p.s. the music is terrible!

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It seems as though Steve Jobs’ last project was the iPhone 5. An inside source has been disclosing the details and it all seems understandable.

The iPhone 4S was not a major rework of the iPhone, it was just a tech spec upgrade. Jobs was working on the iPhone 5 which we will probably see at Apple’s next Developer conference.

via – Cnet

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The external airbags may be a silly idea, but we do like the other part of the design: an LED warning system that lets other drivers know when they’re getting too close.

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The new design is currently in place on Amazon.com, but is still yet to launch in other countries. It will be interesting to see if users like the sleaker and more basic design.

What do you think?

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As you can see from the image everything has been simplified and pastel-ised from a colour point of view. I’m a big fan of the design as it makes everything a lot more appealing to the eye and draws away from the ugly blue links for every entry.

What do you think?

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Fences found here is a simple program that you download and install and then  your desktop looks brand new. Fences allows you to make boxes on your desktop to organize you files and folders. You can label each box and make it as big or as small as you would like. It also has a couple prebuilt boxes so if you don’t wanna make a design it will do it for you. Another cool features is that if anything ever happens to your desktop you could restore it if you saved it prior. It does any auto save before fences is installed. One way it helps you is if you double click on your desktop it will hide all the icons and boxes. You can choose which boxes/files you do and don’t wanna hide. The last neat feature is that you can change the color of the boxes and even the transparency. All in all if you  desktop is messy your gonna want this. There is a free version and a paid but I am fine with the free version since the paid doesn’t offer much else.

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Here is some great design inspiration for any of our web design readers out there.

Forced perspective is a technique that employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is. It is used primarily in photography, filmmaking and architecture. It manipulates human visual perception through the use of scaled objects and the correlation between them and the vantage point of the spectator or camera.

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Social Media business changed significantly with the growth of Facebook, forcing companies to use this social network to extend their business. And if we want to get Facebook’s users attention we will need something more than just a simple page of our company and/or startup.

Pagemodo provides a simple way to accomplish this by giving us all the necessary tools, with an easy method to embed images and instant publication. The site also includes paid versions (starting from $9 per month) with the possibilities to embed video, live support and with the feature of Google Analytics to be included soon.

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Even though there’s no golden rule about how to correctly design your website, there are several best practices that should not be avoid. One of them is “tableless”:  A design technique for dividing the architecture of our site separating content and design. Therefore the maintenance costs of the website are reduced.

W3tableless will show you with just one click and completely free if your website is using this best practices. Just enter the URL and click on “CHECK”.

We will receive also a complete report about the website: Number of DIV tags, TABLE tags, Encoding, XML Prolog, etc.

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The Google OS for mobile devices is the most used operating system in smart phones… yes, even more than iPhone OS. And the market share estimated for the next few years says that this tendency won’t change; so if you were thinking about mobile apps design you better start with Android.

DroidDraw also offers free tutorials to understand this free tool and some nice guidelines and tips.

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You can download directly from here (150mb).

This set contains not only the most important social media icons which you can use, but also provides nine different sizes (from 16 up to 512 pixels), four different formats (PNG, PSD, AI and ICO), three different states (normal, enabled and disabled); and a mobile version.

You were expecting something else?

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The social media icons are provided by BlackSmith and you can find for Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, YouTube, digg, Reddit, Delicious, etc. Download the entire set from here.

And the black set for Twitter, provided by iconhive, is definitely my favorite ones; which are available for Windows and Mac. Download from here for the Windows version; and this link for Mac.

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We can find the complete list of anything you would like to use in your site, blog or application. Including of course: Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Technorati, RSS Feeds, Stumbleupon, sharethis, etc.

Download the entire set from this link.

Enjoy!

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Creativity is a key factor when we are discussing designs in web apps, blogs or sites. And the use of an interesting and innovating company logo is the presentation card for every business. Logoease provides a simple way of creating your own logo in 3 simple steps:

1. Select your base image.
2. Customize it. Change color, forms, rotation, etc.
3. Download it.

All the customization is very intuitive; you don’t need to be a designer to achieve a good result. You will receive various electronic files for both web and print use including the vector source files. File formats include eps, png, jpg and tiff.

And yes, all completely free.

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The categories we can find are: gallery and portfolio themes, themes for bloggers, e-Commerce WordPress themes, clean themes, magazine-style themes, minimal themes, mobile themes; pre-launch themes; and finally “Themes That Take WordPress Beyond.”

Take a look to the complete list here. More samples:

We’ve also announces earlier a different set of 100 Premium Themes available, published by Graphic Alerts.

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We can find “standard” resolution wallpapers from 1280×800, up to some high quality ones with 2560×2048. Make your pick here.

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Here’s the complete list (posted from Graphic Alerts).

There are plenty here I really love, like Frezhnyer, Masipag, Imagination, Monstic Creative WordPress Theme, etc.

Make your pick and enjoy!

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They can then add notes and feedback to the document using the simple ‘note tool’ which involves you just clicking on where you want to add your feedback on the document.

The thing I liked most about Apollo was how you can select exactly where on the document you want to add the note instead of describing it to the other person.

The interface is very easy-to-use and has only the basic tools you need to give or receive feedback. To but it bluntly, there’s no excess fat to get in the way.

To sum up, this is a great web app for freelancers and large companies alike. It streamlines what used to be a very tedious process involving countless e-mails between all those involved.

Check it out here.

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Axess.im is an amazingly intuitive site where just a little bit if knowledge can go a long way. It takes some general understanding of site design and coding, but the ease of being able to publish your content and even get a customized name attached to it seems to be where this web apps excels. Just going to the homepage of this site, I thought I was going to see something cheaply done with little follow through on return. I was surprised.

The site allows for original hand coding to be done and encourages you to preview your work. Don’t like the HTML coding window, then switch to standard view where you get what looks like an MS Word tab at the top with buttons to include various forms of media. This makes it extremely user friendly.

I find it surprising that templates are offered yet, thought it’s shared that they are coming soon. Nevertheless, with just text and media alone, you are able to quickly create a page that can be shared as soon as you hit publish. No messing with DNS changes, domain purchases, or email accounts. A web app like this would be useful in quickly sharing a resume, displaying artwork and videos for others to view, and creating a one stop shop for everyone to see what you do in a quick and dirty kind of way.

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The XBOX Elegant edition which will be out shortly features a new layout and a new (regularly shaped!) exterior made from aluminium. It’s bulkier than the previous incarnation but at least it looks better than it.

The reason why it’s bulkier is because it has extra cooling features which can help prevent the Red Ring of Death.

Bad News: I did some serious digging around and every major tech blog is stumped when it comes to finding out how. Also, nobody is 100% sure where the original picture came from. But it does appear to be real and the second when we have details – I’ll post an update.

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It’s true. I’m not a blogger and I do tweet a lot. That’s why I’m about to place an order for a t-shirt that says exactly that from Threadless.com. They have just opened up a new twitter branch of their website that takes popular, funny and strange tweets and makes t-shirts out of them. Pretty cool ones I might add.

Basically, people submit tweets to them or they find the tweets. If they think they’re funny or interesting they’ll make a cool t-shirt out of them. The price of a t-shirt is $18 before shipping and their available in sizes from small to Extra Extra Large for our small or large tweeters. They’re also available in both man and women sizes.

I think it’s a cool idea. There are hundreds and thousands of people using Twitter every singe day and I’m sure that a proportion of them are as nerdy as me and as such will see it fit to buy several T-Shirts that say “140 is the new 420”.

There is also a chance to make some cash. If you nominate a tweet that gets printed you can get your hands on $140. Furthermore, if you submit your own tweet that gets printed you will make $500. Not bad for a little bit of tweeting. Below are a couple of my favourite tees I seen at Threadless.

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Moogoo is the quick choice to take when it comes to design easy and very acceptable websites and it only takes a few moments to complete. You will have several options to add different type of functionality to your site, so it won’t be the same static content. Besides doing all the design work, you can find more features:

• Free option available and with interesting features.
• Payed option includes the completeme management of the website.
• Registered domain names supported. That means if you have your own domain name, like mycompany.com, you will have support to migrate the website to your own domain without having any type of problems.
• Features that you can use in your website: News, photo albums, blogs, events, quick polls, statistics, search engine, etc.
• Web base e-mail option available.

To check on more features available, check this link.

As an important note, the payed versions are two: Personal ($4.99) and Business ($14.99). Not bad, right?

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To help you out with the design, we at Crenk have put together 17 new wordpress themes that we believe, will rock your personal blog. Read on.

Creative Art

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Masinop

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Nouice

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Scruffy

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Vigilance

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Simply

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WGrey

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Simple Pro

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Simple Changes

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Reviews Theme

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ProudBlack

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Modicus Remix

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Modern

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LightWeight

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IAMWW W2 DnD

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Bright Spring

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Elegance

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So that ends the list. I hope you liked it, if that’s so, show me some love and Digg it

(By) An avid freelance writer and technology enthusiast, Keshav Khera is young geek from India. Fanatic about the web, he also writes a blog and makes unsuccessful efforts to avoid twitter.

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This tiny Mac only piece of software will show you distance and angles shown your screen, perfect for web developers needing to know how wide something is to fit a proper graphic in. Prior to using this tool, I used to screen grab a site, open in Photoshop and then crop down to determine the distance. Now all of this is gone!

Anyone who does web or graphic design work should give PixelStick a try, and it’s totally for free. The only requirement is Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

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