Three different apps to help you manage 2015
Cowritten by Gracie Wachtel and Zachary Andrews
For SCAD students, the arrival of 2015 demands awareness about the world’s latest technological advancements. As school pressure increases, dependence upon online applications grows.
Many of those applications involve of social media platforms, and despite their negative reputation, these generate resources to service users.
One of these is Flipboard, an app that allows for an either quick or thorough dive into personal fascinations. Its attractive magazine-style layout entertains and communicates easily. Whether you’re stuck in a waiting room or catching up on that morning’s soccer game, Flipboard
provides it all.
“It is a much easier and cleaner way to obtain national and international news,” reviewed one satisfied Flipboard customer.
Suitable for both iPhones and iPads, this interactive application offers 13 different languages and is compatible with iOS 7.0 software and higher. The result is a universal connection.
The online magazine highlights art and culture, global ideologies, food and dining, living, local and international news, photo and design, sports, style, technology, science and travel.
While Flipboard supplies information and amusement, Evernote helps remind users of important information over the course of their daily routine.
The barrels of information dispersed throughout any given day are difficult to monitor and impossible to organize. Even if your alarm actually triumphs your exhaustion, and you miraculously arrive to class at a reasonable time, your attention span is merely an amnesia time bomb that could go off any second (if only you would quit hitting the snooze button). Thankfully, Evernote allows the swarm of details listened but not heard to be revisited.
“I use it for everything,” shared one Evernote user. “I manage my productivity through GTD with Evernote, I conduct research, manage projects, create reports, run presentations … Evernote enables me to manage life anywhere—all the time—with receipts, documents, everything always at my fingertips.”
The final application useful for college students is a news and social feed. It’s accessible through its website, text messages or through the mobile app form. This final app, Twitter, is one of the most popular social networking services in the world.
“At Twitter’s analyst day in November [of 2010], the company revealed it had 500 million visitors to the platform that never log in. That’s compared to the 284 million monthly active users the company claimed at the end of the third quarter,” said Adam Levy of Fox News.
Twitter has progressed steadily each month over the last four years. The application’s features allow for publicly visual “tweets,” which are messages presented on both the newsfeed of those you follow and on your individual profile.
The combination of these three applications is highly useful to students seeking timely news, daily reminders or pure amusement.
