Celebrating 10 Years of Small Business Success | biz Bands and DJs can leave computer programming to the experts when it comes to developing their own mobile app. Now with App.biz, they can spend more time focusing on their music and quickly create a personalized mobile application to connect with their fans. App.biz makes it possible for artists to easily sell their songs via iTunes, stream videos, podcasts and music, and promote their upcoming performance schedules. The company offers a free product version to startup musicians as well as customized services for famous clients such as LinkinPark, Metallica, Lady Gaga and Eminem. App.biz is routinely featured in leading media publications such as Business Insider, The New York Times, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, The Wall Street Journal, Mashable and more. While the company is based out of San Francisco, their .biz website enables them to reach thousands artists around the world every day.
Cybersecurity Stocks: The Names To Consider Now | Technology Earlier this month, Americans were alarmed to learn that hackers had stolen nearly 1.5 million credit card numbers from Global Payments ( GPN ), an Atlanta, Georgia-based payment processor and former Visa ( V ) partner. Such stories have appeared in the news with increasing frequency, and it’s not just large corporations being targeted by cyber criminals. In fact, small organizations , such as physicians' offices, saw the greatest number of data breaches last year. In a separate investigation, Verizon's ( VZ ) annual Data Break Investigations Report examined 855 account breaches from around the globe and found that criminals compromised 174 million records in 2011. For investors, these stories point to an obvious trend: Cybersecurity stocks, already hot, are likely to continue gaining heat. Last year, Sean Udall, Minyanville contributor and author of the TechStrat Report newsletter, recommended 10 stocks to watch in the burgeoning commercial cybersecurity industry. EMC ( EMC ) EMC.com
PHOTOSHOP | Tech Tips for Webmasters , Designers and Bloggers 25 Best Text Effects Tutorials in Photoshop If you want to add a few 3D effects on text in images, then you could use some help from this article which lists 25 best text effects tutorials. Whether it is poster designing or simple image captioning, good text effects are bound to attract audience and make the visitors stick around for a lit... 21 Mind Blowing Photoshop Tutorials You would need a list of mind blowing Photoshop tutorials if you want to be called anything near proficient in Photoshop. 21 Best Abstract Effects in Photoshop One of the first things that spring to mind when talking about graphic editing are the best abstract effects in Photoshop. 20 Free PSD Website Templates The designing of websites has become a lot easier now when icons, graphics and different other design elements can easily be downloaded from the internet. 20 Best Free PSD Files in 2013 Free PSD files can prove to be quite useful for your project.
Facebook's IPO: Trading opens at $42 per share - May. 18 Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg rang the opening bell remotely, from company headquarters in California. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Facebook's stock market debut finally came and went -- but for all the breathless hype, shares ended right near their offering price. On Thursday night, Facebook (FB) set its final IPO price at $38 a share. But the stock quickly reversed course, dropping down to hover right around the $38 IPO price for much of midday trading. While the price itself didn't move much, trading was fast and intense. That easily set a new volume record for IPOs, smashing the previous record that automaker General Motors (GM, Fortune 500) set in 2010 with trading of around 450 million shares. Facebook's trading had been expected to start around 11 a.m. Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg rang the Nasdaq opening bell remotely, from the company's headquarters in California. Many Facebook employees and executives hold unexercised stock options.
VentureBeat | Tech. People. Money. The Art & Business of Making Games TechCrunch How to Create a CSS3 Dropdown Menu [Tutorial] Topic: CSS3Difficulty: BeginnerEstimated Completion Time: 20 mins In this tutorial we will code in pure CSS3 the Navigation Menu that you can find in Impressionist UI by Vladimir Kudinov. Step 1 – HTML Markup We will create an unordered list with a list item and an anchor tag for each menu link. Step 2 – Menu Layout We will start to remove the margin, padding, border and outline from all the elements of the menu. We will hide the sub menu temporarily to be easier to style the first level. Step 3 – Menu Links To style the menu links we will add some basic CSS properties like font, color, padding, etc. Step 4 – Sub Menu First let’s remove this line of code that we have added on the second step. Now we will style the sub menu. We will set the width of the sub menu links to 100px. To finish it we only need to add an icon to each sub menu link. Conclusion We’ve successfully created this pure CSS3 dropdown menu. On your email was sent a letter
How to Create an Video Player in jQuery, HTML5 & CSS3 [Tutorial] Topic: jQuery / CSS3Difficulty: Intermediate / AdvancedEstimated Completion Time: 45 mins In this tutorial we will code an Video Player from Impressionist UI by Vladimir Kudinov. We will code it with CSS3 for the styling and the “MediaElement.js” for the functionality. Step 1 – Downloading MediaElement.js First we need to download the “MediaElement.js” script and extract it. flashmediaelement.swfmediaelement-and-player.min.jssilverlightmediaelement.xap Then copy all these three files to the same directory, I will copy for my “js” folder. Step 2 – HTML Markup Now, we need to link to the jQuery Library, we can host it locally or use the one hosted by Google. To create the video player we only need to add the new HTML5 video tag. Now we just need to add the following code to load the video controls and to set some settings. For more settings take a look at “MediaElement.js” Documentation. Step 3 – Video Basic Styles Let’s start by adding some reset styles to the elements that we will use.
This is Your Brain on CSS First things first: the CSS 3D renderer used to power this the previous site is now available on GitHub.com. However, it's still limited to only solid lines and planes. It's also limited to WebKit browsers, as Firefox's CSS 3D support just isn't quite there yet. But CSS 3D is not a one trick pony, and as with many things, what you get out of it depends entirely on what you put in. So here's a disembodied head made out of CSS 3D. It consists of nothing more than a bunch of images stacked up against each other, and integrates perfectly with the existing 3D parallax on this site. Making the basic effect was actually quite easy. But the slices are rendered as is, and the MRI consists of boring grayscale data. I wrapped it in a custom widget, using straight up CSS rather than Three.js this time.
Create a Cartoon-Style Graffiti Text Effect in Photoshop | Text Effects Create a Cartoon-Style Graffiti Text Effect in PhotoshopReviewed by Ashlee Harrell on Mar 5Rating: Preview of Final Results Download the PSD Graffiti Text.zip | 16.32 MB Download from Website Graffiti text effect tutorial Resources Star Brushes – QBrushes Step 1- Create a New Document Create a new 1000×500 pixels document. Step 2 With the background layer selected, use the Paint Bucket tool to fill the layer with #D0CFCF. Step 3 – Text Now for the text create a new layer, you can go online and find a font that would best fit your design or for my tutorial I created a rough sketch of how I wanted my text to look and scanned it into my computer. Step 4 Make a selection from the work path (right-click>Make selection) fill it with any color for now Step 5 Rename this layer. Step 6 Then move the “G copy” layer upward 5px by using your arrow keys and also move it 8 or 9 pixels to the right. Step 7 On the original “G” layer add these layer styles, lets start with the Inner Shadow Step 8 Step 9 Step 10 Step 11