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• Cool Websites & Tools – Next Gen Audio Algorithms, YouTube Of Education, & Promote Your Event
• 18 Magnificently Geeky Game Controller Teardowns You Will Marvel At
• Android Apps on Sale, 28 March: Osmos HD Is On Sale!
• Google Docs Adds-Ons For Students: These 5 Will Help You Write A Paper
• 10 College Blogs You Wouldn’t Have Wanted To Miss As A 20-Something
• Five Free Apps to Help You Learn A Foreign Language
• Facing Writer’s Block? Get The Ideas Flowing With These 3 Daily Rituals
• Use Jawbone UP Coffee To Manage Your Caffeine Intake
• Twitter Gives You Photo Tagging & Four Photos With Each Share
• Get Easier Updates With These Alternative App Stores For Mac
• Cheap Chromebook, Tablets and More [Tech Deals]
• Tag Journal Captures Thoughts, Photos, Videos & Voice Recordings
• Boost Your Typing Speed With The Typing of The Dead: Overkill
• iOS Twitter Client Twitterrific Goes Free
• Top 7 TV News Outlets That Accept Your Newsworthy Pictures And Videos

Cool Websites & Tools – Next Gen Audio Algorithms, YouTube Of Education, & Promote Your Event Posted: 27 Mar 2014 09:31 PM PDT Auphonic – develops next generation audio algorithms using a combination of music information retrieval, machine learning, signal processing and big data to create an automatic audio post production web service for broadcasters, podcasts, radio shows, audio books, lecture recordings, screencasts and more. Users just upload their recorded audio and Auphonic will do the rest. Mobento – provides a free to use library of the world’s best educational videos. They scour the public web and work with the world's best teachers and institutions to bring you a one stop shop for video learning. It's like a You Tube of education. The... Read the full article: Cool Websites & Tools – Next Gen Audio Algorithms, YouTube Of Education, & Promote Your Event

18 Magnificently Geeky Game Controller Teardowns You Will Marvel At Posted: 27 Mar 2014 07:30 PM PDT Brandon Allen has just earned my respect. His Deconstructed series features 18 popular video game controllers, torn apart and meticulously laid out in a fashion that geeks can truly enjoy. Can you name every controller? Read the full article: 18 Magnificently Geeky Game Controller Teardowns You Will Marvel At

Android Apps on Sale, 28 March: Osmos HD Is On Sale! Posted: 27 Mar 2014 06:30 PM PDT Each week we scour current Google Play promotions and cherry-pick the best of the best. This week classic game Osmos is on sale, as well as an image editor that’s one of the best you can get on a phone or tablet today. Because app sales are temporary affairs, by the time you read this, these may no longer be on sale. Worry not: Simply check back next week for some more Android deals! Games Osmos HD ($2.99, now $0.99) Osmos needs little in the way of introduction. This is one of the best-known ambient games out there. You’re a... Read the full article: Android Apps on Sale, 28 March: Osmos HD Is On Sale!

Google Docs Adds-Ons For Students: These 5 Will Help You Write A Paper Posted: 27 Mar 2014 03:00 PM PDT Word-processing for students has long been the domain of Microsoft Word. The recent release of add-ons is making Google Docs an appealing free option. The five add-ons we are about to meet have the potential to become quick favorites for people working on research papers, essays, and collaborative projects. But, are they good enough to make Google Docs the go-to option? Google Docs won’t be toppling Word from the top of the heavy-duty text-editing list anytime soon, but add-ons like these will help keep it in the list of best alternatives to Office. It will make it more attractive for... Read the full article: Google Docs Adds-Ons For Students: These 5 Will Help You Write A Paper

10 College Blogs You Wouldn’t Have Wanted To Miss As A 20-Something Posted: 27 Mar 2014 02:00 PM PDT Forget about midlife crisis. These days, college students and post-college graduates are suffering from a new type of anxiety called the quarter-life crisis.  It’s the stress that originates from the uncertainty of becoming an adult and entering the “real world”. Does that sound like something you’re going through? If so, you can rest easy knowing that you aren’t alone. For those of you who are in your twenties and feeling lost, check out these blogs. They’re all written for people like you and they may provide you with new perspectives and new ways to help you take control of the... Read the full article: 10 College Blogs You Wouldn’t Have Wanted To Miss As A 20-Something

Five Free Apps to Help You Learn A Foreign Language Posted: 27 Mar 2014 01:00 PM PDT Whether you’re gearing up to go on your summer holidays, studying for exams, or just want to expand your mind, it’s always a great time to learn a foreign language. You can stock up on books, spend hours listening to CDs or use Chrome’s Language Immersion – but these five iOS and Android apps are an easy way to integrate learning with your day-to-day routines. And they’re free! Duolingo – Want to Learn On A Casual Basis? With a bright and easy to use interface, Duolingo lets you naturally progress in your own time. You start with simple phrases and... Read the full article: Five Free Apps to Help You Learn A Foreign Language

Facing Writer’s Block? Get The Ideas Flowing With These 3 Daily Rituals Posted: 27 Mar 2014 12:00 PM PDT With just a few regular activities, writers can reduce their constant struggle for ideas. Writing is as much about coming up with a good idea as it is about articulating it. But we all know how elusive such ideas can be. Their hide-and-seek tactics have left us with the pesky writer’s block. Some writers live in fear of it, while some others dismiss it as a myth. The bottom line is that the lack of good ideas is one issue many writers face in common. Thankfully, you can overcome it with something as simple as a daily ritual. Here are... Read the full article: Facing Writer’s Block? Get The Ideas Flowing With These 3 Daily Rituals

Use Jawbone UP Coffee To Manage Your Caffeine Intake Posted: 27 Mar 2014 11:00 AM PDT Drinking too much life-giving nectar of the gods can negatively impact your ability to sleep at night, and it can be hard to know exactly how much caffeine is in your system and how long it takes to burn off before you can sleep. That’s where UP Coffee comes into play. It allows you to log your caffeine intake so you can learn when to stop drinking and get a better night’s sleep. As someone who works from home, which requires me to motivate myself to get some work done, I can tell you that caffeine is a fantastic discovery. This... Read the full article: Use Jawbone UP Coffee To Manage Your Caffeine Intake

Twitter Gives You Photo Tagging & Four Photos With Each Share Posted: 27 Mar 2014 10:30 AM PDT Twitter just rolled out two fresh “photo enhancing” features that ramp up your social friendships. Now, with the newly introduced photo tagging, you can tag people in your photos. The other welcome ability is that you can also include up to four photos in a tweet. Go ahead and update your Twitter iPhone and Android apps to have a go. Thanks to Facebook, tagging photos is known to be a communication driver and to help social interconnectedness. The feature comes late to Twitter, as it speeds up its improvements around photo sharing. A new “Who’s in this photo?” button is... Read the full article: Twitter Gives You Photo Tagging & Four Photos With Each Share

Get Easier Updates With These Alternative App Stores For Mac Posted: 27 Mar 2014 10:00 AM PDT Tired of manually installing and updating Mac apps? Check out these alternatives to the Mac App Store, offering downloads and updates the App Store can’t. Browse our list of the best Mac apps and you’ll notice a divide. Some of the apps there are available on the Mac App Store, but some aren’t. One of the nice things about the Mac App Store is it’s automatic update system, which keeps you up to date in just a couple of clicks. Apps you download from the web don’t work this way, which can get annoying: updates can mean a trip to... Read the full article: Get Easier Updates With These Alternative App Stores For Mac

Cheap Chromebook, Tablets and More [Tech Deals] Posted: 27 Mar 2014 09:30 AM PDT Desktop and mobile device prices on slightly older hardware remain quite good this year. In particular, Intel’s last generation of processor, Ivy Bridge, remains at hot sale prices for most of its devices. Also steeply discounted this week is a Chromebook and a smattering of desktop computers. Mobile Device Users This week, we’ve got great prices on the iPad, iPad Mini and Chromebook. Apple iPad Mini 16GB (1st Generation) Price: $259.99; compare to $329.99 Retailer: eBay – Buy it Now Finding a discounted Apple iPad, Retina display or not, remains a difficult task. Fortunately, this particular deal offers a 21%... Read the full article: Cheap Chromebook, Tablets and More [Tech Deals]

Tag Journal Captures Thoughts, Photos, Videos & Voice Recordings Posted: 27 Mar 2014 09:00 AM PDT Tag Journal ($2.99, universal) is another addition to the crowded market of mobile journals and notebooks, but a clean iOS 7 design and Markdown syntax make it an attractive option for new and existing digital notebook users. The app provides a worthy alternative to the popular diary and journal app, Day One, and even manages to best some of the features in the cross-platform Evernote. Powerful tag management, iCloud support, location stamping and a photo gallery all make for a compelling package. Let’s take a look. Your Markdown Journal Tag Journal can be used for one or more purposes, such as... Read the full article: Tag Journal Captures Thoughts, Photos, Videos & Voice Recordings

Boost Your Typing Speed With The Typing of The Dead: Overkill Posted: 27 Mar 2014 08:00 AM PDT Using games to increase productivity is a great way to get better at something while still having fun. It’s a practice that turns self-improvement activities you might otherwise resist into tasks you happily take on. Sega’s The Typing of The Dead: Overkill is a fantastic game PC to test your typing speed in a world of Grindhouse Cinema zombie blasting. If its over-the-top exploitation homage to a genre recently reinvigorated with films like Machete and Drive Angry doesn’t turn you away, you’re in for hours of fun by yourself, or in online cooperative play. But hide your children. It’s lurid! It’s savage!... Read the full article: Boost Your Typing Speed With The Typing of The Dead: Overkill

iOS Twitter Client Twitterrific Goes Free Posted: 27 Mar 2014 07:30 AM PDT You know what’s great? Getting things that used to cost money for free. That’s just what Iconfactory is doing with its popular Twitter client known as Twitterrific. Before now, the application sold for $2.99 on the App Store, and now it has decided to take the freemium route with its application. The free version is now supported through adverts, and there are in-app purchases (IAPs) that unlock various features that would have previously been behind the standard $2.99 pay wall. Some of the features offered behind the IAPs are luxuries – things like the Today View, language translation, and ad removal. On the... Read the full article: iOS Twitter Client Twitterrific Goes Free

Top 7 TV News Outlets That Accept Your Newsworthy Pictures And Videos Posted: 27 Mar 2014 07:00 AM PDT 7th July 2005 saw four bombs going off in London. It was one of the worst terror attacks on English soil. A year later, an anonymous Londoner received a citizen journalist award for his timely click of the aftermath. Broadcasters like the BBC featured his photo. The photo wasn’t a professional snap by media standards but Vicky Taylor, BBC News Interactivity editor and one of the judges in the prize jury said, I went with the pictures which were taken by people almost by chance. They did not set out to photograph an event, it just happened in front of... Read the full article: Top 7 TV News Outlets That Accept Your Newsworthy Pictures And Videos

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