The day’s best and most important design- and design business-focused articles, tutorials, and resources hand-picked by Pariah Burke.
- Everything You Know about Hashtags is Wrong!
Have you always thought of hashtags as the most annoying phenomenon in the history of social media, refusing to include them even in your informal communication? Or have you been in the other camp, using #hashtags to #commemorate #every #event in #yourlife #farbeyonditsactualorrelativeimportance? I sympathize with the former group myself, having spent most of my Twitter tenure as a hashtag curmudgeon. But, whichever position you align with, I have good news and bad news. The bad: none of you know how hashtags work, and you’re losing important opportunities because of this. The good: you are about to learn everything you never knew about the origins and proper use of the ostentatious octothorpe.
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- How To Draw – a collection of community-contributed tutorials
“How to Draw” is a collection of tutorials that will teach you everything from perspective basics to shading chrome. Never picked up a pencil before? Fear not! From simple line drawings to modern art and easy animations, we’ve got you covered. All projects come from Instructables.com and contain pictures for each step so you can start your masterpiece today!
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- 10 Classic Christmas Stories (Free eBooks)
Get classic Christmas stories for your new Kindle, Kobo, Nook or iPad. They are free to download in ebook format.
- 33 Amazing Gifts for Designers and Creative Pros
Designers can be a difficult-to-buy-for bunch, so I scoured the Web (and my own wish list [hint, hint]) for gifts that help designers do their work, celebrate creativity, and express themselves as creatives. I came up with 33 amazing designer gifts, and another 50 in two additional articles [linked from the main article].
- How To Save Twitter Links To Pocket Or Other Bookmarking Services
Given how often people share links on the micro-blogging network, eventually, that means Twitter turns into a fantastic social-powered list of must-read items. So how do you track and save them them?
- A Beautifully Illustrated History of Mac OS X
The history of OS X started with a bear, not a cat: in September of 2000, Apple presented Kodiak. For 30$, users could purchase this first public Beta of Mac OS 10.
- 5 gorgeous iPhone apps with surprising designs and amazing visuals
hen thousands of paid apps are added to Apple’s App Store every week, presentation becomes a vital tool for success. If a customer is going to spend money on an app, it needs to stand out from the dozens of other apps that perform a similar function, which is why we’ve decided to round up some of the new and recently updated apps that we can’t take our eyes off of.
- 28 Awesome Holiday Gifts for Designers
It’s that time of year again. There’s fun to be had, but for now you’re focused on what gifts to buy. A tough task for many, but it’s especially tricky when it comes to finding that perfect gift for your designer friend or relative. Or maybe yo…
- 28 Awesome Holiday Gifts for Designers
It’s that time of year again. There’s fun to be had, but for now you’re focused on what gifts to buy. A tough task for many, but it’s especially tricky when it comes to finding that perfect gift for your designer friend or relative. Or maybe yo…
- Skype’s newest app will translate your speech in real time
Microsoft’s Skype software will start translating voice calls between people today. As part of a preview program, Skype Translator makes it possible for English and Spanish speakers to communicate in their native language, without having to learn a new one. It sounds like magic , but it’s the result of years of work from Microsoft’s research team and Skype to provide an early working copy of software that could help change the way the world communicates in the future.
- Adobe DPS named by InfoTrends as Leader in Enterprise Digital Publishing Platforms
We are excited to announce that analyst firm InfoTrends, in its latest “Digital Publication Platform Market Overview” report, ranked Adobe Digital Publishing Suite (DPS) as leading the pack of enterprise digital publishing platforms. We believe this recognizes Adobe’s unique ability to deliver the best digital publishing platform to enterprises today.
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- Scrap Your Work From Home Policy
I was recently asked by an HR manager if I had a sample of a policy about working from home. My answer was:
Do you want something more than “Get your work done. Meet your objectives. Do that from wherever you want.”
- 8 Things Bad Designers Need to Hear
I just don’t want to see the same crap I’ve seen a million different times in a hundred different places. I don’t want to create it either. I think, or at least I hope, that all designers aspire to create something from their own original thoug…
- 9 WordPress Plugins To Detect Malicious Code In Your Site
They could possibly filled with malicious code that can easily hack your blog. Sometimes, backlinks to their sites are also added into these themes and a normal user has no idea how to cope with these backlinks. In this post, we’ve gathered 9 effective tools to deal with malicious code in a WordPress theme or website.
- Adobe to Acquire Fotolia: Adds Stock Content Marketplace to Creative Cloud
“The acquisition of Fotolia will reinforce Creative Cloud’s role as the preeminent destination for creatives,” said David Wadhwani, senior vice president, Digital Media, Adobe. “Creative Cloud is becoming the go-to marketplace for the creative community to access images, videos, fonts and creative talent, through critical creative services like Fotolia and our new Creative Talent Search capabilities.”
- Mysterious Russian Malware Is Infecting 100,000+ WordPress Sites, Google Blocking 11k Domains
A Russian malware called SoakSoak has infected over 100,000 WordPress sites since this Sunday, turning blogs into attack platforms. It’s a potential shitshow, and it could’ve been prevented earlier this fall.
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- Stats Show Digital Marketers are “Getting Mugged”
He cites a new study by White Ops (an ad fraud detection firm) that shows “11 percent of traffic purchased may be fraudulent, actually traffic generated by bots (a software application that runs automated, repetitive tasks such as pinging websites
- Learn To Program In Processing: A Language For Visual Designers
If you’re thinking, “But won’t I have to learn math and text manipulation before I can do anything visual?” Well, banish the thought!
Today I’m going to introduce you to a programming language that was created in 2002 with visual designers in mind: it’s called Processing.
This is just one beautiful example of 3D art made by using Processing to create a filament sculpture that explores the properties of filaments and the movement of a 3D printer printhead: - How to Spot & Avoid Bad Web Hosting Companies
So what should you look for when you’re evaluating hosting companies? How can you separate the good from the bad? While it’s not always cut and dry, keeping an eye on all of the following is a tremendous start.
- Why You Should Get A Receipt Every Single Time You Get Gas
Well, I’ve known people who saved them religiously and it benefited them and I’ve known some who ignored receipts and it cost them. One client of mine always got receipts for his gasoline even when he went inside and paid cash for his fuel. One…
- Why Business Cards Still Matter (and How to Effectively Use Yours)
With most business being done digitally, you might think that business cards don’t matter anymore. But they can offer a lot. Here’s why they’re still important for business and how you can get the most out of yours.
- Get Into a Good Workflow Using Video Game Principles as Inspiration
Video games suck you in and hold your attention in a way that’s beyond other mediums. They have a flow, or a way about them that makes you want to keep playing. The visuals, sounds, and interactions are all designed to make you want to play mor…