We are designers and we need to think how to create more usable sites for such needs and today we showcased 45 great mobile webdesigns to get you inspired!

If you do not know you can check other website designs here – this is iPhone simulator, but there are plenty of other ones to check on Android,Windows Mobile etc. –   just input there website you want to check and hit enter. Also thing to remember, if site has mobile design version and you don’t get it automatically, you can access it by putting “m” before website address –  “m.example.com” –  from smartphones and iPhones you need to use this mobile address as well to access it.

1. Pixanimal Studio

   

2. Victoria’s Secret Pink

   

3. Alex Buga

   

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Music Video directed for the Parisian DJ/Producer Knuckles (now known as Sovnger)

Shot on the Paris Metropolitain with the Olympus i-SPEED 3 in association with International Theatre School Jacques Lecoq.

pmbryan.com/knuckles.html
myspace.com/djknucklesmothafucka
myspace.com/sovnger

Elements 2010
12-17 June
Loughborough University Degree Show

D&AD New Blood 2010
24-28 June
London

THE RAVEN

Summary – Chris Black possesses a power that could lead to the destruction of the current regime, and they will stop at nothing to destroy him.
The chase is on as Chris runs for his life in this sci-fi thriller set in an alternate and futuristic Los Angeles.

• Director: Ricardo de Montreuil
• Producers: Ricardo de Montreuil & Eliz Eskeranli
• Writers: Ricardo de Montreuil & Antonio Perez
• Cinematographer: Andres Sanchez
• Composer: Angelo Milli
• Special Effects Supervisor: Aaron Burns
• 3D Modeling and Animation: Juan Somarriba and Francisco Concha
• Visual Effects and Compositing: Ricardo de Montreuil
• Editing: Ricardo de Montreuil
• Color Correction: Santiago Padilla
• Budget: $5k
• Format: RED 1920×1080

New York invasion by 8-bits creatures!
PIXELS is Patrick Jean’ latest short film, shot on location in New York.

Written, directed by : Patrick Jean
Director of Photograhy : Matias Boucard

This clip is raw from Camera E-8 on the launch umbilical tower/mobile launch program of Apollo 11, July 16, 1969. This is an HD transfer from the 16mm original.

The camera is running at 500 fps, making the total clip of over 8 minutes represent just 30 seconds of actual time. Narration is provided by Mark Gray (me), Executive Producer for Spacecraft Films.

If you look at some of the code that has been released, though, we do seem to have taken a step backwards. In gaining easier access, we also became a bit sloppy with our code. Finding clearly structured, easy-to-maintain jQuery code is quite tough, which is why many plug-ins do the same thing. Writing one yourself is faster than trying to fathom what other developers have done.

The rules for solid, maintainable and secure JavaScript haven’t changed, though. So, let’s run through the seven sins of JavaScript development that will bite you in the backside when you have to maintain the code later on or hand it over to another party.

We’ve all had to work with code written by other people. We have despaired over the lack of maintainability and documentation as well as weird logic. Funny enough, as developers, we started to see this as normal and got used to ignoring other people’s work and instead writing new code for the same problems over and over, as if we were subconsciously trying to secure our jobs by leaving behind unmaintainable code—code that only we understood, while complaining that no good solutions were out there.

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The set consists of web application icons, user interface icons, e-commerce icons, general use icons, desktop icons, blog icons, smiley icons, button icons, keyboard icons, national flags icons, popular online services icons and many others.

Behind the Scene

As always, here are some insights from the designer himself:

“In January 2009 I released my first pixel-based iconset ‘Flavour’ right here on the Smashing Magazine. A couple of months later, in May 2009, I extended that set and released ‘Flavour Extended’. Now, over one year later it’s time to finish this set. ‘Addictive Flavour’ will be the last part of the Flavour series. (At least for now I think it will be ^_^ ).

In my releases I asked you for your feedback on the iconset and that feedback was overwhelming. I received hundreds of e-mails and read even more comments here and on Twitter. With ‘Addictive Flavour’ I hope to give you the icon set that you wanted and that you need for your web development projects. Though, if there is a special icon missing in the set that you need for your project or site, please feel free to contact me on Twitter (@mywayhome or via e-mail (icons [at] addictedotocoffee dot de) and we’ll see what we can do for you!

I want to thank all of you for your great support with this huge icon set. Especially I want to thank Magda, Lars, Martin LeBlanc, Bastian Allgeier, the team at Smashing Magazine and all of the beta-viewers who did a fantastic job on reviewing my work and giving me feedback, love and inspiration!

Please stay tuned for more of my releases here in Smashing Magazine or via my Twitter stream.

Thanks a lot, Oliver.

Thank you very much, Oliver! We appreciate your efforts.

Downloads

Please go to Smashing Magazine – http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/04/15/the-ultimate-free-web-designer-s-icon-set-750-icons-incl-psd-sources/

Editorial Content and Images of this post are copyrighted by Smashing Magazine

Some stories featured team-ups with other characters from the Marvel Universe, including Captain America, Iron Man, Sunfire, and the mid-1970s X-Men.

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To watch the full episode with higher resolution, download links from Megaupload and Rapidshare. Download Here this file is .txt the content are the links from rapidshare and megaupload.

NIXUS may be one of our top Icon Pack releases to date: 60 Premium Quality Icons—Absolutely Free. While many of their other Icon Packs are great for creative use, NIXUS proves to be compatible in both corporate and creative situations. You won’t find many other free icons packs with this kind of quality online.

Each icon comes in transparent .png format in 64×64px, 48×48px, and 32×32px.

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James Day Photo

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This large collection of recently released icon sets is supposed to help designers improve their designs on their web-sites and in web-applications. All icon sets are free. Please read the license agreements carefully before using the icons — the license can change from time to time. The icons provided below may turn out to be useful and helpful in corporate designs, portfolios, blogs, magazines and in Web-applications. Please feel free to suggest more icon sets in the comments to this post.

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According to the New York Times, Schwartz became the first Fortune 200 CEO to Tweet his resignation when he posted the update at around midnight (EST).

The man who made Sun into an icon in the open-source community told the Times his plans for the future are:

“In the short run, I’m planning to spend some long overdue time with my family. Longer run, with a few million businesses and a few billion consumers on the Web, rumor has it there are some interesting opportunities to be had.”

We’ve heard a similar rumor, and we’re sure this industry veteran will land on his feet. [From: Twitter and New York Times, via: Boing Boing, via: The Switch]

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The research, carried out at in the UK and in Belgium, involved a new brain scanning method.

Awareness was detected in three other patients previously diagnosed as being in a vegetative state.

The study in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that scans can detect signs of awareness in patients thought to be closed off from the world.

Patients in a vegetative state are awake, not in a coma, but have no awareness because of severe brain damage.

More on http://news.bbc.co.uk

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“The system provides a number of advantages over other Trojan horse-style drug delivery system, and should prove a useful tool in fighting a number of diseases,” said Dennis Discher, a professor in Penn’s School of Engineering and Applied Science and a member of Penn newly established Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics. “Here we show that drug-delivering polymersomes will break down in the acidic environment of the cancer cells, allowing us to target these drugs within tumor cells.”

One key feature of molecular mechanism involves putting pores in the cancer cell membranes and has been simulated with supercomputers by Michael F. Klein and Goundla Srinivas of Penn’s Department of Chemistry. While cell membranes and liposomes (vesicles often used for drug-delivery) are created from a double layer of fatty molecules called phospholipids, a polymersome is comprised of two layers of synthetic polymers. The individual polymers are degradable and considerably larger than individual phospholipids but have many of the same chemical features. This results in a structure that looks like a very small cell or virus.

Discher and his colleagues take advantage of the polymersome properties to ferry their drug combination to the tumor. The large polymers making up the shell allow paclitaxel, which is water-insoluble, to embed within the shell. Doxorubicin, which is water-soluble, stays within the interior of the polymersome until it degrades. According to the researchers, the polymersome and drug combination is self-assembling the structure spontaneously forms when all of the components are suitably mixed together.

“Recent studies have shown that cocktails of paclitaxel and doxorubicin lead to better tumor regression than either drug alone, but there hasn’t been any carrier system that can carry both drugs as efficiently to a tumor,” said Fariyal Ahmed, the lead author, former doctoral student in bioengineering,and now a fellow at Harvard Medical School. “Polymersomes get around those limitations

Discher developed polymersomes with Penn bioengineer Daniel Hammer in the 1990s. The Discher lab is further studying the drug- and gene-delivery capabilities of polymersomes, tailoring their shapes, sizes, loading and degradability to each application. Discher theorizes that polymersomes could be made capable of traveling to places in the body that are difficult for most drug-carrier systems to access.

This research was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation-Materials Research Science and Engineering Center and the Nanotechnology Institute.

Co-authors on these findings include Aaron Brannan and Frank Bates of the University of Minnesota and Refika Pakunlu and Tamara Minko of Rutgers University.

More on http://www.physorg.com/news63902953.html

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A cool new library for Google Analytics tracking was released yesterday at Adobe MAX. I learned about it thanks to webmonkey and I wonder why still there is no such info in the Adobe feeds.

So far the tracking of page views and events using the free Analytics tool from Google was pretty straightforward but still hard for many Flash developers. Basically it requires you to include a few lines in the HTML, call some JavaScript from Flash and eventually watch for security restrictions. The nice thing about this new project is that now it will allow you to do all this with just ActionScript. The quality of the library absolutely exceeded my initial expectations and I couldn’t resist to not blog about it. You don’t have to miss it if your projects require such functionality.

Asual Team is looking into integration between SWFAddress and GA for Flash in the near future. It won’t make it into the upcoming release but they definitely interested in playing with it.

The color palette is shrinking. It could affect the foundation of design for everything from websites to fashion. The fate of businesses and billions of dollars ride on choosing the right one. We’ll take a look at how color is becoming the next limited resource.

Limit: One Spectrum per World

Color is limited by what our eyes can see. It’s the visible light spectrum (wavelengths of light) our eyes can detect.

On one end of the spectrum lies red (longer wavelengths) and on the other blue (shorter wavelengths); everything in between those are the colors we find in nature.

Although this spectrum we have available is limited, we still do have a lot of choice when it comes to color. We attempt to reproduce this spectrum in printing, monitors, paintings, and so on. The difference in the way a monitor displays color versus a printed brochure is a world away and more technical than most people would want to worry themselves with.

One company is responsible for connecting this vast chasm of color. Pantone.

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