Netflix Starts a PAC. Will It Lobby For a New SOPA?

Netflix has a new feature: Instantly streaming thousands of dollars to lobbyists and candidates through a Political Action Committee.

The company has formed a committee named FLIXPAC, according to Politico. Put simply, a PAC is an organization that lobbies for a certain candidate or piece of legislation. Via FLIXPAC, Netflix can… read more

Open Government is Go for Launch at NASA

NASA has revamped its two-year-old Open Government Plan with a new website and a commitment to building a community-focused online architecture, featuring new tools for data sharing and open source development.

The new Open Government Plan, “Flagship Initiative,” is the creation of an “accessible, participatory and transparent web environment,” a goal… read more

Nokia Lumia 900 Hard To Find On Launch Day, Still Selling Well [VIDEO]

Nokia held a huge launch party for the Lumia 900 in NYC’s Times Square on Friday night. But when it came time for the phone’s release on Sunday it was hard to find the handset anywhere near where the celebration was.

According to New York Times writer Brian Chen, nearly… read more

6 Ways Social Media Can Bring Your Next Event to Life

Trevor Jonas is director of social media at Access Communications, where he develops digital communications strategies for clients spanning the financial services, consumer electronics, and food and beverage industries. Follow him @TrevR.

Earlier this year, Microsoft brought in an acapella group to sing tweets from CES 2012 and last month Skype… read more

Dear Facebook, Please Don’t Ruin Instagram

For Facebook, buying Instagram looks like one of the smartest acquisitions the company has ever made. But when the news first broke that Facebook had acquired Instagram, my immediate instinct was dread.

I tweeted that my favorite mobile app was now destined to be ruined. Given the stunned reaction from… read more

Redditor Tells All After Home Destroyed by Jet Crash

“Hi my name is Devin and I’m 21 years old. I can’t even begin to wrap my mind around what has happened. Who thinks they’re gonna wake up one morning then have their house destroyed by a jet??”

Devin posted this picture with the wreckage of her home circled.

On… read more

Facegram FTW! How Facebook Could Actually Improve Instagram

No doubt you’ll hear or read this phrase a hundred times Monday: Instagram is over. Facebook bought it and now it’s going to ruin it, right? It’ll never be the service we knew and loved again.

Not so fast, Instagrammers. Before you all rush over to instaport.me or any one… read more

Nokia and Microsoft Take on the iPhone — By Going Local

Windows Phone just got a big boost from the Nokia Lumia 900, the first phone on the platform to boast an ultra-fast LTE network connection — something you can’t get with the iPhone. The Windows Phone camp also has a plan to attack Apple’s iOS platform where it’s strongest: the… read more

This Talkboy Commercial Is Probably Not How You Remember It [VIDEO]

Tiger Electronics’ Talkboy was the height of tech pranks in 1993. After figuring prominently in the plot of Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, every kid required one in his ceaseless quest to punk parents and siblings.

The portable tape player let you slow down or speed up recordings and… read more

45 Fresh Collection of High Quality Free PSD Files

What else can be so great for a designer than finding out high quality Photoshop PSD files? This is because PSD file format allows designers to add their own personal touch to an already designed work while saving loads of time that will be required to create that work from… read more

Free Lightroom 4 Presets – The Ultimate Fighter

I’ve been busy going through my old Lightroom 3 presets and updating them for Lightroom 4. I figured I’d start with the most popular ones and the Ultimate Fighter look was one of them. There’s 3 versions and while they seem to work best on dark dramatic photos, they work… read more

The Perfect Office #134

We’ve seen some great gadgets and equipment for designers. So many cool stuff, that we could actually assemble infinite perfect office spaces! Every week we’ll assemble a perfect office, and we’d like you to help us. What equipment would the perfect office have?

Not only gadgets and equipment, but also furniture,… read more

Photoshop CS6 Beta: What Makes This Update Great

Since Adobe announced the beta for Photoshop CS6 a little over a week ago, it has been downloaded more than half a million times. Even if you’ve managed to miss the onslaught of tweets and reviews, the magnitude of eager testers should indicate how anxious photographers and designers were for… read more

Screenleap: Effortless Screen Sharing

The Internet has continued to make it easier for us to keep in touch with friends, hold virtual meetings, and even telecommute to work. It’s almost as if, for the tech savvy, at least, distance is no object when it comes to accomplishing tasks and getting work done. There are… read more

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5 Social Entrepreneurship Startups You Should Know Right Now

In our new 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 offered resources to citizens in need, helped to eliminate landfill junk and funded social… read more

7 Videos Tailor-Made to Fascinate Your Cat

Does your cat show an interest in the images and sounds coming from your computer? Did you know you can take that a step further with videos tailor-made for feline viewing pleasure?

YouTube user Meghan Koley has created an entire channel dedicated to videos for cats. We asked Koley what inspired… read more

Behind the Scenes at 9 Hot Tech Startups [PICS]

For the Startup Spaces Series, Mashable got to scope out the spaces of some of the hottest startups around.

Unsurprisingly, the offices of these companies have just as much personality as the products themselves. Full of killer perks, like ping-pong tables, kegs of beer and endless snacks, startup founders know… read more

200 Ryan Gosling-Themed Easter Eggs Hidden in New York City

Meme machine Ryan Gosling (or someone pretending to be the heartthrob actor) has set up a Twitter account that encourages people to hunt for 200 Easter eggs hidden in New York City.

Each egg includes a picture of Gosling and clever Easter-themed messages such as “Hop on over to my… read more

The Ultimate Digital Easter Egg Hunt [VIDEO]

Mashable’s Easter egg hunt doesn’t involve colored eggs or chocolate.  Instead, we’ve compiled some of the best Easter eggs from all around the web.  Take a look and find some hidden digital treasures.

Nyan Easter Bunny

Take a moment out of your Easter weekend to say hello to Nyan Easter Bunny.

Google Easter… read more

The Top 10 Chocolate Ads on YouTube

1. M&M “Sexy and I Know It” Super Bowl Commercial 2012

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Web Reacts to Death of ’60 Minutes’ Anchor Mike Wallace

Famed 60 Minutes broadcaster Mike Wallace died Saturday night at age 93, CBS News announced Sunday, and fans and fellow journalists quickly took to social networks to express their condolences.

Wallace was surrounded by his family at a Connecticut care facility when he died.

Wallace — one of 60 Minutes‘s original… read more

Apple Patches Up Massive Java Security Leak

Apple has pushed two critical security updates to Java for Mac OS X this week in order to patch up some critical security loopholes found in the previous release of Java, version 1.6.0_29. The updates, which were released on Tuesday and Thursday of this week, are available via Software Update… read more

Our favorite tweets of the week Apr 2 – Apr 8, 2012

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How Luxury Brands Can Prepare for Affluent Millennials

Duke Greenhill is the founder and CEO of Greenhill+Partners, the premiere agency for bespoke luxury brand marketing. Duke is also available as an independent consultant and speaker at Duke@Greenhill-Partners.com.

Echo Boomers. Generation Y. Millennials. No matter what you call them, shoppers between 18 to 29 years old are the fastest-growing… read more

43 New Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed

If you missed any of Mashable‘s resources this week, hopefully it wasn’t because you were dealing with that nasty “Flashback” virus (make sure you check if your Mac has been infected by using this nifty script).

Once you know you’re not one of the 600,000 unlucky ones hit with the malware… read more

AT&T Will Unlock Your Out-of-Contract iPhone Starting Sunday

Wondering why AT&T’s new iPhone unlocking policy, in effect starting Sunday, is important? If you have an iPhone that’s out of contract, this is big news, especially if you’re an international traveler.

Here’s a video that explains it all.

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A Simple Exercise to help You Learn to See Light

In this video photographer Joel Edelman shares how he first began to ‘see’ light with a simple Egg.

Once you’ve viewed the video and have tried it for yourself – share you pictures and reflections on the exercise in comments below.

Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips.

Check out our… read more

YouTube Passion Project Sends a Journal Around the World

The MeetingLife Journal Project is an art project that started in Rome, Italy on Nov. 11 and has traveled to 11 countries and counting. The online passion project is inspired by travel, life and YouTube.

For the past three months, a leather-bound journal has been traveling around the world into… read more

Video Pick: Best Tips to Work Better, Not Harder

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

This week we look at Best Tips to Work Better, Not Harder by Lifehacker. In this video Adam Dachis and Adam Pash show us how to improve our freelance office setup, with… read more

4 Ways to Rethink the Press Release

Jonathan Rick is a director at Levick Strategic Communications. He contributes to Levick’s Bulletproof Blog. Follow him @jrick.

Every year, for the last ten years, someone has proclaimed that the press release is dying. While the rumors of its demise are exaggerated, they are not totally unfounded. That’s because the… read more

Heat Map Displays 75% of Global Stock Market on App Interface [VIDEO]

Stock traders are used to seeing important numbers in cluttered market tickers. The new StockTouch app allows you to visualize the stocks of 1,350 companies on one interface.

The StockTouch app is a easy-to-read heat map that displays the top 100 U.S. and top 100 global companies in all 9… read more

Best of the Week #217

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

Crowdfunding: What it Means for Investors

Bill Clark is the CEO of Microventures, a securities broker/dealer that uses a process similar to crowdfunding which allows backers to invest $1,000 to $30,000 in startups online. You can follow him on Twitter @microventures.

The crowdfunding feature in the recently passed JOBS Act will not only impact startups, it… read more

TeamGantt: Stunning Project Management With Gantt Charts

There are way too many project managements apps in the market. In fact, project management web apps are one of the proud inventions of the Web 2.0 era. These apps come in all shapes and sizes, with most of them having almost identical featuresets. I often wonder if they all… read more

‘Hipster Games’ Contestants Fight for PBR, Brunch [VIDEO]

Behold The Hipster Games where the saying goes, “May the trends be ever in your favor.”

This nearly three-minute clip shows what the hit movie, “The Hunger Games” might be like for hipsters. One woman and one “woman-ish man” from five districts — Portland, Austin, Brooklyn, Oakland, and Silverlake… read more

Marine Might Get the Boot for Anti-Obama Facebook Posts [VIDEO]

People are up in arms about reports of companies firing their employees over Facebook posts — but what if someone makes derogatory comments about their boss, and their boss happens to be the president of the U.S.?

That’s exactly the case for Sgt. Gary Stein, a Marine who may… read more

Humanoid Robot Has Muscles, Joints and Tendons [VIDEO]

Technophobes beware — the Eccerobot may be your worst nightmare. A team of scientists have created a robot inspired by the human build, so it can act more like living, breathing people.

The Eccerobot team aims to create robots with bones and joints, making movements more rounded and not… read more

Horses Get the ‘Pimp My Ride’ Treatment [VIDEO]

If equestrians were ever wondering when Xzibit would pimp their ride, the wait is now over. YouTube user freddiew — or “F Dubs,” as he’s called in the video — created this parody of Pimp my Ride. He hooks a horse up with some stunner shades, chrome spinners and a… read more

Learning Experiment Sparks Student Imagination With Cute Robots

The World at Work is powered by GE. This new series highlights the people, projects and startups that are driving innovation and making the world a better place.

Name: Reboot Stories

Big Idea: With a trilogy of experiential learning projects, Reboot Stories aims to engage children from low-income school districts with imaginative… read more

Induro PHQ-3 Head and CT-214 Tripod [REVIEW]

I hadn’t heard of Induro before the PR rep contacted me last Fall. I was preparing for a trip to Peru and took one look at the carbon fiber and multi-directional head and agreed. But lingering in the back of my mind was the question, “Do I really WANT that… read more

Favs: All Your Social Favorites In One Place

So you’re quickly browsing through your Facebook or Twitter feed, taking a short break from work, when you find an interesting article or video that you know is bound to be a huge time-suck. You don’t really want to look it up later when you aren’t busy because you know… read more

25 Most-Buzzed Universities on the Internet

MIT is the most-buzzed about university on the Internet, beating out its Massachusetts neighbor Harvard for the top spot.

The Global Language Monitor‘s TrendTopper MediaBuzz rankings measure the brand equity of 210 universities and 200 colleges, using data from social media, the blogosphere, and more than 175,000 print and electronic media… read more

Waygoz, a Social Network for Trading Video Games

Waygoz, a new social network targeted at gamers, encourages them to play more used games, but it wants to cut out the middleman of the used-game retailer altogether.

The secondary market for video games has become a monstrous profit machine. Used video games make up about 25% of game retailer Gamestop’s… read more

Over 80 Photography Links For True Addicts

As we head into the Easter long weekend, the Toads are pleased to share this weeks list of tutorials, great photography and interesting blogs.  A wonderful week exploring the world of photography is reflected in this weeks list of links from Toad Hollow Photography.  We really hope you enjoy viewing… read more

8 Tips To Maximize Your Brand’s YouTube Presence

Michael “MJ” Jaindl is chief client officer at Buddy Media, maker of the social-enterprise software of choice for eight of the top ten advertisers in the world. Visit Buddy Media’s blog for more on social marketing.

Creating an account on YouTube is simple, and building a channel for your brand… read more

Flexible Touchscreen Could Prompt Sleeker, Curvier Tablets, Smartphones

Can your iPad do this?

Perhaps someday. Atmel, which makes hardware used in devices from Samsung, Acer and LG, this week introduced XSense, a flexible touchscreen the company claims can fuel a new wave of lighter, sleeker bendable smartphones and tablets. The video above, aimed at industrial designers,… read more

Meet New York City’s Other Taxi of the Future

We’ve already met New York City’s so-called taxi of the future, the Nissan NV200. However, there’s a dark horse contender for the position: VPG’s MV-1. The issue at hand: wheelchair accessibility.

A little background: The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission decided last year that it was going with Nissan… read more

Video Inspiration #63

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

MLB Fan Cave: The Core Of Major League Baseball’s Social Strategy

On Major League Baseball’s Opening Day, the MLB Fan Cave was alive with energy. Nine baseball uber-fans, still pleasantly reeling from their meeting with former New York Yankee Bernie Williams, were watching three important things occur: The Boston Red Sox vs. Detroit Tigers game, the Atlanta Braves vs. New York… read more

What’s at Stake When Employers Ask for Social Media Passwords? [INFOGRAPHIC]

Following reports that some employers around the U.S. have solicited social media access and/or passwords from potential hires, both Facebook and government officials have protested.

Not only is sharing social media passwords against many of the major networks’ terms of service, the practice has also been viewed as an invasion… read more

Google CEO Releases ‘Mega Ambitious’ Letter, Still Not Evil

Integration, integration and more integration. That’s the theme of a lengthy state-of-Google blog post by CEO Larry Page, which was published on the company’s Investor Relations blog on Thursday.

“We have always believed that it’s possible to make money without being evil,” Page writes, echoing the company’s recent statements to… read more

Nyan Cat Survives 1 Year as an Internet Sensation

Nyan Cat, the Internet’s favorite 8-bit animated feline, turns one year old today after surviving a whirlwind 12 months as a Pop-Tart-shaped viral sensation.

Illustrator Chris Torres introduced Nyan Cat to the masses on April 5, 2011, when he uploaded a video of it to YouTube. The clip has… read more

Converse From Day One With Livemocha Language Learning

When learning another language, it is important to utilize some sort of lesson based learning to help pick up vocabulary and grammar. Many web applications do offer language lessons of some sort, whether they have intensive lessons for many languages or simple lessons for just one language.

Livemocha is a language… read more

Major League Baseball Uncorks a Social Media Homer

Can Major League Baseball pitch a perfect season with social media? The league is taking impressive steps to beef up its social presence and engagement with fans this year.

On Wednesday, it lured followers into tweeting a hashtag promoting the MLB.TV streaming service, launching the #MLBTVme hashtag to a plum spot… read more

How Apple’s MacBook Pro Might Turn to Air

When OS X Lion was released last year, Apple put a lot of emphasis on how speedy it was on their MacBook Air line of ultra-thin notebooks – or “ultrabooks”, if you will. An example of this can be seen all over the operating system’s main webpage as Apple seems to… read more

Watch the First Real Flying Car Unfold Its Wings [VIDEO]

Score a big victory for flying cars. The Terrafugia Transition — the first serious flying car, or more accurately, drivable plane — just completed its first test flight, putting it on course to be available to auto and aircraft enthusiasts in next year or so.

The Transition has been… read more

Crowd-Powered: Why Doritos Lets Fans Make Its Super Bowl Ads

The Modern Media Agency Series is presented by IDG. CenturyLink thought an online game would engage IT professionals. In eight months, 90,000 people played the trivia contest. IDG’s Howard Sholkin spoke with CenturyLink’s Joanne Kernie at the awards ceremony and digital conference in March 2012.

Crowdsourcing is not a new concept… read more

Interview With Digital Artist Gerrel Saunders

Recently, we had the opportunity to chat with digital artist Gerrel Saunders who had some fantastic insights into merging formal education with self-education and the influence of video games on his art. Let’s take a look! Q Welcome to Psdtuts+! Please introduce yourself; tell us where you’re from and how… read more

Types of Posts and How to Successfully Combine These on a Web Design Blog

Having a blog could be dangerous because, for many of us, the entire process of administering and maintaining can turn into an addictive task, one not being happy until a new post is published; moreover, the addiction may be acute and one will wait for the first reaction of the… read more

A Showcase of Amazing Drupal Themes

Since its inception, Drupal has had the (rather infamous) reputation of being the developer’s CMS. Designing a website using Drupal meant hard-coding every aspect of the appearance of your website. However, over time, and with the advent of Drupal 7, the picture has changed. Drupal too, like WordPress, now boasts… read more

Create Your Personal Online Brand Using Via.Me

In an online world populated by social media, blogs, and more, we are always sharing tid-bits. We might share a photo or a video or perhaps just a random thought that popped into our head. Social media has allowed the individual to truly create an online persona – whether that… read more

Lightroom Video: Lightroom and Photoshop Before/After

Ever since I first started using the new sliders in the Basic panel in Lightroom 4, I was hooked. So I started out to record a video on how I use them but realized I use them in different ways for different photos. Then I realized, there were more things… read more

FileMaker Pro 12 Released

FileMaker Inc, a subsidiary of Apple Inc, has just released the latest reincarnation of its popular database program for Mac computers, with a wealth of new and improved features ready and waiting to greet us. The new version, FileMaker Pro 12 is available for instant download or as an upgrade… read more

Review: Tripad

The Tripad is composed of two heavy duty  incredibly strong pieces of plastic that snap together. The total weight of the Tripad is 3.5 pounds. When assembled, which takes seconds, the Tripad slips over the top of a tripod to rest on each leg. This provides a very stable platform… read more

Adobe Camp Brazil

Due to great success in 2010 and 2011, Flash Camp Brazil got bigger and now is Adobe Camp Brazil, with talks and workshops on Design, Development and Digital Video. Some of the best professionals in the world, coming from companies like Google, Adobe, QNX, Conspiração Filmes, PontoMobi Group, Sencha and… read more

UI Design: Paper App

Following our not-so-regular series of UI Design, today we’re featuring a beautiful, simple app for sketching freaks out there! The Paper app for the iPad is definitely a must have, and rejoice: it’s free.

Its UI design is really simple, yet intuitive, featuring many sketch styles, and even some painting methods…. read more

Instagram and Pinterest: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Marketing has taken more evolutionary leaps in the past two years then it has in the time since cave men adorned their spears and clubs with rocks and bones to differentiate their awesome possessions. Throughout the history of marketing and advertising, there have been a couple of commonalities: The first… read more

Go Forth and Sell!

I got a call from a friend a few days ago and it seems his small business is getting smaller by the minute. Not only is he on the brink of collapse financially, his one major customer looks like they will be folding up shop soon and that will… read more

10 Amazing Responsive WordPress Themes

Responsive web design is a web development philosophy that has rapidly spread through the design community.  A responsive web site is one that is built using W3C and CSS3 media queries to allow the site to perform optimally across various platforms and screen resolutions.  Meaning the site will look correct… read more

iOS Apps That Could Still Make It to the Mac

There has been some heated debate over the extent to which iOS and OS X will merge in the coming years. Whatever Apple has up its sleeves for the future, it is undeniable that the company is at least trying to make its apps and branding more unified across both… read more

Jeremy Lin Holds Post-Surgery Facebook Chat, Throws Up in the Middle of It

“just woke up. lets do this Q&A before i get on my video games lol”

That’s how famed basketball star Jeremy Lin began his online Facebook Q&A just hours after undergoing knee surgery. As of this writing, nearly 50,000 people had liked the status update.

An MRI last Monday revealed the New… read more

StarCast: Digital Auditions Changing How Aspiring Actors Get Noticed

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: StarCast Auditions

Quick Pitch: Actors can be noticed by top producers without leaving their house.

Genius Idea: Submit… read more

Fly Baseball Star Brian Wilson’s Beard on This Awesome Airplane [VIDEO]

It’s a beard! It’s a plane! It’s Brian Wilson’s beard on a plane!

A Virgin America aircraft that began regularly scheduled flights on Tuesday has a painted-on homage to the San Francisco Giants closer’s bushy beard. And there’s a social media tie-in too; travelers who spot the plane — dubbed Fly… read more

Nokia Lumia 900: Best Windows Phone Ever [REVIEW]

There’s a lot riding on the Nokia Lumia 900. While Windows Phones until now have generally been capable if not outstanding devices, the Lumia 900 brings Microsoft‘s mobile platform to a new level. Not only does it add a super-fast LTE connection from AT&T, but it’ll also serve as a… read more

Beatles 2.0? These 15 Fab YouTube Covers Could Have Them Beat [VIDEOS]

Rumors that the Beatles would reform tantalized music fans for years after the Fab Four’s breakup in 1970. Now get ready for a new round of will-they-or-won’t-they whispers — but this time about the Beatles’ sons forming a band.

James McCartney, son of Paul, told the BBC’s website that he… read more

iPhone Case Helps Players Play Safely

A new case hitting the market soon will help owners protect a little more than their iPhone. Called “Playa case,” the iPhone case has a special compartment in the rear that can hold two condoms.

Designed by Annex products, this isn’t the company’s first interesting iPhone case. Annex has previously created… read more

Morgan Spurlock’s Comic-Con Movie: How to Support a Screening Near You

Morgan Spurlock’s latest film may not have the mass appeal of a flick like Hunger Games — but he still wants fans to have the chance to experience it on the big screen.

The film, Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope chronicles the cultural phenomenon that is San Diego Comic-Con…. read more

Students Create Musical Jello; Here’s How to Make Your Own [VIDEO]

A couple of design students in Paris have created jello that makes music — or at least, something close to it. They’re calling it “noisy jelly” — and now you can make your own.

The makers, Raphaël and Marianne Cauvard built different kinds of jello molds, which are filled with… read more

LG Viper Will Be Sprint’s First LTE Phone

The LG Viper will be Sprint’s first LTE handset. Sprint announced Tuesday that pre-orders for the handset will officially begin on April 12, with the phone becoming available on a yet-to-be-announced date later this month.

The LG Viper was announced at CES in January. The 4-inch touchscreen handset comes running… read more

Fab Pad #2 – Digital Tablet Computers Mock-ups

fab Pad is a product destined to all
who care to showcase with style. Want to tease your clients with a sneak preview and you didn’t find the right mock-up yet.
Stop looking because now you can do this with this amazing pack.

Kindle… read more

Apple, Microsoft Spark Antitrust Investigation of Motorola in Europe

Two separate complaints filed by Apple and Microsoft accuse Motorola Mobility of overcharging for its products in Europe.

The European Union’s antitrust enforcers are investigating the charges, which Microsoft was the first to bring last month. The software giant says Motorola was charging exorbitant prices for its 2G and 3G patents,… read more

What’s the big deal with Pinterest? [Infographic]

In the past year or so a new social service has been gaining huge popularity, almost explosion-like you might say. You’ve probably heard of it, its called Pinterest. Now, I won’t go into detail about what Pinterest is or what it can do, I am sure you will… read more

Vectortuts+ Celebrates 30,000 Facebook Fans – Comment to Win!

In 2009 we launched our Facebook fan page, four years and lots of posts and comments later we’re proud to announce that we now have over 30,000 fans! To celebrate this milestone Vectortuts+ is giving away some fantastic prizes, including a grand prize of a 1-year membership to Tuts+… read more

10 Free Little Known WordPress Plugins to Enhance Your Site

Since 2003, WordPress has helped build and run over 72 million sites worldwide with their simple yet incredibly powerful platform. You can create a blog in minutes and fill it with the content you want, or you could spend hours finding the perfect theme and plugins to make your site… read more

50 Mac Apps That Will Teach You Something

With the recent release of iBooks Author from Apple, I started to think more about using Apple products as learning tools. The iBooks Author announcement and accompanying video certainly generate some excitement at the possibilities using the iPad in classrooms and that is great, but I became curious as to… read more

YouTube’s 20 Most-Shared Ads in March [VIDEOS]

1. Two-year old dancing the jive

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Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom Is Back Online, Working on an Album

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is back online.

A New Zealand judge on Monday granted the file-sharing demigod Internet access and swimming privileges, as well as permission to finish an in-progress music album and hold weekly meetings with his Megaupload co-defendants.

Dotcom was granted bail on Feb. 21, but that came… read more

iPhone Documentary Takes on Syria: Is This the Future of Journalism?

An anonymous undercover reporter for Al Jazeera has captured the Syrian uprising in a first-of-its-kind-documentary — recorded on an iPhone.

The 25 minute documentary, “Syria: Songs of Defiance,” aired on Al Jazeera’s show People & Power earlier this month. Al Jazeera has not released the reporter’s name for safety reasons…. read more

Is Star Wars Dance Game the ‘Worst Thing in the Universe?’ [VIDEO]

Kinect Star Wars isn’t released until Tuesday — but fans of the George Lucas franchise are already horrified by what they’re seeing in early posts about the Xbox 360 game.

The game uses the Xbox console’s camera to incorporate physical movements — meaning you can swing a light saber… read more

Christina Milian of ‘The Voice’ Touts New Facebook Voting for Live Shows

Grammy-nominated singer Christina Milian, who has elevated The Voice‘s online clout as season two’s new social media correspondent, faces her first live show Monday night.

During the live performance shows, Milian and host Carson Daly will guide viewers in learning about the final 24 singers and the slew of ways… read more

Jasmine Villegas Puts You In Her Music Video

Microsoft is showing off the power of HTML5 and Internet Explorer with an interactive music video for teen star Jasmine Villegas.

The IE team worked with creative agencies Digital Kitchen and Bradley and Montgomery to create an interactive HTML5-driven experience that pushes the boundaries of what HTML5, JavaScript and CSS3 can… read more

Get Your Nerd On With Nerdist Industries’ New YouTube Channel

Entertainment company Nerdist Industries will be providing fans with even more ways to consume its nerdy content with its new YouTube Partner Channel.

According to Nerdist founder Chris Hardwick, the Nerdist Channel will cover anything about gaming, comic books, tech and movies — however the content is “a whole new… read more

World Autism Awareness Day: Mobile Apps, TV Networks ‘Light It Up Blue’

Autism Speaks has been illuminating iconic landmarks around the world with blue light for World Autism Day for the last three years, as part of its “Light It Up Blue” campaign.

This year, the tech world is joining the campaign for the first time, as Outfit7‘s Talking Tom mobile app… read more

This Is Your Last Chance to Win a Pass to Mashable’s Biggest Conference

Our biggest conference of the year, Mashable Connect, is returning to Orlando, FL from May 3-5, and this year we will explore the future of digital with some of the brightest minds in the industry.

This is your chance to spend three days away from everyday life, surrounded by leaders… read more

Oakland Police Department Uses Twitter to Report on Oikos University Shooting

At least five people were killed today when a gunman opened fire inside Oikos University, a private university in Oakland, Calif.

According to Oakland police spokeswoman Johnna Watson, the shooting occured at about 10:33 a.m. local time. A suspect is in custody, but the police would not disclose if the suspect… read more

How to Photograph and Light a Lamborghini Aventador

Into cars? Want to know how the pros go about photographing a car like the Lamborghini Aventador? In this video by the team at Fstoppers Blair Bunting gives a real insight into how he approached shooting the Aventador.

In the video he shows how he does it with a… read more

Smart Sand Can Clone Objects, Says MIT

Forget smart cars, smart appliances and smartphones. MIT researchers are taking intelligent inanimate objects to a more granular level: smart sand.

The effect they’re aiming for, as described on MIT’s news site, is this: You would bury an object in smart sand. Seconds later, you’d be able to pull from… read more

Conan O’Brien Takes Over Mashable for April Fools’ Day

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Big Day for Family History Hunters: 1940 U.S. Census Is Online

The National Archives and Records released its 1940 U.S. Census online Monday, making searching for family history even easier.

The public now has free online access to the census taken during the World War II years, a big step toward making the archives more accessible through technology.

Previous censuses were typically… read more