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21 time-saving Pinterest tools

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by on May 22, 2015 at 5:36 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, pinterest

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If you’re managing multiple social media accounts—multiple channels for you and multiple channels for your brand perhaps—it sure helps to save time with the right tools. We’ve found time-saving tools for Twitter and Facebook and our daily social media marketing workflows. Now that we’ve turned attention toward Pinterest, we’re excited to discover the best time-saving tools for pinning, analyzing, and image building, too. Here are 21 of the ones that have caught our eye so far. We’d love to hear which ones you love! 21 Time-Saving Pinterest Tools Pinterest scheduling and dashboards One of our top Pinterest marketing tips is to Pin at…

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Oculus Rift is helping football players skill-up in virtual reality off the field

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by on May 22, 2015 at 5:25 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Oculus Rift is often associated with gaming, however, the virtual reality technology is now being used to train football players off the field. Quarterbacks and coaches alike spend hours a week watching footage of football games to find areas of weakness and ways to improve their game. Virtual reality is being used to help quarterbacks and other players in real-world training using Oculus Rift goggles and software created by STRIVR Labs, according to a new article out by The San Diego Union-Tribune. Football players are often observers when watching footage on tablet computers and televisions. Then they go out on the field and practice…

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Silk’s revamped data publishing platform can make the most boring subjects beautiful

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by on May 22, 2015 at 5:11 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates

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Sometimes the only way to really dig into a topic is to really dig into it. And when you do that, it’s all too easy to end up with fascinating data points and facts that become almost impossible for anyone else to comprehend easily – and people on the Web like things to be easy. Take, for example, the question “how long would you have to work to afford the Apple Watch Edition?” The Guardian formulated this question and answered it for a few different people – world leaders, Tim Cook, an average Foxconn employee. It was a pretty interesting story,…

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Watch this DJ make a Tesla coil dance to the beat

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by on May 22, 2015 at 4:56 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, DJ Qbert, Maker Faire, Shareables

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What do you get when you combine turntables and Tesla coils? Well as you might expect, the results are pretty illuminating. At a recent Bay Area Maker Faire event San Francisco turntablist DJ Qbert experimented, combining super fast DJ’ing with high-voltage energy. With each scratch of the turntable the audience not only heard the results but were also treated to a visual show, with each scratch also becoming a spark off the nearby telsa coil. DJ Qbert’s unique fast-handed performance was made possible thanks to Intel’s tiny Edison computer. The Edison device powered the turntable set-up, which was hooked up to the tesla coil. ➤…

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Shazam now works on your Android watch

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by on May 22, 2015 at 4:18 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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Smartwatches seem like a natural place to use Shazam’s music recognition abilities, so today the company has added support for Android Wear. The watch app can be launched with either through Wear’s app launcher or a voice command. When a song is identified, it’ll be saved to your phone should you want to make a purchase later. And you still get lyrics right on your watch if you want to sing along. To try it, just download the most recent version of Shazam for Android from the Google Play Store on your phone – the watch app will be synced…

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