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Technology continues to improve our media and entertainment, and it has many practical uses as well.  It is also increasingly helpful for those who want to employ it in more creative ways than simply getting information sooner or making everyday tasks faster.  For those with more of an imaginative streak and an artistic side, there are apps such as Halftone, which allows users to turn their images into comics and scrap books.  Beyond just the formatting, you can turn your finished product into one of several different media formats.  There are also dozens of features offering broad customization to make the end result uniquely yours. Read more »

With the seemingly limitless information and media available online for anyone to see, parents know how difficult it can be to find quality content online that is safe for children.  Along with all of the good content that is available, it can be quite a chore to wade through all of the mind-numbing games and inappropriate videos.  Happly is an app from Daily Interactive, a company that produces digital apps and content as well as interactive products for large tech companies, that seeks to provide a solution.  It is an app that focuses on developing more educational content for the iPad to help parents assuage some of their guilt over their kids’ ever-increasing screen time, but with some features that distinguish it from rivals. Read more »

Social media is not just for personal use, and it is a main part of almost any company’s marketing as well. It is rapidly becoming more and more important for brands to have strong presences on multiple social media platforms, as consumers have come to expect social media content from the brands whose products they use.  Everypost makes it easy to organize visual content from a variety of sources, customize and schedule posts, and take greater control over your social pages.  Essentially, it is an all-in-one publishing solution making it easy and convenient to share multimedia content across multiple social platforms.  Professionals in many industries as well as bloggers and journalists have turned their attention to how best to create and share meaningful multimedia content that can best connect with their target audience, and this app may be one of the most important tools yet. Read more »

Anyone who has ever had to raise money for any sort of a nonprofit, be it fundraising for school or any charity, is likely familiar with the feeling of anxiety that comes with having to ask others for money.  It can be even more taxing for those who work at fundraising regularly as part of a nonprofit organization, particularly since it typically requires them to contact people with whom they have no personal connection.  Wedid.it is a startup that works to utilize technology in order to deal with this very issue.  It does so by offering a cloud software solution that allows nonprofits to run their own campaigns on their own websites.  Not only that, it uses advanced analytics technology to measure the effectiveness of fundraising campaigns and even enable nonprofits to discover how to make the most money. Read more »

Many people, regardless of how busy they are, face distractions and interruptions that persistently make them feel pulled in different directions.  It can be very difficult to take out those interruptions, if not impossible, so it is much easier to control how much time you spend on them and analyze the time you do have to spend on your own thoughts, conversations, and actions.  Some apps do exist to help curb this problem, and MLO (MyLifeOrganized) is one such solution.  It is a personalized task outliner and to-do list manager that helps you organize your goals, tasks and projects in one place.  Technology has brought us many benefits beyond a simple pen and paper, and almost all of us make use of the various tools that make life more manageable.  The questions is, with so many tools to choose from, how do you know the right ones to use? Read more »

Image recognition capability is an extremely useful aspect of mobile technology that many retailers have put to use thus far, and it has benefited many people.  This technology has many applications from something as basic as getting more information about an object to allowing consumers to compare prices between items in a store.  Shopper is an app from Slyce, a leading visual search provider for retailers and brands, that uses visual recognition searching to aid you while grocery shopping.  While the ability to scan barcodes has made it much easier for people to comparison shop, Shopper makes it easier by letting users add various items to their grocery shopping lists just by snapping their pictures. Read more »

We store a lot of information on our various tech devices, from pictures to videos to documents and many other files.  We also share these many things to a number of different social media sites and personal websites and keep them there to access later.  We may have different photos on a desktop, tablet and smartphone, while we use each of these devices at different times to post anything that interests us.  This can all get complicated and lead to a lot of time spent going from program to program on any number of different tech devices to access our files.  Fortunately, there is ZipCloud, a Cloud storage platform that allows you to securely store, stream, and share your media content online.  The app’s creators tout it as one library for all your media where you can import all your movies, documents, music, photo and home videos in a unique place.  It is a media library in the cloud, where it is faster and easier to enjoy your media anywhere and share it with friends. Read more »

A major focus in the technological field is on creating ways to store all our valuable files in one place, integrating as many programs together as possible, and creating a single place to access what we need.  We have Cloud storage to keep all our files from a number of tech devices together, social media sites that combine games, communication, and information into a single platform online, and programs that combine as many relatable services together as they can.  Slack is an app that looks to do much the same thing, particularly for business teams.  It is a platform for team communication combining everything together, instantly searchable, and available wherever you go.  All your messages, files, and various apps or services that you use to keep your business profitable are all accessible in one place. Read more »

It is important, at the very least, to have a general idea of the cost required to build anything, and an app is no exception.  There are relatively few ways to do that effectively, however, particularly because there are so many factors to consider.  Now there is Otreva, a service that allows designers and developers to get a clear idea of how much it will cost to build the app they want.  It asks a series of questions regarding the nature of the app you want to create that serve to provide the most concise analysis of what you will need to do it. Read more »

Almost everyone has a personal account on at least one social media website, and the Internet provides the best forum for those who share a specific interest.  Combine these two elements with a passion for sports and you have Sportlobster, an app its developers refer to as “The Sports Social Network.”  Certainly most teams have pages on social media as well as their own websites while providing news feed for their fans, and sports journalism is also widely accessible online.  What makes Sportlobster unique is the ability to get all the information you want on as many teams as you want without having to switch from page to page or open another browser, while at the same time viewing all the sports news you want without having to sort through any other information to see it. Read more »