Feed My Inbox Giveaway

We recently published a how-to covering Feed My Inbox (FMI)—RSS to Email with Feed My Inbox—which talked about several RSS solutions the web app is capable of. If you need (or want) to receive RSS feeds via email, FMI is a great app to check out.

The FMI team has been… read more

Get Things Done with Remember The Milk

Getting things done (GTD) is the hardest thing to accomplish in a world filled with so many distractions. Keeping track of tasks to be done is not easy. However high your IQ is, it is not a better practice to keep everything in your mind. Right from a moleskin notebook… read more

Things coming to iPad, updates to 1.3

At the end of his latest blog post, Cultured Code’s Jürgen Schweizer revealed that the company is working on a version of Things for the iPad. The announcement isn’t that surprising, especially given that The Omni Group announced at the beginning of February that its software suite, including Things’ GTD… read more

14 Essential iPhone Apps for Small 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.

Apple’s iPhone wasn’t originally conceived as a business-focused device; however, the advent of the App Store and the rapid rise in usage and adoption has really… read more

Notable: A Huge Leap in Communication

The best innovations are the ones that make you think “Why hasn’t anyone thought of this before?” Rarely in life do you stumble across these types of innovations, and when you do, you can’t help but share them with the world.

I stumbled across one of these the other day, it’s… read more

What Every Designer Should Do Right Now

1. Back Up All Your Files Now

"Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday." – Napoleon Hill

I’m sure that you’ve heard this over and over again but how many of you have actually taken the time… read more

IT pros: Macs cost less to manage than PCs

According to the survey, Macs were cheaper to troubleshoot and required fewer help desk calls; system configuration, user training, and servers/networks/printing were all cheaper for a Mac environment than a PC environment. Software licensing fees turned out to be nearly identical for both platforms.

The survey doesn’t factor in… read more

Web Based Microsoft Office 2010 Soon To Be Launched

A new productivity suite of Microsoft windows is soon to be fully launched for everyone who uses computers, it will be a successor of Microsoft Office 2007. Yes, it is Microsoft Office 2010 and this time it will be free to use and a web based application. Microsoft has somehow assured… read more

Microsoft updates Office for Mac 2008 and 2004

<picrosoft has just released updates to the 2004 and 2008 versions of Microsoft Office. According to the company, the updates, which weigh in at 9.7 MB and 221.5 MB respectively, provide "fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer's memory with malicious code"… read more

Put Your Email on Autopilot with OtherInbox

Email communication has not changed much in the past decade, but the amount of email we get daily has grown exponentially. Be it relevant communication or spam, the sheer volume of emails received impacts our email productivity. Inboxes are inundated with too many newsletters, product updates and countless other services… read more

Postbox adds Things and OmniFocus support

<pee, I love my setup, but everything that I really like about Mail has been added by plugins, and those plugins require a certain performance and stability sacrifice. It would be bittersweet to part with everything I've built there, but it would be a welcome change if it were a… read more

50+ Free Resources for Charts and Graphs Solution

A chart or a graph is a visual representation of data, in which “the data are represented by symbols, such as bars, lines, or slices”. These symbols can represent tabular numeric data, functions or some kinds of qualitative structures. For one reason or another, a lot of freelancers use Charts… read more

8 Mac Apps to Embrace Minimalism

We posted earlier this year about how to clean up your Mac, but today I thought it would be interesting to share a selection of applications that can really simplify your Mac experience. While being “minimal” isn’t everything – and nor is it for everyone – it’s a fun exercise… read more

5 Ways to Use Google Wave for Business

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

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

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

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

revMobile: write iPhone and iPad apps without knowing Objective C

<p of the biggest barriers to entry for people who want to develop their own iPhone apps is the requirement to actually know how to program in Objective C. Runtime Revolution (AKA RunRev) has been developing and marketing a HyperCard-like development environment since 1997. To quote the company's site, "Rev… read more

Mac OS X’s Automator: I learned it by watching you!

<pac OS X's Automator has the ability to perform specific tasks from its given set of actions. For example, with a Finder-based action, you can batch move copy, move or rename files that fit a certain criteria. Similarly, image-based actions allow you to batch edit images, be it resizing, rotating… read more

Get Noticed And Grow Your Business With MyTemplateBox

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

Top Articles On The Web Design Billboard In February’10

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

Printing Pages with Print What You Like

Generally web developers are supposed to create a print friendly stylesheet for their website(s) in case visitors actually want or need to print something out. Unfortunately, this is often skipped by developers leaving a large majority of websites in a very sad state when printed. Of course, the content of… read more

Web Design Criticism: A How-To

Web design is a relatively young field. It’s youthful, growing and made up of people from all kinds of backgrounds, many of whom lack formal design training. We have learned, and still are learning, as we go.

I came into my first job as a Web designer for Boeing back in… read more

Topaz Adjust 4 AND a New Cintiq 21UX

Hey everyone, Happy Monday! Today I am happy to hear that there are two really cool additions that I think you’d be very interested in.

Topaz Adjust 4
Topaz Adjust is one of those products that sits on the computer of many a digital artist (myself included). it takes… read more

Best of AppStorm in February

We’ve collected the top five reviews, roundups and how-to articles from across the AppStorm network in February. Whether you’re interested in Mac, iPhone, or Web apps, there’s bound to be something you didn’t spot over the course of the month.

Now would be a good time to explore a part of… read more

6 Free Android Apps That Will Make You Drop Your iPhone

The Android Market may still lag behind the iPhone App Store in terms of variety and quality, but there is something to be said for the Android operating system’s extremely tight integration with existing Google products, and the wide choice of devices and carriers.

There’s no question that the… read more

Thanks to the Mac.AppStorm Sponsors

We’d like to say a big thank you to this month’s AppStorm sponsors, and the great software they create! If you’re interested in advertising, you can order a slot through BuySellAds.

CleanMyMac – CleanMyMac represents a sophisticated all-in-one-suite utility that helps keep your Mac clean and healthy.

MiniBooks – A handy… read more

Designing User Interfaces For Business Web Applications

Business Web application design is too often neglected. I see a lot of applications that don’t meet the needs of either businesses or users and thus contribute to a loss of profit and poor user experience. It even happens that designers are not involved in the process of creating applications… read more

How To Supercharge Your Calendar With BusyCal

If you are anything like me, you have scraps of paper lying around with dates, times, and names all over the place. Hopefully, you aren’t relying mainly on your head to keep yourself on-time and in the right location. Maybe you are stuck in the world of iCal misery, with… read more

Manage Social Media with NutshellMail

The world of social media is generally hectic and always evolving faster than most people are capable of keeping up with. Twitter alone can be a challenge to manage, let along Facebook, LinkedIn or other networking sites. Most people use multiple social media networks, which means piles of emails, notifications… read more

TaskPaper for iPhone, simplified to-do lists go mobile

<phe interesting aspect of TaskPaper is that it uses plain text files with minimal formatting to create and manage to-do lists. The file is easily read by other applications, and things such as tags and due dates are handled in a very human-readable format. The iPhone version offers the functionality… read more

Use Zoho’s Office Suite with Your Facebook Account

Zoho is attempting to appeal to the mass market of Internet users by allowing its adherents to log in to the online office suite via Facebook Connect.

The move, which follows Zoho already offering sign-in with Google, Google Apps and Yahoo accounts, means that Facebook’s 400 million-plus users will be… read more

15 Notable Note Taking Apps for Mac

Ever wanted to keep your notes together and not create a bunch of text files which would eventually be strewn across your hard drive? Ever wanted more than just the ability to enter text, but also the possibility to include photos or other media in your notes?

If that’s the case,… read more

Shalom! Showcase Of Web Design In Israel

Israel is a young country with an old heart. It has been quickly built up over the last 60 years as an independent democratic Jewish state and is shockingly cutting edge for a country so new.

It is a tiny surreal sliver of land smack dab in the middle of the… read more

Are Your Working Hours Jeopardizing Your Productivity?

Human beings are creatures of habit. (Yes, even freelancers like you.) We tend to wake up at the same time each morning, go through the same basic routine of tasks every day, and go to bed at the same hour every night. Routines are comforting and familiar.

Oh, and they could… read more

20 Essential Tips for Graphic Design Blog Management

Whether you work in some corporate office, small studio, or as a freelance designer, chances are you have a lot to do. As blog owners, we many times have multiple tasks to work on, content to manage, writers to handle, research to do, and more, to increase the productivity and… read more

Apple’s 7 commandments of app sex?

<pAtherton at Chillifresh, the app developer of Wobble, has posted what he says are Apple's new rules regarding sexual content in an iPhone app:

I have spoken with Apple, and the following are the new rules:

No images of women in bikinis (Ice skating tights… read more

Noby Noby Boy out now on iPhone, and it’s awesome

<pa Takahashi is a strange guy. He's most known for delivering the brilliant Katamari Damacy to us on the Playstation 2, a game in which you rolled around a ball that stuck to everything in the world, growing bigger and bigger as more and more stuff collected on it. But… read more

Three Simple Steps to Maintaining a Razor-Sharp Skill Set

Three Simple Steps to Maintaining a Razor-Sharp Skill Set

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4 Steps for Managing Social Media Attention

Soren Gordhamer is the organizer of the Wisdom 2.0 Conference, which brings together staff from Google, Facebook, and Twitter with others to explore living wisely in our modern age. Mashable readers can use code ‘Mashable‘ for a discount when registering.

There have never been more things that call out for… read more

Top 5 OSes to Leverage Cloud Computing

Due to cloud computing, anyone can perform routine computer tasks anywhere, at any time, without installing applications. All users need a computer with operating system installed, connection to the internet and a compatible web browser; available at just about any coffee shop, library or other public places.

This technology has given… read more

Salesforce Rolls Out a Facebook for Businesses

At the Dreamforce Conference in November, Salesforce.com officially announced Salesforce Chatter, which is basically “Facebook for the Enterprise.”

Today Salesforce.com has announced the private beta for Chatter, which will be rolling out to 100 companies now before officially launching later this year. I had a chance to talk to Salesforce.com… read more

5 Ways to Manage Distractions for Increased Productivity

Are you supposed to be doing something else right now?

You’re probably in the midst of a complicated project and had planned to take just a minute to send a tweet or update your Facebook status. Then you saw the link to this article and figured that reading about how to… read more

10 Free Tools For Effective Project Management

Project management is the process by which projects are defined, planned, monitored, controlled and delivered such that the agreed benefits are realised. Projects are unique, transient endeavours undertaken to achieve a desired outcome. Projects bring about change and project management is recognised as the most efficient way of managing such… read more

Seth Godin on What it Takes to be a Linchpin [INTERVIEW]

Steve Cunningham is the CEO of Polar Unlimited, a digital marketing agency.

In his book — Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? — Seth Godin poses a challenge: Take your gift, whatever it is, and use it to change the world.

In the tradition of his previous books, Godin has not settled for a… read more

Macworld 2010: Box.net adds QuickOffice support to iPhone app

The new addition at the show is the capability for QuickOffice users on the iPhone to open and edit Box.net stored files, which could provide a big productivity boost. It was impressive — with the app, you can jump in and edit Box.net files from anywhere. Good stuff.
<br… read more

Macworld 2010: Chatting with Phil Libin of Evernote

<pe are some big fans of Evernote on the TUAW staff — we've talked quite a bit about the app that promises to store important clips and notes from anywhere, and make them accessible at any time. But even if you haven't heard of the app before, the interview with… read more

Microsoft may create Office for iPad

The iPad already has the ability to run a productivity suite — Apple has created iPad-specific versions of its own iWork programs, Pages, Numbers, and Keynote for $9.99 each — but as T3 notes, bringing Office over to the iPad would go a long way toward establishing it as a… read more

6 Products to Watch from Macworld’s Best of Show

This week in San Francisco, CA, Apple geeks are gathering for the Macworld 2010 conference and expo to show off new products and geek out over — you guessed it — Apple.

While the conference is far more muted this year due to Apple’s decision to no longer participate in Macworld,… read more

Task Squid: Task Management Meets Activity Streams [INVITES]

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.

Name: Task Squid

Quick Pitch: Collaboration focused on completing the… read more

21 Free Music Players For Your Website and Blogs

For one reason or another, a lot of designers use Music Players on their website. An online Music player needs no more introductions for web developers or simple users. Online Music players offer you flexibility and creativity in building your own Jukebox on your Web spaces the way you want…. read more

Bandize: Manage Your Band Like a Business

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.

Name: Bandize

Quick Pitch: Online DIY organization and… read more

Strata Enfold 3D CX

CREATE PROFESSIONAL, FOLDED 3D DESIGNS IN ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR

Do you have a tough time with folded product designs? It requires a lot of trial-and-error to line up graphics across folds, making sure that something doesn’t get out of line when the cuts are made. Well, hold onto your hats! Strata… read more

Best of AppStorm in January

We’ve collected the top five reviews, roundups and how-to articles from across the AppStorm network in January. Whether you’re interested in Mac, iPhone, or Web apps, there’s bound to be something you didn’t spot over the course of the month.

Now would be a good time to explore a part of… read more

Does Your Small Business Need an iPad?

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

Now that the dust has settled and we know what the Apple iPad is, many people have begun trying to answer the question, “How can I justify… read more

The 10 Oddest Apple-Themed Products [PICS]

Apple fandom has inspired a generation of designers to create products that complement, contrast or clash with design guru Jonathan Ive’s cleverly thought out consumer electronics.

We’ve pulled together a list of Apple-themed products — both real and conceptual –- that ooze wit, and celebrate those that nod to the fun… read more

10 reasons to pass on the iPad? TUAW fact check

1. There’s no physical keyboard

Debra’s correct that the iPad has no physical keyboard. But what she fails to account for is that not only will Apple sell a keyboard dock for the iPad, the device can also be paired with any existing Bluetooth keyboard. Apple’s reasoning for not… read more

Most Companies Don’t Have a Social Media Policy [STUDY]

A report by Manpower employer services found that only 29% of companies in the Americas have a “formal policy regarding employee use of social networking sites.” The number is lower in other regions — 25% in Asia-Pacific and 11% EMEA. The worldwide number is 20%.

We ran a story a few… read more

Five customized Automator services to help save you time

<pne gem in Mac OS X that sometimes gets glanced over is the Services menu. Lots of readers may not know yet that Snow Leopard brought with it the ability to create your own customized service in Automator — in other words, you can get additional selections on a contextual… read more

Why 4:3?

Of course, taste plays a factor in there — I prefer to browse the Internet on a widescreen monitor, actually, and I think games, which I’ll be playing a lot of on my iPad when I eventually get one, tend to work better with a wider field of view. And… read more

Google Chrome Gets Greasemonkey Support

Since debuting in December, more than 2,000 extensions have been created for Google Chrome. Now, Chrome users have access to about 40,000 more, thanks to support for Greasemonkey scripts in Chrome 4.0 for Windows and the Chrome Developer builds for Mac and Linux.

We’ve covered Greasemonkey and the browser-awesome it can… read more

iPad’s multifunction appeal and sub-$500 price point a formula for disruptive technology

<p minus a little over a month and a half until retail liftoff of the Apple iPad and, similar to the launch of the iPhone 3 years ago, the device is not without its share of criticism — be it the lack of support for multitasking or the missing front… read more

TUAW predicts tomorrow’s event

Sang Tang

9.6 inch LED-backlit display
Wireless HDMI support (to output to TV)
Front facing camera

Erica Sadun

Tomorrow, we expect to see Apple finally launch the long awaited tablet. It will likely feature a 10.5-inch diagonal capacitive touch display and look and function much like a… read more

4 Myths About Social Media and Business

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

25% of small business owners said they plan to spend more on social networking in 2010, according to the Ad-ology Small Business Marketing Forecast.

Facebook ranked as the… read more

Evernote Inks Deal to Come Bundled on Sony Vaio PCs

Multiplatform note-taking app Evernote is getting a significant distribution deal with Sony. A special customized version of the software will come pre-installed on the extensive Vaio series of desktops and laptops starting this Spring.

The special version of Evernote includes a feature that takes advantage of the Vaio line’s built-in Motion… read more

Don’t Forget The Small Stuff This Year

Whether a designer, developer, blogger, or freelancer, you surely have a to-do list on which certain items slowly inch their way down. These forgotten items add up fast! Think of all the items that you’ve discarded from your to-do list to save time. Even more frightening, what items might you… read more

Five widgets for Friday

Screenshot Plus
At the top of the list is Steven Chaitoff’s Screenshot Plus. The app, err widget, is in many ways just as functional as a full-fledged desktop app. Although Realmac Software’s Little Snapper (which I use regularly) offers advanced editing and capturing niceties, for many Screenshot Plus is more… read more

5 Ways Small Businesses Can Avoid Social Media Panic

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

The notion of getting into social media might seem overwhelming for any small business. Spending time upfront before launch to create a plan with goals that includes… read more

8 (More) Desktop Applications That Designers May Want To Know

This is one of the very best list of its kind where you can find the simplest desktop applications that may be very helpful for you as well when you want to get your work done or just for fun. I hope web designers will like this list, but you… read more

TUAW Tip: Character building with Mac OS X

While providing a means to display almost every imaginable existing symbol or character, a LaTeX-based solution may prove too complex and unnecessary for some. For the less “mathletic,” Mac OS X’s built-in character viewer is one of the easier ways to display characters of all sorts.

To enable the character viewer,… read more

Send tweets automatically during a Keynote presentation with Keynote Tweet

<pmagine if, as Steve Jobs moves through each slide of his Keynote presentation, he also has the telepathic powers to automatically tweet information related to the slide.

But even the almighty Steve Jobs can’t do that.

Fortunately for him, there’s Keynote Tweet. An open source AppleScript app, Keynote Tweet will automatically tweet… read more

5 Social Media Lessons the NBA Can Teach Businesses

This post is part of Mashable’s Fab Five series with Jalen Rose, which highlights trends in the social media space. Jalen Rose is a former 13-year NBA star and current ESPN basketball analyst but may be best known for being a member of the famous University of Michigan Fab Five.

One… read more

Beautiful Photos by Pawel Fabjanski – The Factory

We have already featured Pawel Fabjanski here on Abduzeedo. He is Poland based advertising and editorial photographer, it’s fantastic the way he takes an urban style into most of his work and merge it into awesome fashion photos. For this post we will show you some photos from his exhibition… read more

HOW TO: Take Advantage of Social Media in Your E-mail Marketing

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

You’ve most likely had an e-mail newsletter for your company for much longer than you’ve had a presence on social media sites. But now that you… read more

Quix Reinvents the Bookmarklet

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.

Name: Quix

Quick Pitch: Quix is an extensible… read more

This Weeks Twitter Design News Roundup N.20

This is our weekly Twitter Design News Round-Up, a collection of fresh design related resources that we have shared via Twitter in the past week.
Just in case you are not one of our Twitter followers, click here: twitter.com/speckyboy.
As always, if you have any cool links that you would… read more

Powering Your Website With Social Media

Social Media is “media designed to be disseminated through social interaction, created using highly accessible and scalable publishing techniques” (Wikipedia), and if that doesn’t make sense I don’t blame you.

Basically everyone these days is interacting through online groups on Facebook, real-time feeds on Twitter, real-time searching with One-Riot and… read more

Why Social Media Isn’t for Everyone

Joshua-Michéle Ross is SVP of Digital Strategy with Fleishman Hillard. He blogs at opposableplanets.com.

Social media has a loyal tribe of disciples. We follow each other on Twitter, connect on Facebook, read each other’s blogs and listen to each other at conferences. We provide each other moral… read more

40 Valuable Tools and Resources For Web Designers

Web development can be tricky and time-consuming. To be more effective and productive, we, designers and developers, can integrate useful tools in our daily routine. Also, handy resources can be very valuable as they can help us enhance communication with clients and other developers as well as improve the quality… read more

18 Online Productivity Tools for Your Business

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

Small business owners may have more of a need than most to be able to access their chosen suite of productivity tools from more than one computer… read more

22 Reliable Sources to Get Commercial and Free Micro Stock Photos

For one reason or another, almost all designers using Stock Images in their designs. Stock Images/Photography consists of existing Images/photographs that can be licensed for specific uses. Publishers, advertising agencies, graphic artists, and others use stock photography to fulfill the needs of their creative assignments.

There are a number of Royalty… read more

Talking tablets with Aaron Vronko of RapidRepair

<phe clock ticks slowly towards the introduction of the Apple tablet, a lot of people are speculating on what the device design will be like. TUAW recently spent some time interviewing Aaron Vronko, Service Manager for RapidRepair. RapidRepair, based in Kalamazoo, Michigan, has repaired and provided parts for all sorts… read more

11 Tips to Maximize Freelance Productivity and Profit

11 Tips to Maximize Freelance Productivity and Profit

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5 Industries an Apple Tablet Could Revolutionize

If you haven’t heard an Apple Tablet rumor by now, you’ve most likely been living in a cave somewhere for the past year. It’s all anybody can talk about, especially since it could launch at the end of the month.

With the daily deluge of rumors flooding your Twitter stream… read more

TotalFinder beefs up Finder

A new “hack” for Finder is in the works, and it’s pretty darn cool. TotalFinder adds tabs, Visor-like functionality and a few other goodies (with more on the way) to your plain, vanilla Finder setup. If you’re skittish, though, don’t jump just yet. TotalFinder is alpha, and not in… read more

The Complete Guide to Getting the Most Out of Twitter

We’ve all heard of Twitter at this point, and I would be the majority of our readers are already using it. But that doesn’t mean we’re all using it in the most efficient, most productive way. After all, Twitter can be confusing at best, and downright intimidating to many newcomers.

This… read more

Zen and the Art of Twitter: 4 Tips for Productive Tweeting

Soren Gordhamer is the organizer of the Wisdom 2.0 Conference, which brings together staff from tech companies with neuroscientists, Zen teachers, and others to explore living wisely in our modern age. Mashable readers can use code ‘Mashable‘ for a discount when registering.

Tweeting is easy. Tweeting and using social media… read more

HOW TO: Use a Start Page to Stay Organized

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 so many online productivity tools at our disposal, there’s never been a better time to check up on what’s out there to help optimize your work… read more

Creatively Handling the Admin Side of Freelancing

There are very few who would argue against the notion that most freelance professionals, especially those operating in the design/development and writing arenas, tend to operate from a creative base. They are, by and large, a group that has chosen to let the right side of their brain… read more

What to do when your Numbers’ charts don’t paste correctly

<phe iWork suite of apps (Pages, Numbers and Keynote) play nice with each other — for the most part. Objects such as shapes, text boxes and tables created in one app can easily be copied and pasted onto another and retain their styles. Even an image with an instant alpha… read more

5 Great IDEs to Start Coding in the Cloud

Cloud computing has started proceeding beyond the hype stage and into the beginning of mainstream adoption. Gartner had included cloud computing in their list of Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2009. They also reported that worldwide cloud services revenue is on pace to surpass $56.3 billion in 2009. As we… read more

3 Ways Educators Are Embracing Social Technology

The modern American school faces rough challenges. Budget cuts have caused ballooning class sizes,  many teachers struggle with poorly motivated students, and in many schools a war is being waged on distracting technologies. In response, innovative educators are embracing social media to fight back against the onslaught of problems. Technologies… read more

Our Favorite Tweets of the Week Jan 3-Jan 9, 2010

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.

The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick… read more

HOW TO: Use Social Media to Connect with Other Entrepreneurs

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

Starting a company is often a lonely and nerve wracking process. One day, you’re working at a big company with tens of thousands of people and… read more

Comindwork, The Most Customizable Suit Of Flexible To-Dos, Wiki, Emails – With Gantt Charts, MS Project And Workflows

Comindwork SaaS improves the knowledge work productivity in projects performed by workgroups in professional service firms (e.g. software, advertising & marketing, consulting, lawyers, NGO) and by divisions within enterprises (e.g. support, marketing, R&D, upper management). It’s simple and clear time tracker interface provides project managers with a quick overview… read more

Great Reads for 2010

The beginning of the new year came with lots of plans and resolutions. In my opinion, it’s very important to share our experiences and to learn from others as well, and because of that, in this post I will show you some books that I got and that I think… read more

How to run Windows apps for free with Wine on OS X

Wine is an Open Source application layer that runs within the Mac operating system rather than as a stand-alone, sandboxed operating system. The thing that all of these options, except Wine, have in common though is that they legally require you to actually run Windows and therefore own a… read more

How Data Will Impact the Way We Do Business

Josh Jones-Dilworth is the Founder and CEO of Jones-Dilworth, Inc. a PR consultancy focused on bringing early-stage technologies to market. He blogs at joshdilworth.com

Outliers like Factual, WolframAlpha, Daytum, FlowingData, and InfoChimps have proven that painting our world in data (and metadata) is a rather valuable endeavor for any business.

In a… read more

4 Steps for Effective Online Networking

Alexandra Levit is the author of “New Job, New You: A Guide to Reinventing Yourself in a Bright New Career.” Learn more at www.newjobnewyou.com.

A popular misconception is that networking is about getting a job or landing a client. In reality, networking is about establishing relationships that provide you with… read more

iPhone Apps List 2010: 700+ Apps Reviewed by Category

As we begin 2010, there are over 100,000 iPhone apps available for download — an overwhelming array of choices, but plenty of gems if you know where to look.

To help you out, we’ve compiled all of Mashable’s iPhone app reviews in a definitive list to kick off the year. … read more

HOW TO: Do Almost Anything Online in 2010

It’s a new year, which means it’s time to make resolutions, take on fresh challenges, learn new things and change our lives for the better. Perhaps you want to lose 10 pounds, travel more, or get the job you really want?

Mashable has been building a vast archive of how-to… read more

7 Simple Mac To-Do List Apps

We’ve previously covered a range of complex task managers for the Mac, but what if you’re looking for something much simpler? Today I’ll be investigating a number of basic to-do list applications that can help with managing a straight-forward set of tasks.

Most are desktop applications, but a few are really… read more