This Week in the Digital Photography School Forums (14-20 Feb ‘10)

Weekly Assignment

We continued our month of food photography this month with our Fruits and Vegetables Assignment. The goal was to progress on what you learned in the Desserts Assignment and apply it to fruits and vegetables to make them look just as appetizing. Well, you guys really did well. This… read more

Best of the Week #107

It’s time for our best news of this week, the first one of 2010. 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… read more

Google Buzz Makes Popular Users Less Overwhelming

The Google Buzz team made changes today that prevent popular postings from overwhelming your inbox – that’s good news if you follow popular feeds like the Mashable Google Buzz account.

The problem: since Google Buzz pushes items into your inbox whenever new comments are left after yours, popular postings can… read more

Hollrr: Foursquare for Product Reviews

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.

Name: Hollrr

Quick Pitch: Hollrr is Foursquare… read more

Australian Broadcasting Corporation wants to be on the iPad

Why? They’re convinced the iPad is a whole new outlet for content consumption. They aim to use the iPad to “bring about a very different relationship with our readers than other platforms,” and their head of strategic development says the iPad could create a whole new category of mobile content…. read more

Daily Inspiration #437

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

Macworld 2010: A few more video tidbits

It’s hard to believe that it’s been a week since I left Macworld Expo 2010 to head home. Last night, I finally went through the last snippets of video from the Expo and put together this short compendium of three interviews.

The first company I talked to was Telnic.org,… read more

iPhone accessories from Toy Fair 2010

<p.com is one of my favorite sites on the entire Internet — not only do they offer some great deals, and not only are they witty folks, but they're from my original hometown of St. Louis, MO. They recently went to the Toy Fair 2010, and in their roundup of… read more

Ask TUAW: Key remapping in Boot Camp, iPad tethering, file-sharing with a media extender, and more

As always, your suggestions and questions are welcome. Leave your questions for next week in the comments section at the end of this post. When asking a question, please include which machine you’re using and what version of Mac OS X is installed on it (we’ll assume you’re running Snow… read more

Notational Velocity, Simplenote, and Dropbox bring child-like wonder

<p had heard about Notational Velocity when Merlin Mann posted about it on 43Folders. It changed how I use my iMac, MacBookPro, and iPhone, bringing them all together in a very cool way.

The app has been around for awhile (we talked about it five years ago!) but some… read more

Macworld 2010: Hangman RSS from Fingerarts

We met many developers and tried many apps while at Macworld Expo last week. Among the more entertaining was Hangman RSS from Fingerarts.

Developer Luigi, a self-professed “news junkie,” visited the booth to tell us about his company’s latest app. It starts with the classic game of hangman… read more

Couple marries at 5th Avenue Apple Store on Valentine’s Day

We’ve seen robberies at Apple Stores before, we’ve seen kids rapping and we’ve even seen death threats, but I don’t know that I’ve ever heard of a wedding in an Apple Store. That’s what newlyweds Ya Ting Li and Joshua Li decided to do at midnight in the Fifth Avenue… read more

Friday Fresh Free Fonts #36

I will be posting some fresh free fonts every Friday, yes I know it’s awesome. I will look forward to bring a lot of great fonts that will sure help you improve your typography work. Check out what I selected for you on the FFFF#36 and make sure to comeback… read more

60+ Latest High-Quality Free WordPress Themes

WordPress! is an award-winning CMS, which enables you to build Blogs, Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made WordPress the most popular blog software available. Best of all, WordPress is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.

There are… read more

Free Grunge Styles and Resources

Today we are glad to release five grunge styles for Adobe Photoshop. These styles were designed by the german Photoshop artist Dirk Metzmacher and released especially for Noupe and its readers, including resources for textures, fonts and brushes.

You can load styles with the style palette. In case this window isn’t… read more

Steve Jobs visits Wall Street Journal, trashes Flash again

Click the “read more” link to see some more tidbits from the meeting and some analysis of the remarks.

It bears noting once again that none of these quotes are confirmed, direct quotes from Jobs, but rather hearsay from others purportedly present at the meeting. That having been… read more

App Store categories get browser pages

<pe has apparently taken another step towards bringing iTunes to the browser, as you can now browse actual categories of the iTunes store right in regular HTML rather than having to click over into iTunes. There's still no support for television or movies, but you can dive in from categories… read more

A Collection of “Coming Soon” Web Pages

“Coming soon” pages are a great way for websites to engage and connect with visitors, even before the actual site is published.

A well designed “coming soon” page is a great teaser to grab the attention of potential visitors and make them look forward to the website’s launch.

These pages usually… read more

Meerkat 1.5 automatically reconnects your SSH Tunnels

<p've known about SSH tunnels for a long time, but I've never been able to get them working. The concept is simple enough: a SSH connection is formed between two computers, allowing for secure access between them. (For more, see SSH: Tunneling Explained.)

What would you use a SSH tunnel for?… read more

NAND flash memory supplies constrained (again)

iSuppli predicts Apple will ship in excess of 33 million iPhones this year with an average capacity of 35.2 GB of NAND flash memory — consistent with a doubling of capacities across the line. 2010 sales estimates for the iPad range from 4 million units and up, and the iPod… read more

Calculate the Cost of Wasteful Meetings With MEETorDIE

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.

Name: MEETorDIE.com

Quick Pitch: Have you ever been invited… read more

School Accused of Secretly Spying on Students Through Laptop Webcams

File under: “Extremely Creepy” — BoingBoing reports that a recent case filing in Robbins vs. Lower Merion School District, a Pennsylvania school, is a class action suit on behalf of students with school-issued laptops whose webcams have been used to watch the students and their families at home.

It was… read more

Can E-readers and Tablets Save the News?

Sales are robust for e-readers and there is no shortage of tablets yet to launch, including the new Apple iPad. But will strong sales translate into a boost for the media industry?

If media organizations do it right, the potential could be there for e-readers and tablets to become… read more

Daily Inspiration #436

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

Ngmoco cancels Rolando 3, says it can’t fit into a free-to-play model

<p's some unfortunate news out of Ngmoco: The company tells IGN that while there was a Rolando 3 (the second sequel to the very popular and excellent rolling iPhone platformer) in progress, the game has been essentially canceled, and will never see release in its current form. Why? The second… read more

Keep your eyes on the Sun safely with free 3D Sun app

Activating the push feature provides instant notification of major solar activity.. Clicking on the app will give you detailed information, as well as a current picture of the surface of the sun provided by the NASA ‘Stereo’ satellites. You can rotate the view of the sun with your fingers, and… read more

Sony Ericsson Turned Down Opportunity to Build Google’s Nexus One

It’s common knowledge that HTC is the hardware provider for the Google Nexus One, but new statements by Sony Ericsson’s president indicate that electronics maker Sony Ericsson may have been approached first by Google.

Engadget is reporting that Bert Nordberg told a Swedish publisher that “his company was asked to… read more

Patent application hints at future of Magic Mouse

You can see the full application and even more images here. Of course, Apple patents many technologies that never see production.

The Magic Mouse became the first multi-touch mouse when it was released last year, replacing the Mighty Mouse and its temperamental scroll wheel. We’ll have to wait and… read more

Google Buzz: What is it Good For?

GMAIL USERS: We hope you’ll join the discussion over on Mashable’s Google Buzz account.

Google Buzz hasn’t been out of the tech headlines all week: from the excitement around its launch to subsequent fixes to address privacy concerns, the web has been abuzz about Buzz.

But what’s the place for Buzz… read more

Austin Pilot Left Disturbing Online Manifesto

If you’ve been following the news, you know that a plane intentionally crashed into an IRS building in Austin, Texas. While details surrounding this tragedy are still being discovered, it appears that the man who owned the plane, Joseph Andrew Stack, left an online manifesto detailing his decision. Stack… read more

5 Winning Corporate Social Good Campaigns

Geoff Livingston co-founded Zoetica to focus on cause-related work, and released an award-winning book on new media Now is Gone in 2007.

Companies on the social web are increasingly trying to create better relationships by doing good. These social media efforts have created incredible new ways for companies to… read more

Shaun White Olympics 2010 Video in Hot Demand [VIDEO]

After capturing the Olympic crowd in his athletic thrall, gold medal-winning snowboarder Shaun White has snagged the attention of Internet lurkers as well, as coverage of his award-winning run as well as signature epic trick has gone viral.

After snagging the gold (and defending his 2006 title) in… read more

The Many Faces of Nazaury Delgado

Nazaury Delgado is a digital artist from the Bronx who uses Photoshop to create evocative and surreal images.

He begins the process with a photograph of himself or others, which he then overlays with another photo collage. The entire composition is then faded together to make the final product.

Delgado is nineteen… read more

Photoshop Prepares to Turn 20

Tomorrow Adobe Photoshop turns 20. While birthday celebrations for software might seem kind of silly, for a program like Photoshop — which has literally become a verb and has had a huge impact on the world of photography and graphic design — the partying seems justified.

Adobe is going all-out… read more

Regulators Approve Microsoft-Yahoo Search Deal

The Microsoft-Yahoo deal, which will ultimately see Bing’s search technology power Yahoo’s search results, has been approved by regulators.

According to a statement put out by the two companies this morning, both U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission have given the green light to the alliance.

First announced in… read more

Macworld 2010: Steve Shepard of Storyist

Last year we reviewed Storyist, the software for writers. It’s a great app that lets you manage all aspects of a writing project, like plot points, research, characters and more. Once you’re done writing, you can export to many popular file formats, as well as prepare your document for an… read more

Win 1 of 3 Sets of 500 Die Cut Business Cards from Uprinting.com

This week, three of our lucky readers will have the chance to win one a set of 500 Die Cut Business Cards courtesy of Uprinting.com.
All you will have to do for a chance to win is to leave a comment below describing what you would use the free business… read more

Apple’s obsessive secrecy hurting relations with overseas suppliers

A new report from Reuters offers more insight into Apple’s cloak and dagger world. Confidentiality agreements are only the beginning when it comes to Apple’s tactics with its overseas suppliers. Apple contacts suppliers at the last minute, often only weeks before a product’s release, and provides information about its products… read more

Amazon Launches a Kindle App for BlackBerry

Amazon has launched a Kindle application for BlackBerry that lets customers purchase and read e-books.

Just like the company’s application for iPhone and iPod touch, if you already have a Kindle, you’re able to sync the BlackBerry app with it, meaning information like the last page you were on is… read more

35 Useful jQuery Plugins for Slideshows, Graphs and Text Effects

By Angel Wardriver

jQuery can empower a developer with the tools required to create a rich user experience. The way in which we display images, text, charts and graphs can enhance functionality for the wide range of users. Let’s take a look at 35 powerful and effective jQuery plugins and techniques… read more

50 Useful Coding Techniques (CSS Layouts, Visual Effects and Forms)

Although CSS is generally considered a simple and straightforward language, sometimes it requires creativity, skill and a bit of experimentation. The good news is that designers and developers worldwide often face similar problems and choose to share their insights and workarounds with the wider community.

This is where we come in…. read more

The E-book Price War Isn’t Over Yet

As Apple announced its iPad and iBookstore, there was a shift of momentum in the book publishing industry. Amazon’s strategy for selling e-books on the Kindle was to sell them at a discounted price, such as $9.99, but Apple, somewhat surprisingly, announced higher book prices for titles bought through… read more

10 Simple and Light Weight CMS Solutions

Choosing the right content management system can be an overwhelming task for a web designer or developer. There are so many available, all with different features, it can be difficult to decide which is the best solution for a particular web project. For complex websites, a fully featured CMS is… read more

Macworld Expo: Jim Rea talks about the early days of Mac development

Jim was kind enough to share some of his memories from the early years, and update us on the soon-to-ship Panorama version 6. Both videos are in the continuation of this post.Part 1:

Part 2:

TUAWMacworld Expo: Jim Rea talks about the early days of Mac… read more

Sarah Palin Disses Twitter, Calls It “Little Twittering Thing”

Oh no she didn’t! The former Alaska governor and vice presidential hopeful disparaged the popular social network during a Republican Party activist and Tea Party movement event in Arkansas yesterday.

When asked what she felt the greatest threat to America is currently, audience members in the crowd piped up with… read more

TUAW Exclusive: Aaron Patzer on the future of mobile finance, Mint.com, and Quicken on the Mac

<phe age of twenty-six, Aaron Patzer founded the financial website Mint.com. In many ways Mint was much like an Apple product: it had a simple interface, it was easy to understand and use, and many of Mint's early adopters became very loyal evangelists. Word of mouth spread, and just 18… read more

Steve Jobs featured in Icons art exhibit, wins award at MWC

<pSteveness was honored twice recently. First, he showed up in a piece of art featured in a New York exhibit. "Icons" is a set of portraits that shows off Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, and of course our own iCEO. The art itself… read more

Apple to use Fairplay for iBooks DRM?

Of course, we still don’t know what kind of implementation they’ll use on the iBooks store, but remember that FairPlay limits iTunes content to five different accounts, so if you happen to have more than six people in your house, they may not all be able to have their own… read more

4 Terrific Tools for Creating Business Web Forms

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

Web forms can be a great asset on your business site. They let you collect pertinent data and contact information from your visitors without exposing your… read more

Google Acquires Mobile E-mail Utility reMail

Google’s massive acquiring spree marches forward today. The newest company to be enveloped by the search giant? reMail, an app that provides advanced e-mail search capabilities for the iPhone. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Founder and CEO Gabor Cselle announced the acquisition on his blog… read more

Daily Inspiration #435

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

Google Goggles to Translate Text in Photos

At the Mobile World Congress, Google CEO Eric Schmidt showed off a new prototype of Google Goggles — Google’s experimental Android visual search application — that can translate text captured in photos.

The prototype uses Google’s machine translation technology and image recognition capabilities to create an additional layer… read more

Apple offering free hard drive replacements for certain MacBooks

<p The following models are covered: The 13-inch MacBook, 13-inch, Late 2006 model and the 13-inch, Mid 2007 MacBook (black and white).
You must be able to prove that you've got a dead hard drive.
Customers who paid for a HDD replacement on one… read more

4 Steps for Managing Social Media Attention

Soren Gordhamer is the organizer of the Wisdom 2.0 Conference, which brings together staff from Google, Facebook, and Twitter with others to explore living wisely in our modern age. Mashable readers can use code ‘Mashable‘ for a discount when registering.

There have never been more things that call out for… read more

3 Tesla Motors Employees Killed in Palo Alto Plane Crash

It has been confirmed that the three passengers aboard the plane that crashed in Palo Alto earlier today were executives at electric car maker Tesla Motors.

Fox News has confirmed that Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who also co-founded PayPal, was not aboard the plane. The company has not released an… read more

How to Code up a Web Design from PSD to HTML

How to Code up a Web Design from PSD to HTML

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Augmented Reality Tattoo Makes Your Skin Come Alive [VIDEO]

We’ve seen some interesting augmented reality experiments emerging, from shoes as game controllers to music videos to recursive iPhones. But how about AR as a form of body art? A company called ThinkAnApp has made that possible with an augmented reality tattoo.

The tattoo’s design is simply a square barcode… read more

1Password on your iPad

<phe design looks great to me, and I especially like the main toolbar with its recessed icons. The developers (and their graphic designer) appear to be taking the new form factor into consideration and generating a very usable interface. I'm really looking forward to getting my hands on the iPad… read more

Palo Alto Plane Crash Takes Out Power at Facebook

Facebook is currently suffering from a power outage at its Palo Alto home office, and the outage appears to be linked to a small but fatal plane crash that occurred earlier this morning.

Per local news outlets, a twin-engine Cessna with three people on board crashed into transmission lines 377… read more

15 Highly-Useful Resources for Cross Browser Testing

Browser testing is one of the parts of the design and development process that is necessary but never really enjoyable. With the number of browsers and operating systems that are available, it can be a very time-consuming process to test your website in the environments of visitors. There are a… read more

Blast from the Past: Vintage Technologies That We No Longer Use

Most of the technologies that we have used in the past have been eclipsed by the remarkable technology that we use today.

Advances in their design have occurred in tandem with the advances in technology in this digital era, with many large products being redesigned and miniaturized into amazingly small sizes.

While… read more

Google Open-Sources its Experimental News Format

In December Google launched the Living Stories Google Labs project (in conjunction with The New York Times and The Washington Post) to experiment with the format of online news delivery. Today, Google is open-sourcing the technology and making it available to all publishers.

As it stands, Living Stories presents topic-based… read more

Acrobat, Adobe Reader & Flash updated for critical security fixes

The first flaw is related to a Flash Player issue that was revealed last week; if you have not updated Flash to the latest version (10.0.45.2 as of this moment, see your version & current versions here) & you aren’t blocking Flash, you should go get the latest build right… read more

7 Superb Social Plugins for WordPress

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

If you use WordPress for your website or blog, there are lots of ways you can connect it to social media, and connect social media to your site via those nifty… read more

Plan Multi-Stop Trips With Route4Me

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.

Name: Route4Me

Quick Pitch: Route4Me is a… read more

30 Brilliant Websites So Smart in Organizing Design Elements

30 Brilliant Websites So Smart in Organizing Design Elements

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Showcase of Tourism Website Designs

By Cameron Chapman

Tourism websites can be a tricky beast. For some areas, where there are very specific attractions, designing their site can be simple. But for areas that have a host of attractions that appeal to many different kinds of people, it can be difficult to design a site that’s… read more

75 Mind-Blowing Examples of Concept Art

Concept art is the ideas visually presented to anyone in the form of drawings, paintings, quick sketches, sculptures, thumbnails, and any type of art that defines the purpose or attempts to explain the meaning. This is a relatively new designation popularized by artists working in the automobile and video games… read more

Group Interview: Expert Advice For Students and Young Web Designers

Our readers have requested that Smashing Magazine conduct an interview with industry leaders on issues that are relevant to students and those just starting off in their design career. With the help of our panel of 16 designers, we’ll dispense advice that should help new designers get their career off to… read more

40 Detailed and High Quality Mobile Phone .psd Source Files

.psd source files are truly amazing and unique resources – not only do they showcase the talents of the artist, but they also offer the opportunity to dig deeper and discover how they were created. They give you the chance to learn, unlike tutorials which are step-by-step, with a .psd… read more

55+ Simply Stunning Fractal Artworks

Today we are featuring Fractal art, which is one of the emerging and trendy forms of digital art. Fractals are usually uneven shapes that are not defined by objects when we use definable by traditional geometry. It’s getting popular because of its feature like fine structure at randomly small scales,… read more

Street Fighter IV coming to iPhone

<p wondered before just how a fighting game on the iPhone would work, and now I'm going to find out: Capcom has announced that they're releasing the latest Street Fighter game (they're up to IV now) on the iPhone. You can see how it works over at IGN — there's… read more

Daily Inspiration #434

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

Google Buzz Prompts Privacy Investigation in Canada

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada – the same office that prompted major changes at Facebook – is taking a closer look at the privacy implications of Google Buzz. According to CBC News, the office may issue further comment on Wednesday.

With Facebook, the privacy commissioner was… read more

Shazam adds Last.FM integration to iPhone apps

Unfortunately, reviews for the paid version say that the app still includes ads (a weird choice for a paid app), and there are a few reviews that even say the app crashes occasionally (though I’ve never experienced the problem of it not finding a song for me — even with… read more

Top 6 Myths About MMS Debunked

James Citron is CEO and Co-Founder of Mogreet, the worldʼs first mobile video marketing platform. The digital entrepreneur has more than a decade of experience in the mobile industry with a proven track record for introducing successful, cutting-edge technology into the global marketplace. Follow him at @jamescitron.

While it has… read more

RIM Shows Off Much Faster BlackBerry Browser [VIDEO]

The BlackBerry Browser often gets dinged for its slow performance and for stumbling through sites containing a lot of JavaScript. However, it stands to see a marked improvement reasonably soon, if RIM’s Mobile World Congress demonstration has any indication.

The new browser is based on WebKit, the layout engine that’s… read more

How to Plan, Show and Promote a Photography Exhibit

In this post Lisa Newton from Travelin’ Local shares some tips on planning, showing and promoting a photography exhibit.

I’m sure most, if not all of us, at one time or another have attended an art or other exhibit at a museum or art gallery that features photographs in an exhibition–artistic… read more

Savant: iPad to “Redefine home automation”

In an interview with Electronic House, Savant president Jim Carroll called the device’s release a “…watershed moment.” He also confirmed that his company is working on an iPad app, including some “pretty cool” plans for the device’s large screen.

For now, home automation can be expensive, but Carroll believes… read more

This Weeks Twitter Design News Roundup N.24

This is our weekly Twitter Design News Round-Up, a collection of fresh design related resources that we have shared via Twitter in the past week.
Just in case you are not one of our Twitter followers, click here: twitter.com/speckyboy.
As always, if you have any cool links that you would… read more

340,000 Facebook Fans Want Betty White to Host SNL

A Facebook fan page set up to persuade Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels to let Golden Girls star Betty White host the show has officially become a phenomenon.

White recently re-entered the pop culture consciousness after appearing in a popular Super Bowl Snickers commercial and in the… read more

7 Things to Consider for Social Media in the Enterprise

Lon S. Cohen is a freelance writer and is @obilon on Twitter. He’s also the Director of Communications at @ALSofGNY. This post was co-authored by Steve Cohen, who is the Founder of Baywood Consulting Group and the former CIO of M&T Bank. He can be contacted at baywoodconsultinggroup@gmail.com.

Marketing… read more

Vodafone To Sell Sub-$15 Phone in Developing Countries

British carrier Vodafone has just unveiled a pair of ultra cheap mobile devices — starting at below $15 — that it will sell unsubsidized to customers in developing markets in India, Turkey and Africa.

The Vodafone 150 and 250 handsets will retail for less than $15 and $20 respectively. While… read more

How To Create A Vintage Camera in Photoshop

In this Photoshop tutorial, we’ll reproduce a fairly old camera: a Halina Super 35X.

We’ll use various tools and techniques to create a vintage camera from scratch, from the basic Marquee Tools (to create simple shapes) to the Brush Tool (for highlights and shadows).

The tutorial has 23 steps,… read more

It’s Official: Skype Calling Coming to Verizon Smartphones

On Saturday, we reported on rumors that Verizon and Skype would be announcing a partnership deal at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Well, it’s official. The two companies are announcing what they call a “strategic relationship that will bring Skype to Verizon Wireless smartphones in March.”

Here’s… read more

Creative Button Animations with Sprites and JQuery (Part 2: CSS, XHTML, JQuery)

In Part 1 of this tutorial, you designed a button sprite that will be coded with HTML, CSS, and JQuery in this part of the tutorial.

If you do not want to complete part one of this tutorial, you can download the source files created in that lesson here.

Step 1 –… read more

Creative Button Animations with Sprites and JQuery (Part 1: Photoshop)

This tutorial will show you how to build creative hover animations for buttons using sprites. The particular effect illustrated in this tutorial is inspired by the “Download” buttons on Tutorial9.net. Part 1 of this tutorial explains the design process in Photoshop. In Part 2 we will convert it to XHTML… read more

Creating A Quality WordPress Theme: 12 Points to Consider

By Cameron Chapman

Many designers enjoy creating WordPress themes. And creating a theme isn’t that difficult if you have a basic grasp of CSS and can follow directions (WordPress’s Codex has extensive documentation). But that doesn’t mean that every designer out there who can create a theme has created a good… read more

Acrylic Paintings by Ryan Jacob Smith

Portland-based artist, Ryan Jacob Smith explores themes of environmental consciousness and the human body in his acrylic paintings. He is a graduate, with honors, from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California (2001), and incorporates much of his Orange County upbringing in the street culture style of his work…. read more

Everplay: Your Lightweight iTunes Alternative

When iTunes was first introduced, it was lean, trim, and efficient. It was focused and to the point. However, as the version number has grown, iTunes now manages, plays, and purchases your movies, TV shows, music, and podcasts.

It’s a mammoth of an application, especially for those of us… read more

You Can Use CSS3 Right Now

CSS3 makes a designer’s work easier because they’re able to spend less time hacking their CSS and HTML code to work in IE and more time crafting their design. It is the future of web design and can be used today.

This article will hopefully show you to care a little… read more

Coming to an iBookstore near you: The authorized biography of Steve Jobs

Jobs told Wiley & Sons to halt publication of the unauthorized biography. Wiley & Sons refused to back down so Steve punished them by pulling every book by Wiley & Sons from all Apple retail stores. Talk about hitting someone where it hurts; some of Wiley & Sons’ biggest selling… read more

The Most Common HTML and CSS Mistakes to Avoid

Beginners through advanced coders make mistakes in their HTML and CSS files, either through carelessness or lack of experience. Clean code is very important though and will help further your skills as a developer, as well as save you time in editing later on! It never hurts to review if… read more

Steve Jobs to Collaborate on Authorized Biography [RUMOR]

Apple hasn’t officially commented yet, but according to the New York Times, Steve Jobs may finally cooperate on an authorized biography.

Other biographers have attempted to tell Mr. Jobs’s life story without his express involvement or even consent, prompting him to respond by yanking books by the same publishers from Apple… read more

The Youngest Speaker at TED Advocates “Kid’s Eye View” [INTERVIEW]

She’s a precocious learner, TED speaker, published author, and teacher of other kids. Twelve-year-old Adora Svitak talked to us for a few minutes about how she ended up at TED, what interests her in technology, and why she likes Twitter.

During her time on the stage at TED, Adora advocated a… read more

Google Plans to Add Filtering Improvements to Buzz

The Wall Street Journal reports that more changes are planned for Buzz in response to user feedback, including the option to block conversations and other filtering features.

Even as Buzz impressed some social media enthusiasts, it also angered some folks for various reasons — the most significant being that it’s a… read more

Why Social Media Means Big Opportunities for Women

Jessica Faye Carter is an award-winning author and columnist. Her company, Nette Media develops social media technologies for women and multicultural communities, and she blogs at Technicultr.

Women have firmly established their presence on the social web, and account for the majority of users on many popular social media sites. But… read more

Daily Inspiration #433

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

17 Google Chrome Extensions for Web Designers and Developers

Firefox is the browser of choice for most designers and developers in part because of the vast selection of add ons that are available. While Chrome does not offer anywhere close to as many extensions (yet), there are still a number that can be very handy for designers and developers…. read more

Malware Peddlers Look to Exploit Olympic Luge Tragedy

Being the rubberneckers that we are, interest in video of Nodar Kumaritashvili’s fatal luge accident at the Winter Olympics has remained high over the past few days, dominating Google Trends. But malware peddlers have quickly caught wind, and are using the video as an opportunity to spread malware to… read more