Google Confirms Free Turn-by-Turn Directions Coming to iPhone

Free turn-by-turn Google Maps Navigation has already threatened an entire industry of GPS navigation companies whose livelihood depends on selling paid versions of what the search giant is now giving away for free. Currently Google Maps Navigation is available for Android phones only, but in a London press conference… read more

Gamers Get a Glimpse of Steam for Mac [VIDEO]

If you’ve been wondering how Valve’s digital game distribution service Steam for Mac will compare to its original Windows implementation, wait no longer. A video demonstrating Steam for the Mac has been leaked onto that provincial little backyard known as the internets, revealing an interface that’s much the same… read more

Nikon D40 – Modern Classic [REVIEW]

40 Reasons why you don’t need 18mp

In February 2010, Canon released the EOS 550D with an 18 megapixel sensor, HD video and a $900 price tag. Will Canon tell the folks lining up to buy this camera how much extra work it will add to their simple lives? And how… read more

10 Excellent Examples of Recycled Gadgetry

This series is brought to you by Best Buy. For more information on their recycling program and to make your recycle pledge, please visit recycleiton.com.

As Kermit once wisely said, it isn’t easy being green, especially if you’re really into your gadgets, but recycling old products and buying new ones… read more

Showcase Of Web Design In Netherlands

The Netherlands, also known as the “Low Countries,” is a small, crowded, muddy piece of land through which a few big important rivers fortunately run. In this country, you can find coffee shops, wooden shoes, tulips, windmills and a lot of water.

And everything is rather small! Well, at least most… read more

Using Auto to Learn Manual – A Great First Step for Beginners

If you’re just learning photography and you feel that learning to use your DSLR camera on manual is too daunting, here’s a little tip I used when learning to think for my camera: let the auto settings guide you. By auto settings, I mean the ones where the settings are… read more

Attack of the Mac Emulators: Retro Games on OS X

Remember all those great video games you had when you were younger? Wouldn’t it be amazing if you could download and play those games on your Mac? It turns out you can.

Today we enter into some seriously shaky territory that often stretches the bounds of both legality and awesomeness:… read more

Hospital Outfits Staff with 100 iPads

A hospital district in Visalia, California, has ordered 100 iPads to provide staff with access to rudimentary applications like e-mail, as well as X-ray images, EKG results and patient monitoring programs around its five sites.

Nick Volosin, the hospital’s director of technical services, thinks the iPad is a superior alternative… read more

Typography Mania #25

Typography Mania is a weekly post series that comes around every Wednesday with the best of Typography work on the web, from videos to images everything is full of great design and inspiration. Check out this weeks Mania and comeback in 7 days for more.

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5 “On The Job” Licenses Up For Grabs

We reviewed the excellent time tracking and invoicing app, On The Job a few weeks ago. It looks good, feels natural to use, and has a powerful invoicing system with full support for multiple currencies.

I’m pleased to let you know that we have five licenses available to win over the… read more

Quick Look: Bee Docs Timeline 3D

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In this Quick Look, we’re highlighting Bee Docs Timeline 3D. The developer describes the app as being able to make 3D… read more

Apple Sells 8.75 Million iPhones in Q2

Apple announced its second quarter earnings results today and, once again, the company outperformed market expectations with its best non-holiday quarter ever. The company posted $13.50 billion in revenue and a net quarterly profit of $3.33 per diluted share. This obliterates Wall Street estimates of $2.45 a share.

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Take A Chance To Win Personal License Of SWF & FLV Player PRO

Eltima Software is running a contest, where winners will get 15 personal licenses of SWF & FLV Player PRO (worth $19.95 each). Well, you guys know what SWF & FLV Player PRO is. Lets say it once again for n00bs.

SWF & FLV Player PRO is a smart Flash Player, enriched… read more

5 Unique Ways to Use Twitter for Business

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Customer service, recruiting, contests, giveaways and promotions — these are all standbys for businesses using Twitter as a medium to connect with customers and fans.

Given that Twitter… read more

Easy Time Tracking and Invoicing with FreshBooks

There’s quite a few invoicing apps out there, many of which do a fantastic job. One of my favorites though, and the one I actually use personally is FreshBooks. It’s arguably the best time tracking and invoicing web app available, certainly making billing far less painful.

Several Freelancers I’ve spoke with… read more

Inspiration: Amazing 3D Typography

Three-dimensional typography is something we’ve seen a lot of recently, and it doesn’t seem to be dying down, either. This post showcases a huge collection of 3D typography, and we have no doubt whatsoever that it is going inspire!

So, how is this magnificent typography produced? There are actually a handful… read more

3 Easy Steps to Improve YouTube on Your Mac

What a great service YouTube is. It’s all too easy to lose sight of how revolutionary it was when it first launched. It broke all kinds of rules and expectations of how we watch video, and how we relate to its distribution. It opened up broadcasting, allowing… read more

14 Fresh and Useful jQuery Plugins

jQuery has changed the way developers write JavaScript and the way users interact with websites and web applications. If you’re a developer, you know what a joy working with jQuery can be, especially the convenience of plugins. In this post, we’ve rounded up 14 fresh and useful jquery plugins that… read more

How Companies Can Use Sentiment Analysis to Improve Their Business

Maria Ogneva is the Director of Social Media at Biz360, a social media monitoring, measurement and engagement platform. You can follow her on Twitter at @themaria or @biz360, or find her musings on the company blog and her personal blog.

Automated sentiment analysis has recently been the focus of an… read more

iSyndica:Upload Photos to Multiple Stock Photography Sites from One place

Stock photography and videography has become a decent profession in recent years and many talented photographers earn online by selling their work. Clicking photos and videos is fun and interesting, but to sell them is not an easy job. You must have a portfolio and a solid… read more

Make Your Desktop Come Alive with GeekTool

GeekTool is a really neat preference panel that allows widget-like functionality on a highly customizable level.

Unfortunately, if you aren’t particularly geeky, this app can be a bit confusing to get up and running. Luckily enough, here at AppStorm there’s definitely no shortage of geeks such as myself to help… read more

15 Uniform Payment Options Icon Sets for Ecommerce Design

A small but often overlooked aspect of most ecommerce sites designs are the flat and bland payment options icons (Visa, Mastercard, Paypal…). From a usability standpoint the icons do need to be instantly recognized by the user, and you can understand why designers opt to use standard icon designs rather… read more

Quick Look: Pagico Professional

Quick Look posts are paid submissions offering only a brief overview of an app. Vote in the polls below if you think this app is worth an in-depth AppStorm review!

In this Quick Look, we’re highlighting Pagico. The developer describes Pagico as a personal database that combines resource management and task… read more

The Perfect Office #33

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?

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Clash of the Titans Text Effect in Photoshop

A few weeks ago watched Clash of the Titans. The movie was okay, I have to admit, I was expecting much more, but it was awesome to see some huge monsters and mythologic creatures battling in this epic movie. However in the end of the movie, when the credits started… read more

A Showcase of 40 Spiffy Mac App Icons

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Ning: Failures, Lessons and Six Alternatives

Ning, the network of social networks that boasted 20 million visitors a month, is making massive staff cutbacks and has announced a complete end to free services for its users. Those who pay for premium services will be asked to pay more, and those who are getting their social… read more

6 Best iPad Apps for Business Users

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

Since the iPad was released, more than 450,000 devices have been sold. While some may decry the lack of a physical keyboard and the App Store… read more

HOW TO: Give Your iPhone a Spring Clean

Megan Berry is a Marketing Manager for Klout, the standard measure of online influence. She also blogs at The Huffington Post and Brazen Careerist. You can follow her on Twitter as @meganberry.

Do you have 11 screens (or more) on your iPhone and sometimes come across apps you don’t even… read more

Robert Lindström: Illustrator, art director and designer.

Robert started his career as an Art Director at Paregos in 1998. He quickly created himself a name as a talented designer by winning the Prix D’Italia award in 1999 for Best innovative solution with the website of the Swedish TV-show Mosquito . Since then he founded his own interactive… read more

Absolutely Amazing 3D Computer Graphic Artworks That Make You Say Wow

Here is an interesting post on Detailed CG artwork that we have carefully compiled after browsing the internet for several days. 3D computer graphics or CG always produces the most dazzling and implausible effect, and this is the main reason why it is so popular and everyone loves 3D Computer… read more

Best of the Week #115

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

40+ Essential iPhone Apps for Freelance Web Designers

For one reason or another, a lot of freelancer designer use iPhone for their daily work. As a full-time freelancer and part-time geek, I also like to manage my daily activities with applications on iPhone too. iPhone based applications have many advantages over software that you have to download and… read more

MacTastik Weekly #63

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HOW TO: Boost Your SEO with a YouTube Channel

Mitchell Harper is co-founder of BigCommerce, a leading provider of shopping cart software used by more than 40,000 organizations worldwide. Mitchell has written and published over 300 articles relating to software development, marketing, business, social media and entrepreneurship.

While many companies are still focusing SEO efforts on their websites,… read more

Useful Design Tips For Your iPad App

With tools like Appcelerator’s Titanium and some JavaScript programming skill, creating native iPhone and iPad apps is simple. The danger is in not being always on the look-out for the kind of design pitfalls that plague many products in the App Store. In this post, we’ll consider some design tips… read more

Yojimbo: Your Low-Friction Information Organizer

When I reviewed Together a couple of months ago, several commenters noted its similarity to Yojimbo, and suggested that we take a look. Of course I’d heard of Yojimbo before: it’s one of those near-legendary apps that the Great and the Good of the Mac world seem to swear… read more

Adobe Production Premium CS5 by Seagulls Fly

Seagulls Fly is one of the most creative studios I know, I simply love those guys and everything they do. They are from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and are specialized in state-of-the-art manipulation, photo retouch, 2D and 3D illustration, animation, web design and post production. We have already posted about… read more

The Designer Who Delivers

Whether you design and code websites all by yourself or run a small business with a pool of talent, you will always face the challenge of how much to work on a design and UI before passing the mock-ups on to the developer? Moreover, how much visual work needs to… read more

Six Twitter App Models That Stand a Chance

Rounding off the first-ever Twitter developer conference, Chirp, was a lightning-fast roundup of a few apps the Twitter team found fascinating enough to showcase for the 1000-hacker crowd. Each team got exactly 140 seconds to present their wares, and all showcasing apps were judged by an all-star lineup that… read more

Daily Inspiration #484

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

35+ Rockstar Mac Software Developers and Their Apps

Every time I find an application that I really like, I immediately check out the other applications from the same developer. You’ll find that more often than not, there is a theme (visual or practical) that ties all their applications together in such a way that if you like one… read more

Quick Look: Radium Internet Radio

Quick Look posts are paid submissions offering only a brief overview of an app. Vote in the polls below if you think this app is worth an in-depth AppStorm review!

In this Quick Look, we’re highlighting Radium. The developer describes Radium as an internet radio player that’s designed from the ground… read more

Essential Guidelines for Featured Content in Web Design

As the mountain of digital content grows, all websites are looking for capabilities that help them to provide dynamic and even personalized online experiences of their visitors. Commercially-oriented sites need these capabilities so they can merchandise and monetize content, products, and services more effectively. If you surf the web for… read more

The Virgin Atlantic Airways Blog: A Case Study

Working with a company as large as Virgin Atlantic was something of a dream come true for me. I think a lot of web designers aspire to it.

Over the last few months, I was fortunate enough to be given the opportunity to fulfill this dream.

I was about… read more

Daily Inpiration #483

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

How Companies Should Approach the New Twitter Advertising Model

Dallas Lawrence is Chair of the Social and Digital Media Practice at Levick Strategic Communications. Connect with him on Twitter @dallaslawrence.

By now, everyone has heard about Twitter’s move into the paid advertising world. This week’s announcement that companies will be allowed to pay to have their posts lead search… read more

Roughly Speaking: Character Design Sketching Approaches

Character design comes in many styles, but they all start with the rough sketch. Often overlooked in online tutorials, technique and process videos, they are the foundation to creating quality characters. The following is an overview of rough sketches from some fantastic character design artists, with many different styles and… read more

Beautiful Illustrations by Pablo Bisoglio

Pablo Bisoglio is a visual artist and illustrator based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has illustrated numerous works for a range of international publishers and magazines, including: Wired (USA) Ford Magazine (Argentina), Young Creative Network (UK), Fortune-Time inc. (USA), Grupo de Revistas La Nacion (Argentina) Panasonic (UK), Roger (UK), Teachersmag… read more

What If Oscars Were Given To Movie Websites?

Many of us today probably use the Web to book tickets and find information about movies. By selling tickets and entertaining visitors, websites help movies succeed at the box office and earn public approval. And yet, website developers don’t get any public recognition for the success of movies. Isn’t it… read more

50 Social Bookmarking Icon Sets for Bloggers – Part 2

This is an update on a post we published last year entitled 50 Social Service and Bookmarking Icon Sets for Bloggers, an enormous collection of only the best social icon-sets. Today’s update is no different, all of the icons are fresh, of the highest design quality and, as you will… read more

How To Design Your House With Live Interior Pro

Live Interior 3D Pro is a powerful and feature-rich application for designing and building both the interior and basic exterior of a home. Though the graphics are by no means photorealistic, there are some primitive rendering capabilities that make it fairly easy to create impressive images.

This review will give a… read more

10 Fresh Tips for Community Managers

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Most community managers are well-versed in the basics of social media engagement. We all know how to deal with trolls and how to create conversations. Here are some interesting and unorthodox… read more

Apple Unveils New MacBook Pro, Now With Intel Core i5 and i7 Processors

After today’s (expected) downtime, the Apple Online Store came back with a slew of refreshed 15.4” and 17” MacBooks Pro, which are now powered by Intel’s Core i5 and Core i7 CPUs, while the 13” Pro is still hanging on to Core 2 Duo.

It’s an all-around refresh of the… read more

Time-Savers: 400+ Stock Images, Retro Vectors

Stock images can save you many hours of work on illustration and allow you to focus your attention on the important task of designing. Finding the right vector for you, however, is a completely different matter, and can sometimes take just as long as creating a vector image yourself!… read more

Apple Store is Down [Update: Refreshed MacBooks Pro Are Here]

Update: it’s back, and yes, the new MacBook Pros are now available.

Once again, it’s a time of anticipation for Apple fans everywhere as the Apple Store is currently down.

It can mean nothing, of course, but with all the MacBook Pro rumors that have been flying around lately, you never… read more

eReader Faceoff: Amazon Kindle vs. Apple iBooks

It’s time once again for another edition of our long-running Faceoff Series, wherein we pit two similar or competing web services, gadgets, apps and more against each other in a head-to-head battle for supremacy amongst Mashable readers. This week it’s a war for best electronic book reading experience between… read more

Latest Flip Camcorder Unveiled: Touchscreen and Slide-Up Design

Tonight, Cisco-owned Flip has announced a new addition to the company’s highly popular line of web video-friendly cameras. The SlideHD features a slide-up touchscreen and new navigation. This model, which can record up to four hours of HD video at a time, will retail for around $279.

The device features… read more

20 Beautiful Script Fonts for Your Designs

Since script fonts are based on the fluid stokes of natural hand writing, they’re a great way to add a personal touch to a design. The only issue I have with script fonts is that I’ve always had trouble finding good ones when I need them. Assuming you may have… read more

Quick Look: Folx Downloader

Quick Look posts are paid submissions offering only a brief overview of an app. Vote in the polls below if you think this app is worth an in-depth AppStorm review!

In this Quick Look, we’re highlighting Folx. The developer describes Folx as an internet download manager and a torrent client for… read more

Mashable’s Weekly Guide to Upcoming Social Media Events

It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.

Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month before your event to establish… read more

How To Effectively Manage Your Projects And Teams Online

If you are into finishing a project successfully and also on time you need to figure out a good way to communicate with your team members. Such as, “notifying every one of their tasks”, “keeping track of the progress of projects” or sometimes just a “sincere message… read more

Back-in-Time: Making the Most of Time Machine

Time Machine is one of Apple’s greatest inventions – instead of dreading backups and regretting not having one when your disk fails, you can now just switch to your backup disk and restore it.

But as comfortable as the backing up itself is, it can still be tricky to find the… read more

Last.fm Outsources On-Demand Streaming to Spotify, MOG and Others

Popular music streaming service Last.fm has just implemented a major change in service, announcing today that they are aborting on-demand streaming and instead directing listeners to new music partners MOG, Spotify, The Hype Machine, We7 and VEVO.

Beginning today, Last.fm users will notice new beta track pages that offer up… read more

Opera Hits 100 Million Users

Opera announced today that, as of March 2010, the browser has more than 100 million users. The desktop and mobile versions of Opera have more than 50 million users each.

This announcement comes just a month after Opera announced that its desktop downloads had tripled since the launch of the… read more

Steve Jobs: No iPhone OS 4.0 Support for Original iPhone

In an e-mail to a German customer, Steve Jobs confirmed what most of us surmised last week: There will be no iPhone OS 4.0 support for original 2G iPhone owners.

At last week’s iPhone OS 4.0 announcement, Apple let iPhone 3G and second-generation iPod touch owners know that those devices… read more

Popular Digital Cameras and Gear

It is that time of the year when we take a look at what Digital SLRs, Point and Shoot Digital Cameras, Lenses, Digital Camera Accessories and Digital Photography Books have been popular among dPS readers over the first quarter of 2010.

Popular DSLRS

This last quarter saw the usual dominance of Canon… read more

Clever Google Maps Manipulations by Christoph Niemann

Tell me this isn’t the most original thing you’ve seen all week. And don’t expect anything less than original from Christoph Niemann, a regular illustrator over at The New York Times online with his own opinion blog – Abstract City.

Christoph illustrates in the cartographic style of Google Maps, and he… read more

45 Humorous Examples of 3D CG Creatures Artworks

Here is a funny collection of some interesting, beautiful and well-designed 3D CG Creatures Artworks. Although we have already posted some articles on computer graphics, this post is unique and original. In this post, we have compiled a list of CG Creatures Artworks that are very attention-grabbing and just nice… read more

Mobile Web and App Development Testing and Emulation Tools

There are almost twice as many mobile phones in the world than there are computers. With that phenomenal thought in mind you can understand why developing mobile apps is so lucrative, its a huge market with its users demanding ever more powerful and functional applications bridging the gap between mobiles… read more

50 Hot Designer Mac OS X Desktops

Your search for that new wallpaper just got a whole lot easier! Everyone loves a great wallpaper to up the visual awesomeness of your machine. So here’s a collection of 50 of the best I’ve found on the net! Thanks to these wallpapers, your desktop is guaranteed to kick much… read more

50 Inspiring Examples of Hand Drawn Elements in Web Design

Hand drawn elements are great way to give a website a unique look. You can do that by adding a nice hand drawn illustration as a background, a stylish hand draw font, icon, line work, characters or any other element you might think of. Hand drawn elements can give your… read more

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Brings Sexy Back

Adobe will unveil its new Creative Suite 5 on Monday April 12th at 8AM PDT, just a few hours from now.

You can catch the official launch online here, however, if you can’t wait, we’ll be revealing all the juicy details before the official launch… right now!

The Adobe team kindly invited… read more

The Perfect Office #32

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?

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Not only gadgets and equipment, but also furniture,… read more

Twitter to Developers: We Needed to Acquire Tweetie to Grow

Twitter’s Ryan Sarver posted a note to the Twitter Developer Talk Google Group today responding to growing concerns by folks in the Twitter application development ecosystem.

Some developers are afraid Twitter is directly competing with them with its acquisitions of tools that served functions that have traditionally been provided by… read more

IKEA’s Parisian Guerilla Marketing

IKEA really went all out on their latest campaign. This time they set out to the Parisian subway to prove the quality and durability of their products, which are often times deemed cheap and disposable.

For two weeks, four subway stations in Paris were fully furnished, with couches and lamps, introducing… read more

10 Amazing Musical Instrument iPhone Apps

As anyone who has browsed the App Store will know, musical instrument apps don’t have their own category, but are in fact spread out across “Music” and “Entertainment,” alongside what seems like an unholy number of fart- and burp-themed efforts.

To separate the proper musical apps from some less desirable… read more

Tweetie 2 For Mac is Coming

If you’re concerned that Twitter’s acquisition of the popular iPhone app Tweetie will halt development on Tweetie for Mac, don’t be.

Amid concerns from Mac users, Tweetie developer Atebits responded on the MacHeist forums today:

Hey all – first of all I apologize for any confusion, things have been a bit… read more

5 Ways Facebook Changed Dating (For The Worse)

Facebook can mess up your life in a whole bunch of ways. It can get you fired or evicted, plunge you into debt with its addictive games, and even (yeah, right) infect you with syphilis. We wouldn’t look at all of those as serious threats, but we all know… read more

Eye Contact in Photography

image by kkelly2007

In our 10 Ways to Take Stunning Portraits tutorial I talked about ‘Playing with Eye contact’ (point #2) as being one technique to add change the feel of an image.

Today I was flipping through an old photography magazine (called ‘photography focus guide’) and a quote about eye contact… read more

24 Essential Social Media Resources You May Have Missed

Another week down, and another chance to gather all the social media wisdom from the experts and put it to good use for your personal brand, your business, or for plain old fun.

Check out these indispensable resources which include an exclusive peek inside YouTube’s inner sanctum, a swath of… read more

MacTastik Weekly #62

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Holistic Web Browsing: Trends Of The Future

The future of the Web is everywhere. The future of the Web is not at your desk. It’s not necessarily in your pocket, either. It’s everywhere. With each new technological innovation, we continue to become more and more immersed in the Web, connecting the ever-growing layer of information in the… read more

BREAKING: Twitter Acquires Tweetie

Twitter has just announced that it has acquired Atebits, the company behind the Tweetie iPhone app and Mac desktop application.

In a blog post, Twitter CEO Evan Williams announced the move to acquire Tweetie and its creator, Loren Brichter. There is no word yet as to what Twitter will… read more

How Publishers Plan to Monetize iPad Content

Macala Wright Lee is the Founder of FashionablyMarketing.Me, one of the web’s leading digital marketing blogs for fashion, luxury and lifestyle industries. You can follower her on twitter at @FashMarketing or @Macala.

Apple announced earlier this week that it had sold more than 300,000 iPads in the U.S. on the… read more

10 Free Services to Monitor Your Site’s Uptime

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

You can’t sit staring at your monitor 24 hours a day to keep an eye on your website(s), so thank the heavens for the free services out there that do it… read more

New “Sex and the City 2″ Trailer Hits the Web

Yahoo Movies has posted the newest trailer for the upcoming film, Sex and the City 2. The sequel to the 2008 box office hit comes to theaters on May 28, 2010.

While Sex and the City 2 has the obligatory Facebook Fan Page, the film’s website is still pretty barren… read more

5 Fun Weekend Photography Projects [Part 2]

If you’re looking for some fun and creative photography challenges this weekend check out the continuation of our previous post of fun weekend photography projects.

1. Self Portraits

Image by John McNab

Many of us are less comfortable in front of the camera than behind it, but if you are lacking a willing… read more

How and Why to Upgrade Your Mac’s RAM

Today I’ll walk you through the potentially frightening process of upgrading your Mac’s performance through increasing your RAM. We’ll start with a brief discussion of what RAM is and why you should upgrade, before taking you through every step of the upgrade process so you can be confident you’re doing… read more

Lessons from Hollywood: On Getting Projects Green-Lit & Spec Work

For over a year now I’ve been working with a well-known producer/writer/director as his Internet marketing manager on two movies; one in development and the other now in pre-production. It is an interesting experience that has taught me loads about what not to do as a freelancer as well… read more

Chinese Zodiac Crayon Carvings by Diem Chau

You know what I really love? When people think outside the box. When they step outside constraints and technological parameters and create beautiful things with the ordinary. Ordinary things are a very unordinary medium in today’s time. Crayons are primitive–a thing of the past. The internet is pretty in right… read more

Quick Look: Billings Time Tracking/Invoicing

Quick Look posts are paid submissions offering only a brief overview of an app. Vote in the polls below if you think this app is worth an in-depth AppStorm review!

In this Quick Look, we’re highlighting Billings. Put simply, Billings’ logical workflow and intuitive interface make quoting, invoicing, and time tracking… read more

The 10 Best “Get a Mac” Ads

Love them or hate them, Apple’s iconic “Get a Mac” ads have made a huge impact on pop culture. Today, we’ve learned that the campaign is slated for the deadpool.

In an interview with the Onion’s A.V. Club, actor Justin Long was asked about the status of the campaign. He… read more

Google and Facebook Pages Become One Artist’s Gallery Exhibit

AllThingsD’s Peter Kafka has uploaded a video interview with a New York artist named Ken Solomon, who has replicated Google Image Search results and Facebook profile pages by hand for an exhibit that will be on display at Chelsea’s Josee Bienvenu Gallery from April 8 through May 15.

Solomon strung… read more

10 Excellent Applications To Organize Yourself

Do you face problems scheduling a get together or remembering your chores? If yes then you are one of the countless people who need a little extra help to better organize themselves.

Over the course of my blogging I have written about various programs and tools that help us improve our… read more

10 Essential Social Media Tools for B2B Marketers

This series is supported by the MarketingProfs B2B Forum, where you’ll learn the ins-and-outs of social media as part of your overall B2B marketing mix. Register today!

Like anything else, social media marketing is easier, more efficient and more effective if the marketer has the right set of tools. While… read more

3 Reasons to Get Excited About the Apple Game Center

This summer, the iPhone and iPod touch will get an operating system update (iPhone OS 4.0) that will include a new service called the Game Center. The service will launch on the iPad this fall, too.

The Game Center will resemble Microsoft’s Xbox Live and Sony’s PlayStation Network with leaderboards,… read more

iPhone 4.0 Event: What Apple Might Announce

Apple is hosting an event at 1 p.m. EST to unveil the next-generation iPhone 4.0 OS.

Take a look at some of the features Apple might just unveil today:

Multitasking

Last year, it was all about copy and paste; this year, it’s all about multitasking. While native iPhone applications like iPod, Mail… read more

60 Fascinating AppStorm Reader Setups

After featuring our huge roundup of stylish Mac setups last week, we then asked you to submit your own setup for inclusion in another post. We’ve gathered 60 of your setups over the past week, and found out about some great new gadgets and software in the process.

Without further ado,… read more

Turning Your Knowledge into Products

One of the big downsides of the freelance world is that when you’re not doing billable work, your income goes to zero. So, there’s a lot of talk about creating income streams that aren’t dependent on your selling your time.

Turning your knowledge into a product – or a product line… read more