Editor’s Note: This blog post was originally posted by PhotoShelter CEO and founder Allen Murayabashi on the PhotoShelter blog . Murayabashi was kind enough to share it with Raw File readers. It might sound strange to use the verb “Love” in the title of a rant. But here goes. I love photography. Why…

Since Elliot Jay Stocks so poignantly told us to destroy the Web 2.0 look , we’ve witnessed a de-shinification of the Web, with fewer glass buttons, beveled edges, reflections, special-offer badges, vulgar gradients with vibrant colors and diagonal background patterns. The transformation has been…

"If you're going to build a company, you have to do it like a World of Warcraft guild leader builds guilds," Gordon explained. The term "gamification" — which my word processor still does not recognize, perhaps for good reason — has been thrown around with exponentially increasing frequency this…

Sir Jonathan Ive, Jony to his friends, is arguably one of the world’s most influential Londoners. The 45-year-old was born in Chingford — and went to the same school as David Beckham. He met his wife, Heather Pegg, while in secondary school. They married in 1987, have twin sons and now live in San…

Apple CEO Tim Cook announcing the newest iPad Imagine you run a large technology company not named Apple. Let’s say you’re Steve Ballmer, Michael Dell, Meg Whitman, Larry Page, or Intel’s Paul Otellini. How are you feeling today, a day after Apple CEO Tim Cook unveiled the new iPad? Are you…

In recent years, Google Maps has transformed itself from an also-ran service struggling to catch up with the likes of MapQuest to a market-leading mapping and route planning service that seems to be everywhere. There’s scarcely a Web site or smartphone app with any location-related needs that…

While it's difficult to get the depth of an academic journal into 140 characters, there's no denying the increasing value of Twitter as a primary source of information. As such, those academic journals will likely need to cite tweets more and more in the future — except that no-one has quite agreed…

I love Apple products and the Apple mindset in general. I devour Apple-centric content and I live in the Apple ecosystem. I can sum up my love for Apple with six words: their products dramatically improve my life. (Fun game: try that sentence with any company, and see if it rings true.) But nobody’s…

Editor’s note: Aaron Levie is co-founder and CEO at Box . Follow him on Twitter @levie . For the past six years, any startup touching the cloud storage space has lived in anticipation and fear of Google’s entry into the market. G(od) Drive’s arrival was meant to instantly commoditize existing…

I love the start-up world. I love working with founders and young companies. I love the excitement of working on business ideas that are new and different. I love seeing the success that often comes from this hard work. I’ve never before in my professional life seen a time of such innovation and…

To the average user, the two new security technologies coming to OS X this year—sandboxing and Gatekeeper—should be virtually invisible. But they could be all too visible to more advanced users, particularly those who use AppleScript and Automator. As we’ve reported previously , Apple will soon…

In addition to producing various helpful apps for web developers, in 2012, we'll also be commissioning and releasing smaller plugins and extensions. Today, I'd like to announce the first entry in this initiative: "Nettuts+ Fetch" - a Sublime Text plugin. The 20 Second Example Choose 720p for a…

Ricky Brigante /Flickr There's been a lot of loose talk about the Death Star lately. I want to put it into a bit of perspective. As background, some students at Lehigh University have estimated that it would be a very expensive project. The steel alone, assuming the Death Star's mass/volume ratio is…

Sublime Text 2 is a relatively new code editor that I've been trying out for a while now. While it's still in public beta, it already offers a great mix of features and performance that has convinced me to switch from my trusted Komodo. While I really do love the features available out of the box,…

How should schools and universities make copies of DVDs for use in the classroom and scholarship? If you ask the DVD Copy Control Association, educators can just point a smartphone at the TV, or use PC screen-capture utilities — anything except breaking the notoriously weak copy-protection used on…

Jason Njoku doesn't like being anyone's bitch. As I learned the last time I saw him-- over machetes in Nigeria -- that includes vigilante mobs. But that also includes YouTube, Amazon Web Services, and US-based video ad networks. And those are the people causing him the most problems since we last…

Yesterday evening, a geekier chunk of the Internet hivemind started buzzing about this article over at Which? . The author raises a few rather interesting questions: what happens to the digital downloads you've purchased when you die? Why are we not allowed to pass them on to our loved ones? By the…

Microsoft and Apple should hate one another right now. I mean, really hate each other. After decades of domination, Microsoft has watched their rival move from death’s door to become the most valuable company in the world — over $200 billion more valuable than Microsoft itself. And it was Microsoft…

WordPress 3 introduced custom taxonomies as a core feature. The following release of 3.1 included many features to enhance support of custom taxonomies. Better import and export handling, advanced queries with tax_query , hierarchical support, body classes and a bunch of wonderful functions to play…

Elliot Jay Stocks 22 Dec ember 2011 Published in Business In the last article I wrote for 24 ways , back in 2009, I enthused about the benefits of having a pet project, suggesting that we should all have at least one so that we could collaborate with our friends, escape our day jobs, fulfil our own…

Retracing the steps you've taken is a helpful way to understand how well you've executed your vision - whatever that might be. What could you have done better? What should have been avoided? Today, I'll share what we've learned (and are still learning) while crafting Gradient . It's an experience…