Today in Design - Top Articles RoundUp 24 July 2014

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  • 10 Easy & Quick Online Mockup Tools That Help You Imagine Anything

    What if you could just think of some­thing, sketch it up, and then start using it lat­er that day? We’re get­ting clos­er to that real­i­ty every minute with the advent of 3D print­ers for home use, drag-and-drop pro­gram­ming, CNC routers becom­ing cheap­er, and oth­er emerg­ing technologies.

    Let’s look at ten tools that can help you design pro­to­types for just about anything.

  • Top 7 Things Clients Do that Frustrate Freelancers
    Freelancing can often be a very pleas­ant expe­ri­ence where you get the oppor­tu­ni­ty to work your own hours, fol­low a pas­sion you like and be your own boss. However, there are moments which make your blood boil beyond any accept­able cook­ing levels…
  • Quitting Facebook For 99 Days: An Experiment In Digital Happiness

    In the wake of the con­tro­ver­sial study released by Facebook that detailed how the social net­work manip­u­lat­ed the news feeds of almost 700,000 users, one orga­ni­za­tion sug­gests that users try their own experiment—quit the site for 99 days.

  • Hidden Mac Features, Tips, And Tricks
    From tak­ing advan­tage of your Mac’s hid­den cal­cu­la­tor, to dis­cov­er­ing the tiny icon that’s been right in front of your face the entire time, we’ve got the most impor­tant tips and tricks covered.
  • What Does The Next Generation Of Women Entrepreneurs Look Like?
    THEY DON’T BELONG TO A SPECIFIC AGE GROUP, THEY’RE IN EVERY INDUSTRY, AND THEIR MOTIVATION MAY SURPRISE YOU.

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    entrepreneurs

  • What Does The Next Generation Of Women Entrepreneurs Look Like?
    THEY DON’T BELONG TO A SPECIFIC AGE GROUP, THEY’RE IN EVERY INDUSTRY, AND THEIR MOTIVATION MAY SURPRISE YOU.

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    entrepreneurs

  • Some real­ly crazy peo­ple made the entire Star Wars movie in Minecraft

    After three years in the mak­ing, the Minecraft ver­sion of Star Wars: A New Hope is almost done. According to the fans mak­ing the movie, the indi­vid­ual sets alone took six months to build—“no mods have been used, just cus­tom tex­tures and art.” Here’s their ver­sion of the orig­i­nal movie trail­er, released in 1977:

  • 18 Creative Uses Of Typography In Video Games
    Video games have also been known to use many forms of typog­ra­phy, to relay atmos­phere or a time­line in the cutscenes or the game­play itself. Its uses are var­ied but with it game-makers can great­ly enhance the expe­ri­ence or gameplay.

  • Browser Wars: Firefox vs. Chrome vs. Opera, The Definitive Benchmark

    If you could only choose one brows­er, which one would it be? Which is best: Firefox, Chrome or Opera? We’ll show you.
    The war between web browsers has become more diverse as Internet Explorer, the for­mer giant of the space, has giv­en up ground. That space has been filled by Chrome, Firefox and Opera, a trio of free com­peti­tors known across the globe.
    You real­ly only need one brows­er, though, and once you choose you’re like­ly to feel locked in as you accu­mu­late plu­g­ins and book­marks. We’ve tak­en a close look at each brows­er to see which comes out on top for a vari­ety of benchmarks.