Google vs. Yahoo: Who Has the Right Social Strategy?

The Social Analyst is a weekly column by Mashable Co-Editor Ben Parr, where he digs into social media trends and how they are affecting companies in the space.

Facebook; Twitter; LinkedIn; YouTube; WordPress: these companies, built from the ground-up, are mainstays in social media. None of them were created… read more

How to Create a Fancy Image Gallery with CSS3

Even though CSS3 is still in the development stages, it is the new craze that many web developers are excited about. CSS3 is something that will take web… read more

How Job Seekers Are Using Social Media for Real Results

The Real Results series is supported by Gist, an online service that helps you build stronger relationships. By connecting your inbox to the web, you get business-critical information about key people and companies. See how it works here.

Whether you’re looking for your first job, exploring a career change, or… read more

5 Ways to Use Google Wave for Business

Sharlyn Lauby is the president of Internal Talent Management (ITM) which specializes in employee training and human resources consulting. She authors a blog at hrbartender.com.

Remember Google Wave? Clearly, Google Buzz has recently overshadowed Google’s other hotly anticipated social communication platform, but before you ditch your Wave account, give… read more

14 Free Mobile Application Development Icon Sets

The gap between the desktop/laptop and the mobile device is becoming smaller and smaller, it has never been a better time for mobile app development – The market is huge, very lucrative and highly profitable. Our ever growing appetite for more powerful and better mobile devices has pushed the demand… read more

Common Questions About Design Professionalism

The design profession is full of happy folks, and understanding why so many designers enjoy their work is not hard. But not all are so happy. If you’re not careful, the joy of getting paid to pursue your passion can be tainted by the less joyous realities of the professional… read more

The Reader’s View: Best of your feedback, comments and opinions

To begin with, reader efinkGr had a comment for Sang Tang’s post “Mac 101: Going Commando with Command-key shortcuts in Mac OS X,” saying “You know i wish they never got rid of the apple icon on the command key. I miss it :’( ”

That prompted some… read more

Interview with Dacosta!

Dacosta is an independent artist currently based in Vancouver and is the founder of Chocolate Soop, Inc. He specializes in vector graphics and character design. This self-taught designer has over 10 years of professional experience. He’s influenced by Japanese culture, graffiti and industrial design. He works in a variety of… read more

Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.31

This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, some sites we discovered, but the most of them have been recommended by our readers.
Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope you like the selection of sites as much as we do, feel free to… read more

TextMarks Makes Sending Mass Text Messages Easy

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.

Name: TextMarks

Quick Pitch: TextMarks group text… read more

revMobile: write iPhone and iPad apps without knowing Objective C

<p of the biggest barriers to entry for people who want to develop their own iPhone apps is the requirement to actually know how to program in Objective C. Runtime Revolution (AKA RunRev) has been developing and marketing a HyperCard-like development environment since 1997. To quote the company's site, "Rev… read more

How to Create a Shiny Vector Strawberry – Vector Premium Tutorial

We have another great Vector Plus tutorial available exclusively for Plus members today. If you want to learn how to control the lighting in your illustrations while creating a juicy strawberry, then we have an awesome tutorial for you.

This Tutorial is Filled with Creative Techniques

In this tutorial we will learn… read more

Apple job listing hints at official App Store advertising

A recent Apple job listing for a Senior Interactive Web Developer pretty much confirms that Apple is entering the mobile advertising business head on. The listing begins “Apple advertising is an opportunity to redefine the advertising on mobile devices. It’s an exciting environment and a fast-paced development… read more

Print Magazines for Web Designers, Digital Artists, and Photographers

Although much valuable information for all sorts of web and print professionals can be found online, it is often difficult to weed through all the noise and find good quality content. I believe it’s vital that professionals in different creative fields supplement their online learning and research through well-edited and… read more

10 Free Beautiful Calligraphic Fonts

By Paul Viluda

The word “calligraphy” is derived from two Greek words, denoting “beautiful writing”. Calligraphy or the art of writing has thousands of years in its history and development, and indeed calligraphy fonts, which we often use these days on our PCs to create a postcard or a wedding invitation… read more

Redesign and Other Tuts News

Over the last three days we’ve been steadily rolling out a new Tuts+ theme across all 8 sites. The new design is a refinement more than a big change, with lots of little improvements in usability and more suited to big screens. Read on to learn more about the redesign… read more

Suite Arrival Delivers Toothpaste (And Other Essentials) to Your Hotel

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.

Name: Suite Arrival

Quick Pitch: Travelers customize… read more

jQuery 1.4 Reference Guide – Free Book Giveaway, Comment to win

For this months book giveaway we have jQuery 1.4 Reference Guide, written by Jonathan Chaffer, Karl Swedberg.
To give yourself a chance of winning this book all you have to do is leave a comment below, and tell us how jQuery has helped you improve your web development projects, or… read more

Mashable’s Weekly Guide to Social Media & Web Development Jobs

If you’re seeking a job in social media, we’d like to help out. For starters, Mashable’s Job Lists section gathers together all our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired. In particular, you might want to see our articles on How to… read more

10 Popular Firefox Add-ons for Web Developers

This series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here.

We searched forums, blogs, and Twitter to find out which Firefox add-ons are most popular with web developers, and we came up with this top 10 list.

Every plug-in on the list… read more

RootMusic’s BandPage Makes Better Facebook Fan Pages for Bands

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.

Name: RootMusic

Quick Pitch: RootMusic is all about making… read more

WordPress Goes Real-Time With PubSubHubbub

WordPress.com‘ 10.5 million blogs are about to get a whole lot more real-time, thanks to a new behind-the-scenes development.

The WordPress team has announced in a blog post that the company has turned on support for PubSubHubbub (try saying that fast five times), a move that will get blog content… read more

How to Kill the Design Community

Recently, the notion of killing the design community has come up on a few blogs (sometimes indirectly), creating many intense conversations on the direction the design community has taken over the past couple of years, and what can be done about it.

The possibility that such discussions… read more

Rupert Murdoch confirms WSJ for iPad

What’s most interesting about this story is the extreme secrecy with which Apple is handing the process. it seems that WSJ developers do have access to a pre-release iPad, which Murdoch confirms is “kept under padlock and key.” Not only that, but an Apple employee turns the key every night… read more

Get Noticed And Grow Your Business With MyTemplateBox

The Internet is filled with useful resources for business owners and especially for web designers and developers. From free icon sets to CSS templates, and from web design inspiration to stock images, websites like these have everything one may need. There are a number of tools, useful pieces of advice,… read more

Extend the Firebug Console with these 15 Extensions

There are a lot of useful tools for web designers and developers, they do tend to come and go and it usually depends on personal preference whether or not any tool is used. There is only one tool that has lasted the test of time and is not only universally… read more

Top Articles On The Web Design Billboard In February’10

A perfect layout, A Good Design and Nice Resource can produce a creative output. Layout, textures, typography and patterns are used more often than one may think but the outcome of different combination can result verity of excellent designs. Professionalism is built upon knowledge and experience. However, When it comes… read more

10 Fantastic Places for Finding Designers Online

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

Unless you are a creative agency, most small businesses don’t have the luxury of having an in-house designer. There are literally thousands of freelance designers and… read more

Could Netflix be Coming to Your iPhone?

Netflix streaming support is on tons of devices — computers, media centers (like Boxee), electronic devices (like the Roku), Blu-ray players and game consoles (like the X-Box 360, the PS3 and soon Nintendo’s Wii). The next device on that list might end up being the iPhone.

Last fall,… read more

Designers: How to Search For, Hire, and Work With a Web-Developer

The market for freelance web design is huge. Being able to design a beautiful site in Photoshop is one thing. Programming a website is a whole other story.

So when clients come knocking at your door asking for web design services, what do you, the non-programmer but rockstar designer,… read more

80+ Incredible Collection Of Inspirations, Tutorials And Resources For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In February

We are always in search of great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers like you. Today, we have another great post, “Discover the Best of the Web” on SmashingApps. In this, we made a list… read more

Opera 10.5 is Out, Dubs Itself the Fastest Browser on Earth

The debate about web browser speed never ends. When it came out, Firefox was considered speedy, but then Opera and Google Chrome kept recapturing the “speediest browser” title and the race hasn’t ended to this day. Still, Opera is the browser that has been focusing on speed the most,… read more

Ask the Expert – Speaking About Startups with Collis Ta’eed of Envato

Speaking About StartupsEnvato has emerged as one of the most exciting companies in the creative world. Can you please give us a brief history of your startup?

Envato started out about four years ago initially to build a marketplace for Adobe Flash files. Back then we were… read more

12 Alternative Web Browsers You Should Try

Chances are you’re viewing this page in one of the following web browsers: Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Chrome. I can make this assumption because these three browsers combine for about 90% of the market share. Then again, you might be one of the few people that have adopted an alternative… read more

Some things we may not see again from Apple

Conan O’Brien once had a recurring segment on Late Night called “Guests We Won’t Have Back,” during which he would look back at guests (who were fake) that he regretted having on the show. There was bug expert Sara Wiggins, who ate a live beetle in front of the camera…. read more

iCyte Creates Sharable Bookmarks from Highlighted Text

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.

Name: iCyte

Quick Pitch: iCyte saves webpages… read more

My experience with a micro-4/3rds camera – (Panasonic GF1 Review)

If  you’ve been able to get your hands on one of these, consider yourself lucky.  After driving to most every electronic store I knew of and still not being able to get a hands-on feel for this new camera, I decided to take the plunge and make my order on… read more

The Future Of CSS Typography

There has been an increasing and sincere interest in typography on the web over the last few years. Most websites rely on text to convey their messages, so it’s not a surprise that text is treated with utmost care. In this article, we’ll look at some useful techniques and clever… read more

25 Amazing and Fresh jQuery Plugins

Keeping up with the new jQuery plugin releases and developments sometimes feels like a full-time job! Every other day something new and better crops up that catches the eye and you think yourself “Wow, that looks good, I could use that!“.

For this post I have collected 25 of the best… read more

Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2010

Desktop wallpapers can serve as an excellent source of inspiration. However, if you use some specific wallpaper for a long period of time, it becomes harder to draw inspiration out of it. That’s why we have decided to supply you with smashing wallpapers over 12 months. And to make them… read more

10 Useful Web Design and Development Books

10 Useful Web Design and Development Books

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How to Find the Best Keywords and Ideas for Your Articles

How to Find the Best Keywords and Ideas for Your Articles

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Interview with Jonathan Patterson

Fans of Vectortuts+ are certainly familiar with the vector tutorials of Jonathan Patterson. He’s obviously a talented vector illustrator, there is however a wide variety of work he produces in addition to his vector artwork. Jonathan is a Michigan native working as a Senior Art Director at an advertising agency…. read more

Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.30

This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, some sites we discovered, but the most of them have been recommended by our readers.
Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope you like the selection of sites as much as we do, feel free to… read more

FastMall Is Foursquare for Malls

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.

Name: FastMall

Quick Pitch: Think Foursquare-meets-Yelp for… read more

Interview with Dan Noe of Noe Design Studios

I recently had the opportunity to interview multi-media designer Dan Noe. Many DesignM.ag readers have probably seen Dan’s portfolio site for Noe Design Studio showcased at various design galleries or blogs. Dan works at Screenscape Studios in Des Moines, Iowa. I hope you’ll find Dan’s insight and experience to be… read more

myYearbook Revenue at $20 Million Annually and Growing

Somewhat quietly, myYearbook remains one of the most popular social networking sites, with 20 million members and a place in the top 30 most trafficked websites in the US. Now, the site is publicly disclosing some of its financials.

According to CEO Geoff Cook, the company ended 2009 with… read more

Usability Review of Charity Websites Taking the Lead

Over the years designers have pushed themselves to create unique and inspiring designs. Companies have yearned to have websites which are innovative and make them stand out against their competitors. Yet charity websites have not progressed along with trends and expectations — they seem to have been designed for launch… read more

Finding Inspiration in Uncommon Sources: 12 Places to Look

Inspiration can be a fickle thing. Most designers, when lacking ideas, turn to design galleries to find ideas. But there are a few problems with that approach. The most obvious is that when taking inspiration from similar mediums, there’s a fine line between “inspired by” and “copied”. To some extent,… read more

HUGE: Facebook Secures Patent for News Feed

A new patent awarded to Facebook this week could have some big implications for the entire social media industry. The world’s largest social network now own the patent for the news feed.

Patent #7,669,123, first unearthed by All Facebook, credits Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg and seven other current and… read more

5 Fantastic Facebook Fan Page Ideas to Learn From

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

So your business is on Facebook, and brand engagement is up thanks to some savvy social media strategy. You may even be interested in further… read more

Discover New Music with TuneGlue

Your favorite song right now most likely won’t be the same a year from now. After listening to the same music for awhile, you probably start craving something fresh and new. The great thing about the music industry is there’s never a shortage of new music to discover, but discovering… read more

Retro Drawing and Shading with Adobe Illustrator® – Vector Plus Tutorial

We have another great Vector Plus tutorial available exclusively for Plus members today. If you want to learn how to take your retro character illustration to the next level, learn how to shade your characters, compose scenes, and other tips, then we have an awesome tutorial for you.

This Tutorial is… read more

22 Corporate Brand Logo Evolution of Automobile Groups

Did you know that many of the biggest automobile companies started as bicycle manufacturers? Have you ever wondered why the Audi has four interlocked rings as its logo? Or why the Alfa Romeo has such a romantic company name?

Logos represent the brand image, traditions and origins of a company. It… read more

Designing User Interfaces For Business Web Applications

Business Web application design is too often neglected. I see a lot of applications that don’t meet the needs of either businesses or users and thus contribute to a loss of profit and poor user experience. It even happens that designers are not involved in the process of creating applications… read more

How To Supercharge Your Calendar With BusyCal

If you are anything like me, you have scraps of paper lying around with dates, times, and names all over the place. Hopefully, you aren’t relying mainly on your head to keep yourself on-time and in the right location. Maybe you are stuck in the world of iCal misery, with… read more

Lobby Group Says Open Source Threatens Capitalism

Does advocating the use of open source software make one an enemy of capitalism? Yes, according to a U.S. intellectual property lobby group.

The Guardian reports that the International Intellectual Property Alliance, a lobby group broadly representing the RIAA, MPAA and others, has requested that the U.S. government put countries… read more

Mashable’s Weekly Guide to Social Media Job Openings

If you’re seeking a job in social media, we’d like to help out. For starters, Mashable’s Job Lists section gathers together all our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired. In particular, you might want to see our articles on How to… read more

10 Essential Chrome Extensions for Web Developers

This series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here.

As a web developer, you’re probably among the earliest adopters of new browser technologies. Google’s relatively new Chrome browser is one of those products that developers jumped all over as soon… read more

Software Development for the iPhone: How to Integrate In-App Purchases

Software Development for the iPhone: How to Integrate In-App Purchases

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The AIDA Marketing Model in Web Design

By Louis Lazaris

If you’ve been formally educated in marketing, more than likely you’ve learned about a marketing model called AIDA. AIDA is an acronym that represents the different steps involved in selling a product or service. Very often, the principles of AIDA are applied naturally when a useful product or… read more

ZipList Creates Sharable Grocery Lists from Thousands of Recipes

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.

Name: ZipList

Quick Pitch: ZipList is a… read more

Freeware find: Smith Micro Photo A.K.A. bulk file renamer

The app is a single-tasker — it is a bulk file renamer, much like Dare to be Creative’s Renamer (US$29). Like its more expensive competitor, you can rename any batch of files, not just photos. While I don’t think that the user interface for Photo A.K.A. is as well-designed as… read more

How the Resort Industry is Using Social Media

A growing number of resort and spa destinations are spreading their wings and reaching a wider customer base via social media. With the help of social networking platforms and niche bloggers, vacation spots are broadening their branding efforts from the sand to the slopes, and connecting with potential… read more

15 Notable Note Taking Apps for Mac

Ever wanted to keep your notes together and not create a bunch of text files which would eventually be strewn across your hard drive? Ever wanted more than just the ability to enter text, but also the possibility to include photos or other media in your notes?

If that’s the case,… read more

Shalom! Showcase Of Web Design In Israel

Israel is a young country with an old heart. It has been quickly built up over the last 60 years as an independent democratic Jewish state and is shockingly cutting edge for a country so new.

It is a tiny surreal sliver of land smack dab in the middle of the… read more

Found Footage: Photoshop v1.0 recreated on iPhone

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Photoshop, Adobe recently recreated Photoshop 1.0 — on the iPhone. Porting the venerable application over to the iPhone reportedly took Adobe a mere two weeks of development. The application is not available on the iTunes Store; Adobe only created the app as a promo… read more

Behind the Scenes of the Design Informer Redesign

Are you crazy? Why are you doing a redesign after only 3 months, especially since your design has gotten lots of positive response thus far?

Well, in this blog post, I’d love to answer that question and take you behind the scenes of the Design Informer redesign.

The Goals and Objectives

Redesigning a… read more

Send Coupons to Almost Any Cell Phone With MixMobi

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.

Name: MixMobi

Quick Pitch: MixMobi provides easy, fast, realtime,… read more

Twitter Perceptions of Google Buzz Over Time [INFOGRAPHIC]

Social media monitoring and analytics company Viralheat put together this graphic that shows the initial positive response to Google Buzz on Twitter, followed by shifts in opinion based on events in the developing privacy story.

The graph categorizes the Buzz-related tweets that went out during the first few days after… read more

HOW TO: Build a Facebook Landing Page for Your Business

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

Facebook is known for its uniformity. You can post all sorts of content, but the actual design and layout of your profile is the same… read more

Happy Cog’s Redesign of VisitPhilly.com: An Exemplary Modern Website

In January, Jason Santa Maria sent out a tweet announcing that visitphilly.com had been redesigned by world-renowned design studio Happy Cog. My interest was piqued, and I couldn’t help but take a peek.

I can honestly say that I’ve never been more impressed with a website redesign than… read more

Mashable’s Weekly Social Media Conference Guide

It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.

Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month before your event and let’s… read more

20 Essential Tips for Graphic Design Blog Management

Whether you work in some corporate office, small studio, or as a freelance designer, chances are you have a lot to do. As blog owners, we many times have multiple tasks to work on, content to manage, writers to handle, research to do, and more, to increase the productivity and… read more

The Seven Deadly Sins Of JavaScript Implementation

Using JavaScript has become increasingly easy over the last few years. Whereas back in the day we needed to know the quirks of every browser, now many libraries such as jQuery, YUI, Dojo and MooTools allow someone who doesn’t even know JavaScript to spruce up boring HTML documents with impressive… read more

Video Chat Coming to iPad and iPhone? [PICS]

Further evidence has emerged that Apple’s iPad and iPhone may support video chat in future versions.

Icons in the iPhone 3.2 Software Development Kit are labeled “Accept Video” and “Decline or End Video”, reports 9to5Mac.

Meanwhile, code in the iPad’s telephony apps also includes mentions of video chat. 9to5Mac concedes… read more

RIP Google Gears

Back in December, we discussed Google’s decision to shift focus away from Gears, its platform that allows web apps to work offline — instead the company would utilize HTML5.

In the Gears API Blog this week, Google has reinforced that decision, making it clear that the company “will not… read more

Gameloft says they’ve got iPhone locked down

<ploft is one of the bigger iPhone-specific (or at least mobile-specific) game developers out there, and in fact they're so big, they tell Mobile Entertainment that they're not scared of their development partner Ubisoft and other big game developers headed to the iPhone. Ubisoft developed the most recent Assassin's Creed… read more

Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.29

This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, some sites we discovered, but the most of them have been recommended by our readers.
Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope you like the selection of sites as much as we do, feel free to… read more

7 Operating Systems You Probably Never Heard Of

This is one of the very best list of its kind where you can find out of the box operating systems that you probably never heard of and these would be great enough to bookmark or just for knowledge. I hope everyone of you will like this list, you can… read more

Hollrr: Foursquare for Product Reviews

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.

Name: Hollrr

Quick Pitch: Hollrr is Foursquare… read more

Australian Broadcasting Corporation wants to be on the iPad

Why? They’re convinced the iPad is a whole new outlet for content consumption. They aim to use the iPad to “bring about a very different relationship with our readers than other platforms,” and their head of strategic development says the iPad could create a whole new category of mobile content…. read more

Is John The Client Dense or Are You Failing Him?

Meet John the client. John runs a reasonably large website. He is a marketer who considers himself smart, articulate and professional. That said, he doesn’t know much about Web design, and so he needs your help. John comes to you with a clear set of business objectives and asks for… read more

iPhone devsugar: Create shiny buttons easily

iPhone developer Jonathan “Schwa” Wight offers a great little trick for creating pixel perfect glassy buttons: using the unofficial UIGlassButton class in the simulator to build your art. In his code paste, he shows how to build a button and render it to a PNG, which you can then save… read more

12 Amazing Buddypress Themes and Getting Started Guides

Out of the box WordPress is a highly versatile, powerful and feature rich CMS. Add to that, the seemingly endless professionally developed themes and there huge library of powerful plugins and you now have the potential to build anything you could ever possibly conceive without limitation…. Or are… read more

Sites of the Week #90

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as Robocat and Neutron Creations. Also we’re featuring the community We Live Now and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will be more… read more

How Facebook Became Twice as Fast (But Still Not Fast Enough)

There’s an interesting post today at Facebook’s engineering blog, detailing how Facebook’s engineers managed to make the site two times faster in a six months period, from June of 2009 till the beginning of 2010.

It’s an interesting (albeit somewhat technical) read. In short, their primary concerns were shortening network… read more

Calculate the Cost of Wasteful Meetings With MEETorDIE

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.

Name: MEETorDIE.com

Quick Pitch: Have you ever been invited… read more

TUAW review and giveaway: Bill Atkinson PhotoCard for iPhone

<p it comes to famous names in the Apple pantheon, Bill Atkinson ranks very high in the list. The brains behind MacPaint, HyperCard, the Mac OS menu bar, and a host of other innovative software applications has been a professional nature photographer since 1996, but now he's melded his development… read more

Sony Ericsson Turned Down Opportunity to Build Google’s Nexus One

It’s common knowledge that HTC is the hardware provider for the Google Nexus One, but new statements by Sony Ericsson’s president indicate that electronics maker Sony Ericsson may have been approached first by Google.

Engadget is reporting that Bert Nordberg told a Swedish publisher that “his company was asked to… read more

iPhone devsugar: App Store approval in…one hour?

His update wasn’t complicated. “It was a simple problem,” he told me over the phone this morning. “One of the buttons stopped working because of a stupid error. I missed a break in a case statement.” So he uploaded his bugfix at about 11 PM local United Kingdom time…. read more

Mashable’s Weekly Guide to Jobs in Marketing & Social Media

If you’re seeking a job in social media, we’d like to help out. For starters, Mashable’s Job Lists section gathers together all our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired. In particular, you might want to see our articles on How to… read more

10 Simple and Light Weight CMS Solutions

Choosing the right content management system can be an overwhelming task for a web designer or developer. There are so many available, all with different features, it can be difficult to decide which is the best solution for a particular web project. For complex websites, a fully featured CMS is… read more

Macworld Expo: Jim Rea talks about the early days of Mac development

Jim was kind enough to share some of his memories from the early years, and update us on the soon-to-ship Panorama version 6. Both videos are in the continuation of this post.Part 1:

Part 2:

TUAWMacworld Expo: Jim Rea talks about the early days of Mac… read more

4 Terrific Tools for Creating Business Web Forms

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

Web forms can be a great asset on your business site. They let you collect pertinent data and contact information from your visitors without exposing your… read more

15 Highly-Useful Resources for Cross Browser Testing

Browser testing is one of the parts of the design and development process that is necessary but never really enjoyable. With the number of browsers and operating systems that are available, it can be a very time-consuming process to test your website in the environments of visitors. There are a… read more

Blast from the Past: Vintage Technologies That We No Longer Use

Most of the technologies that we have used in the past have been eclipsed by the remarkable technology that we use today.

Advances in their design have occurred in tandem with the advances in technology in this digital era, with many large products being redesigned and miniaturized into amazingly small sizes.

While… read more

7 Superb Social Plugins for WordPress

This series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here.

If you use WordPress for your website or blog, there are lots of ways you can connect it to social media, and connect social media to your site via those nifty… read more

Plan Multi-Stop Trips With Route4Me

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.

Name: Route4Me

Quick Pitch: Route4Me is a… read more

Top 5 OSes to Leverage Cloud Computing

Due to cloud computing, anyone can perform routine computer tasks anywhere, at any time, without installing applications. All users need a computer with operating system installed, connection to the internet and a compatible web browser; available at just about any coffee shop, library or other public places.

This technology has given… read more