Apple lead designer Jonathan Ive knighted for the New Year, how’s your 2012 looking?

Apple Senior VP Jonathan (or Jony) Ive has been credited with fueling the company’s resurgence alongside Steve Jobs with products like the iMac, iPhone and iPad, and for these successes has been made a Knight Commander of the British Empire as a part of the New Year’s Honour’s List. Aside from having

10 Best Spoof Twitter Accounts of 2011

If laughter is the best medicine, Twitter certainly kept us in tip-top shape this year with its crop of spoof accounts.
We’ve rounded up…

Instantly Turn Video Clips Into Movies With V.I.K.T.O.R

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your st…

Sirius XM releases Lynx radio, ensures that you never miss the beginning of another Jimmy Buffett song

Need a shiny new way to enjoy SiriusXM’s revamped channel lineup? For $250, you can pick up the Lynx Portable Radio, which lets you start shows and songs (Jimmy Buffett or otherwise) from the beginning and pause, fast forward and rewind programming. The wildcat radio also stores up to 200 hours of programming

Sports and Social Media: Our Favorite Stories of 2011

The past year was a wild one in the sports world, full of salacious scandals, poignant moments, new records, the passing of old legends and the…

The Very Best of YouTube in 2011 [VIDEOS]

Here at Mashable, we love YouTube videos. We love YouTube videos so much that we bring you one every day in our YouTube Video of the Day series. Inste…

Top 10 iOS Apps of 2011

2011 was a great year for iOS apps. The App Store officially passed the 500,000 app mark, and with iOS 5, developers are continuing to push the bounda…

What the Social Web Can Learn from Burning Man

Burning Man is, in some ways, a virtual world. It’s not unlike Second Life: a flat, empty plane onto which creator/participants build a temporary society however they can, making every decision into a work of art. Indeed, Second Life founder Philip Rosedale is a longtime Burner himself, and the Burning

Droid 4 gets hands-on treatment, but it’s simply a dummy unit

The folks over at TechnoBuffalo have just come across a rather interesting specimen — it’s a dummy unit of the forthcoming Droid 4 from Motorola. While its rumored release date has come and gone, non-functional models such as this are commonly offered to consumers in a retail setting to poke and prod

8 Hilarious Internet Jokes, Memes and Parody Accounts of 2011

Whenever one of us here at Mashable finds a new joke, meme or parody account, it quickly makes its way around the office.
We really get a kick out of…