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Where’s Waldo? The UCO Bowling Club will be hosting an event to find the red-and-white clad Waldos around campus. Proceeds will benefit Make-a-Wish. Page 5
Vista Sports continues to preview future MIAA opponents, this week examining Missouri teams Lindenwood and Missouri Southern State. Page 7
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APRIL 12, 2012
MOBILE APPS TO SURVIVE
THE END OF THE SEMESTER By Cody Bromley / Editor-in-Chief
The end of the semester is closer than you might think. To prepare for impending stress, here are six mobile apps to ease your suffering.
1. PAGES $9.99 - iOS DEVICES Imagine this scenario: Your car breaks down on the side of the road the night before your paper is due. Like many college students, you probably haven’t started your paper yet. Enter “Pages,” one of the most comprehensive yet easy-to-use text editing apps available for Apple devices. Those who find themselves with an uncanny ability to type out text messages quickly will be right at home using either the vertical or horizontal orientation keyboards. Just make sure to proof your work for autocorrected errors. “I swear professor! I typed the word books, not butts.”
2 . PANDORA
FREE - iOS DEVICES & ANDROID Studying is hard, but sometimes finding the right music to study to is even harder. If you’ve haven’t been hiding under a rock since 2005, you’ve heard about Pandora and its magical radio stations that tune themselves to your favorite songs and artists. If everyone already knows about Pandora, why are we reccomending it? It’s simple, really. Studies show that students who study while listening to classical music retain the knowledge better than those who study without music or who listen to other contemporary music. Do yourself a favor, and Strauss out before you stress out.
4. QUIZLET.COM APPS
VARIES - iOS DEVICES & ANDROID
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6. STARBUCKS
FREE - iOS DEVICES & ANDROID Now while this app can’t grant you free coffee, nor can you pour a virtual cup of the magical wake-up juice, it can help you find what Starbucks locations are still open and which ones have a drive-thru and WiFi. Have a Starbucks gift card? The app will let you register it and use your phone to pay, instead of the plastic. A word of warning to the late night study crowd, the Starbucks in the Nigh Center closes at 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday. The two closest drive-thru stores in Edmond close at 11 p.m. If you need a caffeine pick-up, plan ahead.
Whether it’s language learning or tough vocabulary terms, flash cards are one of the quickest and easiest ways to nail down the info. Free website Quizlet.com gives you all the tools required to build digital flash card sets and then push them to one of many compatible iOS or Android apps. Quizlet allows for all sorts of flash cards and even lets you upload images for your cards and share your sets with friends. In our experience, we found A+ FlashCards Pro for the iPhone and QuizYourBrain for Android to work well. Both are free.
5. WOLFRAM|ALPHA
$2.99 - iOS DEVICES & ANDROID
Just about every phone comes with a calculator app, but how many calculator apps can tell you the amount of riboflabin in a Wendy’s Frosty? The answer, according to Wolfram|Alpha is 50 percent of the reccomended daily value. What else can you ask Wolfram|Alpha? Try “words that rhyme with demand,” or maybe “Edmond, OK Native American population.” Whether you have some bigtime computational needs, or just enjoy being the smartest person in the room, Wolfram|Alpha can solve complex mathematics or basic trivia.
WEATHER
FREE - ANDROID
Has this ever happened to you? Your alarm starts buzzing but in a hazy, sleepy trance, you turn it off and go back to sleep. If only there was a way to outsmart your sleepy self! Well, for Android owners, it turns out there is. Morning Routine requires more than a simple tap to dismiss its sleep disrupting tones: instead, you have to scan a barcode to end the noise. Not enough light to scan? You have to turn on your lights. Don’t have any barcodes in your bedroom? Then you definitely have to get out of bed. For heavy sleepers and those who always fall back asleep, this app is a must-have.
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