How To Use Android With Your Mac

As Mac users, we’re often expected to fit within the lines of the Apple “ecosystem” – a Mac, iPhone, and maybe even an iPad. But the fact of the matter is that for many people, using something other than an iOS device just makes sense.

With that in mind, I’m going… read more

Lightroom News and Stuff

A new date was just added to my Lightroom 4 Live tour. We’ll be in Lansing MI on June 12th. It also looks like we’ll be in Washing DC that same week and probably San Francisco the week after but I’ll keep you posted.
Lightroom 4.1 Release Candidate 2 is… read more

How Should Firms Frame Their Social Media Strategy?

Formulating the social media strategy for any business involves answering quite a few ‘whys’, ‘hows’, ‘whats’ etc. This article explores the intermediate decisions to be taken by a firm in its social media journey right from conceptualization of entry to launch.

Customers are bombarded with messages from various newspapers, TV channels… read more

Five Free WordPress Theme Package from WP Theme Generator

Today we have an amazing freebie for you – A package of five WordPress Themes courtesy of the guys from WP Theme Generator. All five of the feature-rich themes have been built to demonstrate the power, functionality and awesomeness of their generator. You can download them all for… read more

Showcase: 50 High Tech Logos to Inspire You

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We live in a world where technology is all around us. How many of us spend one day without checking email, taking calls and sending text messages? The great progress in technology scientists have made in the past few decades has been unprecedented, and has given way… read more

Sunwayfoto Leveling Base Review

Another awesome video review from the team that brought you The Nice Clip

Want to make your tripod a million times more useful? This is the DYH-66X levelling base from Sunwayfoto. It provides +/- 16° of tilt, is fluid dampened, and has a scratch-resistant, anodised black finish. Sure, it’s built really… read more

When Will We See 4G MacBooks?

This week, the official dates for Apple’s annual WWDC were announced and most people who have been following Apple rumour sites have a fair idea of what exactly is going to be announced. We here at Mac.AppStorm have a strong inkling that the entire MacBook Pro line is going to… read more

EasyRotator Giveaway – Winners Announced

Last weeks EasyRotator Giveaway has just ended and it is now time to announce our randomnly chosen winners.

The Winners

Congratulations to the winners. You should have all by now received your winner email, if not, please do get in touch with us.

Name: Eric Bryant
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Name: John… read more

Nikon Coolpix AW100

Compact Adventure Camera

The Nikon Coolpix AW100 represents the company’s initial offering in the rugged compact camera market. As youd expect from a camera in this category, it’s waterproof to 33′, shockproof to 5′, freezeproof to 14 F, and it has built-in GPS, making it great for all of your… read more

Organize Your Post-Production Files With Post Haste

Anyone working in a post-production field knows (or at least should know) the importance of a good file structure and naming system. With information, media, various files and more coming at you from every direction it can be difficult to find a place for everything. However, if a client abruptly… read more

5 Tips for Getting Featured on Top Design Blogs

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No matter what sort of art you create – whether you are a graphic designer, painter, illustrator, digital artist, videographer, or any other type of artist – being featured on the web’s top art and design blogs can result in a huge surge of active followers,… read more

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On Dreaming the Future

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Rewind to ten years ago.

In 2002, the iPod had just hit the market the previous year. Netflix hadn’t had their first profitable year yet. It was still 2 years until Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, GMail, or Orkut were officially introduced. The next year came… read more

You! Be Inspired! #0003

May’s a month we (geeks) love so much. There’s a bunch of geeky stuff going on all month long – we’ll be seeing the much- anticipated Avengers film on the fourth, which coincidentally falls in with Star Wars day. We also have May 25th which celebrates Geek Pride Day; it… read more

GiftDish: Making Facebook Birthday Reminders More Useful

Remembering to purchase gifts and send good wishes for birthdays, anniversaries, and other events is often difficult. While I remember the biggest events, especially those for close family, it is hard to remember extended family and friend’s birthdays. You have to make special calendar events for those big days, and… read more

16th Annual Webby Awards – The Winners

Dubbed as the Academy Awards of the internet, the 16th annual Webby Awards were announced recently.

The Webby Awards honor online performers in four different categories: Websites, interactive advertising, online film & video and mobile apps. Again, each category is split into two prizes – The Webby Awards themselves… read more

World’s Longest Invoice: Dealing With Clients Who Don’t Pay Up

Have you ever been stiffed by a client? Many freelancers have—and it sucks. More often than not, the cost to take the client to court is frequently much more expensive than the unpaid invoice. So what’s a freelancer to do?

One thing they can do is join forces in a… read more

Applying Macrotypography For A More Readable Web Page

Any application of typography can be divided into two arenas: micro and macro. Understanding the difference between the two is especially useful when crafting a reading experience, because it allows the designer to know when to focus on legibility and when to focus on readability.

This article focuses mostly on a… read more

Sony SLT-A57 Review

As I recall, this camera’s big brother — SLT-A65 — led me to make these comments:

“It would be a tragedy if this baby ended up shooting family pics and snapshots. It’s too good! … my prediction is that this one will fly off the shelves …”

At first glance this… read more

Nimble: CRM for Social Salespeople

Way back in 1989, when the idea of using computers to manage customer relationships was still in its infancy, a guy by the name of John Ferrara founded Goldmine Software which would spend the next decade pioneering CRM software solutions. In 1999 he sold Goldmine to a South African firm…. read more

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How One Actor Used an iPhone to Land a Role in the ‘Star Trek’ Sequel [VIDEO]

Now here’s something straight out of the future: A British actor used his iPhone to land a role in the J.J. Abrams-directed sequel to Star Trek.

Benedict Cumberbatch is a 35-year-old actor who has appeared in a number of films including War Horse, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Atonement… read more

Screenleap Aims to Make Conference Calls More Like Social Media

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: Screenleap

Quick Pitch: Share your computer screen on the web with one click.

Genius Idea: No software is… read more

2012: Year of the Online Political Ad [INFOGRAPHIC]

The 2012 race to the White House is shaping up to be the most expensive in history — and an ever-increasing amount of campaign spending is going towards online advertising and social media.

So far, presidential candidates have spent seven times the amount of money spent in 2008 on digital ads…. read more

These Tactics Will Give You Great Video With a DSLR

With news DSLRs becoming better and better, more photographers are taking the leap to using their gear to shoot video. Let’s take a look at some of the strategies you can use to make sure your video turns out as well as your still shots.

Perhaps the biggest difference is that… read more

Oprah Facebook Game Wants You to Thank the World

Oprah launched a Facebook app Monday — as part of an effort to thank every person in the world, no less, for contributing something to someone’s life.

The premise is simple: Thank just one person you know, then click the “I Said Thank You” button at Oprah.com or via Oprah’s Facebook… read more

Puppy Acts as Seeing Eye Dog for Another Pooch in Touching Video

The video above tells the story of a blind, homeless dog that has been given a second chance, thanks to the friendship of another stray puppy.

Tanner, a 2-year-old Golden Retriever, was born blind with a slight seizure problem. After his owner died, the dog was forced into a shelter.

The stress… read more

7 Apps For Getting The Most Out Of Your Mouse

Whether you love them or hate them, you can’t deny that Apple’s family of mouses (mice?) have come a long way since the dreaded Hockey Puck, and provide a dramatically different experience than almost any other mouse on the market. The entire line up of peripherals feature multi-touch gesture support, which… read more

6 Serious Movie Scenes Recut With Corny Laugh Tracks

1. Pulp Fiction With a Laugh Track

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Why Musicians Need More Than Viral Videos to Succeed

As guitarist and co-founder of the Smashing Pumpkins, Billy Corgan was at the forefront of one of the most important music movements in recent history. And he’s not finished. The Pumpkins have a new album coming out in June, and Corgan is splitting time between music and helping… read more

Gingrich Suspends Campaign in YouTube Video to Supporters

In an unusual move, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich announced he will be suspending his campaign Wednesday in a YouTube video addressed to his supporters and released early Tuesday morning.

“I want to take this opportunity to give you an insider, advance notice that on Wednesday, I’ll be officially suspending the… read more

Movember: How Mustaches and Social Media Raise Awareness for Men’s Health

Name: Movember

Big Idea: Every November, men around the world grow a mustache — a “Mo” — to raise funds and awareness for men’s health issues, such as prostate cancer. The global campaign is driven largely by social media, online awareness platforms and a mobile app.

Why It’s Working: Individuals grow… read more

Top 10 Alternatives to Pinterest

There is certainly no denying the ever-growing popularity of Pinterest. With over 2.5 million users participating in the beta, Pinterest provides a new and unique way to discover and share the web. This growing popularity has, of course, spawned numerous sites that utilize a variety of Pinterest elements.

If Pinterest… read more

Best of Tuts+ in April 2012

Each month, we bring together a selection of the best tutorials and articles from across the whole Tuts+ network. Whether you’d like to read the top posts from your favourite site, or would like to start learning something completely new, this is the best place to start!

We’ve Been in Kuala… read more

Facebook Adds Organ Donor Option to Timeline

Facebook on Tuesday unveiled an organ donor status option for Timeline, a move designed to help more than 114,000 people in the U.S. and millions more around the world who are waiting for a live-saving heart, kidney or liver transplant.

“Many of those people — an average of 18 people… read more

30 Ecommerce Sites Using HTML5

Searching online it’s easy to find great examples of websites using HTML5, but less easy to discover such sites by category. Commercial sites using the fifth revision to its full potential have been showing up all over the world, so we decided to research and collate some of the better… read more

Lightroom 4 Presets: Summer Haze

It’s May 1st and summer is rapidly approaching (we’ve already got summer-like weather in Florida so we’re close enough in my book). I was looking through some of my old Lightroom 3 presets and deciding which ones to update to Lightroom 4, and the Summer Haze preset seemed like a… read more

A Comprehensive Guide to the New Facebook Timeline for Pages

Just as businesses were mastering Facebook Pages, Facebook pulled out the rug from underneath them and changed the game plan.

On March 30th, Facebook launched the new Timeline for Pages and no business was immune to the changes.

The new platform is a stark difference from the previous, and learning the ropes… read more

Ignore the design, please

“Hey, I want to show you something I built. Ignore the design please, it is not finished yet.”

From school science fair projects to real world product prototypes, if I had a nickel every time I heard that sentence I would be a lot richer by now. The truth… read more

21 Beautiful Examples of Typography in Web Design

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Here at WDL we love typography and we never get tired of gathering good typography inspiration for our readers. From free fonts to type usage in signs and typography videos, we like to give you as many resources as we can on everything surrounding type. Today… read more

Light Painting: 7 Stunning Works of Art [VIDEO]

“Light painting” is a photographic technique that uses a light source and long exposure to create the effect of “painting” with light. As with other forms of animation, it can be used very creatively as it’s not limited by “reality.”

German collective LICHTFAKTOR are pioneers in this technique. The team has… read more

Students Studying Abroad: Take Advantage of Video Job Interviews

Josh Tolan is the CEO of Spark Hire, which combines a video job board and online interviewing platform to enrich interaction between job seekers and employers. Connect with him and Spark Hire on Facebook and Twitter.

Studying literature at Oxford or finance at the London School of Economics; strolling by… read more

Canon EOS 5D Mark III Review

You’ve seen this camera’s predecessors, the Canon EOS 5D Mark II and 7D and Nikon’s D90, everywhere or, least you’ve seen their product on TV or at the movies.

What made many industry players sit up and look closely was the use of the Canon EOS 5D Mark II to… read more

5 Startups Using Tech To Do Good

In our social entrepreneurship series, The World at Work, Mashable interviews the faces behind the startups and projects that are working to make a global impact.

By harnessing the power of digital technology, these five companies have altered commonplace models such as crowdfunding and toy development to change the world… read more

Do People Really Want Self-Driving Cars? [VIDEO]

Who wants a self driving car? Researchers at J.D. Power and Associates conducted a study to find out who would be willing to buy a car with such futuristic features, and the reaction was certainly not unanimous. In this video, Adam Falk shows you a few self-driving cars and… read more

Interest in Pinterest Reaches a Fever Pitch [INFOGRAPHIC]

Could Pinterest be the silver bullet for retailers on social media?  Pinterest is clearly resonating with online consumers in a big way.  To put it simply, customers who find a product via Pinterest are more likely to purchase it than those who find the product via other social networks.

SEE ALSO: 10 Video… read more

Pokémon Art Tumblr Reimagines 151 Original Characters [PICS]

Charmeleon

By Michael Myers

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“Gotta catch ‘em all!” Well, in a real-life game of Pokémon,… read more

51 Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed

Have you spent the past week studying the nuts and bolts of the new Gmail interface? Or have you been preoccupied with the space shuttle Enterprise‘s final flight to New York City (and the absurd memes that came along with it)? For whichever reasons you missed our latest digital media… read more

Google Maps Adds More 3D Goodness with Parallax Views [VIDEO]

Google Maps lovers, the object of your affection has just been further improved. Take a look at this video that shows you how Google has applied way-cool graphics magic to Google Maps, making landmarks and buildings look a whole lot more 3D.

Google‘s new parallax view, seen in the Google… read more

Best of the Week #220

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

Apple Flirting with Epix for Streaming Video From 3 Major Studios [VIDEO]

As rumors continue to run rampant about the alleged Apple HDTV set, now there’s a tantalizing clue about programming Apple might use to entice people to buy and watch such a device.

Reuters found out Apple is currently in negotiations with Epix, a studio-backed company that streams relatively… read more

At the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Tech is in the House

Rachel Sklar is a writer and social entrepreneur based in New York. She is the founder of Change The Ratio, which increases visibility and opportunity for women in tech and new media. Follow her on Twitter @rachelsklar.

This weekend kicks off one of Washington D.C.’s biggest events: the White House Correspondents’… read more

Video Pick: A New Way to Think About Creativity

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

This week we look at A new way to think about creativity by Elizabeth Gilbert. In this video “Eat, Pray, Love” Author Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from… read more

You! Be Informed! #0002

Here’s our second installation of our design news series! There’s something that’s making me hungry (in a very creative, graphic design sense as well as in a literal sense) in this roundup so I’ll get right to it so I can attack the fridge afterwards!
 
– As always, there… read more

5 Tips for Great Content Curation

Steven Rosenbaum is the CEO of Magnify.net, a real-time video curation engine for publishers, brands, and websites. He’s also the author of Curation Nation.

You’ve heard the buzz word — curation — being thrown around like it’s a gadget we all know how to work. In reality, good content curation isn’t… read more

Forget Emoticons — Skype Wants You to Use ‘Humoticons’

As part of Skype’s latest marketing campaign, the video call service has launched a Facebook app geared at making our interactions more human: Skype Humoticons.

The app basically allows us to recreate classic emoticon images — such as the smiley face, sad face or tongue-out face — with our own real-life… read more

Watch Leonard Nimoy Welcome Space Shuttle Enterprise to New York [VIDEO]

When the Space Shuttle Enterprise made its final landing at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport, it was greeted by a special guest: Leonard Nimoy.

The Star Trek actor and director gave an emotional speech to welcome the spaceship, which bears the same name as the starship that was home… read more

Daily Inspiration #1120

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more

What Do You Do When Your Co-Founder Quits? [VIDEO]

Deciding to leave your full-time job for your startup isn’t easy. But what happens when one founder is on board and the other would rather continue to take home a steady paycheck?

That issue plays itself out in the third episode of TechStars, where one company’s co-founder decides… read more

6-Year-Old Autistic Boy Is a Piano Rock God [VIDEOS]

Ethan W. is on his way to YouTube stardom. A few new videos of the smiley six-year-old playing classic piano pop songs have been uploaded, and one of them — Billy Joel’s “Piano Man” — has caught fire on the web, garnering nearly 80,000 views in three days.

We’ve seen many… read more

TriggerHappy App Turns Your Phone Into an Advanced DSLR Camera Remote

Three photo-loving engineers want to simplify digital photography with a simple cord-and-phone-app combo that’s gaining immense support on Kickstarter.

Photographers, meet the TriggerHappy Camera Remote — a device that turns your phone into an external camera remote for most modern Nikon and Canon DSLRs.

Though it’s still six… read more

FaceVault App Brings Facial Recognition to iOS [VIDEO]

A new app called FaceVault brings facial recognition and pattern-based unlocking to iOS.

It works just like Facial Unlock on Android’s Ice Cream Sandwich, but there’s a key difference — Apple is much more strict about what goes on its lockscreen.

Though Apple had previously rejected this kind of facial… read more

This Projector Lets You Watch TV, Play Games on Any Wall

The Summer Gadget Series is presented by the Galaxy Nexus from Sprint. Android 4.0, Google Wallet and Google Play make it pure Google. Truly Unlimited data from Sprint makes it unstoppable. Check it out.

Product: WowWee Cinemin Slice Pico Projector

Price: $429.99

What It’s Good For: Projecting movies, video games and photos onto… read more

How Mark Cuban Does Business [VIDEO]

Jesse Draper is creator and host of “The Valley Girl Show” through which she’s become a spokesperson for startups and helped pioneer the way of new media content distribution. Formerly a Nickelodeon star, Draper is now CEO of Valley Girl™ where she oversees the show and runs… read more

10 Free WordPress Themes for Photo Lovers

1. Fullscreen

Fullscreen is a one-column photography and multimedia theme with a side-scrolling homepage. You can use it to… read more

Amazing Red Bull BC One 2011 Promo Video

Red Bull is known for making the energy drink, but also for organizing and promoting absolutely awesome events, such as the Soap Box Race, Air Race and the one I just got to know: BC One, a break-dancing fight. Awesome.

And to promote this amazing contest, Sehsucht, a creative agency from… read more

Klouchebag Site Mocks Klout, Measures Your ‘Asshattery’

1) Justin Bieber on Klouchebag

While Klout measures influence on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn and Foursquare to assign its… read more

Yahoo!’s Doug Crockford On JavaScript

Welcome to the first in a new series of interviews called “How I Work”. These interviews revolve around how thinkers and creators in the Web world design, code, and create. The goal is not to get into the specific nuances of their craft (as that information already exists online), but… read more

Zoom It – Take a Really Close Look!

We all love Macs. Otherwise I wouldn’t be writing here and you wouldn’t be reading. I especially love my 27″ iMac with its shiny and huge display, which even lets me display all my Photoshop work including an insane number of palettes. It’s awesome, but there’s one drawback: sometimes, I… read more

No to the Cookie Law

A newly launched site has dubbed the upcoming EU Cookie Law “ridiculous,” echoing the sentiments of a growing number of voices across the internet. As these protests grow louder, No Cookie Law aims to raise awareness of the EU cookie law and hopefully increase the chance of changes… read more

Major Video Game Villains to Appear in a Disney Movie

Wreck-It Ralph, a 3D computer-animated Disney movie due out Nov. 2, will feature cameos from the gaming world’s most-beloved bad guys.

Although the star-studded comedic film stars the 9-foot, 643-pound video game character Ralph, be on the lookout for villains from Super Mario Bros., Mortal Kombat, Sonic, Mega Man,… read more

Adapter Could Let Any Smartphone Camera Shoot in 3D [VIDEO]

You may soon be able to shoot 3D video with your cellphone — even if that phone doesn’t have a 3D camera.

Fujitsu is working on a new way for phones that just have one rear camera to shoot three-dimensional videos — a process that traditionally requires two cameras. The… read more

89 Awesome Photography Links and Photographs

Never one to spend too much time lounging, the Toad is always searching the internet for tutorials, great photography and interesting blogs to share with everyone.  This week’s list contains a set of links to some truly incredible pieces of art posted by some truly talented artists.  We really hope… read more

Why Apple’s CEO Is Right About ‘Refrigerator-Toasters’ — and Laptop-Tablets

Few people have the kind of clout that their off-the-cuff asides qualify as world news.

Apple CEO Tim Cook is such a person. His ad-libbed comment during this week’s company earnings call about “convergence” devices has inspired more online buzz than a Kardashian marriage.

Answering a question about whether an Apple… read more

How a Distasteful Meme Sparked a Web Culture War

When does an Internet joke go too far?

Years ago, a photo of a baby with down syndrome was taken from a support group website and turned into a controversial Internet meme. That child — now 16 years old — is Heidi Crowter, and Heidi just discovered what the entire Internet… read more

Daily Inspiration #1119

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more

Groupon CEO Drinks Too Much Beer, Says His Site Needs to ‘Grow Up’

Groupon CEO Andrew Mason told company employees during a town hall meeting Wednesday that the daily deal site needs to grow up — right after apologizing for drinking too much beer during the meeting.

The Wall Street Journal reported that the 31-year-old CEO said the company doesn’t “have any margin for… read more

Sell Anything You Can Share Online With Gumroad

One of the things I’m glad to see the web has made easier over time is eCommerce for independent creatives like artisans, artists, designers, photographers, bands, writers et al. Innovations like Paypal, Square, and Kickstarter have paved the way for people to make money or raise funds for projects online… read more

Hulu’s Media Owners Take Bigger Stake in the Company [REPORT]

A new report indicates that Comcast, Disney and News Corp. will soon own even more of the streaming television service Hulu.

According to Bloomberg, Providence Equity Partners — the one non-media conglomerate invested in Hulu — is close to selling its 10% stake in the company to the other owners. The… read more

Are Kickstarter Investors Idiots or Geniuses?

Kickstarter, the crowd-sourced project funding platform, is now officially a thing. It’s being actively parodied by comedians all over the web with videos that mock the slick, yet warm and heartfelt-approach of its best pitches.

Those jokesters can make fun all they want. Many Kickstarter projects are laughing all the… read more

Video Inspiration #66

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

10 Funniest Sketch Comedy Channels on YouTube

1. Funny or Die

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Kickstarter Spoof Wants Funding for T-Shirts, Beer [VIDEO]

Yahoo has released a hilarious video that pokes of crowd-funding platform Kickstarter, featuring a guy named Nick asking the public to help find his life.

The video — called “Nickstarter” — spoofs the popular crowd-funding platform that allows inventors, artists and entrepreneurs to fund their concepts, products and events by raising… read more

Google Translate Draws 200 Million Users Each Month

Google announced on Thursday that its popular language translator service Google Translate now boasts 200 million monthly users, many of whom are accessing it outside the U.S. and via mobile devices.

The news — which comes just two days before Google Translate’s sixth anniversary — shows an increasing desire to communicate… read more

If You Use Lightroom, Do You Need Photoshop CS6?

I’m in sunny (sorry, cloudy and maybe rainy) LA today teaching my Lightroom seminar, but I wanted to do a quick post about some questions I got the other day in my Minneapolis seminar. I had a few people ask me what was new for Photographers in Photoshop CS6 and… read more

Gamification And UX: Where Users Win Or Lose

The gaming industry is huge, and it can keep its audience consumed for hours, days and even weeks. Some play the same game over and over again — and occasionally, they even get out their 15-year-old Nintendo 64 to play some Zelda.

Now, I am not a game designer. I actually… read more

Breezi: Website Design Sans Effort

Website creation nowadays can be a slightly gruelling task, especially given the demands on web designers and creators to produce high-quality, professional-looking and intuitive websites. Often with these kind of sites there is a steep learning curve as CSS, HTML5, and even Flash in some ways play huge roles in… read more

13 Tips to Speed Up and Optimize Your WordPress Plugins

A common query among the internet users is that they need to know how can they enhance the speed of WordPress apps and optimize the plugins. Frankly speaking, this is never a cumbersome process as there are certain skilled tips that work towards speeding up WordPress experience. But, in this… read more

Mom Uses Facebook to Epically Put 13-Year-Old Daughter in Check [VIDEO]

When Denise Abbott’s 13-year-old daughter Ava wouldn’t stop talking smack and stirring up drama on Facebook, the Ohio mother decided to employ a punishment to fit the crime.

Abbott replaced her daughter’s profile picture with a photo of the girl with a red X layered over her mouth. “I… read more

This Running Flip May Be the Coolest Play in Football History [VIDEO]

It’s a play straight out of a video game, movie or dream: A college football running back catches a pass out of the backfield, sizes up an onrushing defender, front-flips over his head, then continues chugging on toward the endzone. In fact, it may just be the coolest play in… read more

Ex-NBA Star’s Awesomely Bad YouTube Rap Brings Out the Twitter Haters [VIDEO]

Former NBA star Steve Francis is “used to the finer things” and don’t you forget it. An awesomely bad YouTube rap video took Twitter by storm Wednesday, bringing Francis briefly back into the public consciousness. Predictably however, most of the Twitter commentary was derisive (see gallery below).

An “official” version… read more

Bitchin’ Kitchen: How a Web Chef Cooked Up a Hit TV Show

Name a chef who wears green eyeshadow, sequined purple sweaters and leather pants with a zip-out crotch. Chances are, you’re still searching. That is, unless you’ve tuned in with millions of other viewers to watch Cooking Channel’s Bitchin’ Kitchen, where celebrity chef Nadia G totters around on heels higher than… read more

Twitter, Times Square Billboard Call for an End to Malaria

In honor of World Malaria Day, April 25, advocates for the end of the disease are campaigning on the social web with the hashtag #endmalaria — the very hashtag responsible for propelling Ashton Kutcher (@AplusK) to become the first Twitter user with more than 1 million followers in 2009.

Lady Gaga-backed… read more

Girl on Phone Falls Through Pavement Into Sinkhole [VIDEO]

A surveillance video in Xi’an, China captured footage of a teenage girl falling into a 20-foot-deep sinkhole while she was walking and looking at her cellphone. The clip has gone viral around the world.

The sinkhole was reportedly caused by underground water erosion. In the video, you can… read more

5 Things You Didn’t Know About Mark Cuban [VIDEO]

Jesse Draper is creator and host of “The Valley Girl Show” through which she’s become a spokesperson for startups and helped pioneer the way of new media content distribution. Formerly a Nickelodeon star, Draper is now CEO of Valley Girl™ where she oversees the show and runs technology… read more

Recycle Your Facebook Status to Save the Planet, Says Honest Tea

Love that Facebook status update from last Monday or summer and want to use it again?

Honest Tea wants you to recycle your Facebook status — supposedly, to raise awareness of recycling everyday products.

Organic tea and drink company Honest Tea has launched The Great Recycle — a call-to-action to… read more

Kickstarter Project Wants to Socialize Tabletop Games [VIDEO]

Tabletop gamers from Wichita, Kan., are hoping to change the world of online tabletop games with their Kickstarter-backed project called “Roll20.” Other online gamers clearly believe in the cause — with five more fundraising days to go, 902 backers have raised 439% of the team’s $5,000 goal.

Roll20 will… read more

We have 20 Pro Licenses for EasyRotator to Give Away

Today, we want to introduce you to a new WordPress plugin for creating sliders, EasyRotator for WordPress. The standard version of the plugin is free, but we’re giving you a chance to win the Pro version that includes additional templates and features. We have twenty prizes to give… read more

8 Free Screencasting Tools For Making Video Tutorials

Screencasting tools are used to show other people what exactly is happening on your computer like you see in video tutorials. Screencasting tools come in handy enormously as they allow you to demonstrate a product along with all its features, let you broadcast your preferred software hack, share a how-to-do… read more

Typography Mania #129

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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