8 Google Chrome Extensions to Boost Your Productivity. 7 Apps You Don't Want To Miss [PICS] This week brought tons of great new apps. From a long-distance relationship app that allows you to “thumb kiss” your partner from far away, to a new app for storing your sketches, notes and other thoughts and sharing them on the web — there was plenty of new app action in the past seven days to download on your favorite smartphone or tablet. Some of our favorites this week also include a new space discovery app that combines 3D graphics with video, text and photos and allows you to explore seven different realms: Subatomic, Atomic, Solar System, Stars, Milky Way, Galaxies, and Universe.
If you're interested in exploring other countries rather than space, Babbel's language-learning apps are now available for Android. And if you prefer to keep your travels a little closer to home, another new app this week lets you explore the art available on NYC's transit system, as well as plan your own transit art tour. Check out the gallery above for a look at our favorite new apps from the week. How to Make Facebook Infinitely Better with One Browser Extension.
Download a Copy of The Pirate Bay, It’s Only 90 MB. Soon The Pirate Bay will stop linking to .torrent files. Instead, the world's largest BitTorrent site will only list so-called magnet links. One of the advantages of the switch is that The Pirate Bay will be much more portable, and easier to copy. A new torrent listing all titles and magnet links on The Pirate Bay proves this point, as the public can download a copy that fits easily on a small USB stick - or even a few dozen floppies.
Last month The Pirate Bay announced that it will stop hosting torrents in the very near future. This change is expected to go into effect before the end of the month. From then on, Pirate Bay users can only download files through magnet links. The Pirate Bay team told TorrentFreak that one of the advantages of the transition to a “magnet site” is that it requires relatively little bandwidth to host a proxy site.
Without torrents, the Pirate Bay also becomes extremely portable which makes it possible for people to download a personal backup. Faceoff: The Best Start Pages for Your Browser. Most Popular Chrome Extensions and Posts of 2011. DrugCite. Language Log. Tweepi v2.0 :: a geekier, faster way to bulk add quality followers. About ifttt. Sortable. URL expander. 53 New Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed. With the holidays in full swing, that means the new year is just around the corner. Here at Mashable, we've been reflecting on the changes 2011 has brought for technology and social media and what those changes mean for the future.
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