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How To Choose The Right Kitchen Gadgets

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To make mashed potatoes, we will in no doubt use a potato masher. Kitchen gadgets have been our friends in kitchen that help save our time and facilitate our work. There have been ample kitchen gadgets available in the market claiming that it can help us. However, do you have some purportedly cool or best gadgets left unused in your kitchen? How can we choose the right one that fits our needs?

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All about time

Saving time for you to focus on preparing food is one of the most important functions a useful kitchen gadget should do. We always spend a lot of time and effort to do repetitive work while cooking. Mixing cookies or bread doughs and cake batters are time consuming. Simply using a hand mixer can transform the whole process into an effortless and efficient step. Next time when you are attracted by the cool kitchen gadget, spare a moment to think about how can it expedite your work.

Multifunctional assistant

How to prevent from buying kitchen gadgets which you may never use of or forget their presence eventually? Think from another angle. A multifunctional kitchen gadget is definitely not in the list because it always reminds you of their existence and you will probably put that assistant on your kitchen work table to improve accessibility. A multifunctional slicer equipped with replaceable blazes replaced individual slicer to help cut vegetable, fruit and cheese in customized shapes and thickness. Bringing such multipurpose assistants will not only save precious space in your kitchen but also control the clutter.

Multifunctional kitchen gadgets

Easier life

Spiraling and thin cutting are definitely in the list of skills that is so difficult to master by hand. Smart kitchen gadgets help. By utilizing suitable tools, you can easily perform such magic and transform what you want into reality. What you need to do is to identify your needs. There are different types of smart kitchen gadgets available in the market or online that help you become an expert cook.

How about a smart gadget?

The rapid development of technology has transformed our daily life, including our life in the kitchen. There have been smart cooker, thermometer or even fridge magnet that connect to your smartphone on which you can control such cool gadgets. Your lunch will be ready while you are watching TV. If you are passionate about bringing technology into your life, hi-tech kitchen gadgets will be essential for you.

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Last but not least: Safety

Kichen gadgets are used to prepare food. It is of paramount importance that it bring us convenience but no harm. Before buying, we have to know whether the materials are safe to use in cooking. For example, whether the colorful plastic used in the gadget is toxin free and can tolerate heat or whether metal will rust. You may refer to the accreditation or certification on its package or simply choose gadgets from trustworthy manufacturer.

Choosing the right kitchen gadget is as important as selecting the right ingredients. A good kitchen gadget can enhance harmony in your home as well as your cooking experience. 

Best App Development Tutorial To Learn React Native, ReactJS

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ReactJS is a component-based library which is used to develop interactive UI’s. Currently, it is the most popular front-end JavaScript library. It deals with View in the MVC(Model — View — Controller). So, if you are dealing with the applications where data keeps on changing in real time, you should go for React.

As in React, the application is composed of different components. Each time any data is added, it will automatically update the specific component whose state has changed.

These components are independent building blocks which are integrated together to build the entire application. To understand this better, imagine UI as a tree. Here the starting component becomes the root, and each of the independent pieces becomes branches, which are further divided into sub-branches. This keeps our UI organized and moreover, it allows the data and state changes to logically flow from the root to branches and then to sub-branches. One component can refer to other components as well.

Moreover, React is much faster as compared to the JavaScript frameworks. It makes use of the virtual DOM which minimizes the memory consumption and the DOM manipulation expenses.

You can easily kickstart your knowledge on React framework with this beautiful free React Dashboard. It is built on top of Light Bootstrap Dashboard and React JS and it is fully responsive. The product is built by Creative Tim, the home of 300k creatives and web designers.

Best App Development Tutorial To Learn React Native, ReactJS

So you may wonder: what is the best way to start learning React? Here’s what professionals advise you:

Edoardo Moreni, React Native Freelancer

I started developing with React Native in June 2015. I have now shipped 2 apps (iOS/Android) and I am about to submit two more. My answer assumes you have a CS background. If you don’t know how to code, learn how to, then come back here.

I think the best way to learn React Native is to understand what mobile development is. I was coming from Android, so I had an idea of what building an app was about. What I mean is that you need to know the basic concepts, such as Drawer, Toolbar, TabBar, ViewPager or Button. They are pretty obvious and I don’t think it should take you more than a day to get familiar with the components of an Android or iOS app.

You need to get these things straight because you will be using them in React Native. A few people would suggest to implement them in Java or Objective-C/Swift and then see how they work in React Native, but I don’t think that is strictly necessary (do it if you want to see how cool RN is).

This also includes concepts such as a stack. You are going to push things on the stack and popping them from time to time. (If you come from Android, you might start noticing some similarities between startActivity or navigator.push()).

These are the next steps:

1) Start by reading the getting started tutorial and try to run it on your machine. It’s the first thing I did. This will give you a sense of what we are talking about.

2) Read about the Components specs and lifecycle in React. RN comes from ReactJS, they have a lot of things in common and understanding things like componentDidMount() or componentWillMount() will help you.

3) Then read Pete Hunt’s tutorial about ReactJS. You need to understand what components are and how they are implemented.

4) I would suggest going through the other sample apps, all of them. Read code and when you don’t understand something, just Google it. If you want to see how an app needs to be structured properly, you may want to have a look at the Facebook8 App. This is really good, but it’s not for beginners. Come back here when you want to see how to use Redux in a React Native app.

5) There are plenty of tutorials that explain how to write a simple app to React Native. I used this one. It’s probably outdated by now, but it gave me ideas on what I needed to complete my project.

6) Yes, I said project. You need something to start with. You learn by coding (and reading), not just reading or (even worse) watching. Why don’t you try to implement Instagram? Tinder could be another idea.

7) Don’t read the Docs. It’s not a book, but just a reference to the things you will need to use along with your journey, so while developing keep a tab open, if you are not familiar with it. Keep in mind that RN is moving fast, so you may want to check them from time to time.

8) Have a look at this. Share and test your React Native code in the browser. This is a really interesting resource with a lot of examples. You will find it integrated with the docs as well.

9) Download the Facebook 8 app, Facebook Groups (this is not 100% RN), Facebook Ads’ Manager and open the events view on your Facebook app. Welcome to React Native.

I started with some knowledge of Android and a CS background. I probably had never used Javascript or Objective-C. After learning, using, playing with React Native, I have learned both.

John Gill, former Reverse Engineer at IKEA

If you are reading these lines, chances are you will fall into one of two categories:

1) You are a React Native developer, looking for a fast list of resources to send to that new colleague you have to introduce to the framework

2) You are the guy who received the link, and you need to learn React Native by yourself ASAP.

Learn React Native, here.

React Native is an excellent open source framework, that uses Javascript to let you create — without too much effort — Android and iOS applications at once. It is reaching right now, in my opinion, a level of maturity high enough to be considered production ready (some examples? Tesla, Airbnb, and Skype).

So, what should you do to learn it properly?

STEP 0: Install it

Pretty straightforward, the first task you have to face is to install it correctly: it may sound simple, but trust me it is a long process: head over to the official docs to learn how.

BTW, if you are on Windows and you can’t find a way to make it work, check this blog post from the guys at Infinite Red — which have created one of the best React Native starter kit out there, Ignite.

STEP 1: Get the right equipment

Naturally, next step is to install an IDE (Integrated development environment) that will allow you to write React Native code flawlessly, providing a set of additional tools to help you out.

If you are planning to write code only for React Native, you should consider DECO, which is scoped for RN devs.

For the other 99% of us, the choice will be between (to list the most famous) Sublime Text 3, Atom and Visual Studio Code. I probably would suggest going for VSCode, which (among other cool features) has this dedicated plugin — moreover, it is my current IDE, and I wrote about how I set it up for React Native here.

VSCode For React Native

Independently from the IDE, one thing you should do right away is to install a fantastic plugin called ESLint — which will help you write correct code. I suggest you follow the guide franzejr wrote about it.

STEP 2: Read React Native Express

Plain and simple, React Native Express is the best (IMHO) guide to learn Javascript to write React Native right now.

It is quite complete, starting from plain Javascript to get to complex topics like state management via Redux and Animations. And it’s completely Open Source.

STEP 3: Learn React Navigation

If you are reading these lines, it means that you are so lucky (seriously, I envy you) to be learning React Native at a time when there is the official React Navigator.

For a long time, navigation in React Native was hard to handle: there were many different navigators (the first one, Experimental, ExNav) and it was quite difficult to learn properly how to use them, let alone integrate them with Redux or MobX.

But now, things are different: so go, read those amazing docs and follow the getting started guide to learn how to make multi-page applications.

STEP 4: Dive into the framework

Once you got a good grasp of React Native, it’s time to get you up to speed: as you may have heard, we are not yet to a 1.x version.

This means that the framework gets regularly updated, once a month to be precise: to keep up the pace, the best way is to keep an eye out for the release page over the GitHub project, and the breaking changes document to know how to keep your code updated.

Steve Jhon, M.S Computer Programming, Harvard University

Step-1

The first step is to install an IDE (Integrated development environment) that will allow you to write React Native code flawlessly.This will provide you a set of additional tools to help you out.

If you are planning to write code only for React Native, you can consider DECO, which is for React Native developers.

Independently from the IDE, one thing you should do right away is to install a plugin called ESLint which will help you in writing correct code.

Step-2

React Native Express is one of the best (IMHO) guides to learn Javascript and write React Native.

It starts from plain Javascript and gets to complex topics like state management via Redux and Animations.

Most importantly it’s completely Open Source.

Step-3

Read these documents and follow the getting started guide to learn how to make multi-page applications.

Step-4

The React framework gets regularly updated, at monthly intervals: to keep up with the pace, the best way is to keep an eye out for the release page over at the GitHub project, and the breaking changes document to know how to keep your code updated.

These are the five best resources to learn React Native:

1) Getting started in react native website

First things first are to try installing and running react native in your machine. The best starting point for this is nothing other than react native’s own getting started guide.

It should take you a few minutes to get up and running with react native.

2) React native with exponent on pluralsight

This pluralsight course is an interesting course that goes through react native and exponent. On top of creating an app in the exponent, this course also covers redux usage in your react native application.

3) React native and redux in udemy

This course will guide you through handling authentication in react native, tapping into the power of redux, how to store application states inside the redux store and wrangling with data retrieved from external servers.

4) React native course in frontend masters

From react overview, styling in react native, dealing with asynchronous data, utilizing redux all the way to UI components in reacting native; this course is a must if you want to be an expert react native developer!

5) Learn react native fundamentals in egghead.io

React native fundamentals course goes through the details of different components that can be found in react native package.

Now that you learned the basics; it’s time to dive into the deep end.

PS: React Native is an Open Source Project, which means that it will get better the more people participate, help, code, fix and test it.

6 Sneaky Gray Hat SEO Tactics That Might Actually Work

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6 Sneaky Gray Hat SEO Tactics That Might Actually Work

I bet you are all familiar with white and black hat SEO. But if you have never heard of these words before, let me break it down for you. White hat is a SEO technique that only targets human audience and not search engines. It’s considered as the best approach to drive traffic to a website without compromising the site’s integrity and legitimacy.

Black hat on the other hand is a complete opposite. It only targets search engines not people. It’s an aggressive SEO tactic, but also dangerous because it does not follow search engine guidelines.  It’s a risky path to take if you are not sure how it works. It can easily get your site banned or penalized.

Now, gray hat as the name suggests, lies somehow in the middle. This technique is also a little bit riskier and you might find yourself in trouble if it doesn’t work. What I’m trying to say is it’s a 50-50 chance. But sometimes in life, you have to take some chances to win right?

So, take a look at these gray hat techniques that might just work for your website.

1. Duplicating content

This is whereby you generate a ‘new’ content from an already existing one. It’s basically changing a few things from the article format, phrases and all. However, things can go bad for you if you fail to provide a unique content. Google will penalize you for violating duplicate content rules.

On the other hand, article spinning might as well work magic. If your spun article adds more ‘flavor’ to the original version, then you can get it to different websites and get more backlinks.

 2. Use old or expired domains

The domains can be expired or the owners don’t use them as much. So this can go two ways; you can use the domains to create backlinks to your site which will improve your search engine rankings or Google might notice it and consider it irrelevant.

 3. Updating your site constantly

If you keep updating your site every now and then to boost your local SEO, it will seem a bit fishy. Google might take note of these constant small changes and actually penalize you.  This tactic can as well work if you trick Google into believing you are just updating your site with fresh content.

 4. Social bookmarking

This gray hat technique actually comes in handy. It’s a great tool for driving quality traffic to your website. All you have to do is create accounts on social bookmarking sites like digg.com and del.icio.us, and bookmark your content.

This can go horrible wrong as well. Using too much social bookmarking might appear spammy and you might just be penalized for it. It’s best if you only use a few social bookmarking sites.

 5. Putting  too much content on your homepage and blogs/articles

Shoving too much information on your visitors’ throat on the homepage or in your articles can be disastrous. Your visitors might leave faster than they arrived. But then again, people prefer sites with detailed and valuable information, but only if the site is properly structured. Also, search engines rank sites with detailed content highly.

 So this strategy might work if you create a proper site structure search engines and visitors will love.

6. Create useful bridge pages

Bridge pages, also known as doorway pages are shortcuts most SEOs avoid. Search engines have prohibited the use of bridge pages and if you get caught things might not sit pretty well for your site. However, you can avoid being flagged down if you create useful, helpful and valuable content. This can also increase traffic to your website.

Facebook Marketing Strategy, Advertising Tips for Businesses

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Facebook Marketing Strategy, Advertising Tips for Businesses

Getting the Best Facebook Advertising Tips

Advertising can hurt potential customers in ways which may not be obvious. Should you be trying to implement advertising on your site or blog, here are a few guidelines on the best way to do it. TV advertising remains to be the best method to market and reach absolutely the most people.

Advertising is a method of promoting an item or a service that the business provides. It is a very powerful and most commonly used tool. There’s more to advertising than the majority of people think. In the business world, it is impossible to avoid. Yes, social media advertising is a great tool to use if you want to reach huge numbers of people in a brief period of time.

Advertising is not especially affordable, but it is essential.

Advertising contains the qualities and benefits of your goods or services that you have. You’ll see precisely where to purchase affordable newspaper advertising and the way to buy newspaper classified advertising in bulk at a discount.

Advertising is not so inconsiderate. It also seems to be a contributing factor in our ever-shortening attention span. You might try to supply free advertising for a single week, 10 CPM, or something very similar to have things started. Affordable online advertising utilizes a combination of proven networking and SEO strategies to create your organization stick out.

What Is So Fascinating About Facebook Advertising Tips?

If your promotion has many entry periods incorporate the dates for each individual part of the contest. There are numerous ways that online promotions are complete. After you’ve collection up your FB campaign, you should collection up an Ad collection. Measure your FB marketing efforts as well as possible. Another benefit of Facebook advertising is that the price tag is far lower. Instead, newspaper advertising costs depend on several factors, a few of which you may find surprising. It all costs a small percent of the price in comparison to classic advertising prices.

If your business or business has an event they want to promote, this is only one of, if not the very best, ways to do it.

Your company requires a Facebook page. Much like anything else you might use to promote your company, you must be creative and develop a distinctive strategy for it. Every company in the industry can’t afford expensive marketing or advertising procedures. Businesses just aren’t able to ignore Facebook as part of their internet marketing strategy. Businesses new to advertising may not know this, which explains why it is a decent idea to employ an advertising agency or media buyer to negotiate for your benefit. Sadly, the advertising business has rarely cared to check beyond immediate advertising and marketing objectives.

If you use your site rather than the fan page, you are going to discover that the CTR and in addition to the conversion rate is lower. You’ll need to get assistance from sites that facilitate binary trading. Lastly, below are some strategies to utilize your page to raise your follower base. Your FB page should not appear to be a billboard. If you prefer people to begin discussing your FB page, you’ve got to begin making the faithful followers feel special. Your FB business page ought to be an essential component of your social networking marketing tactics. First of all, you have to create a Facebook business page if you’re likely to market on the website.

Among the biggest mistakes you can possibly make with your FB advertising is to quit marketing after the click.

Problems with social media marketing are ordinarily the effect of an absence of wisdom and knowledge of this modern medium. Before you get going, it helps to understand what things to expect with regard to air time costs for your advertising venture.

Adobe Photoshop tips, tricks, tools and basics for beginners

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Adobe Photoshop tips, tricks, tools and basics for beginners

In this post, I will discuss about three Adobe Photoshop tips and tricks for beginners:

1) Working with the move tool in Photoshop

Move tool helps in moving objects on the working area. It is more helpful while working with layers. The options on the menu bar reading Auto Select Layer which helps select the object by clicking on it irrespective of the layer on which it is situated. If this option is unclicked then first the concerned layer will have to be clicked and then if the move tool is moved the object drawn on that layer moves automatically. Another option available on the menu bar is the Show Boundary Box option which shows the outline of the construction and nodes which can be stretched for size. This is different from transformation tool which also shows a similar bounding box but it allows more editing options.

2) Make cool text effects using Type Mask tool in Photoshop

Type mask horizontal and vertical options are available in the tool bar. When you click and drag or right-click on the type tool option you also find the type mask option. The Type Mask option allows you to add effects to your text. You can make you test look like any color, shade, effect or even contain parts of an image.

This effect is used popularly in movie posters and book covers. This effect can be obtained by following these easy steps. Select the picture that you want in the background or inside the text.

Select the Type mask tool and write the desired text on it. Then click on the move tool. Then you see the written text appears in running brackets. Next is just cut and paste.

3) Define your desired design as a pattern in Photoshop

To define your desired design as a pattern in Photoshop first of all you need to make up your mind about the design. The open edit option from the menu bar and click on define as pattern. A follow-up menu appears where a name can be entered. Select an area where you need to fill the pattern, click edit and then fill > pattern, select the pattern that you have defined , make sure the area to be filled is selected and then press ok.

In case you want the tiles to be smaller or larger than the size of the individual defined unit has to be altered accordingly.