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11 resources for website design inspiration

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by on May 26, 2014 at 6:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Roundups, startup, YEC, yec.co, Young Entrepreneur Council

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Attractive, user-friendly Web design can mean the difference between an interested customer and a lost lead. But not all founders make great designers and art directors, and it’s easy to imitate design principles that may not actually go over that well with your target audience. To find out where founders are getting their design cues from, I asked 11 entrepreneurs from Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) the following: What are the best websites/resources for design inspiration for your new blog or website? Their best answers are below. 1. PSFK PSFK is always on top of what’s going down in the design…

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Inapp Translator could be the easiest way to translate any text on Android

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by on May 26, 2014 at 4:20 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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Life can be tough for monolinguists at times. While English is often seen as the internet’s de facto lingua franca, serving as a cross-cultural bridge, the fact remains many languages are used across the digital spectrum which can lead to communication glitches. There are, of course, many tools designed to help circumvent such issues, such as Google Translate. And then there’s neat new tools such as Inapp Translator, which promises to alleviate the friction from understanding online texts inked in unfamiliar tongues. Inapp Translator: Frictionless translation The Android app’s core raison d’être is to make it as easy as possible…

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Google releases VirusTotal Uploader for OS X, hopes more malware submissions will beef up Mac security

May26
by on May 26, 2014 at 2:04 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Google, Insider

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Google today announced the release of VirusTotal Uploader for OS X, allowing Mac users to upload suspicious files for scanning. You can download it now directly for OS X 10.8 and 10.9 from VirusTotal (8.52MB). For those who don’t know, VirusTotal Uploader for Windows is a popular tool for submitting suspicious files to the online scanning service VirusTotal. The process is as simple as right-clicking any file and selecting the relevant option from the context menu. The OS X version offers the following features: Drag and drop a file to the VirusTotal Uploader in order to scan it with over…

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Virtual world Second Life now supports the Oculus Rift

May26
by on May 26, 2014 at 1:33 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Linden Lab is hoping to rejuvenate the community for its massively multiplayer online (MMO) video game Second Life by supporting the popular Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. By downloading the new Project Viewer for Windows, Mac or Linux, players can now experience the virtual world from the perspective of their avatar. The developer-friendly Oculus Rift will be detected automatically and the entire heads-up display (HUD) can be shown through the futuristic goggles. Linden Lab says the head-tracking data from the Oculus Rift headset has been leveraged so that your avatar’s head moves in-tune with your own cranium. For ease of use, there’s…

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5 short and sweet tips to help you find and buy popular domain names

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by on May 26, 2014 at 1:13 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Roundups

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Buying a new domain name isn’t difficult to do, but if you’re looking to score something a bit special – and don’t want to pay over the odds for it – your job can be a bit harder. And if you’re looking to buy a domain that isn’t being registered for the first time, the task can be even harder. Thankfully, armed with a few tips and some time for research, there are a bunch of places that can help you find the best names. On this occasion, we looked at the DNPric.es database – which lists more than 300,000 domain resales from…

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