DIY Space Mission: First Lego Space Shuttle into the Stratosphere [VIDEO]

This one isn’t strictly ‘digital photography’ but it I’m sure you’ll forgive me once you see what it is.

What happens when you take a GoPro HD video camera, GPS unit, a lego space shuttle and strap it to a Weather Balloon filled with helium.

What happens is a spectacular video and… read more

Compelling Marketing Materials, No Matter Your Niche

I love notebooks. I am, after all, a writer.

In the world of iPads, smartphones, and other technological devices, there is still something wonderful about a notebook.

I have always been a pen-and-paper person. In college (in the late 90s before PDAs) I kept everything in my trusty planner. I carried… read more

Adobe Releases Lightroom 4

Adobe has released the fourth incarnation of its popular photo editing software, Lightroom, with a wealth of new features, including improved support for video and a price tag that has been slashed in half compared to previous versions. The new version, Photoshop Lightroom 4, costs just $149 for the stand-alone… read more

Smashing Email Newsletter Turns Two Years Old: Comment and Win!

Two years ago, we launched the Smashing Email Newsletter. Today, we’d like to reflect on some of the greatest newsletter articles of the past year and celebrate this anniversary with our 100,000 readers with a fabulous book giveaway!

Back then, we planned to launch the Smashing Newsletter only if we had… read more

Free Html Theme: Concept

Free Html Theme: Concept

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10 Apps to Increase Your Fitness and Support Good Health

Are you wanting to get in shape, shed weight, feel better or gain that competitive edge? An important part of setting and maintaining fitness goals is using the right tools to help keep you on track. Whether you’re a gym rat, an outdoor adventurer or you prefer the quiet of… read more

Tutorial: Create 5 subtle background patterns

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Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.123)

This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy :)
If you would like to receive our daily updates and keep up to date with the latest and greatest articles and resources from the… read more

Web of Color: Bold and Beautiful Uses of Color in Web Design

As we look around the web, we see so many examples of designers who have brilliantly used color in web design projects to make the page or various page elements really pop. Even in some cases when we see designers opting for more minimal designs, using bold splashes of color… read more

Creative Fuel #1: Gridset, Status Board PSD, AP Rebrand & More

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Creative Fuel is a periodic collection of design and creativity awesomeness found around the web. Find out about new apps and services, the best freebies, and other significant news from the design community!

Gridset

Mark Boulton has announced Gridset, a tool for making incredibly custom grids. Instead of grabbing… read more

Police Drone Crash Raises Concerns Over Unmanned Aircraft [VIDEO]

A police drone made to look like a mini-helicopter crashed into an armored SWAT vehicle after its test flight in Montgomery County, Texas, near Houston. The crash occurred last fall and was revealed on Friday by police officials and Vanguard Defense Industries, who made the drone. This crash… read more

10 Biggest Internet IPOs of the Last 10 Years [INFOGRAPHIC]

Until we hear otherwise, it’s assumed that Facebook is well on its way to the trading floor. The social networking behemoth filed paperwork to go public at the beginning of February, and is on track to be the most valuable public Internet company in the universe.

SEE ALSO: How 9 Tech… read more

10 Great Online Tools for Keeping Track of Your Tasks

10 Great Online Tools for Keeping Track of Your Tasks

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10 Google Search Tricks You Might Not Know

1. Boolean Search Parameters

To really master the art of Google search, you can follow certain terms and tricks…. read more

Is the Philadelphia Cell Phone Jammer a Hero or Pest?

No service? Maybe you’ve been zapped by a cell phone jammer.

A Philadelphia man has stirred up controversy after he frequently used a device on a public bus to create a cell phone dead zone.

A reporter for NBC10 in Philadelphia recently tracked down the man, who was using a cell… read more

5 Huge Digital Marketing Trends You Can’t Afford to Ignore

Jonathan Gardner is director of communications at ad company Vibrant Media. He has spent his career as an innovator at the nexus of media and technology, having worked in communications leadership roles and as a journalist around the world.

Digital marketing is a discipline in flux. We face an onslaught of… read more

Daily Inspiration #1074

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

Russians Tweet, Post Video of Anti-Putin Protests

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin won his country’s presidential elections this weekend amid accusations by some Russians and outside observers that the voting process suffered from tampering and fraud.

Russians protesting Putin’s win and the alleged voter fraud gathered in Moscow’s Pushkin square on Monday, chanting phrases like “Russia without… read more

The Perfect Office #129

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

Box – CSS Framework

Box – CSS Framework

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Travel Photography Inspiration Project: India

Welcome to the first installment in the long term DPS Travel Photography Inspiration Project. We start our world travels in India. The response to requests for photos was highest for this county more than any other and what a fine group of samples were sent! I asked each participant to… read more

Small Demons: Enter the Storyverse

I’m a sucker for anything Adam Lisagor is commissioned to make a video for, and Small Demons is no exception. While I was originally drawn in by the internet-celebrity video endorsement, I signed up for the service and have continued to use it because of how awesome Small Demons actually… read more

YouTube vs. Self-Hosted Video: Pros & Cons for Webmasters

Video is a favorite way to attract new website visitors. As you know new visitors, means higher traffic. The higher traffic – the more chances to spread your ideas worldwide. The more juice you input in your ideas, the more new people will stop by at your site. This circle… read more

Plain Text or HTML?

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Email Template: Plain Text or HTML?

Through the advent of technology a lot of things have changed in the world. Indeed a lot as evolved in the communication world and many people have been able to change and advance with technology…. read more

How to optimize your CSS

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The Challenge of Responsive Images

Images are one of the most important elements on a web page in terms of user experience. Few objects on a page have the same impact on everything from emotional responses to bounce rates.

When users are viewing your site on mobile devices, small screens, or in other unusual… read more

10 Useful Pinterest WordPress Plugins

10 Useful Pinterest WordPress Plugins

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Daily Inspiration #1073

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

Illustrator Quick Tutorials: Creating A Vector Flower

Illustrator Quick Tutorials: Creating A Vector Flower

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Creating Rough Old Paper Backgrounds In Photoshop

Creating Rough Old Paper Backgrounds In Photoshop

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Weekly Fresh Web Design Freebies – Vol. 8 (2-29-2011)

Weekly Fresh Web Design Freebies – Vol. 8 (2-29-2011)

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How Photoshop Makes us all Paranoid

What I learned very quick in my starting activity as a freelance-photographer is that, all work be damned, you have exceedingly little control over your assignment-flow. Sure, you can make a great website/jolly facebookpage/stellar portfolio. But making people to call you now, now now! is rather hard.

As idleness is the… read more

Is This the iPad 3? [VIDEO]

Itching to see what the iPad 3 looks like and don’t want to wait until Wednesday?

Tech blog MIC Gadget has reportedly obtained parts of the next-generation iPad. If this is real, it’s the closest look yet at the new tablet from Apple.

In line with industry speculation, the clip reveals… read more

20 Free and Premium e-Commerce/Shop HTML Website Templates And Layouts

20 Free and Premium e-Commerce/Shop HTML Website Templates And Layouts

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Benefits of HTML: Why People Prefer HTML?

Benefits of HTML: Why People Prefer HTML?

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Our favorite tweets of the week Feb 27-Mar 4, 2012

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A Showcase of Enchanting Vintage Advertisements

Everyody needs some inspiration to help unlock those creative ideas. Now, vintage posters might not be your first port-of-call when seeking inspiration. Then you have missed out. Of course, the vintage posters we have for you haven’t aged very well. But the truth is they are all in… read more

SnappSchool Connects Parents With Classrooms

A startup called SnappSchool is compiling a weekly rundown of the Kindergarten to 6th-grade math curriculum — for parents.

The idea is that if parents understand more about what and how their children are learning, they can better support their children’s education.

Each digest contains a “quick refresher” about the topic,… read more

Apple’s App Store Hits 25 Billion Downloads

Apple customers have collectively downloaded 25 billion apps from the App Store, the company has announced on its webpage. That’s more than three apps per person in the world.

The milestone signals not only a vast appetite for apps, but also growing smartphone penetration and Apple profits (the company takes a… read more

How to Take Your PR Pitches to the Next Level

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

Often the most visible element of public relations, media relations is a tried-and-true tactic that can influence opinion, change behaviors, and generate new leads and sales. PR… read more

Linkswitch #96, Productivity, Multitasking, Go Viral

Every other week we roundup some of the highest quality articles and resources that benefit freelancers from across the web. We present these articles here on various helpful topics. This week we have articles on finding the best productivity app, multitasking effectively, and getting your posts to go viral.

20… read more

Best of the Week #212

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

70 Creative Moolicious Milk Packaging

Cottontail Packaging by Megan Humphrey

Frutti Milk Packaging by Frappe

Bill's Milkshake by I Love Dust

Dalarna Milk Packaging

Milk Collection by Hattomonkey Design Studio

Whale Milk by Alessio Sabbadini

Soy Mamelle by Kian Brand

Summercow Milk by Bili Cardona

Novelia by Zakhar Krylov

MILK,MAN by Ben Stevens

Milk Matters by Mark / steady-away

Organic Valley Milk by Lisa… read more

Comics of the week #119

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YouTube’s Learning Quiz Asks, ‘Are You A Brainiac?’ [VIDEO]

“Get your learn on at YouTube EDU,” says an erudite young student in a video promoting YouTube’s latest channels. With a bevy of new channels on YouTube EDU, this cutesy video aims to sway more people and educators toward video learning.

YouTuber Matt Koval and “star pupil” Olivia host a… read more

Instagram Tops 25M Users [REPORT]

Instagram has topped 25 million users, becoming the largest mobile-based social network in the world, according to a report.

Dirk Singer, the head of U.K. social media agency Rabbit, claims on his Lies, Damned Lies & Statistics blog that the maker of the popular iPhone photo app just recently surpassed that… read more

Daily Inspiration #1072

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

YouTube Streams First Play, About Prop. 8, Starring Clooney, Pitt

YouTube is streaming its first live play, a star-filled reading of a new work 8, Saturday evening. The subject: the 2010 trial of Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment that took away the right of same-sex couples to marry in California.

The California Supreme Court forbid cameras from the courtroom during… read more

Google Wants You to Watch ‘Versus’ Hangout-Powered Debates

Google is constantly experimenting with new ways to use Hangouts, the video-based chat feature built into its Google+ social network. President Obama used the software for a public discussion with American citizens, and the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu got together over the service to talk about their common goals…. read more

Someone at Apple Is Surfing the Web on iOS 6

Apple appears to be testing the next version of its operating system for mobile devices, iOS 6. At least, that’s what device access logs to websites, including Mashable, seem to indicate.

The initial report came from Ars Technica, which says it discovered something unusual in its web logs. The technology site… read more

HTML & CSS – Design and Build Websites Book Competition – The Winners

An unbelievable 411 comments! That is how many comments last weeks HTML & CSS – Design and Build Websites Book Giveaway generated. Its been by far and away our most popular competition ever and clearly underlines how good the book is.

It is just a pity we only have… read more

40 Creative Black Business Card Designs

40 Creative Black Business Card Designs

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Getting started with Responsive Web Design 100 articles and tutorials

Getting started with Responsive Web Design 100 articles and tutorials

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Inside The WordPress Toolbar

The WordPress Admin Bar, first introduced in version 3.1, debuted to mixed reactions. A Google search for “wordpress admin bar” returns multiple articles about how to disable or remove it. Version 3.2 of WordPress introduced new features and functionality, and version 3.3 has not only further enhanced it but integrated… read more

Free download: Aresio Web UI Kit

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PSD > HTML Conversion of an online CV portfolio

PSD > HTML Conversion of an online CV portfolio

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The iOS-ification of OS X

I do not intend here to rehash any of the digital ink already put out there on Mountain Lion. Our own James Cull did an excellent job rounding up what we know about Mountain Lion. And Scott Danielson has had an in-depth look at Messages for Mac. I want to… read more

Netflix Loses Toy Story 3, Tron and 1,000 More Movies

Premium cable network Starz pulled its movies from Netflix streaming as of Thursday at midnight.

For Netflix customers, this means no more Toy Story 3, no more Tron, no more Billy Madison and no more access to about 1,000 other movies that were previously in the “Starz Play” section of the… read more

Cord-Cutting Startup Aereo Sued by Broadcasters

Aereo, the startup that aims to help New York City residents stream live broadcast television online, is being sued by Fox, Univision, Tribune Company and PBS.

The broadcasters allege that Aereo’s service violates copyright laws under the United States Copyright Act and unfair competition statutes under the common law of the… read more

25+ Free and Premium Business HTML Website Templates and Layouts

25+ Free and Premium Business HTML Website Templates and Layouts

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Free Photoshop Layer Styles: 10 Metal Text Effects

Free Photoshop Layer Styles: 10 Metal Text Effects

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Enough Photography Links to Give You a Coronary

Many great photographs and posts have been made this week online in the field of photography, and Toad Hollow Photography has been busy compiling a list of the very best pieces. This weeks list contains some of the most outstanding tutorials, photography and interesting blogs as found by the Toad…. read more

Daily Inspiration #1071

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

Collection Of Zbrush Tutorials You Would (Really) Like To Learn

Didn’t hear before about Zbrush? Let us define it for you; ZBrush is a digital sculpting tool with which you can combine 3D/2.5D modeling, texturing as well as painting. It is an amazing tool that brings “pixol” technology into play. pixol technology puts in lighting, color, material, as well as… read more

3 Minutes With Photographer Seshu

Great photographers always have a knack for making their work look effortless and their subjects look natural. Wedding and portrait photography may look easy enough, bit it can be extremely hard work albeit extremely rewarding. To capture the joy and essence of someone’s persona takes great skill and determination.  An… read more

25 Beautiful Nature HD Wallpapers

25 Beautiful Nature HD Wallpapers

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Top 35 Free Download HTML5 And CSS3 Templates

Top 35 Free Download HTML5 And CSS3 Templates

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Quick Look: MobDis

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 MobDis. The developer describes MobDis as a mobile marketing platform for agencies servicing local businesses…. read more

Why Email Marketing is Still King

You have Twitter followers, connections on LinkedIn, and people who like you on Facebook—but how engaged are these people with your brand?

There’s at least one person out there who believes that it’s not these social media platforms, but email marketing, that makes the most sense when it comes to… read more

8 tools to make your website for free

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CSS3-Only Tutorials and Techniques for Your Next Design

Today we are showcasing some of best tutorials and techniques that will help you create beautiful and functional designs by using only CSS, focusing primarily on the properties of CSS3. All with absolutely NO JAVASCRIPT. For the most part, the techniques we have highlighted below, can be used… read more

Sport Photography by Thomas Chadwick

Sport Photography by Thomas Chadwick

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Free Html Theme: ProFolio

Free Html Theme: ProFolio

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Sport Photography by Steve Bonini

Sport Photography by Steve Bonini

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Two Simple Steps to Take Control Over Google’s New Privacy Policy

Google’s new privacy policy takes effect Thursday. What’s new about it?

Now, it allows Google to integrate information it collects about you from all your Google accounts. So instead of treating your YouTube, Gmail and Google+ accounts as separate entities, Google now sees you as just one user. That should… read more

Creating A Simple Cartoon Animal Face In Illustrator

Creating A Simple Cartoon Animal Face In Illustrator

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Asteroid Shows Bruises From Violent Solar System [VIDEO]

A team of Japanese scientists were able to draw important conclusions about our Solar System from looking at specks of dust retrieved from one asteroid.

The results from the Feb. 27 study of the asteroid Itokawa were published in the latest edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…. read more

Facebook Brand Timelines: 6 Big Changes Every Marketer Needs to Understand

Victoria Ransom is founder and CEO of Wildfire Interactive, the global leader in social media marketing software. Victoria and Wildfire will host a free webinar on March 2 at 10 a.m. PT, entitled “Timeline for Brands: How to Make the Switch,” further outlining best practices for brands in transitioning to… read more

Europe Targets Google in Fresh Privacy Investigation

Does Google’s new privacy policy conflict with European law? France’s official data protection agency is launching an investigation to find out.

The Paris-based data watchdog CNIL will check out Google’s new policies across Europe, reports Reuters.

The team of regulators will produce questions for the company by mid-March, according to a… read more

Daily Inspiration #1070

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

T-Mobile Predicate Plan for High-Speed LTE Launch in 2013

T-Mobile Predicate Plan for High-Speed LTE Launch in 2013

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Should You Hire a Social Media Manager?

As a freelancer, you do everything—manage the books, handle the sales, and make the coffee. All this on top of your actual job, be it writing, photography, graphic design, event planning…whatever.

There are some things you can outsource. You can hire a bookkeeper to keep your finances straight. These people… read more

Best of the Vector Web – February 2012

Each month, we search the web for the best vector-related content and showcase it here for you all to enjoy. This month, we showcase high quality tutorials on creating photorealistic vector illustrations, drawing with a graphics tablet, designing vector characters, and more. We have loads of tutorials, in addition to… read more

50+ Fresh Examples of Creative Coming Soon Page Design

When launching a new web app, or site, it can help to start marketing early. A “coming soon” page has several different purposes. Firstly, it allows you to show a teaser of your new app to people and to start the ball rolling with building the excitement. Secondly, it allows… read more

Infographic: East coast vs west coast designers

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Design before computers ruled the universe

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40 Examples of Brilliant Responsive Website Layouts

Responsive web design become a very popular trend in 2011. It’s likely something we’ll see continuing well into 2012 as designers are beginning to support a myriad of mobile devices. Building layouts for the web can be tough, but inspiration is a huge factor.

In this gallery I’ve collected… read more

Perfect Chaos Clothing t-shirt designs

Perfect Chaos Clothing t-shirt designs

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Aereo Gives New Yorkers Online Access to Live TV [HANDS ON]

Starting on March 14, 2012, New York City residents will have the option to stream live broadcast television to their PC, Mac and iOS devices. That is, rather than connecting an antenna to a TV or set-top box, users can simply log on and watch networks such as ABC, CBS… read more

Creative Photography by Scott Ferguson

Creative Photography by Scott Ferguson

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YouTube Improves its Automatic Captions [VIDEO]

YouTube wants to be more widely heard by those without the ability to hear.

The video-sharing site announced Tuesday it is beefing up its ability to automatically caption videos in an effort to reach more viewers with hearing disabilities and language differences.

The number of captioned videos on YouTube… read more

6 Tips for Better Facebook Parenting

Monica Vila is co-founder of TheOnlineMom.com, an organization that provides technology education to families and helps moms connect with brands they can trust.

Recently, many people chimed in about the “Laptop Shooting Dad‘s” reaction to his 15-year-old daughter’s Facebook posts. Not only is the subject of social media parenting popular, but… read more

Build a Commenter Community with Disqus

I am a strong believer in the idea that no website would be successful without input from its visitors. After all, those are the website’s audience, and as such, have the biggest opinion on the sort of things that are posted because otherwise. Otherwise, why would they visit? If you’re… read more

Apple Wins a Treasure Trove of Multi-Touch Patents [VIDEO]

Call it a coincidence: The same day Apple issued invites to a press event to reveal the next-gen iPad (and more?), the company was also awarded 24 patents by the U.S. Patent and Trademark office for its multi-touch tech.

The patents, revealed by Patently Apple, include the Magic Mouse’s… read more

Twitter Brings More Advertising to Mobile

Twitter is swiftly bringing more of its Promoted Products to its apps for iPhone, Android and the mobile web (m.twitter.com).

The short-messaging service announced Tuesday that it has updated its iPhone and Android apps to display Promoted Accounts.

Promoted Tweets in the timeline (pictured) will be introduced “in the coming weeks,” Twitter… read more

2012 US Election Campaign Logos – Who Will You Support?

2012 US Election Campaign Logos – Who Will You Support?

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Daily Inspiration #1069

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

WikiLeaks Release Shows U.S. May Charge Julian Assange [REPORT]

Nestled in Monday’s WikiLeaks cache of 5 million emails from security company Stratfor was a nugget of particular importance to the secret-sharing organization: An email that suggests the U.S. government has unreleased criminal charges against founder Julian Assange.

“Not for Pub — We have a sealed indictment on Assange. Pls protect,”… read more

Google Will Give $1 Million to Hackers Who Find Flaws in Chrome [VIDEO]

Google wants you to help find security flaws in its browser, Chrome — and the search giant is paying a handsome reward.

The company told attendees at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver next month they can get up to $1 million in cash and Chromebooks in exchange for… read more

Twitter Is Selling Your Old Tweets

Twitter has sold a bunch of old tweets to a firm called DataSift, which will analyze them for marketing purposes.

The Mail Online reports that DataSift is the first such company to get access to the tweets, which go back two years. Another 1,000-plus companies are on DataSift’s waiting list.

DataSift… read more