Cody Taylor

Web design galleries offer designers and developers creative inspiration on their own designs. In this article you’ll find the 16 best and most popular web design galleries ranked in order by the number of votes they garnered on a poll that was published earlier this month.

This showcase will focus mostly on the layout and organization tactic. Below are about 40 different typographic layouts used in different fields of print such as brochure design, editorial design, and poster, design.

HDTVs are in demand these days People love the clear pictures and better resolution images, and this is the reason they prefer HDTVs over conventional boxes. The quality a High Definition Television provides is unmatched, and usual TVs cannot equate them at all.

Google is set to make changes to its search ranking algorithm to combat the spate of links leading to malicious web pages appearing at the top of Google’s search results, according to an inside source.

schnucki brings word of new research which claims roughly one in twelve American children between the ages of eight and 18 are “pathologically addicted” to video games. The study, conducted by Douglas Gentile, director of the National Institute on Media and the Family at Iowa State University, says that “pathological status was a significant predictor of poorer school performance even after controlling for sex, age, and weekly amount of video-game play.” However, Professor Cheryl Olson, who has conducted her own research into video game use, questioned Gentile’s methodology, saying, “The author is repurposing questions used to assess problem gambling in adults; however, lying to your spouse about blowing the rent money on gambling is a very different matter from fibbing to your mom about whether you played video games instead of starting your homework.”

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Scientists often get a hard time from technophobes – not least because some of their research stems from the university of the bleedin’ obvious. But over at MIT there’s plenty of real work being done – resulting in technologies, concepts and techniques that really could change the way you live work and play.