Best of the Week #135

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

Excellent Mockup And Wireframing (9) Web Apps Which You Would Love To Know

A wireframe or mockup tool is a must have tool for every web designer and developer. These tools have their importance in web designing and development world. It is good to use them because it saves your time and efforts, a mockup or wireframe can give you the whole idea… read more

RIP Meme: The Double Rainbow Guy Sells Out to Microsoft

We were enamored of your childlike delight. We reveled in the remixes. But now, Double Rainbow Guy, we are less than amused. What’s the sure-fire way to kill a viral video? Festoon it with dollar signs.

Yup, the above video is a commercial for Windows Live Photo Gallery, and yup, the… read more

Skype Introduces 10-Way Video Calling

Skype — apparently pleased with its five-way beta group video-calling functionality — has just released a new version of Skype 5.0 for Windows that doubles group support. It now allows for up to 10 video callers.

Skype 5.0 beta two is already available for download; it includes 10-way video calls, automatic… read more

Morning Brief: iTunes 10 & Ping Now Live, Samsung Unveils Tablet, Twitter’s iPad App

This series is brought to you by HTC EVO 4G, America’s first 4G phone. Only from Sprint. The “First to Know” series keeps you in the know on what’s happening now in the world of social media and technology.

Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in… read more

Morning Brief: iTunes 10 & Ping Now Live, Samsung Unveils Tablet, Twitter Releases iPad App

This series is brought to you by HTC EVO 4G, America’s first 4G phone. Only from Sprint. The “First to Know” series keeps you in the know on what’s happening now in the world of social media and technology.

Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in… read more

Windows Phone 7 Ready for Release

Microsoft has completed the development of its forthcoming Windows Phone 7. The mobile OS has reached the release to manufacturing (RTM) stage, the company announced today.

All that remains now is for networks and manufacturers to work on the final integrations of WP7 so that it is prepared for its release…. read more

Review: Toodledo Task Manager

First, let me share a little secret with you.  I am a master procrastinator.  I always manage to get the job done, and often to the best of my abilities, but if I don’t have that looming deadline, sometimes time slips through my fingers.  I blame YouTube, Twitter, FreelanceSwitch, WorkAwesome,… read more

10 Requirements for Working with Clients in Other Countries

Freelancers are given the opportunity to work for either clients within their respective areas or clients coming from abroad. Personally, as a freelancer living in Asia, I’ve worked only with clients who run their businesses a hundred miles away such as those in the US, the UK, and Australia…. read more

Illustrator Template Toolbox for Web, Mobile and App Developers

For today’s post we have an extensive selection of UI templates, all in Illustrator format, and all perfect if you are a web, mobile or app designer who prefers to use Adobe Illustrator rather than the more commonly used Photoshop.

It was mildly surprising how difficult this post was to put… read more

The Complete Overview of Indie Graphics Software for Mac

Everyone knows about the big guns in the graphics field. Adobe is pretty much the unchallenged master of image editing with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fireworks. Adobe’s InDesign shares the digital publishing field, albeit grudgingly, with Quark’s QuarkXPress. Serious graphic designers find themselves stuck between these two large corporations, due in… read more

Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: September 2010

Desktop wallpapers can serve as an excellent source of inspiration. However, if you use some specific wallpaper for a long period of time, it becomes harder to draw inspiration out of it. That’s why we have decided to supply you with smashing wallpapers over 12 months. And to make them… 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

Hell Freezes Over: AutoCAD Returns to Mac

After an 18-year absence, AutoCAD is finally coming back to Mac OS X. Autodesk, the company that makes the CAD program that has become he defacto industry standard, last released a native Mac version of its flagship product in 1992.

Not only is AutoCAD coming back to Mac OS X, Autodesk… read more

Arcade Fire’s Experimental New Video Shows What’s Possible with HTML5

Watch out MTV, the music video has just got a new gold standard. Indie band Arcade Fire has released a vid for the song “We Used to Wait” off of their new album, The Suburbs, and it’s basically one big ball of HTML5/Google Maps/musical goodness.

The video was announced today on… read more

5 Free Tools To Download Or Create Movie Subtitles

The subtitles for a movie serve an important purpose. If your hearing is impaired or if you do not speak the language used in a movie, reading the subtitles can greatly help in keeping up with what goes on in every scene. If you have rented a DVD, chances are… read more

Chatroulette is Back, But It Doesn’t Look Good

After being down for an entire week, popular random video chat service Chatroulette is back with a new version.

The transition to version two wasn’t exactly graceful; Chatroulette was supposed to be down one day, but the extended downtime, during which the site was nothing more than a white page with… read more

HOW TO: Make Free iPhone Ringtones

Ringtones — They are the darlings of the music industry and the bane of anyone subject to hearing a bad one. If you’re sick of your plain old telephone ringer but don’t want to download a canned tone, you don’t need to spend extra money to turn your favorite song… read more

Best of the Week #134

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

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

Colloquy: The Stylish IRC Client for Mac

The world of IRC is an interesting one. Despite a large and extremely active user base, most people have no idea what IRC is and how it’s different than the type of instant messaging we’re used to today.

Today we’ll give you a crash course in chatting using the IRC protocol… read more

45 Free Applications For Designers And Developers

By Callum Chapman

Whether you’re just starting out in the graphic or web design industry, or you’ve been in it for years, the chances are there will occasionally be a time where you want to get a feel for a particular type of application (maybe something similar to Cinema 4D or… read more

Facebook Chat to Drop IE 6 Support

If you are still using Internet Explorer 6.0, Facebook has a new incentive for you to move onward and upward: Facebook Chat.

On its blog today, Facebook announced that its chat feature will no longer support IE 6. Like an increasing number of web applications, the social network cited the 9-year-old… read more

10 Useful Frameworks To Develop HTML-Based Webapps for Touch Devices

Make HTML-based touch applications. Easy.

In the last two years the rapid growth and diffusion of touch devices such as iOS or Android based platforms has forced developers and web designers to rethink the model of their own webapps for the new “touch experience” introduced by the iPhone in 2007.

During this… read more

Morning Brief: Gmail Voice Calling, Google Finance Mobile, Windows 7 Live Phone-to-Console Gaming

This series is brought to you by HTC EVO 4G, America’s first 4G phone. Only from Sprint. The “First to Know” series keeps you in the know on what’s happening now in the world of social media and technology.

Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in… read more

Firefox 4 Beta 4 Introduces Sync and Panorama

Mozilla has released Firefox 4 Beta 4, bringing two very interesting features to the table: Panorama (previously called Tab Candy) and Sync.

Panorama is a nifty visual tool that lets you overview all of your open tabs and group them into sets with a simple drag and drop interface. It’s activated… read more

Six New Features in Dreamweaver CS5

Every upgrade brings something new, but Dreamweaver CS5 brings more goodies than most previous upgrades, and you can put these new features to use right away. Here’s how to use some of the coolest new features, from troubleshooting CSS with the new inspect option, to adding advanced Ajax and jQuery… read more

80 Of The Most Useful Mac Tools and Utilities

Macs are awesome straight out of the box, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t make them a lot better with a few quality downloads.

Today we’ve rounded up eighty of the most handy utilities to improve the basic functionality of your Mac in a number of ways. Below you’ll find… read more

A Showcase of Single Page Websites

When designing a website with a minimal number of pages and not a ton of content, a single-page design can be an innovative way to set the site apart.

Single-page websites often utilize JavaScript and Flash, along with HTML and CSS to fit more content on a page without substantially… read more

Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch

MOVE OVER MOUSE, THERE’S SOMETHING HANDIER

When the Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch arrived for review, I tore into the beautifully designed packaging, eager to give it a test drive on my laptop. I quickly found that this sleek little tablet shines in its intended use—as a consumer-priced tablet for travel… read more

Cubicle Spy: At Work with Steve Rubel of Edelman [PICS]

As part of the ongoing “Cubicle Spy” series here at Mashable, we’re taking a look inside the coolest, quirkiest, and most gadget-laden offices of people who work with social media.

For our second peek into the cube, we scoped out the office of Steve Rubel, Senior Vice President and Director of… read more

How to Create a Three-dimensional Airplane with Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a detailed three-dimensional image of an Airplane based on two two-dimensional plans. The knowledge acquired will help you to simulate a three-dimensional image of many different complex objects.

Step 1

Start Illustrator and choose the "print document" type.

Step 2

Start creating two projections… read more

21 Stunning Examples Of High Definition Wallpapers

Today, we are showing you 21 colorful and Impressive examples of high definition/wide-screen wallpapers. These can be find in different resolution e.g. 1280×800, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200 and more. I appreciate to all those talented designers who create these excellent wallpapers with their efforts, imaginations and creativity to give us a… read more

Google Tests New Feature: Search As You Type [VIDEO]

Google is testing a feature that displays live-updating search results as you type your search query, no keystroke on “Enter” or “Return” required.

When you start typing, the search box is relocated to the top of the site. Results are changed to match what you type as you go, kind of… read more

10 Classic PC Games That Found New Life on the iPhone

Apple’s iPhone may mark a second golden age of computer gaming for a lot of reasons. The open marketplace means anyone can create a game; from major companies to just a couple of talented people in a garage. The result is a new boom in innovation, the likes of which… read more

Best of the Week #133

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

Top 5 Mobile Advertising Trends To Watch

The mobile trends series is supported by Samsung. Read more about the Samsung Galaxy here.

Mobile advertising is increasingly important, as cell phone adoption rates, especially smartphone adoption rates, soar. With a range of mobile advertising options, including SMS, WAP, mobile app display ads, search ads, rich media, video and push… read more

100 Free High Quality WordPress Themes: 2010 Edition

It’s hard to believe that a year has passed since our last WordPress theme collection, but there you have it — the time has come again. Once a year we feature the most useful and interesting WordPress-themes that we are collecting over months and present them in a nice quick… read more

Amazing Examples of Paper Art

When most people think of art involving paper, they think of drawing, sketching, or maybe painting. However, there are very talented people out there that create art from paper in more unusual ways. I’m talking about paper art that involves creative forms of cutting, folding, and carving. Materials for this… 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

50+ Immediate Job Openings in Social Media, Web Development and More

If you’re seeking a job in social media, we’d like to help out. For starters, Mashable’s Job Lists section gathers together all of our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired. In particular, you might want to see our articles on How to Leverage… read more

Superior Apartments at Venice, California

This apartment building located on Venice Boulevard is a project by Kanner Architects. The Venice Superior Apartments have simple shapes, vibrant colors and a modern look. Venice was just the perfect place for it!

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The building is small with only three floors, and the architects were able to distribute it in… read more

The Chrome Web Store Is Coming, and Google Has Big Plans for It

Google has a plan to become a force in everything from TV to gaming, and today it’s become clear that plan involves the upcoming Chrome Web Store.

Video game website 1up was able to grab some photographs of a presentation Google delivered to a room of game developers at the GDC… read more

The 7 Useful (And Unknown) Web Browsers That Are Worth A Try

This is one of the very best list of its kind where you can find out of the box web browsers that you probably never heard of and these would be great enough to bookmark or just for knowledge. I hope everyone of you will like this… read more

Morning Brief: Nook for iPhone, Wii Holiday Release Dates, Verizon iPhone 4 Rumors

This series is brought to you by HTC EVO 4G, America’s first 4G phone. Only from Sprint. The “First to Know” series keeps you in the know on what’s happening now in the world of social media and technology.

Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in… read more

5 Mac AntiVirus Tools for OS X (And Do We Need Them?)

Wait aren’t Macs supposed to be immune to viruses? Can Macs really be attacked by malware? Should you be protecting yourself?

Today we’re going to take a look at five popular Mac AntiVirus utilities and jump head first into the raging debate about whether or not they should even exist…. read more

Giving Users Some Credit

Design Informer

Written by: Jeremy Girard

Giving Users Some Credit

Websites are designed to be used by people of varying backgrounds, educations and technical levels. One of the challenges we face when designing for the Web is finding a way to create sites and applications that can be accessed by a widely disparate… read more

Xbox Live Comes to Windows Phone 7: Here’s the Games Lineup

An email from Microsoft tonight tells us that Windows Phone 7 will be launching with a whole roster of Xbox Live games to push the envelope of mobile gaming.

A grand total of 63 games from have been announced today, and more will be available by the device’s holiday-season launch. The… read more

Apple’s Steve Wozniak to Appear on “Big Bang Theory”

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak announced via social media that he will guest star on the sitcom The Big Bang Theory this season, but he wouldn’t reveal the plot details behind his cameo.

The famous computer engineer updated his Facebook status saying: “What’s it like to film an episode of Big Bang… read more

Snap Art 2 [Software Review]

Although I am a purist by heart, I cannot forget my early days with a digital camera and a copy of Photoshop. The filters got me … right where I live!

Nowadays, I try to create compelling images right at the moment of exposure and not at the post editing stage…. read more

Internet Explorer Turns 15

Microsoft’s web browser Internet Explorer was launched on this day, 15 years ago. While it had its ups and downs over the years – version 6 was plagued by countless security issues, which made it one of the most hated browsers around – it’s still the most popular browser in… read more

The Perfect Office #50

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?

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

Travel Photography Subjects: Food

Ahhh, food.  Wonderful, scrumptious, tasty food.  Or, if you’re not familiar with the local cuisine, maybe it’s more like odd, greasy and down right horrid.  No matter your experience, food will be another integral part of your travels and a strong hallmark of a given location.

I am admittedly not… read more

40 Highly Effective FaceBook Business Pages

Facebook is huge. With the average user connecting to 80 community pages, groups and events and with over 900 million (!) objects that users love to interact with (pages, groups, events and community pages), Facebook pages are massive and with a well thought layout they will prove to be a… read more

WobZIP Offers Hassle-free Online File Uncompression

ZIP archives do a wonderful job of compressing files into a single package. In Windows, you can easily create a ZIP file by selecting some files, right-clicking and going to Send To -> Compressed.

But when you open the ZIP file through Windows, you do not get the option of individually… read more

The 9 Insanely Cool Google Chrome Extensions You May Need To Know About

You might have been using Chrome for a quite some time now but there is a good chance you are not taking its full advantage. Chrome’s maximum potential lies in the power of its extensions. Below We have gathered 9 Insanely Cool Google Chrome Extensions You May Need to Know… read more

Can Flash Move Forward?

There has been a long debate about Adobe Vs. Apple, or even Flash Vs. HTML5. Whatever side of the fence you are on—you probably won’t be changing your mind anytime soon. Flash brings a lot of features and creativity for web designers, but then again the promise of HTML5, CSS3… read more

Live Documents: Office in the Cloud

Every desktop user has to create a document one time or another. Even non-PC users have likely used Microsoft Office at least once in their lifetime. MS Office is more ubiquitous and is familiar to more users than MS Windows itself.

It’s only natural for competitors to come up with similar… read more

30 New Free High-Quality Fonts

Every now and then we look around, select fresh high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually time you should be investing in your current projects. We search for them and find… read more

A Beginner’s Guide to Website Feedback

The term “feedback” is coming close to finding itself in clichéd business word category (along with personal favorites “synergy” and “paradigm”). Even if for you the word itself isn’t necessarily something that you expect to see in a Dilbert cartoon, the thought of what feedback entails can be unpleasant. For… read more

Firefox 4 Beta Adds Multi-touch Support [VIDEOS]

Mozilla has released the newest version of the Firefox 4 Beta, which not only includes hundreds of bug fixes, but also adds long-awaited multi-touch functionality to the browser.

Firefox 4 Beta Version 3 comes with three main updates from its predecessor. First, it addresses several hundred bugs and exploits. … read more

5 Cross-Platform Mobile Development Tools You Should Try

This series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here.

As mobile OSes — especially iPhone and Android — wax and wane, the pressing question remains: How do you choose which mobile devices to develop for and which devices to omit from… read more

3D House Icon in Adobe Illustrator

Illustrator’s CS5 Perspective Drawing Tools are just perfect for creating buildings. From this advanced tutorial you will learn how to create a detailed 3D house icon.

Step 1: Set up

Open up Illustrator CS5 and set up a new document. Make the artboard big enough since we will need place to create… read more

XKCD-Inspired Cartoon Maps the World’s Social Networks [PIC]

This cartoon map shows the relative sizes of social networks based on real 2010 user data, and does so in a quirky and amusing way.

The quirky and amusing aspect is hardly surprising, because this map — titled the “2010 Social Networking Map” — was inspired by geeky-yet-popular web… read more

It’s Easier Than Ever To Get Real-Time Maps And Traffic Information With Waze

GPS in cars can help you determine the right way but not the best way. The GPS can lead you right into a traffic jam and cause undesired delays. If only there was a way GPS could be aware of the traffic conditions on all routes. Thanks to Waze, that… read more

Travel Photography Subjects: Economy

The economy.  It’s a hot topic whether it’s a boom year or a bust.  Every country on the planet has many forms of commerce that power its society.  To get a feel for the local economy you may need to do a bit of digging.  You can take a… read more

Daily Inspiration #583

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

Google Makes it Easier for Big Companies to Switch to Chrome

Google’s Chrome browser is steadily increasing in popularity among consumers, and now it looks like Google is making a more concentrated effort to lure enterprise and corporate users too.

As The Chrome Source points out, Google has now made the Chrome browser downloadable as an MSI file, which will make wide… read more

Create a Classic American Diner with Perspective Drawing Tools

With the release of Illustrator CS5, Adobe introduces the new Perspective Drawing tool set, which allows you to create images in accurate 1-, 2- or 3-point perspective. Perspective Drawing alleviates tedious measuring and scaling, letting you concentrate on artistry, not arithmetic. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to set up… read more

The Perfect Office #49

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?

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

Inception Poster with Repousse in Photoshoc CS5

A few days ago I went to the movies with Amanda (@amlight) to watch Inception, the new Christopher Nolan movie. I left the movie theater completely blown away. The story is simply amazing and the director leaves us confused all the time, especially in the end. Anyway I’m not here… read more

HOW TO: Self-Publish Anything Online

Technology expert Scott Steinberg is the CEO of high-tech consulting firm TechSavvy Global, and a frequent tech analyst for ABC, CBS and CNN. He’s covered the field for 400+ outlets from NPR to Rolling Stone. His latest self-published venture is the online video series and magazine Game Theory.

Starting your own… 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

80+ Useful PSD Templates For Web Designers

Reinventing the wheel is rarely a good idea, and this is especially true when it comes to creative activities such as design. The less time you spend on tedious tasks, the more time you have for expressing your ideas and being original. Fortunatel,y the design community is very generous in… read more

Morning Brief: Saudia Arabia’s Blackberry Ban, Motorola’s TV Tablet, London Cabs on Twitter

This series is brought to you by HTC EVO 4G, America’s first 4G phone. Only from Sprint. The “First to Know” series keeps you in the know on what’s happening now in the world of social media and technology.

Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in… read more

Glasshouse Conference Centre in Australia

The Glasshouse is the new center for art and culture of Port Macquire in Australia. The project, beyond the center of Conferences, includes an art gallery, a theater and a community workshop place. The project was executed by the group Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects.

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The design of the building was… read more

A Useful Selection of Android Developer Tools and Resources

With its intuitive and open-source platform and support from the huge mobile phone manufacturers HTC, Samsung and Sony Ericsson, Androids year-on-year smart-phone marketshare has shown a massive growth of 886%! Just to put this into perspective, the iPhone has shown only 61% growth. These figures may give you an insight… read more

Is There Enough Flame in the BlackBerry Torch?

Earlier today, RIM introduced the BlackBerry Torch, the company’s first smartphone to ship with BlackBerry OS 6 and perhaps more importantly RIM’s attempt to remind the world that it’s still a big player in the smartphone market.

We think it’s interesting that RIM chose to name its newest BlackBerry the “Torch”… read more

$99 Color E-Reader and Social Platform to Challenge Amazon, B&N This Fall

Following recent price cuts on Amazon’s Kindle 2 and Barnes & Noble’s Nook, a new manufacturer is set to stir up even more competition in the e-reader pricing wars with the debut of a $99 color device this fall.

The device, which weighs in at .42 lbs and features a 5-inch,… read more

Google Enables Multiple Account Sign-In

Good news for users of multiple Google accounts (i.e. – one for work and one for personal): now you can sign-in to more than one of them from the same browser window.

The feature has been in testing for several weeks, but now appears to be publicly available by going to… 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

Google Releases the Ultimate Experimental Version of Chrome

Not content with the feedback speed and weekly release cycle of the Dev version of Google Chrome, the search giant has launched the Google Chrome Canary Build, the most experimental and risky version of the web browser yet.

Google constantly tests new features and experimental builds of the Chrome browser through… read more

Trek-Tech TrekPod GO! Pro Tripod [REVIEW]

I was first approached by the folks at Trek-Tech, a local Pacific Northwest company, when I started my People, Places & Patterns Project. I was interested in sponsors but I’m very picky about who and what I endorse. I’m not going to tout product X as being great if… read more

11 Free Services for Scheduling Social Media Updates

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

Maintaining a constant social media presence can be difficult, especially for busy entrepreneurs looking to stay in touch with their communities. Luckily, there are plenty of tools… read more

Are You Giving Back to Your Community?

You’ve been working like crazy all summer long, but you don’t have the time or the means to take the kind of vacation where you get to sit on a beach while someone regularly brings you ice cubes swimming in tequila.

Thursday has written how you can create an excellent experience… read more

50 Essential Mac Apps for OS X Beginners

So you just unboxed that shiny new Mac, fired it up and heard the glorious chime. Now what? It can be a little bit overwhelming to start from scratch and build a library of useful applications but we’re to help!

Today we’ll take a look at 50 awesome apps that are… read more

PC Defeats Mac in Reader Vote

One of the most visible battles in all of technology is Mac vs. PC. Earlier in the week, we asked you, the Mashable readers, to weigh in.

Our Web Faceoff this week focused around the device you’re probably using right now: the computer. We wanted to know whether your… read more

10 Cool Tech Toys for Kids [PICS]

Kids today have been born into a digital world and it’s something that is reflected in their toys.

While you may have played Hungry Hungry Hippos or had to pretend to burp your baby doll, today’s toys are much more sophisticated and tech savvy, and even a little creepy. We’ve found… read more

Top 10 Country Flag Icon Sets

A country flag image could be used for any number of reasons, perhaps the most popular method would be on a web site which allows the user to either select the language of their choice or to access the site-version dedicated to their country. The problem is that there are… read more

Maintain Your Passwords Online With KeePass

The average internet user has accounts on a number of websites. Apart from email and social networking accounts, you end up creating accounts on other websites as well. Most people use the same username and password combination across all websites; however this is an unwise practice because if one account… read more

Morning Brief: Games & Checkins Coming to Google, Facebook IPO & Spotify U.S. Delayed

This series is brought to you by HTC EVO 4G, America’s first 4G phone. Only from Sprint. The “First to Know” series keeps you in the know on what’s happening now in the world of social media and technology.

Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series 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

Sneaky New App Avoids Awkward Chats, Sends You Straight to Voicemail

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: slydial

Quick Pitch: slydial is a free voice messaging… 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

Expand Your Primary Drive To Get More Space With GParted

Is your “C” drive getting a little smaller for the programs you want to install? Would you like to expand your primary drive to get more space? What you need is a good partitioning program. GParted is what you need.

This nifty freeware will suit many computer users. GParted’s simple user… read more

Baby Photography: Photographing Babies Without Losing your Mind

Today Natalie Norton shares with us a series of 6 tips for photographing babies.

*Image Credit Nicole Hill.

Babies, babies everywhere! It seems like everyone around me is either pregnant or has a new born! I’m a total sucker for tiny people. I love the way they look, all pink… read more

6 Personal Productivity Tools Guaranteed to Up Your Game

Being a freelancer has its perks. You are your own boss, meaning you can work at home and set up your own hours. As great as that sounds, working at home also has its downsides. The main problem is that it’s hard to be productive when you keep getting distracted… read more