Excellent Mockup And Wireframing (9) Web Apps Which You Would Love To Know

A wireframe or mockup tool is a must have tool for every web designer and developer. These tools have their importance in web designing and development world. It is good to use them because it saves your time and efforts, a mockup or wireframe can give you the whole idea… read more

Google Chrome Version 6 Arrives on Browser’s Second Birthday

It’s hard to believe that two years have passed since the Chrome browser first hit the web. In that time, Chrome has come to control more than 7.5% of the worldwide browser market, according to Net Marketshare. Sure, Internet Explorer and Firefox hold 60.4% and 22.9% respectively, but if one… read more

Review: Toodledo Task Manager

First, let me share a little secret with you.  I am a master procrastinator.  I always manage to get the job done, and often to the best of my abilities, but if I don’t have that looming deadline, sometimes time slips through my fingers.  I blame YouTube, Twitter, FreelanceSwitch, WorkAwesome,… read more

40 Tutorials and Techniques for Creating Business Logos

A logo alludes to its company’s identity in its appearance and visual impact; that’s how it starts branding. Seeing how important it is, we designers must not underestimate the potential of this simple graphic, and instead hone our skills as much as possible in creating and polishing logos,… read more

50 Refreshing CSS Tutorials, Techniques and Resources

In this CSS (2 & 3) round-up article we have focused on highlighting as many varied techniques covering as many aspects of web, mobile and application development as possible. And believe me, it wasn’t easy!
Due to CSS3s current popularity, the volume of new tutorials and fresh ideas has jumped… read more

27 Essential Social Media Resources You May Have Missed

A new Digg, a new school year, and a new weekly roundup of essential resources. In case you were too busy buying pencils and calculators for yourself or a young ‘un, we’ve pulled together our top posts from the past week or so.

Check out our updates on Digg, or our… read more

Best of the Week #134

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

Mozilla’s Mobile Browser Alpha Hits Android and Nokia N900 [PICS]

Mozilla has just released the Fennec 2.0 Alpha for Nokia N900 and Android 2.0+ devices.

Fennec is the code name for Firefox mobile and includes the ability to install browser add-ons and sync with the desktop version of Firefox.

The new version comes with built-in support for Firefox Sync (what… read more

Free Wireframing Kits, UI Design Kits, PDFs and Resources

To mock-up the user interface of a website, software or any other product, you’ll need some basic UI elements. And this is where wireframing kits and UI design kits come in handy. When you want to create a low-fidelity prototype for your projects, you can use these kits to give… read more

Gmail Add-on Makes E-mail Smarter

Rapportive makes an add-on for your Gmail inbox that instantly adds context to the people you e-mail, as you e-mail them. The Y Combinator startup demoed its social intelligence utility for Gmail at a Mountain View event on Tuesday.

Rapportive exists as a Firefox, Safari, Mailplane and Chrome add-on for Gmail…. read more

45 Free Applications For Designers And Developers

By Callum Chapman

Whether you’re just starting out in the graphic or web design industry, or you’ve been in it for years, the chances are there will occasionally be a time where you want to get a feel for a particular type of application (maybe something similar to Cinema 4D or… read more

Facebook Chat to Drop IE 6 Support

If you are still using Internet Explorer 6.0, Facebook has a new incentive for you to move onward and upward: Facebook Chat.

On its blog today, Facebook announced that its chat feature will no longer support IE 6. Like an increasing number of web applications, the social network cited the 9-year-old… read more

Morning Brief: Gmail Voice Calling, Google Finance Mobile, Windows 7 Live Phone-to-Console Gaming

This series is brought to you by HTC EVO 4G, America’s first 4G phone. Only from Sprint. The “First to Know” series keeps you in the know on what’s happening now in the world of social media and technology.

Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in… read more

Firefox 4 Beta 4 Introduces Sync and Panorama

Mozilla has released Firefox 4 Beta 4, bringing two very interesting features to the table: Panorama (previously called Tab Candy) and Sync.

Panorama is a nifty visual tool that lets you overview all of your open tabs and group them into sets with a simple drag and drop interface. It’s activated… read more

Improve Your E-Commerce Design With Brilliant Product Photos

Product photography could well be the single most important design aspect of any e-commerce website. Without the ability to touch, hold, smell, taste or otherwise handle the products they are interested in, potential customers have only images to interact with. Ultimately, the softer, tastier, flashier and more attractive your products… read more

Firefox Private Browsing Data Leaves Little to the Imagination

The Mozilla Firefox metrics blog just published detailed data about what times of the day Firefox users switch over to private browsing mode (a.k.a. porn mode) and for how long. The results probably won’t surprise you.

Some Firefox users opted into a study called “Week in the Life of a Browser”… read more

How to Put Your Mac on a Diet With Xslimmer

Everyone knows that apples are a healthy food—hence the saying “an apple a day keeps the doctor way”. But people rarely think to ask what Apples eat. When your Mac starts gobbling up too much fattening hard drive space, it’s time to call in a different kind of doctor. One… read more

50 Awesome New jQuery Plugins

The jQuery community never ever fails to let you down. Its constantly evolving, constantly improving and, thankfully, constantly releasing a tidal wave of fresh and powerful freely available plugins for every possible requirement.

Today we round-up the best and most powerful jQuery plugins from the last few months. You will find… read more

Google Tests New Feature: Search As You Type [VIDEO]

Google is testing a feature that displays live-updating search results as you type your search query, no keystroke on “Enter” or “Return” required.

When you start typing, the search box is relocated to the top of the site. Results are changed to match what you type as you go, kind of… read more

Modernist: Free WordPress Theme with Focus on Typography

Today we are glad to release a yet another freebie: a beautiful Modernist WordPress theme, designed by Rodrigo Galindez and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. The theme is based on the design ideas of Jan Tschichold, Josef Müller-Brockmann, Dieter Rams, and other modernists. Beautifully built yet transparent, it… read more

HOW TO: Change the Google Logo to Your Favorite Google Doodle

We all love Google’s Doodles, in which the classic homepage design is changed to mark a special anniversary or event. But if you’re anything like us, you probably wish that the Google logo was a little more fun every day of the year.

Fortunately, there’s a clever little and unofficial Greasemonkey… read more

20 Back to School Apps and Tools for Students

It’s August, which means school is about to start for many high school and college students. You’ve all probably had a nice summer, but now it’s time to get back to pulling all-nighters, listening to boring professors, and attempting to learn something useful.

A lot of you may be dreading school,… read more

Global News: A Free Wordpress News Theme – Updated!

Many of you may know that last week we released a multi-functional free wordpress news theme named “Global News” and due to some technical reasons we had to remove it from our servers. And now, after scanning all files as we promised, we are again making it available to our… read more

Create a Sticky Note Effect in 5 Easy Steps with CSS3 and HTML5

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to transform an HTML list into a wall of “sticky notes” that look and work like the following… The effect is built up gradually and works on the latest Webkit browsers (Safari, Chrome), Firefox and Opera. Other browsers simply get some yellow squares. Step… read more

100 Free High Quality WordPress Themes: 2010 Edition

It’s hard to believe that a year has passed since our last WordPress theme collection, but there you have it — the time has come again. Once a year we feature the most useful and interesting WordPress-themes that we are collecting over months and present them in a nice quick… read more

The 7 Useful (And Unknown) Web Browsers That Are Worth A Try

This is one of the very best list of its kind where you can find out of the box web browsers 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… read more

Recession Survival Tips For Online Businesses

In a recession, companies go one of two ways: either they become the cautious cat, adopting a wait-and-see attitude, spending carefully on their marketing and less overall, cutting back, or they become the ferocious lion, bold, taking advantage of their competitors’ caution to seize opportunities in the tough market.

Whatever your… read more

Quick Look: Intervals

Quick Look posts are paid submissions offering only a brief overview of an app. Vote in the polls below if you think this app is worth an in-depth AppStorm review!

In this Quick Look, we’re highlighting Intervals. Here’s how the developer has described Intervals.

Intervals is web-based project management software that marries… read more

Facebook Dislike Button is Fake [WARNING]

A new Facebook scam is making the rounds, and it’s taking advantage of a non-existent Facebook feature many users crave: the dislike button.

First, let’s clear things up: there is no such thing as an official Facebook dislike button. It’s possible that Facebook will implement a similar feature in the future,… read more

Kiwi: The Cute & Versatile Mac Twitter Client

When I first started using Twitter, I relied on the browser interface, and that seemed good enough. And then I discovered Twitterrific, which provided a better-designed and more enjoyable experience. And then I got an iPhone, and – as they say – that changed everything. After a… read more

Internet Explorer Turns 15

Microsoft’s web browser Internet Explorer was launched on this day, 15 years ago. While it had its ups and downs over the years – version 6 was plagued by countless security issues, which made it one of the most hated browsers around – it’s still the most popular browser in… read more

Twitter Allows Tweets Longer Than 140 Characters (By Accident)

If you’re crafty, you can now publish a tweet longer than 140 characters. It’s not a feature but rather a bug of course, so don’t expect it to be possible for much longer.

We first read about the bug in the Twitter Development Talk Google Group, where forum user… read more

Best of the Week #132

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

New Tweet Button Temporarily Hoses the Internet

Apologies if our homepage looked like the above momentarily, but it wasn’t our fault, we swear! The new official “tweet button,” which was rolled out yesterday, had a malfunction that rendered an error message in Firefox and essentially rendered Web browsers useless.

Lots of other people noticed too, including popular… read more

Gmail Gets an Unofficial Snooze Button

E-mail inbox utility Taskforce has updated its service to convert e-mails into tasks and create reminders for them; the functionality is akin to a snooze button for e-mail.

Taskforce, a beta service that integrates with Gmail via a Chrome extension or Firefox plug-in, refocuses the user’s e-mail experience around three central… read more

Can Flash Move Forward?

There has been a long debate about Adobe Vs. Apple, or even Flash Vs. HTML5. Whatever side of the fence you are on—you probably won’t be changing your mind anytime soon. Flash brings a lot of features and creativity for web designers, but then again the promise of HTML5, CSS3… read more

Fresh And Useful Firefox Extensions For Developers

Today we presents a collection of most useful Firefox extensions for developers. read more

Internet Explorer 9 Beta Launches on September 15

Microsoft will be launching the completely revamped Internet Explorer 9 at an event in San Francisco on September 15, but will it be enough to turn the tide in the war for web browser supremacy?

The September event will mark the first time the world will have the chance to play… read more

Firefox 4 Beta Adds Multi-touch Support [VIDEOS]

Mozilla has released the newest version of the Firefox 4 Beta, which not only includes hundreds of bug fixes, but also adds long-awaited multi-touch functionality to the browser.

Firefox 4 Beta Version 3 comes with three main updates from its predecessor. First, it addresses several hundred bugs and exploits. … read more

15 Awesome and Useful Safari Extensions

Apple released Safari 5 in June, introducing official support for browser extensions. This move now means that developers have the ability to build add-ons to enhance the overall browsing experience on Safari.

Apple launched its own official Safari Extensions gallery at the end of July, showcasing some of the best… read more

Global News: A Free WordPress News Theme

To continue our grateful attitude to our readers and community in general, we are glad to release one more free WordPress theme – “Global News”. It’s our latest high-quality freebies addition in Christmas week.

“Global News”, as the name implies, is a Newspaper Style WordPress Theme that has all the features… read more

Google Makes it Easier for Big Companies to Switch to Chrome

Google’s Chrome browser is steadily increasing in popularity among consumers, and now it looks like Google is making a more concentrated effort to lure enterprise and corporate users too.

As The Chrome Source points out, Google has now made the Chrome browser downloadable as an MSI file, which will make wide… read more

5 Hilarious Gadget Unboxing Videos

The “unboxing” video is a modern phenomenon in which a breathless geek films each stage of unpacking a new gadget with incredible excitement.

Such a format is, of course, ripe for parody and creativity. Accordingly, you can find a ton of videos that both mock and exalt the process to great… read more

10 Free Web UI Kits and Resources for Designers

This series is supported by Ben & Jerry’s Joe, Ben & Jerry’s new line-up of Fair Trade and frozen iced coffee drinks. Learn more about it here.

As designers, we often recycle the same fundamental elements when wireframing or mocking up a design. However, by utilizing a library of reusable web… read more

10 Fantastic Apps Used by the 6rounds Team

6rounds is a social entertainment platform that mixes webcam chats, interactive features & social games in a fun and playful video chat environment. If you are bored after keeping in touch with your friends in just 140 characters or with no real one on one conversation, it’s time for you… read more

11 Free Services for Scheduling Social Media Updates

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

Maintaining a constant social media presence can be difficult, especially for busy entrepreneurs looking to stay in touch with their communities. Luckily, there are plenty of tools… read more

50 Essential Mac Apps for OS X Beginners

So you just unboxed that shiny new Mac, fired it up and heard the glorious chime. Now what? It can be a little bit overwhelming to start from scratch and build a library of useful applications but we’re to help!

Today we’ll take a look at 50 awesome apps that are… read more

Internet Explorer Gains Market Share at the Expense of Firefox

Microsoft Internet Explorer continues to make a comeback, gaining market share for the third month in a row, mostly to the detriment of Mozilla Firefox.

According to new statistics from Net Applications, Internet Explorer increased its share of the browser market in July by 0.42%, for a total share of 60.74%…. read more

Add Chrome Like Text Search Functionality to Firefox (Add-on)

Finding text on a webpage is something that can be helpful in a number of situations. In the web browser Mozilla Firefox you can search for text on a webpage by using the “Ctrl+F” key combination. This pops up a mini-window at the page’s bottom from where you can search… read more

HoneyThemes: A Free XHTML-CSS-Layout for Online Theme Shop

Once Again, we’ve got something special for our community. We’ve again came up with cool freebies giveaway as promised. This is our way of saying thanks to our readers for being part of the instantShift community and helping us make it to where we are right now. We never… read more

Spotlight on ZURB – One Super Awesome Interaction Design Company

You may have bookmarked one of their CSS or Javascript tutorials, or you could have read one of their concise and refreshing articles on Smashing Magazine, you may even use one of their web apps, or it could be that you downloaded one of the many useful development tools they… read more

Our 15 Favorite Safari 5.0.1 Extensions

Firefox is the king of add-ons and it’s proven to be popular and successful, helping users customize and enhance their browser and browsing experience. Chrome followed in Firefox’s steps, offering a growing selection of fantastic extensions. Safari may be late to the show, but better late than never!

Though Safari has… read more

6 Personal Productivity Tools Guaranteed to Up Your Game

Being a freelancer has its perks. You are your own boss, meaning you can work at home and set up your own hours. As great as that sounds, working at home also has its downsides. The main problem is that it’s hard to be productive when you keep getting distracted… read more

Safari Updated, Gets Official Extensions Gallery

When Apple released Safari 5 earlier this summer, one of the new features included the ability to (finally!) install third-party extensions; today the company has released Safari 5.0.1 and, with it, an official extension gallery.

The Safari extensions gallery includes extensions built by Twitter, MLB.com, Bing, eBay, Amazon and more. Developers… read more

15 Developer/Hacker Women to Follow on Twitter

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

Everyone should know at least one woman who can code her way out of a wet paper bag.

While women developers, computer programmers and hackers of all stripes are by far outnumbered by… read more

Firefox 4 Beta 2 Adds More Languages and App Tabs

Firefox 4 beta 1 was released earlier this month, and today the next version has become available — this time with support for 23 more languages.

The latest Firefox 4 beta also features tabs on top for Mac OS X users (the last version was for Windows users only) and a… read more

Is Google Watching You? New Plugin Will Let You Know [APPS]

Another rad browser plugin called Google Alarm hit the Internets this week, which alerts you every time your personal info is sent to Google’s servers. How? Via notifications, a running tally of dangerous sites and, naturally, a super annoying, vuvuzela-like alarm.

After seeing this new plugin — which works with… read more

Computer Faceoff: Mac vs. PC

We’ve pitted countless web and tech-related items against each other in our weekly Web Faceoff series. There was Chrome vs. Firefox (Firefox emerged as champ), Facebook vs. Twitter (Facebook eeked out a win), iPhone vs. Android (Android crushed the competition) and Digg vs. StumbleUpon vs. Reddit (Digg secured victory… read more

CometChat : In-Page Facebook Style Footer PHP Chat For Your Site

CometChat is an in-page Facebook style footer PHP chat which enables your users to interact with each other in real-time.

CometChat works on shared servers and does not require any special hardware or software. CometChat supports all modern browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome etc.

CometChat seamlessly integrates with… read more

50 Useful Tools and Resources For Web Designers

An effective, well-organized workflow is an important asset of professional web designers. The more useful and time-saving your tools are, the more time you can focus on important things, thus creating a foundation for timely good-quality results. The problem is that there are just way too many tools, services and… read more

Yolink Helps Web Researchers Search Behind Links

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: yolink

Quick Pitch: Yolink is a next-generation… read more

Best of the Week #129

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: Put Facebook’s “Like” Button on Any Website

Facebook’s social plugins, especially its popular “Like” button, have spread across the web like wildfire. They were on 50,000+ websites within one week after launch, on 100,000+ sites in less than a month, and are now on 350,000+ sites.

There are still millions of web pages, blog posts and videos… read more

Tab Candy: Firefox Invents a Better Way to Manage Tabs [VIDEO]

Mozilla Creative Lead Aza Raskin has released Tab Candy, an experimental feature for Firefox that reimagines tabbed browsing through tab groups and reorganization.

In a post on his blog, Raskin introduced the new tab management system. Tab Candy is launched via a small button to the right of your tabs,… read more

Should Facebook Add a Dislike Button?

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told ABC’s Diane Sawyer this week that Facebook would “definitely think about” adding a Dislike button to the site, allowing users to express distaste for updates or pages on Facebook.

A Facebook group for the concept has nearly 3.2 million fans, while there are at least two… read more

Smart Online Collection Collaboration with Snipi

There is no dearth of content online on any topic you look for. From plain text pages, we have moved into era that enriches the information with pictures and videos. Saving those pictures & videos and sharing them in a streamlined manner is tricky.

We cannot save pictures & videos and… read more

Quick Look: Better Facebook

Quick Look posts are paid submissions offering only a brief overview of an app. Vote in the polls below if you think this app is worth an in-depth AppStorm review!

In this Quick Look, we’re highlighting Better Facebook. Here’s how the developer has described Better Facebook.

Better Facebook is a browser extension… read more

40+ Web Design and Development Resources for Beginners

Brian Casel is a web designer and owner of ThemeJam WordPress Themes and CasJam Media. You can follow Brian on his blog at BrianCasel.com or on Twitter @CasJam.

It’s no secret that web design is a fast-growing industry. Virtually every type of business is in need of a quality… read more

How to Optimize Your Site for Better Loading Time

In April Google officially announced they were integrating loading time into their algorithm. As they put it, “speeding up websites is important — not just to site owners, but to all Internet users. Faster sites create happy users and we’ve seen in our internal studies that when a site responds… read more

30 Fantastic Geeky Tricks to Get The Most From Your Mac

If you’re one of those Mac users that loves to dig in and play with hidden features and settings, this post is for you.

Below you’ll find 30 tips and tricks to help both seasoned and beginner Mac users to get the most out of their OS X experience. We’ll cover… read more

How To Use CSS3 Media Queries To Create a Mobile Version of Your Website

CSS3 continues to both excite and frustrate web designers and developers. We are excited about the possibilities that CSS3 brings, and the problems it will solve, but also frustrated by the lack of support in Internet Explorer 8. This article will demonstrate a technique that uses part of CSS3 that… read more

40 Bizarre and Cool Google Earth Photos

Google Earth is used when you want to explore rich geographical content, want to see satellite images, maps, landscapes, 3D buildings or view satellite images from galaxies in outer space. It also lets you search the whole planet within seconds without requiring you to leave your comfortable room. You can… read more

Firefox Home Is Now in the App Store

We’ve just learned that Firefox Home [iTunes link] has been accepted to Apple’s App Store. This is Mozilla’s first submission to the App Store; the app was submitted 15 days ago.

Fennec is Mozilla’s official mobile browser; it’s still in its early stages of testing and development. The Firefox Home app… read more

10 Free Wireframing Tools for Designers

This series is supported by Ben & Jerry’s Joe, Ben & Jerry’s new line-up of Fair Trade and frozen iced coffee drinks. Learn more about it here.

Wireframing is a crucial step in web design and development as it allows for rapid prototyping and helps to pinpoint potential problems early in… read more

Vuvuzelas Storm BP Headquarters in Protest of Gulf Oil Spill [VIDEO]

This Tuesday at noon, a group of volunteers toting vuvuzelas gathered outside of BP’s International Headquarters in London and sounded their barbaric yelps in protest of the way the company is handling the oil spill in the Gulf.

We’ve been covering this campaign since the very beginning — ever since Adam… read more

Evernote Trunk: An App Store for Productivity Addicts

Today note-taking application and service Evernote rolled out the latest addition of its platform, Evernote Trunk. Think of it as an app store for Evernote users.

Evernote Trunk features nearly 100 add-ons for the Evernote service, including mobile and desktop apps and plugins, all built to support the underlying service. It’s… read more

Run Windows Apps on Your Mac Free With Wine Bottler

Have you ever wanted to install a Windows application on your Mac? First of all, shame on you for wanting to do such a thing. However, as you know, countless Mac users do in fact run PC applications every single day, so we forgive you.

The problem with running Windows applications… read more

A Collection of Printable Web Browser Sketching and Wireframe Templates

All of the printable sketching templates that you will find below have all been designed specifically for web designers. Each of the sketching templates have an imprint of a web browser (they either use Safari, Chrome or Firefox) just waiting for you to wireframe or sketch your next design project.

Each… read more

HOW TO: Optimize Your Mobile Site Across Multiple Platforms

This series is supported by Webtrends Mobile Analytics, which lets you monitor the adoption and usage of your mobile apps and mobile sites. To keep up with Webtrends Mobile, add their blog to your RSS reader.

One of the most difficult aspects of designing for the mobile web is making your… read more

Leech: The Lightweight Mac Download Manager

There was a time when having a download manager made a real difference to one’s experience of using the internet. There are places where this is still true. A few years ago, I spent a month in a remote part of India, where I struggled to top 2k… read more

CSS3 Design Contest Results

To get you really excited about CSS3, last month we announced the CSS3 Design Contest and encouraged designers to experiment and get creative with CSS3. As expected, we have received many creative and original submissions. To choose the winners of the contest, we considered the originality of the technique or… read more

40 jQuery and CSS3 Tutorials and Techniques

In this article you will find a comprehensive selection of tutorials and techniques that make use of some exciting and fresh CSS3 properties and injected this with some innovative jQuery.

You will some truly creative image galleries/sliders, a marvelous selection of innovative navigation techniques, a handful of original form solutions and… read more

Our Favorite Tweets of the WeekJul 4-Jul 10, 2010

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.

The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick… read more

Top 20 Features Of Firefox 4 (Beta) That Make It Stand Out

The beta for Firefox version 4 was recently released and it has already created a buzz on the web. While many of its features will already demonstrated in its nightly builds, the beta more widely showcases these new features.

Release notes for Firefox v4 outline all the features which web developers… read more

Turn Any Website into an Oil Spill [APPS]

Although interest in the Gulf oil spill may be waning, more and more creative folks are finding ways to raise awareness. The newest tool on the block? An app that lets you create an oil spill on any webpage you choose.

A Cleaner Future — a collaboration between marketing company Mark… read more

Digimarc for Images 4

PHOTOSHOP PLUG-IN APPLIES (AND TRACKS) INVISIBLE WATERMARKS

The Digimarc for Images 4 plug-in for Adobe Photoshop or Photoshop Elements (Windows only) embeds your own unique copyright information invisibly, then their Web crawling service constantly looks for watermarked images on websites, and reports the results back to the owner. You can… read more

15 Fantastic Greasemonkey Scripts for Better Browsing

When I was a young boy I always wanted to grow up to become a professional website designer. A few decades later reality hit and made me realize that my dream would never come into fruition. But, I wasn’t depressed at all because I found Greasemonkey. With Greasemonkey I could… read more

Firefox 4 Beta 1 Released

It’s finally here: Mozilla has released the first beta for Firefox 4.

The new iteration of the world’s second most popular web browser, which can be downloaded here, has been hotly anticipated for more than a year. Today however, it transitions from concept to reality, with many more betas to… read more

21 Great Sites to Help Save Money When Shopping Online

We all love saving money and online shopping has revolutionized the way we do so. Back in the pre-internet age, if you wanted to save a few bucks, you either had to drive to the edge of town to compare prices or spend an entire Sunday afternoon cutting those darn… read more

Cool PC Apps: The Top 50 PC Applications for Freelancers

credit: Shutterstock

Poor PC freelance users, we never get the love we deserve! So to help rectify that, I took some time to round up the best 50 PC apps that freelancers can use in their business, in no particular order. Everything from time tracking apps and online storage… read more

The 10 Founding Fathers of the Web

While the phrase “founding fathers” is often used in conjunction with men like Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, we wanted the think about the phrase on the global level. And what is more global than the world wide web? Thus, this holiday, we’re taking a look at 10… read more

Best of the Week #126

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

Best of AppStorm in June

We’ve collected the top five reviews, roundups and how-to articles from across the AppStorm network in April. Whether you’re interested in Mac, iPhone, or Web apps, there’s bound to be something you didn’t spot over the course of the month.

Now would be a good time to explore a part of… read more

Opera 10.6: 10 Strong Reasons To Switch Over To Opera

Opera has always been ahead of the browser curve. It was the first browser to introduce the startpage-like new tabs, a feature it calls Speed Dial. Despite all that Opera has to offer, it is not the first browser preference of many computer users. This is something Opera hopes to… read more

Firefox Reaches 2 Billion Add-Ons Downloaded

Firefox is the preferred browser of many a seasoned netizen, and it’s got the stats to prove it: As of today, Firefox users have collectively downloaded more than two billion add-ons.

Here’s another interesting statistic: the number of downloads actually exceeds the number of Internet users globally.

Of course, although the users… read more

10 [More] Killer Dropbox Tips and Tricks

We recently rounded up 15 Awesome Dropbox Tips and Tricks, which was accompanied by a giveaway. Entries required a comment with your favorite Dropbox tip, trick or hack you use. From that massive collection of entries we bring you 10 [more] killer Dropbox tips and tricks to make the most… read more

YouTube Lets Users Question BP Executive

Seventy-two days have passed since the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon exploded in the Gulf of Mexico and the public is frustrated, to say the least. Well take a break from writing your satirical Twitter stream/crafting your web plugins/blowing your vuvuzela to join the discussion over at YouTube.

The video-sharing site… read more

Linear CSS Gradients that ANY Browser Can See

In the past, if you wanted to have an HTML entity to have a gradient background you created in image of a gradient and displayed it in the entity using the background-image attribute in CSS. With the evolution of browsers and CSS/HTML, this is no longer the case. In this… read more

Mozilla Submits Firefox Home to iPhone App Store

Mozilla has submitted Firefox Home, its first official iPhone app, to Apple’s App Store. It may be the closest thing we ever see to Firefox on the iPhone.

Firefox Home is not like Fennec, the official mobile version of the Firefox browser, currently in pre-alpha for Android. Instead, it… read more

Online Plot Hatched to Annoy BP Executives with Vuvuzelas

Does the situation in the Gulf have you mad as hell (and not gonna take it anymore)? Well, you could create a satirical Twitter account, knock out a kickass plugin or paint your Tumblr dashboard black — or you could call upon the powers of the most obnoxious viral meme… read more