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This detailed tutorial by Vaclav Krejci shows you how to create symbols in Illustrator and convert them to a symbol font. “Icons are inseparable part of a GUI (graphical user interfaces) design. I was downloading, buying and creating icons for ages, then one day I decided to make my own usable icon set. Something to help other GUI designers make work faster and better. This article explains in detail the process of creating and phases I was going through with ...

Even with Twitter experiencing delays this morning, Apple's iPad announcement generated 177,000 tweets in the first hour alone according to data from Trendrr.com.It should come as no surprise that the Twittersphere was (and still is) all a-buzz about the iPad the build-up to which has been months in the making but the iPad averaging nearly 3,000 tweets per minute in the first hour is just plain remarkable. We haven't seen anything like it in recent history. According to Trendrr, tweets ...

Unless you were under a rock, it was virtually impossible to miss today’s unveiling of the Apple iPad. Nonetheless, people wanted to make sure their friends knew about it too, and have been retweeting, sharing, and email forwarding stories about the new device in droves.Clearspring, whose AddThis sharing widget is viewed more than 50 billion times per month, tells us that shares about Apple-related news are up more than 600% today. The massive volume spike is illustrated in the chart ...

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The iPad is not the transformational device so many Apple enthusiasts were hoping for. It won't turn all the content industries upside down, it won't be your primary computing device, and it's not even a bigger, better iPhone.Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the iPad as a device to fill the gap between smartphones like the iPhone and high-end laptops like the MacBook and MacBook Pro. He said there needs to be a middle device, but it needs to be better ...

Google has kept Social Search pretty much hidden from the general public, choosing to make it an opt-in Google Labs feature. Today, however, Google is pushing the feature to beta status and turning it on for all signed-in English Googlers.You may recall that Google Social Search is a standard search results page add-on that displays socially relevant content from people in your online social circle, as determined by your Google Profile.With the beta release, Google's also integrating social search into ...

Here at ReadWriteWeb, we're big fans of the Chrome web browser. Most of the bloggers here have made the switch, abandoning Firefox and Safari for the new, speedy WebKit-based browser from Google. And with the addition of extensions, we've found even more reasons to love it - over 1500 of them, actually. We each have our favorites of course, but recently, we came across one we just had to share with our readers: The ReadWriteWeb News Notifier! Sponsor The ReadWriteWeb ...

For the last few years jQuery has been the jewel in Javascripts crown. Its rapid rise in popularity not only reflects how powerful a tool it is but also how relatively easy it is to work with. It is because of these two factors that developers have been churning out plugins and new techniques at [...]