Smashing Email Newsletter Turns One Year Old: Comment and Win!

As most of you may already know, every second Tuesday of a month we send out an email newsletter to our subscribers (over 50,000 at the moment). Every newsletter issue contains exclusive, short articles that present recent design techniques, freebies as well as useful resources and tools. We work hard… read more

50 Most Wanted FireFox Extentions For Web Geeks

50 Most Wanted FireFox Extentions For Web Geeks

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How to Encrypt Your Web Experience on Firefox

How to Encrypt Your Web Experience on Firefox

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Designing Pages in Dreamweaver with CSS3

 All the hype about HTML5 and CSS3 has Web designers chomping at the keyboard to make the Web more beautiful. With all of the warnings that these cool new features may not be ready for prime time, what should you do today? Here are a few of my favorite new… read more

HTML5 & CSS3: Take Your Design to Another Level

While both languages for HTML5 and CSS3 aren’t fully complete yet, taking the time time to familiarize yourself with some of the pointers in this post can really help you achieve that clean look and feel for your site. Let’s take a deeper look at them.

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HTML5 is the latest… read more

New Firefox 4 for Android Available Now

Firefox 4 for Android and Nokia Maemo devices is now available in a new beta version that’s made huge leaps in terms of stability and performance.

Our mobile team has had mixed experiences with earlier versions of the Firefox mobile browser, so the improvements and bug fixes are… read more

10 Completely Free Wireframing and Mockup Tools

The wireframing process is the straight-to-the-point and completely non-tech stage of any web project. It only requires that you define a skeletal outline of essential page elements such as headers, footers, navigation and content area and should illustrate how to cater and respond to any possible interaction from a user.
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Using HTML5 To Transform WordPress’ TwentyTen Theme

Last year, WordPress launched arguably its biggest update ever: WordPress 3.0. Accompanying this release was the brand new default theme, TwentyTen, and the promise of a new default theme every year. Somewhat surprisingly, TwentyTen declares the HTML5 doctype but doesn’t take advantage of many of the new elements and attributes… read more

Web UNSAFE Fonts – Common Issues and Workarounds

It’s almost possible to feel the wave of euphoria rolling around the Internet that’s been generated by the arrival of Web fonts. Finally, website designers can unshackle themselves from the limited range of fonts that’s available once you aggregate down the common typefaces on Windows, Mac, Linux and so on.

I… read more

Using SEO to Generate Web Design Clients the Non-Spammy Way

Most web designers aren’t very familiar with SEO (Search Engine Optimization), which is the process of ranking specific web pages as high up in the SERPs (Search Engine Result Positions) as possible. It’s understandable, web design and SEO are only loosely connected. The only time when SEO enters the mind… read more

Best of the Week #159

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

HipChat: Easy Chatrooms for Business

Communicating internally, within the team or office, happens primarily through emails, but emails don’t have the flexibility of a real-time conversation involving multiple people. That’s when instant messengers come to the rescue, which have their own share of issues. First and foremost is privacy and security — you cannot be… read more

Weekly Poll: Is IE9 a Modern Browser?

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Mozilla’s Paul Rouget made a splash on the web this week with the question, “Is IE9 a modern browser?” and a most definitive answer, “NO”. The post makes a great argument as to why IE9 is “more modern, but not really modern.”

And… read more

Mozilla Revamps F1, Makes Firefox More Social

Mozilla has released an updated version of its F1 browsing extension. F1 is from the Mozilla Messaging team and is designed to make it easy to share links across various social services. Rather than having to rely on “share this” buttons on a web page, users can… read more

Getting Started with CRUD In PHP

It has become a common necessity for website owners to collect data and manage it properly. Creating a MySQL CRUD class allows you to conveniently create, read, update and delete entries for any of your projects, indifferent of how the database is devised. CRUD allows us to generate pages to… read more

CSS: Innovative Techniques and Practical Solutions

Although CSS isn’t that difficult, useful CSS techniques are not easy to find. Sometimes finding a cross-browser solution might take time, but you don’t have to reinvent the wheel every single time. Other designers may have had the same problem in the past and thus the main goal of this… read more

Set Up Your Personal Organizer with Springpad

Bookmarks and notes have come of age and graduated from your browser to their own place in the cloud. What we should be building is a high-powered internet connected personal database of everything that’s of interest to you and not just text and links. More so, everything should have a… read more

HOW TO: Turn Your Facebook Profile Photo Into a Video

Some Facebook users — myself formerly among them — are obsessive profile tweakers. We edit our list of interests. We reorganize our photo albums and experiment with awesome profile photo hacks. We weigh carefully whether we want to “Like” this Page or that, because we wonder how that information… read more

Steve Ballmer: Windows Phone 7 to Get Multitasking and IE9 This Year

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer showed off, during his keynote at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, a couple of features coming to the Windows Phone 7 platform.

First, Ballmer said that 93% of Windows Phone 7 users are “delighted” with the device and that nine out of 10… read more

Designing with Web Standards

Web standards, simply put, are the basic rules that all Web designers, coders, and programmers should understand and follow when designing and building webpages. While these standards mostly deal with coding and other behind-the-scenes issues, they can also greatly affect a site’s design and influence how visitors access the content… read more

Do Not Track Bill Introduced in Congress

A bill that would allow consumers to opt out of online tracking was introduced in the House of Representatives on Friday by California Democrat Jackie Speier.

If passed, the Do Not Track Me Online Act would provide an option for consumers to opt out of online tracking that… read more

#TypeNerdyToMe: Top 5 Valentine One-Liners [PICS]

Two weeks ago, we asked you to send us your best Valentine’s Day one-liners for a chance to have your valentine designed by Shane Snow, Mashable guest writer and founder of PrintingChoice.com.

After enjoying a number of delightful — and occasionally inappropriate — submissions on Tumblr, on Twitter… read more

Microsoft Unveils Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate

Microsoft has released the Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate (IE9 RC) to the masses, bringing the browser one step closer to a final launch.

In September 2010, Microsoft released the IE9 Beta, its “reinvention of the browser,” featuring updated compatibility with web standards like HTML5, an overhaul of… read more

What’s New for Web Designers – February 2011

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Chrome Extension Surfaces Most Relevant Tweets Based on Your Reading Habits

My6sense has launched a Google Chrome extension for Twitter.com, designed to make it easier to find a user’s most relevant tweets while filtering out the junk.

My6sense is a platform that takes streams of data (primarily RSS) and tracks your reading behavior in order to figure out which… read more

Useful Web Services, Tools and Resources For Web Designers

We know how hard it is to find good useful tools that all of your developers and designers out there spend hours searching for. And for that reason, we’re regularly collecting useful online web services, tools and resources — little time-savers that can boost every designer’s workflow and save time… read more

Things to Remember Before Launching a Website

Effective web-browsing experiences are absolutely necessary in this climate of competitive business and advancing technology. Finding a niche, making a good first impression and staying fresh are among the website owner’s goals. Maybe you’ve got a great concept, selected the perfect designer, brainstormed about design ideas, made decisions and worked… read more

25 Video Tutorials for Getting Started in Web Design

The best designers never stop learning. Only the mediocre ones think they know it all, that there’s nothing else to learn. But you don’t don’t want to be a mediocre designer, do you? That’s right – you want to be a great designer. One that’s always hungry to learn a… read more

HOW TO: Design & Program a Facebook Landing Page for Your Business

Jonathan Goldford is a partner at JG Visual, an Internet strategy company that works with organizations to develop and implement their online presence. You can connect with Jonathan on the JG Visual Facebook Page.

Right now Facebook Pages and custom landing pages are bigger than bottled water was… read more

Why Permission Marketing Is the Future of Online Advertising

David A. Yovanno is the CEO of Gigya, Inc., a leading social optimization platform for online business. He can be reached on Twitter at @daveyovanno, or via e-mail: dave(at)gigya(dot)com.

Privacy challenges by public interest groups and the FTC are threatening to dismantle or seriously curtail the behavioral… read more

Google Offers $20,000 and a Laptop for a Chrome Hack

As part of this year’s Pwn2Own hacking contest, Google is offering $20,000 and a CR-48 laptop running Chrome OS to a hacker who can exploit a security hole in its Chrome browser.

The contestant must use the vulnerabilities purely present in Google-written code and escape the sandbox for… read more

Bringing Interactivity To Your Website With Web Standards

Adding interactivity and animations to a design doesn’t have to be complicated or make the website inaccessible when you use modern Web standards. In this article, we’ll explore several examples and theories that employ CSS, HTML, SVG, the canvas element and JavaScript. Some of these techniques you’ll know, others you… read more

50 Free Web UI, Mobile UI, Wireframe Kits And Source Files For Designers

Designers always need some basic user interface elements to create a model of user interface either of a website or software. For that, they need wireframing and UI design kits which help them mock-up the user interface.

In this roundup, we have collected some web and mobile user interface kits which… read more

What Is a Web App? Here’s Our Definition

Do you know what a web app is? Do you know what’s used to make it? Covering web apps on Web.AppStorm isn’t quite as straight forward as you might think. There are many different technologies that are used to create web apps of many different types. Flash, JavaScript, HTML5, PHP,… read more

Motorola Atrix 4G Shows Off for the Camera [VIDEO]

Motorola has just released a new promo video for its upcoming Atrix 4G smartphone.

We were really impressed by the Motorola Atrix 4G when we saw it at CES. Packed with a powerful dual-core 1GHz processor, this Android phone is fast.

It’s also versatile. Motorola will be selling two different docks for… read more

Free Minimal, Swiss Design WordPress Themes (4 Themes)

In this post we release yet another freebie: an original set of four exclusive minimal, clean WordPress themes designed by Marios Lublinski and released for web design community. As usual, the themes are free to use for private as well as commerical projects. The themes are beautifully built with minimal… read more

15 Useful Free Android Apps for Web Developers

We are not suggesting for a moment, with this post, that your Android mobile device would be a good alternative as a development platform to your desktop or laptop. All it shows with the current apps available, that it could be and the potential for more is certainly there. Maybe… read more

Managing Time With Timecard for Billings Pro

Billable hours are the most sacred things that could either make or break a company, particularly if you’re in the service industry. Apart from being key to boost revenues, billable hours are a way to keep lazy employees in check and gain credibility with the customer. The biggest issue with… read more

This Morning’s Top 3 Stories in Social Media & Business

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 three particular stories of interest today.

Obama: “We Are a Nation of Google and Facebook”

In addressing American innovation in the… read more

Firefox 4 Beta 10 Available for Download

Mozilla released the latest Firefox 4 Beta Tuesday night. This release, beta 10, comes just 10 days after Firefox 4 Beta 9 hit the web.

The release notes for Firefox 4 Beta 10, as with Beta 9, are pretty sparse. Some changes have been made to make the browser more stable… read more

Create an Exploding Logo with CSS3 and MooTools or jQuery

Using MooTools or jQuery JavaScript and CSS3 animation provided by Safari, Chrome, and Firefox, you can create an exploding logo of any size! read more

9 Useful Google Chrome Extensions for Web Designers

Compared to the other major web browsers, Google Chrome is still relatively new. However, it’s popularity continues to grow rapidly. Here on WDL, Chrome is the second most used browser by our readers, right behind Firefox. With that in mind, and considering that most of you are web designers or… read more

20 Essential Tools and Tips to an Accessible Website

Accessibility is extremely important to your website. Simply put, what good does your website’s content do if certain people can’t see it? Sure, your fancy new design with the tiny fonts and low-contrast colors might look slick to you and your friends, but those with poorer eyesight, color blindness, and… read more

40+ UI Design Tools and Resources

User interface design grows and evolves on a continual basis. To stay current, you need to keep an eye on trends, new resources, and new techniques being implemented and talked about. And you also need to try things out on your own, and come up with original ideas and implementations.read more

50 Free Tools and Apps for Web Designers and Developers

Over the past year or so I have bookmarked hundreds of various tools and resources covering all aspects of web & mobile development – There are tools that will improve your work-flow, resources that will clean and validate code, apps that will allow you to collaborate with any number of… read more

Editing a WordPress blog with Dreamweaver CS5

One of the most dramatic improvements to Dreamweaver CS5 is the ability edit WordPress themes, but before you can get WordPress (or Joomla! or Drupal) to work, you’ll need to set up your computer as a Web server. It’s a lot of technical steps, but once you get all this… read more

Responsive Web Design: What It Is and How To Use It

Almost every new client these days wants a mobile version of their website. It’s practically essential after all: one design for the BlackBerry, another for the iPhone, the iPad, netbook, Kindle — and all screen resolutions must be compatible, too. In the next five years, we’ll likely need to design… read more

WDL Premium: Creative Monkeys – Portfolio Template

Here’s a very nice HTML template for our WDL Premium Members. Creative Monkeys, by WeGraphics, is a nice web layout with a lovely design and a great textured background. It is perfect to develope an unique portfolio. Tested on IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari and Chrome; it has a fixed layout… read more

20 Bad Habits of New Bloggers

As bloggers, we face a wide variety of tasks each day related to managing and building our blogs. Productivity and efficiency are vital, especially for part-time bloggers. A number of extremely addictive and time-consuming habits stand in the way, though.

I’m sure you can relate. We all make mistakes, but learning… read more

15 Lightweight and Minimal CSS Frameworks

The CSS framework you decide to use should ideally not be based only on a personal preference, as most web designers tend to do. Instead a framework should be based on your current web design projects complexity and functionality requirements. I mean, why would you want to use a one-huge-size-fits-all… read more

7 Free Firefox Plugins for Photography Addicts

As we all know, the Internet is the absolute best resource for any photographer. The ability to instantly share, view and learn on the web is unparalleled. But did you know that your browser could even be keyed up to feed your photo addiction?… read more

21 Insanely Cool Add-ons To Rock Your Firefox

You might have been using Firefox from a long time but there is a good chance you are not taking its full advantage. Firefox’s maximum potential lies in the power of its add-ons. Here, We have gathered 21 Insanely Cool Add-ons To Rock Your Firefox. You will… read more

Best of the Week #152

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

So You Got a Laptop This Holiday Season: Now What?

This post is part of the Mashable 10, Mashable’s gift guide of the 10 hottest gadgets that our editors think should be on everyone’s wish lists this holiday season. If you were lucky enough to receive one of those gifts, our handy quick start guides should get you up and… read more

Google Explores the Human Body With HTML5

Google has just soft-launched its latest browser experiment, the Google Body Browser, which is basically Google Earth for the human body.

Think of it as a three-dimensional, multi-layered browser version of those Visible Man/Woman model kits. Or a virtualized version of Slim Goodbody, if you will.

Google showed off the app at… read more

Snagit: An Advanced Screen Capture Solution for Mac

Whether you are a freelancer or a working professional, screenshots have increasingly become a part of work. People who have used Microsoft Windows in the past should be familiar with Snagit. Snagit is a wildly popular screen capture tool developed by TechSmith, the development studio behind the famous screen recording… read more

KeePassX: Keeping Your Passwords Safe

Do you use a single password online? Have you have been using a handful of passwords for several years across any number of services? Or worst of all, do you rely on words that are found in the dictionary? Increasingly, these scenarios can not only put your… read more

The Mercenary’s Guide to Effective Writing

Writing is an art, and as with any art, one must properly train for it. I started writing a while back and was really happy with my work, until I noticed readers poking fun at my writing and criticizing every little thing that I did. My articles were not well… read more

Mozilla’s Plan to Reinvent the Browser [VIDEO]

What is Mozilla’s plan for making the web more open? The chairperson of the non-profit foundation behind the Firefox browser has the answer, starting with a reinvention of the browser itself.

Last week in a Q&A at the LeWeb conference in Paris, Mitchell Baker, chairperson of the Mozilla Foundation and the… read more

CSS Selection Styling

One of the little known styling option available within the browser is text selection styling. Both Mozilla Firefox and Webkit-based browsers allow you to customize the styling of selected text. Let me show you how. read more

What To Do When Your Website Goes Down

Have you ever heard a colleague answer the phone like this: “Good afterno… Yes… What? Completely?… When did it go down?… Really, that long?… We’ll look into it right away… Yes, I understand… Of course… Okay, speak to you soon… Bye.” The call may have been followed by some cheesy… read more

Why We Should Start Using CSS3 and HTML5 Today

For a while now, here on Smashing Magazine, we have taken notice of how many designers are reluctant to embrace the new technologies such as CSS3 or HTML5 because of the lack of full cross-browser support for these technologies. Many designers are complaining about the numerous ways how the lack… read more

50+ Brilliant HTML Email Newsletter Templates for Online Marketing

One thing which our inbox is always flooded with is, Newsletters which is thrown out as junk without realizing they could be a perfect medium for advertising our business. To make readers subscribe could be quite tough. Not only HTML and CSS but consent of email clients, support of graphics… read more

Why It’s Time To Stop Optimizing Websites for Internet Explorer 6

Many web developers (mare than I could believe) are still spending a lot of time to optimize their works for Internet Explorer 6.
This practice was necessary some years ago when IE6 maintained an important market share near to the 20%— 30% but now it’s just a time consuming and… read more

10 Chrome Web Apps to Check Out

The Google Chrome Web Store has only been open for a few hours and already hundreds of apps are available to use.

To be fair, not every app offers a new experience; some are merely bookmarks to existing web apps. There are already a number of apps, however, that really push… read more

“The New York Times” Chrome Web App Remodels the Online Newspaper

Google just unveiled its the Chrome Web Store, making tons of highly optimized web apps available to users of Google Chrome (or the latest versions of Safari or Firefox 4 beta).

One of the apps that was showcased at the Google event earlier this afternoon was The New York Times for… read more

Google Chrome Has 120 Million Users

Google revealed that its web browser now has 120 million users during its Chrome press conference today. That’s 50 million more users than it had less than seven months ago.

Chrome is Google’s webkit-based web browser. Launched in September 2008, the browser has gone from zero market share to nearly 10%… read more

Organizing Your Design Inspirations

Virtually every creative out there turns to designs and images created by others to get inspired now and then. Whether you use web design galleries or other sources of visual inspiration, you’ve probably had times when you’ve felt like you’re spending too much time looking for inspiration and not enough… read more

What You Missed This Week in Web Apps

Thanks to Groupon acquisition rumors, the blogosphere in the past week is less polluted with news about Facebook and Twitter. Google was quite busy last week and rolled out updates to a lot of its products, Xmarks found a buyer, OnLive introduced PlayPass and Groupon unveiled new features.

Read on for… read more

Mozilla Adopts 2 Real Firefox Cubs [PIC]

Two red panda (a.k.a. firefox) cubs born at the Knoxville Zoo in Tennessee have officially become a part of the Mozilla community, the non-profit creator of one of the world’s largest browsers announced Friday.

Mozilla has set up a microsite (and accompanying Twitter handle) where visitors can watch the firefoxes via… read more

Chrome Approaches 10% Browser Marketshare [STATS]

Net Applications has just released its browser usage share statistics for November 2010, and the decline of Internet Explorer continues to be a cogent trend.

Meanwhile, Google’s Chrome browser continues increase its share of the market, topping 9.3%, a new record according to Net Applications’s data.

Microsoft continues to be… read more

Flock Social Browser Declares War on RockMelt with Version 3.5

Flock, the self-described “social web browser,” is responding to the launch of RockMelt with the release of Flock 3.5, which boasts greater speed and added functionality.

The browser touts social integration, primarily through a sidebar that lets users update their Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn statuses. It also has a multitude… read more

Keep an Eye on Your Holiday Packages With These 8 Apps

The holiday season is upon us and, holiday season or not, you’ll probably want to keep an eye on your packages—inbound and outbound. While many online retailers have greatly improved their package tracking integration over the years, there’s still easier ways to watch your in-transit package’s status.

Checkout these great web… read more

Codesnipp.it: More Than Just Code Sharing

Whether you’re looking for a bit of JavaScript to enhance your website or you’re simply searching for that PHP class that will make it easier to handle database connections, you can spend a lot of time searching for bits of code but some cause more harm than good.

A few weeks… read more

Adding Transparencies and Gradients With CSS

The way you handle color in your web designs is about to change. Perhaps you’ve been playing around with hexadecimal color values since you were a wee web-babe; if you were, get ready to to grow up fast. CSS3 has arrived, and your palette is about to get… read more

Sight: Free WordPress 3.0.1-Ready Theme For Magazines and Blogs

In this post we release a yet another WordPress theme: Sight is a powerful WordPress 3.0.1-ready theme which will work best for magazines and blogs. The theme was designed in modern minimalistic style and has two views: the standard blog view and a grid view. A big image slider on… read more

5 Design Trends That Small Businesses Can Use in 2011

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

In the past 12 months, we’ve seen a lot of changes in the world of web design. Growing popularity in the mobile device space — including smartphones… read more

Why Joe Client Doesn’t Care About Standards

Web standards should be a driving force behind the work of any designer or developer. They provide a scale against which to measure the quality, structure, syntax and methodology of design work.

To explain the benefits of web standards, I’ve compared on my own blog the landscape of the… read more

11 Essential Apps for Managing Your Real Life Social Networks

Rich Aberman is the co-founder of WePay, a payment service that helps people collect money online. You can read more of Rich’s posts on the WePay blog, “Like” WePay on Facebook, or follow WePay on Twitter.

When I moved to Silicon Valley from the East Coast, my real life social network… read more

Totally Awesome Tools To Improve Gmail Productivity

One of Google’s most successful ventures has been Gmail. Because of its large inbox storage capacity, simple to use interface that supports hotkeys, and flawless functioning with all web browsers, Gmail has become the preferred email client for countless internet users. But just because something is popular does not mean… read more

Monetizer: Revenue Ready Videos in Under 5 Minutes

It can be difficult to monetize videos that you put up or plan to put on the internet. If in doubt, just ask Google. They had a real tough time making money off video after sinking more than a billion dollars into acquiring YouTube. If there’s anyone in this universe… read more

Songbird: A Viable iTunes Alternative?

With the release of iTunes 10, many people suddenly realised that iTunes really wasn’t that great, and might be starting to suffer from a major case of feature bloat. The interface is starting to become messy and hard to navigate, the icon is atrocious, and Ping just clutters everything up… read more

Roundup of Tutorials About Creating Firefox Extensions

There is a lot of various firefox extension for developers and users. But sometime we need to create a new extension for our special needs. In this article you will find a roundup of interesting tutorials about creating Firefox extensions. read more

Web Typography: 100 Educational Resources, Tools and Techniques

Web typography has evolved a lot over the last years. Today we see rich, accessible typography, a plethora of type design choices for the web and a number of remarkable, type-based web designs. It’s a great time for web design, and it’s a great time for web typography. Still, being… read more

What Every Web Developer Should Know About Front-End Performance

Too often as developers, we ignore a crucial last step before launching a website: optimizing for performance.

Most developers now recognize that organized, valid code ensures maintainability and compatibility.

Anyone who doubts this merely has to speak to a developer who has picked up work on an old website… read more

Joomla Leaders: Enterprise Is Better With Open Source [INTERVIEW]

Unlike with other open source content management systems, it’s hard to pin down one founder of Joomla. The CMS that now runs about 2.4% of the top 1 million websites was created by a group of developers that split off from a similarly open source project called Mambo.

The developers felt… read more

Essential Web Design Advice From a Wireframing Master [INTERVIEW]

The Web Design Best Practices Series is supported by The Bazaar, a marketplace to buy and sell creative objects. It empowers creative talents with the tools to promote and sell their artworks globally. Start buying and selling instantly by connecting with Facebook or Twitter.

It’s an exciting time to be doing… read more

This Morning’s 4 Biggest Stories in Tech and Mobile

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 four particular stories of interest today.

Google Street View Under Investigation by FCC Over Privacy

Google can’t seem to shake off… read more

Mozilla Launches F1, a New Way to Share Links

Today, Mozilla’s Messaging group launched F1, a Firefox extension that aims to make sharing content around the social web much easier.

For webmasters and web surfers alike, seeing a row of a half-dozen “share this” buttons above or below every piece of web content can be both visually distracting and existentially… read more

What’s New for Web Designers – Nov. 2010

New apps and websites seem to be appearing on an almost daily basis, but trying to find the good ones among them can be tough, especially considering how many are not that great.

That’s why every month we research and showcase some of the best and latest resources available… read more

RockMelt: A Re-imagined Social Browser

Social networks have changed our digital lifestyle. A major chunk of our activities online, like consuming news, multimedia, shopping, recommendations etc., have undergone a paradigm shift thanks to the social web. Links and likes from Facebook and Twitter influence our day to day decisions.

While there are plenty of splendid, free plugins… read more

Dapurkue- Free XHTML/CSS E-Commerce Template for Your Online Business

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

The 3 Biggest Stories in Tech and Mobile This Morning

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 three particular stories of interest today.

Google Rolls Out Instant Preview Search

This morning, Google began rolling out a new feature… read more

Happy Birthday, Firefox

Today marks the 6th birthday of the popular web browser, Firefox. It was launched on November 9, 2004 as a lightweight and more secure alternative to Internet Explorer 6, which was the dominant browser at the time.

Six years later, and Firefox is now the second most widely used browser with… read more

New Firefox Add-On Detects Firesheep, Protects You on Open Networks

If you’re concerned about using open Wi-Fi networks because of Firesheep, the highly popular new hacking tool, you should check out BlackSheep, a Firefox add-on that makes surfing on open networks safe once again.

Firesheep came onto the scene not too long ago. It’s a bit of code that allows just… read more

Is RockMelt the Social Web Browser We’ve Been Waiting For?

The new socially savvy web browser, RockMelt, entered private beta on Sunday and is already becoming a viral web hit, thanks in large part to the Facebook-authenticated invitation scheme it uses.

RockMelt isn’t the first product to try to take on social browsing — Flock, which will also be using Chromium… read more

Quick Look: Codesnipp.it

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 Codesnipp.it. The developer describes Codesnipp.it as a social site for developers. We offer both free… read more

Don’t Drink and Facebook: New Plugin Mitigates the Fallout

Raise your hand if you made a mistake this weekend. Maybe sent a scathing Facebook message to an ex who broke your heart? Told everyone — via Twitter — how much you hate your boss? Uploaded something scandalous to YouTube? Well, it’s too bad we waited until Sunday afternoon to… read more

It’s Alive: Xmarks Back From the Brink

It looks like cross-browser, bookmark syncing service Xmarks won’t be going out of business after all.

Just over a month after announcing that the service would be closing its doors and shutting down operations come January 2011, the company has announced that it is in the final stages of selling Xmarks… read more

SublimeVideo: Your HTML5 Video Solution

SublimeVideo.net promises to give you a sexy, embeddable and customizable HTML5 video player for your website that will work in every major browser (and quite a few minor ones too). SublimeVideo is currently in beta, but it’s coming soon and we’ve got the scoop. Read on after the fold to… read more