SXSW Web Awards

The SXSW Web Awards uncover the the best new websites and celebrate those who are building and implementing tomorrow's online trends. Focusing primarily on sites that went active or were redesigned in 2005, this international competition is your premier opportunity to showcase your latest work to the web industry and win.

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FITC - 2006

Flash in the Can is now accepting entries for their fifth annual awards competition. Enter now...

The 2006 Awards will be held on Sunday April 23rd in Toronto Canada at Revival. See ya there...

Absolut gets into spirit of name play with new ads

Absolut is ditching their famous bottle ads campaign in favor of references to pop culture sans bottle.

After 25 years and 1,500 versions of print ads built around the shape of its bottle, Absolut vodka is shelving the campaign that made it famous.

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The Society of Typographic Aficionados

The Society of Typographic Aficionados returns to its roots for its 8th annual conference: TypeCon2006.

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One Giant Leap to IMAX

Very cool! Actual images of Mars from the two Nasa rovers coupled with some spectacular computer animation. Apparently a beautiful thing to watch and the closest we're all likely to get to the Red Planet. Buckle up I'm going in.

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Apple Introduces MacBook Pro

The new MacBook Pro notebook computer features an Intel Core Duo processor which delivers up to four times the performance of the PowerBook G4. Just one inch thin and weighing only 5.6 pounds, the MacBook Pro also includes a built-in iSight video camera, an Apple Remote and Front Row software.

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Apple Announces iLife 06

An upgrade to Apple’s award-winning suite of digital lifestyle applications, iLife ’06 features iPhoto 6 with Photocasting for sharing photos over the Internet, iMovie HD 6 with new motion themes, iDVD 6 for authoring custom DVDs for today’s widescreen TVs and GarageBand 3 for creating professional-quality Podcasts. iLife ’06 also introduces iWeb, a new iLife application making it super-easy to create amazing websites and publish them on the Internet with just a single click.

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The top 10 weirdest USB drives

How cool are these, includes drives that look like fried shrimp, a human thumb, and Barbie (her head pops off to reveal the plug). Sweet!

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The 50 Greatest Gadgets of the Past 50 Years

Here's PC World's official (and entirely idiosyncratic) list of the top tech gadgets of the last half century.

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Typographica Publishes its Favourite Fonts of 2005

Last year’s “best of” list was far more popular than they predicted. The interest in type design is stronger than ever — and the audience is broader too. As public awareness of typography increases, it becomes even more important to use something other than the same old stuff that lingers in your font menu.

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100 things we didn't know this time last year

Each week the BBC Magazine picks out snippets from the news, and compiles them into 10 Things We Didn't Know This Time Last Week. Here's an end of year almanac.

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