Collection Of Zbrush Tutorials You Would (Really) Like To Learn

Didn’t hear before about Zbrush? Let us define it for you; ZBrush is a digital sculpting tool with which you can combine 3D/2.5D modeling, texturing as well as painting. It is an amazing tool that brings “pixol” technology into play. pixol technology puts in lighting, color, material, as well as… read more

Epic Auto Correct Fail: Schools Lock Down Over Texting Mix-Up [VIDEO]

Is this the biggest auto correct fail ever?

Middle schools and high schools in Gainesville, Ga. were locked down Wednesday when a student’s text message — “gunman be at west hall today” — was accidentally sent to a community member’s phone.

The message was supposed to say “gunna”, but… read more

Highly Anticipated ‘BioShock Infinite’ to Launch This Fall

The third installment of the popular video game series BioShock will launch this fall, publisher 2K Games announced on Thursday.

BioShock Infinite — which will be released on Oct. 16 in the U.S. and internationally on Oct. 19. — is a follow up to 2K’s previous BioShock games, which… read more

Twitter Reacts to Snooki Pregnancy Rumor [PICS]

Image via @SteveCarell

Note: Actor Steve Carrell just joined Twitter earlier this week. His Snooki comment has since… read more

Hidden Features Revealed in Adobe’s Latest Sneak Peek Video

In yesterday’s sneak peek video explaining Photoshop’s new Blur Gallery, Photoshop Product Manager, Stephen Nielsen demonstrated the new Iris Blur effect, a feature that will help you to simulate depth of field in a photo. While I thought that the new feature was really exciting, I was a bit confused… read more

Video Inspiration #58

Video Inspiration is a weekly(ish) post where we either feature a specific artist or show a sort of “best of” list of videos we’ve discovered during the week. Everything here may not be brand new, but we felt it worth sharing with the community. If you have good… read more

Justin Bieber Turns Birthdays Into Social Good Holidays

Justin Bieber, pop megastar and social media maven, turns 18 today. To celebrate his birthday, Bieber announced on Twitter Wednesday night that he’d be giving up his birthday for charity: water.

This is the second-consecutive year Bieber has asked his fans to donate to charity: water for his birthday. When he… read more

Quick Look: MobDis

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

In this Quick Look, we’re highlighting MobDis. The developer describes MobDis as a mobile marketing platform for agencies servicing local businesses…. read more

Adobe Edge Preview 4: Web Fonts

The new Adobe Edge Preview 4 includes the ability to use web fonts. In this video, Tom Green shows users how to get the embed code for the fonts they want to use and bring those fonts into Adobe Edge. He also demonstrates the new clipping feature, which can be… read more

Easily Share Design Work With Clients via MockVault

When you take on a new design project or client, one of the important deadlines will be a day to share the mockups for the project with the client. This has always been a pain, involving countless emails, compatibility problems, miscommunications and more. MockVault realized this issue and decided to… read more

Interview with Vector Artist Alexey Oglushevich

Today our guest is a great Russian vector artist, Alexey Oglushevich who won a Grand Prize of CorelDraw International Design Contest in 2009. You would probably be surprised to know that Alexey is a metalworker by education, but he reached success and got recognition in the vector art world. Alexey… read more

8 tools to make your website for free

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Facebook Ads Announcements: Everything You Need to Know

Facebook gathered hundreds of people into the Museum of Natural History in New York on Wednesday for its first-ever Facebook Marketing Conference. At the top of the agenda was Premium, a new suite of products for marketers designed to leverage the social network’s access to your friends and friends of… read more

Introducing Mashable’s Facebook Timeline

Facebook rolled out Timeline for brand Pages today, and Mashable is proud to update ours on day one.

We’ve closely chronicled reactions to the switch to Timeline from personal profiles in recent weeks. While many are disappointed with Facebook’s new look, the change to Timeline has been eye-opening and emotional… read more

Two Simple Steps to Take Control Over Google’s New Privacy Policy

Google’s new privacy policy takes effect Thursday. What’s new about it?

Now, it allows Google to integrate information it collects about you from all your Google accounts. So instead of treating your YouTube, Gmail and Google+ accounts as separate entities, Google now sees you as just one user. That should… read more

Flying Robots Play the James Bond Theme Song [VIDEO]

LONG BEACH, Calif. — The machines have won – at least when it comes to being able to play music better than a Mashable editor.

While that might not be saying much in my case, the music video that debuted at the TED conference on Wednesday showing flying, autonomous… read more

Asteroid Shows Bruises From Violent Solar System [VIDEO]

A team of Japanese scientists were able to draw important conclusions about our Solar System from looking at specks of dust retrieved from one asteroid.

The results from the Feb. 27 study of the asteroid Itokawa were published in the latest edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…. read more

How Tumblr Rekindled the Art of Animated GIFs

What is it about small, repetitive moving images that everyone is so crazy about on Tumblr? Animated GIFs have been circling the web since 1987, yet in the past few years, they seem to have increased in popularity.

Because Tumblr acts as a digital incubator for all things visually stunning,… read more

Lytro: The Most Social Camera Ever Made [REVIEW]

Photography, here is your wake-up call. Lytro just released its light-field camera to the world, a device that looks and acts like no other camera ever made. Mashable got an early preview of the Lytro camera, and we can say it definitely delivers on its promise to change the way… read more

Lady Gaga, Oprah Launch Born This Way Foundation at Harvard [LIVE]

Pop megastar Lady Gaga will officially launch the Born This Way Foundation — an initiative aimed at boosting people’s confidence and addressing bullying with a strong online component — at Harvard University on Wednesday at 4 p.m. ET. You can watch the launch live in the above video.

Gaga co-founded the… read more

How Ford Kicked Its Social Marketing Strategy Into Overdrive [VIDEO]

You don’t have to look very far to notice that there are a lot of car companies trying to get in the social game — you can see plenty examples in this year’s Super Bowl ads.

It wasn’t always this way for Ford. In 2009, they recruited Scott Monty to… read more

LEGO-like Toys Help Kids Build Electronics

LONG BEACH, Calif — With kids spending an increasing amount of time with technology, one company is developing LEGO-like toys that help them understand how devices like iPads and cell phones actually work.

The founder of littleBits has designed a system of electronic modules that snap together with magnets…. read more

FaceTime Facelift: Surgeon Wants to Make Video Chats Beautiful

Ever noticed double chins or saggy skin get accentuated when video chatting on FaceTime or Skype? Is the angle of your smartphone making you look more beast than beauty?

Now one cosmetic surgeon has a cure — and it involves going under the knife.

Dr. Robert Sigal of Washington D.C…. read more

iPad 3 Concept Looks Beautiful — But Would It Work? [VIDEO]

From the makers behind the viral iPhone 5 concept that envisioned the device with a stunning laser keyboard comes a breathtaking new vision for the iPad 3, with an edge-to-edge retina display and 3D multiplayer hologram for gaming.

Now, this is exactly what not to expect to be unveiled at Apple’s… read more

Facebook Introduces Ads That Appear When You Log Out

Ads will start popping up on mobile News Feeds and as you log out of the site, Facebook announced Wednesday.

Although mobile ads had been reported by Bloomberg in December, the idea of a log-out ad, which will go live in April, is new. Mike Hoefflinger, director of customer marketing at… read more

Watch Out, Netflix: Hollywood to Reinvent Downloadable Movies [VIDEO]

Two of Hollywood’s biggest production companies want to give Netflix and Hulu a run for their money. Consumers should soon to able to download HD movies and shows directly onto their flash drives to view movies, bypassing traditional online streaming sites.

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and Twentieth Century Fox… read more

For Marriage Proposal, Man Uses Meme and Asks Internet for Help [PICS]

Memes are all the rage on college campuses right now, but those viral little gems have just sneaked into the land of love.

Self-described web geek Len Kendall proposed to his longtime girlfriend, Katie Holland, over the Internet with a meme of himself emblazoned with “Katie I love you so much,… read more

Turn Your iPhone or iPad into a Desktop Phone for Business

Invoxia has unveiled a sleek speaker that transforms iOS devices into a desktop phone and handset that makes conference and video calls for businesses more user-friendly.

The company announced its AudiOffice product at the 2012 Mobile World Congress this week. It’s a dock equipped with speakers for Apple’s iPhone, iPod and… read more

Adobe Announces Iris Blur for Photoshop

A lot of people really like the look of a photo with a shallow depth of field in their photos. In the past, reproducing this effect in Photoshop took a bit a time and required you to add a few layers, masks, and depth channels. In this sneak peek video,… read more

Cartooning Tips and Techniques in Photoshop

Each month, we like to present you with our favorite workshops, speeches, and presentations from around the web. In this video, join acclaimed illustrator, Patrick LaMontagne as he demonstrates some cartooning tips using his Wacom pen tablet.

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Stash Your Files in the Cloud with CX

The cloud storage market is really heating up right now. Previously we relied on these services to have all our files up-to-date on our home and office computers. Now, smartphones and tablets have drastically increased the need for ways to store and sync files between all our devices. And it’s… read more

Edit and Create on the Go with Adobe Photoshop Touch for iPad

On Monday, Adobe launched its Photoshop Touch application for the iPad. This long sought after app runs on the iPad 2, and not on the iPad 1, and it requires that you have iOS 5 installed. The app costs $9.99 which is at the high end of the price range… read more

Are DVDs Dead? (for Lightroom photo backup purposes that is)

Just curious… anyone using DVDs to backup their photos still? Some one asked me the other day how they should name their backup photo DVDs so that they’re easy to find later on in Lightroom. Honestly, it’s been YEARS since I’ve used a DVD to backup photos. The average DVD… read more

Best of the Vector Web – February 2012

Each month, we search the web for the best vector-related content and showcase it here for you all to enjoy. This month, we showcase high quality tutorials on creating photorealistic vector illustrations, drawing with a graphics tablet, designing vector characters, and more. We have loads of tutorials, in addition to… read more

10 Mac Games to Get You Thinking

Are you ever in one of those moods where you want to solve a puzzle, but would rather play a puzzling game? If not, maybe you feel like playing something that will really turn your brain on and exercise it. I’ve been browsing the Mac App Store quite often lately… read more

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Jeff Huang’s New Work

One of our missions at Abduzeedo is to help designers and digital artists to promote their work. That’s the reason we are always featuring updated portfolios like the one that we will featured today from Jeff Huang.

Jeff Huang is a multidisciplinary freelance Art Director and Illustrator based in New York… read more

Blending Ads into your Website Layout

Advertise here with BSA

Advertising is the age-old medium which has been transformed via the Internet. Ads can be served on websites in different ways than TV or radio shows. Google AdSense is the most notable company, although there are plenty of alternatives to consider. Not to mention the growing… read more

Bieber Fans Eye Social Media World Record for His 18th Birthday

Boy wonder Justin Bieber reaches adult years on March 1 when he turns 18. As a gift, the pop star’s fans will try to break the Guinness World Records‘ mark for most social media messages sent in a 24-hour period.

AgencyNet, the creators of JustinBieberMusic.com, are rallying Bieber Fever victims through… read more

Billy Corgan to Use SXSW to Announce Smashing Pumpkins ‘Album Experience’ [EXCLUSIVE]

Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan will use next week’s South By Southwest as a springboard to announce the band’s latest album, Oceania, which promises to be a “full online experience.”

“Our aim is to turn the ‘social’ into a new way to experience an album,” Corgan told Mashable. “By taking the… read more

Ridley Scott’s “Prometheus” Teased in TEDTalk From the Future [VIDEO]

LONG BEACH, Calif. — The crowd at TED got a glimpse into the upcoming Ridley Scott sci-fi film “Prometheus” on Tuesday, in the form of a video of a TEDTalk that takes place in 2023.

Although not a clip from the movie itself, the futuristic talk is given by Guy… read more

YouTube Improves its Automatic Captions [VIDEO]

YouTube wants to be more widely heard by those without the ability to hear.

The video-sharing site announced Tuesday it is beefing up its ability to automatically caption videos in an effort to reach more viewers with hearing disabilities and language differences.

The number of captioned videos on YouTube… read more

Primary Night in Michigan and Arizona: A Social Media Snapshot

It’s primary day in America, folks: citizens in Michigan and Arizona are headed to the polls Tuesday to vote for their preferred Republican candidate to go up against President Obama in November. As we’ve seen in the past, the social web is aflame with posts, tweets and videos from the… read more

Apple Wins a Treasure Trove of Multi-Touch Patents [VIDEO]

Call it a coincidence: The same day Apple issued invites to a press event to reveal the next-gen iPad (and more?), the company was also awarded 24 patents by the U.S. Patent and Trademark office for its multi-touch tech.

The patents, revealed by Patently Apple, include the Magic Mouse’s… read more

Apple Invite Sparks iPad 3 Frenzy on Twitter

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Twitter was abuzz Tuesday after Apple revealed the invite to a March 7 event in San Francisco. The… read more

Don’t Want Your Video to Become a Viral Sensation? Givit Controls Who Sees It

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: Givit

Quick Pitch: Givit is private video sharing made easy.

Genius Idea: Desktop and mobile apps designed to… read more

Interview with Vector Artist Caramelaw

Today we have a special guest here at Abduzeedo, I’m proud to present this interview with Sheena Aw, also known as her illustrator alias Caramelaw. She told us more about her story, her creative process and other cool topics. Check it out.

You can see more of Caramelaw’s work at her… read more

Google Will Give $1 Million to Hackers Who Find Flaws in Chrome [VIDEO]

Google wants you to help find security flaws in its browser, Chrome — and the search giant is paying a handsome reward.

The company told attendees at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver next month they can get up to $1 million in cash and Chromebooks in exchange for… read more

LowePro DSLR Video Fastpack 350 AW [REVIEW]

Use In Real Life

I know those numbers often don’t mean a lot without real world use. I’ve tested a number of LowePro and other packs and my expectation for this pack as that I could carry my main body with power grip and longer lens plus a couple of lenses…. read more

Mission Transition

Life and nature are one big transition. The sun slowly rises to mark a new day and then slowly sets to mark the end of the day and the beginning of night. We are created in the womb and from small cells we grow, are born and gradually age until… read more

25+ Professional Resources for Getting Started as a Freelance Editor

Launching into a career as a freelance editor is relatively easy. Unlike our web and graphic design colleagues, editors can start working on their own without too much investment in expensive software or equipment.

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Mozilla Marketplace: The One-Stop-Shop App Store for All Devices?

If you had to pick a device that either had any native app you wanted other than a browser, or one that only had a browser and no other offline apps, which would you pick? Chances are, you’d pick the device with a browser. The internet’s a great place for… read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.122)

This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy :)
If you would like to receive our daily updates and keep up to date with the latest and greatest articles and resources from the… read more

Hipster Orchestra: The Oscar Edition [VIDEO]

Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks.

The Hipster Orchestra is back in the studio, this time applying their talent towards famous film scores.

Dubbed the “Hipster Orchestra Oscar Medley 2012,” the collective of classically trained musicians turned their talents towards the cinematic overtones… read more

Move Over, Super Bowl. Spectator Gaming Reaches Millions Online

Ten years ago, Sundance DiGiovanni set out to standardize competitive gaming. He wanted to create a “world-class organization” type of league that would bring in players from around the world into the living rooms of rabid fans.

Three months ago, Major League Gaming‘s StarCraft 2 Pro Circuit National Championship had… read more

FBI Shuts Down 3,000 Warrantless GPS Devices After Court Ruling [VIDEO]

The FBI shut down 3,000 GPS-based devices this week in a response to a court case ruling decided on Jan 23.

The U.S. Department of Justice is now dispatching officials to remove the devices, which were not authorized by warrant to be attached to vehicles.

In United States vs. Jones,… read more

Daily Inspiration #1068

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

How to Turn Off Google Search Plus Your World Results [VIDEO]

If you are tired of seeing the pileup of social content from Google+ friends every time you use Google, you can now do something about it. Here’s how to get old Google back and block the personalized results that Google Search, plus Your World spews up.

When the Google… read more

MasterImage 3D Tests Glasses-Free Tech on Qualcomm Tablet

MasterImage 3D is showing off its glasses-free technology at the 2012 Mobile World Congress conference in Barcelona this week on a tablet manufactured by chip supplier Qualcomm.

Qualcomm’s MDP Tablet 3D Edition — which boasts a Snapdragon S4 processor — will feature MasterImage 3D’s latest glasses-free technology called Cell-Matrix Parallax Barrier… read more

Fake Apple iStoves Seized From Chinese Warehouses [VIDEO]

A Chinese company likes the iPhone so much that they named a stove after the Apple brand.

This is the latest of many Chinese companies to sell fake Apple products, but perhaps the first documented pseudo-Apple home appliance. Apparently, the company sold portable gas stoves engraved with the Apple… read more

Google: 850,000 Android Devices Activated Every Day

To ring in the first day of Mobile World Congress, Google revealed some new statistics about how far its Android mobile operating system has come. Close to a million Android devices are activated every day, the company says, and there are now 450,000 apps in the Android Market.

The news comes… read more

Nokia’s 41-Megapixel Camera Phone Takes Marvelous Photos [PICS]

Hanging Out

The crisp detail of the PureView is evident, as the horizon is sharp as well as the… read more

Washington Post Launches Presidential Election iPad App

Good news, tablet-owning politics junkies! The Washington Post has released a brand-new interactive iPad app that’s chock full of graphs, polling data, video and up-to-the-second news from the campaign trail.

The “WP Politics” app collects the newspaper’s politics coverage in one convenient location optimized for tablet viewing. When users open the… read more

Groupon Reports Mobile App Growth, International Expansion Plans

Groupon announced at the 2012 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Monday that it experienced a record-breaking month in December among mobile app users, as one quarter of all Groupon vouchers were purchased via a mobile device.

The deal-of-the-day site said usage of its mobile app more than tripled… read more

37 Fresh And Free Icon Sets In PSD Format

Here is a fresh and absolutely free collection of Icon sets PSD files for all those designers who are looking for high quality icons PSD files that they can alter in accordance with their own needs. High quality freebie PSD files are the designers’ best friend that always comes in… read more

Focus On: Mobile App Design Trends for 2012

Mobile applications are on the rise as more consumers switch over to smartphones. Between Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android operating system there are plenty of wonderful apps to browse through. The past year has built up a catalog of exceptional design patterns which will continue over into 2012.

In… read more

When The Project Is Over – The Follow-up Meeting

At the end of a project, there are a couple of things you can do. You can hand the files or materials off to the client, a printer or upload them to a server. Then, you bill it and forget it.

Bad idea.

A better idea is to conduct a follow-up… read more

Thanks to Our Weekly Sponsor: MobDis – Create Mobile WebApps Easily

Our featured sponsor this week is MobDis, an incredibly easy way to build mobile sites without writing a single line of code.

With over 40,000 downloads on the Mac App Store, MobDis is a popular choice for anyone looking to create a mobile website or app. MobDis features an intuitive drag… read more

80+ Awesome Freebies from Dribbble Community

Creativity means a lot in any kind of presentation. Whether it’s a logo, banner, advertisement or a complete design; being able to inject creativity into it not only helps in floating the message around, it also leaves solid impression on the viewer.

Good design is not easy thing to create, or… read more

A look at Photoshop CS6

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Adobe Primetime Highlights Brings Video into the Digital Publishing Circle

BARCELONA: Here at Mobile World Congress, Adobe has unveiled Primetime Highlights, a powerful new tool for converting video highlights into publishable, ad-supported, fully distributed clips in a matter of minutes.

Primetime Highlights is part of Adobe Digital Publishing Suite (DSP), a set of turnkey hosted services that allow publishers to create… read more

Sacha Baron Cohen Red Carpet Shenanigans Go Viral

Sacha Baron Cohen dumping faux ashes of late dictator Kim Jong II on Ryan Seacrest on the red carpet of the 84th Academy Awards went viral Sunday night, as the video and animated GIF showed up on Twitter and various Tumblr sites.

Baron Cohen — who was dressed in character as… read more

How One Tech Company Got MTV to Embrace Live Music

Seven years ago a Texas company called NewTek launched TriCaster, a product that essentially puts all the equipment from a TV news truck into one box. It’s affordable as broadcasting equipment goes, with rigs as cheap as $5,000. When it unveiled TriCaster, NewTek thought its main customers would be amateur… read more

The Long and Winding Road to Personal Heads-Up Displays

With the rumors churning about Google’s potential “heads-up display glasses” coming out at the end of the year, we thought it was important to look back at the history of this technlogy.

Heads-up displays allow users to receive data on a screen in front of them, so they don’t have to… read more

HTC Launches New HTC One Line of Smartphones

BARCELONA: HTC has launched a new flagship Android smartphone, the HTC One X, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

The majority of mobile giants had their announcements before the actual start of the MWC – including Samsung, LG and Sony. HTC had the last, and perhaps the most glamorous… read more

Sony Announces Two New Xperia Smartphones

As expected, Sony unveiled its Xperia P and Xperia U dual-core smartphones at the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona on Sunday. It was the first press conference for Sony since it spun off Ericsson, with Sony’s smartphones now originating from a division called Sony Mobile Communications.

The first new addition… read more

20 Strange and Hilarious Google Street View Sightings

1. A Fleet at the Ready

Take a minute and think about the gargantuan task of photographing every inch… read more

Sony DEV-5 Digital Recording Binoculars Review

My experience with binoculars has mainly revolved around visits to motor sports, surf carnivals and performances like musicals or opera.

So I can, without fear of contradiction, say that we can safely discount use of the DEV-5 in theatres and the like: for one thing you’d quickly get tired of sitting… read more

Our favorite tweets of the week Feb 20-Feb 26, 2012

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Can These 8-Second Videos Dethrone the Sh*t People Say Videos as Best Meme of 2012?

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34 New Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed

This year’s Mobile World Congress is fast approaching — are you caught up on all of Mashable‘s digital media resources? If not, don’t fret. Here’s our convenient and comprehensive weekly features roundup.

This week we have a list of free Android apps you’ll use every day, tips for reaching voters successfully… read more

Flickr vs. Pinterest: Flickr Users Can Now Implement Pinterest Opt-Out

Users on the Yahoo-owned photo social network Flickr can now block Pinterest aficionados from tacking Flickr pictures onto their beloved online image boards.

Flickr users can block pinning by changing a “Yes” to a “No” in user Privacy Settings. Simply state “No” in the area where you “Allow others to share… read more

How Dyson Created a Vacuum That Doesn’t Topple [VIDEO]

Dyson, the company that makes all those expensive and attractive vacuums and fans, has done it again. That is, it’s rolled out another vacuum cleaner you might not buy but sucks up dirt in novel ways.

The Dyson DC39, unveiled today, looks similar to the company’s previous compact cylinder vacuums,… read more

The Happy Secret to Better Work – Video

View engaging conference lectures, interesting how to discussions, and high quality freelance advice via video here on FreelanceSwitch.

This week we look at The Happy Secret to Better Work by Shawn Achor. We believe that we should work to be happy, but could that be backwards? In this fast-moving and… read more

Best of the Week #211

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

PostWarden vs. Tumblita: Who’s the Better Tumblr Manager?

Today we’re going to take a look at a couple apps that can help you post content directly to your Tumblr account. As you no doubt already know, Tumblr is one of the hottest blogging platforms on the web today, largely due to its strong emphasis on being social and… read more

Google to Test Driverless Cars on Nevada Roadways

The roads in Nevada are ready for driverless robot cars. Earlier this month, Nevada’s Legislative Commission approved testing of autonomous vehicles on the state’s roadways. The cars will be identifiable by a red license plate.

In fact, any company can test its driverless system in Nevada; Google just happened to… read more

Best Western International Hotels Adds Facebook Booking [VIDEO]

Best Western International reservations are going where the customers are: Facebook.

The hotel chain is the latest to let travelers book their stay on the top social media website. Hotel brands including Hilton and Trump have flocked to Facebook to cater to customer wants. Best Western’s Facebook booking… read more

Apple to Replace the iPhone’s Dock Connector? [RUMOR]

Apple may be planning to replace the dock connector that’s been synonymous with iPhones, iPods and iPads for almost a decade with something new.

That’s the latest rumor from a smartphone enthusiast site, which says Apple is on the verge of ditching the familiar 30-pin jack for a smaller “micro… read more

YouTube-Famous Fred Stars in Own Nick Show

The quirky Fred Figglehorn, a high-pitched character who rose to fame on YouTube in 2008, has wiggled his way into a prime time TV slot on Nickelodeon.

Fred: The Show begins its regular Friday night rotation Feb. 24 at 8 p.m. ET, and Lucas Cruikshank — the 18-year-old actor who plays… read more

YouTube’s 4 Examples of Great Political Videos

What makes a great political video? YouTube is attempting to answer that question by posting four of its favorites in a collection titled “Political Case Studies.” The four videos are a mixture of videos from candidates running for office and issue campaigns.

In the first video, a pro-union group called… read more

Tell Location-Based, Multimedia-Rich Stories With Moveable Feast

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How Social TV is Taking Over the Oscars and How You Can Win [CONTEST]

The Oscars are getting a big dose of social TV integration!

From the official Oscar.com Backstage Experience to special promotions and activities from entertainment checkin services and second screen companies, the biggest award show of the year is taking big steps towards being more social and digital.

Mashable will be getting… read more

Facebook Unfriending and Reputation Woes on the Rise [VIDEO]

Facebook users have to work harder to keep their friend count up these days. A majority of adults on social networking sites have no bouts with deleting former “friends.”

Women more than men are restricting their profiles, deleting comments and tailoring their profiles due to privacy and reputation concerns, according… read more

The World’s Largest Museum to 3D Print Copies of Priceless Artifacts [VIDEO]

A pair of model makers — Vincent Rossi and Adam Metallo — are taking on the task of digitizing the Smithsonian Institute’s 137 million-piece collection with high-tech scanners and 3D printing.

Once the process has been perfected, 3D printing will create close copies of artwork and specimens. The… read more

Happy Birthday, Steve Jobs: A Look Back at the Man Who Changed Tech

Today would have been the 57th birthday of Apple co-founder and visionary Steve Jobs, who died on Oct. 5, 2011, after a long battle with a rare form of pancreatic cancer.

Social media users have been extremely active in wishing the late media mogul a happy birthday, and “Happy Birthday Steve… read more

A Fun Approach To Creating More Successful Websites

As Web designers and developers, each project we work with has a unique set of goals and requirements. But one goal we have for all of our projects is that we want them to make an impression on people — we want the websites that we create to be memorable.

A… read more

Why Stunts Drive Clicks for Gen-Y Auto Marketers

The Digital Marketing Series is supported by HubSpot, an inbound marketing software company based in Cambridge, Mass., that makes a full platform of marketing software, including marketing analytics tools.

This year, Chevrolet‘s Super Bowl ad for its Sonic hatchback had its share of white-knuckle stunts. For those who missed it, the… read more

Watch Paris Hilton’s Bizarre Leaked Music Video About Drunk Texts, Sexting

Paris Hilton has a thing or two to say about drunk texts, sexting and Twitter. A video by the pop heiress has recently surfaced for a song called “Drunk Text” and… it’s quite strange. Somehow, it’s mesmerizing too.

The song, which is more spoken word than actual singing, discusses a range… read more

The Rise of the Startup Political Candidate

Nick Przybyciel is a graduate degree candidate at Northwestern University’s Medill School, where he is studying the intersection of technology and journalism as an interactive publishing student. You can connect with him on Twitter @nicprz.

It wasn’t too long ago that Simon Ribeiro would have been considered an odd political candidate.

Ribeiro’s… read more