs (Integrated Development Environments) are a special type of software that developers use to write software. IDEs are designed to maximize productivity, because because they typically present a single platform which all development is done. This means a developer will do less environment switching to get his job done.

Most IDEs… read more

Top 10 content management systems

There are dozens of great CMSs out there. Regardless of what type of site you’re building, there’s probably one perfectly-suited to it.

The problem is that most designers and developers don’t want to spend time learning a bunch of different CMSs. They want to learn one, or maybe… read more

10 Things Designers Can Learn From Pastry Chefs

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So, I have a confession to make. I’m not actually a pastry chef. But I did work in a professional kitchen once upon a time, and baking is one of my favorite hobbies. I just love the awesome sights, sounds, and smells of a kitchen… read more

3 Startups Bring New Angles to Social Buying

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.

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

This week we’ve… read more

How Speaking and Attending Conferences Can Boost Your Profile, Video

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

This week we look at How Speaking and Attending Conferences Can Boost Your Profile w/ Jake Goldman by FreelanceJam.

In this video Jake Goldman, frequent speaker at WordCamps and founder of get10up.com,… read more

Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.112

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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

Can Search Data Be Used to Choose Book Ideas?

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: Hyperink

Quick Pitch: An ebook publisher that develops titles based on existing demand.

Genius Idea: Bloggers, content farms… read more

Useful Coding Tools and JavaScript Libraries For Web Developers

Everyone who is a regular Smashing Magazine reader will know that we have a traditional habit of regularly researching the latest resources, tools and services out there on the Web, as productivity is a crucial asset of professional Web designers and developers. We could, and should, all integrate workflow optimization… read more

40+ Amazing Desktop App Alternatives

We all love our desktop computers. The comfortable keyboard and mouse combination coupled with a large screen display beats out a laptop or tablet every single time. However, the nature of our work takes us to a variety of places with no desktop or a completely different setup than what… read more

How to Scrape Web Pages with Node.js and jQuery

Node.js is growing rapidly; one of the biggest reasons for this is thanks to the developers who create amazing tools that significantly improve productivity with Node. In this article, we will go through the basic installation of Express, a development framework, and creating a basic project with it. What We’re… read more

Best Premium Joomla Template Providers

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Why would I use premium Joomla Templates while tons of free Joomla templates are available out there? You may be one of the people to ask this question.

If you notice, most Joomla providers offer both free and commercial templates; however, the number of purchases is… read more

Is There Room for a Klout for Professionals?

The 3-year-old Klout has already become the industry standard for measuring social media reach and influence, but the company no longer has that market to itself.

The Sarasota, Fla.-based PROskore is testing the waters for a sort of Klout for professionals, though PROskore CEO Bill Jura would likely recoil at the… read more

Schmap Releases Tool to Break Down the Demographics of Your Twitter Followers

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: Know Your Twitter Followers

Quick Pitch: Know Your Twitter Followers takes Twitter one step further.

Genius Idea: Providing… read more

The Guardian Launches Twitter-Based Search Bot

The Guardian unveiled a Twitter-based search bot Thursday.

Users can search for content on The Guardian‘s website by tweeting a question or keyword(s) to @GuardianTagBot. The bot will immediately tweet back a link to a search results page on guardian.co.uk.

For example, users could tweet, “@GuardianTagBot latest Occupy Wall Street news?” to… read more

HP Will Keep Its PC Division, Meg Whitman Decides

Hewlett-Packard will keep making PCs rather than spinning off its consumer computer division, the company announced Thursday.

HP surprised the tech world in August, when then-CEO Leo Apotheker announced he was killing the company’s webOS tablet, the TouchPad, and “considering” spinning off the PC division. HP is one of the world’s… read more

Should the New Facebook Gestures Allow a Dislike Button?

Peter VanRysdam is the CMO of web design company 352 Media Group and the author of Marketing in a Web 2.0 World. Connect with him on Twitter @Peter352.

Lost in all the announcements about Timeline and frictionless experiences at Facebook’s F8 conference in September was a change to the Open Graph… read more

Video Inspiration #41

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

Graphic.ly Founder on Startup Life, Internet Fame & Getting Sober

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The name Micah Baldwin may not immediately ring any bells, but if you’ve ever used the… read more

8 Popular online apps to test the mobile version of your site

The mobile revolution has inspired major and minor websites alike to have a mobile version. Mobile versions can be created using themes, extensions, and other modifications.

While developing mobile version, you may want to test it on two, three, or even five different mobile handsets. After development, you are not aware… read more

Engage Your Students Effectively with Socrative

Students and teachers have either the most simplistic or the most complex systems at their disposal when it comes learning online. Case in point: simplistic video conference solutions and elaborate Learning Management Systems. Given that the subject matter is already hard for many, trying and spending time to understanding a… read more

Sliders in Web Design : 45 Creative Examples

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Using slideshows or sliders within a web design is an effective method of highlighting your portfolio, projects, ecommerce products or even key site related messages and information. As the current slider trend dictates, they are typically found above the fold on the homepage.

For this article,… read more

Create & Publish a Web Page in Seconds with Pen.io

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: Pen.io

Quick Pitch: Pen.io is the fastest way to publish content online.

Genius Idea: Create pages in seconds.

What… read more

Creating Awareness Through Photography

For decades the Kinsol Trestle sat deep in the heart of the Cowichan Valley, with the only sound near it being that of the occasional bird, bear or arsonist.  As things stand today, it has become one of the iconic places to visit on Vancouver Island and hundreds of people… read more

WordPress Theme Development Training Wheels: Day One

WordPress Theme Development Training Wheels: Day One

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When a CMS becomes Restrictive

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I’ve been working with Content Management Systems, both bespoke and open source for over 7 years. In that time a lot has changed as to how flexible and adaptive CMSs can be, but there are still times when a CMS can be restrictive.

Each CMS brings… read more

The Best Way to Learn ASP.NET

You’re looking to learn ASP.NET? I can’t blame you. Not only is it an extremely flexible platform, but .NET developers are in high demand and will continue to be. Unfortunately, it can be an intimidating platform to learn — especially if you are brand new to development or have never… read more

Create Perfect Emails For Your WordPress Website

Whatever type of website you operate, its success will probably hinge on your interaction with your audience. If executed well, one of the most effective tools can be a simple email.

WordPress users are in luck, since WordPress already has easy-to-use and extendable functions to give you a lot of power… read more

Nettuts+ Mac Apps: Structurer Pro and Builder

When I’m not writing Appstorm reviews or doing schoolwork, I’m a freelance web developer. A lot of what I know about web development I owe to the in-depth tutorials and screencasts over at Nettuts+, which is, in my opinion, one of the most reliable and richest resources for all levels… read more

Book Suggestion: Designing Brand Identity

The book suggestion of this week is about branding and it’s a recommendation from one of our favorite graphic designers out there, Roger Oddone. The book is called Designing Brand Identity: An Essential Guide for the Whole Branding Team and it covers everything you need to know about branding, from… read more

Weiv Puts Concert Visuals into Audience Hands With Wii Remotes

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: Weiv

Quick Pitch: Weiv makes concert visuals that are controlled in real-time by Wii remotes.

Genius Idea: Bringing… read more

25 jQuery Plugins to help with Responsive Layouts

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The most popular topic of discussion at the moment is undoubtedly responsive layouts in web design. Without going discussing too much what you will already know, a responsive layout allows you to offer a specific and optimised screen size based on whatever device (mobile, tablet…)… read more

Yoink: Your OS X Lion Drag-And-Drop Aide

As you may have gathered from my recent posts, I have yet to upgrade to Lion on my personal MacBook Pro. But that doesn’t mean I don’t have my ways of playing with the new operating system (and the apps and utilities that are released for it). And let me… read more

56 New Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed

Weekends at Mashable mean the weekly features roundup is coming at’cha. You ready to rock this list?

This week, we spent some quality time with Siri, and now we can’t live without her. Then, we moved on to the Motorola Droid Razr, following the past week’s event with Verizon. Curious about… read more

Top Freelance Jobs from Job Board – Week 3, October

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

Why Use Premium WordPress Themes And Why Not?

Why Use Premium WordPress Themes And Why Not?

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3 Neat iPhone Apps Designed to Entertain

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.

Each weekend, Mashable handpicks a few startups that we think are building interesting, unique or niche products…. read more

Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.111

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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

A Flash Sales Site for Fashion and Charity

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: Community Collection

Quick Pitch: 20% of all fashion goods sold benefit a charity of the designer’s choosing.

Genius… read more

20 Flash Websites You Wish Were Yours

There’s something to be admired about Flash websites.  Perfect, smooth, graphics, fluid movement, interactivity and general in-your-face presence that they emit, are all reasons we still get lost in an immaculately designed and perfectly executed Flash website.  Whether you’re looking to kill some time, looking for inspiration, or just aimlessly… read more

Who Owns Your Identity on the Social Web?

When I go to a bar, the bouncer usually stops me and asks for an ID. I show him my state-issued driver’s license and walk on by. This may be unusual, as I’m 36 (thanks, mom, for the good genes), but we’re all pretty accustomed to presenting our official identification… read more

Startup Pulls Social Media Chatter Onto Publisher Comments

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: LiveFyre

Quick Pitch: LiveFyre makes comments real-time and more interactive.

Genius Idea: Putting social media conversations surrounding a… read more

Video Inspiration #40

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

Mashable Media Summit Agenda: 16 Awesome Sessions to Learn From

We’ve enticed you with a series of exciting speaker announcements, and teased you with a sampling of topics. Now we’re pleased to announce the full Mashable Media Summit agenda. From the future of social TV, to new forms of journalism, to the value of real-time data, this year’s conference on… read more

How Angry Birds Conquered Casual Gaming

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For nearly two years, the casual game market has belonged to Angry Birds. The megahit app… read more

11 Innovative Crowdfunding Platforms for Social Good

The Commerce With a Conscience Series is supported by Fedex. FedEx does more than shipping. They offer solutions like transporting heart valves to those in need and helping entrepreneurs bring their ideas to life. See how.

Why crowdsource? In addition to funding, the tools below can engage new supporters,… read more

The History of Social Media

Social interaction is imperative in culture and in trade. In this world of fragile relationships and difficult dealings, accessible and feasible techniques are needed so that we can communicate easily with one another and participate in interactive conversations. Social media is the use of digital (and often mobile) technologies and… read more

Nettuts+ Quiz #6: How Well do you Know HTML5?

HTML5 has been the buzzword with the web development community for a while now. In accordance with many a request from our readers, today I’m happy to present you with a quiz on HTML5. This beginner friendly Stormtrooper edition is a great place to test your knowledge of the basics… read more

Interview with Nicholas van der Walle

Today our guest is Nicholas van der Walle, the proprietor of Astute Graphics. Astute Graphics has become world famous thanks to its Phantasm CS and VectorScribe plugins that make our work easier and more convenient. Among their customers there are such world famous brands as Adidas, Apple, NASA, Nike, Philips,… read more

Designer Spotlight: Interview with MoGraph & Branding Designer Fraser Davidson

Today we have a new designer spotlight, where we interview and feature a member of the design and development community. In this installment, we shine that light on talented motion graphic designer and sports branding specialist Fraser Davidson. If you are not familiar with his work, then you are in… read more

A round-up of great vlogs and podcasts for designers

Being a designer is not your average job: your work is constantly evolving, giving you new tools to either become more productive or to simply create better work. For that, we all do our best to read books, brush up our skills following some tutorials, subscribe to blogs or attend… read more

Get Notified Instantly with Boxcar

There is no doubt that the iPhone made push notifications cool and took that idea mainstream for Apple fans. But like most things Apple, at first push notifications weren’t open to all third party apps at launch. When users were clamoring for a way to get notified of things as… read more

The Economist Releases New App After iOS 5 Update Breaks First

What happens if you’re a publisher and you don’t comply with Apple’s in-app purchasing and subscription policies? Apple releases a software update, your app breaks, and then you have to release a new, compliant version of your app in a hurry.

At least that’s what appears to have happened to The… read more

Zurb Releases a Flexible Foundation for Developers and Designers

The Web Development Series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here.

Thanks to the success of projects such as HTML5 Boilerplate, companies big and small are increasingly giving back to the dev and design community by releasing pre-packaged toolkits and frameworks… read more

25 Unique Adobe InDesign Tutorials for Newbies

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Masters of the Adobe software suite often lean towards graphic design or web development. When creating documents for print this can easily be transcribed in both Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. However, Adobe InDesign allows you to create entire projects such as a magazines, online e-books, cover… read more

Kyoo Turns Social Media Buzz Into 24-Hour News Channels

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: Kyoo

Quick Pitch: Kyoo is a social media aggregator that intelligently finds, indexes and displays social content… read more

Optimizing Long Lists Of Yes/No Values With JavaScript

Very frequently in Web development (and programming in general), you need to store a long list of boolean values (yes/no, true/false, checked/unchecked… you get the idea) into something that accepts only strings. Maybe it’s because you want to store them in localStorage or in a cookie, or send them through… read more

How to Communicate With Users When Your App or Site Crashes

The Mobile App Trends Series is supported by Sourcebits, a leading product developer for mobile platforms. Sourcebits offers design and development services for iOS, Android, Mobile and Web platforms. Follow Sourcebits on Twitter for recent news and updates.

From Facebook to Google to BlackBerry to that little startup you haven’t… read more

30 Awesome Web Apps for Your iPad

As incredible as it seems, it’s been over a year and a half since the original iPad was released, forever changing what the world thought of tablet computers. The old Tablet PCs were clunky, expensive machines that could run any Windows program, albeit slower and more awkwardly than a full… read more

Lemon Makes Lemonade Out of Your Electronic & Paper Receipts

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: Lemon

Quick Pitch: Lemon gives you the tools to collect all your receipts in one place and… read more

20+ Amazing Deals for Designers & Developers

20+ Amazing Deals for Designers & Developers

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Simple Bug and Issue Tracking with Sifter

Bugs and programming go hand in hand. You can probably measure a developer based on how much attention he/she pays to finding bugs, fixing them and tracking them to see if they ever show up again. Bug tracking is not the glamorous part of being a developer, but is the… read more

“Batman Arkham City:” Can Anyone Make a Good Superhero Game? [OPEN THREAD]

Poor superheroes: They do so much to save the planet time and time again and we can’t even make a decent video game about it. Superhero video games are commonly a wasteland of awful, which isn’t entirely their fault.

They’re usually attached to a film and are given shorter development times…. read more

How To Build An Agile UX Team: The Culture

This is the first in a three-part series on how to build and grow successful user experience teams in agile environments. It covers challenges related to organization, hiring and integration that plague UX teams in these situations. The perspective is that of a team leader, but the tactics described can… read more

How To Use AJAX In WordPress

In the last few years, AJAX has crept onto websites and slowly become the way to create dynamic, user-friendly, responsive websites. AJAX is the technology that lets you update the contents of a page without actually having to reload the page in the browser. For example, Google Docs utilizes this… read more

Features of the Freelance Economy

As the unemployment rate in many industrialized countries continues to languish in double digits – or close to it – government policy makers are devising all sorts of programs that will put people back to work. Most, if not all of them, focus on the creation of jobs.

Now, since… read more

Teaching Yourself Web Design While You Freelance

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There is plenty of opportunity to make a decent living online. The field of web design is extremely popular in the current information age. Everybody needs to have a website up and you can always find a few solid business clients. But what about building upon… read more

4 Essential Tips for Conquering the App Development Process

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

No sane project manager or app developer wants his business project to fail, but inevitably, the majority of projects do just that. While success or failure is… read more

Daily Inspiration #955

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

How Super Strong Glass Keeps Your Smartphone Screen From Breaking

The Tech Innovators Series is supported by Lenovo. Lenovo does not just manufacture technology. They make Do machines — super-powered creation engines designed to help the people who do, do more, do better, do in brand new ways.

So many consumer electronics have touchscreens these days, and we tend to… read more

Smart Bug Management with Bugrocket

Bugs in a project or software can prove to be a developer’s nightmare. If they’re not correctly handled, they can be forgotten about and cause problems in the long-run. This is why bug management systems were created. However, most of these can completely miss the point and bombard their users… read more

Grockit Makes Online Test Prep Social

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: Grockit

Quick Pitch: Grockit makes test prep social.

Genius Idea: Partnering with universities and expanding internationally.

Test scores are… read more

How Disregarding Design Limits The Power Of Content

It appears to be a reader’s market. More written content is freely available than ever before, accessible in just about every format you could imagine. If you want it on paper, you’ve got it. On screen? What size, friend? We can shrink, stretch and stitch it all together every which… read more

Flash Isn’t Dead Yet!

It’s been really popular lately for many professionals to dismiss the use of Flash. Many designers and developers push the idea to discontinue use of the almost 20 year old technology. There are a range of what seems to be problems from the heaviness of Flash projects, the inability to… read more

Asymmetrical balance in web design

When I first covered the idea of symmetrical design patterns here on Webdesigner Depot I had no intention of digging into the notion of asymmetrical design.

However, the more I thought about it, the more I felt compelled to cover the topic to contrast some of the ideas… read more

Minecraft: Explore New Worlds and Feel Like a Kid Again

This isn’t going to be your typical Mac app review. Minecraft isn’t sold on the Mac App Store. It’s a cross-platform game that has over 3.5 million paid players across Windows, Mac, and Linux, making it one of the most wildly successful indie games in recent memory.

Minecraft is a creative/adventure… read more

iPhone 4S: Siri is Impressive, But Still a Work in Progress [REVIEW]

Apple is bringing speech recognition to the masses with its new iPhone 4S, equipped with an intelligent assistant named Siri. It’s a major differentiator for the new iPhone, setting it apart from its predecessors. I’ve been using speech recognition software for the past 8 years, so I was eager to… read more

How To Set Performance Standards for Your Startup’s New Hires

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

New hires learn the ropes of a new company in a variety of different ways. Some methods are formal, others are informal, but either way, the new… read more

The Evolution of Letterheads

The evolution of letterheads is a fairly under-represented part of the history of writing. Though it is easy to research things like typography and paper production, the development of letterheads often seems to be overlooked. This does not mean the letterhead is unimportant, however. The term “letterhead” refers to both… read more

Acquire More Market Space with Ecommerce Web Development

Acquire More Market Space with Ecommerce Web Development

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3 Fresh iPhone Apps for Your Mobile Convenience

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.

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

In celebration of… read more

Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.110

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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

Fashion RSS Reader Bloglovin’ Signs Up 1 Millionth Member

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: Bloglovin’

Quick Pitch: A visual RSS reader and community for style blogs.

Genius Idea: Bloglovin’, a web and… read more

Apple vs. Microsoft: Two Opposite Approaches to Building an OS

Microsoft and Apple are the developers of three of the most popular operating systems in the world (Windows, iOS & Mac OS X), yet their approaches to building the infrastructure that powers laptops, tablets and phones couldn’t be more divergent.

Microsoft recently published a blog post that addressed specific issues… read more

Ask FreelanceSwitch: Freelancing as a Programmer

In this issue of Ask FreelanceSwitch, we look at freelancing as a programmer. Ask FreelanceSwitch is a regular column here that allows us to help beginners get a grip on freelancing. If you have a question about freelancing that you want answered, send an email to askfreelanceswitch@gmail.com.

Question 1

I have… read more

Sites of the Week #175

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as Mightybell and 10k Apart. Also we’re featuring the beautiful Kitchen Sink Studios portfolio, and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will be… read more

A Short Introduction into Typography

Due to the huge opportunities, sometimes, the online medium is more competitive than the “material reality” and, here, existing is equivalent to being professional. Freelance web designers but also specialized companies noticed this fact very quickly, doing their best to have an interesting and eye-catching online presence at the same… read more

30 Useful Infographics for Web Designers

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Typically when it comes to learning something new within web design you have to refer to either the accompanied detailed documentation, the read-me or, if you are lucky, to a quick reference cheatsheet. Each of these options are really useful, but none have the ability… read more