10 Replacement Icons to Re-Beautify iTunes 10

When Apple released iTunes 10 last week, the newest version of the venerable media app sported not only a refined interface and the new Ping social network but a new application icon, as well.

For nearly a decade, every version of iTunes has used some variation of a CD and paired… read more

The Ultimate Round-Up of iPad Wallpapers

By Aquil Akhter

Everybody is talking about the iPad. We see more creative applications designed for the iPad, and we see more magazines and publishers experimenting with the new medium. Also, we see more users interacting with the tablet, and integrating it in their daily routine. And because you may be… read more

Showcase Of Appetizing Restaurant Websites

They say the first bite is taken with the eye. If so, these appetizing restaurant websites succeed in whetting our appetites, inviting us to a savoury next bite. In these designs, color scheme and introductory copy show vastly different aspects of the restaurant experience. Moody warm tones create atmosphere, vibrant… read more

10 Quick and Easy Tips to improve your Photography

It’s a new week and I’ve got a new set of tips to improve your photography. This week’s tips focus on planning and decision making while taking your shots…. Eventually it will feel like second nature and you won’t even be aware of the process, until then… keep these tips… read more

How to Make an Internet Web Page

Do you browse the internet often? Are you amazed at how many internet web pages there are in the world today? Don’t you wish you could get a piece of that action?

You’re probably thinking that in order to build an internet web page, you have to… read more

Free Wireframing Kits, UI Design Kits, PDFs and Resources

To mock-up the user interface of a website, software or any other product, you’ll need some basic UI elements. And this is where wireframing kits and UI design kits come in handy. When you want to create a low-fidelity prototype for your projects, you can use these kits to give… read more

Three Teens Murdered After Appearing on Facebook “Kill List”

Three teenagers have been killed in the past 10 days in a southwestern Colombian town, after appearing on a “kill list” of 69 names posted on Facebook.

The Colombian police are investigating the case, but are unsure who posted the list, or why it contains these particular names.

According to CNN and… read more

16-bit Vs. 32-bit Vs. 64-bit: What Does it All Mean?

A Guest post by Steve Berardi from PhotoNaturalist

In digital photography, there’s a lot of talk about bits:

12-bit vs 14-bit Analog to Digital Converters (ADC)
8-bit vs 16-bit color
32-bit vs 64-bit Photoshop

But, what does it all mean? Although more bits generally means better quality processing, it’s not always that simple. Sometimes you… read more

10 Fabulous Online Sports Games

Still missing the World Cup South Africa 2010? Is the PGA Tour Season over? We’ve rounded up 10 of the funnest and best web-based sports games to help take your mind off your favorite sporting events until next season.

1. Hattrick

Hattrick.org

Hattrick is a web based online soccer manager game where you… read more

The Future of Public Relations and Social Media

This series is supported by Gist. Gist provides a full view of the contacts in your professional network by creating a rich business profile for each one that includes the most news, status updates, and work details. See how it works here.

Public relations specialists were some of the first… read more

15 Awesome and Useful Safari Extensions

Apple released Safari 5 in June, introducing official support for browser extensions. This move now means that developers have the ability to build add-ons to enhance the overall browsing experience on Safari.

Apple launched its own official Safari Extensions gallery at the end of July, showcasing some of the best… read more

10 Free Web UI Kits and Resources for Designers

This series is supported by Ben & Jerry’s Joe, Ben & Jerry’s new line-up of Fair Trade and frozen iced coffee drinks. Learn more about it here.

As designers, we often recycle the same fundamental elements when wireframing or mocking up a design. However, by utilizing a library of reusable web… read more

Daily Inspiration #578

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

The iPad as a Photographer’s Travel Helper [a Review]

If instead you use iPhoto (above / right), you’ll get one event per day (regardless of how many cameras fed the iPad), but sometimes the events will be untitled. Go figure. Also note that in Aperture, “Saved Photos” get their own album — while in iPhoto, they get mixed in… read more

Ballmer on Tablets: We’re Coming Full Guns

Apple has sold over 3.3 million iPads so far, but Microsoft is still waiting for those Windows-based tablets to start capturing the hearts and minds of users. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, however, is confident the company has a bright future in this space.

Speaking to analysts on Thursday, Ballmer said Microsoft… read more

The 5 (Really) Cool Windows Tools You Might Need

There are so many software available out there that can make your windows PC performs better, getting by free and good ones is not that easy. That is why I am sharing 5 great freeware tools for you to make your lives easier than ever. Read each entry in the… read more

The Super Incredible Marina Bay Sands

Yesterday I paid a visit to the office of Marcelo Seferin, architect and writer here at Abduzeedo, and he showed me this building in Singapore, and I can say that I was dizzy just looking at the pictures of the pool on top of these towers. And among so many… read more

Now Effectively Improve Windows Boot Time With Soluto

All computer owners want their machines to startup as fast as possible. Unfortunately there are some programs that initiate with your startup and slow down the overall process. A way out of this would be to put your computer in Hibernate / Sleep mode and never shut it down. But… read more

Microsoft Sells 175 Million Copies of Windows 7 in Nine Months

Microsoft wiped away any doubts about its fiscal outlook with a record-breaking Q4 earnings report, primarily driven by sales of Windows 7 and Office 2010. In fact, Microsoft is reporting that more than 175 million copies of Windows 7 were sold in just nine months, making it the fastest-selling… read more

A Comprehensive Guide to Microsoft Vista Fonts for Designers

A Comprehensive Guide to Microsoft Vista Fonts for Designers

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Daily Inspiration #564

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

10 Fun Microsoft Facts You Might Not Know

Despite ever-increasing Mac sales, Microsoft’s still has an undisputed dominance over the computer industry.

With such a vast presence, much has already been written about Microsoft: Its history, its products, even its former CEO Bill Gates. For those itching to know even more, we’ve dug up 10 snippets of info that… read more

Top 20 Features Of Firefox 4 (Beta) That Make It Stand Out

The beta for Firefox version 4 was recently released and it has already created a buzz on the web. While many of its features will already demonstrated in its nightly builds, the beta more widely showcases these new features.

Release notes for Firefox v4 outline all the features which web developers… read more

Smart Defrag: A Free Windows Utility To Easily Defrag Your Hard Drive Partitions

Over the course of your computer usage, data accumulates and sometimes it is spread out over different parts of your hard disk. Consequently your computer has to search for different places on the disk to access data. This is called disk fragmentation and considerably slows down your computer’s overall performance.

On… read more

30 Incredible Safari Extensions Available Now

The release of Safari 5 brought about a new extension system that allows developers to create and distribute helpful and fun tools similar to those found in Firefox.

Since Apple’s own Safari extension list hasn’t yet gone public, we’ve compiled a list of 30 of our favorite extensions for you to… read more

Leaked Slide Deck Details Microsoft’s Plan for Windows 8

The Italian Windows website “Windowsette” somehow managed to get a hold of a super-secret, highly confidential PowerPoint presentation outlining many of Microsoft’s goals and plans for Windows 8. Apparently this sensitive data (complete with UNDER NDA watermarks) was just found sitting around the Internet.

MSFTKitchen has an extensive breakdown and detailed… read more

A Round-up of Photoshop Wallpaper Tutorials

With a certain amount of practice and skill, creating wallpapers can become easy and fun. This Round-up of Photoshop Wallpaper Tutorials can teach you to create the wallpapers you desire using Photoshop. This way, you won’t have to wait for someone else to make them, and you’ll get… read more

Place Important Windows 7 Shortcuts Within Reach Of Every User

Windows 7 is relatively a new operating system. Applications are still being developed for it that explore and push its boundaries. If you are a Windows 7 user, you already appreciate its improvement over Windows Vista. But while 7 provides a great margin of user convenience, things can always be… read more

15 Awesome Dropbox Tips and Tricks with $100 Credit Giveaway

Not long ago we ran a giveaway including four very popular web apps with the entry requirement of letting us know what apps you would like to see in future giveaways. Of the many apps requested, Dropbox was, by far, the most requested. When inquiring about people’s favorite internet integrated… read more

Basic Principles of Digital Matte Painting

Digital Matte Painting is a huge creative field that can add wonder and excitement to static film shots. Learn about digital matte painting principles, like set extension, camera mapping, as well as professional tips that matte painters employ.

Introduction
Ever wonder how those incredible scenes of panoramic vistas, impossible futuristic cities, or… read more

An Interview With Hawaii Photography Duo The Sweets

Michael and Monica Sweet have done something the rest of us often dream about.  They have taken a mutual love for photography and travel and turned it into a profitable business, both through stock photography and gallery work at Gallery Sweet.  Unlike my recent traveling photographer interviewee, Gary Arndt,… read more

30 Useful Abstract Photoshop Design Tutorials

By Janos Racz

Abstract works have many uses in design: they can serve as a vibrant desktop background, a mysterious webdesign header or they can be beautiful art pieces by themselves. What’s more, abstract design has many forms, and not too many limitations. You can always come up with new shapes… read more

Microsoft: Is Steve Ballmer In or Out?

Redmond – The rumors about a possible departure of the CEO, Steve Ballmer, have now been circulating for quite some time. In 2008 some analysts and in 2010 Newsweek, in a tech prediction for 2010, were foreseeing a change in the guide of the Redmond company as a result of… read more

Safari 5 Announced, Then Pulled

A press release announcing the release of Safari 5 hit the wires and was pulled shortly thereafter — indicating that although we didn’t hear anything about it in today’s WWDC keynote, the next version of Apple’s WebKit-based browser should be available in the extremely near future.

We don’t see Safari… read more

Is There a Possible Alternative to Google?

I started surfing the Internet in September 1997 when I was eighteen. At the time it took the equivalent of one hundred dollars a month delivered to a small local provider as fixed charges in order to connect, to which you had to add the regular cost of phone units…. read more

Website Navigation Menu Toolbox

When designing a website, one of the most important elements is the navigation. Both in terms of usability and appearance, navigation menus typically will have a significant influence on the outcome of the design. In this post we’ll feature more than 60 tutorials, resources, and items of inspiration that can… read more

Creative Uses of Stickers in Advertising

The use of stickers in advertising is not only an innovative way to attract attention, it is also an extremely cost-effective way to create a lasting impression.

Many companies, whose only form of advertising is stickers, have seen an increase in business by as much as 550%.

The great thing about these… read more

Take Your Blog To The Top Of Search Results With SEO PowerSuite

You may have the greatest blog ever with mind-blowing design and captivating content, but if you just sit and wait for people to come and read it, chances are they won’t. In today’s world you need to get out there and promote your blog to get more… read more

Luxand Blink will Log You Into Windows by Recognizing Your Face

Normally users log into Windows by selecting their username and entering their password. Suppose you are conducting an exam which requires students to log in to the Windows running computer. Any person can log in as a student if they know their username and password.

Therefore a better, more secure log… read more

DIY Photoshop Panels using Adobe Configurator

Most users don’t realize that you can create your own custom panels for Photoshop CS4 and for the new CS5. You do this using a free download called Adobe Configurator. In this post, I’ll show you how to get started making your first Photoshop CS4 panel using Configurator 1.0.

Step… read more

10 Excellent Tools To Customize Your Windows

Windows customization is just another step in personalizing our computers. Just like we personalize our office space with our favorite coffee mug or family photos to make it more comfortable, Windows customization gives us a more comfortable environment to work in. Consequently we get things done faster and have an… read more

The New Google Chrome Beta is Wicked Fast [Video]

Google has just released a video demonstrating the speed of the new beta of its Chrome web browser. As we noted yesterday, Chrome continues to gain marketshare among tech savvy users. Speed has always been one of Chrome’s hallmark features and the latest beta really takes it to another… read more

Stucked With Some Windows Error? Microsoft One Click Fix It Tool Can Detect & Repair

Windows computer users come across new situations often. Amateur computer users are completely baffled when a problem occurs; at times certain computer problems even leave the most experience computer user clueless. Calling technical support for our computers is not always helpful especially because the technician cannot see actually what our… read more

The Importance of Cross Browser Compatibility: Tips and Resources

By Sean Geng

Nowadays everyone’s using a different browser. Between popular options like Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Internet Explorer, which make up close to 98% of the internet market share of browsers, and the other little known browsers like Konqueror, there are a multitude of browsers being used to view… read more

Turn Your iPad into a Moving Landscape With Magic Window

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

Name: Magic Window

Quick Pitch: Magic Window turns your… read more

Download & Install All Your Applications In One Go

I recently reinstalled Windows Vista on my desktop machine. After Vista’s installation, I realized that the toughest part about any operating system installation is individually downloading and installation our favorite applications. The number of my most-used applications was big; therefore I ended up spending quite some time downloading and installing… read more

HTML5: Worth the Hype?

HTML5 has been getting more and more buzz as it is almost ready for launch. The Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) last month declared HTML5 in a “last call” phase. Since it has been around a decade for any real upgrade in HTML, it is no wonder computer… read more

Ask FreelanceSwitch #9

In this issue of Ask FreelanceSwitch, Travis King and Thursday Bram look at dealing with the hidden project approver and how to make connections.

Ask FreelanceSwitch is a new regular column here that allows us to help beginners get a grip on freelancing. If you have a question about freelancing that… read more

Beautiful Illustrations by Pablo Bisoglio

Pablo Bisoglio is a visual artist and illustrator based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has illustrated numerous works for a range of international publishers and magazines, including: Wired (USA) Ford Magazine (Argentina), Young Creative Network (UK), Fortune-Time inc. (USA), Grupo de Revistas La Nacion (Argentina) Panasonic (UK), Roger (UK), Teachersmag… read more

Latest Flip Camcorder Unveiled: Touchscreen and Slide-Up Design

Tonight, Cisco-owned Flip has announced a new addition to the company’s highly popular line of web video-friendly cameras. The SlideHD features a slide-up touchscreen and new navigation. This model, which can record up to four hours of HD video at a time, will retail for around $279.

The device features… read more

WeFi for Android Gets Enhanced Maps and Location Support

WeFi, a site that uses crowdsourcing to find the best free Wi-Fi hotspots around you, has just released an enhanced version of its app for Android handsets and Windows PCs. WeFi uses its database of more than 56 million hotspots to showcase what access points are near you and… read more

10 Fantastic Photoshop Tutorials on YouTube

Photoshop has been a mainstay of the design software pantheon for over 20 years, and it remains a great tool for pro artists and social media customizers alike.

But the sophisticated image editor has a daunting learning curve. With so many tools, features, and concepts to get a hold… read more

The 10 Best “Get a Mac” Ads

Love them or hate them, Apple’s iconic “Get a Mac” ads have made a huge impact on pop culture. Today, we’ve learned that the campaign is slated for the deadpool.

In an interview with the Onion’s A.V. Club, actor Justin Long was asked about the status of the campaign. He… read more

Maps In Modern Web Design: Showcase and Examples

Geo-location was a hot topic in 2009. With so many applications on GPS-enabled smartphones, more maps than ever were accessible to the average person. But how can Web designers and developers take advantage of an increasingly location-aware user base? This article explores existing trends, conventions and the possible future of… read more

50 New Free High-Quality Icon Sets (with Easter Icons!)

Today we are pleased to provide our readers with a yet another round-up of high-quality icon sets. Below, you will find free sets covering a wide range of subjects, including Easter and food sections. Please read the license agreements carefully before using the icons, and feel free to follow the… read more

5 Excellent Text to Voice Free Applications

Many computer users take advantage of text-to-voice programs to make their computer tasks easier. With a voice command we can execute a task which otherwise might take a combination of keyboard-key presses and mouse clicks.

For my readers who have not yet tried out text-to-voice applications or are looking for something… read more

100 Essential Web Development Tools

By Neil Skirrow

As web technologies constantly advance, the skills a developer is expected to have are constantly increasing. Web users are beginning to expect Ajax interfaces, charts and graphs and a whole host of other tricks and features. This means web developers not only have to be skilled… read more

Web Based Microsoft Office 2010 Soon To Be Launched

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

iPhone backups a bit slow? Dump those images

In a new Knowledge Base entry, Apple reminds users that photos are backed up each time you do a sync, even if there are no changes to the Camera Roll. The result can be a sluggish backup or restore.

If you already have the photos copied into iPhoto, you’re… read more

Safari 4.0.5 now available in Software Update

New browser time — and unfortunately, time to restart your Mac. Safari has been updated (for 10.4, 10.5 and 10.6 on the Mac side, and Windows XP/Vista/7 on the Win side); it includes the improvements noted:

Performance improvements for Top Sites
Stability improvements for… read more

Garage Project by IdeaFixa

IdeaFixa is a super cool Brazilian project based on collaboration of visual artists to promote ideas, talents, initiatives and professionals for all the creative fields: Photography, Design, Arts, Illustration, animation, 3D and others. So, IdeaFixa and Inesplorato are launching a new project called Garage Project.
About the Project

Garage Project is really… read more

Free Music Monday: 10 Free Tracks

Hey there, music fans! Thanks for joining us for Free Music Monday this week, where we offer you 10 free downloads for your eclectic listening pleasure. If you haven’t been with us before, we’re collating free and legal tracks in honor of the #musicmonday tradition on Twitter.

We happily accept… read more

HOW TO: Get Started With Spotify

Spotify is a free, legal, cloud-based streaming music service delivered via desktop software with a nice social twist. A Swedish start-up with offices in London, it launched back in 2008 in Europe and now boasts around five million users and around six million tracks from the major labels as… read more

Opera 10.5 is Out, Dubs Itself the Fastest Browser on Earth

The debate about web browser speed never ends. When it came out, Firefox was considered speedy, but then Opera and Google Chrome kept recapturing the “speediest browser” title and the race hasn’t ended to this day. Still, Opera is the browser that has been focusing on speed the most,… read more

Photofont WebReady: A Revolutionary Font Converter

Photofont WebReady is a revolutionary technology for website typography. Fontlab’s Photofont WebReady can be called a font converter meant for Windows and Mac OS X systems, which can help you customize the fonts on a web page. Since the main technology lies in the conversion of texts into Flash objects,… read more

Typography Mania #17

Typography Mania is a weekly post series that comes around every Wednesday with the best of Typography work on the web, from videos to images everything is full of great design and inspiration. Check out this weeks Mania and comeback in 7 days for more.

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Make sure to click on each… read more

Windows 8 Will Blow Your Mind. Hopefully Not Like Vista

The folks at Microsoft Kitchen dug up some cool quotes from Microsoft employees about the upcoming Windows OS, currently code-named Windows 8. Though it does bring painful memories of what was promised about Vista (the marketing campaign, you may remember, was called “the wow starts now”), Microsoft did partially redeem… read more

60+ Comic Strips for Web Designers About Internet and Technology

As long as there have been computers there have been computer geeks. And as long as there have been geeks there have been geeky comic strips. Don’t you miss reading comic strips in your daily newspaper? It’s kind of ironic to see what designers can do with comic strips and… read more

50 Free UI and Web Design Wireframing Kits, Resources and Source Files

Planning and communication are two key elements in the development of any successful website or application. And that is exactly what the wireframing process offers: a quick and simple method to plan the layout and a cost-effective, time-saving tool to easily communicate your ideas to others. A wireframe typically has… read more

Six Powerful Free Disk Defragmentation Tool

Today, we are listing Six Powerful Free Disk Defragmentation Tool. These would be very helpful for you to remedy system sluggishness and crashes caused by disk fragmentation. If you are designer, developer,  office worker, manager, supervisor, student, home user, etc but we hope that these are worth checking for all… read more

Windows 7 Reaches 10 Percent Market Share

It’s official: Microsoft got it right this time. After the mistake that was Vista, Windows 7 was greeted like the second coming, and it many ways it really was better than its predecessor: less annoying, faster, smoother, more compatible with various pieces of hardware and software.

Initial sales numbers and market… read more

Thank You Our Valued Sponsors For Being With Us In The Month Of January

This is a post in which we want to say a big Thank You to the SmashingApps’ fastest growing community for regularly visiting our blog. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and be the one… read more

Logitech gives away free wireless mouse and keyboard (it’s an app)

There are actually two components to TouchMouse; the iPhone app and the Logitech TouchMouse Server software. The latter comes in Mac OS X and Windows (XP, Vista, and 7) versions, and must be installed on the Mac or PC in order to “host” the virtual mouse and keyboard created by… read more

The Ultimate Collection Of Colorful And Inspiring Vector Art

We know that designers are always searching for beautifully designed vector arts too and vector art or vector image are the most wanted freebies on the internet. Specially those designers who want to create their design in a more robust style and willing to use available freebies that can help… read more

Fabulously cool: Icons for any designer creation

This is fabulously cool: ready-made icons from Icons Land. A friend of mine advised me to visit this site. He was really excited telling that he tried the Weather Icons Set while designing his new weather broadcast site. After visiting the site I thought that maybe someone might find services… read more

10 Fun and Free Browser-Based Games

Sometimes it’s necessary to take a break from work and do something a little more enjoyable — like play games! Of course your employer probably won’t allow you to install a desktop game on your computer but fret not, there are plenty of browser-based games to keep you entertained.

We’ve pulled… read more

Pope’s Message to Priests: We Must Blog

Pope Benedict XVI has a message for priests of the Catholic Church: they must proclaim the gospel by not only having a website, but by blogging and utilizing new web communication tools.

The 265th Pope of the Catholic Church has been an unexpectedly strong proponent of social media. Last year,… read more

6 Places to Find a Gorgeous New Mac Wallpaper

Everyone has an inherent fascination with desktop wallpapers. Operating system developers spend a long time shipping the perfect set with a new OS release, even commissioning photographers to shoot suitable, vivid images.

We’ve certainly covered wallpapers in the past – rounding up gorgeous Mac wallpapers, a selection of iPhone backgrounds, and… read more

Boot Camp updated: now supports Windows 7

With separate downloads for 64-bit and 32-bit versions of Windows 7, the download also requires an authentic copy of Windows 7 or Windows 7 upgrade, and is only supported on more recent Intel-based Macs; no Macs produced before 2007 will support Windows 7, as outlined in this Apple support page.<br… read more

Get a Mac: 5 of Our Favorite Ads [VIDEO]

Love them or hate them, the ads for Apple’s “Get a Mac” campaign have been incredibly successful. Last month, AdWeek named the series Ad Campaign of the Decade.

More effective at converting users than even the infamous “Switch” campaign, these ads have helped personify Apple as a brand to… read more

5 More Reasons Why IE6 Must Die

It’s no secret that we don’t like Internet Explorer 6 (IE6), the outdated 10+ year old browser still used by 15-25% of people on the web. Last year, we called for IE6 to die so that the web could move on with new innovations such as HTML 5.

Now Internet… read more

The Richmon Olympic Oval by Cannon Design

In last than 1 month Vancouver will be releasing the 2010 Winter Olympic. The event is almost ready and the venues are counting the days to begin breathe sports everywhere. And one of the biggest hotspots will be the Richmond Olympic Oval, a project by Cannon Design and definitely… read more

German Government: Stop Using Internet Explorer

In a statement issued today, the German Federal Office for Security in Information Technology (known as BSI) recommends that all Internet Explorer users switch to an alternative browser. They may resume using Explorer after a fix is issued by Microsoft for a critical vulnerability that has been implicated in the… read more

Sarcasm Gets Its Own Emoticon

Are you prone to that most glorious form of humor known as sarcasm? Do your e-mail contacts frequently misinterpret your superior wit as outright cruelty? SarcMark has the solution you require.

At present, you probably use emoticons in order to make your feelings known via text or e-mail — cushioning… read more

Daily Inspiration #406

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

The Street: Features can’t sway Apple customers’ trust

The article focuses mostly on Apple’s iPhone/iPod + iTunes ecosystem, which isn’t surprising. Though Mac sales bring in a fair amount of cash to the company, Apple’s handheld market is the company’s most current success story, and everyone from Microsoft to Palm to Google has spent the past several years… read more

Immunet Protects Online Communities From Viruses

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

Name: Immunet

Quick Pitch: Free community-centric AntiVirus software leverages collective… read more

Daily Inspiration #397

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

Apple’s “renaissance” is under way

It’s not just me looking through at the world with an Apple-tinged bias. The more places I go, the more I see people using Macs, or at least considering them. The Apple stores in Phoenix are still nearly elbow to elbow with people every time I visit, however the lone… read more

Creating a Web Development Environment using Google Chrome Extensions

Since its launch, an extension system has been one of the most sought after and requested features for Google Chrome, and last month, Google delivered. They launched, in beta, there Google Chrome Extensions web site, and in just under a month they have already cataloged an impressive 1000+ extensions (no… read more

35 Exceptional Logo Rebranding Of 2009 For Your Inspiration

This is the post dedicated to the logo rebranding in 2009 of few renowned brands. This post will give you an idea in one place for great logo design trends in this age. It helps you to boost up your creative men who are willing to create the new logo… read more

Microsoft: Blood, Sweat, and Bing [2009 in Review]

For decades, Microsoft has been a technological giant that nobody can ignore. This year has been a unique one for the Redmond, Washington-based company. It announced layoffs and revenue shortfalls, both rare occurrences in the company’s 34+ year history.

With Google breathing down its neck and Apple posting record… read more

10 Web Tech Innovations That Have Improved Our Lives

This series is supported by Times Reader 2.0. Learn more about The New York Times’ latest innovation in newspaper delivery here.

In the 20 or so years since Sir Tim Berners-Lee conceived of and launched the World Wide Web, a lot has changed. The Web itself has certainly had one… read more

50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design

Round-ups of beautiful and useful icons are almost legendary here, on Smashing Magazine. While some readers complain about the annoying “list”-style of some of our articles, we are confident that useful round-ups of relevant resources are very valuable and useful for designers. This is why over months we collect useful… read more

¡Viva Mexico! Showcase Of Web Design In Mexico

This post is the third article of our new series “Global Web Design“. Over the next months we’ll be covering various continents, featuring web developers and web designs from different countries of the world and taking a close look of what is happening in the web design scene worldwide. We… read more

Basic Stop Motion Animation Tutorial with iKITMovie

This tutorial is from one of our sponsors iKITMovie. IKITMovie is a Stop Motion Animation, 3d Animation Software, Claymation Software for Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7 PC’s. The software is very easy to use, my kids use it, making it suitable for any age (from 9 to 99), and, believe me it… read more

iCam updated, now records video when motion is detected

This was a much requested feature, and in my testing it worked like a champ. iCam can use almost any webcam to monitor a location. I use my built-in camera on my MacBook Pro, and a Linksys wireless webcam to monitor my pet bird. I can set either camera to… read more

Sponsored Post: Windows 7 Needs an Extra Layer of Security – Get it Now, for Free!

AVG Anti-Virus Free 9.0 works with Windows 7 to provide your PC with the best protection against web threats. Get your free download now at free.avg.com.

The explosive growth of dynamic content makes the web a fertile attack vector for infiltrating PCs. Forums, social networking sites, and content delivered by advertising… read more

Best of the Week #96

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

Backup or copy your iDVD home movies

Lo and behold, as fate would have it, the iDVD project has vanished (or in my case, was eaten by a recent HDD failure). Luckily for you, savvy OS X user, there’s still a way to get a copy of that holiday montage onto a disc for Grandma to use.<br… read more