Did Blog Buzz for “Hurt Locker” Predict Its Oscar Win?

The blogosphere was literally split down the middle in terms of online buzz around the 82nd Academy Awards Best Picture nominees. Both Avatar and The Hurt Locker each maxed out with three quarters of a percent (.75%) of blog post buzz across the web.

The data in question comes from… read more

Valve: Steam, games coming to Mac in April

Game titles we can expect to see include Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal, and the Half Life series. Even better news is that Valve intends to make simultaneous platform releases the norm from here on out. Expect Portal 2 to be the first game to be… read more

iPad ad reveals book pricing and NYT button

Several of the books had prices clearly displayed (you’ll get a better look here), ranging from US$8 to $15. For example, Sen. Edward Kennedy’s “True Compass: A Memoir” is listed for $14.99, while “Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Journey to Change the World… One Child at a Time” by… read more

How Job Seekers Are Using Social Media for Real Results

The Real Results series is supported by Gist, an online service that helps you build stronger relationships. By connecting your inbox to the web, you get business-critical information about key people and companies. See how it works here.

Whether you’re looking for your first job, exploring a career change, or… read more

3 Things to Do Before MashBash SXSWi This Sunday Night

MashBash SXSWi 2010, Mashable’s annual event at the SXSW festival in Austin, is less than 1 week away! Here’s a checklist for those wishing to attend:

1. RSVP on Eventbrite and the Facebook event page so your friends know you’re coming.

2. Add yourself to Austin Realtime, our growing directory… read more

5 Ways to Use Google Wave for Business

Sharlyn Lauby is the president of Internal Talent Management (ITM) which specializes in employee training and human resources consulting. She authors a blog at hrbartender.com.

Remember Google Wave? Clearly, Google Buzz has recently overshadowed Google’s other hotly anticipated social communication platform, but before you ditch your Wave account, give… read more

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A beautifully designed icon is the perfect way to represent your product or service, and they always come in handy whether you want to place them on your blog or want to represent yourself in an outstanding manner. A comprehensively designed icon can provide your user with the memorable metaphors… read more

Mac tips and tricks: how to batch resize photos without extra software

Select the images you want to “batch resize”

Open them in “Preview”

Press CMD+A to select all the images

Now from the “Tools” menu choose “Adjust Size…” and change the image dimensions as you prefer (often you will have just to modify the width).

Than remember to “Save All” the images from the menu… read more

Most Creative Ads Series: Domestic Abuse

Domestic violence can happen to anyone, regardless of age, gender, race, sexuality, wealth or geography, yet the problem is often overlooked, excused, or denied. Female is the worst victim in the disaster. Studies show that between one quarter and one half of all women in the world have been abused… read more

20 Weird Logos That Work (and Why They Do)

20 Weird Logos That Work (and Why They Do)

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Daily Inspiration #450

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

8 Great Spotify Hints, Tips and Tricks

We’ve already brought you a how-to guide to get started with Spotify (read that first if you don’t know what it is), but now we’re delving a little deeper into the music streaming software with a look at some hints, tips and tricks that will help you get the… read more

Another iPhone video conferencing rumor surfaces

Note that third-party sellers regularly advertise features for Apple’s products well in advance of their actual release based on a “best guess” approach without any verifiable foreknowledge of the devices — Best Buy’s recent page update listing i7 processors for the upcoming MacBook Pro update is a perfect example –… read more

Our Favorite Tweets of the Week Feb 28-Mar 6, 2010

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

Mac 101: Going Commando with Command-key shortcuts in Mac OS X

<phe clover-looking key (it's actually an infinite loop), which had always been accompanied by an Apple logo until recently, sometimes behaves in ways similar to the Control key in the Windows world. At other times, however, it doesn't. Whether you're a recent Mac switcher or a seasoned Mac user, here… read more

Rumor: Best Buy sticks Core i7 logo on MacBook Pro page

Today’s moment of thrill (which is almost certainly just a website error, but you never know), courtesy of tipster Zach, is the appearance of a Core i7 badge on the Best Buy page for the 2.53Ghz 15″ MacBook Pro. Other models are still showing the correct (as of this moment)… read more

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Best of the Week #109

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

Handy Tools and Tips for E-Commerce Websites

Running an e-commerce website is a never-ending task, from trying to squeeze that extra bit of conversion rate out of the check-out page to figuring out which referrers give you the best traffic. There’s also a plethora of tools out there to help you achieve your goals. But which ones… read more

The Top 10 Most Watched Web Series, February 2010

*The Visible Measures Top 10 Webisodes Chart focuses on digital studio-driven Web series that appear on Internet video-sharing destinations. Each Web series is measured on a True Reachô basis, which includes viewership of both studio-syndicated video clips and viewer-driven social video placements. The data are compiled using the Visible Measures… read more

10 Free Beautiful Calligraphic Fonts

By Paul Viluda

The word “calligraphy” is derived from two Greek words, denoting “beautiful writing”. Calligraphy or the art of writing has thousands of years in its history and development, and indeed calligraphy fonts, which we often use these days on our PCs to create a postcard or a wedding invitation… read more

Incoming, outgoing Apple employees

<pw Apple employees played some musical chairs this week. Executive Pablo Calamera, who was in charge of MobileMe while at Apple, is off to work as the CTO of Thumbplay, a company that peddles ringtones and music to mobile devices.

HR shouldn’t have to change the big “35,000 employed… read more

The Colorful Showcase Of Beautiful Floral Typography

Floral Typography is a form of art that coalesce typography, calligraphy, and lettering to create dynamic, flourishing designs. Since flowers are universal images that never go out-of-date, many designers opt to create floral typography for their designs. With floral typography, you can create appealing and noteworthy designs that capture the… read more

Yahoo Mail Makes Friends With Facebook

In December, Yahoo revealed a new strategy: lots and lots of Facebook. Today the company announced that they’re gradually rolling out the first feature to come from the partnership — Facebook Connect integration with Yahoo Mail.

The new feature means that Yahoo Mail users can now connect their Facebook… read more

HOW TO: Get Started With Spotify

Spotify is a free, legal, cloud-based streaming music service delivered via desktop software with a nice social twist. A Swedish start-up with offices in London, it launched back in 2008 in Europe and now boasts around five million users and around six million tracks from the major labels as… read more

Google responds to Apple lawsuit against HTC

Lots of analysts and pundits have pegged the lawsuit as a direct shot across the bow from Apple at the Android OS (and the breakdown of patent claims that our colleagues at Engadget did seems to confirm that, with both old-school and wide-reaching patents matched up with brand new narrow… read more

Shooting for Stock Photography Sites

Love them or hate them image libraries are a great way of generating an extra revenue stream, and because the websites don’t discriminate against people who aren’t classed as ‘professional photographers’, advanced enthusiasts and amateurs have just as much chance of selling as the pros. But as with all areas… read more

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3 Crisis Survival Lessons for the Social Media Age

Dallas Lawrence is Chair of the Social and Digital Media Practice at Levick Strategic Communications, the nation’s top crisis communications firm. He blogs on emerging digital media trends and best practices for social media engagement on Bulletproof Blog. Connect with him on Twitter @dallaslawrence.

If there was any doubt… read more

Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook in No Rush to Go Public

Everyone is still trying to figure out just how big a business social networks are, how much is Facebook worth, and how much money it’ll be making in a couple of years. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, however, doesn’t seem worried at all.

Asked about Facebook’s plans to launch an initial… read more

Beautiful Illustrator Artworks By Artists Around The World

Adobe Illustrator is a powerful software for illustrating that allows users to produce beautiful artwork, technical illustrations, and even graphics for both print and the web. Adobe Illustrator is a multipurpose vector illustration tool and its versatility makes it the most preferred choice among many professional artists and designers.

In the… read more

To Sketch or Not to Sketch – That is the Question

Close your eyes and picture this scenario. You have just landed a dream contract with a client and you are anxious to start working. You have already consulted with them regarding the subject matter (a logo, a website, a brochure, etc.) and you’ve written up a design brief. It’s time… read more

Logo Design: Animals – Part 1

The Logo Design series is up and running! We’re thinking ahead and we want to find new ways to sort these listings. Today, it’s all about animals. I gotta say that this is probably the listing with most matches ever…

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There are so many that we had to break it and… read more

Google Adding Stars to Search to Replace SearchWiki

In an attempt to personalize the search experience, Google has announced that it is rolling out a new feature for Google Search: Google stars. At the same time, Google search will drop the SearchWiki feature that launched at the end of 2008.

If you’re a Gmail, Google News, or… read more

10 Popular Firefox Add-ons for Web Developers

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We searched forums, blogs, and Twitter to find out which Firefox add-ons are most popular with web developers, and we came up with this top 10 list.

Every plug-in on the list… read more

MashBash SXSWi: 3 Things to Do Before You Set Off

MashBash SXSWi 2010, Mashable’s annual event at the SXSW festival in Austin, is less than 2 weeks away! Here are 3 things to do before you set off:

1. RSVP on Eventbrite and the Facebook event page so your friends know you’re coming.

2. Add yourself to Austin Realtime, our… read more

Valve teases a Mac release of Half-Life, Portal, Team Fortress 2

<p I was dubious about the rumor the other day of Steam coming to the Mac, but now here's something straight from Valve hinting that it might actually happen. MacRumors got an image of Half-Life's Gordon Freeman via email… with an Apple logo on his chest. MacNN got another picture,… read more

Daily Deals for March 3, 2010

If you missed Macworld then you missed Sennheiser selling their headphones for 50% off. But these Sennheiser PXC-310 noise-cancelling headphones for $179 (with free shipping) may ease the pain.

Earlier today we wrote about an iPod dock with a “bed shaker,” but these Memorex Minimove iPod dock speakers won’t… read more

How to Kill the Design Community

Recently, the notion of killing the design community has come up on a few blogs (sometimes indirectly), creating many intense conversations on the direction the design community has taken over the past couple of years, and what can be done about it.

The possibility that such discussions… read more

Web Tools – Support Details

Hey guys, it has been a while…I’ve been doing a lot of cool stuff lately. Stuff that I will soon post about but for now I just wanted to post something that I came across while browsing the internet. It’s called Support Details, it’s an awesome web application that gives… read more

Google and PayPal to Support New Government Login System

Open Identity Exchange (OIX) is a newly founded non-profit organization, launched today at the RSA Conference 2010 by Google, PayPal, Equifax, VeriSign, Verizon, CA, and Booz Allen Hamilton. The aim of this new organization is exchange of online identity credentials across public and private sectors; in other words, it… read more

Get Noticed And Grow Your Business With MyTemplateBox

The Internet is filled with useful resources for business owners and especially for web designers and developers. From free icon sets to CSS templates, and from web design inspiration to stock images, websites like these have everything one may need. There are a number of tools, useful pieces of advice,… read more

How To Market Your Mobile Application

App Store is a competitive environment. Against more than 140,000 apps, all screaming for attention, how do you make sure your app gets its time in the spotlight? What does it take to get good media coverage? How do you get people to talk about your app—and, ideally, how do… read more

Top Articles On The Web Design Billboard In February’10

A perfect layout, A Good Design and Nice Resource can produce a creative output. Layout, textures, typography and patterns are used more often than one may think but the outcome of different combination can result verity of excellent designs. Professionalism is built upon knowledge and experience. However, When it comes… read more

Keeping Yourself Motivated

Staying motivated isn’t easy – we often convince ourselves not to be. We often give ourselves excuses, allow other people to put us down, or look at the success of others and think, “That’ll never be me.”

There are two basic types of motivation: intrinsic motivation, and extrinsic motivation.

Intrinsic motivation comes… read more

10 Incredible Geeky LEGO Creations [PICS]

Geeks and LEGO seem to go together like mac and cheese (or Macs and Apples, even) with tons of fan-made geek-inspired creations to be found in every corner of the interweb, including the LEGO Flickr group.

From both full-time, professional LEGO artists to those who just have a penchant for… read more

Google Wave Gets a Smarter API

Google Wave, the company’s real-time communication platform that made a huge splash last year, is looking to bring back some of its original buzz and developer excitement with the launch of v2 of the robots API.

For those who are unfamiliar, developers can create two types of extension for Google… read more

Macmillan trying to sell readers ‘hardcover’ e-books

Macmillan is sticking with an old pricing scheme even in a brand new marketplace. Just what exactly makes the difference between a “hardcover e-book” and a “paperback e-book”? Read on to find out.

The first question is: “Why would someone buy a hardcover book?” I can… read more

CoTweet Acquired By Email Marketing Firm ExactTarget

CoTweet, the Twitter CRM tool used by several massive brands including Best Buy and Ford, has been acquired by ExactTarget, an email marketing firm.

In a statement, ExactTarget CEO Scott Dorsey said,” By combining the power of ExactTarget and CoTweet, we can provide businesses a complete solution to tie together… read more

80+ Incredible Collection Of Inspirations, Tutorials And Resources For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In February

We are always in search of great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers like you. Today, we have another great post, “Discover the Best of the Web” on SmashingApps. In this, we made a list… read more

This Weeks Twitter Design News Roundup N.26

This is my weekly Twitter Design News Round-Up, a collection of fresh design related resources that I have shared via Twitter in the past week.

Just in case you are not one of my Twitter followers, click here: twitter.com/speckyboy, and you’ll be kept up to date with loads of design news… read more

AT&T plans for SXSW 2010

GigaOM has a little insight into how they’re planning to do it this year, and if you’re interested in the nuts-and-bolts of keeping a cell phone network up and running (or at least trying to — this is AT&T, after all), it’s worth a read. They’re beefing up the cell… read more

Some things we may not see again from Apple

Conan O’Brien once had a recurring segment on Late Night called “Guests We Won’t Have Back,” during which he would look back at guests (who were fake) that he regretted having on the show. There was bug expert Sara Wiggins, who ate a live beetle in front of the camera…. read more

Thank You Our Valued Sponsors For Being With Us In The Month Of February

This is a post in which we want to say a big Thank You to the SmashingApps’ fastest growing community for regularly visiting our blog. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and be the one… read more

Google Chrome Continues to Grow at Other Browsers’ Expense

Remember how Google Chrome’s market share grew last month, but Firefox and Internet Explorer’s shares slipped downward ever-so-slightly? That trend continued in February, according to web analytics company Net Applications. This time, however, Chrome was the only browser to grow at all (Safari moved up a little bit in… read more

How to Build a Footer That Doesn’t Stink

As the first thing visitors see, home pages and headers often steal the design spotlight.

But above-the-fold thinking neglects the natural flow of vertical page layout. What happens when people reach the end of a page?

You can bet that a simple copyright statement won’t hold visitors’ attention, but many pages are… read more

Quix makes bookmarklets even easier to use

Quix has come up with a way to make them even better. It calls itself “Your Bookmarklets, On Steroids” and it’s hard to argue with that description. Imagine all of your bookmarklets together in one, and being able to come up with shortcuts to trigger each one.

The interface… read more

Encouraged by iPhone market, Nuance announces new medical apps

The first app is Dragon Medical Mobile Dictation. It is designed to allow clinicians to dictate patient notes, emails and text messages instead of typing them on a mobile device. The idea is to let medical professionals dictate and capture information in real time with a smartphone, without having to… read more

Logo Design Inspiration: 65+ Brilliant Fresh Designs

A Logo is a graphical element that, together with its logotype (a uniquely set and arranged typeface) form a trademark or commercial brand. Typically, a logo’s design is for immediate recognition. The logo is one aspect of a company’s commercial brand, or economic or academic entity, and its shapes, colors,… read more

Super Easy Neon Style in Photoshop – Screencast

Last year I wrote a tutorial showing how to create a neon effect, it was the Super Easy Neon Style in Photoshop and it was inspired by a neon sign I saw outside of a pub. So in this post we have a screencast of that tutorial provided by our… read more

PlayStation Network Down [PSN]

Sony PlayStation 3 owners in multiple regions (including North America, Europe, and Australia) are facing the inability to sign into the PlayStation Network online gaming service, corrupted user data and inability to play some games online or off. The problems are accompanied by the 8001050F error code.

When they try… read more

10 Firefox Add-ons to Beautify Your Browser

You’ve clearly made an educated decision in choosing the Firefox browser, so why not make further decisions about how it looks? As you may know, Firefox can give you a totally personalized browser experience, with plenty of options to customize its look and feel.

We’ve trawled the plethora of available… read more

Inspiration: 27 Great Logo Design Galleries

Inspiration: 27 Great Logo Design Galleries

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Gatsby: Connecting Foursquare Friends Who Like Cats and Circuses

Here’s an interesting idea. The recently launched service Gatsby aims to connect locals on Foursquare who share the same interests.

The setup is simple. Sign up for Gatsby with your Foursquare account, which will add Gatsby as a friend, and tag yourself with your favorite interests — say,… read more

The Principles of Good Logo Design

The Principles of Good Logo Design

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5 Must-Have Geek Collectibles

While some people may amass large numbers of porcelain figurines or miniature replica cars, we’ve got five far cooler collectibles for those of a more geeky nature.

From vinyl to plush, we bring you five social media-, online- and tech-themed items that will not only show your affiliation to all… read more

Google Launches Chile Earthquake Person Finder

Google today launched a person finder to quickly connect those looking for missing people in Chile and those who have information.

The simple interface lets you choose between two options – “I’m looking for someone” and “I have information about someone”, then either query the database or enter new information…. read more

Interview with Jonathan Patterson

Fans of Vectortuts+ are certainly familiar with the vector tutorials of Jonathan Patterson. He’s obviously a talented vector illustrator, there is however a wide variety of work he produces in addition to his vector artwork. Jonathan is a Michigan native working as a Senior Art Director at an advertising agency…. read more

Best of the Week #108

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

Photofont WebReady: A Revolutionary Font Converter

Photofont WebReady is a revolutionary technology for website typography. Fontlab’s Photofont WebReady can be called a font converter meant for Windows and Mac OS X systems, which can help you customize the fonts on a web page. Since the main technology lies in the conversion of texts into Flash objects,… read more

Facebook to Say Goodbye to App Notifications on March 1st

Last month, we reported that Facebook was transitioning from application notifications to e-mail notices. Today, the Facebook Developer blog has added further information about this new method and announced that as of March 1, 2010, app notifications will be discontinued.

For users who hate being bombarded by app… read more

Ask TUAW: Shopping for new Macs, iPhone home screens, home folder on external disk, 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

The World Best Designers: Spain

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Mashable Giveaway: Win a Sony Bloggie HD Camera

Coming to the MashBash party in Austin next month? Every week until the event, we’ll be giving away 2 Sony Bloggie HD Cameras to attendees.

Winners will receive their cameras upon arrival in Austin, and you’re invited to capture video clips of your time there — your videos… read more

Usability Review of Charity Websites Taking the Lead

Over the years designers have pushed themselves to create unique and inspiring designs. Companies have yearned to have websites which are innovative and make them stand out against their competitors. Yet charity websites have not progressed along with trends and expectations — they seem to have been designed for launch… read more

30 Creative 3D Concept Logos from Deviantart

DeviantART stands out as one of the most popular means of showcasing your design portfolio, were users of any artistic level can upload there art and allow others to offer a critique.

In this article, written by Richie Thimmaiah, he has rounded up some of the most awesome looking 3D… read more

A Review of Consistent Designs on the Web

The visual language of a website impresses a visitor far beyond their first glimpse.

In fact, in observing the best websites, you notice that the small details speak to you subconsciously and that consistency improves your experience of the website and as a result makes you more likely… read more

Google Buzz: 5 Opportunities for Small Businesses

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

Just when you thought you had social media figured out, Google has shaken things up with a new entrant into the market: Google Buzz. It’s… read more

30 Minimal Logo Designs that Say More with Less

A logo is the visual cornerstone of one’s branding. While some logos are complex, often the most memorable ones are those that are simplistic. Instead of relying on detailed graphics and icons, these minimal logos rely on creative typography, simple shapes, and clever negative space to tell the story.

Here are… read more

HUGE: Facebook Secures Patent for News Feed

A new patent awarded to Facebook this week could have some big implications for the entire social media industry. The world’s largest social network now own the patent for the news feed.

Patent #7,669,123, first unearthed by All Facebook, credits Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg and seven other current and… read more

Parallels gets down to bare metal with new server software

Parallels has announced a new version of Parallels Server for Mac called the Mac Bare Metal Edition. It’s optimized to provide better performance for virtual machines running on an Xserve, and allows multiple, isolated virtual machines to run simultaneously on the same server. Using “hypervisor” server virtualization, system administrators… read more

5 Fantastic Facebook Fan Page Ideas to Learn From

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

So your business is on Facebook, and brand engagement is up thanks to some savvy social media strategy. You may even be interested in further… read more

Terminal Tips: Generate random filenames for digital photo frame images

One example of a photo frame feature gap is the lack of ability to “shuffle” photos so that they can be displayed in a random order. While sitting at my grandma’s house for hours on end, it quickly became a personal challenge to try and successfully guess the next photo… read more

20 Iconic, Influential Logos

20 Iconic, Influential Logos

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Creative Auto Ads

When we have successfully got our steady lives, what will be the next target? To be more comfortable. That is to get a larger apartment and to buy a better automobile. So it is understandable that why the competition among auto distributors becomes fiercer and fiercer. In order to promote… read more

22 Corporate Brand Logo Evolution of Automobile Groups

Did you know that many of the biggest automobile companies started as bicycle manufacturers? Have you ever wondered why the Audi has four interlocked rings as its logo? Or why the Alfa Romeo has such a romantic company name?

Logos represent the brand image, traditions and origins of a company. It… read more

40 New and Trendy Free Social Media Bookmark Icon Sets

Social Media Bookmark Icons serve as significant design touches in websites and blogs. They help visitors bookmark their favorite posts and articles in any social media platform such as Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon and others, ensuring that they can get back to your site directly for future reference. Using… read more

Gmail Retires 5 and Graduates 6 Labs Features

Gmail Labs, the experimental Gmail playground in which every Google engineer can write a Gmail feature, sometimes retires features that aren’t used very much, and graduates commonly used features, turning them into regular Gmail features.

Today, Gmail has retired five features and graduated six others; over the next couple of… read more

The Wild and Tender Photography of Rodolphe Simeon

Rodolphe Simeon is a french photographer living in Canada. And this is not the only thing mixing cultures in his life: he speaks French, English and German.

The first time I saw his pictures was in the brazilian magazine Zupi,which I recommend to read or at least to visit its site…. read more

Inspiration: Logo Design Galleries

There are many sources of inspiration that designers utilize when trying to get their creative juices flowing. If you are working on a logo design for a client or just for fun, this is a must see article. In this post I have assembled a great list of logo design… read more

Logo Design: Heads and Faces

As we’ve promissed, the Logo Design series is not dead! This series is too good to be buried, so we just had continue it. Now, we’re gonna find new ways to sort these listings. Today, it’s all about heads and faces. I’ve looked for some logos featuring these, and I’ve… read more

iPhone modded with titanium back

<pyone's saying that the next version of the iPhone will have a case upgrade, but Martin Schrotz couldn't wait — he encased his iPhone 3GS in titanium, and Engadget has a gallery of pictures of the ubercool mod. I thought he had actually put the titanium cover over the plastic… read more

10 Essential Chrome Extensions for Web Developers

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As a web developer, you’re probably among the earliest adopters of new browser technologies. Google’s relatively new Chrome browser is one of those products that developers jumped all over as soon… read more

Coming to SXSW? Add Yourself to Austin Realtime!

Are you attending Mashable’s MashBash at South by Southwest, the annual festival for geeks, filmmakers and musicians? Before you head off to Austin, Texas, we invite you to add yourself to our Austin Realtime directory — a place to connect with other social media fans in attendance.

Austin Realtime,… read more

Best Buy to sell iPads

While speaking at the Goldman Sachs annual tech conference in San Francisco, Mr. Cook told the crowd that the iPad will be sold by Apple as well as “…around places with really great assisted sales,” like Best Buy. There’s no word on iPads appearing at other retailers overseas, but Mr…. read more

10 Ways to Trick Out Your Barnes & Noble Nook

Before the Apple iPad stole the ebook media limelight with its iBookstore, the Barnes & Noble nook was the most eye-catching e-reader on the market thanks to its second color LCD screen.

Although out of stock over the crucial Christmas period, Barnes & Noble has now caught up with demand… read more

Apple Could Bring Sexy Back to the App Store With New “Explicit” Category

Apple’s been doing some early spring cleaning in the iTunes App Store when it comes to sexual content, but new developer parameters hint at a future where “explicit” applications could find their way back into the store.

Apple recently removed upwards of 5,000 apps with sexually “objectionable” content from the… read more

Win 1 of 5 Free Subscriptions to Pixmac.com worth $199 each

Our sponsors Pixmac.com, are offering the chance to five of our readers to win a $199 subscription each to there marvelous microstock photo site service.
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