The very first thing I love the Web for is its unceasing evolution. Year after year, the new tools and solutions appear, and others fade out. It was Flash to burst in 1996, and what now? Is it popular and much in use today? The drag-and-drop interface became widespread in...
The very first images of animals were the prehistoric cave paintings. Since these times animals have been very popular in visual arts of very different cultures and nations all over the world. There is virtually no tribe, no nation that has never ever had artists and craftsmen depicting animals. Animals...
![3 Years of Google+ in Numbers [Infographic]](http://cdn.instantshift.com/media/uploads/2014/06/google-plus-in-numbers-150x150.jpg)
June 28th 2014 marks the 3rd birthday of Google’s social networking platform Google+. At only three years old, it is still in its infancy yet it has faced the harshest of criticisms and ridicule at times of all the social networks. Heralded as Google’s competitor to Facebook, Google+ has not...
“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.” -J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan Are you a fantasy fan? What do you like the most? Literature, movies, video games, music, painting… Historically, fantasy genre has been available mostly in the form of...
The future of web design is already revealed, web design trends come and go, we just need to look behind us to see it. There are a few design trends that are up and running that I am actually excited about. Designers like me never gets tired of discussing previous,...
Usually mouse pad comes with a standard size and design and there is no creativity in it making mouse pad a boring computer accessory. However, many people who love creativity prefer to use some creative mouse pads with unique design. For them, we have compiled this collection where we are...
Every year web design trends come and go, and it’s necessary for designers to keep up with them in order to stay up-to-date. Designers see each other’s work, browse likes and comments, and draw conclusions. Although minor trends pop up all the time, we’ll only talk about one of the...
The web is evolving constantly. New and creative websites are being created every day, pushing the limitations of HTML in every direction. To give authors more flexibility and interoperability, HTML5 is proposed as the next major revision of HTML. It works on just about every platform, is compatible with older...
Saving time and making our lives easier are the main tasks of the modern gadgets, especially when it comes to cooking. The culinary gadgets I have collected below are designed to make tasks like sliding vegetables and dicing tomatoes seem effortless. Almost all of them are made to solve one...
Every movie has a poster for its publicity and marketing purpose. Movie posters are known for a brief introduction of what the movie all about. Now over the past few years, we’ve continuously seen a boom of posters and DVD covers continuing to appropriate the style. A good poster is...
Sticky Notes is a Microsoft Windows application for taking notes and writing down important meeting and time so that you do not forget them. Creative geniuses have created some exceptional and creative designs for the sticky notes that are totally different from the usual designs that we everyday see on...
When it comes to Image editing or photo enhancement, Adobe Photoshop is usually the primary option to consider. However, the software package itself is a quite hard to learn — and extremely hard to master. And of course, Not all design lovers are web designers. In this compilation below, you’ll...
![11 Years of LinkedIn in Numbers [Infographic]](http://cdn.instantshift.com/media/uploads/2014/05/linkedin-in-numbers-infographic-150x150.jpg)
The social network is this month (on May 5th to be exact) celebrating their 11th year in existence. It has changed the way that the human resources industry has worked and has brought recruitment online. Linkedin allows members to show off their educational and work experience in a formatted manner....
Presentation is a crucial asset of creative designers. Photoshop is an extremely powerful and accessible application for photo editing and image manipulation, and we can make it even more powerful by mixing our creativity while working with it. However, the software package itself is a quite hard to learn. And...
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Since Coca-Cola invented the revolutionary marketing technique back in 1887, coupons have been a constant mainstay of the business world. Coupons provide a clever incentive to buy, a physical reminder of the company that produces them, and a psychological cue to inspire loyalty from customers. Yet, while some types are...