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- Cool Websites & Tools – Professional Document Scanner, Browse Without Distractions, & Find Full Movies On YouTube
- A Geek’s Travel Bucket List
- The Scourge Of Vertical Video Syndrome [Weird & Wonderful Web]
- What Is Creative Commons, And Should You Use It?
- Watch Out StubHub, Razorgator Is Coming For The Second Hand Ticket Crown
| Posted: 18 Jan 2014 08:31 PM PST  Eidetic – uses a technique called spaced repetition to help you memorise anything from important phone numbers to interesting words or facts. It works differently from typical brain training apps by using items that have meaning and context. It’s perfect for students looking to remember those key facts or anyone who wants to remember facts you come across. ScanWritr – is a brand new, easy-to-use professional document scanner and PDF converter that allows users to scan and write on the documents. Simply scan that sheet of paper, watch as the app’s automatic edge detection does its trick, fill out the... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Professional Document Scanner, Browse Without Distractions, & Find Full Movies On YouTube |
| Posted: 18 Jan 2014 06:30 PM PST  Have you heard of a geek’s travel bucket list? It’s essentially a list of 50 places that every geek should try to visit before they leave this earth. A few highlights from the list include attending the International Comics Festival in France, seeing the garage where Steve Jobs and Woz built the first Apple computer in California, and visiting the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. You need to have visit at least 20 places on this list to be granted entry to geek heaven. Do you qualify? via Cheapflights.ca Read the full article: A Geek’s Travel Bucket List |
| The Scourge Of Vertical Video Syndrome [Weird & Wonderful Web] Posted: 18 Jan 2014 05:30 PM PST  With more people owning smartphones with each passing day, more people are shooting videos than ever before. While most of us wouldn’t have dreamt of walking around with a video camera strapped to our backs just in case something worth filming happened, we can now wield that enviable power purely by carrying a smartphone in a pocket. This is, in many ways, a good thing. It means we get to see a lot more cat videos on YouTube than we would do otherwise. It also means citizen journalism is now a legitimate means of reporting the news, with rolling news... Read the full article: The Scourge Of Vertical Video Syndrome [Weird & Wonderful Web] |
| What Is Creative Commons, And Should You Use It? Posted: 18 Jan 2014 11:00 AM PST  While writing out your next academic paper, you look online for various images which are appropriate for what you’re talking about. Once you find something you like, you simply copy and paste it because, hey, who’s stopping you? More than likely, doing this is technically illegal. Not only that, but it applies to most content that you can find online — including posts/articles and videos. To make things easier on both content creators and consumers, Lawrence Lessig created the suite of Creative Commons licenses, a set of copyright licenses which clarify what you can do with content licensed with one... Read the full article: What Is Creative Commons, And Should You Use It? |
| Watch Out StubHub, Razorgator Is Coming For The Second Hand Ticket Crown Posted: 18 Jan 2014 08:00 AM PST  The best way to get tickets is to get them the moment they go on sale. Sadly, this just isn’t possible all the time, as some events can sell out in a matter of seconds, and then you’re left with an empty feeling, knowing that you are going to miss out on what could be the event of a lifetime. Or are you? There is a massive second-hand ticket market — where people end up not being able to attend an event, or those who just bought the tickets with the intent of flipping them for a profit — go... Read the full article: Watch Out StubHub, Razorgator Is Coming For The Second Hand Ticket Crown |
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