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Personalize Your News and Access from Any Device with News360
Reviews, Social Media News360 is a “next-generation news personalization and aggregation service” that is supported on iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone 7, BlackBerry Playbook, Android, and the web. You’ll need to create an account in order to customize it and so that it can “learn from your cloud” sources; you can sign up by connecting with Facebook or Twitter. You’ll also get to custom the web address of your profile, so that you can ...
Continue readingGrammarly – Your Personal Online Editor and Grammar Correction Tool
Personal, Reviews As a writer, you’re constantly being watched and judged by the content that you write. Even though no one is perfect, small mistakes in your writing can often cause an uproar among your readers. That’s why it’s really important to have a second set of eyes or an automatic tool like Grammarly to help you out. Grammarly is a web-based editor that describes itself as the “world’s most accurate grammar checker.” It automatically ...
Continue readingShare Files and Get 10 GB of Free Storage with Minus
Reviews, Social Media Minus is a very simple and minimalistic online service with a focus on file sharing. A couple months ago, I briefly mentioned Minus in 7 Online Tools for Sharing Files Very Quickly as a tool that lets you quickly share files within 2 clicks. Since then, it appears that Minus has now evolved into a Dropbox-like tool with a desktop app for dragging and dropping files into the service – for storing and sharing. Best of all, when you sign up ...
Continue reading6 Social Media Tools for Tracking Weather and Natural Disasters
Social Media, Software & Programs With all of the natural disasters happening this year, it’s very important to stay up-to-date with your local weather and keep a look out for any warnings or watches. You never know when something disastrous might be coming your way. What better way to keep up with the weather and natural disasters than by using technology? Whether you’re on Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, or another mobile device, there are tons of tools and apps ...
Continue reading3 Tools for Backing Up Your Google Docs
Productivity I haven’t used Microsoft Office in months because I now only use Google Docs for my document needs. It’s convenient because I can access my documents anywhere I go and it’s easy for me to share my work with friends, classmates, and clients. Unfortunately, whether I’m on my laptop or iPad, there needs to be an Internet connection in order for me to access my documents. So what happens if I’m in a place with no ...
Continue readingGrab, Organize, and Embed Your Tweets with Keepstream
Reviews, Social Media Have you ever wished that there was an easier way to organize your tweets and save them? Have you come across a few tweets or maybe a conversation from Twitter that you wanted to share on your blog? Well if you’re looking for a tool that can do both of those things, you’ll definitely appreciate Keepstream. It’s a tool for curating, organizing, and embedding your tweets. You can grab tweets from a search query, your favorites, ...
Continue readingBuild Stacks of Tweets and Schedule Them for Later with StackRoll
Reviews, Social Media Upon first glance, you may think that StackRoll is another service that’s eligible for a hit-and-run; you know those beta services that you sign up for to try out, leave after 5 minutes, and then never think about or return again. Well, it’s definitely not that type of service. This is one that you’ll want to keep in your bookmarks for safe keeping. StackRoll is currently in open beta and though the UI is more geared toward ...
Continue readingFollow, Share, and Discuss the Subjects that Really Matter with Subjot
Reviews, Social Networking Do you follow numerous people online that you often wish you could mute in regard to specific topics? Unfortunately when it comes to social networking, you either have the option of muting a user altogether or just removing them as a friend or unfollowing them. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could just mute the topics that they post about which you don’t like? Well now you can with a new social community called Subjot. How Does it Work? ...
Continue readingLazyscope – Your Twitter Stream Turned into an RSS Feed
Reviews, Social Media Lazyscope is a desktop tool works kind of like a feed reader for your Twitter account. Along with reading tweets though, you can also use it to keep up with your favorite RSS feeds. It lets you import your Google Reader feeds and subscribe to other blogs as well. The one thing that some potential users may not like about Lazyscope is that it’s an Adobe AIR application, which many people are not very fond of. Regardless, it installs and ...
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