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[iPad] Pinterest comes to the iPad
Social networking sites aren’t so much the wave of the future as the way of the now. I actually rebelled against a certain one for awhile because – well – I didn’t see it as offering anything different from what, say, Tumblr already offered. Much like having a MySpace and [...]
[iPad] Capture interesting photos over time with Time Exposure
I’ve always been fascinated by time-exposure photography. Anyone who’s ever seen one of those gorgeous pictures of a big city, but the streets are nothing but a sea of white and red lights – or one of those images that perfectly captures lightning mid-strike knows what time-exposure photography is – [...]
[iPad] Turn your iPad into an extra monitor for your desktop with iDisplay
I already have a two monitor system. I’d probably have more if my video card could handle it. However, when my fiancee told me about an app for the iPad that allows you to use the iPad as another monitor for your desktop, I had to check it out.
iDisplay [...]
Read More »[Firefox] Organize your bookmarks with Foxtab
So thanks to you lovely people, I have had my eyes opened to the wonderful world of all the bookmark managing systems that Firefox actually has to offer. So today, I bring you Foxtab.
I really, really like Foxtabs’ interface. The settings are easy to understand, and offer you quite [...]
Read More »[Chrome] Define those words on the go with Google Dictionary
When you’re in college you find yourself reading quite a few academic papers. And every now and then, even for people with huge vocabularies, you may encounter a word that makes you go “Huh?” Google Dictionary is an extension for Chrome that will make sure you don’t have to go [...]
[Chrome] Take notes right in your browser with Memo Notepad
An instance of Notepad open on my computer is pretty much a constant thing. I take notes – regularly. I note add-ons and apps I want to review, I organize lists, I keep track of blog posts and the like across multiple different sites, and Notepad has been my best [...]
[iPad] Take notes by hand with Notability
If there is an iPad app that I wish I’d had when I was in school regularly, Notability is it. It performs the function of an all-in-one note-taking binder and, of course, the iPad weighs much less than your average five subject notebook. It supports text entry via typing as [...]
[iPad] Raise an adorable pet dragon with My Dragon
I love dragons. It probably says something that to this day, many years after it came out, the Sean Connery/Dennis Quaid movie Dragonheart is still my favorite movie. If you haven’t seen it, you should. Don’t let the old-fashioned beginning-of-CGI-era graphics fool you – it’s a fantastic movie. But as [...]
[iPad] Find new recipes and save your favorites with Gojee – Food & Drinks Recipes
I recently learned that my best friend’s aunt is considering getting an iPad to use it as what amounts to a recipe book. My eyes got huge – I can’t imagine buying what amounts to a thousand dollar piece of equipment just to use it as a recipe book. However, [...]
[Internet Explorer] Yoono for IE makes social networking easier, or at least that is the idea
I love bringing you all reviews of wonderful browser add-ons that will make your life easier. Any time I hear about something that consolidates services into one convenient place, I know I have to review it for you wonderful people. I like sharing things that work…and I like warning people [...]
[Chrome] Make long URLs easier to manage with Google URL Shortener
I read a lot of macro sites in my RSS feeder. I admit this. I Can Haz Cheezburger, Cute Overload, I Has A Hot Dog, Demotivational, all of those and more. And when I find something that’s either too adorable or to hilarious not to share, I copy the URL [...]
[Internet Explorer] Recover recently closed tabs with Open Last Closed Tab
I do a lot of multi-tab browsing in all of my browsers. Sometimes I hold onto a tab until the end of the day so I can really absorb what it has to say, and relax while doing it. But occasionally, I make mistakes. I’m human – I can’t help [...]
[iPad] Lead a terrifyingly cute band with My Singing Monsters
About a week ago, I walked in on my fiancee sitting in our room. She had her iPad in her lap, and strange, musical noises were coming from it. Confused, I came closer only to find that she had what appeared to be a white, big-mouthed bigfoot in the middle [...]
[iPad] Read all your ePub books in one place with Bluefire Reader
I love to read. If you see me out and about, there’s either a book in my bag, or (more often) my Nook in my bag. But I like to be able to read on any device I carry around. For the iPad, I use Bluefire Reader.
Bluefire Reader is [...]
Read More »[iPad] Sign important documents on the go with DocuSign Ink
My fiancee is a professional ghostwriter. One of the things she does is sign contracts on her iPad. She uses a different app for this functionality – a paid for one that I will probably be reviewing in the future. For today I discovered DocuSign Ink, and realized that (at [...]
[Firefox] Quickly find a page you left behind with Tab History Menu
Who hasn’t navigated a few clicks forward in a webpage and then wanted to quickly return to the fourth or fifth page back? Rather than clicking the “Back” button a number of times and hoping you remember how far back the page you wanted was, Firefox has an add-on solution.[...]
[Firefox] Make your browsing more fun with Cheevos for Firefox
I’m a gamer geek but an admittedly latecomer to the game, so to speak. When I first started playing World of Warcraft, I’d never heard of an achievement system. So the first time I got one, it startled me. But after that, I was hooked. I spent hours, even days, [...]
[Chrome] FastestChrome increases productivity by streamlining your browsing experience
FastestChrome is a productivity extension designed to make your browsing and searches quicker. It features the ability to autoload the next page so that you have uninterrupted scrolling when doing Google searches or reading vertical comic archives or image searches. It also turns any text link into a clickable link, [...]
[iPad] Keep up to date with the weather here, there, and anywhere with Weather+
I live in California. My parents live in Texas. I have friends in Montana, Oregon, and Ireland, among other places. I also enjoy knowing what the weather is like, both where I am and where my friends and family are. Weather+ has an incredibly simple interface for doing just that.[...]
[iPad] Organize all your recipes in one place with My Recipe Book
In my family, recipes are like holy grails that everyone hopes to one day possess. Handed down from grandmother to mother to daughter across generations (and okay, sometimes grandmother to granddaughter), sometimes these recipes are written on old, yellowed, frail recipe cards with the careful hand of a person long [...]
[iPad] Wildlab Bird helps you identify those weird birds sitting outside your window
I’ve always been interested in nature and the outdoors. When I see an animal or a bird, I’d like to know what it is in case I see it again, or in case I want to tell someone what I saw. While I’m not what one would call an “avid [...]
[Opera] Remove annoying YouTube ads with YouTube AdsFree
If you’re tired of YouTube ads blocking the bottom of your videos while watching through your playlists, then YouTube AdsFree is for you.
As the name indicates, YouTube AdsFree blocks ads on YouTube videos. As you can see from the screenshot to the right, no ad! It also has a [...]
Read More »[Chrome] Personalize your browser My Chrome Theme
I love personalization. When I sign up for a new service or a new site I waste no time filling out the profile and making it my own. Back when I used Firefox regularly, I was always on the lookout for themes that made my browser say “me!” in neon [...]
[Opera] Use Ghostery to see what websites are tracking you
“Just because I’m paranoid doesn’t mean that there’s no one out to get me.” Who hasn’t heard that line before, or some variation on it? With the information age came the fact that more people and companies are collecting data on individual people and their habits more than ever. This [...]
[iPad] SAS Data Notebook turns your iPad into a notebook for school
I was homeschooled – I want that to be very clear – so my perceptions of what’s normal for kids to carry to school might be a bit out of whack, seeing as my experience of “real” school was was shaped solely by mid 90s TV… shows like Full House[...]
[iPad] Compose and share your own eCards with ‘My eCard: Send It Later’
I don’t mind apps having “free” and “pro” versions. I really don’t. I’ve reviewed many nice apps that were ad-supported and yet still had almost all of the functionality of the paid versions, as long as you were willing to deal with the ads. What bothers me is when apps [...]
[iPad] View stars, planets, galaxies, and more with Sky-map
I have a special affinity for the night sky. I don’t really know what causes it, but astronomy has always fascinated me. So ever since I discovered star map applications, I’ve had to have one on any device I have. For the iPad, that app is Sky-map.
A fairly simple [...]
Read More »[Firefox] Easily share your favorite sites on Facebook with Facebook Share Button
How many times have you been browsing the internet, found something you wanted to share on Facebook, copied the URL, navigated back to Facebook to post the URL to share on your timeline, but then got distracted by your Facebook feed. And eventually, when you realize you were doing something [...]
[Internet Explorer] Bring HTML5 functionality to IE with Chrome Frame
Chrome Frame is an add-on for Internet Explorer that brings advanced browsing functionality and support for open web standards to Internet Explorer. More specifically, Chrome Frame allows Internet Explorer to render HTML5 just like it would on Google Chrome.
Chrome Frame is possibly the most unobtrusive add-on I’ve ever seen. [...]
Read More »[Opera] Store tabs for use at a later time with Tab Vault
When I’m want to write about a specific topic, sometimes I do the research a long time in advance so I’ll have things ready to pull up when I need to reference them for whatever paper or blog I’m writing. I used to do this by creating a bookmarks folder [...]
[iPad] Save your favorite online photos and videos for offline use with Total Downloader
I love YouTube. I spend a lot of time on it in my off hours, watching videos, listening to music to help me decide if I want to buy the album, laughing at funny animals, etc. But when I’m offline, I can’t watch my favorite videos anymore, and it is [...]
[iPad] Create short animated GIFs with 5SecondsApp
All over the internet, there are animated GIFs, little short snippets of videos and life that are sometimes poignant, sometimes hilarious, but always short and to the point. With 5SecondsApp, you can make them yourself using your iPad’s video camera.
In an incredibly easy to use interface, 5SecondsApp has a [...]
Read More »[iPad] Get all your news and website updates in one place with Flipboard
Flipboard is more than just another social media manager – Flipboard is a news consolidator that will make sure you have everything you want to read and look at on your iPad in one place. It makes Twitter and Facebook look like glossy spreads in a magazine, and offers the [...]
[Opera] Quickly close duplicate tabs with No Dupes
Who hasn’t occasionally opened the same website several times thanks to a misplaced click or two? When I’m browsing around, hunting for add-ons to review for you wonderful people, I do it all the time. I suddenly realize I’ve opened at least three tabs of the exact same add-on page, [...]
[Firefox] Make your bookmarks more visual with Viewmarks
I’m a fan of Opera’s Speed Dial. Until today, I hadn’t found similar functionality for Firefox — then I found Viewmarks.
In simple terms, Viewmarks adds Speed Dial-like functionality to Firefox. Viewmarks puts a little “Open book with bookmark” icon in the upper left of your browser, just past the [...]
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