Charlie Stross brilliant insight

Charlie Stross provides brilliant insight into the end of the PC revolution, and how everyone's trying to work out a strategy for surviving the aftermath, beginning with the real reasons there is the rift between adobe and apple, and apples real plans.

Steve jobs response on Adobe

Steve Job's thoughts on Flash if you are interested in that sort of thing.

How to Boost Your Online Portfolio

Your portfolio should tell everything an employer needs to know, and state so clearly about his work that he may land up at his most desirable project. Instantshift has a few pointers to achieve those goals.

TitanPad

TitanPad lets people work on one document simultaneously.

geocitiesizer

Type any URL in the box below and click Submit to see how it would look as a Geocities page. Awesome-ness!

CSS3 baby!

If you have safari or chrome, open it up and go to any page you like, then copy and paste this URL into the address bar:

javascript:var e=document.getElementsByTagName("body"); for(var i in e){var h=e[i].scrollHeight - e[i].clientHeight; e[i].style.position="absolute"; e[i].style.webkitTransition="-webkit-transform 2s ease-in";e[i].style.webkitTransform="rotate(180deg) translate(0,-" + h + "px)";}

25 Years of .com

As part of the 25 Years of .com anniversary, a panel of Silicon Valley influencers will select the ".com 25"; the 25 people and/or companies whose inspiring contributions were fundamental in shaping the Internet and, thereby, our worlds.

creative choppers

Check out the creative choppers

Joseph Todorovitch

Joseph Todorovitch is a young contemporary painter who has developed a reputation for his highly representational figure paintings.

Goodbye floppy disk

Remember Floppy discs? In case you haven’t noticed, Sony is actually still making and selling those discs. But soon it’s time to say goodbye.

facebook trendings and likes

Two uses of facebook's new features; Like Button, what people you know like on the internet right now. And its trending, a real time feed of the most shared content on facebook.

Nathan Fowkes

Nathan Fowkes has a day job is at DreamWorks painting in photoshop so he spends as much time as he can outside or at home in the studio painting with traditional media.

The lying down game

The Lying Down Game is an Internet meme typically involving individuals having their photograph taken whilst lying rigidly face down.

Your Mom’s Guide to Those Facebook Changes

Mathew Ingram at gigaom explains the complex changes facebook made and what you should know about them, and how to turn them off.

Minimalist designs

Creating a minimalist design may look simple to non-designers, however, achieving simple yet powerful designs is a time-consuming task. Mirko at Designer Daily made a selection of websites that did a great job creating efficient designs.

Jaw-Dropping Photo Manipulations

webdesignledger has a series of 40 amazing photo manipulations for your thursday morning.

Facebook updates

Yesterday at F8, facebook developers’ conference, Mark Zuckerberg laid out his plan to turn the Web into “instantly social experiences.” Here are some highlights:

Facebook Social plugins enable you to provide engaging social experiences to your users with just a line of HTML. Because they are hosted by Facebook, the plugins are personalized for all users who are logged into Facebook — even if the users haven't yet signed up for your site.

The new Graph API attempts to drastically simplify the way developers read and write data to Facebook. It presents a simple, consistent view of the Facebook social graph, uniformly representing objects in the graph (e.g., people, photos, events, and fan pages) and the connections between them (e.g., friend relationships, shared content, and photo tags).

ShopFans is an e-commerce application on Facebook that allows retailers to set up a storefront on the social network. Similar to Payvment, the app allows consumers to purchase goods and make secure purchase transactions directly in Facebook.

The Hulk artwork

A collection of Marvels gree giant, the hulk.

Simon Hennessey

Simon Hennessey is a hyper realist painter that specializes in portraiture and the human figure. via designyoutrust.com

Photos of Eyjafjallajokull

The big pictures Photos of Eyjafjallajokull

So you need a typeface

So you need a typeface is an alternative way on how to choose fonts (or just be inspired) for a specific project, not just by browsing through the pages of FontBook. By Julian Hansen.

The BeetleCam Project

A year ago, William Burrard-Lucas and his brother Matthew from thier small garage in London, started working on an ambitious project to photograph African wildlife from a unique perspective. They wanted to get our camera extremely close to dangerous and unpredictable wild animals and photograph them with a wide angle lens. What they came up with was the The BeetleCam Project.

Ars reviews Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended

Photoshop turned twenty years old this year and Ars reviews Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended.

jsPlumb jQuery

For jQuery programmers - The jsPlumb jQuery plugin provides a way to "plumb" elements of a UI together.

html5

The purpose of this presentation is to show the coming bleeding edge features for modern desktop and mobile browsers. Note: not all of the demos will work.

Sam Nielson

Great work by Sam Nielson, His blog can be found here.

Replay it: Google search across the Twitter archive

Since google first introduced real-time search last December, they’ve added content from MySpace, Facebook and Buzz, expanded to 40 languages and added a top links feature. Today, they’re introducing a new feature to help you search and explore the public archive of tweets.

Midnight running

Midnight running! http://twitpic.com/1fif7q

30 Unique Examples of Bubble Photography

30 examples show a variety of bubble photos, ranging from medium range to macro range. Each photo shows how bubbles, like snowflakes are each unique, presenting us with a highly unique view of the world.

What If Oscars Were Given To Movie Websites?

Smashing Magazine imagines Oscars being given to both movies and their websites. It’s just a fun way to observe the latest trends in movie website design and to showcase the best websites of the 2009 blockbusters, as well as recent and upcoming movies.

Facebook to Launch Location Features Next Month

Facebook will incorporate location in two ways: (1) its own features for sharing location and (2) APIs to let other apps — like Foursquare and Gowalla –- offer location services to Facebook users.

360cities.net

360cities.net host, commission and develop the largest and fastest-growing collection of immersive, panoramic images on the web.

Twitter will have ads

Twitter has launched Promoted Tweets to further monetize its business. Promoted Tweets will put ads on Twitter, first in search results and later in user feeds both on Twitter.com and the myriad third-party clients that access the service, such as TweetDeck, twhirl, TwitterBerry and Tweetie.

0to255.com

0to255 is a simple tool that helps web designers find variations of any color.

The HTML 5 test

The HTML 5 test, How well does your browser support HTML 5.

10 google tricks

Simon Mackie of the times shows us his 10 favorite google tricks.

Tagxedo, tag cloud with styles

Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurence within the body of text.

VisualComplexity.com

VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. The project's main goal is to leverage a critical understanding of different visualization methods, across a series of disciplines, as diverse as Biology, Social Networks or the World Wide Web. I truly hope this space can inspire, motivate and enlighten any person doing research on this field.

Andreas Smetana

Andreas Smetana is an Austrailian photographer in Sydney.

Pixels

Patrick Jean’s new film Pixels is an awesome short film worth watching. via motionographer.com

Microsoft Buying Facebook For $50B??

Second Shares is reporting of speculations that Microsoft could be preparing a $50 billion bid for Facebook.

Amazon SNS

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) is a web service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and send notifications from the cloud. It provides developers with a highly scalable, flexible, and cost-effective capability to publish messages from an application and immediately deliver them to subscribers or other applications.

How to Find Local Clients for Your Freelance Business

Finding clients is one of the toughest things for most small businesses. Shannon Noack lays out some pointers to find business locally for webdesignledger.com.

Lois van Baarle

Lois van Baarle was born in the Netherlands, but has lived all over the world, including the U.S., Indonesia, France and Belgium. She has drawn her entire life and studied animation at the Utrecht School of the Arts, attaining a European Media Master of Arts. She creates digital illustrations and paintings as well as animation. via sidebar

typographicposters.com

typographicposters.com is a directory of typographic and graphic posters. a passionate project focused on the design community. By André Felipe

FCC Loses 'Net Neutrality' Case

A federal appeals court has ruled that the Federal Communications Commission lacks the authority to require broadband providers to give equal treatment to all Internet traffic flowing over their networks.

Jeff Han

Seems like iPad is all the news outlets can talk about today, I wanted to take a minute and mention it was all because of Jeff Han, who changed the game forever.

What I wish someone told me about freelancing

Elizabeth Gast examines the pitfalls and perils of freelancing, and relays her lessons learned.

Johan Thörnqvist

Johan Thörnqvist adds little cities and characters to photographs with fun results. via Drawn

iPad roundup

The apple iPad is coming this week and here are a few news related stories for your iPad news roundup. David Pogue writes two reviews for the NYTimes, one for techs and one for everyone else. I was interested to learn for the cellular model, (cellular iPads aren’t available until next month) "there’s no contract. By tapping a button in Settings, you can order up a month of unlimited cellular Internet service for $30. Or pay $15 for 250 megabytes of Internet data; when it runs out, you can either buy another 250 megs, or just upgrade to the unlimited plan for the month. Either way, you can cancel and rejoin as often as you want"

Also Apple has posted a list of sites that are iPad ready. And pcworld.com has announced the coming of the official Netflix app coming to apple iPad. "With the Netflix iPad app, you will be able to stream TV shows and movies from the service's catalog of instantly-available titles. It will have similar functionality to the desktop counterpart, allowing you to browse and manage your Netflix queue. It also lets you pick up watching a movie from where you left off on your computer or TV."

Glenn Jones

Glenn Jones is a freelance graphic designer and Illustrator based in Auckland, New Zealand having worked in the design industry for 15 years focusing on packaging, corporate identity and illustration Glenn moved onto T shirt designs

Goole is now Topeka

April 1st, Google has officially changed our name to Topeka.