Eplucher vos pommes de terre rapidement

Un homme va éplucher des pommes de terre en 50 secondes ! Pour cela, il va les déposer au fond d'un seau. A l'aide d'un long foret attaché à une brosse de toilettes, l'homme va les éplucher avec une perceuse avec un arrosage intensif.

Mettez la couette dans sa housse facilement !

Voici une astuce pour mettre facilement une couette dans sa housse. La première étape consiste à étendre la housse retournée sur le lit. Ensuite, il faut poser la couette au-dessus.

 Puis, enroulez le tout jusqu'à en faire une sorte de burrito. Enfin, ouvrez la housse et attrapez le burrito puis tirer. Effectuez la même de l'autre côté, déroulez et le tour est joué ! :)

Couper des tomates cerises en 5 secondes

Le podcasteur Dave Hax propose aux internautes une technique pour couper rapidement des tomates cerises. Il suffit de placer ces tomates entre deux assiettes et de les couper en deux avec une lame de couteau, le tout en 5 secondes.

Enlever facilement une bague trop serrée du doigt

Voici une technique hyper efficace pour enlever une bague qui ne veux plus se retirer d'un doigt ! C'est un docteur de l'université de Manchester qui nous l'explique. Il faut utiliser pour cela une petite sangle élastique et ficelé fortement le doigt avec, jusqu'à la passé sous la bague, ensuite il ne reste plus qu'a enlever la sangle en tournant autour de la bague. Ca a l'air simple et très efficace ;)

Top 10 trucs et astuces pour se simplifier la vie

Il est parfois simple de se simplifier les choses dans la vie, cette vidéo présente 10 trucs et astuces qui permettent de se simplifier la vie facilement.

 Faire un bol avec un paquet de chips, utiliser une pile de la mauvaise taille ou encore refroidir une bouteille de Champagne en 10 minutes font parti de ces astuces ! :)

بطاطس مقلية بصلصة اللحم

تختلف طرق إعداد البطاطس المقلية من مكان لاخر ومن بيت لآخر أيضا، ولكن هل جربتي قبل ذلك أن تقومي بإعداد البطاطس المقلية بصلصة اللحم؟

 إذا لم تقومي بإعدادها مسبقا فنحن نقدم لك اليوم طريقة عمل البطاطس المقلية

 : المكونات 

– كيلو بطاطس – ربع كيلو دقيق – بيضة – ملح  وفلفل حسب الذوق – نصف كيلو لحم مفروم – زبدة – بصلة صغيرة – كرفس – 4 ملاعق من زيت الزيتون من النوع البكر الممتاز – جزر – طماطم معجون الصلصة

 : الخطوات 

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اغسلي البطاطس جيدا وقطعيها إلى أصابع وضعيها دون تقشير في وعاء به ماء على أن يغطي الماء سطح البطاطس بواحد بوصة

 2-

 اتركيها على النار لمدة نصف ساعة حتى تصبح طرية  

3- 

وبعد ذلك ارفعيها من على النار واتركيها تبرد ثم قومي بتقشيرها  وضعي عليها البيض والملح والدقيق

 4-

 ضعي بعض من الزيت في مقلاة على نار متوسطة الحرارة واقلي أصابع البطاطس بها حتى يصبح لونها ذهبيا

 5- 

لعمل صلصة اللحمك قومي بتقطيع الكرفس والبصل والجزر وضعي الزبدة والزيت في مقلاة على النار وعندما توب الزبدة قومي بوضع هذه الخضروات عليها واتركيها حتى يذبل البصل

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ثم قومي بإضافة اللحم المفروم إليها واتركيه لمدة 10 دقائق ثم قومي بإضافة بعض الماء والطماطم ويطهي لمدة 40 دقيقة، وقومي بإضافة بعض من المرق والملح والفلفل حسب رغبتك، وبعد ذلك قومي بوضع معجون الصلصة فوق اللحم وقلبيها جيدا 7- وقومي هنا بوضع صلصة اللحم فوق أصابع البطاطس المقلية وقدميها للطعام وبالهناء والشفــــاء لكِ ولأسرتكــ

Five tips to make your pivot successful

Starting a company is all about risks and second chances, and in some cases, third, fourth, even fifth chances. One of my favorite venture capitalists once told me that startups are like basketball. You get six fouls so use them. If you never get a foul, you’re not being aggressive enough. You’re allowed to take risks, but don’t foul out in the first quarter either. Most startups don’t deal with life or death problems, so if you try something and it doesn’t work, don’t be afraid to fix it.

For many founders, “pivot” is a dirty word. It hints at uncertainty, even failure. But with three out of four startups flopping, we founders shouldn’t shy away from the word. We shouldn’t be afraid to acknowledge that change can be good; change gained from experience can benefit companies and users.

Here are five tips for a successful pivot:

1. Raise more money than you need

Raising money is difficult and dilutive, but having no money means you’re dead. When we raised our first round of funding, we wanted to raise $1 million, but were offered many millions more by a top tier VC firm. Like many first time founders, we thought we would ‘kill it’ and be able to raise at a much higher valuation 18 months later, so we opted out from taking the extra cash.

Luckily, we didn’t have too many major missteps and were able to raise our Series A, but if I had to do it all over again, I definitely would have taken the money when it was offered.

For our Series A, we raised more money than we needed in case things didn’t play out perfectly. As you can see, the best case scenario didn’t happen (it hardly does), and if we worried about dilution more than we worried about the worst case scenario, the company would be dead right now.

2. Have the right partners

Tech is littered with stories of relationships breaking up under the strain of starting a company. In our Y-Combinator class alone, around one-third of the teams either broke apart or lost a co-founder, usually over disagreements in personality or product direction.

Launching a company is incredibly stressful – emotionally, physically and psychologically. You need to have the right partners to get you through the worst of times. And let’s just say we’ve experienced things much worse than pivoting. My two co-founders Nikhil and Daishin bring balance and only together would we have been able to handle the challenges that we’ve faced.

3. Re-build the right team

With a pivot, not only is the product changing, the team will change too. You will lose key people to attrition if they don’t believe in the new product or let people go if they don’t fit the new vision. With our pivot, we had the difficult task of laying off our entire sales team.

In addition to the morale hit of shifting products, your team will also have to cope with saying goodbye to some of their closest friends. We had to learn the hard way, but if people hang on because of loyalty to you or the company, but are clearly not happy, you need to address this.

In short, make sure you properly reset the team before you start on the next concept.

4. Have a Plan B

The ultimate job of VCs is to make money for their investors. Making money isn’t just about picking winners; it’s about minimizing losses as well. As much as you believe in your pivot and know it’s going to work, it’s a huge financial risk, so show that you’re being financially smart by thinking through worst case scenarios if your pivot doesn’t work.

We’re very passionate about Superb and our investors are supportive of the big vision we’re trying to achieve, but we’ve also discussed cases of failure to make sure we’re being fiscally responsible to them. We’ve discussed everything from listing out potential acquirers to recapitalizing just in case. It’s important to always be transparent with every member of your team.

5. Know that your investors are “big boys”

In the end, you’ve poured endless hours into your company and worked hard to get your funding. If you have a great team and money in the bank, you’re ahead of most startups out there, so as long as you’re still passionate and excited to work your ass off, then there’s no reason to quit.

A pivot is better than trying to grind out a mediocre company. Pinterest pivoted. Homejoy pivoted a few times, even Lyft and Groupon.

In some cases, your biggest investors might be resistant to a pivot, but a VC once told me, “All your investors are big boys. Don’t worry about us. If we didn’t put money into you, we would’ve put money into someone else like you. We’ve all lost money but made a lot of money as well, so as long as you’re still hungry and passionate, keep fighting.”

Best iOS apps in April 2014

We covered a lot of ground with new iOS apps in April 2014. Here’s a pick of the best Apps for April 2014.

Carousel [From Dropbox]

Dropbox launched a new photo - and video - sharing gallery called Carousel, combining content from your Dropbox account with that on your mobile devices. L'ets take a preview...

Carousel lets you hold private conversations around your photos with friends, and add their photos to your own special events too.

➤ Carousel

Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff

Family Guy’s first mobile game captures the show’s irreverent hilarity as you strive to rebuild Quahog.

At its core, The Quest for Stuff resembles The Simpsons: Tapped Out, another free-to-play city-builder game from Fox. Both titles have you rebuilding their respective towns after the main character accidentally destroys it. In Family Guy’s case, a drawn-out brawl between Peter and Ernie the Giant Chicken levels the city of Quahog, giving Peter the task of recruiting his friends to clean up.

➤ Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff

Tastebuds

The principle behind Tastebuds is simple: If you’re an avid music fan you probably want to date people who share your taste in music. Following a long period as a Web-only affair, if you’ll pardon the pun, Tastebuds finally launched a native mobile app, kicking off with iPhone.

   

You indicate your sexual orientation, gender, city, date-of-birth, and insert a profile picture. The app then scans your local music library, adding your ‘favourite’ artists to your Tastebuds account, and matches you with other users.

➤ Tastebuds

Secret

You’ll either love or hate Secret, but its garnered a lot of attention since it launched in the US, so its international arrival last month is certainly worth a mention.

Secret has skyrocketed in recent months, as members of the technology industry post gossip – the truth of which is by no means guaranteed – about startups in Silicon Valley and beyond. There are no names on Secret, making it difficult for anyone deduce who has posted the most recent rumors, or the chances of them being true.

The mobile app, however, does tap into users’ address books to disclose whether they know the author, or if they’re a friend of a friend. In that respect, the app isn’t limited to the technology industry – anyone can use it – although the former is where the app appears to have been adopted most strongly.

Besides the US, it’s now available in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.

➤ Secret

Animoto Video Maker

Animoto Video Maker was already a popular shooting and sharing app for smartphones, but April also heralded a new version optimized for iPad.

Animoto hosts your video creations in the cloud, and is targeted at consumers, small businesses, educators, photographers, and anyone really, offering a range of pricing plans. The app is easy to use, with guided, step-by-step features. Within a minute or two, you can create a pro-quality video based on new shots or videos stored on your camera roll.

➤ Animoto Video Maker

Udacity

Udacity made its online learning platform more accessible bylaunching for iPhone users last month. Udacity was originally an iPad-only app, but the company finally brought its video lessons – which include 12 full courses and 26 free and ‘open’ courseware — to smaller screens.

In addition, Udacity also introduced an offline mode that lets users download videos which can viewed sans Internet access.

➤ Udacity

Wist

Following a ‘soft launch’ in a handful of US cities late last year, Wist finally launched its personalized travel recommendations app globally in April.

During set-up, it asks for permission to access your location. Then you stipulate whether you’re looking for coffee, food or drinks. You can also filter down into whether it’s just for you, friends, business or ‘a date’, among other criteria such as distance and whether it’s open just now.

    

The one caveat is that you are required to log in using your Facebook credentials. However, if you can stand that, Wist is slick and beautifully-crafted – it’s easy to see why it’s proven popular in its short tenure in the App Store so far.

➤ Wist

Opera Coast

Those looking for alternative browsers on their iPhone now have another option – Opera’s Coast app, a gesture-heavy browser which it first introduced for iPad.

Coast features a dark, minimalistic look with a strong focus on tiles. This means that instead of having to type in a URL every time you want to access a site, you can just tap on tiles. When you’re in a site and want to exit it, all you have to do is tap on the ‘home’ button, while to access the sites you already have open, just tap on the bottom right.

➤ Opera Coast

Pause

Shuffler.fm, the curated music-discovery service designed to help users navigate the music shared by online publications and blogs, rolled out an iPhone version of Pause, its recently-launched standalone multimedia music magazine.

    

Hitting the App Store back in February for iPad, Pause is essentially a curation of Shuffler.fm’s already-curated music service, so this is all about the crème de la crème of the best new music.

➤ Pause

Breeze

Perennially popular GPS fitness tracking service RunKeeper expanded beyond running last month with Breeze, a new standalone app for the iPhone 5s.

    

Breeze is all about tracking how many steps you take in a day, and uses the 5s’s M7 co-processor to garner this data. It’s a really slick, well-polished app. Though it may be a little late to the scene, with the likes of Fitly, Moves, Nike+ Move and more on the market already.

➤ Breeze

Blab

In July 2013, entrepreneur Michael Birch spent $1 million to buy back Bebo, a company he founded and sold to AOL for $595 million. And in February this year, the company announced the debut of its video messaging service Blab, which finally launched in April.

To send a Blab, you hold to record and let go to send — just like creating a video on Vine or Instagram. However, Bebo is keen to distance itself from those two services, by focusing on being about friend-to-friend communications, rather than a public network.

➤ Blab

Superb

Superb completed its pivot away from social dining serviceGrubwithus after launching its new iPhone app for finding new places to visit with friends. An early version of the app with basic functionality was already in the App Store, but the firm’s latest release added the messaging and social features needed to complete the product.

    

Conceptually, Superb functions as a ‘Tinder for places’ by showing you cards of nearby places and then having you swipe left to dismiss or swipe right to mark as ‘to do’. Once you’ve expressed interest in a place, you can see which of your friends has also marked it. Then, you can message them in the app to schedule a time to visit together.

➤ Superb

Fantastical

Fantastical has been a perennially popular app here at TNW Towers. Kicking off as a Mac app initially, developers Flexibitslaunched a version of its slick calendar application for iPhoneway back in 2012, before giving it a slew of new features last March and then basically overhauling it for iOS 7 six months later. As of April, it comes optimized for iPad too.

Indeed, you’ll notice the new Fantastical 2 dashboard is a fresh interface for iPad that displays calendar, day ticker, and list in a single display. It uses the larger screen real estate of the iPad well here, letting you toggle between the day ticker, half-screen week view, and full-screen week view.

Based on our initial dabblings with Fantastical for iPad, users won’t be disappointed. It’s slick, very easy to use, and although it more than makes full use of the available screen real estate, it doesn’t feel cluttered. But at $9.99 – soon to rise to $14.99 – it’s not cheap.

➤ Fantastical 2

If you’re on the hunt for more iOS apps, check out some of the best ones from March, or put your feet up and peruse our pick of the bunch from the whole of 2013. Alternatively, you can also check out some of the best Android apps from April too.

بحيرة كاراكول في طاجيكستان .. شاهد جمال الطبيعة

تقع بحيرة كاراكول أو "البحيرة السوداء" في جبال مرتفعة وجافة تسمى بامير في طاجيكستان، داخل الحديقة الوطنية الطاجيكية، في واحدة من أجمل المواقع والمناطق النائية في آسيا الوسطى, وهي بحيرة عميقة من المياه المالحة تستقر في حوض مغلق على ارتفاع 3900 متر فوق مستوى سطح البحر, وتحيط بها الجبال العالية التي تمنع الكتل الهوائية الرطبة، يتلقى الوادي أقل من 30 ملم من الأمطار سنوياً مما يجعلها واحدة من الأماكن الأكثر جفافاً في آسيا الوسطى بين أكتوبر-مايو. البحيرة مجمدة تماماً وتشكل فسحة بيضاء عندما ينظر اليها من قرية كاراكول حيث مجتمع صغير من الناس باقون على قيد الحياة من أجل الرعي لحيوانات الياك والغنم والماعز. بحيرة كاراكول واحدة من الأعلى في العالم وسط هضبة بامير , وملقبة بالبحر الميت لطاجيكستان.

 مياه بحيرة كاراكول يعتقد أنها تشكلت عندما ضرب نيزك الأرض قبل ملايين السنين، تظهر كواحة وسط منطقة "بامير" التي توصف بأنها "سقف العالم". ولكن على الرغم من جمالها، تشكل البحيرة القديمة موطناً لعدد محدود من الكائنات البحرية بإستثناء عدد قليل من أسماك لوتش المتأقلمة مع البيئة القاسية , إن كثافة ملوحة ماء البحيرة بدرجة بحيث يزعم السكان المحليون أن من يحاول أن يبحر بقارب عبر السطح يجد نفسه ينقلب بخفة وسط الماء وعليه ان يثقل القارب للحفاظ على توازنه. نترككم مع الصور : 

Top 10 places you must see in Paris France

Paris is the capital and largest city of France. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region. The city of Paris, within its administrative limits (the 20 arrondissements), has a population of about 2,230,000. Its metropolitan area is one of the largest population centres in Europe, with more than 12 million inhabitants.

An important settlement for more than two millennia, Paris had become, by the 12th century, one of Europe’s foremost centres of learning and the arts and the largest city in the Western world until the turn of the 18th century. Paris is today one of the world’s leading business and cultural centres and its influences in politics, education, entertainment, media, science, and the arts all contribute to its status as one of the world’s major global cities.

Eiffel tower

Museum du Quai Branly

Place Charles de Gaulle Etoile

Square Place Vendôme

The Museum Carnavalet

The Louvre Museum

The Museum d’orsay

Pont Alexandre III Bridge

The church Saint Clotilde

Paris night

From youramazingplaces