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Type is a fundamental part of any design it appears in. It can be used as text to read, as a shape and as a visual element where the choice of typeface conveys an emotion or mood. Type, when used well doesn't need a photograph or illustration to back it u

Inkscape is a free vector graphic design alternative software similar to Adobe Illustrator and CorelDraw, only it doesn't cost you a penny. It is maybe not as powerful as its higher priced rivals, but certainly powerful enough to design high quality vect

Mitra decided to place a high-speed computer in the wall, connect it to the Internet, and watch who, if anyone, might use it. To his delight, curious children were immediately attracted to the strange new machine. "When they said, 'Can we touch it?'&

A grid at its barest is nothing more than a series of intersecting horizontal and vertical lines spaced at regular intervals, but its innate propensity for creating order out of chaos makes it one of the most powerful tools at a designer's disposal. If you want to reap their benefits of grids on your next project but are unsure of the specifics, this article is for you.

This paper explores how a group of undergraduate students in one of the university in South of Malaysian use their mobile phones to perform informal learning activities related to the content of their courses outside the classroom. The paper also addresses the usefulness of informal learning activities to support students' learning. The study adopts an exploratory case study design and uses two methods of data collection including questionnaires and interviews. Main findings suggest that students performed informal learning activities mostly from office, home, interacting mainly with classmates. It also shows that students were in control of their informal learning activities without tutor or SMEs' input. However, it was found that students used only a limited number of applications but these were considered useful to their learning. The paper contributes to a discussion of the implications of training and instructional support to help students to take more advantage of mobile phone applications to support informal learning. The conclusion is discussed about the further research in this domain.

"Launch App World. Press menu key and select 'scan a bar code' from the list. Hold camera over QR code and let it focus on the code and a link will pop up. It will ask you if you want to navigate to that link, select yes."

A few weeks ago we published a tutorial How to Design a Blue Marketing Company Layout in Photoshop. Our friends at SnobbySlice have taken that design, coded it, and made it available for free download. The template includes the homepage design that was cr

The US Army reports that misuse of Powerpoint (in other words, using Powerpoint the way most people use it, the way it was designed to be used) is a huge issue. I first wrote a popular short free ebook about this seven years ago and the problem hasn't gone away. So much for the power of the idea.

Barry Dahl covered my keynote live and I didn't even know it.

A full-featured how to for creating a design and then converting it to HTML and CSS.

Mendeley, a Web service that lets users organize and share research papers, recently announced that it has surpassed 100,000 users, and that its database now includes some 8 million works.

This article describes the business side of Web 2.0. What it is and how it can be leveraged.

Free PowerPoint to Flash converter creates web friendly Flash movies from your PowerPoint content keeping its visual parameters and animation effects. iSpring Free works within PowerPoint transforming it into fast and easy Flash authoring tool.

Create art by drawing it online. Then hang it in a gallery.

Google Spreadsheets has a new feature for cell validation. It will check data within a cell to see if it matches certain criteria, such as email or URL.