15 hours ago

Submitted by The Puck from Google Reader: An amazing breakthrough in artificial intelligence by MilePost GCC allows development to speed up 10x by employing learning techniques to become the first intelligent, open-source compiler. - SmarterTechnology reports that the Milepost project at www.milepost.eu, in conjunction with IBM Research, has developed an intelli (Read More)

15 hours ago

FreelanceSwitch - The Freelance Blog Apparently, I’m supposed to read my clients’ minds. I’m supposed to know exactly the style, content, and length of every project a client wants taken care of, typically on the basis of a one-line email.I’m pretty sure I’m not the only freelancer who is expected to offer telepathy as a form of client communication, either. A (Read More)

1 day ago

My Ink Blog Please do not repackage, redistribute or direct link to the download. If you would like to share these textures please link back to this page.It’s time once again for that collaborative effort between the Arbenting team and the infamous MIB! This time we wanted to do something a bit different for the Photoshop freebie than (Read More)

1 day ago

ReadWriteWeb FriendFeed, the multi-network activity aggregator co-founded by GMail creator Paul Buchheit, announced today that it has entered the crowded field of real time search. FriendFeed was already the best way to learn what early adopter social media users were saying about any topic across blogs, Twitter, delicious and other di (Read More)

2 days ago

Gurus Unleashed » Photoshop A photoshop tutorial that explains some intermediate to advanced photo-manipulations techniques, while creating a decomposing face.Related posts:BOOK REVIEW: Rick Sammon’s Face to Face Has Great Pictures With A Little Copy ...  read about digital photography cover Camera Raw, lighting, Photoshop...How to Mold Paint Splatter (Read More)

2 days ago

Open Source Web Development Tutorials - RSS Feeds Welcome to the seventh installment of an eight-part series on building loader applications in PHP. In this part, you will learn how to use the “spl_autoload(),” “spl_register()” and “spl_register()” functions to build a small file loader class. This class will be able to perform recursive searches through the file system to (Read More)

3 days ago

Abduzeedo - design inspiration & tutorials - Following my series of posts about photography, this time I have listed some really nice bokeh photos. I really love the bokeh effect that is nothing more than light out-of-focus. Of course the technique might be simple but to take a beautiful photo you need to know much more than just the technique. [...] . (Read More)

5 days ago

Huffington Post The news that 10th annual LGBT Leadership Council fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Washington on June 25th raised a million dollars for the DNC must have been greeted with a sigh of relief from the Obama administration. The success of the event, which reportedly carried a pr (Read More)

6 days ago

woork After my previous tutorial that illustrated how to implement a super simple way to work with Twitter API (PHP + CSS) I received a lot of emails from my readers that asked to me to write a post about how to implement a simple Twitter search and display search results in a web page with a custom format. So in this tutorial I (Read More)

6 days ago

Huffington Post "[I]t is a clear abuse of power to use such [Presidential signing] statements as a license to evade laws that the president does not like or as an end-run around provisions designed to foster accountability. I will not use signing statements to nullify or undermine congressional instructions as enacted into law."- Senator (Read More)

7 days ago

ReadWriteWeb Great bruising battles between powerful antagonists is good for media. It "sells papers," as we used to say, or "generates clicks", as we now say. When you mix in a love triangle and jilted lovers, well, the audience just goes wild. And Wired did a great job in its piece on Facebook, Google, and Microsoft: riveting stuff. B (Read More)

7 days ago

ReadWriteWeb Laura "Pistachio" Fitton's TechStars project, OneForty, has received an angel round of funding to the tune of around $250,000 just 15 days into the business accelerator session.The startup, which was selected to participate in the Boston TechStars program, is described as an "app store for Twitter." Fitton, who literally wr (Read More)

Jun 25, 2009

Gurus Unleashed » Photoshop Many people that use photoshop use the brush tool, but many are unaware of the powerful features that are included in photoshop that can make the brush tool one of the most versatile tools in the program. So today I am going to show you the basics of brush styling.Related posts:The hidden power of Photoshop brush tool In th (Read More)

Jun 25, 2009

Submitted by The Puck from Google Reader: Graphical components, like brushes, gradients, textures and vectors are never enough. There are plenty of sites online for downloading these for free, but sadly, many of them suffer from lack of visitors and promotion. Every week, here at Design Blurb, we shall feature good free resources. If you like/own such a site, pleas (Read More)

Jun 25, 2009

Huffington Post Lying, intransigent Republicans + cowardly Senate Democrats is a witches' brew for stalemate on healthcare reform. The same posturing pompous politicians who celebrate the courage of the Iranian people asserting their public will against the mullahs shrivel into whining, doubting pusillanimity when they have to..to...to.. (Read More)

Neal Jansons

Neal Jansons is a writer and new media consultant who spends his days and nights thinking, writing, and solving interesting problems. He writes for a variety of online publications and blogs, and has worked on a wide variety of projects, ranging from copywriting to game design. He has been interviewed by Mashable, maintains a strong social media presence, and is the founder of The Social Media Philosophy Project, an open, collective effort by members of the social media community to explore the philosophical implications of social technologies. There is also a rumor that he is the leader of the Social Media Superheroes, but that is wild speculation founded in outlandish stories, and can’t possibly be true.