Are you an absolute Instagram junkie? Or maybe you are just someone who likes looking at beautiful photos? Either way, Instagram is a pretty fantastic place to see the best pictures from people all around the Internet. However, Instagram is primarily a mobile place, so looking at stuff from a desktop is never the easiest thing. There are third-party programs out there that let you do this, but most of them offer more features than you may be looking for.

What if you only want to view the most popular images and not have to deal with all the other stuff that comes with Instagram? That is where Hotgram for Google Chrome is perfect. Hotgram is a handy Chrome extension that you can use to view only the most popular pictures on Instagram at that very moment. You can view the image and see the number of likes and comments right from this extension.

For anyone who does not use Instagram as a way to follow their friends, and just wants to see the hottest pictures, this is the extension for you.

Features:

• View the hottest photos on Instagram at any moment
• Runs right in the Chrome Extension bar and always there when you want to see some photos
• View the number of likes and comments
• Like a photo on Facebook from the extension

Find Hotgram on the Chrome Web Store

Using your phone’s network to place calls to distant relatives can be very pricey. A cheaper alternative is voice chatting over the Internet. One competent app that offers this service is Zello Walkie Talkie.

Zello Walkie Talkie is a free to use smartphone app for Android, BlackBerry, iOS devices, and Windows computers. Being a cross-platform app, Zello will enable group conversation between different mobile and computer users. The iOS app is sized at nearly 5 MB and is compatible with iPod Touch, iPhone, and iPad running iOS version 4.2 or later. Through Zello, you can use your Wi-Fi internet or your carrier’s Internet to place calls to friends. Contacts can be saved to place calls later; group calls can also be initiated. Messages can be left for contacts even if their phones are off.

Features:

• A user-friendly cross-platform phone app
• Also has a computer version
• Lets you voice chat with people
• Interface similar to radio
• Supports group voice chat
• Saves contacts for later voice chatting
• Saves messages even if phone is off.
• Similar tools: LoudTalks and Heytell.

Check out Zello Walkie Talkie @ http://zello.com (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)

Imagine having access to countless video clips uploaded by regular people. By remixing these clips, somebody with creative talents could produce outstanding short movies and videos. Here to offer you such a service is a tool called Vyclone.

Vyclone is a free to use smartphone app compatible with iOS devices. The app is sized at nearly 4.5 MB and compatible with iPod Touch, iPhone, and iPad devices running iOS version 5.0 or later. Vyclone users can use the app to upload videos they have shot with their phones. They can choose to make their videos public or private. Public videos can be used by other Vyclone users to remix and create new videos from. The remixing tools are offered by the app.

You can also check out what videos other users have created and get inspired.

Features:

• A user-friendly smartphone app
• Compatible with iOS devices
• Lets you upload videos and make them public
• Lets you remix publicly uploaded videos to make new video shorts
• Similar tools: Microsoft Cliplets, Movie360, Silent Film Director, Vreveal, FixMyMovie, Kaltura, BrushVideo, and VideoToolbox.

Check out Vyclone @ www.vyclone.com (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)

Creating quizzes for your site audience can be a wonderful way to engage them. Perhaps the best presentation for such quizzes is a slideshow view. Here to help you create embeddable quizzes in slideshow views is a service called QuizSlides.

QuizSlides is a useful online service that is currently free to use. It helps you create online quizzes in the form of a slideshow. After you create an account, you can upload your slideshow quiz to the site by emailing your PowerPoint or PDF file to the site’s uploading email address. You can choose a simple quiz or an ‘exam quiz’ that also accounts for negative marking.

For your completed quiz, an embeddable code is generated that can then be used on your site. You can get a view of who took the quiz, when they took it, and what their scores were.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Lets you create slideshow quizzes online.
• Accepts quizzes through PPT or PDF file uploads.
• Lets you create quizzes that account for negative marking.

Check out QuizSlides @ https://quizslides.com (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)

For quite some time now, iPad devices are being used in the classroom to assist students with the learning process. But without the proper applications to use, those iPads will not be of much use. One of the learning apps available for classroom purposes is GoClass.

GoClass is a free to use smartdevice application for iPads. The app is sized at nearly 11 MB and requires your iPad device to be running iOS version 4.2 or later. The app helps teachers deliver lectures through iPad devices. Teachers can create different lectures and add students to the virtual roster to give them access. Students can view different lectures and teachers can check out which lectures are being viewed. Teachers can annotate images while sharing them to get their point across.

Overall, GoClass makes learning through the iPad much easier and quicker.

Features:

• A user-friendly iOS app.
• Compatible with iPad devices.
• Lets you deliver lectures to students on iPads.
• Lets you annotate images and share them.
• Lets you create different lectures.

Check out GoClass @ http://itunes.apple.com/in/app/id467088232?mt=8 (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)

If you are the kind of person that uses Dropbox for extensive file storage, then you may be having a problem keeping all of the files organised.  What would help would be some kind of automated solution which filters new files into various relevant folders, based on rules you have previously set up.  That is precisely what Sortbox offers.

You have to grant Sortbox access to your entire Dropbox account (so they can freely move your files around), but you can revoke access at any time.  The first thing you have to do, after granting access, is to set up your filtering rules.  So you can tell it to put all pictures in a pictures folder, all music in a music folder and so on.

What Sortbox then does is make a special folder in your Dropbox account, and it checks every 15 minutes to see if you have put files in there. If so, it checks your filtering rules to see if you have specified where that particular type of file should go.  If you have, it then automatically moves the file for you.

Sortbox is open source and BSD licenced.  You can find it on Github here.

Features

• Free to use file filtering service for Dropbox.
• Open source and BSD licenced.
• Filters files in Dropbox, based on pre-defined rules.
• All file movements logged in case a file disappears.

Check out Sortbox @  www.sortmybox.com (by Mark @ MarkONeill.org)

YouTube Mp3 Podcaster is a must have addon for all Firefox users so that they can download and save YouTube videos for offline use. The add-on, as the name suggests, allows users to download YouTube videos as MP3 files allowing you to play them quickly and easily on podcast devices such as the Zune or the iPod.

With the extension installed, visit a YouTube video and click on the “YouTube Mp3 Podcaster” icon. You will then have the choice to choose the format in which you want to download the song/video – MP3, FLV, MP4, HD and 3GP.

Below the YouTube video, the user can select the bitrate and even cut the video if you just want to download a specific portion, or cut out a part of it.

Instantly upon choosing the format you will be required to choose the “Folder” destination and the download will start.

Features

• Free and easy to use.
• Download both audio and video – different formats available.
• Save time and download at high speeds.

Check out YouTube MP3 Podcaster @ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-mp3-podcaster (via Ghacks)

Slid.ly is a website suited for people who want to show off their interests, favorite photos and music in a different way. As the name of the website already suggests, Slid.ly allows users to create free online slideshows using your favorite photos and music and then having the option to share it with your friends on popular social websites like Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, etc.

To start, the user can either do a quick sign-up by connecting Slid.ly with your Facebook account or by signing up for an individual account on Slid.ly.

When you create a new slideshow, you have the ability to choose from well-known sources on the Internet such as – Facebook, Instagram, Flickr, Pickplz, and Picasa, as well as Google Images, photos from your friends or those from your computer. You then mix that content with music from SoundCloud and YouTube and add some effects to spice it up.

Once the music and the photos have been added you can “save and publish” your own slideshow to popular social networking websites.

Features

• Share interesting content on the Internet in a creative, interesting way.
• Images from popular sources – Flickr, Picasa, etc and even your local computer.
• Similar sites: Bolide Slideshow Creator, Projeqt, TN3Gallery and Present.me.

Check out Slidly @ www.slide.ly (via Techcrunch)

If you are a budding web developer, it is not enough to know how to make websites for desktop browsers. As more and more users consume the web on mobile devices, people have to re-learn how to create websites that maximize the use of smaller touch-friendly screens. Of course, you can also find ready-made HTML5 scripts that can help you on-the-go.

Enter Juicebox, a powerful script that creates stunning image galleries made from HTML 5. Once you set up Juicebox on your website, you can run it as a full screen gallery, embed it on your pages, or as a smooth gallery for smartphone screens.

The galleries itself are pretty slick. The way it is implemented almost makes it feels like a native app. You can swipe through without lag and touch the nicely laid out images to view a larger version. The embeddable version is even better, allowing you to create galleries within your blog post, which is perfect if you want to create slideshow content. With proper customization, you can also transform Juicebox into a headline-style sliding gallery.

Juicebox offers a free lite version, which includes the core functionality of the app including creation of galleries through the Juicebox Builder, responsive layouts, plugin support, and easy embedding. You can also get the Pro version to remove branding, add audio support, unlimited images, and watermarking to name a few.

Features:

• Easy to use HTML5 image gallery.
• Extensive support for touchscreen interfaces and smartphone screens.
• Powerful features include embedding, 3rd party plugins and more.
• Lite and Pro versions available
• Helps you prepare mobile-friendly images galleries
• View demos here.

Check out Juicebox @ http://www.juicebox.net

Video chatting is an easy way to hold discussions online. Many websites let you video chat with friends online but very few of them let you add multiple people to your video conference. Here to offer the latter is a useful web service called MeetingsIO.

MeetingsIO is a free to use web service that lets you hold video conferences. You start by signing up for an account on the site. You can then schedule a conference in advance by giving it a title, setting its date and time, and specifying its duration. You can invite people to the conference via email or by sharing the conference room’s direct URL. You can set the room’s access to private or public. Multiple people can be added to the conference and the room supports features such as a notepad, screen sharing, live chat, and file sharing.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Lets you hold video conferences online.
• Lets you schedule conference ahead of time.
• Offers notepad, live chat, and screen sharing.
• Similar tools: MeBeam, Faceflow and PalBee.
• Also read related article: 10 Tips To Get Most Out Of Skype Video Conferences.

Check out MeetingsIO @ www.meetings.io (by MOin from Thumb Press)

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