A Comic, custom text emojis, and automatic mindmaps – Top 3 of the Week
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Create custom text emojis with Textmoji
Source: Textmoji · Make custom text emoji This app might not make sense if you don’t use the messaging app Slack. Slack allows you to create custom emojis that you can trigger in your conversations. I found the app and realized that it could be used to create all sorts of little graphics for you…
Create shareable videos from audio and podcasts with Headliner
Source: Headliner – Promote your podcast, radio show or blog with video Headliner is an app that will take your audio files such as podcasts and make them into a video. Some places, such as YouTube, will only take videos, so this is a way to make a video out of your podcast to share…
Quick and dirty spreadsheets with TinySheet
Source: Tinysheet There are times you need Excel, and then there are times you just want to do some quick calculations. Tinysheet is a great app for the latter. With Tinysheet you get 2 columns and 10 rows in the spreadsheet which are not resizable. The site works very much like a spreadsheet, allowing you…
Automatically mindmap your notes and more with Contexted
Source: Contexted | The relational note-taking app There is no shortage of note taking apps, and we are richer for it. Contexted coolest feature is the ability to interlink notes. In fact, to create a new note you enclose some text with double brackets, which will then create the new note and link to it….
Creating animated data gifs, checking grammar, and a comic – Top 3 of the Week
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The Novelty Effect
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. Researchers have been investigating the novelty effect for decades. It started in the 1930s at the Wawthorne Works factory. The factory wanted to see if changed the lighting improved productivity. It turns out…