There are several things I have written about through the years which I get questioned about regularly. I thought today we would look at a few that have evolved into something more as well as some that have vanished from the e-landscape.
One of them was a site with some fun, soothing sounds. It is Coffitivity.com. Go there and listen to murmuring, clinking, you know, regular coffee shop sounds. Coffitivity now has been upgraded with an Android and Apple app for your phones. The site promotes that, "Research shows it is pretty hard to be creative in a quiet space."
Another was RainyMood.com and you can probably guess how it is used. However, there is a new one out there which does what the previous ones did plus more. Go check out ASoftMurmur.com for many choices. There is not only rain, but thunder, wind, birds, coffee shop sounds, crickets and more. So if you like working with background sounds, go for it. Just remember ear buds for those sitting around you – unless you want them to look around for the crickets!
I also have readers ask me quite often which browser is the best. I am very impartial with regard to this question. For no particular reason other than it is really the users’ opinion. The top three, in my opinion, are Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer in that order from top to bottom. This is illustrated with my website visitors. Those are the top three used by those who visit DoubleClicks.info. The bottom three are the BlackBerry browser followed by Amazon Silk (one I had never heard of but it is made specifically for some Amazon devices) and Opera tied for last place.
My personal preference for the past year or two is Google’s Chrome browser. The reason is I like some of its features and add ins.
As an aside, which is really funny to me, Apple is the number one Operating System used by folks visiting my site (49% followed by Windows at 33%). Why, "funny?" Because I only discuss Windows and hardly ever, if ever, Macs.
Finally, here’s one I get many, many questions regarding. It was called Eprint-Studio. To jog your memory this Android only app allowed you to download most any recent book on your device to read. I had one book that was out in hardback one week and available on Eprint the next week. These books were all free.
It was advertisement supported, so you got to check out ads every few pages. I have no idea why, (OK to be honest I can guess) but it no longer works. I went to the site several months ago to get a new book and, "POOF!" it had vanished with no information. My guess as to why; I imagine it was not quite legal or was discovered to not be on the up and up.
I have found nothing to free to replace it yet but there are many sites where you can purchase most any book in e-format.
