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While some people online stop at overall market share when comparing products, I am more concerned with their usage in the real world. I decided to look at sales numbers for Android and iOS devices in correlation with both their online market share and Black Friday sales numbers to see how they stacked up. What I found was rather interesting.

From October 2011 through September 2012, the combined net profit of Microsoft, Google, eBay, Yahoo, Facebook and Amazon was $34.4 billion. Apple alone made $7 billion more. In the same period, Dell, Asus, Intel, Acer, IBM, Lenovo and HP, i.e. virtually the entire PC industry, made $19.3 billion or less than half of Apple’s profit. Seeing these numbers, it is no surprise that, despite its recent dip, Apple is still the most valuable public company in the world. All its recent shortcomings notwithstanding, Apple’s business remains incredibly profitable.

New York City-based Tien-Min Liao set out on a novel typographic experiment — to explore the relationship between uppercase and lowercase letters via the transformations between them. To that end she painted shapes on one or more of her hands, drew a letter and then modified the gesture to change the case. I've included a few examples below, with more available on Tien-Min Liao's Behance profile.

This simple and elegant screensaver tells you the weather for now, today and tomorrow besides the date and time. You can download it for your city free here.

While our digital tools have acquired an astonishing sophistication, it's hard to imagine a future in which the fundamental humanity of the hand-drawn line has lost its ability to move us. The CD accompaning the latest IdN Magazine — Interactive Design: Perfecting those Air to Surface Missiles — celebrates the place of traditional techniques within contemporary motion graphics by assembling 23 current examples from 21 artists. The trailer above provides a sense of what's on the almost two-hour CD, which is included with the magazine or can be purchased separately. You'll find a sampling from the magazine below.

And the salary guides just keep on coming. First it was the AIGA|Aquent Survey of Design Salaries, followed last week by the Paylandia Salary Guide. Coroflot, the portfolio hosting site, has now released the latest iteration of its annual Design Salary Guide. What makes this different from the others is that the data is submitted by designers worldwide. In fact, you'll need to fill out a short form to submit your own salary information to have access to the detailed results.

Gmail offers huge amount of free space for your email account, but if you frequently send and receive large files you can still run out of space. Here are few tips on what you can do to clean out emails with unneeded large attachments.

Or will you? It all depends on whether you're a member of Adobe Creative Cloud. Is you in or is you out, as they say? Because if you're out, you'll increasingly have to watch helplessly as new functionality is added to your favorite image editing app -- functionality which you simply won't have access to, even if you upgraded to Photoshop CS6.

We have to thank a Canadian firm, buyral, for taking online promotion to its logical conclusion. After seeing this video, you may never click on an elevator button again.

We recently had the AIGA|Aquent Survey of Design Salaries showing us how well (or how badly) we were doing. But you had to be an AIGA member to access the meat of that survey. Now it's the turn for The Creative Group, a specialist in the placement of creative, advertising, marketing, web and public relations professionals, to depress... er, I mean, inspire us with Paylandia, which provides an overview of hiring trends, salary info and job descriptions for those involved in design and production, interactive, content development, and advertising, marketing and PR. I know you're in there somewhere. The 2013 guide is available as a downloadable PDF.