Best of the Week #166

Sat, 04/09/2011 - 10:07
It's time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we've selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what's going on out there!
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Friday 04/08

37 Signals Launches New Project: Pow, an Easy to Install Rack Server for OSX

Stylish Technology Entrepreneurs: Steve Jobs

Microsoft Releases Bing for iPad
Why Dogs Are Incredible [Video]

Motorola's SocialTV app will turn your Xoom or Atrix into a communicative couch companion

Visualized: jousting on a Segway

Barnes & Noble Now Allows Nook App Submissions (But Nothing Dirty, Please)

The Vote Is in and Twitter Gets its Tax Breaks. Now, What about Everyone Else?

Grooveshark Not Sure Why Google Banned App From Android Market, RIAA Complaint Likely Reason

Microsoft And Toyota Team Up To Create Next-Gen Telematics Platform

When is Learnability More Important than Usability?

Ecosciences Precinct / Hassell
Thursday 04/07

Promised Land – a Mad Max world

A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

Copy and Paste Images into Gmail with Google Chrome

Workspace of the Week: Sharing Star Wars

Typographical Inspiration for the Weekend

Signalnoise for FITC Toronto: 10 years

No banheiro com Stanley Kubrick

Humanity Steps by Sam Werczler

Skim Milk: Mishima House by Keiji Ashizawa Design

The Guardian is Migrating Its Website from Java to Scala

Will we see the iPhone 5 in late June? Release date rumors persist

Nokia Drop brings Chrome To Phone functionality to Symbian devices
Wednesday 04/06

New Project by A-Cero in Madrid Playing with Concrete Volumes

Patterns and textures in web design: awesome examples and resources

Windows Phone 7 is Beautiful, But is it Usable?

152 Fanshawe Street / Architectus

Most Realistic Ballpoint Pen Drawings by Juan Francisco Casas

Conceptual Architecture Showcase – Breaking the Limits
Tuesday 04/05

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Google Street View: um papo sobre privacidade, graça e sinceridade

The Pros and Cons of Joining a Start-up Incubator

The decline of Internet Explorer 8 is already underway

Twitter unveils a new homepage, with a focus on interests

Want To Run Android Apps On Your Windows PC? You Can With BlueStacks.

Milk: Kevin Rose’s New Company Aims to Solve Big Problems on the Mobile Web

Too Lazy To Count Calories? Now You Can Just Take A Picture Of Your Meal

The Big Vote Is Today: Will San Francisco Hang on to Twitter?

Firefox Slow? Check Your Add-Ons, Says Mozilla
Monday 04/04
Animação em stop motion com iPad feito de massinha de modelar

Just say no: Apple and Intel stop using conflict minerals

Nokia says Microsoft software deal will be “concluded well on schedule”

25 Beautiful & Inspiring Navigation Menus

Helicopter Building / Stephane Maupin & Nicolas Hugon

Larry Page takes over as Google CEO today, ready to show Tim Cook how it's done















