8 Pinterest Alternatives You May Not Know About Pinterest has garnered a reputation (whether incidentally or intentionally) as a website geared mostly towards females who need ideas for weddings, home décor, and recreation. Maybe you like the idea of Pinterest but not its subject matter. Maybe Pinterest just isn’t for you. Is there hope for you? Yes, there is. Juxtapost Juxtapost is a Pinterest knockoff but in a good way. The feature I like best in Juxtapost is the “More Like This” button. Use Juxtapost if you want to use a Pinterest-like site with many of the same features but presented in a different way. We Heart It If I had to describe We Heart It in one sentence, I’d call it the baby of Pinterest and Tumblr, and I don’t necessarily mean that in a bad way. There’s an undercurrent beneath all of the We Heart It posts which indicates that this site is mainly used by teens and college girls. Dribbble According to Dribbble’s homepage, “Dribbble is show and tell for designers“. Not a designer yourself? FoodGawker Are you a foodie? Dudepins
petewarden/iPhoneTracker @ GitHub This open-source application maps the information that your iPhone is recording about your movements. It doesn't record anything itself, it only displays files that are already hidden on your computer. Download the application Read the FAQ Authors Alasdair Allan (alasdair@babilim.co.uk) @aallan on Twitter Pete Warden (pete@petewarden.com) @petewarden on Twitter This application relies on map tiles from the volunteer-run OpenStreetMap project, so please consider supporting their great work. Download Source You can download this project in either zip or tar formats. You can also clone the project with Git by running: $ git clone Is there a Windows version? Is there a Windows version? The file exists on PCs too, but we haven't written a version of the application that runs on Windows ourselves. How does the application work? How can I examine the data without running the application? ~/Downloads/iphonels.py | grep "consolidated" No. It’s unclear.
Dream Big by Peter Fecteau | koikoikoi - StumbleUpon “Dream Big” was a year-long project in which Pete created a mosaic of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. using 4,242 Rubik’s Cubes. > petefecteau.com popsci Its solar panels are dusty and its instruments are weakening, but the intrepid Mars rover Opportunity is still undaunted. Today marks the rover's eighth anniversary on the Red Planet, truly a feat for a mission that was designed to last a single season. As the rover embarks on its ninth year of work, it has some brand-new tasks that will give Mars scientists plenty to do long after it has beeped its last transmission home. Opportunity is nestled for the winter at a rocky outcropping called Greeley Haven, perched at a southerly angle to provide its solar panels with maximum light. One key mission is a radio science campaign to study Mars' interior, according to rover scientists. Opportunity will also use its alpha particle X-ray spectrometer to look at a rocky outcropping called Saddleback, determining what it's made of, and it will also stare at the floor of Endeavour Crater, checking for wind-caused changes, Arvidson said.
Phixr - Online Photo Editor 29 Incredibly Useful Websites You Wish You Knew Earlier There are so many wonderful websites around, and it is difficult to know each and every one of them. The below list provides some of those websites that I find particularly helpful, even though they are not as famous or as prevalent as some of the big names out there. 1. BugMeNot Are you bugged constantly to sign up for websites, even though you do not wish to share your email? 2. This nifty little website tracks whether the emails sent by you were opened and read by the receiver. If you are on a constant lookout of free full length movies, then Zero Dollar movies provides a collection of over 15,000 movies in multiple languages that are available to watch for free on Youtube. 4. Livestream allows you to watch and broadcast events live to viewers on any platform. scr.im converts your email address into a short custom URLs, that can be shared on public websites. 6. TinEye is a Reverse Image search tool which is as accurate as Google’s Reverse Image search tool. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.
Upgrade Your MacBook Pro's Hard Drive - The First Steps - How To by ExtremeTech It might seem incredible, but today Apple only sells a single MacBook Pro that still uses a hard drive. As of Apple’s update in October, all of the 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pros — aside from the single non-Retina display model — have all moved over to solid-state storage. And that lone 13-inch MBP, with its 500GB 5400 RPM hard drive is clearly not long for this world. At $1200 the last-man-standing non-Retina Pro is only $100 cheaper than the next model up and it lacks both the Flash storage and high-resolution display that make the new MBP so good. If you’re here you’re probably not in the market for a new MacBook Pro. Even if you wouldn’t think twice about cracking open a desktop to drop in a new video card, you might pass on doing anything with a laptop — their cramped interiors and specialized hardware are instant turn-offs. Don’t let that stand in your way. Since this story first ran in 2007(!) Upgrading the MacBook Pro’s hard drive
A Frugal Town in Lithuania Erects a Christmas Tree Made from 40,000 Recycled Plastic Bottles | Colossal - StumbleUpon Okay municipalities of the world, pay attention. For a third consecutive year the city of Kaunas, Lithuania approached artist Jolanta Šmidtienė to assist with their annual holiday decorating. Recognizing the city’s somewhat dire financial state the artist challenged herself to build something that wouldn’t rely on any administrative funds set aside for the event. The result: an enormous 13-meter tall Christmas tree made from nearly 40,000 recycled green bottles and zip ties. At night the tree is lit from the inside resulting in a glowing, translucent, emerald green spruce that’s making headlines across the country.
100 Websites You Should Know and Use In the spring of 2007, Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH, gave a legendary TED University talk: an ultra-fast-moving ride through the “100 websites you should know and use.” Six years later, it remains one of the most viewed TED blog posts ever. Time for an update? We think so. Below, the 2013 edition of the 100 websites to put on your radar and in your browser. To see the original list, click here. And now, the original list from 2007, created by Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH. In the spring of 2007, Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH, gave a legendary TED University talk: an ultra-fast-moving ride through the “100 websites you should know and use.” To see the original list, click here. And now, the original list from 2007, created by Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH.
10 Online Photo Editors That You Definitely Need to Bookmark Online image editors are in a rage these days. Everyday, you hear about the release of a new online photo editor that claims to be the next big thing. From among the great number of online editors, we have hand picked some of the best ones that we found to be are noteworthy. With each site description, we have tried to tell you how or what feature of the editor forced us to include it in the list. To bookmark this page in delicious, you can use this link. 1. Picnik seems to be the most popular online image editor in this list. 2. Splashup, earlier known as Fauxto, is a web based photo editor that looks just like a desktop application. 3. Relatively new into the arena, but have made quite a big fan fare in a short time. 4. Unlike the three editors mentioned above, Snipshot is not a flash based editor. 5. Pixenate, formerly called PXN8 is a simple but intuitive application. 6. Picture2life is just another online image editor. 7. 8. Want to have a Picasa running in your browser? 9. 10.
Web Design - The Old Way and The New Way My approach to web design (like the Pro Web Design Alliance I’ve just founded) is based on the principle that the vast majority of websites don’t achieve a fraction of their potential success Success is governed by just two main factors: Traffic and Conversion: How many of the right people can you attract to your site? … and …How many of those people can you persuade to take the action you want them to take? The Bad Old Way Since the early 1990s, when I first started designing websites, most web design has been done using the same old methods. What’s so bad about the Old Way? Before the printing press, monks used to craft documents by hand. This was OK, because to the monks the calligraphy was a devotion. Then the printing press arrived. The critical difference is not the technology itself, but what the new, cheap printing made possible. I’d invite you to consider that web design is following the same pattern. It’s also slow and costly to change a website that has been crafted by hand.
50 Websites For Free Vector Images Download Unlike raster images, vector images are flexible and scalable enough to not lose quality when stretched out beyond their original size. This makes it perfect for use for both web and print design. In fact, we have plenty of compilations that feature vector images (you can start with our multipurpose vector icon sets), but in case you want to do your own searches, we have the next best thing. Are you wondering where to download free vectors for your next project? In this post are more than 30 websites you can check out to download the free vector images, icons and logos you want. Note: While most (if not all) of them are free, we still encourage you read and understand their license before downloading and using these free vectors. 40+ Websites to Download Royalty-Free Images 40+ Websites to Download Royalty-Free Images Chances are you're pretty tired of seeing traditional stock photos of people in suits shaking hands. Pikbest Vecteezy Vecteezy is home to vector icons, art and patterns. Freepik
The Embroidered Secrets of Maurizio Anzeri | Yatzer& - StumbleUpon Angelo, Embroidery on printphoto © Maurizio Anzeri >> As long as something creates a reaction it’s alive << says Maurizio Anzeri, the Italian born artist from the city of Loano. Known for his series of eerie portraits or photo-sculptures, a term used by himself to describe his portraits, Maurizio’s work will be presented this month at the Baltic (25 June - 11 October 2011) and will mark his first solo show in a major UK institution. Yatzer caught up with Maurizio Anzeri and discovered the man behind the embroidered vintage photographs who is enjoying an extraordinary moment in his career. Bernard (left) and Giorgio (right), Embroidery on printphoto © Maurizio Anzeri Giovanni, Embroidery on print photo © Maurizio Anzeri Maurizio’s Mediterranean temperament and warm nature was evident in the way he talked about his work, an element that deeply engaged me to our conversation. Family, Embroidery on print photo © Maurizio Anzeri Peter, Embroidery on print photo © Maurizio Anzeri sources:
Caricature Map of Europe 1914 The Clanker Powers: Germany is a massive military machine with weapons aimed outwards to all surrounding countries. It points threateningly at Britain, not so much as a sign of direct aggression, but more as an indicator that it was now Germany’s turn to start a grand global Empire to challenge the world’s current one. Austria Hungary is an aggressive armoured giant, teetering on shoddy foundations. It is also the primary aggressor in a land grab against Serbia, with two bayonets piercing the border. The Ottoman empire is a teetering automaton, collapsing under the weight of a paranoid and ungainly spying network that gazes at Europe through many lenses and spy glasses. The Swiss watch ticks away the time, comfortable to wait it all out. The Darwinist Powers: Britain is an militaristic lion with a Roman Imperial italic-type helmet. Russia is a huge imperialist bear, rotting and filled with maggots. Portugal is a parrot for the Entente trying to goad a slumbering Spain into the war.