Creative Domain Names: Some Clever Alternative Methods

The web’s been around for quite some time if you really think about it, the first domain name Symbolics.com was registered on 15th March 1985, yes, some 23 Years ago! That means that any idea you have for a domain name today has been through someone else mind up to 23 years before you. Here are some clever ideas..




Are you looking for the best places online where to find free ebooks? Take a look at the following resources that allow you to quickly find everything you need.








How the iPad could change the face of the web

When in 2007 Apple launched the iPhone not only reinvented the phone but it also introduced a revolutionary user experience that has changed definitively the way to browse the Web with a mobile device then before.







Social Media is “media designed to be disseminated through social interaction, created using highly accessible and scalable publishing techniques” (Wikipedia), and if that doesn’t make sense I don’t blame you.







25 free Mac apps that will boost your productivity

There are many applications that can help you work faster and efficiently. Though, not many applications come cheap. For this post we tried to digg deep to find the best selection of free and/or open source Mac applications that will help you be a more efficient designer. We’re covering from application launchers, GTD (Getting Things Done) to design utilities that can help you focus on what’s important: create.


Every now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current projects. We search for them and we find them, so you don’t have to.




Do you like hand-drawn style? Are you looking for some icons to improve the design of your website? Take a look at this collection that contains the best 5 hand-drawn social icon set in circulation.





Before we start, this is not a guide to creating the perfect brand. This is a post about my experience of creating the branding for my companies website. It is important to share experiences and compare them against your own. Creating an effective brand that represents your business or a company your creating it for can sometimes be a lot harder than you think.



50 stunning examples of a great redesign

A redesign can be worth its weight in gold if you get it right. There is a thin line between freshening up your design, and taking a step backwards with a redesign. Sometimes a redesign can be subtle and simple, and other times it can be a huge re-vamp of a company and it’s goals. Here’s a look at some of favorite re-designs in no particular order.



One key element in the design of any website is color. Here are some great inspirational websites which show that color can be used in very extraordinary ways.








WordPress! is an award-winning CMS, which enables you to build Blogs, Web sites and powerful online applications. In this showcase below, you’ll find a Excellent Collection of Fresh High-Quality Free WordPress Themes Around because We all know that we’re going to use our blog as a tool to promote our business, so we need to have a clean, professional, corporate look.



Showcasing your work in single page design is a hot trend now days. It’s kind of ironic to see what designers can do with single pages as modern age designers love to experiment with things and observe how people interact with their work. In this presentation, you’ll find a variety of highly-creative, beautiful and most importantly inspirational designs which is following the same trend of single page designs.


Bill Gates’ advice to Harvard University graduates

Read these inspiring excerpts from the Microsoft Founder's Commencement Address at Harvard University on June 7, 2007. This is very inspiring speech I ever heard or read.








Web design is a relatively young field. It’s youthful, growing and made up of people from all kinds of backgrounds, many of whom lack formal design training. We have learned, and still are learning, as we go.

D. Keith Robinson came into his job as a Web designer for Boeing back in the mid-1990s, with no formal design training.




In Fortune Magazine’s annual ranking of “most admired companies”, Apple has once again walked away with the top spot. Apple was voted #1 for the third year in a row in a poll of executives, industry analysts and company directors. This year, Apple actually took pole position by its widest margin ever.





Since Vlingo first introduced its voice control app for the BlackBerry more than a year and a half ago, smartphones and voice-to-speech technology have evolved quite a bit. Today, the company has launched a pretty major update to its iPhone app, adding the ability to send e-mail and SMS messages, plus a redesigned new interface.




45 beautiful 3D typography designs for inspiration

3D Typographic design is now more popular and we can notice a surge for 3D Type work on portfolio sites, Here we have collected 45 Beautiful 3D Typography Designs For Inspiration, I found these design really inspiring, hope you will be inspired.





Can Apple take Microsoft's perch atop tech pile?

Apple Inc's phoenix-like rise from the ashes has propelled its market value to $180 billion, raising the possibility that it could challenge Microsoft Corp for the technology crown.

It would take impressive execution for any company to unseat Microsoft at the top of the technology heap. But Apple, flush with cash and fat margins, has catalysts in the iPhone, the Mac PC and a highly anticipated but unconfirmed tablet device expected to launch next year, analysts and investors say.

Engineers didn't make huge improvements to technology in 2009. The year's big tech names - Twitter, Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon - all existed before January. Instead, this is the year technology changed us.

Here's a look back at how it happened. It's CNN.com's 10 biggest tech trends of the year, listed in no particular order.


PayPal was only used as an illustration and not a specific usable example. The basic Cyrillic keyboard does not contain a character that appears as a Latin “l” (and the character that exists in the extended set is apparently not useable when registering domains). ICANN informs us that rules preventing the mixing of Cyrillic and Latin in a domain name label have been in effect for gTLDs since 2005.


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