Despite the gloom surrounding its stock price of late, Apple delivered another blowout quarter on Tuesday, thanks in large part to iPhone sales. But if you took the iPhone out of the equation, the overall numbers were just OK as Macs had a so-so quarter and iPad sales fell… read more
There’s a trojan out there that tricks computers — both PCs and Macs — into redirecting all their Internet traffic through malicious servers. Even though the trojan’s creators have been stopped and arrested, millions of PCs could still be infected. For those machines, the Internet will cease to exist on… read more
Getting Access
Sign in here to see if you have access to Drive. If you do, you’ll need to… read more
Intel has officially launched its new range of Ivy Bridge quad-core processors and some sources have revealed that Apple is busy eyeing up the new chips for use in its new range of iMacs and MacBook Pros, which are expected to be released this summer. Five new processors are due… read more
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You’ve heard people debate for years the merits of Macs versus Windows PCs, with the occasional Linux user letting you know why they’d use neither. Nowadays, it’s much more common to hear people debating the merits of iOS versus Android, with the… read more
I’m a believer that marketing materials will never go out of style. There’s something to be said when you have something really cool to give to someone else that characterizes you and your business.
I’m not talking about one of those squishy, stress reliever balls or a pen with your… read more
Do you have this dream? You go down to your nearest big newsstand one day and check out all those big, glossy magazines. You flip one of your favorites open…and there’s your byline.
You’ve cracked the competitive world of writing for national magazines.
The good news is, this is not a… read more
I’ve been a gamer for a long time. I’v always been interested in heavy duty PC gaming and console gaming. However, the more time I spend on my Mac and various iOS devices, the more I find that my gaming focus is shifting to lighter weight games that require less… read more
As a freelancer, you are on your own when it comes to keeping track of your finances. And let’s face it, the financial side of things are generally the last thing we want to mess with at the end of a day. As painful as it might be to… read more
You can tell by the number of music-related articles on our blog that it’s one of our favorite topics. It’s not unusual for graphic designers to have a few gig posters included in their portfolios. We scoured the internet for designers with awesome work, and found one whose posters we… read more
Here’s a hobby you’ve probably never considered — making a million edits on Wikipedia.
That’s how Justin Knapp, 29, of Indianapolis, Ind., became the poster boy of Wikipedia editors. The site recognized Knapp’s as the first volunteer editor to reach 1 million edits on the website Friday. The college-educated Knapp told… read more
Brazilian soccer star Kaka is on the verge of becoming the world’s first athlete to amass 10 million followers on Twitter.
The midfielder, who plays for Spain’s Real Madrid club team, was about 30,000 followers short of the milestone as of late Monday afternoon. If Kaka maintains his recent pace, his… read more
Hipster Playing Cards
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Images of the stoic kings, queens and jacks on playing… read more
Microsoft announced an update to its SkyDrive service Monday. Among other features, Microsoft integrated the drive into Windows Explorer and Apple’s Finder so the drive works as an extension of your desktop, and added the ability to access files stored on your drive from the iPad as well as the… read more
This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more
Here’s a great giveaway for all of you Bittbox readers! Our friends from UPrinting.com are back and they are offering a set of 250 pieces die-cut business cards. UPrinting is an online printing company that serves thousands of on-demand printing. They’ve been online since 2000 and have been established as… read more
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Mashable’s mRank is presented by the Samsung Galaxy Note, a smarter phone for a smarter world. Check it out here, follow @SamsungMobileUS or join the conversation via #benoteworthy on Twitter.
Mashable‘s mRank leaderboards track the most buzzed-about movies across the social web. mRank’s technology analyzes a particular term — in this… read more
Adobe has announced a significant switch to a cloud-based version of Creative Suite alongside the launch of the latest version of its popular line of design software.
Unveiled at an event in San Francisco on Monday, Creative Cloud represents a shift for Adobe after years of simply selling packaged software…. read more
Why Ivy Bridge?
Intel’s 22-nanometer processor tech promises better performance, with more features (like security) built right into the… read more
We’ve seen some great gadgets and equipment for designers. So many cool stuff, that we could actually assemble infinite perfect office spaces! Every week we’ll assemble a perfect office, and we’d like you to help us. What equipment would the perfect office have?
Not only gadgets and equipment, but also furniture,… read more
Originally a fork of Mambo, Joomla has grown into the second most popular Content Management System (CMS) on the web behind WordPress. In January 2012 Joomla was upgraded from 1.7 to version 2.5. It brought a lot of great new features such as notifications for easier updates, multi database support… read more
This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more
Bubbly T-Mobile spokeswoman Carly recently traded in her pink sundress for a black leather look in the company’s latest ad to promote its 4G network. But this may be the first sign of the company’s rebranding efforts that will launch this fall.
T-Mobile, which is currently the number four wireless… read more
Concerts have changed a lot since the Woodstock days of the late 1960s. Here’s an infographic that compares how technology is used by fans at music festivals such as the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in California compared to the iconic Woodstock festival held in 1969.
Now, concerts incorporate… read more
Want your phone’s graphics to match those of top gaming systems such as the Xbox 360? Just wait until about 2014 when graphics hardware giant NVIDIA estimates that smartphone graphics might whip those of the popular gaming console.
According to a chart showing yearly graphic performance of console,… read more
I nearly missed this one. It was only while previewing the glamourous new Fujifilm X-Pro1 that this fixed lens sibling showed its presence. And it was well worth the effort to suss out its talents.
I have to admit to a partiality to maxi zoom cameras … yes, I know they… read more
Create cool animated menu on hover with CSS3 background-size
Google CEO Larry Page and the company’s executive chairman Eric Schmidt have joined forces with Avatar director James Cameron for a space venture that will possibly involve mining asteroids.
The venture, Planetary Resources Inc., plans to “overlay two critical sectors — space exploration and natural resources — to add trillions of… read more
Ron Paul may not be the most avid gamer — but the leading libertarian certainly wouldn’t want to stop you playing his character in an upcoming videogame from Texas-based programmer Daniel Williams.
“Ron Paul: The Road to REVOLution” is a side-scrolling adventure game that echoes console classics of days gone… read more
Everyone wants to be rich. That’s a great goal to have, but it usually takes a multitude of consistent steps over an extended period of time to actually get there. One half of the equation is to earn more than what you are making right now, and fast. From freelancing… read more
This morning I did something I’m a little ashamed of. I locked myself in my office, opened up my computer and began to surf the web and look at things I knew I probably shouldn’t be looking at.
I ended up on sites that I knew would get me in trouble…. read more
Online streaming, subscription based music delivery services are making an attempt to become the golden ticket solution for music lovers everywhere. Having access to a gigantic library of music is well worth the subscription fee for a lot of people and as the music libraries of these services grow they… read more
20+ Creative Web Designs Built With Wix and IMcraetor
How to Stay Creative In a Non-creative Job
From digital advertising conferences to programming hackathons and everything in between, you’ll definitely find a swanky locale to suit your professional and personal interests on Mashable’s new Events Board. Whether you’re an event organizer or an event-goer, our Events Board is an essential resource for helping you build relationships, engage… read more
Leading a sustainable life is a matter of choice, but it can be hard to visualize what effect your choices are actually making on the world — and prove to others how important sustainability is.
That’s why the new green water bottle 999Bottles is set to launch on Kickstarter,… read more
Apple’s next iPhone will be available in October, according to Gene Munster, analyst for Piper Jaffray. Munster also says the phone will have a redesigned body, and will run on 4G data networks such as LTE.
The analyst predicts the phone will be available in October based on a statement… read more
Microsoft reported record revenues of $17.41 billion for the past quarter, but profits slipped 2.4% from the same period a year earlier, down from $5.23 billion to $5.11 billion.
PC sales were sluggish due to the twin pressures of a hard-disk shortage brought on by flooding in parts of Asia and… read more
Dyson may have branched out recently into fans and hand dryers, the company’s name is synonymous with vacuum cleaners. On that score, its products are considered some of the most high-tech available.
But there’s one competitor that’s arguably even more advanced: the Roomba.
The little robot vacuum cleaner has gobbled… read more
I come from a long line of teachers, both on my father’s and mother’s side. But, I strongly believe that you can’t learn everything from a classroom. There always will be a gap when it comes to understanding a classroom lecture. The gap is often bridged by materials from the… read more
Useful And Informative Infographics Poster Designs
As smartphones have advanced, and the display and photo capture technologies have improved, many have desired the ability to design and to edit images on their mobile phones. In fact, today hundreds of design applications exist on Google Play (previously known as Android Market). So in order to help you… read more
Internet marketing is the best way to slowly ramp up a crowd for your website. Repeat visitors are the attraction to help your brand sink into all areas of the web. And social media has provided just another tool for marketers everywhere to achieve this task.
If you run a blog… read more
In this collection, we are showcasing some high quality Photoshop Abstract smoke brushes that you can add in your collection of Photoshop brushes. With these Abstract smoke brushes, you can create smoky effects. Smoke is a cloud of fine particles that are created from partial combustion of burning materials. In… read more
This first-of-its-kind conference will teach photographers how take full advantage of what’s happening now and what’s to come on Google+, all taught by the best Google photographers, top photography instructors and social media geniuses.
The conference will consist of two jam-packed days of live photo shoots, one-on-one portfolio reviews, panel discussions… read more
Mobile platform company Appcelerator launched the latest version of its popular Titanium platform Tuesday, with cloud-based tools to help developers build more dynamic apps for Android and iPhone devices.
Titanium 2.0, which includes support for HTML5 mobile web apps, aims to help brands create apps quickly and efficiently for their businesses…. read more
Twitter announced an internal patent agreement on Tuesday that it says will empower designers and engineers — as well as hopefully begin a movement to quell the tech world’s rash of patent infringement lawsuits.
Publicly revealed in a blog post and dubbed the Innovator’s Patent Agreement (IPA), the policy pledges… read more
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Bethesda released the first trailer for Dishonored Tuesday, a game being developed by minds behind Deus Ex and Dark Messiah of Might and Magic.
The trailer shows the first glimpses into a world that features both industrial-age factories, giant walking robots, insatiable hordes of rats and magical elements. Think of… read more
With the plethora of iPad apps available in the market, it has become quite easy to manage your work and improve your productivity. Although people working in the web design and development field spend most of their time on their PCs and laptops and they would hardly get time to… read more
I’ll be teaching at the Google+ Photographers Conference next Month in San Francisco. It’s definitely going to be an event that’s the first of it’s kind and I hope you’ll be able to join me (along with lots of other great instructors) there. In case you’re not sure what it’s… read more
I recently had the pleasure of organizing this year’s Beercamp website. If you’re unfamiliar, Beercamp is a party for designers and developers. It’s also a playground for front-end experimentation. Each year we abandon browser support and throw a “Pshaw” in the face of semantics so that we can play with… read more
Apple has removed the free trials for two of its most popular software packages, the photo editing program Aperture and the office suite iWork, from its website as of yesterday and instead redirects users to the Mac App Store, where they have the choice to buy the product at full… read more
When I started photography 4 years ago, I had a basic point-and-shoot camera that I brought everywhere. I took photos of trees, interesting cloud formations, even cats that are lounging on small patches of sunshine. I was also fascinated with buildings that have intricately-patterned arches, carved doors, and high ceilings…. read more
At the end of 2011 Chrome surpassed Firefox as the second most popular browser in the world. One of the reasons it has grown in popularity could be because of its expansive Chrome Web Store. The store has thousands of applications that help extend the functionality of Chrome and make… read more
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Microsoft just told the world what it’s going to call the next version of Windows, and — shocker — the official name will be “Windows 8.” It also revealed how many versions of Windows 8 there will be, and what the company will call them.
There are three main editions. At… read more
Joe Chernov is the vice president of content marketing for Eloqua. He is responsible for creating, distributing, and measuring content that increases awareness and drives demand.
Within days of Facebook’s official launch of Timeline for brands, social strategists and brand marketers turned their Facebook strategies upside down and came up… read more
Ted Iannuzzi is the CEO of DIDMO. He is the co-creator of the company’s flagship product, the mobile content creation platform Magmito.
Conferences, large and small, remain great opportunities to meet prospective clients and partners. In fact, according to one study, more than half of business travelers say that between 5%… read more
I’m a web developer; that’s my jam. I enjoy making websites, and I really enjoy trying new technologies, techniques, and hacks for websites. In 2012, that means making websites responsive. While the ‘Responsive Web Design’ movement started a few years ago, it’s really starting to pick up steam with better… read more
A new Kickstarter project aims to bring touchscreen-friendly control to your favorite gloves.
If you’ve ever tried to use the touchscreen of your phone or tablet wearing gloves, chances are you had a little trouble. Designed to respond to your fingers not your clothing, touchscreen devices can’t tell you’re touching… read more
We’ve seen some great gadgets and equipment for designers. So many cool stuff, that we could actually assemble infinite perfect office spaces! Every week we’ll assemble a perfect office, and we’d like you to help us. What equipment would the perfect office have?
Not only gadgets and equipment, but also furniture,… read more
In this economy, creating and sticking to a budget is more important than ever. Of course, not every freelancer has money problems, but my guess is that many of you out there are taking a very close look at your bottom line—especially with taxes due in just days.
Whether you… read more
It must be a wonderful thing to be one of those chefs in the TV cooking competitions, able to take a stack of surprise ingredients and instantly whip up beautiful, tasty dishes from them.
For most of us, if that’s what we had to do every day, it would just… read more
Hot HD Indian Celebrities Wallpapers of 2012
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, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more
As with other recent incarnations of Photoshop, Adobe have released a beta version of their latest image editing software. You can grab yourself a copy from Adobe here http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/photoshopcs6.html If you don’t have one, you will need to register an Adobe account as once installed the software will connect with… read more
A Guest Post by Chris De Bruyn
A fundraiser? With photos? For charity? Absolutely! One of the most rewarding experiences I have had as a photographer is hosting annual charity fundraising auctions with my photos. Hosting a fundraiser is a great way to give something back to the community, to… read more
Who can forget their first computer game? It wasn’t just kind of awesome, it’s what took up most evenings and every weekend. If you’re the type to have spent far too many hours playing these games in the 1980s and ’90s, you might want to clear your schedule now.
Some… read more
As always, here’s Mac AppStorm’s weekly roundup of news and this week, it isn’t related to Facebook’s purchase of Instagram. Enjoy!
Apple patches up Flashback trojan with official fix
Since Apple officially recognised the FlashBack Trojan back at the start of the month (and simultaneously releasing a patch for OS X… read more
Traditional Advertising Losing Out to Social Media?
World-famous French designer Philippe Starck told a French radio station on Friday that he’s working on a “revolutionary” secret Apple project that will surface in eight months. The designer said that he couldn’t reveal more details because of Apple’s “religious cult of secrecy.”
Apple flatly denied Starck’s involvement with… read more
Introduction
This tutorial has been transcribed from the SLR Lounge Adobe Lightroom 4 DVD Guide, a 14 hour DVD featuring over 130 tutorials for mastering Lightroom which can be purchased from the link above.
Lightroom can be a powerful advanced editor, and we often use it for portrait retouching. While it does not… read more
No, this isn’t the latest Google Doodle celebrating the anniversary of DOS.
Instead, it’s an imagining of what Google would look like if it was invented circa 1986. The design, by Squirrel-Monkey.com, has been kicking around for a few months, but an Austrian web design firm called Mass:Werk… read more
Coming up with an idea for a new app that would help you and others isn’t that hard. If an idea was all that counted, the Angry Birds success story wouldn’t be that rare. What’s difficult is seeing your vision through to completion, actually building the product you’ve dreamed of,… read more
Julian Assange
Julian Assange, 40, is an Australian-born political activist and journalist known for his controversial website WikiLeaks, which… read more
Research in Motion was on the verge of adopting a strategy that would have opened the company’s BlackBerry network to competing phones before a change in management led to its downfall, a new report claims.
According to Reuters, former RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie wanted to allow wireless carriers in North America… read more
1. Allergy Advisor
Allergy sufferers can check their local weather and pollen forecast every morning with Allergy Advisor and… read more
Do you code for a living? Then congratulations, you have the best job in America right now, according to a new survey.
CareerCast, a site for job seekers, listed the top 200 jobs of 2012. Software engineer had the best overall score when you average work environment, income, stress level,… read more
At the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show, digital media professionals will present, educate and collaborate on the industry’s latest technology. The show takes place April 14-19 in Las Vegas, Nev.
Founded in 1923, NAB has certainly come a long way from its roots in film and radio advocacy. Now the… read more
Lately, I have really started to get into listening to podcasts, especially tech and productivity ones. They are great for my long commutes to and from work, and a good break from the constant negativity that is out there on talk radio.
I also find that I am also listening to… read more
In a post on her blog last year, WordPress designer, business woman and author Lisa Sabin Wilson, talked about how thankful she is to be part of the WordPress economy. It’s an economy that thousands of people, the world over, are benefiting from (including me!). It is an economy built… read more
Useful Links for Learning CSS @Keyframes Animation
We can’t always hit the road in the wheels we’d like to. A new app called XLR8, however, can at least make your family sedan sound like the sports car of your dreams.
Using your phone’s accelerometer, XLR8 plays sounds similar to what your car might sound like if it was… read more
The Toads return from a wonderful Easter weekend to share this week’s list of tutorials, great photography and interesting blogs encountered during their weekly adventures online. This list contains some really wonderful photographs and images as delivered by some truly talented folks. The Toad really hopes you enjoy viewing these… read more
This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more
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Stay apprised of Coachella updates and tips by following the music festival on Facbeook.
Click here to view… read more
From digital advertising conferences to programming hackathons and everything in between, you’ll definitely find a swanky locale to suit your professional and personal interests on Mashable’s new Events Board. Whether you’re an event organizer or an event-goer, our Events Board is an essential resource for helping you build relationships, engage… read more
Former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain has recently been peppering YouTube with a series of provocative Internet ads which attempt to bring attention to his views on the U.S. tax system.
The description of the latest Herman Cain ad on YouTube argues, “The farmer is fine, but the average American… read more
I don’t think we can necessarily say something like "yoga is all the rage these days" anymore, but it is safe to say that yoga has become a fairly steady, mainstream workout activity for many people.
We have resources all around us and make no mistake about it, there are plenty… read more
Last week we introduced a new Mashable Photo Challenge: We asked you to send us a photo that embodied your idea of a first.
We wanted to give you a prompt that was open to your discretion, and we were thrilled to receive so many fantastic entries that interpreted this… read more
Photoshop is one of Adobe’s most widely used products, however most users barely scratch the surface of the features the software offers. As people who love photography we come across great things that folks are doing with Photoshop on a daily basis. Below is a list of online tutorials we… read more