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Try Some Easy Listening While You Surf With Radio Player Live [Chrome]
Listening to online radio (or even offline) is something I won’t recommend for focused productivity. But I agree…sometimes you just feel like it. I also switch on my favorite online radio station (who listens to offline radio stations these days?) especially when I am doing some ho-hum work on the browser and just want to prevent the yawns. Radio Player Live is an online radio extension for Chrome that has also been recommended on The Best Chrome Extensions page.
For The Scientific Spirit: 7 Websites For Science Questions & Answers
The web is the Grand Oracle. It sees all and answers all. I wish we had the educational and self-learning edge it gives to today’s generation. In a snap, you can tap it to ask anything about the world we live in, and generally it is pretty accurate answering back. Perhaps, apart from the ‘question of life’ it can answer anything. Who knows, someone might come up with that answer too in due time.
How To Store Your Clipboard Data & Share It Online
The clipboard is something we use probably every few minutes, but seldom see. Like an invisible help it stays out of the way and carries whatever we cut and copy to every corner of our computer. Clipboards have broken free from the boundaries of the desktop and have gone online. And just like their elder cousins, online clipboards have uses we usually ignore in favor of more visible mediums like email and social media.
5 Fascinating Video Channels For The Geek On Vimeo
Vimeo isn’t the place to upload a video and make some money. It is also probably not the place where your video will go viral and cause a riot or two. But it is definitely the place to catch some well-made stuff. Like geek culture and technology for instance. So, let’s stop singing hosannas and get down to exploring some interesting channels which the geek in all of us should enjoy.
Give A Spot To The Uncomplicated Easy Image Modifier Among Your Portable Apps [Windows]
Why are we reviewing yet another image editing program? Isn’t there a forest of them out there? Sure…but don’t you think occasionally it pays to take a second look at some of the really good ones. After all, would you stop looking at a pretty girl just because there is a population of them in your town! Easy Image Modifier carries another advantage - it comes well recommended from our legion of readers, and that enabled it to find a place in our list of Best Portable Apps.
Your Guide To Downloading Pages From Wikipedia
Today, when it appears on top of nearly every Google result, we take it from granted. We occasionally try to bring it down a notch or three over the veracity of the facts stated there. But its presence and use in the pantheon of great bookmarked sites is assured. But this article is not about singing hosannas to the world’s largest collaborative encyclopedia. It is a guide to how you can take Wikipedia offline by downloading pages.
6 DIY Tutorials & More If You Want To Design Your Own Laptop Or iPad Sleeves
Why should I make a laptop sleeve when I have the one that came with the device? Well, so do the thousands who bought the same device. But then you can very well go out and buy designed sleeves that are way cooler than the mass produced ones. I can’t argue for this one, except say that a DIY approach would give you the stamp of exclusivity, save you money, and allow you to free your creativity around your laptop or similar device.
7 Great Ways to Find Free Images Online
For more day to day mundane uses, we need free images for decorate a blog post, seek inspiration, set a wallpaper, make a collage, or just finish the school homework. This post thus takes a ‘back-to-basics’ approach and attempts to go over the same image searching ground as before, but in a more comprehensive manner. I hope to again show that searching for the right free image is easy enough, provided you know where to look.
Search For Free Alternatives To Paid Android Apps On These 2 Websites
With little things like Android apps, there are quite a few free lunches we can dine on. They may come with restrictions and the eye-sore of advertisements, but if they are usable, you would like nothing better than to hold on to the cents and dollars. As we have discovered with software, for every paid application there could be a free one out there coded by someone who doesn’t have to bother about his next lunch. So, here are two websites that can give us the free alternative to the paid Android app.
6 Tools to Help You Gain More Followers and Get Better at Twitter
Just for enhancing one’s own personal brand, Twitter is a vehicle with rocket boosters. You will be surprised to know that using just 140 characters effectively takes a lot of skills. Put in the time and it will be reflected in the number of followers. That usually indicates you are doing something right. If you need a Swiss knife, here are six tools that can help you get better and gain more followers on Twitter.
Organize All Your Information in One Place With the Easy-to-Use RightNote
Cloud apps are great for syncing and anytime-anywhere access, but for more hands on control it is difficult to argue with software like the ubiquitous Microsoft OneNote, the ever-popular Evernote, and many others who are trying to carve their own niche. Today, we will be throwing in an easy to use information manager called RightNote into the mix and here’s hoping that you will love the versatility this alternative productivity tool has to offer.
I Have An Idea! Share Your Next Big Idea With These Brands & The World
Today, at least you won’t be subjected to the Roman Inquisition for suggesting that the Earth revolves around the Sun. You can cross an ocean with an idea. And maybe make a product or the world a better place. In fact, there are some well-known companies that encourage you to share your ideas. For their own bottomlines or more selfless ends, the eight on this short list are some avenues where you can give wings to your ideas.
Ignite Sparks Of Innovative Ideas And Creative Inspirations With These Websites
Have you ever looked at a problem ‘creatively’? Maybe not. Try some creative brainstorming with the help of these websites. It might not be an exercise for the next Nobel, but it is whole lot of fun. Who knows? You could end up with a great business idea or something that solves a problem in your own backyard. It could be anything from an idea of a novel to how to rid the world of plastics.
Memorize Anything In Double Quick Time With AnyMemo Free [Android]
If you thought that flash cards (or flashcards) were only for students in vocabulary training, you wouldn’t be more wrong. Flashcards can be used to memorize anything that requires retention through repetitive repetition; and that by its very definition anything you want to learn and commit to memory. True, flashcards gained their name and fame with phonics and spelling testers, but try it out on anything which you want to learn, and you have your most effective study guide.
10 Tips To Help You Email More Efficiently
The best advice I have heard about email and email productivity is – don’t answer emails first thing in the morning. It is a bit paradoxical but true that email and productivity are at loggerheads with each other. If we are too obsessed with it, our inbox becomes a massive speed bump on the efficiency highway. But it does not have to be. These tips aren’t meant to take you to the Holy Grail of Inbox Zero, but are meant to introduce slight email habit changes which will hopefully make you email more efficiently.
How I Use Wapedia For Reference And Wikipedia Search When I Am Stuck [Android 1.5+]
Google is the ultimate search engine and it is supposed to answer everything like the Grand Oracle. But what if you just don’t have the question with you? Or a smidgen of a clue about it? In those foggy states of mental fugue, it helps to have a more structured source for information. There’s actually no reason for us to suffer more than necessary because information is all around us. We just have to search-refer-and grab the thread. When I am stuck, one of the resources I use to pummel the writer’s block is Wapedia.
Keep An Eye On The Time Around The World With FoxClocks [Firefox]
The world has become a village, and New York is as close to Sydney as any other city in the world. I am speaking in digital terms of course. Thanks to the digital super highway, we need to just pick up the phone and dial our cousin or co-worker in the other corner of the world, or at least send him an email. But here, we may not be separated by immediate time, but we are yet to leapfrog the divide of time-zones.
Give Instagram A Break And Take PicsArt For A Spin On Your Android
Yes, Instagram isn’t the only game in town. We may or not may be able to give up on your love for Instagram, but that shouldn’t stop us from getting around our tunnel vision and looking at some other really good mobile photo editors (or photo enhancers as I call them). PicsArt is an Android photo editor that not only deserves a good hard look, but in my opinion it is a photo app that should find a permanent corner on your smartphone.
Catch Image Thieves With Who Stole My Pictures And Also Put It To Five More Uses [Firefox]
When it comes to textual works, we have seen how easy it is to catch the copycats. But what about pictures and photographs? Is image search that easy? Probably not; but that’s not to say it is impossible because image search technologies have evolved. Making an effort to defeat image plagiarism is this simple Firefox extension called Who Stole My Pictures.
Productivity In Your Pocket: Use The Portable Snaptimer To Do Your Tasks In Mini-sprints [Windows]
Isn’t there some wisdom in breaking large tasks into smaller piecemeal efforts? There’s another way to look at any mammoth project or everyday task – as a massive unit of time that can be broken down into chunks of minutes. You can develop our own timer based system to do a task in mini-sprints. If you need a simple, uncomplicated timer for the job, try counting down with Snaptimer.