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Top 10 Google Chrome Plugins for Small Businesses

admin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:13:58 +0000

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

The Google Chrome Web Store has made it easy for anyone to stay organized, and the browser has gotten much faster, as we’ve noticed in the beta… read more

Hype: A Worthy Flash Alternative?

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

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

40+ Tips to Get the Most Out of Web Apps

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

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

While the web apps and sites we love… read more

New developer tools in Firefox 10 and 11

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

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Useful CSS Snippets for Your Coding Arsenal

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

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

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

Make Time for YOU – Part Two

admin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:00:55 +0000

It’s the beginning of the year and things are slow. You are hustling to get work and the work that comes your way you don’t feel you can turn down. By the time summer rolls around, you have been working your butt off and let things—like life outside of… read more

20 Must Have Alfred Extensions

admin — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:00:53 +0000

One of the first few apps I downloaded was the popular Alfred launcher. Being able to launch apps, open files, shutdown and restart my laptop with just a few taps on the keyboard intrigued me, so I decided to give it a shot. And hey, who can resist that adorable… read more

5 Firefox Add-Ons for Increasing Productivity

admin — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 04:45:46 +0000

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

The Internet is a black hole of procrastination. It’s a rare occasion when we open up our web browsers and just do work without checking Facebook or… read more

Quick Look: Balance Forecasting Web

admin — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:00:51 +0000

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 Balance Forecasting Web. The developer describes Balance Forecasting Web as a tool to help you… read more

Win $1,000 in PSD to HTML services!

admin — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:25:33 +0000

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

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

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

Technically:

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

Mozilla Challenges Prove Crowdsourcing Still Works for Fundraising

admin — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:00:32 +0000

The Mozilla Firefox Challenge has named a winner — but the real champion is the public, who yet again proved that crowdsourcing and grass roots campaigns are an effective way to raise money for charity.

The Challenge, hosted on the Crowdrise fundraising platform, pitted 12 celebrities in a race to see… read more

9 Tech Millionaires Under Age 30 [INFOGRAPHIC]

admin — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 02:00:22 +0000

For those of us who weren’t born with prerequisites for professional sports or rockstardom, entrepreneurship is probably the best bet for becoming fabulously wealthy before hitting our mid-life crises.

Just take a free idea, mix in some free time and possibly free Internet (depending on whether you like coffee), and poof!… read more

Resolution Independence With SVG

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

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

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

16 Most Useful Firefox Add-ons for Web Designers

admin — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 03:05:19 +0000

16 Most Useful Firefox Add-ons for Web Designers

40 CSS Reference Websites and Resources

admin — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:00:08 +0000

If you want to design websites or modify your existing website design, then you need to have at least a basic knowledge of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Thankfully, CSS is a very easy language to get to a grip on, however you may find it takes a little more time… read more

Nuke the Net: How to Get the Mainstream Talking About the Dangers of SOPA

admin — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 04:29:48 +0000

If you’re like most Mashable readers, you know plenty about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and its sister bill in the Senate, the Protect IP Act (PIPA). And you’re probably plenty outraged about it, too. And rightfully so.

If enacted, SOPA/PIPA could have disastrous consequences for the basic infrastructure of… read more

We have $700 worth of services from PSD2HTML.com to giveaway

admin — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:39:38 +0000

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If you’re a busy web designer or web developer, this week’s competition is the perfect solution for your PSD to HTML slicing needs. PSD2HTML.com are giving away $400 worth of services for the winner and $300 for the runner-up.
All you have to do… read more

In Tiff With Google, Twitter Turns to Wrestling

admin — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 04:02:18 +0000

In the latest episode of public bickering between Twitter and Google over the search engine’s new Google+ integration, Twitter general counsel Alex Macgillivray has turned to wrestling.

That’s the example he tweeted Wednesday afternoon to demonstrate the inefficiency of Google’s latest changes, at least. “Folks asked for examples,” he wrote…. read more

Are You Using Gmail to Your Best Advantage as a Freelancer?

admin — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:00:22 +0000

Many freelancers use Gmail but have you considered sprucing up your settings so that each email looks more professional? Wouldn’t you prefer to have your customers and clients receive emails from your name @ your domain name dot com instead? This is really simple to set up and gives… read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Adventures In The Third Dimension: CSS 3D Transforms

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

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

Create a Full Page Background Image with CSS3

admin — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:45:17 +0000

The other day we looked at 10 Awesome Websites With Full Screen Background Images. At the beginning of the article I had mentioned that there were a few ways of approaching this effect, some developers prefer to do it with jQuery, some with CSS, and others with Flash. In this… read more

Citelighter Is Like a Highlighter for the Internet

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

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

Name: Citelighter

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

Genius Idea: Making it easy… read more

Best of AppStorm in December

admin — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:00:31 +0000

We’ve collected the top four reviews, roundups and how-to articles from across the AppStorm network in February. Whether you’re interested in Mac, iPhone, Web, or Android 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… read more

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

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

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

Dashlane: Web Logins and Checkouts at Light Speed

admin — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:00:16 +0000

Managing your various accounts, passwords, IDs and other sensitive data is a tricky situation. You want it to be both accessible and secure, two goals that are by nature at odds with each other.

Today we’re going to give you a sneak peek at Dashlane, an app that promises to… read more

10 Firefox Add-ons to Level Up Your Freelance Efficiency

admin — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:00:24 +0000

Mozilla Firefox is a real treasure for freelancers worldwide. Why? It’s an advanced, fast and secure web browser.

In the last 7 years the open source browser has proved – it’s more than a web surfer. Mozilla Firefox is translated into over 70 languages, enriched with dozens of extensions, and… read more

Share Your Presentations With SpeakerDeck

admin — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:00:33 +0000

Enterprise software market is a lucrative cash cow. Once you get the professional types start using your apps, you are probably set for life. They don’t usually change their course midway and are accustomed to familiarity. But when it comes to presentations, office dwellers always look for ways to make… read more

The 20 Best Mac Apps of 2011

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

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

Facebook Timeline Doesn’t Show in Internet Explorer 7

admin — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:49:11 +0000

If you don’t like Facebook Timeline, all you have to do to get rid of it is use Internet Explorer 7 — but be prepared for a buggy experience. Facebook’s latest profile redesign is not visible in IE7, and the company might soon completely phase out support for the aging… read more

20+ Useful Firefox Add-ons for Web-developers

admin — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 08:45:19 +0000

20+ Useful Firefox Add-ons for Web-developers

YouTube in 2011: How Its Busy Year Affects You

admin — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 05:01:13 +0000

Much has changed for YouTube since it launched in 2005. But in 2011, we saw Google’s video-sharing service undergo more tweaks, spit out more new features and reach more major milestones than in previous years.

Let’s rewind and reminisce as I highlight key moments in YouTube‘s eventful year that involved… read more

Google Nails 2011: Portrait of a Banner Year

admin — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 04:16:56 +0000

It has proven to be a monumental banner year for Google. It’s hard to believe that one year ago, things such as Google+ and the now all-familiar +1 button were nonexistent. The company has come far from being just a search engine. For some, it is an office suite, email… read more

LastPass and Xmarks: Keeping Me in Sync

admin — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 04:00:22 +0000

With my job and a passion for tech, I have a home computer, work laptop, iPhone, iPad, and am often at a variety of other computers throughout the week. With so much bouncing around, I realized that I needed two things readily accessible on any device that I was on,… read more

10 Must Have Firefox Plugins

admin — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 03:05:19 +0000

10 Must Have Firefox Plugins

20 Best Firefox Skins To Customize Your Browser

admin — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 07:45:19 +0000

20 Best Firefox Skins To Customize Your Browser

GoDaddy CEO: ‘We’re Not Cynical Folks’

admin — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 03:32:06 +0000

In an interview with Mashable shortly after GoDaddy announced its withdrawal of support for the Stop Online Piracy Act, new company CEO Warren Adelman said that the web hosting and domain registration service was acting purely in the best interest of its customers and would now “let others carry the… read more

Should all Browsers Use WebKit?

admin — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 20:00:34 +0000

Web standards are an ever-evolving entity, with new syntax and functions being added all the time. The buzzwords of the year are HTML5 and CSS3, evolutions of the already-existing languages that most people are familiar with. Unfortunately, getting a function added to the standards is only half the battle; you… read more

As Users Rail Against GoDaddy, Unpacking the SOPA Supporter List [VIDEO]

admin — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 08:11:07 +0000

GoDaddy is one of more than a hundred companies catching flak online for supporting the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Many website operators have threatened to move their domains away from GoDaddy, and Y Combinator founder Paul Graham has said… read more

The Mac Browser War: Safari vs. the Competition

admin — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 04:00:53 +0000

When you purchased your Mac, you probably wanted the best web browser offered, whether it be Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, or some other worthy candidate. After all, quality hardware should also contain quality software. There has been much controversy on what truly is the best browser available for a Mac…. read more

Christmas & New Year Special Giveaway: Prizes Worth Over $20,000

admin — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:34:15 +0000

The end of this year is almost coming and Christmas is already on our doorsteps. It’s never too late to hang your stockings, keep milk and cookies and wait for Santa to drop in at your home with lots of gifts and Christmas cheer. It’s time for Santa’s gifts, for… read more

2011: Tech’s Biggest Winners and Losers

admin — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 02:42:36 +0000

Time is a funny thing. One minute I’m standing in a crowded room fondling HP’s new 10.1-inch TouchPad tablet, the next, I’m writing its obituary, and a moment later I’m marking the rebirth of its OS as an open source platform. That’s not really how it happened. This course of… read more

How to Make Your Website More Accessible

admin — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:51:19 +0000

Constant improvement is imperative to a world of progress, including the web world. Designing an effective website requires a lot of techniques, skills and testing. Testing determines the usability of the website, which ties into accessibility. Thus, one of the most important things to consider when creating a website is… read more

Web design predictions for 2012

admin — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:18:15 +0000

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House Delays Taking Action on SOPA Until Dec. 21

admin — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 07:03:57 +0000

The House Judiciary Committee on Friday postponed debate on the contentious Stop Online Piracy Act until Wednesday.

Initial reports indicated that voting on the measure — which if passed would create a “blacklist” of websites that infringe on copyrights — would be pushed back to 2012.

However, Rep. Darrell Issa has… read more

The Comprehensive Guide of a Guest Post Writer

admin — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:41:31 +0000

Few days ago I read an interesting article that presented in detail the total income of a freelance writer and the figures make me think twice about the actual job I have. Yes, working a lot in addition to a smart strategy of gaining more clients could bring a serious… read more

Fight Against SOPA Intensifies Surrounding House Debate

admin — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:59:09 +0000

The House Judiciary Committee met to debate changes to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) on Thursday as the public debate between players with deep pockets on both sides reached new heights.

If the bill at issue, SOPA, were to become law, it would create a “blacklist” of websites that infringe… read more

Mozilla Firefox Challenge Pits 12 Celebs in Battle of the Most Charitable

admin — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 06:34:03 +0000

Mozilla is hoping people see the socially-minded side of its popular Firefox web browser with a new celebrity-fueled charity campaign called the Mozilla Firefox Challenge.

The Challenge, hosted on the Crowdrise fundraising platform, pits 12 celebrities in a race to see who can raise the most money for their cause. Users… read more

Six CSS Layout Features To Look Forward To

admin — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:02:04 +0000

A few concerns keep bobbing up now and then for Web developers, one of which relates to how to lay out a given design. Developers have made numerous attempts to do so with existing solutions. Several articles have been written on finding the holy grail of CSS layouts, but to… read more

Get the Most Out of Your Bookmarks With Kippt

admin — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:00:24 +0000

We’re coming to the end of a wonderful year and I’ve realized that I’ve read far more content online this year than any other. That being said, I’ve also accumulated long lists of articles that I haven’t gotten around to reading and I attribute this to two factors: constant distractions… read more

Interarchy: The Simpler Way to FTP

admin — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:00:16 +0000

Just like email, the file transfer protocol (FTP) has been around for a long time, making it indispensable for those dabbling with web servers. Now that the entire World is swearing by the cloud, the significance of FTP has gone up exponentially. Tons of FTP clients – free, open source and premium… read more

Web Design Trends in 2012

admin — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:00:27 +0000

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It’s that time of year again, where we look into our crystal ball to see what will be the hot trends in web design for the upcoming year. It’s no secret that trends come and go, with some hanging around longer than they should. (Yes, splash… read more

15+ Best Desktop Publishing Resources and Beginner Tips

admin — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:00:04 +0000

Desktop publishing has become a critical business skill today, and the use of the Internet means that creation of print content is no longer the only consideration.

Now the documents you create likely have to be displayed in both print and on the web.

This article looks at how to determine… read more

What’s new for designers, December 2011

admin — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:19:45 +0000

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Review: Radiant CMS — A Simple, User-Friendly CMS

admin — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 03:42:53 +0000

Radiant CMS is a simple Content Management System built using Ruby on Rails. It is licensed under the MIT Licence, which means it is freely redistributable and can be employed for both commercial and non-profit usage. Radiant CMS is ideal for small enterprises and teams.

INTRODUCTION

Radiant has a fairly simple and… read more

Congratulations To The Winners Of SyncMate Expert (All-In-One Sync Tool) For Mac

admin — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 22:04:40 +0000

Thanks to all of the participants of contest in which SyncMate Expert (All-In-One Sync Tool) For Mac were givingaway. We ran the MySQL random query and selected these comments to give them SyncMate Expert for Mac.

Winners of SyncMate Expert (All-In-One Sync Tool) For Mac

Zee Patel
Hugo
Cheryl
Buddy
Jawor5

With SyncMate you can sync data between… read more

20 Amazing Implementations of HTML5 Canvas

admin — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:58:49 +0000

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In this article, we explore some of the most awe-inspiring implementations of HTML5′s canvas element so far. From all of the new HTML5 tags, canvas is likely to be the most powerful.
In a nutshell, the canvas element is a drawable region defined in… read more

StumbleUpon Launches Major Redesign, Welcomes Brands

admin — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:00:08 +0000

StumbleUpon completely revamped its website Monday — adding a new logo, design and a channel feature that gives brands a non-intrusive role in the service.

“Really this is the biggest refresh in terms of look and feel that we’ve ever had on the web,” StumbleUpon CEO Garrett Camp told Mashable.

While the… read more

Auto-Save User’s Input In Your Forms With HTML5 and Sisyphus.js

admin — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 01:16:48 +0000

Editor’s note: This article is the third in our new series that introduces new, useful and freely available tools and techniques, developed and released by active members of the Web design community. The first article covered PrefixFree; the second introduced Foundation, a responsive framework that helps you build prototypes and… read more

Integrating Amazon S3 With WordPress

admin — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:55:17 +0000

Computing is full of buzzwords, “cloud computing” being the latest one. But unlike most trends that fizzle out after the initial surge, cloud computing is here to stay. This article goes over Amazon’s S3 cloud storage service and guides you to implementing a WordPress plugin that backs up your WordPress… read more

10 New Google Analytics Features You Need to Start Using

admin — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:29:40 +0000

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

Over the past eight months, Google has steadily released one revolutionary new feature after another. On March 17, the company announced a new version of Google Analytics. Up until this point, users could decide whether they preferred… read more

The Perfect Paragraph

admin — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:53:24 +0000

In this article, I’d like to reacquaint you with the humble workhorse of communication that is the paragraph. Paragraphs are everywhere. In fact, at the high risk of stating the obvious, you are reading one now. Despite their ubiquity, we frequently neglect their presentation. This is a mistake. Here, we’ll… read more

40+ Useful and Fresh jQuery Plugins

admin — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:00:18 +0000

Plugins are there to assist you and let you perform the desired action in a more convenient and speedy manner. Therefore, today we decided to come up with an exciting and interesting collection of 40+ fresh and cool jQuery plugins for our reader’s convenience. This compilation is targeted at the… read more

SyncMate Expert (All-In-One Sync Tool) For Mac Giveaway

admin — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:38:32 +0000

Eltima Software is running a contest, where 5 licenses of SyncMate Expert Edition are givingaway. Well, you guys know what is SyncMate? Let’s say it once again for n00bs.

With SyncMate you can sync data between your Mac and various devices and accounts within one app. You don’t need to install… read more

How To Set Up A Print Style Sheet

admin — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 21:11:41 +0000

In a time when everyone seems to have a tablet, which makes it possible to consume everything digitally, and the only real paper we use is bathroom tissue, it might seem odd to write about the long-forgotten habit of printing a Web page. Nevertheless, as odd as it might seem… read more

How To Create Web Animations With Paper.js

admin — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:14:53 +0000

The Web is just starting to use animation well. For years, animated GIFs and Flash ruled. Text moved and flashed, but it was never seamless. Animations had boxes around them like YouTube videos. HTML5 canvas changes everything about Web animation.

The canvas element makes it possible to integrate drawings and animations… read more

25 Google+ tips and tricks

admin — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:40:18 +0000

Google+ unveiled itself to the public amidst a chorus of praise and adulation from techies all over the globe. Unfortunately, it also earned a good amount of scorn from individuals who were not ready to grasp the unique philosophy Google+ was promoting. That philosophy is one of openness.

Unlike Facebook, Google+… read more

How to Enable the New YouTube Design Now

admin — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 02:56:05 +0000

Word on the street is that YouTube has a slick new design. It’s a revamped homepage with some pretty tight Google+ social integration and content discovery features.

But if you’ve fired up your trusty Internet machine and the new YouTube hasn’t yet appeared for you, don’t fret. Our friends at The… read more

Spool: Save the Web

admin — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 04:00:33 +0000

You’re a busy person. I’m a busy person. There’s no way that we could possibly get through all of the amazing things that we find on the web every day, as we’re constantly bombarded by new links and amazing new Google search results.

Luckily, there are are couple of ways to… read more

HTML5 Semantics

admin — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:43:54 +0000

Much of the excitement we’ve seen so far about HTML5 has been for the new APIs: local storage, application cache, Web workers, 2-D drawing and the like. But let’s not overlook that HTML5 brings us 30 new elements to mark up documents and applications, boosting the total number of elements… read more

Stop Online Piracy Act: What You Need to Know [INFOGRAPHIC]

admin — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:18:19 +0000

Wondering what’s going on with the Stop Online Piracy Act, otherwise known as SOPA? Here’s an infographic that boils it all down to the key points for you.

Protests against the bill now under consideration by the U.S. House of Representatives have reached a fever pitch today, kicked off by a… read more

Tumblr, Firefox and Reddit Censor Websites to Protest SOPA

admin — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 02:46:04 +0000

Tumblr, Firefox and Reddit drew broad black lines on their websites Wednesday to protest a proposed U.S. law that Internet companies have dubbed “censorship” and entertainment companies “piracy protection.”

Their symbolic design tweaks coincide with what several open Internet advocacy organizations have declared American Censorship Day — a day some of… read more

Evernote Launches Browser Extension to Remove Clutter From the Web Reading Experience

admin — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:59:50 +0000

Evernote has unveiled a new browser extension that removes ads and other distractions from the web-reading experience.

Evernote Clearly, which is now available for Chrome and soon other browsers, is a simple, one-click button that creates an alternative view of the content you’re reading online. It removes all the extra clutter,… read more

Proof: Saul Bass Was the Godfather of Typography Videos

admin — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:50:03 +0000

The name Saul Bass may not ring a bell, but you definitely know the man’s work. Bass was one of the most respected graphic-designers in the film business. He was most well-known for his inventive and striking title sequences for films such as Psycho, The Man with the Golden Arm,… read more

Pursuing Semantic Value

admin — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 19:48:01 +0000

Disclaimer: This post by Jeremy Keith is one of the many reactions to our recent article on the pursuit of semantic value by Divya Manian. Both articles are published in the Opinion column section in which we provide active members of the community with the opportunity to share their… read more

Best of the Week #196

admin — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:26:07 +0000

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

Redesigning The Country Selector

admin — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 21:54:32 +0000

The country selector. It’s there when you create an account for a new Web service, check out of an e-commerce store or sign up for a conference. The normal design? A drop-down list with all of the available countries.

However, when conducting a large session of user testing on check-out usability… read more

Firefox Turns 7, Releases a Polished Firefox 8 [REVIEW]

admin — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 02:53:04 +0000

It’s a big week for Mozilla, as Firefox celebrates its seventh birthday and Firefox 8 hits the interwebs.

In recent years, Firefox has lost ground to browsers such as Google Chrome. Yet Firefox remains a significant and important part of the browsing landscape.

Firefox 8 is Mozilla’s fifth major release in 2011…. read more

The 12 best jQuery image sliders of the 2011

admin — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:09:17 +0000

Wave Display Effect with jQuery and CSS3

“The idea is to initially have some smaller thumbnails rotated and placed in the shape of a sine curve. When clicking on a thumbnail, we’ll “zoom” in to see a medium sized version. Clicking again will make the large content area appear; here we… read more

Establishing Your Grid In Photoshop

admin — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:49:42 +0000

Creating a grid is typically one of the very first things you do when starting a design comp. After all, it provides the basic structure on which the rest of your design will lie. In this article, we’ll provide two different methods for efficiently establishing a grid. These methods enable… read more

Kindle Cloud Reader Comes to Firefox

admin — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 01:27:12 +0000

Kindle Cloud Reader, Amazon’s HTML5 app that lets you read Kindle books both online and offline from your browser, is now available for Firefox.

Amazon made the Kindle Cloud Reader available to users of Chrome, Safari for desktop and Safari for iPad in August. The launch of the iPad version stirred… read more

Nook Color 2 Reveal, Firefox 8 Release, Disney-YouTube Deal: Today’s Top Stories

admin — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:35:17 +0000

Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. We’re keeping our eyes on five particular stories of interest today.

Barnes & Noble to Announce Nook Color 2

Barnes & Noble is expected to unveil… read more

Firefox 8 Officially Arrives Nov. 8, But It’s Available to Download Now

admin — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:06:03 +0000

The new major release of Mozilla’s web browser, Firefox 8, officially launches Nov. 8. However, as usual, it’s available to download on Mozilla’s servers a bit early, meaning you can install it right now.

The Windows version of Firefox 8 is here, while the Mac version can be downloaded here…. read more

What’s new for designers – Nov. 2011

admin — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:16:42 +0000

The November edition of what’s new for web designers and developers includes new web apps, frameworks, some JavaScript tools and resources, some great project management tools, and a number of great new fonts.

Many of the resources below are free or very low cost, and are sure to be useful to… read more

45+ Must Have Firefox Addons for Web Developers and Marketers

admin — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:41:39 +0000

45+ Must Have Firefox Addons for Web Developers and Marketers

6 Ways to Make the Web Easier to Read

admin — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 03:00:27 +0000

Sometimes it seems that writing is more important today than it’s ever been in history. From Facebook status updates to txt messages, we’re all writing and reading almost more than we’re talking and listening. And while the internet has hastened print media’s troubles, many of us still read tons of… read more

“Do a Barrel Roll” on Google, and You Won’t Be Disappointed

admin — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 00:00:48 +0000

“Do a barrel roll” has become a trending topic on Twitter and elsewhere, thanks to an easter egg on Google Search.

Type the phrase in Google, and the screen will tumble around (it’s a barrel roll, after all). The same thing happens if you search for “Z or R twice.” If… read more

“But The Client Wants IE 6 Support!”

admin — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:35:56 +0000

Frequently, when I discuss CSS3 with other developers, the issue of stubborn clients comes up. They tell me that even though they personally don’t think a website should look the same in all browsers and they’re eager to try all of these new techniques, their clients insist that their website… read more

FREE PSD to HTML GIVEAWAY from ShopHTML.com!

admin — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 18:08:43 +0000

Today we are excited to bring you an awesome giveaway from ShopHTML.com who is giving away free PSD to HTML to 2 lucky winners.

About ShopHTML.com

ShopHTML.com helps web designers convert their marvelous artwork into a standard compliant and cross-browser compatible XHTML/CSS markup and professional CMS theme.

With many years of experience, unmatched… read more

Internet Explorer’s Share of Web Traffic Drops Below 50%

admin — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:54:39 +0000

Internet Explorer can no longer claim more than half of the web’s traffic, as of October, ending more than a decade of the default Microsoft browser’s reign.

Safari’s hold on 62.17% of mobile traffic has reduced IE’s overall share of web browsing, despite still claiming 52.63% of desktop traffic, according… read more

Paymo: Time Tracking Done Just Right

admin — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 03:00:20 +0000

To freelancers, time tracking is probably the most important aspect of any project. It helps you keep track of exactly how much time you are spending on a particular project, how productive you are and, most importantly, how much you are owed when it comes to payday at the end… read more

Best of the Week #194

admin — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 17:18:15 +0000

Useful Coding Tools and JavaScript Libraries For Web Developers

admin — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:30:03 +0000

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 Unbelievably Interesting Google Earth Photos

admin — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:24:10 +0000

Google Earth lets the user explore rich geographical content and find out the places they plan to go. Google Earth provides users with satellite images, maps, landscapes and 3D building view to give them a better understanding of the surroundings.

One can search anything whether it is a building, a road,… read more

40+ Amazing Desktop App Alternatives

admin — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:00:35 +0000

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

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

admin — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:14:12 +0000

Name: Know Your Twitter Followers

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

Genius Idea: Providing… read more

Quick Look: Fellowstream

admin — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 23:00:19 +0000

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 Fellowstream. The developer describes Fellowstream as the to-do list you share with your team. … read more

Google Chrome Browser Has 200 Million Users

admin — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 05:23:35 +0000

Google‘s 3 year-old Chrome browser just hit the 200 million user mark, CEO Larry Page announced Thursday.

The fast-growing browser had about 160 million users in May, up from 120 million in December 2010, according to eWeek, which correctly predicted Chrome would hit 200 million users in October.

Chrome’s growth had been… read more

Google Maps Adds 3D Graphics, Lets You Zoom Into Street View

admin — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:23:19 +0000

Google has released an upgrade to Google Maps that offers 3D-style graphics and lets you swoop into Street View without a plugin.

The upgrade, called Google MapsGL, uses Google’s Web Graphics Library (the “GL” part) to bring 3D-like graphics to the browser. To use MapsGL, you have to have supported… read more

Apple Users Are the Most Generous [INFOGRAPHIC]

admin — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 01:24:03 +0000

You can learn a lot about a person from his or her mobile device, browser or computer preferences. New research shows that — at least when it comes to donation patterns — Apple users trump their PC, Android and Blackberry using counterparts.

Mac users out-donate PC users, Safari users out-donate Internet… read more

Quick Look: Proto.io

admin — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:00:45 +0000

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 Proto.io. The developer describes Proto.io as a web app for building high-fidelity fully interactive mobile… read more

How StumbleUpon Went From Humble Browser Plugin to Social Juggernaut

admin — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:46:39 +0000

The Extraordinary Entrepreneurs Series is supported by Diet Coke®. Now, the drink that helps you stay extraordinary brings you extraordinary people. Find Diet Coke® on Facebook for access to a whole lot of extraordinary.

When StumbleUpon launched in 2001, it was a Firefox plug-in. Today it’s a social web discovery… read more

How an iPad Browser Could Change the Way You Search

admin — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:46:18 +0000

The search bar tries hard, but it’s just never reached its potential for efficiently finding information on touchscreen devices. Carlos Bhola, the founder of a startup called Kikin hopes to replace it with a “touch to learn” search — one that opens within the page you’re on.

Copying and pasting… read more

What Do You Think is the Ultimate Browser Feature?

admin — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:00:19 +0000

The web plays such a large role in our modern lives, even for those of us not working in one of the many industries which are based there. Be we users, web workers or both, internet browsers are a major part of how that experience all goes down. For designers… read more

10 Free Android Apps To Boost Your Productivity With

admin — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 02:41:02 +0000

Having a smartphone in your pocket has somewhat become a style statement, but apart from its appearance and style appeal, it allows you to perform all tasks that you would perform with your laptop or computer. This is the main reason of smartphone popularity.

For the designing fraternity, there are plentiful… read more

22 Essential Tools for Testing Your Website’s Usability

admin — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 00:10:25 +0000

The Web Design Usability Series is supported by join.me, an easy way to instantly share your screen with anyone. join.me lets you collaborate on-the-fly, put your heads together super-fast and even just show off.

A site’s ease of use, or its usability, is an integral part of its success, especially with… read more

Chrome Set to Overtake Firefox in Market Share [STATS]

admin — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:33:42 +0000

Chrome is poised to overtake Firefox as the world’s second most popular browser after Internet Explorer by December, according to web analytics firm StatCounter.

Chrome’s share of the global market for the month is hovering around 23.6%, roughly 3% behind Firefox. At 41.7%, Internet Explorer is still the dominant player in… read more

7 Fabulous Browser Extensions for Facebook

admin — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:00:06 +0000

Browser extensions are a great way of extending the functionality of a browser through a third-party and can add a ton of useful utlities, features and customisation options. These modifications can be as big a part of your life as the network itself, creating disappointment when you log in somewhere… read more

10 Strong Reasons To Switch Over To Firefox 7

admin — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:27:06 +0000

As we know Firefox has changed the way we browse the internet. To make it sure they always stay a step ahead from its competitors. Firefox continuously release updates to fix bugs and any other known issues. Their recent release is the new Firefox 7 which brought exciting new features… read more

40 New jQuery Plugins

admin — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:28:02 +0000

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Every six months or we do like to take a look at some of the greatest and freshest jQuery plugins from within that time. Each time we do this the jQuery community never ever fails to let you down. Constantly releasing plugins that are not only… read more

Xobni Brings “Smartr” Social Intelligence Apps to Gmail & Android

admin — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 07:56:41 +0000

Social intelligence startup Xobni first found favor with Outlook and BlackBerry users. Tuesday, the company is extending its contact management and productivity capabilities to those with Gmail accounts and Android devices.

The Gmail and Android applications, branded under a new product suite called Smartr, are designed to give users a complete… read more

10 Awesome Browser Extensions for Twitter

admin — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 05:00:17 +0000

Twitter can be an awesome tool and is, with no doubt, my favourite social network. Personally, the sleek design and functionality of the Twitter app on Mac draws me to use native apps instead, but when I was a Windows users, the web app was my favourite method of connecting…. read more

Firefox 7 Is Here: Will It Stop Hogging Memory & Let You Browse Faster? [REVIEW]

admin — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:58:16 +0000

Mozilla’s rapid release schedule for Firefox continues with the arrival of Firefox 7 for Mac, Windows and Linux.

Firefox 7 comes less than six weeks after the release of Firefox 6. Mozilla moved to a more rapid release cycle with a more streamlined, frequent and incremental upgrade cycle a la Google’s… read more

Cooliris: Web Browsing For The 22nd Century

admin — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:00:49 +0000

The possibilities of browsing Internet content nowadays is pretty much endless. There is such a range of web browsers out there that it gives you a headache deciding between them all. Given the recent explosion of smartphones and tablets such as Apple’s iPad in recent years, web browsing has been… read more

10 Excellent User Interface Designs to Learn From

admin — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 20:30:50 +0000

Over the last few weeks, we’ve gathered together some great resources and information on constructing amazing user… read more

CSS3 Flexible Box Layout Explained

admin — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:20:19 +0000

The flexible box layout module — or “flexbox,” to use its popular nickname — is an interesting part of the W3C Working Draft. The flexbox specification is still a draft and subject to change, so keep your eyes on the W3C, but it is part of a new arsenal of properties that will revolutionize… read more

23 Newest Firefox Extensions

admin — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 08:17:39 +0000

23 Newest Firefox Extensions

Zuckerberg Converts His 5+ Million Facebook Fans into Subscribers

admin — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 06:49:51 +0000

Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has accumulated more than 5 million subscribers, thanks to a simple trick.

On Wednesday, Facebook rolled out a Subscribe button. The button allows a user to follow anybody’s public updates, regardless of whether or not they are Facebook friends. This one-way subscription model is like following somebody… read more

Visual.ly: A Social Network … For Infographics

admin — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 05:00:36 +0000

Everyone loves a good infographic. It is such an easy way to digest statistics instead of having to read endless lists of boring and confusing figures, and it certainly makes the lunch break browse of the ‘Net a lot more interesting. Websites such as Mashable publish plenty of infographics and… read more

Wireframes… Who Needs Them?

admin — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:55:25 +0000

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I do, and throughout this post I’ll try to explain why you do too.

So what exactly are wireframes? Wireframes are visual representations of your websites structure, a blueprint to help establish hierarchy. They are usually limited to shapes, forms and text, and they rarely use any… read more

Mexican Blog Wars: Couple Hanged for Denouncing Cartel Online [REPORT]

admin — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 05:54:45 +0000

A man and a woman in their 20s were tortured and hanged from a pedestrian bridge in a border town for denouncing a drug cartel on Internet forums and blogs, CNN reported Wednesday.

The incident took place in Nuevo Laredo, a city of 400,000 just across the Rio Grande from Laredo,… read more

Windows 8 Tablet: First Impressions [PICS]

admin — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:48:46 +0000

Microsoft has designed Windows 8 to be an operating system to work on almost any device, whether it’s a tablet, laptop or desktop. But can Microsoft really design an OS that is just as functional with a touchscreen as it is with a keyboard and mouse?

The next-generation OS has everything… read more

The Guide To CSS Animation: Principles and Examples

admin — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:30:40 +0000

With CSS animation now supported in both Firefox and Webkit browsers, there is no better time to give it a try. Regardless of its technical form, whether traditional, computer-generated 3-D, Flash or CSS, animation always follows the same basic principles. In this article, we will take our first steps with… read more

Windows 8: The Top 4 Things You Should Know

admin — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 06:47:41 +0000

Microsoft says it is “reinventing the OS” with Windows 8, the company’s next-generation operating system.

Microsoft fired off dozens of announcements and showed off countless features of the new OS at its Build conference in Anaheim, California. Features such as the Metro interface, support for touchscreens, improved performance and a Windows… read more

10 Apps That Started Life on iOS

admin — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:00:45 +0000

This year, with the launch of Lion, Apple has been all about “Back to the Mac” – Taking great features from iOS, and porting them over to OS X. For the most part, this has been fairly successful. For this reason, it makes sense that many iOS developers would… read more

Google’s App Killing Spree: Toolbar, Labs, Aaardvark & More

admin — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:38:24 +0000

The goal of all Internet startups is so very predictable. Most of them want to be the next Google. And the rest of them want to gain some quick traction, so that they can be acquired by Google. And in turn, Google doesn’t disappoint them either.

As soon as there is… read more

The Greatest Brandversations

admin — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:21:49 +0000

This is a project created by Stefan Asafti, a designer from Romania and it’s a project is about brands – the great brands of the modern world – which have build quite a history for themselves as the years went by. The branderversations is the creation of each logo using… read more

Automatically Bookmark Your Favorite Sites in Pinboard

admin — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 19:31:51 +0000

We’ve all done it: you read an interesting article, and plan to share it with your friends or just for your own reference later. The next day, we think of it again, and can’t find where in the world the article was. Was that on AppStorm or Engadget? Or was… read more

Help The Community: Report Browser Bugs

admin — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 16:15:31 +0000

You’re developing a new website and have decided to use some CSS3 and HTML5, now that many of the new specifications are gaining widespread support. As you’re coding the theme and thinking of how much easier these new technologies are making your job, you decide to stop for a while… read more

5 Tips For Getting The Most Out Of Google+

admin — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 20:04:19 +0000

Are you a DPS reader on Google+?

I am! Be sure to add me to one of your circles (add Darren too here)! I started a thread to gather up all the readers from DPS and put them into one big circle so I can share stuff here and there just… read more

Best of the Week #187

admin — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 19:41:02 +0000

10 Powerful Tools To Make Tweeting More Efficient

admin — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 17:53:52 +0000

It is fantastic to see Twitter moving faster than ever with its developments. The company received $800m in investment, acquired several Apps recently and put out plenty of new features.

On top of all this, the company just announced that there are now over 1 million Apps that are part of… read more

Reliable Cross-Browser Testing, Part 1: Internet Explorer

admin — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:48:51 +0000

In a perfect world, cross-browser testing would be straightforward. We would download a legacy version of a browser, run it, and be able to instantly test our pages and scripts without a single care in the world. The reality of cross-browser testing, though, is very different. Issues such as runtime… read more

25+ Must-have Chrome extensions for web designers and developers

admin — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:53:56 +0000

For many web designers and developers, Firefox is unsurpassable. For others, Firefox eats Chrome’s dust.

For the past two years, since Google Chrome’s release, there’s been a raging debate on which browser is superior. Mozilla’s open source product has stood the test of time and Firefox has quickly become the second… read more

Mozilla Previews Firefox for Tablets [PICS]

admin — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 23:53:20 +0000

Mozilla has offered a first glimpse of its Firefox for Tablets web browser.

The company described the new product as “an evolution of its phone based predecessor, with some added enhancements that take advantage of a tablet’s larger screen size,” in a blog post.

From what we can see (which is admittedly… read more

8 Productivity Tools To Save More Time

admin — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:29:48 +0000

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With Google’s recent launch of another promising Social Network, the things that could potentially distract us aren’t really decreasing. As the overall buzz increases online, I found that our workflows become more complex too.

Organizing our lives in a smooth and hassle free way is therefore key… read more

Brandversations, logos made of rivals logos by Stefan Asafti

admin — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 16:18:28 +0000

Best of the Week #186

admin — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 10:16:14 +0000

45+ Free Online Tools To Create Charts, Diagrams And Flowcharts

admin — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 17:54:16 +0000

Charts and graphs are the best ways to represent information and relationship between two interlinked entities. Not only do charts and graphs inform visitors about the trend or relationship you want to show them but also add a visual connection with the visitors.

Several online tools are available that help you… read more

Rockmelt: Finally, Social Browsing Done Right

admin — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:00:16 +0000

We’ve all seen and used “social browsers” in the past. The idea is nice but the result is often a bulky, awkward and cluttered browser that you wouldn’t dream of using full time.

Rockmelt is here to change that. This browser might be the first ever to successfully integrate the… read more

Freebie: Responsive jQuery Slider Plugin Flexslider

admin — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:20:47 +0000

When it comes to responsive design, it’s not just about fluid images or adaptive layouts. It’s also about the responsive methodology behind the entire design process. In responsive design, we are creating responsive experiences, meaning that all design components need to be able to adapt to the environment in which… read more

The Ultimate Free Photography Software Download Pack (Updated)

admin — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:00:19 +0000

Photography is one of the most expensive hobbies in the world and it ain’t getting any cheaper. Once you have your camera, there’s an almost never-ending need to upgrade lenses, bags, tripods, filters – the list goes on. But luckily one area of photography doesn’t need to destroy your bank… read more

Miramax Brings Streaming Movie Rentals to Facebook

admin — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 21:17:21 +0000

Miramax joined fellow studios Warner Bros., Paramount and Universal Monday by launching its own video rental service on Facebook, making many titles available for online viewing for the first time.

The Miramax eXperience offers 20 rentable titles to U.S. consumers, and 10 to both the UK and Turkey (full lists below)… read more

45+ Handy CSS3 Tools, Tutorials and Resources

admin — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 18:57:35 +0000

CSS or Cascading Style Sheet is a special style sheet language used to create website layouts and styles. It has been extensively used by web developers all around the world and has proved its worth in the field of web development.

Recently CSS3 comes with some magnificent new features that support… read more

10 Ways to Make Your Design Portfolio More Appealing to Employers

admin — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 21:35:54 +0000

Dan Dao is a Reporter at Fueled, an iPhone & Android app development agency based in New York City, where he writes about the tech industry. You can follow him on Twitter @da0_o and read the blog on Fueled.

Employers who hire designers are often not designers themselves. That reality can… read more

Best of the Week #185

admin — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 19:35:22 +0000

CSS3 Buttons For Every Web Browser

admin — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:29:58 +0000

The age of using images for buttons on websites is quickly coming to an end, thanks to expanded browser support for CSS3 properties like rounded corners, gradients and text shadows. Browsers, like Firefox and Safari, actually started supporting some of these properties long before CSS3 became a buzzword, but now… read more

Google+ Updates: Now Appearing in Your Email Signature

admin — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 01:14:55 +0000

Already using Google+? Follow Mashable’s Pete Cashmore for the latest about the platform’s new features, tips and tricks as well as social media and technology updates.

Email signature startup WiseStamp has enhanced its Chrome and Firefox extensions Thursday with an email application for Google Plus.

The G+ email application will let… read more

The Birdy: Keep Track Of Your Spending Easily Online

admin — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:00:04 +0000

Being a student, I know that budgeting prudently and knowing exactly how much you’ve got in my accounts is very important. There’s nothing worse than logging on to your online banking and realising that all those “little transactions” you made a few days ago have put a big dent in… read more

Responsive web design has created opportunities across the board

admin — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:07:14 +0000

From time to time, an industry experiences fundamental changes that radically alter it. Along with this comes an explosion of opportunity: opportunity for individuals to stand out, for new products to emerge and for entrenched companies to be replaced. Now is such a time in the web community.

For as long… read more

Interview: Meet the LucidChart Team

admin — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 19:00:45 +0000

Laying out diagrams and charts should be easy. But for the most part, it’s not. I had to use Visio for a painful few weeks during a class, and was constantly frustrated by it. I was pleasantly surprised to find how much nicer LucidChart is even though it is a… read more

How To Spend Less Time With Social Media

admin — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:00:07 +0000

With Google+ hitting the scene, many in the design and development communities have had their productivity schedules thrown up in the air. This latest development in the social media networking waters has caused many to once more, begin losing themselves and their time to that old familiar interloper. So we… read more

Simplicity is a Feature

admin — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 19:00:11 +0000

The past couple decades of computing have seen an explosion in apps on all platforms. VisiCalc might have been the killer app on early PCs, but development didn’t start there. Today, many of the apps we use on a daily basis didn’t even exist several years ago. For that matter,… read more

HTML5 And The Document Outlining Algorithm

admin — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:24:58 +0000

By now, we all know that we should be using HTML5 to build websites. The discussion now is moving on to how to use HTML5 correctly. One important part of HTML5 that is still not widely understood is sectioning content: section, article, aside and nav. To understand sectioning content, we… read more

Mind Your En And Em Dashes: Typographic Etiquette

admin — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 21:37:39 +0000

An understanding of typographic etiquette separates the master designers from the novices. A well-trained designer can tell within moments of viewing a design whether its creator knows how to work with typography. Typographic details aren’t just inside jokes among designers. They have been built up from thousands of years of… read more

Firefox 6 Released Early

admin — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:45:35 +0000

Firefox 6 isn’t scheduled to be released until Tuesday, but Mozilla has uploaded installation files to a FTP server for those who want to get their hands on the upgraded browser early.

Although the new version doesn’t sport any major UI changes, the browser is reportedly 20% faster than Firefox… read more

Get chatty with IRCCloud

admin — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:00:35 +0000

I remember the first time I saw IRC in action: I was about 10 years old and an older cousin, a computer engineer who lived with us, would log on to chat rooms to play Acrophobia, Trivia and MadLib. We were on a US Robotics Sportster 9600 baud modem and… read more

Google Acquires Motorola Mobility, BART Website Hacked: This Morning’s Top Stories

admin — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:33:50 +0000

Google Acquires Motorola Mobility for $12.5 Billion

Google has acquired handset manufacturer Motorola’s Mobility division… read more

Amazon Subverts Apple With iPad-Optimized Kindle Reader

admin — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 20:39:42 +0000

Amazon has launched Kindle Cloud Reader, an HTML5 app that lets you read Kindle books in your browser both online and offline, no installation required.

Your library will be automatically synced between the Kindle Cloud Reader and the rest of your Kindle apps and devices, meaning that if you leave off… read more

Read Your Kindle Books Online With Kindle Cloud Reader

admin — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:17:21 +0000

Amazon blazed the trail for eBooks with their Kindle platform, starting with the original Kindle device and the Kindle store. Since then, they’ve broaden their scope, and released native reader apps for almost every platform available: Windows, Mac OS X, iOS, Android, Windows Phone 7, and more. Even still, that… read more

Stay Sane Managing Multiple Accounts of the Same App

admin — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 03:00:20 +0000

Remember waiting to get a Gmail invite, or thinking carefully about what Twitter handle you wanted? These days, it seems like most of us manage too many different accounts to keep track of. I personally have nearly a dozen active email accounts, from my college and work emails to a… read more

Review Of Cross-Browser Testing Tools

admin — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 15:24:40 +0000

At some point in the future, the way that all major browsers render Web code will likely be standardized, which will make testing across multiple browsers no longer necessary as long as the website is coded according to Web standards. But because that day is still a way off (if… read more

25 jQuery image galleries and slideshow plugins

admin — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 17:52:11 +0000

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Day of the Designer: Simon Birky Hartmann

admin — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 02:03:47 +0000

Editor’s note: This is the first in an interview series called Day of the Designer, where we’ll have a designer cover the basics of one of their works days. They can include pictures and screenshots of their day, share workflow tips, describe how they promote themselves and utilize social sites,… read more

Opera: The Awesome Browser That Nobody Uses

admin — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 12:00:22 +0000

You can ask just about anybody what browser they’re using, and they will very likely respond with Safari, Firefox or Chrome. I have never met anyone who actually uses Opera for everyday browsing. This is not surprising seeing as how its usage share is 2.4%. And yet, nearly everybody… read more

IE Users Have Lower IQ Than Users of Other Web Browsers [STUDY]

admin — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:56:46 +0000

A recent study links intelligence test results with browser usage — and the results don’t look good for users of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, especially its older versions.

The study, titled “Intelligence Quotient (IQ) and Browser Usage” by Canadian company AptiQuant, compiled IQ test scores of 101,326 individuals older than the… read more

The Open Source Movement

admin — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:00:30 +0000

The open source movement or philosophy is something that I am truly passionate about, and something that can have beneficial effects for all industries related to technology and its use. In this article, I’ll outline information about the philosophy, what it means for the web design industry, how you can… read more

Want To See Who Is Viewing Your Facebook Profile?

admin — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 21:30:13 +0000

Name: WhoIsLive

Quick Pitch: WhoIsLive lets you see who is viewing the same webpage as you and start… read more

Daily Inspiration #881

admin — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 03:38:55 +0000

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

Responsive Web Design Techniques, Tools and Design Strategies

admin — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:16:22 +0000

Back in January, we published an article on responsive design, “Responsive Web Design: What It Is and How to Use It.” Responsive design continues to get a lot of attention, but considering how different it is from the “traditional” way of designing websites, it can be a bit overwhelming for… read more

Google Doodle Honors Mobile Artist Alexander Calder

admin — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:28:03 +0000

A new interactive Google doodle has appeared on Google.com, honoring artist Alexander Calder, who is known for inventing the mobile.

As you click and drag with your mouse, the various sections of the mobile move around. According to the official Google Blog, it’s the first doodle Google’s made that… read more

Minimalistic file-sharing with Min.us

admin — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 05:00:56 +0000

We briefly covered Min.us a few months ago when it was basically a ‘single-purpose’ app: you could upload pictures to instantly create a simple gallery that you could share with anyone. Since then, the app has been under heavy development and now has a boatload of features designed to improve… read more

The New and Improved Way to Create Forms with HTML5

admin — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 10:12:46 +0000

AutoFocus Fields

The current way in HTML4 to do autofocus is using javascript to focus the first input field on a web form. As soon as a web page loads, the page will move the focus to the particular input field, just as the javascript does. What’s the difference? Since this… read more

Orbit and Reveal: jQuery Plug-Ins For Image Sliders and Modal Windows

admin — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:08:48 +0000

A visitor comes to your website all giddy to learn more about your product, when suddenly a snazzy slideshow loads with some snap. Impressed, they go to register and are greeted by a most elegant modal window. At this point they are finally overjoyed by the velociraptor that suddenly charges… read more

5 Online Tools For Activists, By Activists

admin — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 23:33:49 +0000

Susannah Vila directs content and outreach at Movements.org, an organization dedicated to identifying, connecting and supporting activists using technology to organize for social change. Connect with her on Twitter @susannahvila.

Why are social networks powerful tools for causes and campaigns? Many times, people begin to engage in activism… read more

CSS Buttons: Tutorials and examples

admin — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:46:17 +0000

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Learning To Use The :before And :after Pseudo-Elements In CSS

admin — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 18:05:13 +0000

If you’ve been keeping tabs on various Web design blogs, you’ve probably noticed that the :before and :after pseudo-elements have been getting quite a bit of attention in the front-end development scene — and for good reason. In particular, the experiments of one blogger — namely, London-based developer Nicolas Gallagher — have given pseudo-elements quite… read more

The Rise and Evolution of Remote Desktop Software

admin — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:00:10 +0000

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Providing effective “on-demand” technical assistance and support often involves not only one’s personal IT knowledge and experience, but also a reliable set of technical products that help get the job done.

The rise and evolution of remote desktop software has enabled IT businesses… read more

Obscure and Valuable Keyboard Shortcuts

admin — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:00:33 +0000

If there is one thing that many of us in the design and development fields love, it is shortcuts. Those lovely little timesavers and workflow improvers that quickly get us where we need to go in fewer motions. Effectively keeping us in stride, as we navigate our computers and various… read more

HOW TO: Make a Google+ Desktop App

admin — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:35:47 +0000

Already using Google+? Follow Mashable News for the latest about the platform’s new features, tips and tricks as well as our top social media and technology updates.

As Google+ adoption continues to soar, one little annoyance is thwarting Google+ bliss: Dealing with other Google accounts.

Google+ requires a Google… read more

Microsoft Redesigns Bing Maps Interface

admin — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:30:23 +0000

Microsoft has rolled out a redesign of the Bing Maps interface, consolidating most of the task and navigation options in a control bar on top of the page.

You can now use the top bar to change the type of view, activate traffic information and streetside view, get… read more

10 Apps for More Efficient Tweeting

admin — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:00:54 +0000

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As Twitter continues to grow at an incredible pace each day, the importance of the platform grows with it. Developing a strong social media presence and growing your network of followers demands being active on Twitter. Fortunately, there exist many tools out there that assist us… read more

10 Twitter Tools to Boost Your Efficiency

admin — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 19:00:40 +0000

Twitter recently announced that over 200 million Tweets are posted each day. This is an incredible figure, underlying the success of the service. Spending time on Twitter boasts plenty of advantages, yet I’ve found that one can get easily sucked in and spend too much time than is good for… read more

5 Things to Know About WordPress 3.2

admin — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 04:37:00 +0000

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Self-hosted WordPress.org users got a nice surprise on Independence Day with the release of WordPress 3.2, “Gershwin.”

WordPress 3.2 is the fifteenth major WordPress release in the project’s… read more

Setting Up an Awesome Beater Mac for Less Than $300

admin — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:00:05 +0000

Let’s face it, Macs are expensive. They are more than worth it of course, but there’s no getting around the fact that any recently released Mac, regardless of model, costs a significant amount of money and is a gleaming thief-magnet, liable to being dropped or lost. I love my iPad… read more

Firefox Icon PSD

admin — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 00:10:29 +0000

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My Favorite Programming Mistakes

admin — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:16:06 +0000

Over my programming career, I have made a lot of mistakes in several different languages. In fact, if I write 10 or more lines of code and it works the first time, I’ll get a bit suspicious and test it more rigorously than usual. I would expect to find a… read more

Give the Finder the Boot with Path Finder

admin — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 12:00:31 +0000

The Finder and I go way back: from my family’s ’96 Performa to my MacBook Pro, I’ve used it to navigate my Mac for well over a decade. Since the initial transition from OS 9 to OS 10, I would argue that the way we use the Finder has changed… read more

8+ Tips to Beef Up GMail

admin — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 19:00:36 +0000

I remember when I started using GMail. It was a warm day in April 2004. I couldn’t believe I got an invite, and all because I was using Blogger for my blog at the time. I knew when I first opened it up in my browser that this would… read more

Report sullo stato d’utilizzo dei web browser a maggio 2011

admin — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 03:55:32 +0000

Negli ultimi anni lo scenario dei browser per il web ha subito sostanziali mutamenti. A partire dal 2005 in poi, la concorrenza di Firefox ha spazzato via il quasi totale monopolio di Internet Explorer che ha subito un ulteriore ridimensionamento con l’avvento di Google Chrome alla fine del 2008.

Ad oggi… read more

WordPress 3.2 Brings a New Level of Style to Web Writing

admin — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 03:00:27 +0000

If you have a blog or write for an online publication, chances are you’ve used WordPress. From the free hosted WordPress.com blogs to customized WordPress.org installs like the ones that power AppStorm and other Envato blogs, WordPress is one web app you see all the time without realizing. In fact,… read more

Free WordPress Themes: 2011 Edition

admin — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 18:46:06 +0000

It’s interesting to look back at our previous WordPress themes round-ups. It’s almost like looking at a visual timeline not only of WordPress’ advances in theme design, but of the rapid development in functionality of the CMS itself. The themes from year to year clearly differ in style as Web… read more

Pulp: An Innovative Way To Read the News On Your Mac

admin — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:00:29 +0000

In the five hundred years following Johann Gutenberg’s invention of the first practical printing press in 1447, the methods through which people have received and digested news saw little change. The story of man has been chronicled by newspapers for generations and the tangible product of paper and ink faithfully… read more

Does Your Mac Need A Virus Scanner?

admin — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 08:00:19 +0000

Today’s discussion is a classic one: are Macs really impervious to the malware threats so rampant on PCs? Due to the rapidly changing nature of technology and the ever-increasing acceptance of Macs, this is a question that needs to be periodically revisited.

We’ve recently seen Apple’s bulletproof security claims become quite… read more

80 Apps and Resources for Cloud-Based Web Dev

admin — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 05:00:36 +0000

Web development is one of the fastest growing industries in the world. The value of the web has become apparent and business and individuals alike have jumped on board the web bandwagon. During it’s humble beginners, you might find a web developer writing his code in a text editor like… read more

Syncing your thoughts with Memonic

admin — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:00:52 +0000

Prior to getting my iPad, I didn’t have much use for notebook apps. After my computing life went mobile, however, I found myself needing to write things down without having a notepad within reach. And so I got Evernote, the same notebook app used by so many of the bloggers… read more

Free Prestashop and WordPress E-Commerce Theme: Velvet Sky

admin — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 18:01:57 +0000

In case you’ve been looking for a nice e-commerce theme for your website or any ongoing projects, today we’ve got something for you. We’re releasing yet another freebie — a Prestashop and WordPress e-commerce theme called “Velvet Sky” which has exclusively been developed by DapurPixel for Smashing Magazine and its… read more