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100+ We thought we’d do something a bit different for the weekend, because not everybody is actually working during the weekend. And even if we do, we deserve a break from time to time. For just this occasion, we have poured across the four corners of the Web and amassed a collection of retro games to help you make the absolute most of your break time this weekend… and possibly any break time you take
Smashing Magazine Feed • 1 day ago
54 The Normandy region of France, which is North of Paris and lines the English channel, is known for its cream, butter, cheeses, apples, and apple brandy. In this version of Chicken Normandy, or chicken à la normande, we are braising whole chicken legs in apple cider and brandy, and serving them with a sauce made with cooked apples, onions, and cream. Just the thing for the fall. We're using whol
Simply Recipes • 3 days ago
42 It seems like only yesterday that the iPhone 4 was released, but how time flies when you're having fun. With the whole antennagate issue mostly behind us, most folks are just settling down to getting the best out of their shiny new iPhone. After all, its only been around four months since it was released. So, with that in mind, it's hard to believe that talk of the next iPhone is already in circu
The Unofficial Apple Weblog... • 1 day ago
100+ As designers, we have to create an intuitive user experience, solve design problems and provide a beautiful and functional user interfaces. Unlike print design, we don’t have the luxury of designing in a static area; rather, our canvas is ever-changing in its content, browser width, page length and more. We do need to be able to code to some extent and be able to build a design around a structure
Smashing Magazine Feed • 2 days ago
52 In today’s quick tip tutorial, I will show you how to simulate an x-ray image in Photoshop. Let’s get started! Step 1 Take a banana and cut it in half with a very sharp blade and take a photo of it over a white piece of paper. With the pen tool (P) selected, go to the paths window and create a new path that follows the border of the banana. I know there are other several ways to do this, but in
Psdtuts+ • 2 days ago
40 DANT DANT. I just experienced the design blogger's version of the opening scene from Law & Order: I was looking for something else and I stumbled upon a corpse. Matroshka is a design project from 2007 that looked promising and was generating interest and potential customers, then sadly died before seeing production. (Cause of death unknown.) The concept is for a system of space-saving furnitu
Core77 • 2 days ago
Google and TU Braunschweig independently develop self-driving cars
12 There's a Toyota Prius in California, and a VW Passat halfway around the globe -- each equipped with bucket-shaped contraptions that let the cars drive themselves. Following their research on autonomous autos in the DARPA Urban Challenge, a team at Germany's TU Braunschweig let the above GPS, laser and sensor-guided Volkswagen wander down the streets of Brunswick unassisted late last week, and tod
Engadget • by Sean Hollister • 14 hours ago 
Limera1n jailbreaks the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch running iOS 4.0 and 4.1, makes folks very angry in the dev community
8 Looking for an jailbreak for your iPod, iPad or iPhone running iOS 4.1? Your chariot is named limera1n -- assuming you're willing to risk your device on a software developer showdown. The infamous Geohot just upstaged the iPhone Dev Team and Chronic Dev Team by releasing a reportedly buggy beta exploit of his own, which you can find at our download link immediately below. It only works on Windows
Engadget • by Sean Hollister • 15 hours ago 
40 Informative Blogs For Developers and Designers
10 If you are a web designer and you are looking for resources, inspirations, designing tutorials or want to keep yourself updated with the current trends in this field then you don’t need to worry because Internet is full of blogs related to web designing. You will find a huge number of blogs featuring tips, tricks and how-to’s on daily basis. Today we have collected 40 awesomely informative blogs w
1stwebdesigner - Graphic and Web Design Bl... • by Taimur Asghar • 1 day ago 
Pear Tart
14 Simply Recipes guest author Garrett McCord prepared this lovely pear tart for us the other day. Perfect for the season and absolutely addictive. Enjoy! ~Elise There are certain staple recipes every home baker should have in their repertoire: a rich chocolate cake good for any occasion, a go-to cookie for cravings and fund raisers, a tarte tartin for those extravagant dinner parties. Undoubtedly,
Simply Recipes • 1 day ago 
Light Pollution Chart: How Many Stars Can You See?
26 When you step outside into the night air tonight, look up at the sky. Living in the city might be nice, but you're missing a whole lot of scenery up there. Via Gizmodo
GOOD • by Morgan Clendaniel • 1 day ago 
Is Microtask the Future of Work?
10 A Microtask visualization from an animated promo video on the company Crowdsourcing is often used for fairly menial tasks: correcting databases, screening offensive images, transcribing audio. But what if you could make those little bits of human labor even more menial, discrete and interchangeable? That’s what the Finnish company Microtask does. I met with Microtask CEO Wili Miettinen and CTO Ott
Twitter: No Internet Required: Tech News « • by Liz Gannes • 1 day ago 
This Just Inbox: Patrick Hyland's Copper Phone Uses Heat for Power
18 Patrick Hyland is working on creating a "charger-free cell phone future." This means that, in addition to lowering electricity consumption, we won't have to mess with annoying chargers anymore and can stop throwing them away (because we won't have them in the first place). According to Hyland, discarded chargers produce 51,000 tons of waste annually. To address this problem, he's proposed a cel
Core77 • 1 day ago 
9 Free Resources for Learning Photoshop
30 video This post originally appeared on My Life Scoop, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about using social media and technology for a more connected life.If, like most people, you haven’t “layered” since last winter and only “merge” at speeds of 60 mph and over, getting accustomed to the lingo and layout of Photoshop can be daunting. These nine free resources are good places to learn how to
Mashable! • by Sarah Kessler • 1 day ago 
Celebrity Skin: Johnny Depp, Our Ultimate #1 Celebrity Crush of All Time, Rocks
6 video A 9-year old girl in England wrote a letter to Johnny Depp asking Captain Jack Sparrow—Depp's character in Pirates of the Caribbean—to come to her elementary school and help stage a mutiny against the teachers. Well, whaddaya know, Depp showed up, with other cast members in tow. · Johnny Depp thrills in school mutiny [YouTube]
Racked NY • by Danica Lo • 1 day ago 

tech

60 I'll admit it was a problem that I had created myself: I had moved my iTunes library from one computer to another. Then I tried syncing it across two computers. Add in a bunch of music from SXSW, along with other music given to me along the way, and before I knew it, my iTunes library was a 160GB mess. Worse, it was overwhelming. I never listened to any music because I knew that I was going to be
The Unofficial Apple We... • 1 day ago
100+ Mechanics spot strange things stuck under cars all the time, but when 20-year-old Yasir Afifi's ride was put up on lifts his shop found something that hadn't been kicked up from the road: a cylindrical tube connected to a device with an antenna. An extremely paranoid person would think they'd found a bomb, but the truth isn't much better. It was an FBI tracking device. Afifi posted pictures and hi
Engadget • 2 days ago
40 I’ve already built a half-dozen groups on my Facebook profile (groups is a new feature that Facebook announced this morning). In my experience they are Twitter lists done right. Twitter lists always had a lot of promise. Look at my lists. I have lists of venture capitalists. Lists of entrepreneurs. Lists of executives. Lists of journalists. Lists of pundits. Lists of companies. And more. But over
Scobleizer • 3 days ago

style

100+ video Like the Old Spice man, Grover wants to change the way you smell -- so that you can understand "ON." Sesame Street: Smell Like A Monster (Thanks, Dave!) Goodbye Old Spice Guy Old Spice Guy has competition Elder Spice Awesome Sauce AKA Old Spice Library Commercial DIY Old Spice Guy voicemail message generator
Boing Boing • 1 day ago
96 Yasir Afifi is a 20-year-old, US-born American citizen, a California university student. Last week, he found a GPS tracker attached to his car. A friend uploaded a photo of the bug to Reddit, and asked if anyone knew anything about it. 48 hours later, the FBI showed up at his door, announced that the bug was theirs, and asked for it back. The 9th Circuit recently ruled that cops can secretly enter
Boing Boing • 1 day ago
30 The Pano Device is like a computer with nothing inside it. You plug your monitor, keyboard and mouse into the back, but it contains no CPU, no memory, and no software; all of that stuff resides on a Pano Manager server, which hosts the OS and virtualizes it to the Pano Device. So what's inside the thing? Damned if I know, I think if you dropped it and it shattered there'd be little leprechaun bod
Core77 • 2 days ago

web design

100+ video Have you ever thought of what makes you remember a certain movie or TV show? Of course, it’s the story being told, you’ll say. But what about movies such as Goldfinger, Seven and Snatch? What’s the first thing that comes to mind? We are pretty sure their opening title sequences stick out for many of you.Today we’ll take a closer look at that short space of time between the moment the lights go dow
Smashing Magazine Feed • 3 days ago
100+ As designers who deal with clients, we all have to face one situation, no matter how difficult and uncomfortable, and that is guiding the client to accept that your design is perfect. Now, you already have the project, so this is not a matter of convincing them to pick you for the job. This is about getting them to see that your design satisfies their requirements and contains everything they want
Smashing Magazine Feed • 5 days ago
100+ Websites and Web applications have become progressively more complex as our industry’s technologies and methodologies advance. What used to be a one-way static medium has evolved into a very rich and interactive experience.But regardless of how much has changed in the production process, a website’s success still hinges on just one thing: how users perceive it. “Does this website give me value? Is
Smashing Magazine Feed • 5 days ago

green

30 Pennsylvania  is set to unveil North America’s largest green wall installation tomorrow! The extraordinary vegetated wall is installed at the Longwood Garden’s new East Conservatory Plaza. The hallway’s radius creates an endless façade of ferns, and the expansive skylights flood the space with light to create an indoor green utopia. The system acts like a green lung for the new facility, and it wa
INHABITAT • 1 day ago
38 Nothing says “it’s time to get away” better than a packed suitcase – so when we spotted this awesome chair made from a recycled suitcase we couldn’t help but be enamored. Part of an extraordinary range of furniture designed by green enthusiast Katie Thomspon, the suitcase chair is made from an old Samsonite suitcase, a steel reinforced internal structure, upholstered linen and turned timber legs.
INHABITAT • 2 days ago
44 What if charging your cell phone was as easy as sticking it in your pocket for a few hours? That’s the premise of the Nokia E-Cu concept phone, developed by British designer Patrick Hyland. Hyland’s Nokia E-Cu (E for environment, Cu for Copper) phone features a copper exterior and a thermogenerator integrated interior that converts heat energy into electric energy. Read the rest of New Nokia
INHABITAT • 2 days ago

gaming

It's another one of those wonderful weeks here at the Weekly Webcomic Wrapup laboratories, where we have so many good strips to choose from that we have a hard time whittling the list down to seven. What do we do when we have a hard time with something? We give up, of course! Which is great news for you, because, hey, more comics. Check out the nine high-quality gaming-related strips below, and v
Joystiq • 9 hours ago
6 indiePub Games, a community of independent game developers and gamers, recently announced the winners of its third Independent Game Developers' Competition at GDC Online in Austin. Selected from hundreds of original game entries, the Hitbox Team has been selected as the Grand Prize Winner for its 2D platformer, Dustforce!, and will receive $100,000 and a publishing deal with Zoo Games. Five runner
IndieGames.com - The We... • 1 day ago
10 video 8bits fanatics (developers of Challenge from Kiyoshi) recently released a new trailer for their upcoming Xbox Live Indie Games project. Called Tenpura of the Dead, it features two main characters who I presume can be switched at the press of a button to access their unique weaponry and abilities. The objective of the game is to save the United States from being overrun by an army of zombies, which
IndieGames.com - The We... • 3 days ago

cooking

100+ One of the most frequent requests I get is for is to organize a category of recipes that freezes well, or can be packed up and brought to new parents with bigger (er, tinier) things on their agenda than stirring pots. And you’d think I’d be an expert on this, having been in their shoes just one year ago but I never bothered. New York City is not a place where you have to stock your freezer to get
smitten kitchen • 3 days ago
42 Sometimes it's hard to explain all the little obstacles that come along with being an ex-pat. Having to leave all friends and family behind, all contacts and all resources to start a new life somewhere else. I came into this country with two suitcases, one filed with clothes, the other with books and CDs. All my possessions, or so I thought at that time.I suppose those were indeed all my possessio
Cannelle et Vanille • 5 days ago
40 Do you like roasted red bell peppers? You should try them in a pasta sauce! Here's a wonderful roasted bell pepper pasta sauce from the king of sauces himself, Hank Shaw. ~Elise This is a pasta sauce I came up with when I recently spent a night working the pasta station at Grange restaurant in Sacramento for Chef Michael Tuohy. It is a Spanish-inspired sauce of roasted red peppers, plenty of g
Simply Recipes • 5 days ago

celebrities

8 Filed under: Movie News, Cinematical Potterheads looking forward to reaching out and grasping the golden snitch from their movie seats are about to be severely disappointed. According to Variety, Warner Bros. has scrapped plans to release 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I' in 3-D on Nov. 19, opting instead for a conventional 2-D and Imax format. However, the studio said that 'Part II
Cinematical • 1 day ago
20 Filed under: Movie News, CinematicalHalloween is still a few weeks away, but it looks like Johnny Depp is starting the party a bit early this year. According to the UK's Daily Mail, the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' star made a surprise visit to a local London school Tuesday, dressed head-to-toe as Capt. Jack Sparrow. The reason? To respond to a letter from nine-year-old student Beatrice Delap, who
Cinematical • 2 days ago
10 [Photo: WENN.com]FRANCOIS-HENRY PINAULT: Well. Now we know, right?SALMA HAYEK: Now we know what?FRANCOIS-HENRY: Two things, I guess.SALMA: WHICH TWO THINGS, F-H? Why do we always have to play these esoteric, vague games? Is it because you're French?F-H: Oui.SALMA: Well, now that we've got that settled, what are the two things?F-H: A) That Rebecca Hall WAS wearing a jumpsuit, and, B) that there IS
GoFugYourself • 3 days ago

finance

22 I often brew homemade beer. It’s an enjoyable hobby that allows me to sometimes use items from my garden and gets me deeply in touch with the natural process of making a homecrafted beer. I have complete control over the ingredients and can make whatever variation seems good to me with whatever ingredients seem flavorful to me. Plus, it makes a really cool gift for someone who appreciates a good
The Simple Dollar • 1 day ago
14 This is a guest post from Joseph D’Agnese who, with his wife Denise Kiernan, wrote The Money Book for Freelancers, Part-Timers, and the Self-Employed, which sets forth a personal finance system for people with not-so-regular jobs. You can follow them on Twitter: @The_Money_Book. Hey you! Yeah, you hunched over the smart phone. How about giving the opposable thumbs a rest and joining the real world
Get Rich Slowly • 2 days ago
28 One topic I’m frequently asked about by readers is the idea of the “percentage budget,” something that seems to largely come from Elizabeth Warren’s book All Your Worth, which I reviewed previously. In the book, Warren proposes a very simple budget for people to follow, based on percentages of their take-home income. + 50% of one’s income should go to required expenses: housing, food, utilities,
The Simple Dollar • 2 days ago
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