Dave and Carrie Kerpen started their marketing company, Likeable Media, after they created a buzz selling sponsorships to their New York wedding. They raised $100,000 for their wedding and $20,000 for a charity.
The couple, who both had marketing backgrounds, were asked by so many people “what’s next” after their… read more
A 16 year-old girl who was once deemed one of the youngest Microsoft Professionals in the world, is in critical condition after suffering cardiac arrest on Dec. 22.
Arfa Karim Randhawa, who received that recognition at age 9 after meeting Bill Gates, is currently on life support in a hospital in… read more
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Here’s a high-quality vector pack for our WDL Premium Members. The Tattered Scrolls Vector Pack is a must have for fans of the original scrolls pack. These scrolls range from the lightly used to the downright demolished. The pack has all sort of vectors to spice… read more
1. Networking via LED
Wi-Fi jammed? It won’t be a problem if you’re networking through your room lights. You… read more
SINGAPORE 2011 New Year Countdown by Kenny Teo
Fireworks over St. Paul Minnesota by Dan Anderson
Illuminations: Reflections of Earth by Matt Pasant
Blue Light Special by Neil Kremer
God Bless America by Moniza
Fireworks by Chisa
Fireworks by George L Smyth
Sydney 2009 New Year Eve Firework by Yury Prokopenko
Fireworks Display by John Brennan
Fireworks Bokeh… read more
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2011 has been Speckyboy’s best year yet in terms of growth. More great readers and followers, more great authors, more great sponsors. However, at the core is (hopefully) great content here on Speckyboy. And just to recap some of our best content, here are our… read more
As the new year beckons, resolution time is upon the masses once more. For those who are wishing that they can keep themselves more productive in 2012, we have put together a list of apps for all those Android users (who some readers have suggested we have been neglecting) to… read more
How to Create a Deus-Ex Inspired Photo Manipulation with Photoshop
Dec. 29 is also known as “Dump GoDaddy Day.” The initiative to move domains hosted with GoDaddy to other domain registrars was spurred on by reddit user “SelfProdigy,” in the wake of GoDaddy’s public support for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
Even though GoDaddy has since reversed course, the company… read more
The New York TImes Magazine has scoured the web for the final tweets of some of 2011′s biggest personalities and avid tweeters who died this past year.
The magazine features tweets from actress Elizabeth Taylor, war photographer Tim Hetherington, Indy Racer Dan Wheldon, saxophonist Clarence Clemons and more.
Social media is often… read more
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
Would you be more likely to stick with your New Years resolutions if they were printed on balloons and set free in the Middle Eastern sky? Thanks to a festive marketing campaign from HP, you now have the opportunity to find out.
HP is printing tweets about New Year wishes on… read more
Where does the world’s largest collection of Apple-related history live? In a fascinating archive owned and operated by Stanford University.
But good luck actually finding the trove of hardware, software, recorded interviews, revealing documents, candid photos and internal videos. Everything… read more
Since 2011 is just about to end so we though, this would be the perfect time to showcase some of the best fonts that we have seen in 2011 lately. In this collection, we have gathered 50 latest free fonts from 2011 that can truly enhance your designs. We all… read more
Social media continued to thrive in 2011 as it fomented revolutions in Egypt, Libya and Bahrain. But investors appeared to be a lot less enthralled.
Looking back over the 19 social media IPOs of 2011, Kevin Pleines — an analyst with Birinyi Associates, a stock market research firm — found new… read more
What do you do after your site grows to 800 million users and expands to 1 trillion pageviews per month? Why, plan a $100 billion IPO, of course!
Going public is clearly the biggest thing on tap for Facebook in 2012, but the world’s most populated social network and its users… read more
Dust off your old and beat up records, there might just be a way to get them to sing again. Scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Library have managed to coax sound out of 125-year-old recordings using 3D optical scanning technology.
Best of all, those records come from Alexander Graham Bell’s Volta… read more
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Targeting unique CSS styles is a simple process based around media queries. Web designers have been using these techniques for years to much success. Yet in just a short couple of years recently stylesheets have grown in tremendous popularity. Now more than ever it’s important to… read more
One of the biggest problems that web designers face is to select a screen resolution for their style. Those days are gone when there were only two resolutions 800×600 and 1024×768. Today there are millions of devices with different screen resolutions which are used to browse the internet. In this… read more
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Some of the best and brightest trends we’ve seen this year (2011) in web design include responsive web design, single page scrolling websites, the proliferation of slide shows and sliders, the spread of font replacement and parallax scrolling. Some of these new trends may be… read more
Link building is the process of getting other websites to link to your website to promote popularity and other benefits throughout the online world. Link building is one of the core tasks of SEO. It not only helps promote popularity among users, but also contributes to the website’s ranking in… read more
Cognitive Dissonance and The Choice Paradox
Cogni-Huh What-O-Nance?
A powerful cause of dissonance is an idea in conflict with a fundamental element of the self-concept, such as “I am a good person” or “I made the right decision”. The anxiety that comes with the possibility of having made a bad decision can… read more
Tablets and smartphones have homescreens filled with apps, while more traditional computers have start menus or docs or search tools to find the apps you need. With web apps, though, it seems the best way for most of us to find apps is with random links in our bookmarks or… read more
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
Internet shoppers were happy with Amazon and disappointed in Netflix this holiday season, according to a study released Wednesday.
In an annual index of ecommerce sites’ customer satisfaction by analytics firm ForeSee, Amazon’s performance improved while Netflix’s plunged after the two… read more
Regardless of whether you ever subscribed to home delivery of The New York Times, you may have received an email on Wednesday that offered to give you a deal if you re-subscribe.
Although some of the email’s more than 8 million recipients and members of the paper’s staff have suggested… read more
Startups have an inherently predictive quality. As the innovation engines of the economy, what startups figured out in 2011 will likely appear on other sectors’ trend lists in 2012.
And if it doesn’t, it will be replaced quickly. For instance, in 2011 group messaging both took off — with more new… read more
According to a recent study by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, 47.7% of women believe they are capable of starting a business compared to 62.1% of men. This lack of confidence persisted throughout all economies and cultures that were included in the study.
So what gives? Let’s delve into the issue… read more
There are plenty of ways to manage a website, from home-baked content management systems to established juggernauts like WordPress and ExpressionEngine, from free solutions like Tumblr to paid services like Squarespace. You could roll your own HTML and CSS based static site, or cook up a fully responsive site based… read more
If you’ve got a design ready for printing, try the business cards card stock quality offered by UPrinting.com! We mention this because we heard they have a 20% discount on business card printing until January 31, 2012, and we thought that might help you save some.
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TwitPic Business Card Design… read more
Placeholder: An Important Attribute Among HTML5 Attributes
People predicted rioting when Twitter decided to post ads within its feeds. However, those protests never materialized. Instead, Twitter was used to mobilize protests in the streets in Egypt, Yemen and Tunesia.
The two instances are related. As Twitter became a globally recognized entity, it also began efforts to monetize itself… read more
When sitting down for a job interview at a top U.S. tech company, you’d typically expect the interviewer to hammer you with questions testing your abilities, past history and knowledge of the company. You wouldn’t think it was the time or the place to start exploring solutions to world hunger,… read more
Google began positioning its new flight-finding feature at the top of general search results for airline booking information earlier this month. And its new competitors in the $110 billion online travel industry aren’t happy about the search giant crashing the party, according to a Tuesday Wall Street Journal report.
The… read more
Google has officially unveiled YouTube Slam, an interactive video-discovery tool that randomly spits out two videos at time for one-on-one battles. Public voting determines the winners.
YouTube Slam is designed to get users to stumble upon content they might not otherwise see while surfing the site.
YouTube describes Slam as a “place… read more
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
2012 promises to be a very busy year in all things digital, but, as with any annum, there will be just a handful of big, memorable trends. Here, I’ve collected five such movements that are likely to make a big impact in our technologically-enhanced lives.
Augmented Reality
It’s now in games,… read more
Thanks to all of the participants of contest in which Rounded Corner Business Cards Giveaway From Next Day Flyers were givingaway. We ran the MySQL random query and selected these comments to give them Rounded Corner Business Cards From Next Day Flyers.
Winners of Rounded Corner Business Cards From Next Day… read more
The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.
Name: Vocal
Quick Pitch: Control and dictate to your Mac computer using your voice.
Genius Idea: Vocal responds to… read more
Online lotteries and poker may be poised to become legal thanks to a new decision by the Justice Department reinterpreting the Wire Act of 1961.
The decision, written in September but made public last Friday, found the Act’s prohibition of wagers via telecommunications crossing state lines or international borders refers only… read more
Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. Today, we’re looking at three particularly interesting stories.
Company Sues Former Employee for Value of Lost Followers
Noah Kravitz left his former employer PhoneDog in October… read more
As a young creative, I had dreams of being famous. I wanted to be admired, loved and I suppose part of that was also for revenge on my more obnoxious classmates. Is that shocking? Ask yourself if you were any different? Ask yourself if you still feel that way. You… read more
A few days ago, a tutorial on how to Create A Christmas Wish List With PHP was published on Smashing Magazine’s Coding section that frustrated me. It frustrated me as it was incredibly easy to predict the comment reactions it caused. It also frustrated me as it was a classic… read more
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Last week we showed you examples of white usage in web design and today, for our last web design inspiration post of the year, we decided to show you some examples of colorful websites. We will show you how colors can give your design a nice… read more
Some of you may have missed the news in all of the hustle and bustle of the holidays, but Adobe released Lightroom 3.6. There’s some new overall camera support as well as some new lens profiles too. There’s also some minor bug fixes. The best thing to do is check… read more
Which SSB is Your Favorite?
Site-specific browsers (SSBs) are web browsers that allow you to focus on specific sites. The benefit is that you can easily turn web applications like Gmail and Facebook into a neatly wrapped app that sits in your dock. This separates these apps out from your… read more
Best HTML5 Sites of the Week December 25th 2011
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
Fonts Used In Logo of Popular Websites (Part 2)
Noah Kravitz left his former employer PhoneDog in October 2010 on good terms. Now the company is suing him for $340,000 for the 17,000 followers he kept after he left the the position, valuing each follower at $2.50 per month over… read more
Interview with Underwater Photographer Dmitry Miroshnikov
jQuery is one of the most accepted JavaScript library that possesses an enormous collection of plugins which makes it even more powerful. On the other hand, there is a good deal of additional codes or modules, from simple alert functions to multifaceted galleries or form validation methods, that are hard-coded… read more
If you’ve recently purchased or been gifted a Kindle Fire, congratulations! You’re now the owner of one of the best tablets on the market, in our opinion.
SEE ALSO: Amazon Kindle Fire, iPad’s First True Competitor [REVIEW]
Now it’s time to begin taking advantage of your device, courtesy of our handy little… read more
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In this roundup we have collected 44 outstanding photoshop tutorials. Enjoy these over your holiday!
Design a creative portfolio in Photoshop
How to create a colorful business web layout
Create A Detailed Solid Dark Layout In Photoshop
How to create a One-Page Website Design in Adobe… read more
Sometime in the future, Apple devices such as the iPhone, iPad and MacBook might work longer than ever on a smaller and lighter battery pack. How is this possible? By using hydrogen fuel cells, which convert oxygen and hydrogen into water, heat and electricity.
The US Patent & Trademark Office has… read more
Navigation menus are a very important part of every website design. First and foremost, they help direct visitors to the main areas of your website, regardless of what page they are viewing on your website. They also point search engine robots in the right direction (though some flashy navigation menus… read more
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
How to Customize Genesis WordPress Theme
The Beauty Of Snowy Weather in 30 Stunning photos
Take a look at this Christmas music video by songwriter Bobby Smith, starring his wife Kelley and himself in a dancetastic musicale that takes Christmas videomaking to a whole new level.
Pay special attention to the audio track, and you’ll realize that this is not just any amateur cranking out… read more
Hanson Hosein is the Director of the Master of Communication in Digital Media at the University of Washington. He’s written Storyteller Uprising: Trust & Persuasion in the Digital Age, and the host of Four Peaks on UWTV and has advised Microsoft, CVS Caremark and MasterCard on digital media storytelling strategies.
As… read more
View engaging conference lectures, interesting how to discussions, and high quality freelance advice via video here on FreelanceSwitch.
This week we look at Philippe Starck Thinks Deep on Design by Philippe Starck. In this video Philippe Starck, With no pretty slides to show — Stark spends 18 minutes reaching for… read more
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It has been an amazing 2011 for Speckyboy. This was our first full year of daily publishing, we expanded our categories to cover almost all aspects of design from the web and mobile design to graphic design, from freebies and resources, from opinion pieces to… read more
20 Amazing Bike Logo Designs – Fastest Logo
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
As the Holiday Season is upon us, the Toad has been very busy compiling this weeks list of tutorials, great photography and interesting blogs to share with everyone. This final post of 2011 is filled with great works by some truly great photographers and artists, and the Toad hopes you… read more
Free Party Flyer Template with PSD (Set #4)
Jacob E. Goldman — founder Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center, the widely admired hub of innovation that developed many keystones to modern computing — died Tuesday in Westport, Conn.
Goldman was 90 years old and died of congestive heart failure, according to news reports.
A physicist by training, Goldman was Xerox’s… read more
Over the course of 2011, we witnessed social media and location-based services really take off for small businesses — the mom and pop shops of the world continued to get more digital and more mobile.
As this year wraps up, we look back at the technological advancements that small businesses have… read more
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
Admit it, you’ve always wanted to be an action star. I mean, who wouldn’t want to effortlessly dodge flying cars, helicopters and missiles? Now, thanks to action auteur J.J. Abrams’s new free app, Action Movie FX, and a little help from… read more
This year, the world mourned the loss of technology icon Steve Jobs. But we didn’t just lose one tech luminary in 2011, we bid goodbye to a wave of the first pioneers in technology. From computer sales to software programming, the digital world that thrives today would not have existed… read more
Steve Jobs will go down in history as one of the greatest tech innovators that ever lived, but according to a letter written by a Silicon Valley advertising executive back in 1976, he was a “joker.”
The letter — now archived at… read more
Photoshop is a well-liked web design instrument. With it, you can generate web design mock-ups that can later on be transformed to a practical and efficient HTML / CSS template. In today’s collection of tutorials, we are featuring some top-notch techniques on how to generate your own web design layouts… read more
Facebook still has a long way to go when it comes to instilling trust in consumers, according to a new study that shows only 26% believe storefronts on the social network are safe against fraud.
The online survey, conducted by ThreatMetrix and The Ponemon Institute of a pool of 800 consumers… read more
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Back in May, Theme Trust hired it’s first support team member, who has worked out perfectly. However, since that time we’ve ran into a little problem…our sales have nearly doubled. Okay, I suppose that isn’t really a problem, but it does mean a busier support forum…. read more
Web standards are an ever-evolving entity, with new syntax and functions being added all the time. The buzzwords of the year are HTML5 and CSS3, evolutions of the already-existing languages that most people are familiar with. Unfortunately, getting a function added to the standards is only half the battle; you… read more
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The search engine is our best tool for sifting through all of today’s websites. There are billions of domains online and many of them haven’t even been crawled by search engines! Google is certainly the pioneer of this industry. But over the years we have… read more
Weekly Fresh Web Design Freebies – Vol. 22 (12-21-2011)
The idea in this series is to show beautiful and inspiring houses. Houses that are remarkable for its design, elegance, elements, concept or simply because they are beautiful. So if you like architecture, interior design and beautifully designed houses, you are at the right spot. Check out this week beautiful… read more
When Research In Motion (RIM) announced that BlackBerry 10 devices would be delayed until late 2012, co-CEO Mike Lazaridis blamed the delay on needing to wait for dual-core, dual-mode LTE chipsets.
Early Thursday, Boy Genius Report refuted that story. Citing an unnamed “high-level RIM employee,” BGR said that the real… read more
Robert Laing is the founder of myGengo, a 500 Startups company that helps businesses all over the world go global with convenient, affordable and high quality human translation service that scales.
Let’s delve into the topic of website localization to learn exactly what every company needs before going global. But first,… read more
GoDaddy is one of more than a hundred companies catching flak online for supporting the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Many website operators have threatened to move their domains away from GoDaddy, and Y Combinator founder Paul Graham has said… read more
How To Model a Mig 29 UB Fighter Jet in 3D Studio Max 2012
Art of use Typography In Logo Design : 50 Stunning Examples
Ever since Twitter unveiled its first Twitter-branded version of TweetDeck, there have been complaints about the Twitter dashboard’s stability and overall performance. Now Twitter is finally rolling out TweetDeck 1.1 for the desktop, as well as an update to the Web-based Chrome version.
There is some irony in TweetDeck’s 1.1 status…. read more
When you purchased your Mac, you probably wanted the best web browser offered, whether it be Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, or some other worthy candidate. After all, quality hardware should also contain quality software. There has been much controversy on what truly is the best browser available for a Mac…. read more
Roy Taylor is a GM and EVP at Hollywood-based MasterImage 3D. You can follow him on Twitter @Roy_Masterimage.
There’s a lot of discussion these days about the viability of 3D and what the future holds for it.
Is it a gimmick? A trend? Or is it the next great frontier in… read more