TemplateMonster are celebrating the 4th of July with a huge giveaway.
First is the holiday lottery. But not just a lottery but a really fun lottery. The world is buzzing about the upcoming President elections in the U.S. and we thought it would be great to play around this event. That is why we hold [...]

As promised earlier today, I’ve released the “Red Three” theme over at Desktop Vibes. Head over and check it out, I’m hoping you enjoy using the theme just as much as I have over the past 12 months.

I’ve been thinking abut the way I use the computer a lot over the past seven days. A majority of thinking has gone into the process so far and as the week has past, I’ve noticed developing trends regarding which applications I’m using most frequently.
While a switch to a MacBook Air may or may not [...]

From where I’m standing, Twitter is increasingly becoming a means of communication for many creative professionals in doing different things throughout the day - ranging from updating contacts with what they’re doing, direct messaging friends with quick messages instead of an email, and sending/receiving links to newly posted media on the web.
I’ve been mulling over [...]

Malcor. Most of you probably know that name by now. No, Malcor wasn’t real. Malcor wasn’t me. Malcor was created by the guys behind MacHeist. Here’s the story.
The whole idea of Malcor was to lead up into the MacHeist 2 story-line and first mission with a buzz. The guys really wanted to make season two [...]

On the back of an article I read recently via Khoi Vinh’s archives at Subtraction, I’m taking on the much needed task of de-cluttering one of the most important information sources in my daily realm, RSS feeds.
Over the past few months since my last cleanup I’ve accumulated hundreds of new feeds, picking up more and [...]

Yes - I was indeed hacked yesterday. I didn’t expect it to stir up so much conversation in the community. The Digg homepage piece contains over 450 comments, a number which is very rarely achieved on an Apple related Digg piece.
I’d like to quickly thank all the people who have sent me emails offering words [...]

As Apple has become more involved with mobile media, they’ve developed a strong connection with Google integrating YouTube into their line of products. The integration of YouTube they’ve mapped in on the iPhone, iPod touch and the Apple TV is impressive - their connection with Google has increased in strength and reach as the year [...]

Just a few quick notes which don’t warrant a full post of their own, but I wanted to make a quick mention of.
I’ve sat down with a few other Mac fanatics and recorded the first episode of the MacFocus podcast. The team of Nick Danforth, Alex Killpatrick, Wesley Yendrys and myself produced the first podcast [...]

While keeping an eye on Twitter updates via Twitterrific today, I stumbled across an excellent web application called Wakoopa. Weird name huh? What’s it all about?
When signing up to the service you’re prompted to download the desktop client for either Mac OSX or Windows (the Linux version is current a work in progress). This client [...]

I’ve finally managed to get my feet of the ground and launch the video show I’ve been talking about for a few weeks now.
My main goal with this show is to involve you, the community, in the general art of content creation. I’ll be creating videos from user submitted questions. That means if you [...]

The latest web application in the spotlight called Pownce was launched by a crew of four comprised of Kevin Rose, Leah Culver, Shawn Allen and Daniel Burka last week. Initial comments from on-lookers have been both rather skeptic, and rather ecstatic. I’m part of the second group, Pownce is everything a Twitter user could wish [...]

Unlike many others, I haven’t been with Digg since its inception in 2003. I’ve been a member of the worlds largest social bookmarking site since August 14, 2005. Since then I have submitted 174 stories, with a success rate of 24% from my 42 homepage stories.
Almost two years of my short life have been accomplished [...]

NewsFire just bounced an informed me of a few new articles, one of those was by Honda Wang from Macteens, “Safari On Windows? Why?” I just read the article through and though I’d state my opinion on one of the reasons they ported Safari to the darkside.
Look in the top right corner of your browser, [...]

I thought I’d write a quick post thanking Jason McVearry and the great people at Media Temple for their excellent service over the past 6 months. I received an email from Jason a couple of weeks ago letting me know that they have made my account a “no-charge” zone, meaning I’m getting my Grid-Server hosting [...]

I’ve been asked many times in the past about what ads I’m running on my blog. Many have emailed me complementing the “beautiful style” of the ads which “don’t look like ads at all”. I thought I’d post a little blurb to save others from having to ask the same question.
Question: What ad service do [...]

I would estimate at least half of people who read blogs aren’t experiencing the blogosphere to its fullest. These people sit behind their feed reader which is stocked with hundreds of feeds, and let the news come to them 24/7.
Letting the news arrive to your desktop is the point of a feed-reader, but it breaks [...]

Everyone is different, and has a different set of unique tools they enjoy using over the internet. I try and keep the web services I use to a minimal amount, so anything which makes it into my bag of tools has to be truly impressive.
Digg. I love Digg, it’s a great place to keep up [...]

Update: I’ve decided to change my plan of attack, and lighten the load a little. Blog comments & Flickr activity now get directed into my RSS reader.
A few weeks ago I changed all my social web accounts to send emails to me when activity happened on my profiles/accounts. My volume of email has increased, but [...]

Twitter is one of the latest and most popular Web services for the masses. The basic object of Twitter is to let people know what you are doing, in order to eliminate the dreaded message saying “What’s up” over IM.
This morning I stumbled across a website via Technorati called Twitterholic. Twitterholic basically scans the Twitter [...]

Gravatar, the extremely popular globally recognized avatar system is back online after been down for months, and causing some users to think it might have died a silent web death.
Registration is now open for the new 2.0 Public Beta. Previously registered members don’t need to sign up for a new account and can continue using [...]

I’ve been wanting to start a blog based around Macintosh applications for a long time, as no other blog has covered this niche too well in the past. With MacApper, myself along with my crew of contributing authors aim to fill that niche, and offer top quality Mac software reviews, previews, interviews, tips and giveaways [...]

The list of Web 2.0 sites is so extensive, there are now hundreds of sites labeled with the “Web 2.0″ tag out there now, and that number is growing by the day.

Go2Web20 is an awesome little Web 2.0 directory. They have listings of all the different sites and services currently out there, and allow you [...]

Dont like the new Photoshop CS3 icon? Replace it with Susumu’s new icons.

Want to create and customize your own themes for use in RapidWeaver? Then RWThemeMiner is one application you must install on your Mac.

Considering purchasing a Mac Pro to run the beta of Photoshop CS3 on? Then check out the benchmarks for dozens of [...]

Next Saturday I am going to be away for a week on a cricket tournament, we have been instructed to bring Monopoly money with us for some late night poker games to see who is champion among the team. The only problem is I have no idea how poker is even played, let along having [...]

Blogs can be a great hobby, but they are even more fun to write when you are getting rewarded with cash. It can give you that extra little edge and push to write great content, keep you focused, and keep you blogging for longer periods of time.

ReviewMe has made that goal achievable for every blogger [...]

Derek Punsalan, a freelance web designer behind 5ThirtyOne has just released yet another amazing WordPress theme to the public free of charge.

The new theme, Widgetized October Special is a newer version of his great theme Pink For October (which was also made available for free).
The theme is a widgetized release which allows users to manipulate [...]

I woke up this morning, and checked my RSS feeds as normal. But one thing I do different when checking my RSS feeds is I actually click through to the site if I want to read something of interest.
Macworld UK was one of those sites this morning, I clicked through on a news piece that [...]

From the people who brought you My Dream App comes the next big thing in Mac software.
You might have seen other sites talking about MacHeist, but unlike everyone else in our little corner of the internet, we actually know what MacHeist is all about.Here’s what we know:

* The eventual product of the site [...]

• TUAW is looking for some new bloggers. Interested?
• Need help working out mathematic problems? Soulver is the answer. Expect a review coming next week.
• Apple’s Finder bugging you with it’s basic feature set? Check out ten alternatives to the Finder here.
• Need a nice theme for your Wordpress blog? This list of the best [...]

Google has laid speculation to rest — it is buying YouTube for US$1.65 billion in a stock transaction.YouTube operates a wildly popular Web site showing original videos in a range from amateurish to professional.
It will continue to operate independently after the Google acquisition “to preserve its successful brand and passionate community,” Google said Monday [...]

Tired of loading you default homepage to the web dozens of times each day when all you want to do is go to another site? If this is the case, you want a really fast loading page as your homepage.

The answer for most is Google.com, but today I found a super-fast alternative called Smplr.
Smplr is [...]

Look’s like Engadget has undergone a radical re-design.

Some of the new features include

Digg like user moderated comments

Auto comment login

Dynamic content width for widescreen monitors

Engadget Mobile headlines

Tags and tag feeds, and category feeds

Multiple podcast feeds!

What do I like about the new site? The design now look much more Web 2.0ish, the new dynamic content looks great [...]

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A brand new YouTube like site featuring videos full of advice for bloggers, Tubetorial is a video based tutorial site which will focus upon web development and internet marketing.

Have a liking for pretty desktops? TUAW has launched a new Flickr group specifically for users to post their desktop image and attempt to be featured on [...]