Creating a Simple, Snowy Seamless Pattern

If you’re in the north of the northern hemisphere as I am, it’s coming towards winter. With the holidays coming up, we’re hoping for a white holiday! In today’s tutorial, I’m going to show you how to create a very basic snowy seamless pattern. It is aimed at those who… read more

Checkout: Simple And Easy POS Software

Macs have, traditionally anyway, not really found a true home in the business world owing to their lack of support and the limited range of compatible programs available for them. But now, that’s all changing. More and more developers are either releasing dual-versions of their programs (compatible with Windows or… read more

Why Apple Is Winning the Mobile Video Format War … For Now

Jeroen Wijering is the creator of the incredibly successful JW Player, which has generated millions of downloads since its release in 2005. In 2007 he co-founded LongTail Video, focusing on a full-fledged online video platform that includes encoding, delivery, syndication and advertising.

The mobile video space has begun to consolidate. In… read more

Crunch: Online Accounting In The Cloud

With the ever-rising popularity of web apps, businesses are turning to online solutions for their business needs, as it allows quick and easy access no matter where you are. The days of being tied down to the office to complete work are over as cloud computing and online platforms become… read more

Congratulations To The Winners Of SyncMate Expert (All-In-One Sync Tool) For Mac

Thanks to all of the participants of contest in which SyncMate Expert (All-In-One Sync Tool) For Mac were givingaway. We ran the MySQL random query and selected these comments to give them SyncMate Expert for Mac.

Winners of SyncMate Expert (All-In-One Sync Tool) For Mac

Zee Patel
Hugo
Cheryl
Buddy
Jawor5

With SyncMate you can sync data between… read more

Top 10 Beautiful Windows Software Interfaces

Top 10 Beautiful Windows Software Interfaces

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Hands on With Twitter’s TweetDeck

TweetDeckInstall

Installation is now like a standard Windows application. No Air here.

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TweetDeck‘s conversion from… read more

Bug in Adobe Reader Could Endanger Your PC

Describing a vulnerability in some of its reader software as “critical,” Adobe identified a flaw that could “potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.”

We’re not just talking about your mom’s e-books. Adobe says hackers have used this flaw in targeted attacks against at least… read more

25 Delicious Food and Drink Related Websites

The internet is a fantastic resource for anyone who has a passion for food. There are thousands of recipe websites available for those who want to try something new, and photo blogs where users simply share a picture of what they are eating. Ordering food through the internet has become… read more

20 Amazing Implementations of HTML5 Canvas

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In this article, we explore some of the most awe-inspiring implementations of HTML5′s canvas element so far. From all of the new HTML5 tags, canvas is likely to be the most powerful.
In a nutshell, the canvas element is a drawable region defined in… read more

Study Shows Lost and Found USB Drives Are Not Secure [VIDEO]

Security firm Sophos studied 50 USB keys from Sydney’s major transit authority’s lost-and-found auction. Among its discovers: Two-thirds of the devices were infected and a total of 62 files were infected. And most of the drives appeared to be predominantly used… read more

Around the World with a Total Eclipse of the Moon

A Guest Post by Stephen Trainor

Whatever you have planned for this weekend, cancel it now.

Saturday Dec 10 2011 sees the last total eclipse of the moon until April 2014 – the last chance to photograph one of nature’s most attractive natural phenomena in over two years.

In this article, we’ll take… read more

10 Tips To Optimize Your WordPress Theme

The beauty of WordPress is in how easy it is to adapt for different tasks. One can extend it with just a couple of lines of code. In this post, we’ll review 10 shortcode snippets that will tweak and optimize your WordPress theme. You can add all of these code… read more

Review: iJobo Freelance Activity Journal

With so many different types of programs and apps on helping you and your team keep track of hours spent on projects, it can be confusing. Most focus on what I call “self-reporting”– which relies on the person wanting to keep track and having to actually click a button… read more

Microsoft Reveals Windows Store in Bid to Crash Tablet Party

Developer-friendly revenue sharing, new app capabilities unique to Windows 8 and easy compatibility with touch or mouse-and-keyboard devices were among the upcoming Windows Store features that Microsoft touted at a special preview event for developers and media Tuesday evening in San Francisco.

The Windows Store will debut with the launch… read more

Future Tech: 8 Ways We Could Recycle Our Wasted Heat

Julian Taub is a freelance science writer and performance poet in the East Village of NYC. He writes a nanotechnology blog called Julian’s TechSplurge, and runs Late Nite Labs’ science blog. You can follow him on Twitter: @JulianTaub.

Every electrical appliance — from a humble light bulb to a MacBook Pro… read more

Apple, Nintendo and Kodak: Three Innovators and How They Faced Extinction

Today I’d like to talk about three tech companies that have each had their ups and downs. Apple, Nintendo and Kodak: How are these companies alike? How are they different?

We’ll discuss how an industry leader falls from grace and whether or not it’s possible to be saved once that happens…. read more

Microsoft Delays Major Xbox Update, Without Explanation

People awaiting Microsoft’s shiny new user interface for Xbox 360 will have to keep holding their breaths. The update, which adds the tiles aesthetic seen on Windows phones and Windows 8, was supposed to go live around 10 a.m. EST on Dec 6.

Larry Hyrb, a member of the Xbox team,… read more

10 Leading Chrome Productivity Apps

Chrome Web Store

Google has recently launched Chrome Web Store – a dedicated marketplace with various applications for the browser. The marketplace idea is simple: install an app once and you will always have it at your fingertips on Chrome’s start screen. So you can save time and use your favorite… read more

Microsoft to Give Sneak Peek at Windows 8 App Store

Microsoft will reveal more details about its Windows 8 app store at an event in San Francisco on Tuesday. Members of the media and invited developers will learn about the company’s new store during a special two-hour presentation.

The new Windows Store is expected to launch after Windows 8 goes… read more

The Experiment: A Working, Digital Rube Goldberg Machine in HTML5

With their endless series of implausible chain reactions, Rube Goldberg devices are fascinating not because they look crazy, but because they’re almost always crazy enough to work. Now Honda’s bringing that crazy fun to anyone with a mouse thanks to “The Experiment,” a digital chain reaction playhouse without any of… read more

Pioneers Rejoice: ‘The Oregon Trail’ Coming to Wii Dec. 9

The Oregon Trail — the game that made dysentery fun again — will be available for the Wii on Dec. 9. And we were as surprised as you to learn that it will be the 40th anniversary edition of the classic educational game. That’s right — the original was created… read more

Create a Windows-like Interface with jQuery UI

Have you ever wanted to create an interactive user interface for your application, but didn’t know how to? In this tutorial, we’ll create a Windows-like interface quickly and easily, by getting down and dirty with jQuery UI, a user interface library built on top of jQuery. What Exactly is jQuery… read more

Making TeX Simple With TexPad

In one of my previous articles, I wrote about LyX, an easy way to produce documents in TeX without any prior knowledge of the typesetting language. However, for anyone with a knowledge of TeX, LyX can seem a little limited in its functionality and can, sometimes, be complicated to use…. read more

1.8 Billion Questions Later, ChaCha has Evolved Past Text Message Roots

When ChaCha launched in 2008, most of us were introduced to it through a friend. We added its number to our flip phones and sent our questions off via text message, gleefully showing our friends how quickly we received responses. It was like Google, only mobile.

Now Google is mobile,… read more

25 Coolest Windows 8 Wallpapers

25 Coolest Windows 8 Wallpapers

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Carrier IQ Is Misunderstood, Not Evil

Look out! Your phone knows what you’re doing. It has your contacts, email messages, SMS text, pictures and video. It gets worse. Your carrier — AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon — has to handle some of this information. You hit “send” and then their networks pass along personal email messages to… read more

Best of the Week #199

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

BlackBerry Bust: RIM Takes a $485 Million Hit on the Ailing PlayBook

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion announced that it will take a $485 million write-down in relation to its PlayBook tablet.

RIM describes the charge to its fiscal third quarter as mostly noncash and a result of a lower inventory valuation. RIM also lowered its earnings, revenue and shipment projections for the… read more

VMware Fusion 4: Run Windows on Your Mac, Lion-Style

As fantastic as the Mac OS is, there are plenty of reasons you might want to run Windows from time to time: maybe you need to run some old school XP software for work, or you want to try out some PC games, or (like me) you have to test… read more

Markdown + Dropbox = Dead Simple Blogging With Calepin

Blogs are supposed to be about writing. Real, authentic, personal, heartfelt writing. The very word blog comes from the words web and log, a log of your thoughts on the web. But by and large, blogs have gotten complicated. 15 million widgets, word clouds, flashing ads, and more drive most… read more

Integrating Amazon S3 With WordPress

Computing is full of buzzwords, “cloud computing” being the latest one. But unlike most trends that fizzle out after the initial surge, cloud computing is here to stay. This article goes over Amazon’s S3 cloud storage service and guides you to implementing a WordPress plugin that backs up your WordPress… read more

Fowl Idea: Angry Birds Cookbook Finally Released

The Angry Birds cookbook cover

This cover features all the game’s popular characters.

Click here to view this gallery.

Do Angry… read more

Kashflow: Simple, Web-Based Accounting For Small Businesses

Good accounting practices are key to any company, whether it be a sole trader or a large, multinational corporation. It helps keep the company flowing and is vital for end-of-year figures, fiscal forecasting and resource planning. However, given the sheer range of accounting software out there, it is often difficult… read more

A Guide To PHP Error Messages For Designers

PHP is widely available with inexpensive hosting plans, which makes it a popular choice for developers who write software for the Web. From big platforms, such as WordPress, down to small scripts, such as ones to display image galleries or to send forms to email, thousands of script and products… read more

What the Facebook FTC Settlement Means for Social Media

On Tuesday the Federal Trade Commission officially rapped Facebook’s knuckles in a broad-reaching settlement on privacy, alleging the social network misled its users on what they were sharing and with whom. The settlement, which lays out a number of specific rules the service must now abide by, requires Facebook to… read more

5 Artistic Uses of Google Street View

Mark Wright is a freelance arts writer and assistant editor of the Image Source blog.

People are using Google Street View for more than checking travel routes. You can use the mapping tool to test hotel neighborhoods, to take virtual tours of the world’s most famous art galleries, or to arrange… read more

21 Inspirational Natural Light Portraits

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Image by Daniel Zedda

One of the most effective pieces of lighting gear ever invented is available to almost every photographer in the world… unless you’re living in a cave (and even then you might have one).

Image by Anna Gay

It’s the window.

Image by Eric Meuller

I hear many photographers asking about… read more

SyncMate Expert (All-In-One Sync Tool) For Mac Giveaway

Eltima Software is running a contest, where 5 licenses of SyncMate Expert Edition are givingaway. Well, you guys know what is SyncMate? Let’s say it once again for n00bs.

With SyncMate you can sync data between your Mac and various devices and accounts within one app. You don’t need to install… read more

52 Superb Free Icon Sets For Mac

If you own a Mac, you probably know that the software on these machines is often stunningly well designed, and in particular Mac icons are renowned for being gorgeous, or even ‘lickable’ to borrow the words of Jobs.

These beautiful icons are made not only by Apple designers, but by designers from around the… read more

3 Ways to Hide Your Online Shopping From the Boss on Cyber Monday

Black Friday is a thing of the past – today is all about finding your holiday deals and savings online with Cyber Monday! Over half of Americans will be secretly shopping online at work today and throughout the holiday season, which puts you at risk for being reprimanded for browsing… read more

Offline Gmail: A Neat HTML5 WebApp

Ever since Google killed off Google Gears, users were left without any way to access their Gmail accounts without internet. Google said they were ending Gears because they wanted to focus on implementing HTML5 to get a newer, more complete, and less plugin-based system for offline email.

Even though it’s been… read more

Creating Pixel-Perfect UI for iPhone Applications

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Developing apps for the iPhone or iPad can be a tricky process. You need to understand not just the programming libraries, but also design standards and common themes in user interfaces. This entire skillset would require months of study just to build your first live… read more

7 Best Windows Apps That You Might Not Know About

7 Best Windows Apps That You Might Not Know About

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Best of the Week #198

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

Microsoft Cuts Prices of Kinect, Xbox and More for Black Friday

Microsoft has announced its Black Friday sale over at Microsoft Store, offering decent discounts on the Kinect, Xbox, select PCs, software and games.

The Kinect sensor is available as a part of the Kinect Sensor Holiday Bundle, which comes with Fruit Ninja, Gunstringer and Kinect Adventures, for $99. The Xbox… read more

Nokia Delists From Frankfurt Stock Exchange

Nokia has been working through a massive cost-cutting downsizing program, laying off thousands of employees, closing plants, and outsourcing operations. On Thursday comes news of another consolidation: the company is delisting from the Frankfurt stock exchange in Germany.

The company says that it has applied to stop trading in Frankfurt because… read more

Lytro 4D Camera Makes Time Magazine’s Top 5 Cool Innovations List

Perhaps you have heard of Lytro. I first got wind of the company a few months ago and thought it sounded amazing. But then the “That’s a press release. Where’s the follow through?” mechanism in my brain that stops me from buying useless products kicked in. Was it too good… read more

Funny Logo Parodies That Will Bring a Smile to Your Face

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I’ve always appreciated logos as creative by-products of companies to present themselves visually – from simple vector graphics to intricate designs reminiscent of medieval coat-of-arms. Interestingly, logos prove that human beings are indeed visual beings. We easily recognize something based on its color, shape, and… read more

DisplAir: Minority Report’s Gesture Interface, Only Real. And Russian

Ever since Microsoft Kinect debuted last year, controller-free gesture interfaces have gone mainstream. As popular as it is, the tech could stand some improvement: it would be more precise if users were able to manipulate 3D images in midair, a la… read more

Default Folder X: Browse File Dialogs at Lightning Speed

Over the past week or so we’ve been on a mission to help you improve the experience of file browsing by introducing you to interesting Finder alternatives. We started with TotalFinder, which boosts your Finder’s natural functionality by adding tabs. We then moved on to Raskin, which dramatically redesigns the… read more

Lenovo Developing Five-Inch Android Smartphone?

From 4.7-inch smartphones like the HTC Titan to models like the 5.3-inch Samsung Galaxy Note, it’s clear that manufacturers are seeing a market for larger-than-normal smartphones that still fall short of what we might consider tablets.

While they may not fit so easily into a tight pants pocket, they’re just… read more

Bill Gates Testifies: Microsoft Beat WordPerfect Fair and Square

Bill Gates testified in a Salt Lake City courtroom Monday in a lawsuit that accuses Microsoft of — surprise! — monopolistic behavior. The accuser: former WordPerfect owner Novell.

If you’re old enough to remember Buffy the Vampire Slayer as a lame movie, before it became a hip TV show, you… read more

Google Updates Chromebook OS and Lowers Prices

Everyone’s busy trying to figure out which tablet they’ll buy this holiday season, but there are other options. At least Google sees it that way, as it commences a fresh Google Chromebook push with an updated interface and some more attractive… read more

Pentax WG-1 GPS Camera [REVIEW]

Introduction

The Pentax WG-1 GPS is a crushproof, freezeproof, waterproof, shockproof ruggedized point and shoot camera designed for adventurous types or those prone to breaking their cameras. Available in a number of colors, the camera also touts a GPS receiver which is capable of tagging pictures as they are taken with… read more

40 Useful Photoshop Free Plugins And Filters

Traditionally plugins are an amateurish photographer’s best friend who used to take photographs, fired up Photoshop, and applied some preset filters in order to have a realistically professional image. Skilled photographers have been acknowledged to bring plugins into play as a base and after that tweak and include effects to… read more

Pixelmator 2: You’re Going to Be Impressed

As a web designer, I spend a significant amount of time creating graphics and interfaces in Photoshop. Like other designers and artists, I love the power and limitless possibilities it offers, while at the same time, I grow increasingly frustrated with high prices, feature bloat, and the myriad little quirks… read more

Is Windows Phone the Best Mobile Platform You’re Not Using?

In the world of smartphones, Windows Phone 7 is barely a blip. It has, by some estimates less than 6% market share. Android now owns half the market and iOS about 26%. This isn’t right. You see, the Windows Phone 7 is a good — possibly great — mobile platform…. read more

Cloud Music Showdown: Amazon vs. Apple vs. Google [REVIEW]

It’s been a huge week for digital music lockers. First Apple made iTunes Match available to U.S. customers, then Google Music launched. These two services are competing with with Amazon’s Cloud Player (which is integrated with the new Kindle Fire) in a new realm of cloud music storage.

The three major… read more

AT&T to Offer Smartphones for One Cent on Black Friday

If wireless products are topping this year’s present wish lists, AT&T has you covered with a Thanksgiving weekend of promotions.

Starting at 12:01 a.m. on Black Friday, AT&T’s website deals page will unveil sales on touchscreen devices (yes, including tablets) with new gadget deals rolling out each day through Monday…. read more

Windows 8 Will Make Automatic Updates Far Less Painful

Microsoft is re-architecting the process for automatic updates in Windows 8, with a focus on minimizing restarts and reducing interruptions.

Windows Updates have sometimes been a pain point for users. The update pop-ups can interrupt a movie or a video game, and the automatic restarts can result in lost data or… read more

Freelance Toolkit: How to Get Started Video Blogging

It was just a few years ago when the major bottleneck for websites was producing content — you had to be an expert in web design AND a good writer to put content on the web. Video production was even more difficult with bandwidth issues, dozens of formats to… read more

15 Responsive CSS Frameworks Worth Considering

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Taking the next step of our responsive layout coverage (we recently published the articles Responsive WordPress Themes and jQuery Plugins to help with Responsive Layouts), today we are taking a look at responsive CSS frameworks that we feel are worth your consideration.

Just like most CSS… read more

A Fresh Look at TotalFinder: The Tabbed Finder You Should Be Using

It’s coming up on two years since we first took a look at an interesting Finder replacement app called TotalFinder, which was in its initial stages of development at the time. It was a little shaky back then but it has come a long way and is definitely worth another… read more

How to Pick a Server for Your App

The Mobile App Trends Series is sponsored by Sourcebits, a leading product developer for mobile platforms. Sourcebits offers design and development services for iOS, Android, Mobile and Web platforms. Follow Sourcebits on Twitter for recent news and updates.

For mobile app developers, building an app rarely takes place in a… read more

Five Simple Yet Useful Windows Tools Worth Checking Out

There are many useful Windows tools out there for Windows users, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. Today, we are sharing Five Simple Yet Useful Windows Tools Worth Checking Out. Read each entry in the list and see which one suits your needs best.

You are… read more

Quick Tip: How to Make a Retro Icon Style using the Appearance Panel

In the following Quick tip you will learn how to create a retro icon style. You will use a standard web symbol and the Appearance Panel to create a retro style that can be re-used on everything from icons to text. This is the perfect tutorial for beginners wanting… read more

My Encounter with the Cloud

For over a year now, I have been trying hard to push every reader of this blog (and whoever I talk to) to embrace the cloud. It goes without saying that I use a lot of web apps to carry out my personal and professional day to day activities. But… read more

28 Insanely Useful Third Party Preference Panes for Mac

Regular apps and menu bar apps always get all the glory. They’re always there with you, always visible and grabbing your attention. But what about the more discrete apps, the ones that perhaps change the behavior of your computer or make something cool happen behind the scenes?

Today we’re doing a… read more

Popular Networking Tools for Freelance Web Designers

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Communications and networking are the sole properties we look for in web applications. The Internet has improved our communications tenfold and allowed us to share information at a much quicker pace. As such I tend to jump around through many different applications just to get a… read more

5 security steps to take after installing Windows

5 security steps to take after installing Windows

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Analyzing Network Characteristics Using JavaScript And The DOM, Part 1

As Web developers, we have an affinity for developing with JavaScript. Whatever the language used in the back end, JavaScript and the browser are the primary language-platform combination available at the user’s end. It has many uses, ranging from silly to experience-enhancing.

(Image: Viktor Hertz)

In this article, we’ll look at… read more

Win an iPad 2 and 5 copies of Parallels

Today we’re bringing you another great giveaway, this time by our friends at Parallels, which provide the best tools for running multiple operating systems – including Windows 8 Developer Preview – side-by-side on your Mac or PC.

Starting today and for the rest of this week, each day they”ll be giving… read more

Lets Touch The Future With Windows 8

Lets Touch The Future With Windows 8

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Quick Look: QVIVO

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

In this Quick Look, we’re highlighting QVIVO. The developer describes QVIVO as QVIVO is a social media center app making your… read more

Microsoft Takes Windows Phone 7 Marketing Up a Notch With Wild NYC Event [VIDEO]

A number of new Windows Phone devices — including the excellent Focus Flash — launched this week and Microsoft decided to celebrate with a big media blitz in New York City.

Microsoft built a six-story Windows Phone with truly “live” Live tiles in the middle of Midtown Manhattan. As you can… read more

Using the ‘Dark Side’: Thinking Outside the Box with Darkness

A Guest Post by Judd Green

Photographers have spent years studying light, how to use it, manipulate it, hey, I’m sure some have even tried to bend it! Don’t get me wrong, light is our best friend in the photography world. But what about crossing over to the ‘Dark Side’ for… read more

10 Free Apps for Working with Video

Video has become a must-have for every website or blog aiming to enhance its presence online. It’s a common practice that video-related orders are often assigned to freelancers, and these are not only simple video editing tasks, but the preparation of how-to’s, demos, screencasts, video embedding and distribution as… read more

Stunning Photo Manipulations Inspired by Nature

Nature is a popular subject amongst the Photoshop community, and subsequently is featured in a lot of photo manipulation work. Nature is really the perfect subject for photo manipulations as it’s so visually engaging. Think of the four elements, or a beautiful landscape, or a fierce animal. All these things… read more

Teachers: Embrace Technology or Students Will Leave You Behind

Robert Romano is the CEO/Founder of BookheadEd Learning, where his vision has blended the traditional and technological experiences of reading in the company’s flagship product, StudySync®. You can read more about his company at StudySync.com.

We ask our students to be good observers, consider the world carefully and to analyze the… read more

Run Billings in the Cloud With Marketcircle Cloud

One of the best things about web apps is that you can run them from any computer. Many PC users wish they could run popular Mac apps in Windows, while Mac users for years wished they could run PC games on OS X. Linux users are often left in the… read more

Evolphin Zoom 2.8

File Versioning Done Right

Version Cue was a good idea that never took off. It was too hard to use for small agencies and not robust enough for large ones. Evolphin Zoom 2.8 fills the gap left by Version Cue’s demise—quite nicely, too. The software is easy to install and… read more

40+ Great Examples of Facebook Fan Pages

Facebook has become an essential part of promoting a website or service online. Small blogs, discussion forums and huge commercial companies such as Coca-Cola and McDonalds are all using Facebook to promote their brand and interact with fans and customers.

Facebook fan pages are at the heart of any Facebook promotion… read more

Postbox 3: Meet The Third Installment of First Class Email

Despite how much everyone hates it, they simply cannot eliminate email from their personal and most importantly professional lives. It’s the ideal form of communication because it’s instant, unintrusive, good for both long and short form communication. And it’s very economical – often times it’s free. So, email isn’t going… read more

An Extensive Guide To Web Form Usability

Contrary to what you may read, peppering your form with nice buttons, color and typography and plenty of jQuery plugins will not make it usable. Indeed, in doing so, you would be addressing (in an unstructured way) only one third of what constitutes form usability.

In this article, we’ll provide practical… read more

30 of the Best Calendar Apps and Utilities for Mac

We’ve scoured the Mac App Store and the web in search of the very best calendar apps for OS X. Some serve as full on iCal replacements while others are must have companion apps that extend iCal far beyond what it currently offers.

We found apps that put calendars on your… read more

Samsung Focus Flash: A Great Phone, An Awesome Price

Samsung’s new Focus Flash is a sleek, well-designed Windows Phone with a price that might just be enough to bring new smartphone users into the Microsoft fold.

What makes the Samsung Focus Flash remarkable aren’t its specs — though it is a well specced device — or its form factor —… read more

Appstorm’s Beginners Guide to Usenet

There are a lot of ways for getting files (music, video, software) from the Internet. Some of you might use a peer-to-peer network, such as BitTorrent, or a dedicated file hosting service, like RapidShare. These services are great, but Peer-to-Peer can be slow, and a dedicated file hosting service can… read more

Autodesk Maya Entertainment Creation Suite 2012

Advanced 3D Software

Okay, gang, hold on to your hats! Autodesk has released the new version of the Entertainment Creation Suite 2012 for Maya. This new release not only has killer upgrades to Maya but Autodesk has also made some long overdue improvements to Mudbox and MotionBuilder, as well as… read more

Firefox 8 Officially Arrives Nov. 8, But It’s Available to Download Now

The new major release of Mozilla’s web browser, Firefox 8, officially launches Nov. 8. However, as usual, it’s available to download on Mozilla’s servers a bit early, meaning you can install it right now.

The Windows version of Firefox 8 is here, while the Mac version can be downloaded here…. read more

What’s new for designers – Nov. 2011

The November edition of what’s new for web designers and developers includes new web apps, frameworks, some JavaScript tools and resources, some great project management tools, and a number of great new fonts.

Many of the resources below are free or very low cost, and are sure to be useful to… read more

The Essential Shotlist for Temple Photography (With 17 Gorgeous Examples)

If you have traveled in Asia, you know that temples are on your itinerary. The rich cultural heritage of Asia’s religions means any tour you take in Asian countries will be peppered with temples! temples! temples!

How many ways can you photograph a temple? We learned about shotlists with Ralph Velasco… read more

Lightweight Vector Graphics with iDraw

We’ve discussed, on several occasions here on Mac.AppStorm, the niche of apps comprised of consumer-grade imaging and design software. It is still a fairly young app space with huge potential for hobbyists and part-time designers that may not have the funds (or the feature requirements) for the professional tools like… read more

5 Free Photo Editing Softwares For Windows

5 Free Photo Editing Softwares For Windows

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Take Control of PDFs on Your Mac with PDFactory

Way back in my unenlightened days as a Windows user, I spent a great deal of time using various PDF editors. In an effort to avoid conflict with our friends at Windows.AppStorm, allow me to clarify: I don’t hate on Windows simply to hate on Windows–and indeed there are a… read more

Enough Incredible Photography Links To Make Your Eyes Water

The world of photography has produced some great work this week, and Toad Hollow Photography has been busy finding the best tutorials, photography and interesting blogs.  Truly great images have been produced by some awesome photographers, and all the links listed here will take you to see them.  We really… read more

30+ Awesome Utilities to Boost Your Windows PC

If you’re a Windows user then it’s definitely worth checking out Windows.AppStorm’s latest roundup of awesome utilities!

Windows has gotten better with every new version and given the number of legacy hardware and software it supports, it’s no mean feat to make the operating system so user friendly. Yes, there are… read more

6 Ways to Make the Web Easier to Read

Sometimes it seems that writing is more important today than it’s ever been in history. From Facebook status updates to txt messages, we’re all writing and reading almost more than we’re talking and listening. And while the internet has hastened print media’s troubles, many of us still read tons of… read more

A Day in the Life of Freelance Designers

Ever wonder what freelance designers do all day? Do they sleep in, design in their pajamas and drink tons of coffee? How do they juggle design, social networking, admin duties, lunch, families, the gym and so on? As designers and developers, most of us have often wondered how others spend… read more

New Book: Rockstar Icon Designer

What is one graphic element that you see dozens, if not hundreds, of times a day? Each of your favorite websites, applications, and software has at least one, and we’re betting it’s even had a major influence on what tools you decide to use. Any guesses?

If you guessed “icons,” you… read more