smartphone apps
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This App Helps You Curb Your Smartphone Addiction By Minimising Distractions
We’re all probably a little more addicted to our phones than we’d like to be. I know that I instinctively pull mine out whenever there’s a break in the action of the day be that when I’m on the train, between meetings, or even waiting on food at a restaurant. It’s easy to take your…
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Can A Video Game Teach Your Kid To Play An Instrument?
I learned how to play the piano the old-fashioned way — by being dragged by my mother to weekly lessons taught by an elderly woman in the neighbourhood, and yawning at the sheet music as my kid-fingers played a clunky rendition of Für Elise. Since then, music instruction has evolved. There has been a crop…
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Bring Back Notifications You Already Dismissed With An Android App
Most of the time, when a notification pops up on my phone I can decide in a split second whether I need to deal with it immediately. But every once in a while I make the wrong call, swiping away an important alert that sends me digging through Gmail or Twitter to type out what…
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Shout Makes It Easy To Curate A List Of Links, Send Them Off To Friends
iOS/Chrome: If you like to collect together different links, whether that’s for organising a vacation or just random cool stuff, Shout makes it easy to do so, then turn that collection into a list of stuff other people can see.