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Wednesday, March 4, 2015

A brief guide to screengrabbing etiquette

When someone sends you a ridiculous text or you see a hilarious Facebook conversation, it's always tempting to share it with the world

However, just in case it does go viral, it's important to protect the privacy of the people involved.

Below, we provide a brief etiquette of screengrabbing, including a peek at a free online tool that will help you blur out identifying information and images

Common sense rules

It's not rocket science to know what you should and shouldn't share. You know the person, or people, involved and can presumably gauge what their reaction might be if you shared something they thought was private. Read more...

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Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Kelly Clarkson's Twitter listening party takes you inside her new album

LOS ANGELES — Kelly Clarkson helped fans decipher her new studio album during a Twitter listening party on Tuesday, at one point comparing one track to a David Bowie-ABBA mashup and explaining that "all hell breaks loose" on her duet with John Legend.

The original American Idol winner provided commentary about her Piece by Piece album but not about the extra songs on the deluxe version. She was exhausted from promoting the album — her seventh since 2003 — and needed to put her baby girl to bed

Everybody ready to #ListenWithKelly?!?! 8 PM ET hit play on your copy of #PieceByPiece and tweet along! - Team KC

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Initiate a creative collaboration for our Vine challenge

We're thrilled to be working with Unpopular Now for this week's Vine challenge. The theme is collaboration, and we know that creative magic happens when bright minds come together

Give traditional illustration a kick of motion, and you've got animation. When a song gains a visual element, there's a music video. So much can be done when you pair up with another artist. We encourage you to reach out to someone — whether a friend or stranger — and brainstorm a clever idea for a Vine.

Sylvio Bernardi kickstarted the campaign with his ultimate collaboration video: Read more...

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38 Incredibly Amusing Twitter Bios

Perhaps one of the most challenging parts of making an impact on social media is coming up with something profound in 140 characters. That’s right; I’m talking about the tweet.

A tweet is short, sweet, and to the point. And crafting one often leaves us staring blankly at that little blinking cursor, hoping for a way to rephrase the tweet to let up some characters for an image, a link, or that ever-essential hashtag.

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Six seconds of symmetry: watch these perfectly-balanced Vines

Last week, we challenged our Vine community to shoot six-second videos exploring the idea of symmetry — and the results were harmonious.

It's easy enough to find mirrored images in architecture and nature, but as always, the Vines we saw went above and beyond to create artistic symmetry from scratch.

From psychedelic strobes to paper cutouts and paint on mirrors, these are our favorite #CreateSymmetry submissions:

1. Handmade symmetry

2. 3D printing a person

3. Stripes and a mirror

4. Faces in symmetry

5. Dimes on dimes

6. Cars on parade

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Monday, March 2, 2015

Join us for the first-ever Vine #MashMeet at our HQ

Sunday, March 1, 2015

Ramp up your Tumblr skills with these 21 keyboard shortcuts

While we sadly can't help you shirk your work responsibilities in order to spend more time on Tumblr, we can make your time on the platform more efficient

There are some extremely handy keyboard shortcuts that will have you whizzing around the microblogging service like a pro. Get your pinky poised over your control or command key, and read on.

Note: Substitute "command" for "control" if you're using a Mac, and make sure you're creating text posts in Rich Text format in order for the text editing shortcuts to work.

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