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GIVEAWAY: Win a $25 Rdio Gift Card
05 Mar 2012 by Craig Lloyd / 7 Comments
If you’re an avid Rdio user or are considering jumping ship from another music streaming service, you just might be pleased to know that we have a $25 Rdio gift card with your name on it (if you’re the lucky winner, that is). The $25 gift card is yours to use however you see fit on Rdio’s website. They have three different tiers of services to choose from: web-only unlimited stre...
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Simplify list making and note taking with WorkFlowy
05 Mar 2012 by Carl Natale
I used WorkFlowy to outline this blog post There’s another free productivity tool that harnesses the power of simplicity. WorkFlowy is probably the simplest, most powerful web app you will find. Basically it’s a list maker that can be used as a task organizer and project management tool. To use it, just start typing. Automatically you’re creating a bullet point. Press “re...
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Words with Friends is Mobile Gaming Perfection
02 Mar 2012 by Benny Taylor / 1 Comment
Saturday night. Relaxing at a friend’s house. Dinner is over, and we are all sitting around the dining table. The room is strangely quiet. Everyone at the table has a look of intense concentration, and the only sounds are the occasional shrills and pings produced by our various laptops and smartphones. No, this isn’t a strange vision of a scary post-social-skills future. It was just last week ...
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QR Codes for Smartphone Users: An Introductory Lesson
14 Feb 2012 by Chitraparna Sinha / 1 Comment
Over the last 3 years, Quick Response (QR) codes have gained popularity. These two-dimensional horizontal and vertical data storage codes have begun to attract use by web developers, marketers, and major corporations to boost their business. The QR coding system has opened a new smartphone market for content creators who can use them to interact with target audiences without requiring users to me...
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“Focus on the User” inserts competing social network links into Google search results
09 Feb 2012 by Carl Natale
When Google launched “Search Plus Your World“ (SPYW) it took a big step toward becoming the company that everyone loves to hate. By integrating search results from the Google+ network into your regular search, plenty of people cried foul. And not just the ones working for Twitter and Facebook. By excluding results from other social networks, critics claim that Google is tampering wit...
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How to create, format and self-publish your own eBook
03 Feb 2012 by Carl Natale / 3 Comments
When Apple rolled out iBooks 2, it also released a tool to create interactive ebooks called iBook Author. It’s free and supposed to be easy to use. The catch is that you can only use it to sell books via Apple’s iBooks store, although you can use it to create ebooks that you can distribute for free. iBooks Author is an important tool because creating an ebook is a bit more complicated ...
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HTML5 and the Future of Mobile Apps and Gaming
01 Feb 2012 by Jake Joraanstad
HTML5 will change the way we view mobile apps, and will change the way we think about how software has to be viewed on a mobile device. It will even change the way we view desktop applications. HTML5 is the biggest game changer since Apple’s App Store. But if what I am saying is right, then why hasn’t this all come true yet? The reasons are many, some minor and easily overcome, and som...
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Create better online videos with the YouTube Creator Playbook
23 Jan 2012 by Carl Natale
There are two ways you can use YouTube to gain fame and fortune: Create a viral video that gets viewed by millions of people. Create a YouTube channel that drives traffic to your brand over time. Viral videos rely a lot on quirkiness and luck. Despite that randomness, there are some best practices that will help your video. The more methodical approach to building a popular YouTube channel requi...
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How to access Wikipedia during the SOPA/PIPA blackout
18 Jan 2012 by Derek Johnson / 3 Comments
If you are a college student, like me, and you have an assignment due tomorrow, like I do, you may have noticed that Wikipedia has taken itself down (sort of) in protest of SOPA and PIPA legislative acts. While I agree with the protest going on and commend Wikipedia for doing what they have to raise awareness, (seriously people, take some time to voice your concerns to your representatives, see Te...
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Clearly: Chrome browser extension cuts distractions from web pages
13 Jan 2012 by Carl Natale / 2 Comments
Evernote has created a tool for people who are easily distracted. Clearly is a Google Chrome extension that strips out navigation, links and advertisement from any Web page and presents you with a cleaner, less distracting online reading experience. Clearly is a Chrome browser extension that strips navigation, links and ads from a page The Clearly reading experience is customizable: you can choos...
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