With the increase of mobile devices (iphone/droid etc...) one nice way of providing certain information is the use of the QR ("quick response") square barcode. You see them on business cards, real estate signs, magazines, products, etc... and the list goes on. This little barcode makes getting URL's, location coordinates, any text, or contact information onto your mobile device instantly. With a barcode application installed, you just point the camera at the code to read its content. Read more about Why should you use your own Personal QR Code?

Every once in a while you will have the need and desire to convert a digital photograph into a painting or sketching using Photoshop. If you have tried to conventional methods and filters within Photoshop, you find that it is very time consuming and frustrating. It becomes quite a messy task to say the least, and I for one have a full plate everyday and am looking to simply my life, not make it more complex. Read more about Snap Art 3 by Alien Skin Software

As a Web Designer and Developer I welcome with open arms the new features that HTML5 brings to the table. The rich semantics, graceful degradation, API's, and new technologies make it flexible and powerful. If based on the standardization merits aspects alone, it would be a major step in the right direction, taking the headaches away from the day-to-day task of designing and developing for a multitude of rendering engines. In the back of my mind, a small voice utters: “What about XHTML 2.0!” Could HTML5 go down the same road as XHTML 2.0, and become just another abandoned project? Read more about HTML5 – Please don’t let it go the way of XHTML 2.0!