Design Applications High in Demand
Designers are one of the most sought after professionals today. Even in these times of economic turmoil, buyers across the world...
Designing Tips for Web Designers
A good website is always simple, intuitive to use with easy navigation and one that attracts users to visit it again and again. It...
5 Mistakes Web Content Writers Should Avoid
Web content writers are always in high demand and play a very important role in online marketing. There is no dearth of jobs for...
10 Useful Free Resources for Designers
Designers are always on a look out for useful resources and applications that can give a boost to their creative potential. We...
A Primer on the CSS Font Shorthand Property
This article describes how the css font shorthand property is used, how it can be misused, and what potential drawbacks there...
New Adobe Flash Betas Overview
It seems new Adobe Flash Catlayst and Flash Builder 4 software is a godsend for non-coding designers. But was the goal of...
30 Inspiring Dark and Sleek Web Designs
The skilled use of color gradients, lighting and glow effects, and details such as inset pixel dividers can lead to a gorgeous and...
All about website preloaders
Learn how to generate a preloader and look through a collection of most creative Flash preloaders picked by FlashMoto.
Top Trends For Flash Sites
Learn actual Flash design tendencies to stay up to date and get more profit from your flash projects. Add useful information to...
8 Most Creative Papervision3D Websites
It's a collection of most incredible Papervision3D works. Enjoy unique ideas and stainless techniques authors put to their...
Top-secret Microsoft prototype phone stolen
Microsoft was in panic on Wednesday after a prototype phone loaded with top-secret software created to rival Apple's iPhone was...
A $99 iPhone? It could be coming this summer
MSNBC: Apple may be planning an "entry-level" $99 iPhone, one that would look and feel the same as its $199 and $299 siblings, but...
Mozilla reveals plans for Firefox 3.2
Mozilla is planning to include simple-text commands and desktop web apps in the next version of Firefox.
Firefox 3.2 will see...
Tech layoffs up nearly 75 percent in 2008
Job cuts in the tech sector increased 74.2 percent in 2008 compared with the previous year, as the industry was battered by an...
Better JPEG standard due in 2009
CNET: JPEG XR, an image format created by Microsoft that promises a number of advantages over JPEG, has cleared a key...
Apple Awarded iPhone and Multi-Touch Patent
MacRumors: Perhaps adding teeth to Apple's recent comments that they would vigorously defend their intellectual property behind...
White House Tech More Tired Than Wired
Wired: Obamamac
Prior to his inauguration, Barack Obama was, without a doubt, eagerly anticipating taking his seat in the Oval...
Yahoo names software exec Bartz as new CEO
SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc. named technology veteran Carol Bartz as its new chief executive Tuesday, bringing in a no-nonsense...
SmashingMagazine
Awesome graphical resource. Just bumped into it. You'll find a lot of good stuff here.
Apple and the peril of innovation
Now that Apple has announced that it is pulling out of Macworld after its 2009 event, during which Steve Jobs won't be making a...
Most Popular Free Mac Downloads of 2008
We've featured gobs of great Mac freeware over the course of the year—now it's time to check out the best. Keep reading for a...
60 Beautiful Christmas Photoshop Tutorials
In this post, we present 60 beautiful Christmas Photoshop tutorials. You’ll learn how to design Christmas trees, snow globes,...
Firefox Adds Multitouch Gestures for Macs
The latest beta version of Mozilla's Firefox browser brings built-in support for the multitouch trackpads on modern Mac notebooks....
Web site-based crimeware hits all-time high
The use of malware on Web sites to steal passwords and other sensitive information is skyrocketing, according to a new report from...
Happy Birthday, Mouse!
Wired celebrates the 40th anniversary of the unveiling of the first computer mouse on December 9th, 1968.
Computer...
50 Most Beautiful Icon Sets Created in 2008
Icons is everywhere on the web. In most modern designs it is used to not only complete our design but also to attract the user’s...
Adobe has released CS4
Design across media with Adobe Creative Suite 4
Adobe Creative Suite 4 delivers tightly integrated software and services that...
Inside Windows 7
It's no secret that the PC world was less than blown away with Windows Vista. Buggy applications and other complications sent...
Gettings Started with CSS 3
Webmonkey: If you follow CSS, you're probably sick of hearing promises of CSS 3 -- the next generation style sheet language that...
Google's Knol
Wikipedia rival? "Welcome to Knol. A knol is an authoritative article about a specific topic."
Web site design flaws make banking riskier
MSNBC: Study found design flaws in 76 percent of the 214 U.S. banking sites. Many U.S. banks are unwittingly training their...
Get Started With WordPress
Webmonkey: Back when blogging was just catching on, a small PHP-based publishing system was quietly released and quickly took the...
22 iPhone Apps for Science Geeks
Wired: It's going to take some time for the amazing science apps, like the ones we envisioned last month, to appear on the iPhone,...
iPhone 3G: Initial reaction
ZDNet: I’ve had my iPhone 3G for about two hours, not enough time to do anything resembling a review, but I wanted to blog some...
Windows XPiration is at hand
Windows XP, R.I.P. — at least for most buyers of new PCs.
On Monday, Microsoft will stop selling copies of the operating...
Bill Gates Moves On...
Yahoo News: It is almost unthinkable that any one human could pick up where Bill Gates leaves off when he ends his full-time...
2008 Design Trends
WebDesignerWall.com: About a year ago, I compiled a huge list of artistic sites. It seems like the trend has carried on in 2008...
16 Sites for Web Design Inspiration
Six Revisions: A while back I wrote "Where to Go to Find Design Inspiration", where I listed some of my favorite places to peruse...
Apple Buys Me.com
Earlier today, John Gruber of DaringFireball.net suggested that Me.com might be the name for Apple's .Mac rebranding. There was no...
Adobe takes on the Office suites
CNET's Charles Cooper and Elsa Wenzel discuss the new beta release of Adobe Acrobat, which will compete with Microsoft and Google.
Web Monkey is Back!!
Our old friends over at webmonkey.com (one of the original web developer resources) have resurrected their site featuring...
Free Stock Images
Hundreds of high-quality free images for your use - 20 categories of images, from BigStockPhoto. For web pages, ads, whatever.
File Sharing Comes to the iPhone
It's been a long time coming but there is finally a file sharing application for the iPhone and iPod touch. This is a sea-change...
Tech's 10 worst entry-level jobs
Soon America's most bright-eyed graduates will enter the workforce and make their workaday homes in cubes at Google, MySpace, or...
7 useful tools for evaluating a web design
An effective web design is one in which your users are able to find information quickly and in a logical fashion.
Do they visit...
Cool Vintage and Retro Designs
Retro and vintage designs are often considered as being outdated, looking old, unattractive and dull. That’s not true. Although...
HTML 5 Support by Browser
The future of the web is fast approaching. The specifications for HTML 5, the successor to today's HTML 4, are still in the draft...
Registry Fees for Domains to Increase
Internet services company VeriSign Inc. said registry fees for .com and .net domain names would increase as per its agreements...
Mozilla: Firefox 3 Will Ship in June
The final release of Firefox 3 is due in June, the company said Wednesday during a roundtable discussion with a small group of...
Adobe Unleashes Photoshop Free-for-All
Adobe, the maker of Photoshop, has put a scaled-down set of editing tools online for free use. The user can upload up to 2 GB of...
Best of Adobe Photoshop Video Tutorials
We’ve searched through dozens of video-sites, forums, articles, blogs, portfolios and communities. And we selected 80 excellent...
Verizon Creating 100G Network by 2009
If you'll recall, the IEEE gave the all important thumbs up to 100G as the next Ethernet speed, and while we've seen such a...
Disney to Reap $1 Billion Online
The Walt Disney Co. expects to collect $1 billion in revenue from online content this fiscal year, a significant rise from...
Mozilla releases Firefox 3.0 beta 4
The fourth beta of the Firefox 3.0 browser was released Monday and includes more than 900 enhancements over the previous beta,...
Aperture 2.0 Released
It's hard to believe that over two years have passed since Aperture's launch. It seems like only yesterday that I was fielding...
2008 Logo Design Trends
Logos are the ultimate mark of distinction and everyone loves them. We see logos everyday - on the highways, on consumer goods, on...
Yahoo pays $160M for online video service
Undeterred by the threat of hostile takeover, slumping Internet pioneer Yahoo Inc. completed an acquisition of its own Tuesday by...
'Net neutrality' bill introduced
A Democratic lawmaker on Wednesday proposed legislation to stop network providers from playing traffic cop on the...
Yahoo Design Innovation Team Axe
The entire Yahoo Design Innovation Team, aka yHaus, has been axed en masse, Portfolio.com has confirmed with one of the team's...
8 Web Design Mistakes That Developers Make
An excellent website takes a particularly savvy blend of both great design and great code. Because of this, you often find...
Microsoft bids $44.6 billion for Yahoo
In its response, Yahoo called the Microsoft bid "unsolicited" but did not reject it.
Microsoft's offer, which was contained in...
MacBook Air vs. Sony Vaio
As my colleague Dan Frakes discussed, the MacBook Air is all about tradeoffs, even if Apple doesn’t present it as such. As Dan...
'MacBook Air' unveiled at Macworld
The incredible thinness of MacBook Air is the result of numerous size- and weight-shaving innovations. From a slimmer hard drive...
Hilarious Photoshop Tutorial
A hilarious Photoshop tutorial with a highly creative and funny designer who makes us all ask, "Why didn't I think of that?"
Firefox 3 beta 2 Available
Mozilla fans can now download Firefox 3 beta 2 for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux.
The new version sports a wide range of...
Warner Backs Blu-Ray. Is HD-DVD Dead?
In response to consumer demand, Warner Bros. Entertainment will release its high-definition DVD titles exclusively in the Blu-ray...
MS Office for Mac vs. Office for Windows
After numerous delays, Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 will arrive just in time for an official launch at Macworld in San Francisco....
473 Helpful Links for Web Designers
Great site featuring useful links regarding ajax, blogs, colors, CSS, flash, fonts, forums, photos, generators, graphic sources,...
Best Mac software of 2007
The year 2007 might be one of the biggest years for Apple in recent memory. Certainly a lot of great products have been released...
30 Delightful Graphic Design Books
I have probed the web for the most highly recommended and best-selling graphic design related books that can inspire and help you...
15 Tips to Help with Typography
Many people have asked me which text type is best for a magazine, a newspaper, a poster, a newsletter, a publication, etc. In...
9 Essential Principles for Good Web Design
Web design can be deceptively difficult. Getting a design that is both usable and pleasing, delivers information and builds brand,...
Color and Typography in Good Design
Typography is a significant issue for designers. On many projects, finding just the right font, size, spacing, etc. can require...
10 Great Web Site Designs/Redesigns of 2007
Webware: These are some of our favorite new designs, and redesigns from 2007. We don't often blog about outstanding design as much...
The Future of Style
W3C: The Future of Style aggregates posts from various blogs that talk about the development of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) [not...
The Year in Tech: Top 2007 News and Trends
ABC: Legal tussles, format wars, and (of course) the iPhone dominated technology news in 2007. Here are the biggest tech headlines...
US Army Adds Macs To Improve Security
The US Army's Apple program to bring more Macs into military facilities is being led by Jonathan Broskey, a former Apple employee...
10 best Firefox extensions of 2007
CNet: Somebody schooled in zen philosophy once said that there are as many Firefox extensions as there are grains of sand on the...
The 23 Best iTunes Add-ons
Lifehacker - iTunes may not be the best media player on the market, but let's face facts: with its tight integration with our...
Apple & Think Secret Settle Lawsuit
PRESS RELEASE: Apple and Think Secret have settled their lawsuit, reaching an agreement that results in a positive solution for...
Apple's new Christmas Ad
Apple is featuring a new Christmas themed 'Get a Mac' advertisement on the front page of their website at Apple.com.
The new ad...
30 Years of LucasFilm Christmas Cards
/film: "I live down the street from LucasFilm, and I’ve even been in the facilities in The Presidio, but I’m not on the...
Why do Apple customers care so much?
The question inevitably comes up when I meet people and they learn I write about Apple for a living: "So, what's that like?"
I...
Top 10 New and Improved Apps of 2007
When it comes to new technology, 2007's destined to be remembered as "The Year of the iPhone"—but a whole lot more went on in...
Blizzard confirms new MMOG
It's been assumed for quite some time that Blizzard Entertainment is working on a new massively multiplayer online game. In April,...
Best of CSS Design 2007
For those who don’t know, I’m also the guy behind Best Web Gallery and N.Design Studio. In 2006, I started Best Web Gallery as...
Hacking in the Real World
An interesting article regarding design and problems in the real world - "There is a prevailing attitude amongst creators that it...
Tech Design with Thought
CNET: If anyone knows a thing or two about designing for human-computer interaction, it's Don Norman, professor at Northwestern...
Microsoft launches Exchange Server 2007 SP1
CNET: Microsoft on Friday launched Service Pack 1 for Windows Exchange Server 2007. Features include additions to the Exchange...
20 Horrible Habits of Clients
A common list of issues designers have to deal with while working with clients on projects and how to avoid or solve those issues...
Is Good Design Just a Formula?
"Are trends just the lazy way to design? Each new wave of “cool” brings a new wave of cookie-cutter designs. Is the art of...
Top 50 Logo Design Tutorials
Some good stuff for all the logo designers... logo design appears easy but doing it right is difficult. If you don't understand...
Understanding Web Design @ ALA
We get better design when we understand our medium. Yet even at this late cultural hour, many people don’t understand web...
Mac Hack Attacks Exposed as Hoaxes
A McAfee security researcher Tuesday warned that a self-proclaimed Mac user had hacked and defaced two Mac fan sites for......
CHP Cool NEWS Launched!
Finally! A one-stop source for web designer news - here at CHP. We need help from users.. post a news bit when you see new...
Google Custom Search goes global
Google's hosted search service for business users has been extended worldwide for the first time.
Previously available only in...
Apple Releases Final Cut Express 4
MacRumors: Apple has released Final Cut Express 4 today. Apple describes the new version as a "significant upgrade" to the...
Mozilla's Firefox 3 beta is out
Underexposed: A few months later than had been planned, Mozilla released on Monday night the first beta version of an overhauled...
Vonage Loses $120 Million Appeal to Verizon
Bloomberg: "Vonage Holdings Corp., the unprofitable Internet phone service provider, must pay $120 million to end a patent lawsuit...
Comcast Sued Over BitTorrent Blocking
Wired: "A California man filed suit in state court Tuesday against internet service provider Comcast, arguing that the company's...
USB 3.0 to be 10 times faster than 2.0
Intel and other companies have formed a group to promote the USB 3.0, which should deliver more than ten times the speed of the...