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| 14 Pinterest Copycats for Visual Inspiration | | If you're tired of the same old clichéd indie wedding photos on Pinterest and want something tailored to specific interests, it's time to branch out. Many Pinterest alternatives also feature the now-iconic grid layout, social interaction and aggregation that makes Pinterest so appealing.
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| LinkedIn Update Brings More Personalization to Your Homepage | | LinkedIn unveiled two new updates on Wednesday that give its users a more personalized homepage. Called "Who's Viewed Your Updates" and "You Recently Visited," the features "are intended to provide you with more personalized insights on your activities and engagement across LinkedIn," company product lead Caroline Gaffney says in a blog post. She adds that both are displayed on the right-hand side of a user's homepage.
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| PayPal Galactic: For All Your Future Space Purchases | | Wednesday, June 26, 2013 11:59 PM | Emily Price |
| Soon you won’t need to be an astronaut to take a trip into space — but you'll still need a way to pay for things. The first Virgin Galactic consumer space flight is set to blast off this Christmas, and the first space hotel, created by a Russian company, is expected to be open for business within the next few years.
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| Test Your Puzzle-Solving Skills With 'Can You Escape' Mobile App | | Wednesday, June 26, 2013 10:32 PM | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| For all you gamers out there looking for a real challenge, look no further: There's a free, newly updated puzzle game ready to test your skills (and patience). Can You Escape, the brainchild of MobiGrow, coaxes iPhone, iPad and Android users to employ a trial-and-error solving method to scrounge for clues, as well as sleuth out ways to escape a series of rooms.
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| Holographic Display Made for $10 | | Wednesday, June 26, 2013 9:56 PM | Discovery News |
| Technophiles have dreamed of three-dimensional, holographic displays for decades, and in the last few years, a lot of progress has been made toward achieving that goal — from Microsoft's Holoflector prototype to efforts at creating paper that was published in the journal Nature last week. He built a color holographic video display that's as sharp as a standard-definition TV and updates images at the same rate.
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| How to Create Websites Without Learning to Code | | Wednesday, June 26, 2013 9:29 PM | Luisa Rollenhagen |
| In May, Scroll Kit, a New York-based startup that lets users create websites without learning a single line of code, attempted to showcase its skills by recreating The New York Times' Snow Fall, an interactive multimedia report. Scroll Kit recreated the experience, and said it took only an hour to make. However, The Times eventually asked co-founders Cody Brown and Kate Ray to take down the replica, citing copyright violations.
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| X-Ray Shows Hidden Skeletons of Flowers | | Wednesday, June 26, 2013 7:03 PM | PSFK |
| British photographer Nick Veasey uses an X-ray machine to uncover minute details in everyday objects and captures images of them in a different light. His series "Plant Life" focuses on various types of flowers and reminds viewers that X-ray technology is capable of much more than simply displaying human bones. Veasey believes that if you look beyond the surface of a flower or plant, its beauty is accentuated.
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| One Bing to Rule Them All: Microsoft Opens Up Bing for Apps | | Wednesday, June 26, 2013 3:57 PM | Pete Pachal |
| Microsoft regularly introduces new features to its Bing search engine — such as the coming 3D maps — but often those features can't be used outside of Bing. That changes as of today with the launch of the Bing Platform for developers. Announced today at Microsoft's Build 2013 conference, the Bing Platform will let app developers create experiences in their apps around Bing's services.
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| Join Us for a Hangout to Discuss Mobile App Design | | Wednesday, June 26, 2013 3:24 PM | Dani Fankhauser |
| What does it mean to be a product designer? Keenan Cummings, cofounder and designer of Days, asks this question in a recent post on his design blog, Field Study. SEE ALSO: How Microsoft Could Rebrand Itself [PICS] Sites like Dribbble are great at featuring a visual design, but much of interaction design can only be experienced with the product itself.
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| 9 Beautiful Desktop Backgrounds Designed to Make You Smarter | | Wednesday, June 26, 2013 8:58 AM | Jess Fee |
| Anyone can throw an image of the periodic table onto a desktop and call it a background, but the creations in the gallery above combine useful information with strong aesthetic appeal. SEE ALSO: 10 Creative Solutions for a More Productive Workspace What's your favorite site to find desktop backgrounds? Let us know in the comments below. Mashable composite; image courtesy of Simple Desktops, Jack.
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| 10 Emojis We Wish Existed | | Wednesday, June 26, 2013 5:41 AM | Bob Al-Greene |
| The emoji library lacks some key symbols for everyday words -- you know, like unicorns, robots and bacon. We decided to fix that problem.
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