Touch sensitivity on gadgets and robots is nothing new. A few strategically placed sensors under a flexible, synthetic skin and you have pressure sensitivity. Add a capacitive, transparent screen to a device and you have touch sensitivity. However, Stanford University’s new “super skin” is something special: a thin, highly… read more
Lately we’ve witnessed the intersection of content and commerce, an emerging breed of retail site that features magazine-like editorials, photo spreads and inspiring video, all designed to instruct and, ultimately, sell a product.
We’ve identified three sites that best exemplify that model — sites that go beyond a side blog or… read more
Amazon is gearing up to introduce a new, HTML5-based ebook format called Kindle Format 8, the company announced Friday.
KF8 is an improvement over the current Mobi 7 standard, with new features that allow publishers to create richer formats and add more advanced design elements. The emphasis on visuals will play… read more
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
The Statue of Liberty will turn on four live streaming web cams Friday in celebration of her 125th birthday anniversary.
Four Torch Cams inside the flame will stream live views of Ellis Island, Governors Island, Liberty Island and the Freedom Tower, via World Webcams and will be available to the… read more
Google’s long-rumored music download service could launch within the next two weeks.
The music store will be an add-on to Google Music Beta, a free service that lets users upload and manage their existing music library in the cloud, “people familiar with the matter” have told The Wall Street Journal. Currently,… read more
It’s that time of the year, FOWD Future of Web Design is coming back to New York city and once again we did a giveaway to bring a luck winner to the event. The event will take place from November 7-9 in New York City and for those who don’t… read more
If content sits at the top of the food chain, why do we spend so much time talking about the finer points of design? Every day we debate, experiment with and discuss topics that easily fall into the category of aesthetics, enhanced functionality and layout; in fact, relatively rarely do… read more
Icons are the most adored component for any web design and keeping them simple yet attractive surely is the vision of every designer. Attractive and stylish icon sets are the plus point of any good web design. Innovative use of icon sets can simply make or break the entire look… read more
Time and time again, we mistake good decoration for good design. When we are looking for inspiration, we go to the same websites and the same showcases trying to get that added push necessary to create something we love. Now this isn’t a huge deal (especially if we are looking… read more
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The most popular topic of discussion at the moment is undoubtedly responsive layouts in web design. Without going discussing too much what you will already know, a responsive layout allows you to offer a specific and optimised screen size based on whatever device (mobile, tablet…)… read more
As you may have gathered from my recent posts, I have yet to upgrade to Lion on my personal MacBook Pro. But that doesn’t mean I don’t have my ways of playing with the new operating system (and the apps and utilities that are released for it). And let me… read more
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Navigation is certainly a very important part of web design and an important aspect to think about while designing a page. Today we gathered a few examples of navigation menus to show you. From clean and simple typography based menus to colorful and fixed positioned ones,… 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
I’m a bad man. I simply do not pay attention the way I used to. I do so many things that I promised myself I would never do: Work on the computer when I’m supposed to be listening to someone on the phone. Watch my tweets flow by on my… read more
Remember back in July when the state of Missouri enacted legislation making Facebook friendship between teachers and students — as well as any sort of social networking — illegal?
After teachers complained the ban was unconstitutional and interfered with education, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon altered the state policy in a… read more
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
We had a pretty short ‘winners post’ last week, and I hope that I can do a little better this week! Thank you to all who entered the weekly forum assignment, the assignment is supposed to push you and help you think creatively and turn a simple subject into a… read more
Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.
The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick… read more
To celebrate the Red Bull Academy World Tour, the Academy produced a music film that encompasses musical styles from around the world. It was produced 8 soundtracks for some of the cities where the event will take place. The Sound design work was done by Elias Arts http://eliasarts.com/.
The visual design… read more
325 Best Brochure Design Inspiration 2011
Google is mulling purchasing Yahoo and has contacted at least two venture capital firms to help buy the company’s core business, according to a report.
Google and prospective partners have held discussions, but haven’t put forth a formal proposal to buy the search giant, according to The Wall Street Journal, which… read more
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
How to Create an Environmental Painting in Photoshop
25 Scary Ads Inspired by Halloween Season
Another fabulous week in the world of photography and Toad Hollow Photography has been busy compiling a list of great links to tutorials, photography and interesting blogs to share. We sincerely hope you enjoy viewing these great sites as much at the Toad did in bringing this list to you.
Check… read more
With so many horror flicks coming out every year especially during Halloween season, you’re bound to catch one that will bore you. Let’s face it, majority of these new horror movies follow a plot and formula that you’ve already seen before. There will be times when you’ll be more horrified… 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
Starting next month, Sprint is putting a cap on its unlimited data plans for tablets, laptops, netbooks, PC cards and mobile hotspots.
The wireless carrier will still offer smartphone users — including new iPhone 4S customers — unlimited data on phones. For iPhone 4S users who envisioned using Sprint as an… read more
There’s something to be admired about Flash websites. Perfect, smooth, graphics, fluid movement, interactivity and general in-your-face presence that they emit, are all reasons we still get lost in an immaculately designed and perfectly executed Flash website. Whether you’re looking to kill some time, looking for inspiration, or just aimlessly… read more
Verizon Communications said Friday that its profit had doubled since the same time last year. Although most of the increase this quarter is the result of changes to pension plans, a portion of it can be attributed to an uptick in contract wireless subscribers that puts Verizon’s number of such… read more
YouTube announced four important additions to its popular video service designed to improve the way users manage and discover new content.
The mini-makeover includes a new video end screen, which appears after a video plays. It’s a full-screen mosaic with additional viewing recommendations.
The playlist bar has also been improved with larger… read more
Numerous media outlets got their hands on the highly anticipated Steve Jobs biography Thursday, which won’t be released to the public until Oct. 24.
Below are excerpts of the book featured in news articles across the web.
Biographer Walter Isaacson — who will be interviewed on Sunday night’s 60 Minutes — had… read more
Groupon plans to raise between $480 million and $540 million in an initial public offering, or about two-thirds of the $750 million the not-yet-profitable company intended to raise in June.
According to regulatory documents filed Friday, the Chicago-based startup is prepared to sell 30 million shares — a little less than… read more
Facebook‘s Ireland offices are being audited, as the company is facing a possible €100,000 ($138,000) fine for retaining data deleted by users, The Guardian reports.
The case began when a 24-year-old Austrian law student, Max Schrems, asked Facebook for a copy of all his personal data in June. Facebook complied,… read more
One week after stores in the U.S., Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and the UK started selling the iPhone 4S, online Apple stores in 22 additional countries have begun taking pre-orders.
iPhone 4S pre-order pages have been posted for Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein,… 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. We’re keeping our eyes on four particular stories of interest today.
Groupon to Raise Up to $540 Million in IPO
Groupon hopes to raise $540 million… read more
If you spend a significant duration of time on your Mac for work or play, there’s a reasonable chance that you’ve experienced some degree of discomfort directly caused by that activity. If not, the chances are that you will eventually. The human race did not evolve for countless generations towards… 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
There are many internet security tools and applications out there, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. Today, we are sharing 5 Free Internet Security Tools That Are Absolutely Useful. Read each entry in the list and see which one suits your needs best.
You are welcome… read more
A new version of Gmail featuring a revamped look, redesigned conversation threads and improved search is slated for pending released, according to an official video that was mistakenly posted to Google’s YouTube channel.
Jason Cornwell, user experience designer for Gmail, unveils the new version in the video. The Google Operating… read more
Google Reader, the company’s RSS reader, will get a new look and integration with Google+ next week that will let you create reader-specific Circles.
The changes, which are “highly requested,” according to Google software engineer Alan Green, include a new design and the retiring of features like friending, following and… read more
Remember iAds? Apple’s mobile ad format that was designed to inject emotion back into advertising. It was supposed to be one of the pillars of iOS. Apple even paid $275 million to acquire Quattro Wireless for its mobile ad technology.
iAds haven’t been the smash success that Apple envisioned they would… read more
Using tabs in a user interface can help you better organize content, so it’s only natural that WordPress themes that have a lot of options would benefit from tabs on their settings page. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a tabbed settings page, and you’ll get to… read more
101 Flyer Design Samples for Your Inspiration
Is Samsung now the leading smartphone manufacturer? One unnamed source sure wants us to think so.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting Samsung shipped more than 20 million smartphones in its most recent quarter. If this report is accurate — bear in mind Samsung does not disclose its smartphone shipment… read more
Media is changing. In fact, our very concept of what media is is undergoing a transformation as well. I can explain the changes or I can simply show you this video. You’ll think it’s adorable, but it’s sure to make traditional media types’ blood run cold. Watch and then we’ll… read more
Funky Pink Boy Girl
Snow Flake Christmas Wall Stickers
Zip Monster
Curious Monster
Springville
Power Line Birds Wall Sticker
Curious Cats
I Am Not A Robot
I Am Not A Sheep
I Am The Sun
Arbre Abstrait
Pluie De Couleurs
Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining
New Super Mario
Boodalee Trees
WC Signalétique
Retro Space Invaders
Night Owls
Bonne vue
Children's Weather Symbols
Kitchen Utensils
Planete Des Singes
Polar Composition
Banksy Style Balloon… read more
Few would complain about this business trip: A crew from Google recently went to the Swiss Alps to film the Albula-Bernina line in Switzerland, considered one of the most scenic railway routes in the world.
Google was able to film the portion, which will soon go live on Google… read more
Social interaction is imperative in culture and in trade. In this world of fragile relationships and difficult dealings, accessible and feasible techniques are needed so that we can communicate easily with one another and participate in interactive conversations. Social media is the use of digital (and often mobile) technologies and… read more
HTML5 has been the buzzword with the web development community for a while now. In accordance with many a request from our readers, today I’m happy to present you with a quiz on HTML5. This beginner friendly Stormtrooper edition is a great place to test your knowledge of the basics… read more
Today our guest is Nicholas van der Walle, the proprietor of Astute Graphics. Astute Graphics has become world famous thanks to its Phantasm CS and VectorScribe plugins that make our work easier and more convenient. Among their customers there are such world famous brands as Adidas, Apple, NASA, Nike, Philips,… read more
Being a designer is not your average job: your work is constantly evolving, giving you new tools to either become more productive or to simply create better work. For that, we all do our best to read books, brush up our skills following some tutorials, subscribe to blogs or attend… read more
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Here at WDL we love to hunt down nice freebies for our readers… and one of our favorites freebies to find are fonts. Since we know that a fresh font is always a great asset to any designer, here are a few new fonts to spice… read more
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Thanks to the success of projects such as HTML5 Boilerplate, companies big and small are increasingly giving back to the dev and design community by releasing pre-packaged toolkits and frameworks… read more
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Masters of the Adobe software suite often lean towards graphic design or web development. When creating documents for print this can easily be transcribed in both Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. However, Adobe InDesign allows you to create entire projects such as a magazines, online e-books, cover… read more
Fran Maier is the president and executive chair of TRUSTe, the leading online privacy solutions provider. She speaks widely on issues of online privacy and trust and is active in mentoring women in technology. She serves on a number of Internet and trust-related boards, including the Online Trust Alliance.
It’s a… read more
Tweets about the Occupy Wall Street movement are building to a fever pitch. Reaching their peak on Oct. 6, there’s still upward momentum, and new research from NM Incite reveals new findings about how the protest movement is playing out in social media.
By studying and analyzing tweets that used… read more
Microsoft’s latest attempt to purchase Yahoo is gaining momentum again. According to The Wall Street Journal, Microsoft is working with the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Silver Lake Partners, a private equity firm, to put together a bid to purchase Yahoo.
The proposed deal includes Microsoft paying “several billion dollars,”… read more
Creating a Professional Cartoon Effect from a Real Photograph
Steve Jobs’s biographer Walter Isaacson will be interviewed on Sunday night’s episode of 60 Minutes.
The interview will air on Oct. 23, the night before Isaacson’s Steve Jobs: A Biography hits bookshelves. Isaacson was given unprecedented access to Jobs and those who knew him. Jobs, who died earlier this month, reportedly… read more
Google, which just announced it is on a $2.5 billion run rate for mobile advertising compared to $1 billion a year ago, has introduced new mobile ad formats to maintain that momentum.
The new ad formats include search ads in mobile apps, a “click to download” option for apps and mobile… 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
MC Hammer has announced WireDoo, a new search engine focused on “deep search” and relational topics.
Most search engines are built on links and keywords, explained Hammer at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. Google and other search engines aren’t as strong at connecting keywords to related topics — something… read more
Could search results be customized based on persona? If a recently uncovered Microsoft patent moves forward, they could.
Geekwire discovered a patent application filed by Microsoft that deals with the concept of personalizing search results based on preferences, personality traits and even celebrities.
In its filing, introduces the idea that users could… read more
For me, this camera is a bit of a puzzle. Why?
Having just spent a week or so with the Olympus PEN E-P3, and coming away very impressed, I wondered why the company launched another model that seems to be virtually identical, except for price and some minor mods. I am… read more
Google Analytics is about to get a whole lot more visual, thanks to the launch of a new feature, Flow Visualizations.
The new feature was announced by Google SVP of ads Susan Wojcicki at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. It will launch later today for all Google Analytics users…. read more
Create a Moody Landscape Photo Manipulation in Photoshop
As incredible as it seems, it’s been over a year and a half since the original iPad was released, forever changing what the world thought of tablet computers. The old Tablet PCs were clunky, expensive machines that could run any Windows program, albeit slower and more awkwardly than a full… read more
There are many online tools and web applications out there, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. Today, we are sharing 7 Must-Have Web Apps For Designers And Developers Toolbox. Read each entry in the list and see which one suits your needs best.
You are welcome… read more
In this post we release yet another freebie: the Balita WordPress theme, a theme dedicated to shops that sell products for children. The theme was designed by Tokokoo and released exclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers. As usual, the theme is absolutely free to use for both private and… read more
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As a web designer, from time to time, you may need to make a grayscale image fade into color on mouse over. So the typical solution would be to have each image desaturated to achieve the grayscale effect in Photoshop. Then, you would have to… read more
Daily Inspiration. Chapter 08 – icanbeCreative
The Best 20+ Online Creative Design Tools Including Awesome HTML & CSS Generators
Infographic (or information graphics) and other forms of data visualizations are helpful in reaching out to more people. It allows even the most complicated data and the most boring of topics an easy read.
It also makes Social Media, a rather complicated topic, fun to discuss.
So what is social media? It… read more
Google Ventures, the search giant’s venture capital arm, will invest more than $200 million in more than 100 companies over the next year.
Bill Maris and Graham Spencer of Google Ventures discussed the VC firm’s investment philosophy at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco Tuesday. Maris explained that Google Ventures… read more
Bill Clark is the CEO of Microventures, a startup fundraising platform that uses crowdfunding to allow investors to invest between $1,000 to $10,000 in startups. He also manages the venture capital firm MicroAngel Capital Partners. You can follow him on Twitter @austinbillc.
When I wanted to learn about becoming an angel… 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
For years now, musicians have done a lot more than wield guitars, basses and drum kits in order to create jams — PCs, mobile devices and tablets have made a serious entree into the musical world. Perhaps the most recent example of such digital wizardry is Icelandic songstress Björk’s newest… read more
Apple on Tuesday reported revenues of $28.27 billion for its fiscal fourth quarter, lower than some analysts had predicted, but above the company’s outlook of $25 billion.
The company also sold 17 million iPhones and 11 million iPads in the quarter. The former was a drop from the 20 million iPhones… read more
The ultra-smooth launch of the iPhone 4S may have hit a snag, albeit a minor one: Some users are complaining about yellow-tinted screens.
The discussion thread “iPhone 4S Screen Tint” has gotten 39 replies so far on Apple’s support page. A user called Snowglider appears to have started the discussion by… read more
Mashable — that’s right, the tech news site you’re looking at right now — is looking for two go-getter tech reporters (New York and San Francisco) to help fill our news room.
As a Mashable staff member, you’ll gain access to the world of social media, technology, digital integration, world news,… read more
Depositphotos.com is the fastest growing stock photo agency in the world. It has more than four million stock photographs and vector images sold under royalty- free licenses. (To be exact it had 44, 759, 54 total stock images at the time of writing of this article.) This means once you… read more
Example One From the Map
Images taken aboard NASA’s Terra spacecraft helped NASA and METI update the world’s… read more
Kelby Media Group is publishing a lot of great tutorial content in a variety of areas. Here are some of the ones you may have missed.
NAPP
NAPP is an organization dedicated to teaching people how to improve their use of Photoshop. Membership includes 10 issues of PhotoshopUser Magazine, access to hundreds… read more
I have recently came across to really interesting infographic about “Fun Facts About Smartphones”. This graphic is beautifully showing many little fun facts about smartphones.
This infographic was designed by MobDis. We would love to know what you are thinking while viewing this infographic. Do you want to be the first… read more
Thanks to all of the participants of contest in which SolidShops Hosted E-Commerce Software Subscriptions were givingaway. We ran the MySQL random query and selected these comments to give them SolidShops.
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SolidShops is an extremely user friendly hosted e-commerce platform for web designers and… read more
In the last few years, AJAX has crept onto websites and slowly become the way to create dynamic, user-friendly, responsive websites. AJAX is the technology that lets you update the contents of a page without actually having to reload the page in the browser. For example, Google Docs utilizes this… read more
A freelance blogger is a jack-of-all-trades. This person has writing, design and coding skills, all used to create inspiring content. Besides, blogging requires a lot of responsibility, perseverance and diligence dealing with web media on a daily basis.
There are plenty of tools that facilitate blogging and allow freelancers… read more
As the unemployment rate in many industrialized countries continues to languish in double digits – or close to it – government policy makers are devising all sorts of programs that will put people back to work. Most, if not all of them, focus on the creation of jobs.
Now, since… read more
In today’s session, we are bringing a collection of some amazing and useful Photoshop resources that will help you in creating your own dulcet patterns in your designs. With Photoshop, designers can save themselves plenty of time and wind up with improved results by taking advantage of readily available freebies…. read more