Web design is a big industry. Hundreds of millions are made by solo designers and agencies delivering tailored services to their clients and theme foundries selling turn-key solutions for platforms like WordPress. As with any growing industry, where there are people smelling the money, there are people looking for a way in. This article won’t teach you how to become a great web designer, but we’ll run through the skills you’ll need to pick up and where you can learn each of those....

In the crowded iOS game market, a success story is brewing for the Lebanese team behindBirdy Nam Nam, a game available in theiTunes App Store. Launched on August 22nd, the game has already clocked over 400,000 downloads in less than a week. The 3-man team, consisting of Lebnan Nader, Arz Nader and JC, initially released the game in three versions – a free ‘lite’ version containing only 4 levels, a full $0....

Lebanese startupDermandarhit a significant milestone yesterday, securing over 200,000 downloads of their newiPhone appin just under two weeks. And it’s easy to see why. Developed by co-founders Elie-Gregoire Khoury and Elias Fadel Khoury, the free app makes it a cinch to create seamless panoramic photos with your iPhone. The co-founders shouldn’t be confused with Elie Elias Khoury ofWoopra, although he himself also had a hand in helping out the team with the design and user experience....

Ever dreamt of making others work to answer any of your questions? Well, Brazilian startupLedfacehas bold ambitions. It wants to use what it calls “the collective brain”, in other words crowdsourcing, to solve your day to day problems. It launched in private beta yesterday and we took it for a test drive. What Ledface is (and what it isn’t) Ledface is a crowdsourcing platform that aims to harnesscollective intelligenceto answer questions....

To reduce travel times, fuel consumption and carbon emissions, in 2004, UPS changed delivery routes tominimize the left-hand turnsdrivers made. Although this seems like a rather modest change, the results are anything but: UPS claims that per year, eliminating left turns – specifically the time drivers sit waiting to cut across traffic – saves10 million gallons of fuel, 20,000 tons of carbon emissionsand allows them to deliver 350,000 additional packages....