Article • April 14, 2014

Check in with Your Friends

Povio is an iOS and Android photo messaging app that lets you see what your friends are up to

You’re at the park and took a selfie. You consider posting it, but what if no one cares?

Real talk? Sometimes, no one does. That’s the risk with sharing pictures – unless you’re using the photo-messaging app Povio.

Unlike apps that send your pics into the digital wilderness where they desperately await acknowledgement, Povio (for iOS and Android) prompts users to share photos of what they’re up to, but only upon request.

“Ping” friends on Povio to ask what they’re doing. They’ll send a photo of themselves watching Game of Goats, or bowling with their aunts, or whatever. You can reciprocate with what you’re doing, too.

Povio isn’t just about giving you the view from where your friends sit (or bowl). That first ping kicks off a dialogue of photos, and short texts, documenting both of your whereabouts.

Even better? Photos vanish after 24 hours.

Farewell, family bowling night evidence! Farewell, selfie-sharing anxiety!

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Article • July 12, 2010

Easily Access Your Bookmarks Across Browsers

Up your bookmarks game with Quix

The Internet is full of great shortcuts and apps that make life easier. But sometimes having too many time savers can make things more complicated, not less.

Enter Quix, an application that allows you to run basic searches, complete various tasks and access all your bookmarks (across various browsers), all in one convenient place.

If that sounds a little nerdy, consider it the express lane on the Autobahn.

To load Quix just drag the bookmarklet to your bookmark bar. From that point on you’ll use the button to run actions by typing a prompt, whether it’s defining a word with Google, searching a Twitter username, sharing something on Facebook or searching Netflix for a movie.

Most commands are a single letter and are easy to memorize, although accessing the list is as easy as typing “help.” Quix has all of the major sites covered and eliminates the bookmark clutter that so often accumulates.

While there are plenty of advanced commands for the mavens, the majority of what this app can do is designed for the casual Internet user.

Your bookmarks need clutter control, and this the answer.

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Article • July 8, 2010

Sell and Buy Tickets for Any Event

Sell and purchase event tickets at the best possible time with SeatGeek

Ticket prices for concerts and sporting events often behave like Charlie Sheen—wildly fluctuating, which means timing ticket purchases (and sales) is difficult.

Enter SeatGeek, a service that forecasts the best possible time for you to buy and sell tickets to sporting events and major concerts.

Simply search for the event you wish to attend or sell tickets for (they cover major concerts, MLB, NBA and NFL games).

SeatGeek uses an algorithm based on historical sales to forecast how much they’ll cost in the future with over 85% accuracy, and there’s no service charge for any ticket transactions.

Have season tickets but can’t attend every game of the season? Try SeatGeek Portfolio, which forecasts the value of your season tickets and tells you the best times to sell for maximum profit. (The service is free for a two-week trial period, and costs $15 a month).

Now, if only there were a site that could better the odds of your team making the playoffs…

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Article • July 6, 2010

Well Read

An App That Makes It Easy To Read Everything You Find

The Internet is a distracting landscape. It’s easy to stumble upon a great piece of writing, only to forget it three emails later.

To make up for your lack of focus there’s Read It Later, an application that allows you to quickly bookmark articles or posts for later.

To start set up a free account. Then install the app into your browser (you’ll see a yellow insignia in the right side of your navigation bar). When you come across an article that interests you, click it.

It’ll save the article in your “to read” list, which you can access by clicking the drop down bar in the top right section of your browser, or through your profile on Read It Later’s website.

When you’re finished with an article, simply click the red “x” to remove it from your list.

Read It Later also offers a mobile app (available for iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Kindle and iPad), which allows you to download articles to your device to allow for future reading, even while offline.

Both the browser and mobile applications allow you to view a text-only version of any article on your list, providing options to increase text size, tweak alignment and optimize brightness for reading in the dark.

Who says reading is a dying art form?

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