Demi Moore: Changing @MrsKutcher Twitter Name Isn’t ‘Top Priority’

Almost a month after publicly announcing she’s divorcing Ashton Kutcher, actress Demi Moore has acknowledged the split for the first time on Twitter, saying changing her @MrsKutcher name to something else “isn’t a top priority.”

Moore used all of the available 140 characters Wednesday morning to address the question that’s been… read more

App Review: Gradient by Jumpzero

Today I wanna share a review about an app I tried a couple days ago and I truly enjoyed it. It’s the Gradient App from Jumpzero, the app is the opportunity to create gradients for web browsers. It’s a really good app for the web designers and also for designers… read more

Turn Your Great Ideas Into Extraordinary Projects With Rock the Post

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: Rock the Post

Quick Pitch: Rock the Post is a free business social networking site.

Genius Idea: Serves… read more

Star Friends: George Takei Brings Peace to Sci-Fi Geek Feud [VIDEO]

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

George Takei just wants some peace. The actor, famous for his role as Hikaru Sulu in Star Trek, wants to put an end to the YouTube wars between fans of his franchise and fans of Star… read more

FCC Mutes Loud TV Ads

Those insanely loud TV commercials that disrupt viewing will soon be a thing of the past. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has adopted a new rule that will limit the broadcast volume of television ads.

The rule is an implementation of 2010′s Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act (the CALM Act), which… read more

Hands-on with Sony’s PlayStation Vita: Can It Win the Portable Gaming Crown?

Curious about the PlayStation Vita handheld console? You can now try one out for yourself.

Mashable stopped by Sony’s Vita Hill Social Club — a pop-up store Sony has opened temporarily to show off the Vita to curious consumers — to play major games like Uncharted: Golden Abyss and FIFA Soccer.

The… read more

Badoo Unveils Features to Help Shy Users Flirt

In a bid to lure in more users in the United States, multilingual social network Badoo has rolled out two “U.S.-friendly” features that aim to help users charm strangers online.

The London-based company, which has 130 million users in 180 countries and has recently made a push into U.S. borders, touts… read more

No Calls in Cars, Even Hands-Free: NTSB Wants U.S.-Wide Cellphone Ban

If the National Transportation Safety Board has its way, cellphone use of all kinds behind the wheel — from texting down to talking hands-free with a headset — will be illegal in all 50 of these United States.

That was the ruling the NTSB issued Tuesday, in what chairman Deborah… read more

Are Young People ‘Fed Up’ With the iPhone? [POLL]

With the release of the iPhone 4S, Apple is selling iPhones hand over fist, but are many of those buyers merely settling for something because they don’t see a better alternative? That appears to be the theory from one Nokia executive, who said young people are “fed up” with the… read more

Mobile Gadgets Top the List of 2012 Corporate Security Threats [VIDEO]

A recent study suggests mobile devices pose the biggest risk to media companies, especially those companies that allow employees to “bring their own phone.”

The study, conducted by Deloitte, found that 34% of tech, media and telecom companies surveyed believe mobile devices… read more

Why the Higgs Boson Announcement Matters

Some of the brightest scientists in the world announced Tuesday that they’d come close to actually discovering a new particle: the Higgs boson. Unfortunately, for a large part of the world, the question of why it’s important is far from being answered.

In the world of business, even high-tech business, this… read more

With 5% Discount, Amazon Triples Use of Controversial App

Amazon has been offering shoppers a 5% discount (up to $15 for three items) for looking up an item using its Price Check App and making a purchase through the online retailer.

The promotion, which ran Saturday, was a success in… read more

Retro Speakers Find Style — and Big Sound — in Simplicity

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‘Fear Factor’ Dominates Social TV Conversation [STATS]

Fear Factor is back! Five years after being booted off the air, NBC’s gross-out stunt show returned to TV Monday night and dominated the social TV conversation.

Viewers generated more than 403,000 comments across social media websites during the two-hour premiere, according to data from Bluefin Labs. The reality show attracted… read more

The 2012 Vimeo Festival Plus Awards: Now Open for Submissions

Video sharing site Vimeo has opened up submissions for its second Vimeo Festival + Awards — and it’s adding new categories, new judges and new prizes.

Part awards ceremony and part film festival, the Vimeo Festival + Awards is designed to celebrate the best in original online video. This year, Vimeo… read more

WordPress 3.3 Update Refines Features, Interface

Self-hosted WordPress users, get your update engines running: WordPress 3.3 is now available.

The culmination of five months of hard work, WordPress 3.3 offers a number of new updates and tweaked features.

The first of these is a redesigned dashboard, which features menus and toolbars that are more cohesive and easier to… read more

Dance to the Hottest Mashups at MashBash 2012 in Las Vegas

We’re pleased to announce that San Francisco-based DJ duo A Plus D — a.k.a. Adrian and Mysterious D — will be spinning their world famous mashups at MashBash! No, we’re not talking about your typical mashups, this time it’s all about mashing up musical genres. Think Lady Gaga + Bob… read more

The 10 Most Overused LinkedIn Profile Buzzwords of 2011

Do you describe yourself as professionally creative and motivated? Then a new list from LinkedIn suggests another descriptor for you too: Unimaginative.

LinkedIn has analyzed the 135 million accounts on its network to reveal the top 10 most-overused buzzwords that people use on their professional profiles.

“Maybe during the last year… read more

10 Parodies of Rick Perry’s ‘Strong’ Ad

10 “Strong” Parodies and Lip Dubs

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U.S. Shoppers Have Spent Nearly $25 Billion Online This Holiday Season [VIDEO]

U.S. shoppers have already spent close to $25 billion online this holiday season, marking a 15% increase in ecommerce since last year, comScore says. Cyber Monday had its biggest year ever, with $1.2 billion spent online.

“These highlights represent another very… read more

15 Awesome Christmas Gifts for Digital Illustrators and Designers

As we count down the days until Christmas, it’s time to make our lists and check them twice. Today we have an awesome gift guide full of hand picked goodies for illustrators and designers. Make sure to link this post on Twitter, Facebook and G+ – you never know –… read more

30 More Great Apps You Won’t Find on the App Store

Apple recently announced that the Mac App Store has led to over 100 million app downloads, cementing it as the indisputable one stop shop for just about everything Mac users need or want. Today I want to place emphasis on the “just about” part, because despite these impressive numbers, there… read more

ToutApp Brings Sanity To Repetitive Outgoing Emails

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: ToutApp

Quick Pitch: ToutApp lets you template and track your emails.

Genius Idea: Improving email rather than trying… read more

NBA Fan’s Twitter Stunt Lands Him Job With Team

On Friday, Mashable brought you the story of two NBA fans who took it upon themselves to help out their favorite team on Twitter, only to receive a legally threatening email. By the end of the day, though, the fans had traded in the Twitter accounts they created for box… read more

The 10 Best Mac Apps of 2011

The Mac App Store launched at the beginning of 2011 and has already surpassed 100 million downloads. The Mac App Store isn’t the only place for users to get Mac apps — and not all apps (or publishers) are in the Mac App Store — but the uptake amongst developers… read more

Groupon to Offer Two Tickets Around the World in $10,000 Deal

Groupon is offering an unforgettable deal Tuesday — that is, if you can really call something with a $20,000 price tag a deal.

You can purchase Epic Deal: Jet Set Adventure, consisting of a pair of tickets around the world, through Groupon’s Epic Deals program. For $10,000 you get two economy… read more

How to Watch the Higgs Boson Announcement Live

Tomorrow the European Organization for Nuclear Research, more commonly known as CERN, will reveal something about the Higgs boson. Back-to-back public seminars are scheduled for 2 p.m. Zurich time (8 a.m. Eastern) on Wednesday, Dec. 13, each from one of the main ongoing experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC),… read more

How to Make a Monkey: Meet the CGI Wizard Who Brought ‘Apes’ to Life

It’s easy to lose yourself in the digital jungles of Avatar, the widescreen landscapes of The Adventures of Tintin or the uncannily human eyes of Caesar, star of Rise of the Planet of the Apes.

It’s also easy to forget that all this wizardry had to be created from scratch… read more

Microsoft Brings iPad Support to OneNote

Microsoft just updated its OneNote iOS app to support the iPad. The new version, OneNote 1.3, works on any device running iOS 4.3 or later, including the iPad and iPad 2.

Far from being just adding device support, the iPad version of OneNote makes full use of the tablet’s larger screen,… read more

How to Craft a Smart Startup Exit Strategy

Jason Lemkin is vice president of web business services at Adobe and former CEO of EchoSign. His operational experience spans the business development, sales, legal, human resource and finance fields, and he is an acknowledged expert in the field of electronic signature and electronic contracting.

Entrepreneurs often speak of their startups… read more

Google Street View Becomes ‘Google Shoot View’ in Unsettling Mashup [VIDEO]

Here’s a rather uncomfortable use of the Google Maps API. Advertising agency Pool Worldwide blended Google Street View and a fake assault rifle to create “Google Shoot View.”

Users can tour the world firing away in a first-person-style shooter, a… read more

Track Your Gift, Without Ruining the Surprise

Exchanging package tracking information is the gift equivalent of a buzz kill. But Slice, an online purchase manager startup, launched a new feature on Monday that warns recipients to expect a delivery while preserving the fun of gift giving.

“Track With Friends” sends a gift-wrapped virtual box to the recipient’s email… read more

Charlie Sheen Accidentally Tweets Phone Number to 5 Million Followers

Charlie Sheen accidentally tweeted his phone number to his more than 5 million Twitter followers while attempting to send a direct message to Justin Bieber.

Sheen — who first joined Twitter earlier this year — was eating dinner at elite French restaurant Guy Savoy in Las Vegas last week when he… read more

OneUp Turns Live Football Into a Game of Play-Making Bingo

For many, watching a sporting event in person or on TV is an all-consuming experience — coaching decisions spark heated debate, scores force spasmodic bellows or groans, and the external world dims out of focus. So will fans be willing to add another social layer to the sports they love?… read more

Mars Has More Room for Life Than Earth [STUDY]

Fans of epic Mars-based sci-fi novels, from Edgar Rice Burroughs to Kim Stanley Robinson, got some more Red Planet-based reading material to fire their imaginations Monday. A comprehensive survey from the Australian National University that suggests there is tons of room for life on Mars to exist in.

Granted, much… read more

‘Comic Sans Project’ Seeks to Save the Web’s Most Hated Font

1. Tumblr

The Tumblr logo itself is re-imagined with the Comic Sans treatment.

Click here to view this gallery.

Some fonts… read more

The Cutest, ‘Deadliest’ Fight in All of History [VIDEO]

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

If a viral video hits the Internet and millions of people have not yet watched it, is it still a viral video? How can these cute karate-kicking toddlers not make it big with their strangely intense,… read more

4 Ways to Convert Facebook Fans Into Super Fans

Amy Porterfield is the co-author of Facebook Marketing All-In-One for Dummies and creator of the Facebook marketing training program, FBinfluence. You can join her on Facebook at facebook.com/AmyPorterfield or read her blog at AmyPorterfield.com.

For most of us, football season means it’s time to grab our jerseys and clear our Sunday… read more

80+ New Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed

Last week was a busy one for social media. In fact, Christmas might have come early for you with the reveal of Twitter’s new design and the long-awaiting roll-out of Facebook’s Timeline. If you were left indecisive about which shiny new toy to play with first, we have all the… read more

Biting at Nokia’s Heels, Samsung’s Device Sales in 2011 Pass 300 Million

Samsung may be still be trying to crack the tablet market, but in mobile devices it is continuing to pick up steam: It sold 300 million devices so far this year, breaking its previous record.

According to a report from Reuters, Samsung passed the 300-million milestone at the end of November…. read more

Top 5 Mashable Comments This Week

Another week has come to a close, which means it’s time for a look at the top Mashable comments of the week.

In this weekly roundup post, we showcase the week’s greatest comments on our site. We select thoughtful comments that engage the community and drive more conversation as well as… read more

Top 10 Tips for Using Your Feature Phone as a Smartphone

If you’re still taking flak for your antennae-clad flip-phone, the joke’s on your smartphone friends.

Maybe you don’t need a smartphone, or you don’t want the high monthly data bill. Don’t worry, because you can do nearly all the mobile tricks they can if you know how to use your… read more

Retrospective Video by Anonymous Includes Ominous Warning

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

The controversial Internet hacking group known as “Anonymous” created this retrospective video commemorating a tumultuous year in the world of anarchy and subversive activism. Its “LulzXmas” video is a complicated and picture-packed montage of mayhem,… read more

What the World’s Biggest Websites Looked Like at Launch

1. Google

While the company’s design doesn’t seem to have changed a whole lot, its services and capabilities sure… read more

Feds Withdraw Lawsuit Against AT&T Over T-Mobile [REPORT]

The U.S. Justice Department has asked a federal judge to postpone or withdraw its petition to stop AT&T from acquiring T-Mobile. It cited a shifting regulatory landscape that makes the AT&T/T-Mobile lawsuit unnecessary.

The request, as reported by Bloomberg on Friday, appears to be part of the strategic tit-for-tat between AT&T… read more

9 Delicious iPhone Apps for Foodies

1. Urbanspoon

This app answers the common question, “where should I eat today?” All you do is select… read more

Alec Baldwin Appears as Apologetic Airline Captain on Saturday Night Live [VIDEO]

Alec Baldwin, kicked off an American Airlines plane for playing Words with Friends (at the wrong time) and generally making a nuisance of himself, received a generous apology from the airline last night on NBC’s Saturday Night Live. Wait a minute, who’s that guy playing “Captain Steve Rogers?”

“It was very… read more

December Job Hunt Tips

Cesar Ulloa is a Senior Staffing Manager in the Accounting & Finance Contracts division at Winter, Wyman, the largest and one of the most recognized staffing organizations in the Northeast. Find out more on the Winter, Wyman blog or follow on Twitter @WinterWyman.

Finding a job during the holiday season may… read more

XXX Domains: An Obvious Failure

Is it just me or is the ICANN plan to corral online porn going terribly wrong? We already have reports that universities are snapping up XXX domains in an effort to get ahead of porn pranksters who want to besmirch a few good online names with smut.

I guess this turn… read more

3 New Digital Solutions For Capturing and Sharing Content

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.

Each weekend, Mashable selects startups we think are building interesting, unique or niche products.

This week we… read more

5 Things Your Business Can Learn From a Rapper

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

Professional inspiration can come from anywhere, even the unlikeliest of places. This month, I was inspired by a rapper imparting business advice to startups.

Hip-hop historian, music technologist… read more

Motorola DROID4 Spotted on DroidDoes Site [PICS]

It seems that Verizon is preparing its DroidDoes minisite for the arrival of the RAZR-esque Motorola DROID4, although as far as we can tell, the content is not actually live yet (the screenshot is purportedly from the mobile site). While not much about the 4 remains unknown save for a… read more

iScreen: Apple TV Imagined with Magnificent Curved Screen [PICS]

Slightly iMac Look

From the front, it looks a bit like a conventional TV or all-in one Mac

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Should Your Job Title Be More Creative?

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5 Timekeeping Apps for Your Small Business

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

Time is money, especially for small businesses on the hustle. It’s important not just to properly manage time but also to accurately log actions and keep employees… read more

Quickcal: The Fastest Way to Create New Calendar Events

Keeping up with a calendar app is one of those things that I need to do, but am too lazy to do. I could maybe keep it up for a few days, but after that I would feel burnt out and just tired of the whole process of opening an… read more

Find the Right Resources for Your Business or Career With Entrepreneur Finder

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: Entrepreneur Finder

Quick Pitch: Entrepreneur Finder helps new companies develop.

Genius Idea: Interactive resource that brings together… read more

University Spends $3,000 on XXX Domain Names to Save Face

The University of Kansas has bought .xxx domain names, such as www.KUgirls.xxx and www.KUnurses.xxx, hoping to prevent its name from falling into the hands of pornographers. The school, as well as dozens of others, has reportedly purchased $3,000 worth of “.xxx” domain names since they went on sale.

The flagship… read more

How to Increase Facebook Engagement Using Custom Page Tabs

Meaghan Edelstein has gained national media attention through her blog, I Kicked Cancer’s Ass, which she started to document her battle with end stage cancer. She is an attorney, the founder of the non-profit organization Spirit Jump, and works for the Global Strategic Management Institute.

The year 2011 brought exciting changes… read more

Meet the 80-Year-Old Woman Who Is a Criminal Duck Feeder [VIDEO]

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

Duck feeding is hardly considered a dangerous hobby, but can it be cause for arrest? In the case of one elderly Massachusetts woman, it was.

Clair Butcher has been criminally charged for taking duck feeding too… read more

High-Tech Adidas Soccer Shoe and App Track Your Performance

Your days of phony hustling on the soccer pitch — appearing to exert maximum effort while actually conserving energy — are over, thanks to a new shoe and app recently introduced by Adidas.

Released this month, the free miCoach Soccer app for iPhone and iPod touch collects and visualizes data… read more

Ron Paul Only GOP Hopeful With Positive Twitter Sentiment

Texas congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul may be trailing in the polls, but he is the only politician with positive Twitter buzz, according to a new study.

The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism — which analyzes online conversation, news coverage and more than 20 million tweets about… read more

Why Apple Is Winning the Mobile Video Format War … For Now

Jeroen Wijering is the creator of the incredibly successful JW Player, which has generated millions of downloads since its release in 2005. In 2007 he co-founded LongTail Video, focusing on a full-fledged online video platform that includes encoding, delivery, syndication and advertising.

The mobile video space has begun to consolidate. In… read more

NBA Fans Turn Over Their Twitter Accounts, Get Season Tickets

When Philadelphia 76ers fans Jerry Rizzo and Hunter Coleman took it upon themselves to help out their favorite NBA team on Twitter this week, they didn’t think it would lead to threats of legal action.

The 76ers are in the process of choosing a new mascot, and kicked off a… read more

The Daily Show Goes After Freemium Apps [VIDEO]

Freemium apps are here to stay, but that doesn’t mean all of us like them. Now, The Daily Show has done a hilarious report on parents that let their kids download “free” games only to find massive iTunes charges on their next bill.

Correspondent Aasiv Mandvi’s best comment is:

“Turns out these… read more

New Twitter: 25 Tips and Tricks for Savvy Tweeters

The reorganized and refashioned Twitter.com is a markedly different beast than it was just 48 hours ago. Now millions of users who call Twitter’s web destination home are looking for help. Perhaps just 25 soupcons of it. If so, look no further than this list of 25 new Twitter… read more

5 Small Biz Mobile Marketing Strategies for the Holidays

Ted Iannuzzi is the CEO of DIDMO. As co-creator of the company’s flagship product, mobile content creation platform Magmito, he’s passionate about mobile communication.

This year’s record-breaking Cyber Monday and Black Friday sales are a good indication that a successful holiday shopping season is well underway. We’re seeing big retailers pull… read more

Sports Illustrated Wants You to Choose Its Next Cover

For the first time in Sports Illustrated‘s 60-year publication history, it is letting fans choose its cover.

Beginning at 3 p.m. ET on Friday, fans are invited to visit the sports newsweekly’s Facebook page to help select the cover for the Best Sports Moment of 2011 double-issue, which hits newsstands… read more

OWS Protesters ‘Mockupy’ Law & Order SVU Set [VIDEO]

Occupy Wall Street protesters occupied a TV show set depicting the movement in New York City Thursday night. They organized the march via Twitter with the hashtag ‘mockupy’ and took over the set of Law & Order SVU.

Real NYPD officers… read more

YouTube Revamps Video Manager

YouTube revamped its Video Manager on Friday in an update that coincides with the homepage makeover from earlier this month.

Like the new YouTube homepage design, the Video Manager is now cleaner and less cluttered. It also better fits into the larger Google ecosystem.

At the YouTube Blog, the team runs through… read more

120 Years of ‘Vogue,’ Online for $1,575

In fashion, they say, what goes around comes around. Now designers, fashionistas and historians — as well as advertisers and the simply curious — can browse Vogue‘s new digital archive for inspiration. It contains every page of every U.S. issue of Vogue published since the magazine launched in 1892,… read more

‘But What Does it Mean?’ Computer-Generated Rainbows Reveal Some Answers [VIDEO]

UC San Diego computer scientists intended to understand how to create rainbows digitally. And along the way, they made some discoveries about the physics of rainbows that occur in nature — including the awe-inspiring double rainbow.

“This goes beyond computer graphics,”… read more

Want to Use Xbox Live? First Agree Not to Sue Microsoft

Microsoft just rolled out a big dashboard update to the Xbox 360. In addition to new voice and gesture controls, Microsoft has also updated its terms of service agreement with a new clause that prevents users from suing Microsoft in the event something unexpected happens to the Xbox 360 or… read more

Zite, the Magazine That Reads You, Hits the iPhone

Hot on the heels of Flipboard for iPhone and Google Currents, social news reader Zite released an iPhone version of its app Friday.

Zite, which launched on the iPad in March, is a smart magazine that learns what you like to read, notes how long you spend reading it, and delivers… read more

Top 8 iPhone Games for the Holiday Season

1. Elf Command

This time management game has players trying to deliver items like peppermints, trees, gifts, and other… read more

Will Apple iTV Trade the Remote for Kinect-Like Control?

When Steve Jobs told Walter Isaacson in Jobs’s recent biography that he had “cracked” the secret to controlling an Apple TV set, most people assumed he was talking about Siri, the voice assistant in the iPhone 4S. But a new patent… read more

Congratulations To The Winners Of SyncMate Expert (All-In-One Sync Tool) For Mac

Thanks to all of the participants of contest in which SyncMate Expert (All-In-One Sync Tool) For Mac were givingaway. We ran the MySQL random query and selected these comments to give them SyncMate Expert for Mac.

Winners of SyncMate Expert (All-In-One Sync Tool) For Mac

Zee Patel
Hugo
Cheryl
Buddy
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With SyncMate you can sync data between… read more

Rdio: Social Music on the Web

Music has always been a social experience. From the first live concerts being played to slapping a vinyl down onto the record player, we strive to share the music that we’ve found with others. Take this concept and combine it with the amount of conection that we get from the… read more

Sleepytime:Turn Your Mac Into A Music Sleep Timer & Alarm Clock

Fed up with the nasty sound of your traditional alarm clock? That annoying beeping that rouses you in the middle of the night and does not really help to start a day in a good fashion?

Why not use what you’ve already got? The music in your iTunes library, Spotify or… read more

Best Free UI PSDs of 2011

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So far in our Best of 2011 series, we’ve shown you our picks for the best free fonts and the best jQuery plugins. For this week, we’ve went back through all the UI PSDs that’s been released over the past year and picked our favorites. We… read more

PlayStation Finds Its Groove with 2 Innovative Music Games

Two new PlayStation games are blurring the line between music software and video games. Sound Shapes, for the soon-to-be-released PlayStation Vita is like a Super Mario — if all of your actions in the classic game painted its unique soundtrack. PixelJunk 4am, for PlayStation 3, uses the gesture-based Move controller… read more

Bored? Sit Back and Let EventGrabber Find the Perfect Events for You

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: EventGrabber

Quick Pitch: EventGrabber matches local events with your personality.

Genius Idea: Aggregates and personalizes local events for… read more

How to Design the Best Navigation Bar for Your Website

Daniel Alves is the design director for the small business web design division at the digital marketing and web design company 352 Media Group.

The navigation bar is the most important design element on a website. Not only does it guide your users to pages beyond the homepage, but it’s also… read more

App Store Rewind: Apple’s Top Apps of 2011

Apple released the list of its best and most popular apps on Thursday. The App Store Rewind features 20 categories from Travel to Games, and names the top five apps of each category. This year the Rewind separated iPhone and iPad apps, with some of the apps overlapping.

You probably won’t… read more

Hands on With Twitter’s TweetDeck

TweetDeckInstall

Installation is now like a standard Windows application. No Air here.

Click here to view this gallery.

TweetDeck‘s conversion from… read more

Occupy-Inspired Musical Launches Ambitious Kickstarter Campaign

The Big Bank is a musical comedy about a bank that loves to foreclose on people, a banker who falls in love with a middle-class florist whose shop he’s been sent to foreclose on and a radical environmentalist who uses his ambitious 11-year-old daughter’s idea to spark a revolution… read more

New Twitter HQ Shows Big Ambitions, Rooftop Garden

Twitter didn’t just launch a major new redesign Thursday — the event also served as an unveiling of sorts for its next headquarters in San Francisco.

Like the redesigned service — part of an aggressive push to make Twitter the dominant communication tool for people from all walks of life… read more

Senators Press ICANN on Generic Top-Level Domains

Senators asked the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to slow down the process of releasing new top-level domains Thursday at a hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. But the discussion was moot. ICANN, not under the governance of the Senate, sees it… read more

What’s Your Greatest ‘Words With Friends’ Achievement?

It’s been an interesting week for Words With Friends.

On Monday, Alec Baldwin made news for getting kicked off a flight prior to take-off in Los Angeles because of issues relating to his phone use. Apparently his addiction to the popular Scrabble-like game Words With Friends is what did him… read more

Hands on With the New Twitter.com [PICS]

Have you got the new Twitter.com yet? That was the question of the day at Mashable HQ Thursday, as the rollout of the service’s redesigned homepage seemed to defy rhyme or reason.

Ostensibly, according to Twitter CEO Dick Costolo at Thursday’s unveiling in San Francisco, you would get the… read more

Apple Reveals More Details on Spaceship Campus [PICS]

Apple has updated its plans for a cutting-edge “spaceship”-like campus that resembles something you might find in an episode of The Jetsons.

More details about the construction of the eco-friendly Apple Campus 2 were posted online this week by the Cupertino, Calif. city council. The enormous second campus – which features… read more

Crowdsourced Kitchen: How Two Journalists Made Cooking Social Again [VIDEO]

Food journalists, Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs, met while working together on the New York Times Cookbook. As they wrote the book, the noticed a shift in the online foodie community from content consumption to creation and hatched an idea… read more

How to Make and Share Spotify Playlists for the Holidays

1. Create a New Playlist

Creating a new playlist is simple. Just click the “New Playlist” option on the… read more

Design Focused Fab.com Raises $40 Million and Continues to Grow

Hot on the heels of rapidly growing membership base and a growing number of transactions, Fab.com has just closed a $40 million Series B funding round, led by Andreessen Horowitz.

It was just six months ago that Fab.com pivoted from a social network and deal site targeting gay men into a… read more

NASA’s Voyager 1 to Go Where No Spacecraft Has Gone Before

NASA’s Voyager 1 is preparing to leave the solar system — literally going where no spacecraft has gone before.

The edge of the solar system is marked by the outer reaches of the sun’s magnetic field and solar wind. Scientists estimate… read more

The Three Stooges Encounter an iPhone, Snooki [VIDEO]

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

The iconic Larry, Curly and Moe come back to life in The Three Stooges movie trailer, released Wednesday.

This 106-second clip showcases their familiar raucous antics in a modern setting — featuring Jersey Shore‘s Snooki and… read more

Hollywood Heroes Become Villains in Online Video Gallery

Ryan Gosling as a shadowy stranger, Gary Oldman as a ventrilloquist’s doll, Brad Pitt as a moth-obsessed freak — these are just a taste of the bizarre-brilliant villains that the New York Times Magazine has collected as part of an unusual online video gallery: “Touch of Evil: Cinematic Villainy from… read more

Judge Hits Blogger With $2.5 Million Charge for Not Being a Journalist

In a case that’s sending a frightening message to the blogger community, a U.S. District Court judge ruled that a blogger must pay $2.5 million to an investment firm she wrote about — because she isn’t a real journalist.

As reported by Seattle Weekly, Judge Marco A. Hernandez said Crystal Cox,… read more

Alec Baldwin Leaves Twitter: 8 Other Celebrity Social Media Meltdowns

Within a day of getting booted from an American Airlines flight, Alec Baldwin has booted himself off of Twitter.

The star shut down his Twitter account, which had more than 600,000 followers, on Wednesday. The previous night, Baldwin had tweeted to his fans, “Let’s play a game called Mass Unfollowing. I… read more

Seth Godin Challenges You to Fail [VIDEO]

Seth Godin wants you to fail, but in a good way. In this interview with Behind the Brand, Godin explains why companies like Facebook and Google aren’t afraid to fail fast and why you should try it too.

In his… read more