17 Pin-Worthy Pinterest Tools Pinterest referral traffic is growing at an alarming rate. In fact, a recent study from Piqora found that the average visit-per-pin increased 172 percent in the first half of 2014. Moreover, the average revenue-per-pin grew by 67 percent in the same time period. To help your brand strengthen its Pinterest strategy, Website Magazine has compiled a Pinterest toolbox that includes 17 technologies to help brands boost their content creation, marketing and monitoring initiatives on the image-based social network. Content Creation Tools Pinstamatic Add a variety of content to your Pinterest boards by leveraging Pinstamatic. Shareasimage Share As Image is a Chrome extension and bookmarklet tool that enables user to turn text into an image. PicMonkey Pinterest is all about images, so if you are looking for an online image editor, look no further than PicMonkey. Marketing Tools Pinvolve Grow your audience by connecting your Pinterest and Facebook Pages with Pinvolve. Woobox Viralwoot Piqora Votigo Wishpond
Windows 10 is Now Available on Raspberry Pi and Arduino Microsoft is aiming at making Windows 10 the OS for all connected devices, and now it’s aiming at the Internet of Things by releasing a build for Raspberry Pi and Arduino. The developer preview for Windows 10 IoT Core insider will work with the Raspberry Pi 2, MinnowBoard Max and Intel Galileo. Otherwise, you can connect with other Arduino devices through Windows Remote and Windows Virtual Shields. You can download Windows 10 IoT Core here. ➤ Windows 10 IoT Core Read next: Everything Microsoft announced at Build 2015: Day 2 Indigolifecenter's Weblog | Mission: To assist in the healing and education of Indigos & their families! Microsoft's Visual Studio Code Is Based On GitHub Atom Microsoft released its first cross-platform code editor to great fanfare yesterday, but it’s not quite what it appears when you peek under the hood. Visual Studio Code is based on technology found in GitHub’s open-source code editor, Atom. If you crack into the files, you’ll notice a number of binaries are named “atom.exe” on Windows and on OS X a peek inside the Application shows a number of Atom resources. Microsoft didn’t specifically point to the technology during the keynote this week for being the foundation underneath Visual Studio Code, however in an associated licensing file it notes a number of packages it has used from the Atom project. Specifically, the Electron Shell project which was formerly part of Atom is used to allow Web technology to be used as a desktop code editor. Microsoft has added a number of features not seen in Atom or similar editors on OS X and Linux, such as Intellisense support. ➤ Visual Studio Code
7 Ways to Better Listen to Your Intuition Elizabeth Renter, naturalsociety.com | Have you ever been in a situation where your “gut feeling” told you one thing, but your rational mind said another? If you went with your brain rather than your intuition, there’s a good chance you ended up regretting your decision. Your intuition is the subconscious leader that many people fail to give proper respect to. But learning to listen to this internal compass could help you make better decisions and live a more fulfilling life. “I define intuition as the subtle knowing without ever having any idea why you know it,” explains Sophy Burnham, bestselling author of The Art of Intuition, to The Huffington Post. “It’s different from thinking, it’s different from logic or analysis … It’s a knowing without knowing.” It’s unconscious reasoning, the guidance that compels you to turn left when all signs may be pointing right. Intuition is commonly associated with New Age mysticism or a metaphysical way of thinking, but it doesn’t have to be so. 1. 2.
OneLiners.co is Like 99designs for Company Taglines When you spend days and nights working on a startup, it can be hard to condense the core of your product down to a handful of words. For frustrated entrepreneurs and marketers alike, OneLiners.co wants to help you crowdsource catchy taglines. The free Web service lets you check out startups that want the Internet’s hand in coming up with a fresh slogan, or improve upon their current ones. If you’re the startup needing help, you can submit an entry with a link to your website and a brief summary of the company. There’s also a leaderboard which highlights members who’ve contributed the best slogans. While the site doesn’t guarantee quality results, it does seem like a neat place to practice copywriting, or find others struggling with the same issues to discuss your writer’s block. ➤ OneLiners.co [via Product Hunt]
This 8 year old kid uses crystal grids to transmute negative energy and explains how it works The children of today are rumored to be far more consciously adept than our previous generations. If thats true this might be a piece of supporting evidence of that. In this video, 8 year old Adam introduces his latest crystal grid, which he calls a “web” grid. It pulls in dark energy and transmutes it to the light. Check it out : It took Adam about 10 minutes to build this grid which is full of various crystals – Amethyst, Apophyllite, Celestial Smoky Quartz, Clear Quartz points, Vogels, and several Lemurian Seed Crystals. Adam didn’t pull the pattern of the grid out of a book or research it on the internet. The 5 Building Blocks of Visual Hierarchy in Web Design Jerry Cao is a UX content strategist at UXPin — the wireframing and prototyping app. To learn more about how to create visually digestible interfaces, download the free e-book Web UI Design for the Human Eye: Colors, Space, Contrast. Visual hierarchy is the difference between a site that strategically influences user flow and decisions, and a site that just “looks nice.” An interface’s visual hierarchy relies on the same principles of aesthetics used by the Renaissance masters, but on top of that (or rather beneath it) there’s the subtext of secondary goals – promoting specific content, encouraging user signups and call-to-actions, and generally improving the overall experience so users enjoy their visit beyond just accomplishing their goals. Source: ShareFaith Seems like the Renaissance masters got off easy. In basic terms, visual hierarchy describes which elements dominate your user’s attention and draw their eyes most. 1. Bigger is more noticeable, but not always better. Source: Teye 2.
The Effects Of Negative Emotions On Our Health Joe Martino, Collective Evolution, Guest | Humans experience an array of emotions, anything from happiness, to sadness to extreme joy and depression. Each one of these emotions creates a different feeling within the body. After all, our body releases different chemicals when we experience various things that make us happy and each chemical works to create a different environment within the body. For example if your brain releases serotonin, dopamine or oxytocin, you will feel good and happy. Convexly, if your body releases cortisol while you are stressed, you will have an entirely different feeling associated more with the body kicking into survival mode. What about when we are thinking negative thoughts all the time? Positive vs. Is there duality in our world? Cut The Perceptions As Much As Possible After thinking about it for a moment you might realize that there are in fact no positive or negative experiences other than what we define as such. Mind Body Connection You Have The Power
Find Updates for Non-Play Store Apps on Android More Easily with ApkTrack « Android Gadget Hacks Find Updates for Non-Play Store Apps on Android More Easily with ApkTrack The Google Play Store may have fewer restrictions that its iOS counterpart, but that doesn't mean that all apps make the cut. Ad blockers and Xposed modules that bypass paywalls have never had a place on the Google Play Store, which makes tracking their app-updates a painful process. This struggle of keeping non-Play Store apps up to date led XDA user JusticeRage to create ApkTrack, a lightweight tool that checks all of your installed apps for updates. Step 2: Check for Updates When you first open ApkTrack, you will need to tap the Search icon (a magnifying glass in a box) on the top right. After the update check has completed, you will receive a notification letting you know if any apps need to be updated. Step 3: Additional Options If you'd like to have ApkTrack check for updates periodically in the background, select Settings from the overflow menu and check the box next to "Enable background checks."