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• 7 things you didn’t know about condoms

  9 Feb 2010 | 10:14 am

  Rubbers. Raincoats. Inconvenient. Whatever you call 'em, condoms remain a must-have in the safe sex tool box. Long before the days of Durex and Trojans, men used animal intestines to protect their willies (that sounds lovely, eh ladies?) and still to this day use lambskin condoms for latex allergies and supposed extra sensitivity. Want to learn even more fun facts about condoms that will surely impress your friends and potential lovers? Check out Asylum's seven things you probably didn't know about condoms that includes tantalizing tidbits like: Vaseline + condoms = Disintegrated rubber and…

• Horror flick mirror scare mash-up [video]

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:25 am

  Horror movies love to rely on cliches to scare the bejeezus out of us, but does it really surprise anyone that the axe murderer is going to pop in the reflection of a mirror? Ok, yes, it still totally sparks a few pee-in-pants moments. Check out this mash-up of mirror scare moments (fair warning: don’t watch alone in a big, dark, scary house): Full story at Four Four. Boo! Tons of scary and not so scary movie news. Permalink | Leave a comment  »

• 7 things you shouldn't do on Valentine's Day

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:13 am

  Ah, Valentine’s day. February fourteenth marks that special moment in the year when Hallmark cashes in on our emotions and cupid gets busy shooting arrows. Whether you’re indifferent, excited, upset, or madly in love—there are seven things you just shouldn’t do on this lovey-dovey holiday. See a few do-not-do’s below: Go on a first date. First dates are hard enough, why add the extra pressure? Call your ex. Abort mission! On a day like this, it’s normal for your thoughts to drift to the one you used to be with, but you broke up for a reason. So, spare…

• How to succeed as a consultant

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:43 am

  Thinking of going solo as a consultant? Richard Greenwald, Caspersen School of Graduate Studies at Drew University in Madison, provides a list of ingredients for you to succeed in this endeavor: Think Long Term Join a Network Have Your Own Space Think Like an Entrepreneur Full story at Wall Street Journal. More small business tips and tricks. Photo credit: Fotolia Permalink | Leave a comment  »

• Big trouble in McItaly

  9 Feb 2010 | 1:06 am

  McDonald’s new sandwich, endorsed by the Italian government, is leaving a bad taste in food critics’ mouths. Proud Italians rejected the McItaly as being unrepresentative of Italian culture. The government responded by calling the critics “ignorant Stalinists” and claimed that these same critics rejected the Italian-ness of pizza. Do you think the McItaly will take root? Read the full article at the BBC. More on Italy. Photo credit: Fotolia Permalink | Leave a comment  »

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  Smashing Magazine

• Applying Mathematics To Web Design

  Adit Gupta

  9 Feb 2010 | 4:52 am

    “Mathematics is beautiful.” This may sound absurd to people who wince at numbers and equations. But some of the most beautiful things in nature and our universe exhibit mathematical properties, from the smallest seashell to the biggest whirlpool galaxies. In fact, one of the greatest ancient philosophers, Aristotle, said: “The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.”Because of its beautiful nature, mathematics has been a part of art and architectural design for ages. But it has not been…

• Color Theory for Designer, Part 3: Creating Your Own Color Palettes

  Cameron Chapman

  8 Feb 2010 | 3:58 am

    In the previous two parts of this series on color theory, we talked mostly about the meanings behind colors and color terminology. While this information is important, I’m sure a lot of people were wondering when we were going to get into the nitty-gritty of actually creating some color schemes.Well, that’s where Part 3 comes in. Here we’ll be talking about methods for creating your own color schemes, from scratch. We’ll cover the traditional color scheme patterns (monochrome, analogous, complementary, etc.) as well as how to create custom schemes that…

• SimpleFolio: A Free Clean Portfolio WordPress Theme

  Elja Friedman

  7 Feb 2010 | 8:35 am

    Today we are glad to release a beautiful, simple and clean portfolio WordPress theme — SimpleFolio, designed by Omar E. Corrales and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. SimpleFolio is a portfolio theme that includes a blog and a very extensive option page that allows you to exclude all your portfolio items from the blog page. It also includes a front page slider.It has 2 different widget areas and threaded comments, and also supports paged comments and has 2 different page templates for advanced usage. The control of images is done from the post page.Download the…

• Beautiful Motion Graphics Created With Programming: Showcase, Tools and Tutorials

  Vailancio Rodrigues

  6 Feb 2010 | 5:50 am

    When you hear the word “creative”, what type of profession comes to mind? Maybe a graphic designer, painter, sculptor, illustrator, or writer? It’s unlikely that you would consider a “programmer” when thinking of creative fields of work. But programmers have the potential to be creative and come up with ideas or concepts that will impact others in positive ways.We often turn to programmers to solve mathematical-related problems, but the concept of mathematics in programming is what powers programmers to innovate. When you think of mathematics you…

• 50 Free UI and Web Design Wireframing Kits, Resources and Source Files

  Paul Andrew

  5 Feb 2010 | 6:04 am

    Planning and communication are two key elements in the development of any successful website or application. And that is exactly what the wireframing process offers: a quick and simple method to plan the layout and a cost-effective, time-saving tool to easily communicate your ideas to others. A wireframe typically has the basic elements of a Web page: header, footer, sidebar, maybe even some generated content, which gives you, your clients and colleagues a simple visually oriented layout that illustrates what the structure of the website will be by the end of the project and that…

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  A List Apart

• Words that Zing

  9 Feb 2010 | 1:00 am

  When someone consults a website, there is a precious opportunity not only to provide useful information but also to influence their decision. To make the most of this opportune moment, we must ensure that the site says or does precisely the right thing at precisely the right time. Understanding the rhetorical concept of kairos can help us craft a context for the opportune moment and hit the mark with appropriately zingy text.

• The Problem with Passwords

  9 Feb 2010 | 1:00 am

  Abandoning password masking as Jakob Nielsen suggests could present serious problems, including undermining a user’s trust by failing to meet a basic expectation. But with design patterns gleaned from offline applications, plus a dash of JavaScript, we can provide feedback and reduce password errors without compromising the basic user experience or losing our visitors’ trust.

• Using SVG for Flexible, Scalable, and Fun Backgrounds, Part II

  26 Jan 2010 | 1:00 am

  In Part II, dig deeper into the technology behind using SVG for your site design. Explore how to incorporate SVG in a cross-browser friendly manner, including using SVGWeb to ensure that the SVG shows in Internet Explorer. And discover the unique characteristic that makes SVG ideal for page backgrounds: scalability.

• Using SVG For Flexible, Scalable, and Fun Backgrounds, Part I

  26 Jan 2010 | 1:00 am

  Many of us think of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) as an also-ran: fine for charts and tables, but not much else. Yet SVG can actually enhance a site’s overall design, and can be made to work in even the most stubborn browser. In Part I of a two-part series, Shelley Powers covers important basics of working with SVG, including browser support and accessibility.

• The Survey, 2009

  15 Dec 2009 | 2:00 am

  For the third year in a row, good citizens of the web, we ask that you take a few minutes to tell us about your professional skills, educational background, career prospects, job benefits, and more.

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  Poynter Online

• Woods: 'We Miss the Normal Part of People's Lives' When Covering Diversity

  29 Jan 2010 | 8:14 am

  I've been writing and teaching about diversity, race and ethnicity for more than 15 years -- about as long as Keith Woods has been at The Poynter Institute. His "Untold Stories" seminar shaped the way I reported on undercovered communities, and became the model on which I built a class on covering race issues. I know many journalists and educators share similar stories about Woods' work at Poynter. In the wake of controversial layoffs at National Public Radio, Woods recently accepted a new gig as NPR's vice president of diversity in news and operations. Today marks his last day at Poynter. I…

• Events, Not Enterprise, Drive Most Stories about Hispanics

  14 Dec 2009 | 12:05 pm

  An editor's most predictable question to a reporter is: Does your story have a news peg? Events drive news coverage. They always have.But something clearly has changed, forcing events, breaking news or the story of the day to drive the narrative more than ever.When I arrived at the Houston Chronicle in May 2007, I supervised two immigration reporters, two reporters writing about Hispanic affairs and one reporter focused on the African-American community. After some restructuring and layoffs, I'm down to one immigration reporter. No one person is tasked with strictly covering the Hispanic…

• Reporters' Views Differ on Treatment of Race in Woods, Salahi Coverage

  11 Dec 2009 | 9:33 am

  For better or worse, Tiger Woods and Tareq Salahi have captivated the news media as much as, if not more than, the troop surge in Afghanistan and the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.   Beyond tabloid headlines and blond wives, the philandering golf legend and half of the White House party-crashing team don't have much in common. But as I watched both stories develop, I was waiting to see when journalists or commentators would make each man's race or ethnicity an issue in the coverage. Each is the child of an interracial marriage, and each is in an interracial marriage. As a…

• When is Fort Hood Suspect's Faith Relevant in Media Coverage?

  9 Nov 2009 | 1:20 pm

  On Friday morning, Minhaj Hasan, editor-in-chief of The Muslim Linkin College Park, Md., checked local headlines on the shooting at Ft. Hood, Texas, that had taken the lives of 13. They rang all too familiar.A Washington Times' headline read: "Army: Suspect Said 'Allahu Akbar!' Before Shooting." Meanwhile, a Washington Post ran a story ran with the headline: "Suspect, Devout Muslim from Va., Wanted Army Discharge, Aunt Said." The story started out talking about how the suspect prayed every day at the Muslim Community Center in Silver Spring -- something that isn't all that unusual given that…

• Ex-Unity Pres.: NAHJ, NABJ, AAJA, NAJA Should Not Merge

  21 Oct 2009 | 4:18 am

  When the National Association of Hispanic Journalists announced earlier this month that it had a $300,000 budget shortfall, people began tweeting the news and expressing concern over the group's financial woes. One NAHJ member, Mo Krochmal, tweeted that the shortfall is an indication that "at some point, minority journalists orgs are going to have to merge to save funds."But Rafael Olmeda, former Unity president who stepped down from his leadership role last week, disagrees. He tweeted a response to Krochmal, who he knows from NAHJ: "The minority journalism orgs do not need to merge any more…

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  NYT: Open

• What We're Reading

  By MICHAEL DONOHOE

  19 Jan 2010 | 11:24 am

  Following last Decembers post, I've collected a slightly larger round of links from my colleagues as well as solicited links from our readers - from Flash on the iPhone to official New York City subway data.

• More Tags Released to the Linked Data Cloud

  By EVAN SANDHAUS and ROB LARSON

  13 Jan 2010 | 11:21 am

  Today we're pleased to announce the addition of approximately 5,000 new subject headings to data.nytimes.com: organizations, publicly traded companies and geographic identifiers.

• Article Search API Enhancements

  By DEREK GOTTFRID

  12 Jan 2010 | 1:53 pm

  The Times Article Search API already had a rich set of data attributes, but we couldn't resist adding a few more.

• What We're Trolling

  By MICHAEL DONOHOE

  15 Dec 2009 | 12:37 pm

  This post is the first in a new series that offers a look at what NYTimes.com developers are reading and sharing online.

• Nominations Data Added to Congress API

  By DEREK WILLIS

  3 Dec 2009 | 7:58 am

  We've added civilian nominee data to the Congress API, to allow you to track the progress of presidential nominees as they move through the process.

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  E-Media Tidbits

• Shut Off Google? C'mon, Mark Cuban

  8 Feb 2010 | 10:46 am

  I can understand why Mark Cuban said newspapers should keep "blood-sucking vampires" like Google from indexing their content. But his argument falls short in a few key ways, I believe.Cuban said newspapers have to understand that there is real value in what they do best, which is to "go out and find news and create good content." "Aggregators and search engines think there is no value to that," the Internet entrepreneur, HDNet co-founder and owner of the Dallas Maverick basketball team said at the OnMedia conference in New York last week. "They think there's an unending supply of necks."If…

• Licensing Delay Complicates Decision Between Open Source and Proprietary Video Players

  8 Feb 2010 | 7:55 am

  RELATEDThe Future of Web Content -- HTML5, Flash & Mobile Apps In at least a short-term boon for HTML5 proponents, the consortium of groups that own the patents for the H.264 video-encoding codec announced Thursday that it will not seek royalties for another five years on videos that use the codec and are free to end users."Gack!" you say (justifiably). "Thank goodness I don't need to know about this H.264-HTML5-Ogg Theora mumbo-jumbo." Unfortunately, if you are in charge of encoding video for your Web site, if you design video players, or manage those who do, then you probably do need to…

• Google's Real-Time Search Raises Importance of Link Sharing Via Social Networks

  1 Feb 2010 | 6:55 am

  One of the most important ways for blogs to get good traction in search used to come from links on other highly linked blogs and Web sites. The exchange of links from blog to blog created "link love," which then helped to increase a blog's Google PageRank. Along with keywords, PageRank could significantly boost a blog's position in search, sometimes putting that blog higher in results than a major news site. Even when bloggers linked to newspaper sites, news sites didn't always see those links as beneficial to them. Now, a new kind of link love, associated with real-time search and social…

• Foursquare, Metro Partnership Shows How Media Can Benefit from Geolocation Apps

  29 Jan 2010 | 9:36 am

  As geolocation apps and features continue to be developed, they're bringing a new dimension to the relevancy and immediacy of information. Some news organizations are now beginning to see their potential and act on it.Earlier this week, Canada's free daily, Metro News, announced a partnership with Foursquare, an application that lets mobile users tell their friends where they are. It also has a built-in gaming feature that lets people earn "badges" for traveling to new places with different people. Under the partnership, which is just one example of how geolocation features are bringing about…

• Watching Kindle, iPad and e-Readers? Openness is Key

  28 Jan 2010 | 8:27 am

  Even before the launch of the Apple iPad, pundits were declaring it the Kindle killer, and hours after its unveiling others were adding their voices. But I smelled trouble for Amazon's e-reader weeks earlier.Though I own a Kindle and have also read its books on my iPod Touch, the last three or four e-books I've bought were from Barnes & Noble and O'Reilly publishing.The reason? It's not that I own B&N's Nook or some other e-reader (yet); rather, those e-books come in formats that enable me to consume them on many devices, share them with friends and even grab portions to send to the…

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  Carsonified » Blog

• The Pipeline with Dan Benjamin

  Keir Whitaker

  9 Feb 2010 | 5:48 am

  Dan Benjamin recently blogged about his decision to venture into full time podcasting. We love to hear about anyone branching out and trying new things so we wish him all the best with his venture. Two of his new shows solo shows are The Pipeline and The Conversation: The Pipeline, an interview show talking with designers, developers, writers, and entrepreneurs. Episode one featured Jeffrey Zeldman and upcoming shows will include Kottke, Storey, Vaynerchuk, Coudal, Mann, Siracusa, and many more. The Conversation, a live-streamed talk show featuring topical discussions, reviews, special…

• Future of Web Design London 2010 is go

  Keir Whitaker

  9 Feb 2010 | 4:56 am

  We are delighted to announce that Future of Web Design will be returning to London for the 4th year running. Taking place from May 17th – 19th 2010 in the heart of London it will be packed full of great talks, workshops and networking opportunities. Grab the early bird discounts There are a number of early-bird offers available including £195 off a two day conference pass, they are limited in number so grab them whilst they’re hot. Amazing speakers Here’s just a few of the great speakers we have lined up for this year. Full details of their sessions are available on the new…

• Designing for donations

  Jaan Orvet & Andreas Carlsson

  8 Feb 2010 | 5:57 am

  Donating money to a charity should be as quick and easy online as it is to stuff a few coins in a collection pot on the high street. It should also be apparent what the money will be used for. With these two things in mind, it is surprising how often charities miss the mark when it comes to their online donation screens. Fiddly pull-downs, peculiar microcopy, trillions of steps, and minimal transparency. Here are some of our step-by-step notes and drafts from a concept exercise on behalf of a well-known charity. The goal was to create a screen that encourages more site visitors to give, and…

• Bulletproof backups for MySQL

  Chris Lea

  4 Feb 2010 | 5:27 am

  You have all your important data backed up, right? I mean, come on folks, it’s 2010. We may not have flying cars yet like we’re supposed to, but “having backups” is a problem that’s solved. And I’m sure you’ve solved it. I’m sure you sleep well at night knowing that if a comet hit the data center where your website lives, and everything was completely destroyed, you could get back up and running somewhere else quickly enough. Except that the chance this is actually true for you, statistically, is very small. If we look at the statistics, then…

• Future of Web Apps Miami: Are you coming?

  Keir Whitaker

  3 Feb 2010 | 3:09 am

  Save $50 off your pass by entering promo code THINKVITAMIN when booking your pass. Only 9 left! Buy your tickets now » Did you know Carsonified, the team behind Think Vitamin, also run a number of web industry events? In a couple of weeks we head off to Florida for the third Future of Web Apps Miami. It’s going to be a great three days (February 22nd – 24th) and will feature great speakers, in depth workshops and free University sessions all delivered by leading industry figures. Here’s a quick round up of what’s happening: Companies speaking at FOWA Miami 2010…

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  Psdtuts+

• How to Create a Somber Composition in Photoshop

  Constantin Potorac

  8 Feb 2010 | 5:08 am

  This one’s another collaboration with my good friend Toma Alin Gabriel. In this tutorial you will learn how to manipulate stock images and turn them into your puppets to express your desired feelings.Final Image PreviewTake a look at the final result first. Want access to the full PSD files and downloadable copies of every tutorial, including this one? Join PSDTUTS PLUS for just $9/month. You can view the final image preview below or view a larger version here.Tutorial Details Program: Photoshop CS4 Difficulty: Intermediate Estimated Completion Time: 7 hoursResourcesFirst of all I would…

• Best of the Web – January 2010

  Emil

  8 Feb 2010 | 5:07 am

  The first month of the new year has wrapped up and there was a ton of great content for all the Photoshop Fans. This month was bursting with tons of freebies that the readers could check out and download, for example this month we are featuring some great free font packs, as well as some great 2010 wallpaper packs. On top of that we have some great high quality tutorials that deal with some very interesting 3D techniques. So lets get into this wrap up of January 2010.Tutorial Wrap Creating a Surreal Desert SceneOur first tutorial of the new year is already an amazing photo manipulation…

• How to Create a Stone Giant Matte Painting – Psd Plus Tutorial

  Alex Beltechi

  4 Feb 2010 | 1:30 pm

  We have another Psd Plus tutorial exclusively available to Plus members today. If you want to take your matte painting skills to the next level, then we have an awesome tutorial for you. Learn more at the jump!This Plus Tutorial is Filled with Creative TipsThis tutorial is a collaboration between myself, Alex Beltechi, and college pal, Andrei Bacter. I’ve requested his help to bring you a bit of what we don’t do a lot on Psdtuts – Matte Painting. This technique combines photo scenery and tablet drawn details. As such, the tutorial is divided in two parts. The first one…

• How To Repair Scratches, Tears, and Spots on an Old Photograph

  Robert C. McLaughlin

  3 Feb 2010 | 7:46 am

  In this tutorial you will learn how to repair cracks, scratches, and spots so this photo of the Swedish Nightingale, Jenny Lind, looks just like new. We will purposely avoid using some of the quick fix tools such as the healing brush so that you can gain an understanding of the basics of photo restoration. Let’s get started!Final Image PreviewTake a look at the image we’ll be creating. Want access to the full PSD files and downloadable copies of every tutorial, including this one? Join Psd Plus for just $9/month. You can view the final image preview below.Tutorial DetailsProgram:…

• A Myriad of Vintage Grunge Patterns From Across the Web

  Callum Chapman

  2 Feb 2010 | 8:25 am

  Patterns can be used in almost any style of graphic and web design. They have many purposes, from being used as backgrounds to being used to touch up vector files that look just a little too clean. For that reason we have rounded-up and compiled a huge collection of over 450 free and premium patterns from various different websites for you to use in your personal and commercial projects.Free PatternsGrungy Green Tileable Photoshop Patterns (10)Grungy Natural Beige Photoshop Patterns (6)Grungy Natural Beige Photoshop Patterns (6)Grungy Hearts and Flowers Patterns (8)Seamless Grungy Burgundy…

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  digg.com: Stories / Design / Popular

• How to make new stuff from your piles of obsolete tech

  8 Feb 2010 | 7:00 pm

  If you're like us, you have an attic, closet, or garage stuffed with unused, outdated tech junk. Oh, you think you'll recycle it -- but you don't, do you? Wouldn't you like to do something useful with them?

• Common Misconceptions about Web Designers

  7 Feb 2010 | 10:20 pm

  Here are some common misconceptions about being a web designer that just aren't true.

• Is Wearable Technology of the Future Just Hype or Hope?

  7 Feb 2010 | 5:40 pm

  The onus is on us: It is our choices, our demands from the market, that will bring about the necessary actions and changes in the fashion industry. Smart fabrics and wearable technology offer us an opportunity for a more sustainable future, but the promise will be bittersweet if the entire product life cycle isn’t taken into consideration.

• Best MIT PhD Homepage Created With MS Paint Ever

  3 Feb 2010 | 10:30 am

  All this effort (and creativity), I hope he got a great job from this.

• Richard Branson Makes Luxury Submarine For Rich People

  31 Jan 2010 | 7:50 am

  Sir Richard Branson has a new underwater toy to accommodate the rich and adventurous--the Necker Nymph submarine.

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  Graphic Design News

• Children's museum honored for graphic design

  9 Feb 2010 | 2:56 am

  DuPage Children's Museum was recognized recently by Graphic Design USA, the premier graphic design magazine.

• [JOB] InContext Design is hiring Interaction Designers in Boston and Chicago

  8 Feb 2010 | 8:09 am

  Since 1992 InContext has used its Contextual Design methodology to design innovative solutions.

• Redlands Tea Party leader throwing herself into political fray

  7 Feb 2010 | 7:47 am

  A local Tea Party organizer is in the early stages of challenging the high-powered Rep.

• QuarkXPress 8 K-12 Site License Provides Design Software Solution for Schools

  6 Feb 2010 | 7:23 am

  QuarkXPress 8 desktop publishing and design software is one of the most widely used solutions for designers and artists alike.

• The Barn cements status as mainstay

  5 Feb 2010 | 7:02 am

  Sue Newton, owner of The Barn Gallery & Frame Shop LLC on Route 37 in New Fairfield, spends her days surrounded by beauty.

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  AIGA: Home

• AIGA National Design Center holiday hours

  AIGA

  8 Feb 2010 | 3:27 pm

  AIGA’s offices and gallery will be closed Monday, February 15, in observance of Presidents Day. Normal gallery and business hours will resume on Tuesday, February 16.

• AIGA Design Archives 2.0 now live!

  AIGA

  4 Feb 2010 | 2:01 pm

  The AIGA Design Archives site has just been relaunched with a brand new interface by Second Story Interactive Studios—go take it for a spin!

• Enter the AIGA competitions by March 5

  AIGA

  4 Feb 2010 | 12:10 pm

  If selected, your work would be featured in the newly relaunched AIGA Design Archives and seen by countless future designers, students and clients. Just one month remains before the entry deadline.

• Register early for “Gain”

  AIGA

  4 Feb 2010 | 10:24 am

  “Gain,” AIGA’s biennial design and business conference, will take place in NYC this October. This event tends to sell out quickly—register early to reserve your spot!

• Case Study: AIGA Design Archives

  Michael Neault, Second Story

  4 Feb 2010 | 2:00 am

  Learn how Second Story gave the AIGA Design Archives website a new look, improved navigation and greater functionality.

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  CSS-Tricks

• jQuery MagicLine Navigation

  Chris Coyier

  9 Feb 2010 | 4:58 am

  These “sliding” style navigation bars have been around a while, I just thought I’d take a crack at doing it myself as the opportunity came up recently. Turns out it’s really pretty darn easy. I put two examples together for it.The IdeaThe idea is to have a highlight of some kind (a background or an underline) follow you around as you mouse over the different links in the navigation. This will happen with jQuery and it’s animation abilities. As such, the “magic line” will only be appended via JavaScript. Once added to the list and styled, as you mouse…

• How nth-child Works

  Chris Coyier

  8 Feb 2010 | 5:24 am

  There is a CSS selector, really a pseudo-selector, called nth-child. Here is an example of using it:ul li:nth-child(3n+3) { color: #ccc; }What the above CSS does, is select every third list item inside unordered lists. That is, the 3rd, 6th, 9th, 12th, etc. But how does that work? And what other kinds of things can you do with nth-child? Let’s take a look.It boils down to what is in between those parentheses. nth-child accepts two keywords in that spot: even and odd. Those should be pretty obvious. “Even” selects even numbered elements, like the 2nd, 4th, 6th, etc.

• Threadsy Invites / Haiti Poster Project

  Chris Coyier

  5 Feb 2010 | 5:33 am

  Two things today.First, have you guys heard of Threadsy? I hadn’t, but apparently they got 2nd place at TechCrunch 50, which is pretty great. It’s a web application that combines several of your online “input streams” (e.g. Email, Twitter, and Facebook). I think that’s actually all they do right now, which I find kind of awesome, because those are the only ones I use anyway.I have 500 invites to give away for it. First come first serve as I understand it. Just click this to sign up.I really quite like it. The Threadsy team has done a killer job in creating an…

• Link Underlines Grow to Backgrounds on Hover

  Chris Coyier

  4 Feb 2010 | 7:10 am

  Reader Jaime Morrison emailed in:I’ve been mulling the idea of going with a link style in which a link’s underline “slides-up” to become a background highlight on hover.I started mulling over a few ideas on how to do this myself. Ultimately, I tried two different things but neither one of them is absolutely perfect.Take OneWe know we’re going to be using jQuery here (or some JavaScript library), because of the animation. My first though was to set relative positioning on the links, then use jQuery to append empty <span>’s to each link. The span would be…

• Free Template: DocTemplate

  Chris Coyier

  2 Feb 2010 | 5:42 am

  Little freebie template for ya’ll today. It was actually Doug Neiner’s idea, I ran with it, then he helped me out at the end tighten some stuff up.View Demo   Download FilesNoteIt’s PHP. So if you download it to check it out, throw it up on your web server to test it out (or somewhere you run PHP locally).NavigationThe navigation is all AJAX’d up using the jQuery .load() functionality. I just think it’s kinda fun. It supports “deep linking”, so if you were to link to this page with a hash-tag of a page (e.g. /DocTemplate/#parameters.php) , it…

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  CSS Drive News

• 8 Logo Design Ideas- Lightening up your creative minds!

  webmaster@REMOVETHIScssdrive.com

  9 Feb 2010 | 11:14 am

  Here are 8 simple but fruitful notions which if kept in mind, can give you bundles of successful logo design ideas.

• Use of Effective Typography in Logo Design

  webmaster@REMOVETHIScssdrive.com

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:30 am

  Some nice examples of logos with effective, fantastic typography.

• Most Interesting Design Trends Among Blogs: 2010

  webmaster@REMOVETHIScssdrive.com

  8 Feb 2010 | 11:01 pm

  A list of interesting trends to watch for in blogs for 2010, such as advanced typography.

• 15 Ways to Improve Freelance Creativity

  webmaster@REMOVETHIScssdrive.com

  8 Feb 2010 | 10:43 am

  Freelancers often find that staying in a creative mindset, day in day out, can be a real challenge. Here are 15 tips for improving creativity and staying creative for longer.

• Pure CSS3 Animated AT-AT Walker from Star Wars

  webmaster@REMOVETHIScssdrive.com

  7 Feb 2010 | 10:33 pm

  This article looks at creating animatiosn using CSS3, in this case, an AT-AT Walker from "The Empire Strikes Back".

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  Pro Blog Design

• How to Install Wordpress on your PC

  sogeking

  8 Feb 2010 | 8:00 am

  Wordpress is arguably the most popular and the best blogging platform out there. You might have installed Wordpress on your site, but you might be scared to experiment with Wordpress worrying that you could break your site and Wordpress.Experimenting is one of the best way to learn new things and if you break your site, you probably might not want your visitors to see the fault as it might leave a bad impression. So, it is necessary to have the ability to learn WordPress and try new themes, plugins and other items without putting it online where people can see.So, the best solution is to…

• Design Review: Free Pixels

  Michael Martin

  4 Feb 2010 | 9:00 am

  In this review, we’re going to work through a website (FreePixels.com) as a case study, looking at its design and seeing what we can learn from it and what we could improve on.So to start off, let’s take a look at Free Pixels. They offer almost 4000 extremely high quality images, for free. All you have to do is leave the small watermark in the corner, or create your own link back.That makes it a very handy site for bloggers! Now load up the site in a new tab, and let’s start our case study!The very first thing I look for is the logo and slogan. The logo is right where you’d expect it,…

• The iPad – Help Me Decide?

  Michael Martin

  1 Feb 2010 | 9:00 am

  I don’t know what to do.The iPad came out last week and, well, I want one. But that’s a standard side-effect of a Steve Jobs keynote; you always end up wanting one.There’s been a lot of talk about shortcomings of the device, and a lot of the points have merit. Enough merit to stop me from getting it though?In this article, I’ll be working through all of the pros and all of the cons I can see so far. Hopefully by the end, I’ll know what to do.(PS – Just for the record; I’m a Windows 7 user on a HP desktop. I also have a Toshiba laptop that will be getting Ubuntu 9.10 installed on…

• 25 Color Combination Tools For Designers

  Lee Ka Hoong

  25 Jan 2010 | 8:00 am

  Color is difficult to get right. There’s a near infinite number of combinations out there, but only a few that will actually look right for your project. Because it’s so important to a design’s success, it’s worth taking a little time to work out your palette.There are a lot of online tools to help out with this. They all vary slightly to suit designers with different preferences on how they work. We’ve collected together 25 of the best here, with a quick overview on each to help you decide which to try.Website Color Match Color Match is a website tool that shows…

• How To Make a WordPress Events List

  Michael Martin

  18 Jan 2010 | 9:00 am

  An events list is just what you would expect; a list of upcoming events, ordered by the date they are taking place on (Not the date they were written on!).In this post, we are going to create our own events list that will let us add events simply by writing posts and assigning them to an “Events” category. It can’t get much easier than that!This is exactly what we set up for a recent client of ours, American Majority. You can see their full events listing here, or solely the events in one state here (And on both pages, you’ll see the corresponding list in the sidebar as well).There…

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  About.com Web Design / HTML

• Are legal pages critical to websites?

  9 Feb 2010 | 1:58 am

  I received the following question from a reader: I have made a community based website... I often see the "accept terms" that you have to check mark to register to a forum. Will it be necessary for my forum? And while many people put up forums and other websites with no terms or disclaimers or other legal information, this may not be the best way to protect yourself and your business. There are many legal pages you can have on a website. Not all sites need all of them, but many sites could benefit from one or two. Which ones do you use? More Help with Legal Pages Legal Pages for Websites What…

• Why Are Web Pages So Ugly?

  8 Feb 2010 | 12:53 am

  I was thinking about the Reader's Choice Awards and specifically the Best Web Designs participants when one of my friends was complaining that some of the nominees were (in his words) "downright ugly". He wondered why, when there were so many good looking sites on the Web, ugly ones seem to get more prominence. So I asked him who he nominated for each of my design categories. And he laughed and said "well, I couldn't think of any for all of them." And I began to wonder, are beautiful Web pages more or less common on the Web than their ugly brethren? So I devised this completely unscientific…

• Web Design Software Pick of the Week: Stock.Xchng

  7 Feb 2010 | 5:38 am

  Stock.Xchng, while not really software, is a tool I use for my Web design work all the time. It's a stock photography and images site, and the best thing about most of the images? They are free. You can find standard stock photo iconic images like the ubiquitous handshake signifying a business deal and abstract photos like these lightbulbs and many other types of photos. It's my favorite stock photo site. CSS Tool: Stock.Xchng Where do you get your Web photos? How to Find Photos for Web Pages Get Scanned Photos onto a Web Page Protect Your Digital Photos Online Taking Great Pictures for Web…

• JavaScript Menus Don't Have to be Hard

  4 Feb 2010 | 6:49 am

  If you've ever tried to build a JavaScript drop-down menu from scratch, then you know how hard it can be. They can get very complicated very quickly, and unless you are building menus all day, everyday mistakes will creep in that can be challenging to find and fix. One solution is to use a tool like FlexiMenusJS to design and build your menus. More About DHTML and DHTML Menus FlexiMenuJS Standards Based DHTML Menus How Do You Build Dynamic Menus? DHTML Menu Scripts and Programs Show and Hide Blocks of Text (or Images) with CSS and JS JavaScript Menus Don't Have to be Hard originally appeared…

• Poll: With the coming of the iPad, are you going to focus more on HTML5 than Flash?

  4 Feb 2010 | 12:34 am

  There is a lot of hoopla going around the announcement of the Apple iPad. I admit that I've been hooked as well, and the complaints that it's nothing more than a "giant iPod touch" suit me just fine. That's not a complaint in my book, that's a benefit. But all swooning aside, I am wondering how the iPad will affect my work as a designer. If you had asked me last December what I thought was going to change in 2010, I would have said that Flash was going to get a lot bigger as more sites started using it for games and features. But then the iPad came out and Apple is beginning to make it fairly…

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  Web Design

• Prepping for Internet Retailer Web Design & Usability 2010 Conference in Orlando. Getting away from Canadian cold and some warm weather.

  9 Feb 2010 | 11:56 am

  Prepping for Internet Retailer Web Design & Usability 2010 Conference in Orlando. Getting away from Canadian cold and some warm weather.[Filtrs in article: "web design" ][FiltrRank: 4][Source: twitter.com/ezrasilverton]

• we are exhibiting at the Internet Retailer 2010 Web Design & Usability conference in Orlando. If you're coming,... http://bit.ly/ddWshz

  9 Feb 2010 | 11:50 am

  we are exhibiting at the Internet Retailer 2010 Web Design & Usability conference in Orlando. If you're coming,... http://bit.ly/ddWshz[Filtrs in article: "web design" ][FiltrRank: 4][Source: twitter.com/webhostingbuzz]

• The Usability Mindset:What You Need to Know Before Implementing User-Centered Web Design http://cli.gs/WLVus

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:05 am

  The Usability Mindset:What You Need to Know Before Implementing User-Centered Web Design http://cli.gs/WLVus[Filtrs in article: "web design" ][FiltrRank: 4][Source: twitter.com/4legs]

• Key trends for the next 12mnths in web design http://tinyurl.com/ya6wurv "...be content-aware, and user-, & usability-,focused."

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:03 am

  Key trends for the next 12mnths in web design http://tinyurl.com/ya6wurv "...be content-aware, and user-, & usability-,focused."[Filtrs in article: "web design" ][FiltrRank: 4][Source: twitter.com/EmmsieLu]

• RT @webdesignerjobs Web Design Jobs New Subdomain Design & Usability Improvement - oDesk: We have a new subsite with reviews and hardw...

  9 Feb 2010 | 3:51 am

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  Slashdot

• How Do You Accurately Estimate Programming Time?

  Soulskill

  9 Feb 2010 | 10:11 am

  itwbennett writes "It can take a fairly stable team of programmers as long as six months to get to a point where they're estimating programming time fairly close to actuals, says Suvro Upadhyaya, a Senior Software Engineer at Oracle. Accurately estimating programming time is a process of defining limitations, he says. The programmers' experience, domain knowledge, and speed vs. quality all come into play, and it is highly dependent upon the culture of the team/organization. Upadhyaya uses Scrum to estimate programming time. How do you do it?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

• NVIDIA Shows Off "Optimus" Switchable Graphics For Notebooks

  Soulskill

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:49 am

  Vigile writes "Transformers jokes aside, NVIDIA's newest technology offering hopes to radically change the way notebook computers are built and how customers use them. The promise of both extended battery life and high performance mobile computing has seemed like a pipe dream, and even the most recent updates to 'switchable graphics' left much to be desired in terms of the user experience. Having both an integrated and discrete graphics chip in your notebook does little good if you never switch between the two. Optimus allows the system to seamlessly and instantly change between IGP and…

• KDE 4.4 Released Alongside Website Redesign

  Soulskill

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:29 am

  Cryophallion writes "KDE 4.4.0 has finally been released, along with a redesign of the KDE.org website. New features include tabbed windows, improved desktop search and social desktop features. 'Major new technologies have been introduced, including social networking and online collaboration features, a new netbook-oriented interface and infrastructural innovations such as the KAuth authentication framework. According to KDE's bug-tracking system, 7293 bugs have been fixed and 1433 new feature requests were implemented.' A feature guide is also available."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

• Hardware TPM Hacked

  Soulskill

  9 Feb 2010 | 8:45 am

  BiggerIsBetter writes "Christopher Tarnovsky has pulled off the 'near impossible' TPM hardware hack. We all knew it was only a matter of time; this is why you shouldn't entrust your data to proprietary solutions. From the article: 'The technique can also be used to tap text messages and email belonging to the user of a lost or stolen phone. Tarnovsky said he can't be sure, however, whether his attack would work on TPM chips made by companies other than Infineon. Infineon said it knew this type of attack was possible when it was testing its chips. But the company said independent tests…

• Signs of Water Found On Saturnian Moon Enceladus

  Soulskill

  9 Feb 2010 | 8:23 am

  Matt_dk writes "Scientists working on the Cassini space mission have found negatively charged water ions in the ice plume of Enceladus. Their findings, based on analysis from data taken in plume fly-throughs in 2008 and reported in the journal Icarus, provide evidence for the presence of liquid water, which suggests the ingredients for life inside the icy moon. The Cassini plasma spectrometer, used to gather this data, also found other species of negatively charged ions including hydrocarbons."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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• What We're Reading

  By MICHAEL DONOHOE

  19 Jan 2010 | 11:24 am

  Following last Decembers post, I've collected a slightly larger round of links from my colleagues as well as solicited links from our readers - from Flash on the iPhone to official New York City subway data.

• More Tags Released to the Linked Data Cloud

  By EVAN SANDHAUS and ROB LARSON

  13 Jan 2010 | 11:21 am

  Today we're pleased to announce the addition of approximately 5,000 new subject headings to data.nytimes.com: organizations, publicly traded companies and geographic identifiers.

• Article Search API Enhancements

  By DEREK GOTTFRID

  12 Jan 2010 | 1:53 pm

  The Times Article Search API already had a rich set of data attributes, but we couldn't resist adding a few more.

• What We're Trolling

  By MICHAEL DONOHOE

  15 Dec 2009 | 12:37 pm

  This post is the first in a new series that offers a look at what NYTimes.com developers are reading and sharing online.

• Nominations Data Added to Congress API

  By DEREK WILLIS

  3 Dec 2009 | 7:58 am

  We've added civilian nominee data to the Congress API, to allow you to track the progress of presidential nominees as they move through the process.

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  Packt Publishing

• Exclusive Discount Offer: Liferay Portal 5.2 Systems Development -Up to 50% Off

  9 Feb 2010 | 4:37 am

  Exclusive Discount Offer: Liferay Portal 5.2 Systems Development -Up to 50% Off Tuesday, February 9, 2010 | Java Packt has come up with a special offer on one of its titles -Liferay Portal 5.2 Systems Development This book shows how Java developers can use Liferay as a framework to develop custom intranet systems, based on Liferay portal platform thus helping you to maximize your productivity gains. Get ready for a rich, friendly, intuitive and collaborative end-user experience!Using this book you can customize Liferay into a single point of access to all an organization's data, content, web…

• jQuery 1.4 DOM Insertion Methods

  9 Feb 2010 | 3:57 am

  jQuery 1.4 DOM Insertion Methods Tuesday, February 9, 2010 | jQuery All of the methods in this article by Karl Swedberg and Jonathan Chaffer, authors of jQuery 1.4 Reference Guide, manipulate the DOM in some manner. In a previous article we saw methods that simply change one of the attributes of an element, while others set an element's style properties. In this article we cover methods for DOM insertion—inside, outside, and around. These methods allow us to insert new content inside and outside an existing element, and also surrounding existing content. See More

• Forms in Grok 1.0

  8 Feb 2010 | 10:54 pm

  Forms in Grok 1.0 Tuesday, February 9, 2010 | Open Source Grok has a mechanism for automating the creation and processing of forms. We'll see how it works in this article by Carlos de la Guardia, author of Grok 1.0 Web Development, along with a few other form-related subjects: What is an interface What is a schema How interfaces and schemas are used to generate forms automatically, using Grok's form components How to create, add, and edit forms How to filter fields and prevent them from appearing in a form How to change form templates and presentation See More

• jQuery 1.4 DOM Manipulation Methods for Style Properties and Class Attributes

  8 Feb 2010 | 4:31 am

  jQuery 1.4 DOM Manipulation Methods for Style Properties and Class Attributes Monday, February 8, 2010 | jQuery All of the methods in this article by Karl Swedberg and Jonathan Chaffer, authors of jQuery 1.4 Reference Guide, manipulate the DOM in some manner. A few of them simply change one of the attributes of an element, while others set an element's style properties. All of these methods are referred to as setters, as they change the values of properties. A few of these methods such as .attr() also act as getters, retrieving information from DOM elements for later use. See More

• Exclusive Discount Offer: Learning the Yahoo! User Interface library - Up to 50% Off

  8 Feb 2010 | 2:52 am

  Exclusive Discount Offer: Learning the Yahoo! User Interface library - Up to 50% Off Monday, February 8, 2010 | WordPress Packt has come up with a special offer on one of its titles -Learning the Yahoo! User Interface library Learning the Yahoo! User Interface Library introduces the popular open-source YUI JavaScript library and takes the user through each of the fully released components in detail looking at the classes that make up each component and the properties and methods that can be used. It includes a series of practical examples to reinforce how each component should/can be used.

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  MediaPost | Gaming Insider

• The Power Of Personalized Content

  5 Feb 2010 | 10:15 am

  "Mass Effect 2" was released last week, and it's been an amazing experience. I was a fan of the first game, and even wrote about the psychological tricks it employed to add a feeling of personalization to what was mostly generic content. The second installment has reinforced and increased my desire for more interactive and personalized content, even if without the game elements. There are two things I've noticed with the most recent title that are worth considering: the emotional impact of forced projection, and the redefinition of water-cooler conversation.

• Gaming Potential Of IPad May Fall Short

  29 Jan 2010 | 2:15 pm

  Apple's hype-laden announcement of the iPad has come and gone, along with 2010's full complement of feminine-hygiene-product-related jokes. Very few products have been the subject of more pre-launch rumor, and have had more rarefied predecessors. Thanks to the iPad's pedigree, casual game developers are salivating at the chance to develop games for the platform, and reach the huge audience that Apple has a conduit to through the iTunes store. But usability issues could temper this initial enthusiasm.

• Will Net Neutrality Kill Cloud Gaming?

  25 Jan 2010 | 7:15 am

  The title of this post is "Will Net Neutrality Kill Cloud Gaming?" -- and no, that's not the wrong way around. While a handful of game developers just advised the FCC on the importance of net neutrality for the future of online gaming, and to an extent correctly so, there are cause-and-effects in play that also pose significant threats.

• Game Joins Movie In $1B Take -- And As Target Of Controversy

  15 Jan 2010 | 2:00 pm

  The big entertainment headlines this week are all about "Avatar" breaking records and earning over a billion dollars in box office takings, faster than any movie in history. But among techie-er pubs, "Avatar" is sharing headlines with Activison's latest mega-hit, "Modern Warfare 2," which has also taken in a billion dollars since its November release, securing its status as one of the best-selling games of all time, along with some time in the mainstream press spotlight. Along with that mainstream attention is certain to come some controversy.

• What The Nexus One Means For Android Gaming

  8 Jan 2010 | 8:30 am

  Almost two years ago I wrote a post here about how an announcement that week was going to revolutionize portable gaming. I was talking about the announcement of the iPhone SDK and the pending availability of native apps. Now, it's hard to step away from the clarity of hindsight, but at the time this was a controversial point. Games were already available on mobile -- why would the iPhone be any different? Well, an announcement this week poses a new point of controversy: What will the Nexus One mean for the prospects of Android-based portable gaming?

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• Evening News Ratings: Week of Feb. 1

  9 Feb 2010 | 9:50 am

  "NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams" was was the most-watched evening news program last week, averaging 10 million viewers. "ABC World News with Diane Sawyer" was second and was the only newscast to increase viewers week-to-week. "CBS Evening News with Katie Couric" was third. "World News" cut into NBC's lead year-to-year, but "Nightly" was the only newscast up year-to-year. Numbers for the week of Feb. 1: NBCABCCBS• Total Viewers:10,000,0008,580,0006,480,000• A25-54:2,980,0002,510,0001,990,000 New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

• Cable Network and News Program Rankings: FNC #2 in Primetime

  9 Feb 2010 | 8:38 am

  Fox News was the #2 cable network in primetime last week, averaging around 500,000 viewers less than #1 USA Network. MSNBC came in #27 and CNN was #33 in primetime. In total day, Fox was the #4 cable network, while CNN was #28 and MSNBC was #35. You can see the full cable network rankings after the jump. In the rankings for cable news programs, Fox again had the top 13 led by "The O'Reilly Factor," which averaged almost 4 million viewers the week of Jon Stewart's appearance. FNC's late-late night program, "Red Eye," which airs at 3am on the east coast, ranked ahead of CNN's primetime programs…

• How'd You Like to Have Derek Jeter in your Bar Mitzvah Video?

  9 Feb 2010 | 8:25 am

  CNBC's Mark Hoffman knows TV. He also know a lot of people. He's combining his knowledge of both for a video for his son's bar mitzvah later this month. According to Page Six, the video will include NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams, "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer even Yankee slugger Derek Jeter. "Mark wanted to hire the best," CNBC spokesman Brian Steel tells the Post. "It was long ago company-approved, and he will be paying for it out of his own pocket." New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

• The Scoreboard: Sunday, Feb. 7

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:50 am

  25-54 demographic: (L +SD)Total day: FNC: 241 | CNN: 120 | MSNBC: 156 | HLN: 100 Prime: FNC: 94 | CNN: 75 | MSNBC: 185 | HLN: 53   5p: 6p: 7p: 8p: 9p: 10p: 11p: FNC NewsHQ: FNSunday: Report: Huckabee: Hannity: Geraldo: Huckabee:   294 162 126 53 53 175 170 CNN Amanpour: Newsroom: Newsroom: Special: King: Newsroom: Special:   106 72 37 34 42 150 123 MSNBC Special: Special: Special: Special: Special: Special: Special:   213 199 205 183 153 219 287 HLN HLN: Prime: Issues: Grace: Behar: Grace: Showbiz:   72 31 33 46 35 76 129 Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same…

• The Scoreboard: Saturday, Feb. 6

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:48 am

  25-54 demographic: (L +SD)Total day: FNC: 293 | CNN: 149 | MSNBC: 143 | HLN: 114 Prime: FNC: 396 | CNN: 192 | MSNBC: 121 | HLN: 103   5p: 6p: 7p: 8p: 9p: 10p: 11p: FNC NewsHQ: NewsHQ: Report: Huckabee: Geraldo: Geraldo: Jrnl/FNW:   229 163 226 240 563 385 245 CNN Newsroom: SitRoom: Newsroom: Special: Palin: Newsroom: Special:   115 116 151 177 223 176 110 MSNBC Special: Special: Special: Special: Palin: Special: Special:   141 150 169 196 53 114 253 HLN HLN: Prime: Issues: Grace: Behar: Grace: Showbiz:   83 69 82 130 94 86 96 Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and…

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  Variety.com

• Probst stays with 'Survivor'

  9 Feb 2010 | 8:11 am

  TV News: CBS keeps reality TV host through May 2011 -- Jeff Probst will remain host and exec producer of "Survivor" through May 2011.

• Ratings: Super surge for CBS

  9 Feb 2010 | 7:22 am

  TV News: Comedy combo of 'Men,' 'Bang' soar in ratings -- One day after hefty promotion during the Super Bowl, the CBS comedy combo of "Two and a Half Men" and "The Big Bang Theory" soared, with the latter hitting another series high. Also on the upswing Monday was ABC's reality veteran "The Bachelor," which hit a season high for the fifth straight week.

• BSkyB boss to speak at Mip TV

  9 Feb 2010 | 5:41 am

  International News: Chris Albrecht, Ben Silverman also on lineup -- Jeremy Darroch, chief exec of U.K. satcaster BSkyB, will deliver a keynote address at Cannes mart Mip TV on April 14.

• 'Burma VJ' wins Mumbai prize

  9 Feb 2010 | 5:11 am

  Asia: 'August 17' nabs Golden Conch for docu -- Anders Ostergaard's "Burma VJ -- Reporting from a Closed Country" won best film at the 11th Mumbai Film Festival of Documentary, Animation and Short Films, which wrapped Tuesday.

• San Sebastian to honor Don Siegel

  9 Feb 2010 | 4:48 am

  Europe: Festival prepares complete retrospective -- Action pic maestro Don Siegel will be honored with a retrospective at this September's 58th San Sebastian Film Festival.