Thursday evening, Marvel made some key announcements about its upcoming massively multiplayer online (MMO) game, called Marvel Universe, including revealing the identity of the game’s lead writer.
The game was created with hardcore comic nerds, hardcore comic geeks and even the casual enthusiast in mind. Gamers will get… read more
Helpful jQuery Tutorials to Create Beautiful Tooltips
It’s about time you put that iPhone or iPod touch to work in the office. If you dock it into this Wow-Keys full-sized keyboard, either can serve as an input device for your Mac or PC. And if you don’t like typing on a touchscreen, you can… read more
Another day, another hazy rumor. Apparently Apple may have purchased the domain name iCloud.
GigaOm is citing an anonymous tipster who says Apple recently snapped up the domain name from a Linkoping, Sweden-based desktop-as-a-service company called Xcerion. Xcerion acquired a new domain called CloudMe.com on April 5, and… read more
picoCSS is small (0,35kb ) JavaScript Library for basic CSS DOM manipulation optimized for webkit browsers (Safari, Chrome) also works in Firefox, Opera without the part of animation. read more
This is a mix from a few different photography series taken by Matthias Heiderich. It shows the different colors and shapes that you can find on the architecture of the big city of Berlin. This collection of photographs is so strong and inspiring.
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Lots of companies benefit from having a blog. For some, it’s a friendly, accessible way… read more
The epic finale of the Harry Potter film series is coming to theaters on July 15, and its trailer just hit iTunes and YouTube.
Finding an embeddable version has been a moving target for us, so if you have trouble viewing this clip we’ve embedded here, you can go to… read more
Content Management Systems (CMS) are a dime a dozen. Not only are there many of them available online but they come in all sizes and shapes too. From a flat file CMS (one that doesn’t require a database) to those that run on enterprise grade database systems, there’s always a… read more
Here’s some good news for everyone out there who’s not really into paying for tunes: Music subscription service MOG will be launching a freemium service within the next few months.
Envolver.fm reports that the news emerged during the Rethink Music conference on Tuesday, when MOG CEO David Hyman… read more
Visa has invested in Square, a startup that makes a tiny credit card swiping device for smartphones and the iPad.
Square raised $27.5 million in funding in January, so it’s not likely strapped for cash. But more valuable than the undisclosed amount of funding from Visa is the… read more
Albeit not entirely design related, I told my friends at MacLegion I’d help spread the word about their launch, and their spring bundle. It’s an incredible deal, and there are some productivity/workflow tools in the mix that would benefit anyone, including designers. If you’re in the market for saving a… read more
The Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton is right around the corner (well, this Friday at least). The two lovers are not, of course, the only people that will ever get married, ever. It’s very possible that you, dear reader, might need some online help… read more
YouTube has partnered with NASA for a live interview with the crew of the upcoming Endeavour voyage that will be streamed from space.
The interview, which will be conducted by PBS’s Miles O’Brien, will consist of questions submitted by YouTube users via Google Moderator. Commander Mark Kelly… read more
Typography Mania is a weekly post series that comes around every Wednesday with the best of Typography design works on the web, from type videos to images everything is full of great design and typography inspiration. Users can submit their typography designs.
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It is fundamental that every app designer have a selection of pre-designed and editable UI elements that will allow them to optimize, organize and speed-up work-flow. To help streamline your iPad design work, we have put accumulated a comprehensive selection of iPad specific GUI Kits &… read more
Mind Mapping: Scheme to Improve the Creativity Process
David Hartstein is a partner at JG Visual, an Internet strategy company that works with organizations to develop and implement their online presence. You can connect with David on the JG Visual Facebook Page.
The word “Facebook,” so ubiquitous across the world, is enough to make any… read more
Google has won another small victory in the long and documented battle between Android and Apple operating systems.
For the first time, Android phones are the most coveted smartphones among U.S. mobile consumers, according to a survey Nielsen released Tuesday.
In a series of monthly surveys between January 2011… read more
Video game maker Electronic Arts has just lost a key executive to quickly growing social gaming company Zynga, according to a report published by The Wall Street Journal.
On Tuesday, EA disclosed that John Schappert, who served as chief operating officer, resigned on Monday. The Journal cites people… read more
The Emperor Has New Clothes
Considering Acrobat 9 has been out for almost two and a half years (a long time—software years are like dog years), Acrobat X is surprisingly short of new features. Granted, Acrobat X (read ten) is a mature program and new, exciting features are harder… read more
Six days after Sony first announced that its Playstation Network had been experiencing difficulties, the network remains down.
Sony shut down both its PSN and Qriocity services last Wednesday after an “external intrusion.” The company has not given any indication as to when the network, which connects more… read more
Tuesday Total Textures is post series that will bring a new life to your Tuesdays. Every week I’ll be posting some free hi resolution textures that you can download to use in your projects. Check out this week’s free textures, download the ones you like and start making your texture… read more
China plans to launch a space station into orbit by 2020, China Daily reports.
The station will be made of three capsules — a core module and two modules for conducting experiments, with total weight of the station being 60 tons. China also plans to develop a cargo… read more
The humble menu bar is a fascinating part of the Mac OS X interface. It’s always visible, and holds a remarkably prominent position on your display – far more so than the Dock.
Some people love to keep it as empty as possible, while others have so many menu bar apps… read more
Start Creating Your Own Posters with 35 Photoshop Tutorials
Nintendo’s highly anticipated successor to the Wii is coming in 2012.
But that’s really all we know from official channels. Rumors have been swirling around the web about everything from the console’s hardware to its price. It does apparently have a name: “Stream.”
Could the Wii 2 incorporate touchscreen… read more
Netflix revealed Monday that its earnings are up 88% compared to this time last year. The subscription movie service reported a net income of $60 million on its Q1 report.
More than 3 million new subscribers have signed on to Netflix since January, pushing its total number of… read more
Every week, Mashable puts together a calendar of upcoming social media and web events, parties and conferences.
Here are some tips on how to network, share your information and/or promote your event(s) using social media:
The Future of Event Planning and Social MediaHOW TO: Plan and Promote Events with… read more
Facebook announced Monday updates to its Group feature that aim to make the platform a better place to share content within small networks.
Since private photo sharing platform Path and a host of group messaging companies have highlighted the importance of sharing within small groups, it seems Facebook… read more
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James White is one of the most innovative designers out there and along the years he’s been also an amazing supporter to Abduzeedo. The brand Signalnoise just celebrated its 12th year anniversary so we decided to feature his latest work from this designer that knows how to stay in the… read more
In this Quick Tip Video, you will learn how to use a clever trick to make a map element appear to zoom out from its background. Popular with information graphics, this effect is perfect for a variety of creative uses. Let’s get started!
Commoner, Inc is home of the brilliant designer Richard Arthur Stewart and on this post you will see some of the amazing work he has done. Very clean design with a lot of style to it, making every bit of detail so enjoyable. Check it out!
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Lenovo is going to release an Android 3 (Honeycomb) tablet with a keyboard dock this summer, according to a document published by the blog This Is My Next, which claims the document has leaked from Lenovo.
The presentation is quite detailed, describing a Honeycomb-based tablet with a 10.1-inch… read more
Nintendo has confirmed it will launch a successor to its popular Wii gaming console in 2012.
As of March, Nintendo has sold 86.01 million Wiis since 2006 when the console was launched. However, in 2010 the company sold only 15.1 million Wiis globally — a 25% drop from… read more
I woke up this morning thinking about an idea for a tutorial, then I remembered that last week I saw a really nice text effect that the characters were made of bread if I am not making any mistake. So I thought it would be really nice to create a… read more
30 Best Minimal Web Design I Recently Bookmarked
In this post we have put together some beautiful retro web designs for your inspiration. If you like these retro designs you might also want to check out some of our previous posts below. Enjoy!
Collection of Abstract & Retro Futuristic Designs
350+ Retro and Vintage Photoshop Brushes
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Grandma doesn’t know it yet, but she wants a Kodak Pulse digital picture frame. Kodak just began shipping Pulse version 2.0, adding interactive capabilities that’ll let her respond to the pictures you send to it via email. We put it to the test, finding it… read more
Collection of Free Adobe Illustrator Brushes in 38 Sets
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.
With a billion tweets per week, Twitter has become a place for people and organizations of all types to share their thoughts, reading lists… read more
Time-lapse photography uncovers an unseen world, showing us scenes we’d never be able to perceive in real time. We’ve shown you great design-related time-lapse videos before, but this time we go back to nature.
These 10 terrific time-lapse creations from the wonderful world of nature will amaze and inspire you. From… 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, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more
In the wake of that Mac vs. PC infographic we showed you yesterday, there’s a lot of discussion going on here about the value and virtues of each platform against the other. To augment our discussion, we could use a panel of experts.
Here’s an idea: Let’s get comments from that… read more
The wallpaper of this week is an image I created for a poster and also a tutorials for the upcoming Abduzeedo book. The book will be available soon and we will keep you posted, so stay tuned.
The idea behind this image was create a vintage style poster playing with the… read more
In an infographic that’s bound to cause arguments and perhaps fistfights, researchers at Hunch placed data from about 700,000 of its website visitors onto a deep illustration that shows just how different users of Macs and PCs are.
They came up with interesting correlations between users’ chosen computing… read more
Weekly Assignment
This week we finished up the last of our home life assignments with Leisure Time. We wanted you to show us what you do in your free time, while also keeping the rule of thirds in mind. Our winners this week did both.
In first place was Shutterbugdeb’s “Comics and… read more
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
Learn Photo Manipulation : 50 Excellent Tutorials
From Groupon to Google’s newly launched Offers, the ubiquity of deals sites is certainly on the rise — good news for all you music lovers out there with voracious appetites and skint savings.
Over the last couple of months, a goodly number of deals sites have launched in… read more
It’s just awesome how colorful and well illustrated some works are. I know that’s a silly thing to say, but I just can’t avoid getting all excited from seeing these pieces.
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Rubens Cantuni is a italian illustrator that loves to draw tattooed chubby chicks and other colorful things. I find his… read more
I will be posting some fresh free fonts every Friday, yes I know it’s awesome. I will look forward to bring a lot of great fonts that will sure help you improve your typography work. Check out what I selected for you on the FFFF#97 and make sure to comeback… read more
As the web recovers from Amazon’s 24-hour collapse of its cloud computing business — an outage that took popular services like HootSuite, Reddit and Foursquare down with it — Sony reported Friday morning that its PlayStation Network is down. Some suspect hacktivist organization Anonymous is responsible.
Sony was… read more
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.
Amazon-Hosted Sites Somewhat Recovered
While two of Amazon’s major AWS servers are… read more
Learning a foreign language is never an easy task. Especially for someone that has grown up speaking English his entire life (with the exception of a few Spanish classes in high school). Besides taking classes in school there are some other ways to learn another language. Books and software are… read more
Investors have established the first investment vehicle dedicated to Android-focused startups and developers. Dubbed the A-Fund, the $100 million fund will invest between $500,000 and $4 million in products that will shape the Android ecosystem.
The A-Fund is being managed by DCM, a firm with a presence in… 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, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more
What do you do after one of your band members flies the coop? Well, if you’re Dream Theater, you do much more than send out a press release — you take to the Facebook junket.
Progressive metal band Dream Theater suffered a pretty powerful blow when its drummer… read more
There’s a little video buzzing around the web today that’s sure to put some “get up” into your “get up and go.” It features some dude who trains monkeys to ride dogs and herd goats, talking about dreams.
No, seriously, I find this to be actually inspiring. If this guy can… read more
The trend of having a mobile version of any website or application is growing very fast. The main reason behind this trend is a rapidly increasing usage of smartphones all over the world. And ofcourse no brand would ever want to loose their mobile audience. That is no surprise if… read more
Aaron Scamihorn aka RONLEWHORN has a great passion for digital portraiture mixed with a love affair with typography and serigraphy. His work is awesome with a unique style and a retro feel. Check it out!
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The New York Times has sold more than 100,000 digital subscriptions in the three weeks since its launch, the publication revealed in its first-quarter earnings statement Thursday morning.
Given the relatively modest expectations the Times set for the paywall, the number isn’t bad.
At launch, the Times offered readers… read more
Your business card is one of the most important marketing tools you can ever own. Make sure that you choose the best background color because that single design element plays a vital role in presenting yourself and your company’s image to your prospective clients.
Colors represent many things to different… read more
Rockmelt is a cloud-based social media browser that’s been available for Mac and PC desktops since last November, but now it’s available for iPhone.
Take a look at the video above, and you’ll see that the iPhone version of Rockmelt looks a lot different from the Rockmelt desktop browser…. read more
23 Eye-Catchy Cartoon And Comic Fonts For Free Download
Clear Channel Radio has announced that its iHeartRadio App is now available on the iPad, widening the listening experience of its 750 digital radio stations for iOS-toting music lovers.
As soon as we heard that iHeartRadio was hitting the iPad, we immediately wondered if Clear Channel would be… read more
Apple released its fiscal second quarter results Wednesday afternoon, reporting earnings of $6.40 per share on $24.67 billion revenue. This compared with Wall Street analyst predictions of $5.35 earnings per share on $23.27 billion in revenue.
The company announced that it sold 18.65 million iPhone units in the… read more
Location-based social network Loopt introduced Qs, its play at real-time, local micro-reviews, at Wednesday’s Where 2.0 Conference in San Francisco.
Think of Loopt Qs as Quora meets location-based networking meets Yelp. The idea behind Loopt Qs is to allow users to get useful information about a place in… read more
For everyone out there who erupts into (unpleasant) convulsions every time a Lady Gaga song comes on the radio at the local grocery store — Weird Al Yankovic has your back.
This parody version of “Born This Way” — dubbed “Perform This Way” — popped up on Yankovic’s YouTube channel Wednesday… read more
PSD web templates are always come in handy for a web designer but it is extremely difficult to find out high quality freebie PSD web templates. Although there are some resources that you can use for the premium membership in order to get some high quality and creative PSD web… read more
Typography Mania is a weekly post series that comes around every Wednesday with the best of Typography design works on the web, from type videos to images everything is full of great design and typography inspiration. Users can submit their typography designs.
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WordPress professionals are faced with many options when deciding which membership-based theme providers are worth their investment. It is important to know how frequent future releases are, what your actual cost will be over time and what kind of support you can expect. It is also important to know what… read more
Designing websites is an art. A lot of tools and techniques are used to create a design before the programmers can start working on it to create the backend. Even for the experienced designer, it might not be ideal for remembering the organization of the pages and content in his… read more
Intel has blown past Wall Street’s estimates with its first-quarter earnings report, providing further evidence that the PC market and the tech industry as a whole are still on the rise.
In Q1 2011, Intel managed to gross $12.8 billion in revenue, an increase of 25% from Q1… read more
20 Wonderful CSS3 Text Effect Tutorials and Experiments
How to Innovatively Market your Presence on the Web and that too within a Budget
This is our weekly column were we share our favorites design related articles, resources and resources all from the previous week.
If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebook, on Stumbleupon or by… read more
PJ Gurumohan is the co-founder and CEO of GENWI, a cloud-based mobile presence creation and management platform. He holds two patents in wireless technology, has authored several journal articles, routinely speaks at technology conferences and has held various engineering positions at IBM and US Airways.
The smartphone is… read more
Starting next month, HBO subscribers will be able to access streaming content via iOS and Android devices.
The premium cable network started running teaser advertisements for its HBO GO iOS and Android apps earlier this month. The latest spot touts “instant and unlimited access” to “every episode of every season of… read more
The BlackBerry PlayBook isn’t the only next-generation tablet hitting the market this week; the T-Mobile G-Slate arrives in stores on April 20.
The device will sell for $529 after a $100 mail-in-rebate and a two-year data commitment. Unsubsidized, the device comes in a tad lower than the Motorola… read more
CNN debuted its all-new Android app Tuesday. It serves text and multimedia news and gives users access to CNN iReport, the network’s participatory news community.
The CNN Android app was intended to give its users “an immersive news experience” in an elegant and intuitive interface. As far as… read more
Tuesday Total Textures is post series that will bring a new life to your Tuesdays. Every week I’ll be posting some free hi resolution textures that you can download to use in your projects. Check out this week’s free textures, download the ones you like and start making your texture… read more
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A widely discussed article in Wired last summer posited… read more
Good navigation is the main cornerstone of an effective website. In practice, however, it’s often a tough challenge to come up with a meaningful, unambiguous way to organize, arrange, and display content to users; and it’s often not much easier to find a visually interesting solution either. The wide adaption… read more
Steam is perhaps the best platform for buying and playing games online and for enjoying a social gaming experience. Although there isn’t exactly a great deal of competition, Steam has proved to be a reliable platform for gaming on both the PC and the Mac.
Last year it was announced that… read more
Sending email newsletters is an effective way of marketing and communicating with your clients and customers, and can serve you best when designed properly to attract potential customers, as well as the attention of your existing customers. Email newsletters are a powerful medium to maintain an extra connection with your… read more
Portal 2, the brain-bending sequel to Valve Software’s 2007 hit is arguably one of the most anticipated video games of the year.
For the uninitiated, Portal is a first-person puzzle shooter. Rather than guns and ammo, the player is armed with an experimental “handheld inter-spatial portal device” that… read more
Ten Photoshop Tips For Digital Illustrators
Every week, Mashable puts together a calendar of upcoming social media and web events, parties and conferences.
Here are some tips on how to network, share your information and/or promote your event(s) using social media:
The Future of Event Planning and Social MediaHOW TO: Plan and Promote Events with… read more