Quick look at some of the Popular Web Design Trends from 2011

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Looking back over the past year we can pick up a lot of fresh emerging trends. Web designers around the world are connected like never before through a seemingly endless supply of social networks (big thums up to Dribble). Thus it’s much easier for new… read more

Top Freelance Jobs from Job Board – Week 1, December

Looking for a new client? The FreelanceSwitch job board is a great resource of freelance gigs and opportunities. These opportunities are in various fields, from development to writing to design, and come from a wide range of potential clients. The job board is hand-moderated by dedicated staff and volunteers… read more

Tips For Gallery-Worthy Instagram Pics

From Oct. 22-23, London’s East Gallery will be hosting the My World Shared photography exhibit, which may not seem unusual, until you learn that this will be the first exhibit ever curated to feature only Instagram pics.

A community of passionate “Instagrammers” have launched the exhibit and a website that’s stocked… read more

LinkedIn Boot Camp [INFOGRAPHIC]

Even after 9 years in the social media stratosphere, LinkedIn is still an elusive platform to master. While there’s still only a fraction of LinkedIn users compared to Facebook, the platform boasts a highly targeted and engaged audience that is there for one purpose: business networking.

Still, there’s a lot of… read more

Best of the Week #199

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

Bacardi Uses Facebook to Simulate a Party Experience

Bacardi launched a holiday promotion Friday that uses your Facebook data to create an immersive, personalized video experience.

The campaign, dubbed “Unwrap the Night,”, recreates the sights and sounds of walking into a house party from a first-person perspective. After opening the door, you’re warmly greeted by clusters of attractive, trendy… read more

How To Make a Shiny Button in Flash

In my previous Flash button tutorial I showed you how to create buttons in flash and how to make them react to different mouse events. In this tutorial I will show you how to create a beautiful shining button. If you haven’t read the last tutorial and you don’t know… read more

5 Big Reasons CEOs Should Get Social [INFOGRAPHIC]

Over the past few months, we’ve introduced you to some of the most impressive CEOs in the digital marketing and tech space. While the businesses have flourished online, so too have the social profiles of the CEOs — they realize the power of Twitter, Facebook and other social platforms, and… read more

Why 2011 Will Be Defined by Social Media Democracy

Ekaterina Walter is a social media strategist at Intel. She is a part of Intel’s Social Media Center of Excellence and is responsible for company-wide social media enablement and corporate social networking strategy. She was recently elected to serve on the board of directors of WOMMA.

On Jan. 25, 2011 pictures… read more

How to Create a Custom Cursor in Flash

Flash is a great tool creating beautiful looking interactive applications. But a lot of times the default cursor will not go with the theme of your application. Fortunately it is very easy to create your own cursor in Flash. In this Flash tutorial I will show you how to replace… read more

DIY Lighting Hacks for Digital Photographers

Lighting can be the difference between a good shot and a great one.

Walk into most professional photographer’s studios and you’ll be confronted with truckloads of lighting equipment. To the average hobby photographer it’s enough to make your mind boggle – and for your stomach to turn as you think… read more

Markdown + Dropbox = Dead Simple Blogging With Calepin

Blogs are supposed to be about writing. Real, authentic, personal, heartfelt writing. The very word blog comes from the words web and log, a log of your thoughts on the web. But by and large, blogs have gotten complicated. 15 million widgets, word clouds, flashing ads, and more drive most… read more

Twitter Account Will Post a Bible Verse Every Day for 86 Years

In the beginning, Twitter created tweets and … Bible-related Twitter accounts? Yup, and the latest religious handle, @TweetTheBible86, plans to take its sweet time retelling the Christian Bible, tweeting one verse per day for more than eight decades.

Three friends launched… read more

i1Display Pro

Color Accuracy for Screen and Projector

In addition to calibrating displays, X-Rite’s i1Display Pro also calibrates projectors, measures ambient light, and corrects for glare (for displays lacking a hood). The i1Display Pro comes with X-Rite’s new i1Profiler software.

The i1Display Pro instrument is faster and with better quality than the i1Display… read more

Get c’t Digital Photography Magazine – It’s Damn Good

Earlier this year we were made aware of a new quarterly photography magazine out of Europe called c’t Digital Photography. After taking a look at a few issues, we have to say that this new magazine has shot up our list of favourites and is now on our “must buy”… read more

Flash Musical Surprises Holiday Shoppers [VIDEO]

Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks.

A New Jersey mall abruptly transforms into a stage for a short musical about Santa. One man breaks into song about how “you’re never too old, too old to sit on Santa” and soon a handful… read more

Check Out the New Tuts+ Premium

Over 45,000 people have joined Tuts+ Premium since it was first launched more than 3 years ago. Today, we’re very happy to announce a complete overhaul, including a beautiful redesign, 27 popular educational eBooks, member-only forums, and a collection of in-depth video courses teaching you one skill from top to… read more

How to Design Functional Sub-Navigation Menus

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JavaScript libraries such as jQuery have fundamentally shifted the course of web development. It is now easier than ever to prototype UI functionality, animations, slideshows, and of course dynamic navigation. I feel this tremendous growth is allowing for developers to build page elements with less… read more

What Do You Want To Learn About Photography In The Next 13 Months

By PNASH

I’m getting a big jump on the end of year posts by diving right into what I believe is an important part of achieving what you want in life; making goals.

Goals give us a sense of direction especially when we are faced with days where our rudder has gone… read more

Planet Photoshop: Animated Snow

Corey Barker is a Photoshop instructor and graphic designer who maintains a blog at PlanetPhotoshop.com. Visit his site for more tutorials and tips.

Corey shows viewers how to use Photoshop to create falling snow over your favorite holiday image.

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Making a GREAT Looking Flash Preloader

In my previous Flash preloader tutorial  I showed you how to develop preloaders for you applications and I explained its code to you. In this tutorial I will focus on the design part of the preloaders. I will show you how to make a good looking circular preloader so that… read more

Focus On: Design Trends in Mobile Apps for iOS

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Apple’s mobile operating system has gained a huge following in just a few short years. Although it can take months of dedicated study to even begin programming iOS apps, there still seems to be a solid market of intelligent developers. In the last year alone we’ve… read more

This Is Thriller: What Chilean Students Can Teach the Occupy Movement

Here’s a new tactic for Occupy Wall Street protesters to consider: dressing up as zombies for a mass performance of “Thriller”.

That’s what thousands of members of Chile’s growing student protest movement did in June, gathering for a Michael Jackson-inspired flash mob outside the home of President Sebastian Pinera. Videos of… read more

Violent Video Games Disrupt Emotion and Cognition in Young Men

Video games may not rot your brain but they can change the way you think, a new study presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America reveals.

The study shows one week of playing violent video games can create changes in brain regions associated with cognitive function… read more

The Perfect Office #115

We’ve seen some great gadgets and equipment for designers. So many cool stuff, that we could actually assemble infinite perfect office spaces! Every week we’ll assemble a perfect office, and we’d like you to help us. What equipment would the perfect office have?

Not only gadgets and equipment, but also furniture,… read more

How to Find Your Individual Design Voice

In the design world, volumes have been written advising the newbs, and those with some established street cred, on the ins and outs of being a top shelf designer, and many of these posts will either be focused on or at least include a brief mention of finding your own… read more

Introduction to Studio Photography Lighting Lecture [VIDEO]

If you’re looking for a good introduction to studio lighting the following video may be a good place to start.

It is a 2 hour video (so grab a drink and make yourself comfortable) featuring Joey Quintero from B&H Photo and Video.

Some of what’s covered in this lecture:

ratios of light
continuous 1… read more

Our favorite tweets of the week Nov 21-Nov 27, 2011

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Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ150 Review

Having extensively used 10x and 35x compact digizoom cameras over the last year or so, I would say the former is a little short … and the latter a little too long for comfortable and successful leisure shooting.

So this model – the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ150 – with a 24x zoom… read more

Best of the Week #198

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

Daily Inspiration #989

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

22 cool but weird and unusual USB drives

Steampunk USB flash drive – $239.00

Clip USB

Doc Martens Boot USB Flash Drive – $25

USB Clothepin next generation

Eraser USB stick

2GB 12 Gauge Blue Shotgun Shell Flash Drive – $20

Condom USB Flash Drive

Pinetti Quattrogiga Leather Journal with USB Drive – $69

Lipstick USB Drive

USB wings – From $53

Mini Cooper USB… read more

Microsoft Cuts Prices of Kinect, Xbox and More for Black Friday

Microsoft has announced its Black Friday sale over at Microsoft Store, offering decent discounts on the Kinect, Xbox, select PCs, software and games.

The Kinect sensor is available as a part of the Kinect Sensor Holiday Bundle, which comes with Fruit Ninja, Gunstringer and Kinect Adventures, for $99. The Xbox… read more

Comic Superheroes Artwork: Captain America

Comic Superheroes Artwork: Captain America

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Daily Inspiration #988

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

Web Apps We’re Thankful For in 2011

Happy Thanksgiving! For Americans around the globe (including your editor in Thailand), Thanksgiving a time of family and friends and football and more food. And, of course, it’s the time we’re supposed to take a few moments to think of all the things we’re thankful for. Most of us… read more

How To Improve Your WordPress Plugin’s Readme.txt

If you’re a plugin developer and you just love to write code, then writing a readme.txt file for a plugin in WordPress’ repository might be your idea of hell. When you’ve written all of that lovely code, why must you spend time writing about how to use it?

Unfortunately, some plugin… read more

Why Grooveshark Has Little Chance Of Fending Off Universal’s Lawsuit

Streaming website Grooveshark has become the latest flashpoint in the cat-and-mouse game between the music industry and music sharing services. But unlike their largely unsuccessful suit against cyber-locker site MP3Tunes earlier this year, the copyright owners this time around appear to be well poised to tear down the “safe harbors”… read more

Skip the Lines: 13 Black Friday Sales You Can Snag on the Web

When did Black Friday get so confusing?

Some deals are happening all weekend, while others are only taking place at specific times. Companies have merged traditional in-stores deals with web specials. Some even extend bargain periods all the way into Cyber Monday, the traditional big day for online shopping.

Technology has… read more

How To Create Web Animations With Paper.js

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

‘MOBBED’ Returns With 2 Flash Mobs [VIDEO]

Flash mobs hit the small screen this spring thanks to FOX’s MOBBED, and now the show returns Wednesday for a holiday special, turning typically private moments like marriage proposals into song-and-dance spectacles.

Airing Nov. 23 at 9 p.m. ET after The X… read more

How to Eliminate Reflections in Glasses in Portraits

Pin ItHelp! I’m taking portraits of someone with glasses and I keep getting crazy reflections showing up from my flash in their specs. Can you help me!?!

Image by Auzigog

This is a question we hear a lot at dPS so when our friends at AdoramaTV posted this video showing how to… read more

Exporting From Photoshop

Congratulations. You’ve just completed a pixel-perfect mock-up of an app, and you’ve gotten the nod from everyone on the team. All that’s left to do is save the tens, hundreds or maybe even thousands of production assets required to bring it to life.

It’s probably the least interesting part of designing… read more

Dear Steve Jobs: Apple Founder’s Greatest Email Hits Collected in Ebook

An ebook released Tuesday takes an inside look at the email correspondence of Apple founder Steve Jobs.

“Letters to Steve: Inside the Email Inbox of Apple’s Steve Jobs” ($2.99), by CNN technology writer Mark Milian, explores how the tech innovator fielded emails from fans — and how he handled the… read more

10 Interactive Flash Websites That Scream “Play With Me”

We have a list of 10 highly interactive websites made in flash. These websites not only present the content to user but they engage and occupy the user.

1 : www.the-planet-zero.com

The planet zero is a project by Nissan. This website has been created to raise awareness for alternative energy. The website is… read more

Pentax WG-1 GPS Camera [REVIEW]

Introduction

The Pentax WG-1 GPS is a crushproof, freezeproof, waterproof, shockproof ruggedized point and shoot camera designed for adventurous types or those prone to breaking their cameras. Available in a number of colors, the camera also touts a GPS receiver which is capable of tagging pictures as they are taken with… read more

Facts About HTML5 & Flash Usage in the Real World

HTML5 concept was originally raised by WHATWG in 2004 and then accepted by W3C in 2007. Finally, the firstly official draft was published in 2008. We have already known that HTML5 intends to commit itself to be the substitute of Flash and Sliverlight, promising to bring richer but simpler interactive… read more

Tips on Designing Layouts Focused around Content

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In web design we frequently assume any layout with a spiffy logo and graphics will work out perfect. But designing for the web goes much deeper than attractive page graphics. The entire user experience comes into play and you have to account for a number… read more

People Photography and Portraits: Best Resources Toolbox

I’ll admit to you here and now: I am extremely picky about photography books. If you need proof to believe me, just look at the collection of 6 photography books sitting lonely on my bookshelf. Maybe this peculiar snobbery comes from the fact that I like photography books to… read more

Is Windows Phone the Best Mobile Platform You’re Not Using?

In the world of smartphones, Windows Phone 7 is barely a blip. It has, by some estimates less than 6% market share. Android now owns half the market and iOS about 26%. This isn’t right. You see, the Windows Phone 7 is a good — possibly great — mobile platform…. read more

Sony SLT-A77 Review

In recent months it was obvious that Sony and Panasonic had left the upper end DSLR to others … such as Nikon and Canon.

Until now! And this one is a big mother… the Sony SLT-A77!

Loaded with battery, card and the supplied f2/16-50 SSM lens the camera weighed in at 1.3kg,… read more

Best of the Week #197

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

15 Well Designed Twitter Infographics

15 Well Designed Twitter Infographics

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Ultrabooks Get Ready for Their Close-Up at CES 2012 [VIDEO]

If 2011 was the year of the tablet, 2012 may well be the year of the Ultrabook.

Up to 50 new models of the extremely thin, lightweight laptops are going to be unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January,… read more

HTML5 Semantics

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

Flash Debugger Tutorial – How to Debug Adobe Flash

When you start programming in ActionScript 3.0, in the beginning you are very likely to get stuck in programming mistakes. You have to have a lot of practice to write bug free ActionScript 3.0 .Even when you are a professional developer you are still prone to getting stuck while coding…. read more

Nikon V1 Review

Micro, mirrorless cameras are upon us, with sales for the pioneers — Olympus and Panasonic — soaring as people welcome the small, clever, interchangeable lens models with open arms.

Nikon and Canon have dragged their feet on this evolution with the former only now recognising the market demand with a pair… read more

Case Study: Macro Daisies on the Cheap

I love doing macro photography on the cheap. Here in Sydney Spring has sprung and the sun is shining. For macro photography enthusiasts, that means one thing – flowers! It’s very difficult to get sick of photographing this subject, so the first chance I got since Winter, I gathered up… read more

The Three Dangers of Landscape Photography

Not long ago I received a comment on one of my waterfall photos from my most regular commenter A.Barlow. He asked me whether I’d ever almost dropped my camera into any of the waterfalls that I’ve visited.

This got me thinking about how many times that, not only have I… read more

4 Social Media Rules Journalists Should Break

Social media best practices change faster than you can tweet or “like” whatever people agreed on last week.

The idea for this piece came about while prepping IJNet’s internal social media guidelines: our Twitter followers are taking flight, so many people “like” us now on Facebook we blush, but across our… read more

How Jetsetter’s CEO Keeps the Travel Conversation Flowing With Social Media

The Social CEO Series is supported by MessageMaker Social, the social media management system (SMMS) that lets you publish and manage targeted content across a large number of social interaction points while generating actionable intelligence. Visit messagemaker.com/social and follow us @MsgMkrSocial on Twitter.

Drew Patterson is the CEO of Jetsetter, a… read more

Graslon Insight Dome Flash Diffuser

Optical Reflector System Redistributes Light

There are many flash modifiers to choose from these days, giving the end user a variety of options with which to customize their flash photography and match their style. With the bigger-is-better mantra when it comes to light, getting that big light source from a… read more

The New Grooveshark: What’s Changed?

There are some of us just love music – we couldn’t do without it. I’d definitely count myself in as one of the music crazy group; in fact, I’m listening to music as I’m writing this post, using my favorite music streaming service, Grooveshark.

Grooveshark is one of the most popular… read more

Lomography Diana F+ Deluxe Kits Giveaway: Winners

One week and almost 1900 participants later we’re back to announce the two lucky winners of the Diana F+ Deluxe kit from our friends over at Lomography. Thank you to everyone who participated. We were so taken aback and excited by all the entries we received!

In case you missed it… read more

Ask Dave Podcast: All About Tool Presets

Ask Dave is a weekly podcast from Photoshop Guy, Dave Cross. In his videos, Dave answers viewer questions about Photoshop tools, actions, settings, etc. Check out the entire series on KelbyTV or subscribe to the feed.

In this episode Dave explains what Tool Presets are and how to use them.

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Flash Motion Preset Tutorial – How to Use Adobe Flash

There is no doubt that animation in Flash is extremely easy and fast. But sometimes when you are building complex flash applications with more focus on the development side, you don’t have the time to work on animations. This is why Flash has introduced Motion Presets. These motion presets are… read more

Flash Bone Tool Tutorial – Learn How To Use Flash Bone Tool

Flash is the mother of all animation software.  Flash offers some pretty neat features to help animators make better animation. One of these features is the “Bone Tool”. With Bone Tool, animators can insert virtual bones in their drawings and rotate these bones to rotate the drawing that they are… read more

Focus on Thomas Leuthard – Street Photographer

If you like street photography, you’ve probably heard of Thomas Leuthard. He lives in Switzerland and, although he hasn’t been on the street photography scene for very long, he’s made quite a name for himself in the community worldwide. The guy has got quite an eye! When I see his… read more

Flash UILoader Tutorial

You might have developed a lot of static flash applications in which all the images and the swf clips are embedded in the flash file. If you want to develop more dynamic applications in Flash then this practice is not very good. Some applications require images and swfs to be… read more

Best of the Week #196

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

Adobe Admits: Apple Won, Flash For Mobile is Done, HTML5 is the Future

Adobe developer relations lead Mike Chambers has posted a lengthy explanation of why the company decided stop development of the mobile browser version of Flash.

The response comes as the health of the entire Flash ecosystem is in doubt. Adobe announced that Flash Player 11.1 would be the last version of… read more

Hands On: Motorola Droid Razr Is Super-Thin, But Not Quite Super [PICS]

The Motorola Droid Razr rolls out to the United States on Friday, bringing an unusually thin smartphone into the hands of Android aficionados. Let’s put it to the test.

Its claim to fame is its industrial design — the ultra-thin Motorola Droid Razr (Verizon, $299.99 with 2-year contract, $111.11 if you… read more

Microsoft Takes Windows Phone 7 Marketing Up a Notch With Wild NYC Event [VIDEO]

A number of new Windows Phone devices — including the excellent Focus Flash — launched this week and Microsoft decided to celebrate with a big media blitz in New York City.

Microsoft built a six-story Windows Phone with truly “live” Live tiles in the middle of Midtown Manhattan. As you can… read more

10 Essential Tips for Planning the Perfect Industry Event

‘Tis the season to plan your 2012 event strategy. Here are 10 quick tips to help make event marketing work for your brand, strategy and your bottom line.

1. Don’t Reinvent (Or Compete with) the Wheel

If a non-competitive brand plans to host an event, consider partnering with that company instead of… read more

Drawing with the Smudge Tool in Photoshop

Pete shows how he uses the smudge tool to add depth to his Photoshop illustrations by softening shadows.

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Adobe Updates Flash Player for Android, Promises Future Security Updates

The Flash Player for mobile devices may be dead, but it’s not going to disappear just yet. Adobe has released Flash Player 11.1 for Android, bringing several security updates and fixes.

The new version fixes many critical memory corruption, stack overflow and buffer overflow vulnerabilities, and is recommended for all… read more

Walmart Offers Major Gaming Deals on Black Friday

Some Black Friday deals can be underwhelming (how many $5 USB drives do we need?), but the sale Walmart just revealed for games and gaming equipment may just be enough to lure us out on Thanksgiving night.

From 10 p.m. on Thursday night through all day Friday, Nov. 25,… read more

Essential Social Networks for Freelance Graphic Designers

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If the contacts and connections aren’t there, doing business for yourself as a freelance graphic designer won’t be easy. You’ll have the talent, the tools, and the drive. But getting yourself out there is another story. It doesn’t happen overnight. You’ll need to build up… read more

CSS3: box-shadow and text-shadow properties

CSS3: box-shadow and text-shadow properties

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Siri Finds Your Face with Infrared Light

One of Siri‘s best features is the ability to “raise to speak,” which activates the voice-commanded personal assistant when the phone is raised to your face. But how does Siri know when the iPhone 4S is close to your face?

iFixit decided to answer that question and promptly disassembled an iPhone… read more

Win a Free Copy of SideWriter: 10 Licenses Up for Grabs!

SideWriter is a simple but extremely helpful mouse-activitated utility that sits off the side of your screen. Just like with the dock, SideWriter is gone when you don’t need it and appears in a flash when you do. Just move your mouse to the side of the screen, take a… read more

Using the ‘Dark Side’: Thinking Outside the Box with Darkness

A Guest Post by Judd Green

Photographers have spent years studying light, how to use it, manipulate it, hey, I’m sure some have even tried to bend it! Don’t get me wrong, light is our best friend in the photography world. But what about crossing over to the ‘Dark Side’ for… read more

Planet Photoshop: Special Effects Text

Corey Barker is a Photoshop instructor and graphic designer who maintains a blog at PlanetPhotoshop.com. Visit his site for more tutorials and tips.

This tutorial shows a fun text effect that builds upon some previous techniques that have been posted by Corey on the Planet site.

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10 Free Apps for Working with Video

Video has become a must-have for every website or blog aiming to enhance its presence online. It’s a common practice that video-related orders are often assigned to freelancers, and these are not only simple video editing tasks, but the preparation of how-to’s, demos, screencasts, video embedding and distribution as… read more

Flash Sales Powerhouse Vente-Privee Launches in the U.S.

Vente-Privee, the 10-year-old French company credited with developing the luxury flash sales model adapted by Gilt Groupe and others in the U.S., arrived stateside Wednesday. The launch comes less than 24 hours after Gilt.com announced that it would begin shipping worldwide.

Like Gilt.com, Vente-Privee offers deep discounts on designer merchandise, namely… read more

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

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

Castle.so: Drag-and-Drop File Sharing For Your Browser

From email attachments to images you want to share on Twitter, files can still be frustrating to share. There’s dozens of file sharing apps, ranging from semi-shady sites covered in ads to popular desktop tools like Cloud.app that let you upload files and share them with a stylish landing page…. read more

An Extensive Guide To Web Form Usability

Contrary to what you may read, peppering your form with nice buttons, color and typography and plenty of jQuery plugins will not make it usable. Indeed, in doing so, you would be addressing (in an unstructured way) only one third of what constitutes form usability.

In this article, we’ll provide practical… read more

Ask Dave Podcast: Create Scrolling Text in Photoshop

Ask Dave is a weekly podcast from Photoshop Guy, Dave Cross. In his videos, Dave answers viewer questions about Photoshop tools, actions, settings, etc. Check out the entire series on KelbyTV or subscribe to the feed.

In this episode Dave shows users how to use Photoshop Extended’s animation panel to create… read more

14 Ways to Improve Your Photography in a Few Days

Some might argue the point that photography is an art form.  Training your eye to see the world and translating your perspective visually takes time and patience. Yet, there’s also technique involved in creating arresting images. There are ways to quickly improve your photography and impact your creative vision. Let’s… read more

Samsung Focus Flash: A Great Phone, An Awesome Price

Samsung’s new Focus Flash is a sleek, well-designed Windows Phone with a price that might just be enough to bring new smartphone users into the Microsoft fold.

What makes the Samsung Focus Flash remarkable aren’t its specs — though it is a well specced device — or its form factor —… read more

Thanks to Our Weekly Sponsor: FreeSpace

Our featured sponsor this week is FreeSpace, a lightweight utility that helps you keep an eye on your disk space.

FreeSpace is a menubar utility that can show you how much space is available on all local, connected, network drives, and disk images with a single click. All the partitions… read more

Lomography Giveaway: Two Diana F+ Deluxe Kits

I am super excited to announce our latest partnership with you guys. The kind folks over at Lomography have given us two of their latest Diana F+ Deluxe Kits to give away to you here today! I had so much fun playing around with the Diana F+ and I can’t… read more

Sound Design: BMW Tunnel Experience by Andrew Spitz

Sound Design for the BMW Tunnel Experience by Andrew Spitz

This time, I want to get into the more technical stuff of the Sound Design and illustrate with an Interactive Sound Design project. Andrew Spitz is a designer, interactive designer and lecturer based in South Africa. To find out about Andrew,… read more

40 Fantastic HD Wallpapers That Will Blow You Away

40 Fantastic HD Wallpapers That Will Blow You Away

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What to Consider in Designing Stunning Flash Websites

What to Consider in Designing Stunning Flash Websites

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Mashable Media Summit Highlights [PICS]

Media Summit 2011

The Mashable Media Summit on Nov. 4 at the Times Center in New York City attracted… read more

30 Inspiring Website Footer Designs

30 Inspiring Website Footer Designs

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Flash Drop Down Menu Tutorial

Drop down menus are a very efficient kind of menus. They fit all your buttons beautifully in an application without taking up a lot of your real estate. In this tutorial I will show you how you can make drop down menus in flash. This is a fairly advanced tutorial… read more

HTC Rezound to Run on Verizon’s Speedy 4G LTE Network [PICS]

HTC rolled out the HTC Rezound smartphone for the Verizon 4G LTE network on Thursday, and besides packing some seriously impressive specs, it doesn’t look too bad, either. Let’s take a look.

Running the Android Gingerbread operating system, otherwise known as version 2.3, it’s packing a 1.5GHz dual-core processor with a… read more