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Animated Gifs are a great way to show potential backers how something appears or functions without having to watch the project video. The trick to creating a good animated gif is to resize it to the Kickstarter image width (680px wide) and keep the file size to a minimum (5-10mb) so that it will load quickly. Beware the 3 ring circus! I've seen many campaigns with way too many animated gifs. Sometimes almost every image is an animated gif. This makes the page load very slo

One common question from Kickstarter backers is, "How do I change my delivery address". If the creator has allowed the option for backers to be able to change delivery address, then follow these simple steps. Click on your icon in the top right. Select the project that you backed and want to change the address. On the project page, click on the blue "View Pledge" button on the right side. A new page pops up. Click on "Survey" in the center. Scroll down and click "Edit

Formatting images for the best appearance on Kickstarter is tricky and works best if you follow a few guidelines. Image Width Kickstarter resizes any image you upload to 680px wide. This means that you should save images as multiples of 680px for the best resizing quality. Ideally just save the images destined for the Kickstarter page as 680px wide. Mobile Phone Cropping Issue The width of the images gets cropped when viewing on mobile phones, even in the Kickstarter app. Th

FidgetBot was built as an interesting attention grabbing display for a tradeshow. It's a balancing robot that is remotely controllable from a phone app. Watch the video to check out what Fidget Bot can do.

Smartwatch.me has an excellent video review of the TimeDock charging dock for Pebble Time. One of the most interesting points of their video is that this is the only dock they have found that will charge all of the Pebble Time family of watches, the Pebble Time plastic, Time Steel, and Time Round.

Mark Draper’s video review of the TimeDock Charging Dock for Pebble Time shows it being used with his Pebble Time Steel smartwatch. Check it out if you are interested in purchasing a TimeDock for your Pebble Time, Time Steel, or Time Round.

Androidguys.com have just published a glowing review of the TimeDock for Pebble Time, using the Pebble Time Round. This is their story after using the TimeDock for a week… View the pdf of the original review here

PebbleStuff.io posted an article about the TimeDock charging station for Pebble Time, including some beautiful images of a Pebble Time Round and Pebble Time charging on the docks. One look at this article, and you’ll know why they call the TimeDock the best charging dock for the Pebble Time smartwatch. It’s a high quality dock made with premium materials that’s totally worth the price. Take a look at their review here View PDF of the original review here

BoBdotEXE reviews the TimeDock charging dock for his Pebble Time Steel with Steel band. He makes several interesting points about the charging and use aspects of the TimeDock. Check out when he sticks the dock to the cabinet door, and it stays there using the micro suction tape base. One interesting point he makes is that his watch has fallen off the desk or table many times when using the original Pebble Time charging cable, and that this won’t happen anymore with the TimeD

Tiempoescaso.es has made a review of the Pebble Time charging dock in Spanish. The TimeDock is shipped in non retail foam packaging to international customers, because it does an excellent job of protecting the TimeDock, and keeps the weight under 8 ounces, which is important to achieve reasonable shipping costs.