5 dawb productivity invaluable apps kev kawm ntawv qib siab

A few years ago I wrote about useful apps for high schoolbut now college is here, and it brings a whole new set of demands. Txij li thaum I arrived at Harvard, I’ve had to do more, and my apps have had to do more too.

These new apps need to run on all platforms (Qhov rai, Mac, Android, iOS no), sync seamlessly between them, and help me keep my data organized. They have to be versatile, robust, thiab easy-to-use. And they have to be free.

With that in mind, here are the five apps that I’ve relied on most at Harvard and that I recommend to anyone in college or anywhere else in life. They’re ranked in order of usefulness.

Evernote, Wunderlist, Mailbox, Sunrise, Pocket
5 free, essential apps for college: Evernote, Wunderlist, Mailbox, Sunrise, and Pocket.

5 txaus hauv apps xa koj rov qab mus rau tsev kawm ntawv

Don’t be Spongebob. Use technology to make your school year awesome.

Another school year, another series of 180 (give or take) slightly sleep-deprived, overly-stressed days. It might make you look a bit like that yellow sponge guy over there.

Hold on! I’m here to help.

All you need is this newfangled doohickey called a smartphone. Specifically, an Android smartphone (tablets work too, if you’re into that).

Saib yeeb yaj duab thiab ua si ua suab paj nruag nrog VLC

This is a review of VLC, a free multimedia player for movies and music. Download it here.

Happy holidays! To go along with that DVD of your favorite movie, that CD of your favorite band, and that ugly sweater from your favorite aunt, here’s a present of a program: VLC!

VLC is a free, open-source multimedia program for any operating system (Qhov rai, Mac, Linux, even Android) uas can play movies, music, the whole nine yards. Did I mention it’s free?

Kawm Computer Science uas Khan Academy

Tus hluas nraug muaj meej nws lub sij hawm kawm arduous kaum xyoo. Cov grizzled yawg ntawm nws, nws pab qhia, tau devoted nws tus kheej mus qhia nws lub ntsiab muag rau daim duab arcane, ib daim duab uas tau paub tias tsuas muaj xaiv few. Kaum xyoo hauv lub cev ua zog khaus, tob tsis pub dhau lub mysterious dungeons thiab atop nyiaj roob siab, muaj thaum kawg npaj tua scarred hluas nraug. Nws yog npaj los unleash nws paub yus Art few txawm paub existed.

Lub computer science.

Thov txim rau downtime – kuj, khoom mus WebHostingHub

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Yuam kev 404, elephant not found

tl;Drhathix.com had some downtime but my super-helpful host WebHostingHub cleared it up immediately. Also, I apologize for the fanboyishnessit’s just that WHH is that awesome.

I was recently working with some so-called cutting-edge web programming techniques (parsing JSON using PHP from client requests using JavaScript and jQuerytold you it was gory) and realized I needed a new version of some software rau the server that hathix lives on.

Chrome OS: cov Web site, tas mus li

Li koj yuav tau pom, tus hais mav hauv Google tau tso (zoo, tsis tso, lawv twb cia li qhov pom tias nws thawj zaug; Chromebooks yuav tuaj lub rau hli ntuj 15) Chromebooks, uas yog netbooks uas khiav qhov Chrome OS.

Chrome OS (ntaub kawm ntawv)

Ntxiv txog lub sij xyuas hauv computer tom qab; ib sab nthuav txog lub computer yog nws operating system. Chrome OS yog ib tshab plaws web-raws li lawv operating; yog tsis muaj dab tsi tab sis Chrome, Google lub web browser. Yog, cov ntawv siv lub computer xwb yog Chrome.

Forget flash drives with Dropbox

I’m sure this happens to a lot of people: you have an important file on your flash drive and you need to hand it in, print it out, or take it somewhere else. Only problem? You lose your flash drive. It’s happened to me far too many times.

So that’s why I decided to eschew flash drives and emailing stuff to myself and use the power of the internet.

I found Dropbox, which lets me access my files from anywhere as long as I have an internet connection. I don’t even need a flash drive any more; I can just store everything I need on my Dropbox account.