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

‘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

15+ Best Desktop Publishing Resources and Beginner Tips

Desktop publishing has become a critical business skill today, and the use of the Internet means that creation of print content is no longer the only consideration.

Now the documents you create likely have to be displayed in both print and on the web.

This article looks at how to determine… 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

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

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

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

Perché Android uccide la concorrenza

Il titolo è provocatorio. Non me ne vogliate. Soprattutto ora che mi sono convertito da iOS al sistema operativo mobile di Google e finalmente, dopo tanto tempo, ho fatto pace con una fetta consistente di lettori di questo blog che smaniano per Android.

Niente di personale, intendiamoci. Le solite scaramucce da… read more

What It Takes to Build a Thriving Design Business on the Web

The Leaders in Design Series is supported by Volvo.

Jesse Thomas founded the creative agency JESS3 as a student in 2007. In a few short years, he managed to climb an impressive entrepreneurial ladder. The company has completed projects for Facebook, Google and NIKEiD, among dozens of other… 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

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

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

5 Key Digital Media and Advertising Trends for 2012 [VIDEO]

The past year didn’t see the emergence of the next Facebook or Twitter. Rather, it saw social and digital spread to new places and along the way enabled a wave of new opportunities for content creators and marketers.

Recently,… read more

20 Amazing Implementations of HTML5 Canvas

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In this article, we explore some of the most awe-inspiring implementations of HTML5′s canvas element so far. From all of the new HTML5 tags, canvas is likely to be the most powerful.
In a nutshell, the canvas element is a drawable region defined in… read more

7 Free Office Tools to Save Non-Profits Money

Giving programs and donations to non-profits are generally the first thing that companies scale back on when a struggling economy forces budget cuts. Fortunately there are great no-cost ways for non-profits to continue to administrate and build their organization in spite of leaner times. One simple solution that will shave… read more

Kaboodle Founders Launch Mobile Fashion Marketplace

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: Poshmark

Quick Pitch: Purchase and sell pre-owned apparel and accessories via your iPhone.

Genius Idea: Four-and-a-half years after… read more

Microsoft Reveals Windows Store in Bid to Crash Tablet Party

Developer-friendly revenue sharing, new app capabilities unique to Windows 8 and easy compatibility with touch or mouse-and-keyboard devices were among the upcoming Windows Store features that Microsoft touted at a special preview event for developers and media Tuesday evening in San Francisco.

The Windows Store will debut with the launch… read more

Apple, Nintendo and Kodak: Three Innovators and How They Faced Extinction

Today I’d like to talk about three tech companies that have each had their ups and downs. Apple, Nintendo and Kodak: How are these companies alike? How are they different?

We’ll discuss how an industry leader falls from grace and whether or not it’s possible to be saved once that happens…. read more

Beyonce’s Baby Inspired More Tweets Per Second Than Steve Jobs’ Passing

The onstage confirmation of Beyonce’s pregnancy during MTV’s Video Music Awards shattered Twitter’s tweets-per-second record in August. To this day, the event still tops the TPS chart, ahead of significant moments involving Steve Jobs, FIFA Women’s World Cup, New Year’s Day in Japan, Osama bin Laden’s death and the Super… read more

Microsoft Delays Major Xbox Update, Without Explanation

People awaiting Microsoft’s shiny new user interface for Xbox 360 will have to keep holding their breaths. The update, which adds the tiles aesthetic seen on Windows phones and Windows 8, was supposed to go live around 10 a.m. EST on Dec 6.

Larry Hyrb, a member of the Xbox team,… read more

Add Friends’ Facebook Photos To Your Ringtones With Facetones

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: Vringo

Quick Pitch: Vringo’s app Facetones plays video slideshows of friends’ Facebook photos when you call or… read more

Microsoft to Give Sneak Peek at Windows 8 App Store

Microsoft will reveal more details about its Windows 8 app store at an event in San Francisco on Tuesday. Members of the media and invited developers will learn about the company’s new store during a special two-hour presentation.

The new Windows Store is expected to launch after Windows 8 goes… read more

Poll Your Audience the Right Way With PopSurvey

Online surveys are a drag. Usually, they’re just a series of questions on a drab-looking page that are no fun to answer, and they make you wish you hadn’t agreed to fill out the survey in the first place. That’s probably why market researchers, advertising firms, online stores, and corporations… read more

3 New Digital Takes On Gift Buying

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.

With the holiday… read more

Carrier IQ Is Misunderstood, Not Evil

Look out! Your phone knows what you’re doing. It has your contacts, email messages, SMS text, pictures and video. It gets worse. Your carrier — AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon — has to handle some of this information. You hit “send” and then their networks pass along personal email messages to… read more

Best of the Week #199

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

JolieBox Brings Beauty Samples by Subscription Service to Europe

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: JolieBox

Quick Pitch: Get four to six sample-sized cosmetics products delivered to your door each month.

Genius… read more

VMware Fusion 4: Run Windows on Your Mac, Lion-Style

As fantastic as the Mac OS is, there are plenty of reasons you might want to run Windows from time to time: maybe you need to run some old school XP software for work, or you want to try out some PC games, or (like me) you have to test… read more

Build a Private Social Network for Your College With Student Life Network

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: Student Life Network

Quick Pitch: Student Life Network is a private student social network.

Genius Idea: Builds… read more

Showcase Of Unusual And Creative Product Designs

Today we are bringing a collection of some unusual and creative product designs that we collected from the net. This is the fact that bizarre and unusual things and designs sooner or later always get the attention regardless of where they are placed. This is the reason why some extremely… read more

Integrating Amazon S3 With WordPress

Computing is full of buzzwords, “cloud computing” being the latest one. But unlike most trends that fizzle out after the initial surge, cloud computing is here to stay. This article goes over Amazon’s S3 cloud storage service and guides you to implementing a WordPress plugin that backs up your WordPress… read more

Can Gamifying a Restaurant Get You Better Service?

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: Objective Logistics

Quick Pitch: Objective Logistics’ software, Muse, rewards waitstaff and sales staff for good work.

Genius Idea:… read more

Aussie Court Gives Samsung Galaxy Tab the All-Clear, But Is It Too Late?

A reversal of fortunes, of sorts, for Samsung in its ongoing case against Apple in Australia: an appeals court unanimously decided Wednesday that Samsung can go ahead with sales of its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet, possibly as soon as Friday. But even with sales getting the all-clear, some analysts seem… read more

Verizon’s FiOS TV Coming to an Xbox Near You

Microsoft’s Xbox 360 has been having one heck of a week. Rumors about the next-generation console and Kinect peripheral are building serious buzz, and the console experienced its best sales week ever over Thanksgiving with more than 960,000 sold. Now,… read more

Microsoft Xbox Kinect Ad Pays Hommage To Hacks

The new Microsoft Kinect ad shows how the simple gaming device has expanded to something much more due to innovative thinking. The commercial shows how “unexpected things” like program hacks have made the motion sensor detector applicable not just in gaming, but also in the arts, science, education and medicine.

While… read more

Add Panoramic Photo Tours To Any Website With TourWrist

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: TourWrist

Quick Pitch: TourWrist turns panoramic photos into virtual tours that are easy to embed on websites.

Genius… read more

Bieber Beats Kim Kardashian as Most Searched Person of 2011

It’s no secret that the world caught Bieber fever in 2011. Teen pop star Justin Bieber was the most searched person of the year on Bing.com, knocking out Kim Kardashian for the coveted top spot.

Search engine Bing announced on Monday… read more

New Kinect Will Read Lips and Know if You’re Sad [RUMOR]

Open the pod bay doors, Kinect 2. The next version of Kinect — Microsoft’s hands-free, gesture-controlled gaming peripheral for Xbox 360 — is rumored to have such high processing power that it can read lips and even detect the emotions of its user.

If that sounds scary, well, yeah, it’s a… read more

Easier Is Better Than Better

In his book, The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz comes to an interesting conclusion involving human choice.

“People choose not on the basis of what’s most important, but on what’s easiest to evaluate.”

Common sense would dictate that if you were given a list of choices, you would choose the one that… read more

3 Tools for Finding What You’re Looking For

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’ve… read more

Best of the Week #198

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

Ex-Googlers Launch iPhone App for Tapping Into Friends’ Reviews

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: Stamped

Quick Pitch: An iPhone app that lets you find and share recommendations with people you trust.

Genius… read more

Social Media Dashboard MarketMeSuite Helps Turn Followers Into Customers

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: MarketMeSuite

Quick Pitch: MarketMeSuite is a social media marketing dashboard that allows businesses and teams to manage… read more

15 Helpful Resources for the Holiday Season

It’s that time of year again – time to gather around the dinner table, race through crowds to get our hands on this year’s best deals and start crossing off items on our holiday shopping lists.

Whether you’re looking forward to shopping or giving, these resources will help you celebrate… read more

Black Friday Roundup, Google+ TV Spot, Asus Transformer Prime Pre-Orders: Today’s Top Stories

Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. We’re keeping our eyes on three particular stories of interest today.

Black Friday Deals Go Live

Black Friday sales have begun in the U.S., and a… read more

Microsoft Cuts Prices of Kinect, Xbox and More for Black Friday

Microsoft has announced its Black Friday sale over at Microsoft Store, offering decent discounts on the Kinect, Xbox, select PCs, software and games.

The Kinect sensor is available as a part of the Kinect Sensor Holiday Bundle, which comes with Fruit Ninja, Gunstringer and Kinect Adventures, for $99. The Xbox… read more

Meet the 2011 Mashable Awards Nominees for Tech

The Mashable Awards celebrates the best of the digital world — and as such, there are a whole heap of technology categories. You’ll find them replete with Android, iPhone and iPad devices, as befits a year that saw the iOS-Android battle heat up on a number of fronts. But the… read more

Nokia Delists From Frankfurt Stock Exchange

Nokia has been working through a massive cost-cutting downsizing program, laying off thousands of employees, closing plants, and outsourcing operations. On Thursday comes news of another consolidation: the company is delisting from the Frankfurt stock exchange in Germany.

The company says that it has applied to stop trading in Frankfurt because… read more

Web Apps We’re Thankful For in 2011

Happy Thanksgiving! For Americans around the globe (including your editor in Thailand), Thanksgiving a time of family and friends and football and more food. And, of course, it’s the time we’re supposed to take a few moments to think of all the things we’re thankful for. Most of us… read more

Startup Helps ‘Little Fish’ Businesses Make a Big Splash in Marketing

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: Mogulfish

Quick Pitch: Mogulfish helps small businesses overcome the “little fish disadvantage” that is, having small budgets… read more

Microsoft Looking to Buy a Piece of Yahoo, Again [REPORT]

In what could be the first sign of a potential buyout, Microsoft has signed a confidentiality agreement with Yahoo to get access to the company’s financial information, Reuters reported Wednesday.

Citing a “source familiar with the matter,” the report says Microsoft is one of many companies now combing through Yahoo’s business…. read more

Jimmy Fallon Tweets Apology to Michele Bachmann [VIDEO]

Like several celebrities before him, Jimmy Fallon has tweeted an apology. The host of Late Night said sorry this week to Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann for music played during her entrance.

Bachmann walked on stage Monday while the show’s live band,… read more

DisplAir: Minority Report’s Gesture Interface, Only Real. And Russian

Ever since Microsoft Kinect debuted last year, controller-free gesture interfaces have gone mainstream. As popular as it is, the tech could stand some improvement: it would be more precise if users were able to manipulate 3D images in midair, a la… read more

What We Couldn’t Work Without

Every freelancer out there has a bag of tricks they wouldn’t want to do work without—whether it’s their computer, useful software, or their favorite radio station. Find out what sorts of things help FreelanceSwitch.com contributors during their workday.

Perhaps their advice will inspire you to try something new, or… read more

Where in the World Are Your Twitter Followers? TweepsMap Knows

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: TweepsMap

Quick Pitch: TweepsMap provides a visual, interactive map of your Twitter followers by country, state or… read more

Apple News Roundup: Black Friday, Jobs’ Disney Shares and Gaining on HP

As we enter into the holiday season and approach the close of 2012, Apple continues to make headlines all over the world. Join us as we take a quick look at a few prominent stories that cropped up this week.

Apple’s Black Friday Sale

Apple is promising good things for Black… read more

Billion Dollar Brothers: Entrepreneurial Lessons From the Duo Behind ‘Guitar Hero’

Bernard Moon is co-founder & CEO of Vidquik, a new web conferencing and sales solution platform, and blogs at Silicon Moon.

I met the Huang brothers, Charles and Kai, a few years ago through a mutual friend over BBQs and casual poker nights, and Kai is an occasional StarCraft partner if my… read more

Can Vertical Acuity Stop Your Site Losing Visitors?

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: Vertical Acuity

Quick Pitch: Vertical Acuity is a self-serve content syndication platform.

Genius Idea: Letting a website’s visitors… read more

Bill Gates Testifies: Microsoft Beat WordPerfect Fair and Square

Bill Gates testified in a Salt Lake City courtroom Monday in a lawsuit that accuses Microsoft of — surprise! — monopolistic behavior. The accuser: former WordPerfect owner Novell.

If you’re old enough to remember Buffy the Vampire Slayer as a lame movie, before it became a hip TV show, you… read more

Google Updates Chromebook OS and Lowers Prices

Everyone’s busy trying to figure out which tablet they’ll buy this holiday season, but there are other options. At least Google sees it that way, as it commences a fresh Google Chromebook push with an updated interface and some more attractive… read more

29 Simple yet Intuitive Mobile Web Designs

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There is no doubt mobile web has taken the world by storm. Even more people today are equipped with smartphones running on iOS or Android, both of which provide exceptional web browsing platforms. And this number is only expected to increase as the average population wages… read more

Is Windows Phone the Best Mobile Platform You’re Not Using?

In the world of smartphones, Windows Phone 7 is barely a blip. It has, by some estimates less than 6% market share. Android now owns half the market and iOS about 26%. This isn’t right. You see, the Windows Phone 7 is a good — possibly great — mobile platform…. read more

3 New Takes On Personalized Web Video

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’ve… read more

Jewelry Startup Reinvents Direct Selling for the Digital Age

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: Chloe + Isabel

Quick Pitch: A fashion jewelry company reinventing the direct sales model online.

Genius Idea: Chantel… read more

30 Amazing T-Shirt Designs for Inspiration

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As creative professionals are always seeking inspiration from all kind of medias, the t-shirt design field community is huge and highly inspiring. There are lots of communities created out there where you can create and share your ground-breaking t-shirt. The most memorable t-shirt designs are… read more

Who Should You Follow on Social Media? Proliphiq Knows The Answer

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: Proliphiq

Quick Pitch: Proliphiq filters social media clutter and focuses on what’s important to you.

Genius Idea: Social… read more

Cloud Music Showdown: Amazon vs. Apple vs. Google [REVIEW]

It’s been a huge week for digital music lockers. First Apple made iTunes Match available to U.S. customers, then Google Music launched. These two services are competing with with Amazon’s Cloud Player (which is integrated with the new Kindle Fire) in a new realm of cloud music storage.

The three major… read more

Windows 8 Will Make Automatic Updates Far Less Painful

Microsoft is re-architecting the process for automatic updates in Windows 8, with a focus on minimizing restarts and reducing interruptions.

Windows Updates have sometimes been a pain point for users. The update pop-ups can interrupt a movie or a video game, and the automatic restarts can result in lost data or… read more

Facebook Reveals its User-Tracking Secrets

For the first time, Facebook has revealed details about how it tracks users across the web.

Through interviews with Facebook engineering director Arturo Bejar, Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes, Facebook corporate spokesman Barry Schnitt and Facebook engineering manager Gregg Stefancik, USA Today‘s Byron Acohido was able to compile the most complete picture… read more

Freelance Toolkit: How to Get Started Video Blogging

It was just a few years ago when the major bottleneck for websites was producing content — you had to be an expert in web design AND a good writer to put content on the web. Video production was even more difficult with bandwidth issues, dozens of formats to… read more

JumpTime Changes How Online Publications Measure Content’s Value

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: JumpTime

Quick Pitch: JumpTime analyzes the economic value of content based on both its own advertising value… read more

How to Pick a Server for Your App

The Mobile App Trends Series is sponsored by Sourcebits, a leading product developer for mobile platforms. Sourcebits offers design and development services for iOS, Android, Mobile and Web platforms. Follow Sourcebits on Twitter for recent news and updates.

For mobile app developers, building an app rarely takes place in a… read more

6 Must-Have Tools for Non-Profits

Trite but true: the best things in life are free (or at least, heavily discounted). For cause-driven companies and non-profits, purchasing corporate technology products — and hiring an IT team to manage them — is often out of reach, if not just unwieldy for an organization that’s big on mission… read more

Microsoft Developing New Social Network? [VIDEO]

Screenshots have surfaced of what appears to be a new social networking offering from Microsoft dubbed “Socl.”

First published by The Verge on Wednesday, Microsoft tells Mashable that, “Microsoft’s FUSE Labs is an internal research group working on a… read more

Find Out How “In Demand” You Are in The Job Market With Identified

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: Identified

Quick Pitch: Identified is a professional marketplace that helps users improve their professional marketability.

Genius Idea: Provides… read more

Clipboard Reinvents Copy-and-Paste for the Web [INVITES]

Clipboard wants to help you save and organize what you find on the web, and it’s accomplishing this goal by reinventing what it means to copy and paste.

On the surface, Clipboard looks like a lot of other save-and-share apps, such as Evernote, Clipmarks and Snip.it. However, founder Gary Flake says… read more

The Challenge of Creating Web-Based Identity Standards

John Fontana is the identity evangelist for Ping Identity and editor of the PingTalk Blog. Prior to joining Ping, he spent 11 years as a senior editor at Network World.

Google, Facebook, Yahoo and others all want to be your identity platform on the web. But while it’s certainly convenient to… read more

Linkswitch #91, Facebook Apps, Boost Productivity, Tribal Management

Every other week we roundup some of the highest quality articles and resources that benefit freelancers from across the web. We present these articles here on various helpful topics. This week we have articles on getting going with top Facebook apps, grabbing productivity boosting tools, strategies for managing your… read more

10 Geeky Accessories Celebrating the Iconic Hand Cursor [PICS]

1. Pixelated Hands Sticky Note Pads

What better way to get someone’s attention than these sticky notes?

Cost: $4.99

Click here… read more

3 Free Apps For Getting Things Done

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’ve… read more

Create Your Own Online Clothing Boutique, Earn 10% of Sales

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: read more

Microsoft Takes Windows Phone 7 Marketing Up a Notch With Wild NYC Event [VIDEO]

A number of new Windows Phone devices — including the excellent Focus Flash — launched this week and Microsoft decided to celebrate with a big media blitz in New York City.

Microsoft built a six-story Windows Phone with truly “live” Live tiles in the middle of Midtown Manhattan. As you can… read more

LyX: Produce Great Looking TeX Documents With Ease

TeX is one of the lesser known ways of creating documents as it has mostly extremely specialized uses. The typesetting system was designed and written (mostly) by Donald Knuth during the late 1970′s and is a popular choice for typing documents for two main reasons. The first is that documents… read more

LazyMeter Could Make Your To-Do List a Done List

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: LazyMeter

Quick Pitch: LazyMeter is the cure for the overwhelming to-do list.

Genius Idea: Focuses on daily goals… read more

Lost Steve Jobs Interview Reveals Man on the Cusp of Change

Next week, a nearly 70-minute unedited interview with Steve Jobs will hit select movie theaters for a limited run. The film, titled Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview, is actually an extended interview, recorded in 1995 for the PBS miniseries, Triumph of the Nerds.

Only 10 minutes of this interview ever found… read more

Lucky Mag Wants to Help Women Shop–With Their Phones

“We have one mission only,” says Brandon Holley, editor in chief of Lucky Magazine. “And that is to help women shop.” These days, that means helping women compare prices and manage their shopping lists on their smartphones.

The Lucky Shopper app for iPhone and Android devices purports to do just… read more

Oink Takes Recommendations a Step Further

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: Oink

Quick Pitch: Oink is a recommendation service which lets you recommend precise objects within physical places.

Genius… read more

Cable Companies Battle Digital Divide With $9.95 a Month Broadband

Cable companies Cox, Charter and Time Warner Cable have teamed up with Microsoft and Best Buy in an initiative that will offer broadband Internet to low-income families for $9.95 a month and PCs for $250.

The program, called Connect To Compete, is part of an outreach by the Federal Communications Commission… read more

Establishing Your Grid In Photoshop

Creating a grid is typically one of the very first things you do when starting a design comp. After all, it provides the basic structure on which the rest of your design will lie. In this article, we’ll provide two different methods for efficiently establishing a grid. These methods enable… read more

Boost And Expand Your Professional Network With LunchMeet

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: LunchMeet

Quick Pitch: LunchMeet works with LinkedIn to find professional contacts in your area who are available… read more

Two Schools of Thought: The Key Difference Between Apple and Google

Apple and Google may look similar on the surface, but the companies couldn’t be any more different. That much has become clear to me after reading both the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson and Steven Levy’s In the Plex.

Google and Apple are technology behemoths that bucked the system, created… read more

Weekly Poll: Do You Use a Project Management App?

Do You Use a Project Management App?

Breaking News: There’s another new project management app! Stop the press!

Perhaps not, but it does seem like there’s another new project management web app coming out every day. We’re not complaining: many of the newer ones are really good, bringing fresh new design… read more

Take the Interview Enhances Job Candidate Screening With Video

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: Take the Interview

Quick Pitch: Take the Interview is a job interview service that adds a video… read more

Samsung Focus Flash: A Great Phone, An Awesome Price

Samsung’s new Focus Flash is a sleek, well-designed Windows Phone with a price that might just be enough to bring new smartphone users into the Microsoft fold.

What makes the Samsung Focus Flash remarkable aren’t its specs — though it is a well specced device — or its form factor —… read more

Appstorm’s Beginners Guide to Usenet

There are a lot of ways for getting files (music, video, software) from the Internet. Some of you might use a peer-to-peer network, such as BitTorrent, or a dedicated file hosting service, like RapidShare. These services are great, but Peer-to-Peer can be slow, and a dedicated file hosting service can… read more

3 New Time-Saving Technologies

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

This week we’ve… read more

Retail Startup Unites Tumblr, Content and Emerging Design

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Name: Of a Kind

Quick Pitch: Retail startup sells limited-edition clothing and accessories exclusively on Tumblr.

Genius Idea: Of… read more

Hey Yahoo, Do a Barrel Roll: How Google Wins With Whimsical Tricks

You have to hand it to Google. With one fun little trick that a single engineer probably came up with in his mandated 20% spare time — getting the screen to “do a barrel roll” — the company got enough free media to make a chief marketing officer weep.

It’s… read more

SideTour Brings New Experiences To You, No World Travel Necessary

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Name: SideTour

Quick Pitch: SideTour lets you experience the world with like-minded people.

Genius Idea: Provides a place to… read more

Web Typography 101

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The rise of web fonts has given way to a… read more