Apps That Will Surely Kickstart Your Collage Social Life

You're now in college. At last, you're free to do anything you want your parents have been restricting you to do when you were in high school. Now, you can have all the liberty to have all the party and booze, like the ones you see in the movies. But most of all, don't forget that college life is also about studying and learning new and worthwhile stuffs, too.

Aside from that, college life can also be confusing and challenging at the same time. It can be difficult, at first, to find your footing in a social way. Thanks to technology, you can easily touch the World Wide Web with your own hands. Here is a collection of apps that will surely kick start your college social life.

Twitter

Don't be the only person in class who isn't updated with the world events. Use Twitter to keep yourself in the loop in both the academic and social aspects of your college life. In today's contemporary classrooms, you may even be asked to participate in class discussions via Twitter.

The app is available for free for iOS and Android devices.

Between

Are you someone whose attempting the long-distance relationship course? Kudos to you because that's not a small task to deal with. Relationship app Between can help you ease the separation anxiety by letting you send messages, voicemails, memos, and photos. A private timeline makes it easy to reminisce about the good old days with your significant other or loved one(s).

Between can be downloaded for free by iOS and Android users.

Skype

Video interviews are not going away any time soon -- so you might as well get a heads up now. Microsoft's Skype is a reliable way to connect with faraway family and friends via text, voice, and of course -- video.

It is available for free on iOS and Android devices.

LinkedIn

LinkedIn and all its nifty features makes connections a breeze -- for better or worse, college is a time of both personal and professional connections.

The LinkedIn app is available for free on the Internet, of course, but you can also get it for free for iOS and Android devices.

Afterlight and Over

These days, anyone with an Instagram account can call themselves an amateur photographer of sorts. But with these two apps, you can even make more beautiful pictures to put on your blog or social media accounts. Afterlight is an app that has lots of shape, formatting, and filters to make your pictures really beautiful. And Over is an amazing app that lets you put text on your pictures. What makes these two photo apps stand out specifically are that they are super sleek and classy, so really nothing that you do to your photos with both of them makes your pictures ten times better looking. Of course, these are more for your average Facebook/Insta use and not for professional photography per say, but anyone of any expertise can use them to make pictures really nice. With these apps, you won't be able to stop editing.

Meetup

Let's face it, when you graduate into the real world, you're not going to have all your friends living within a mile radius for you to hang out, party, or go to football games with. So realistically, if you are new to the place or the city, or even just interning for a couple of months somewhere, it helps to join a group who has similar interests or backgrounds. And that may sound terrifying, or Tinder-esque, but the whole point is to find an entire group of people to hang out with and get to know. So maybe consider taking a buddy with you, or ask around about activities, but give it a try so you'll get used to your new home.

Click here to download Meetup for free.

Websites Will Be Easier to Read With the Help of These Tools

The Internet offers a huge amount of information regarding any topic that can possibly exist, but every website has its own way of showing the people its information. There are lots of websites that show off a clean interface, along with an ad or two on the side, and a few content recommendations. While there are some that will bombard you with tons of ads, videos, recommendations, and so on, making it clutter-some.

There are various tools will help you make websites easier to read and help you focus on the content that really matters to you. Check out these three tools that can you help you clean websites so that it will be easier for you to browse along, as well as read its contents in a clearer perspective.

Readability

The Readability tool is an extension for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari that lets you remove all the clutter including ads, recommendations, dialogs, social buttons, cooments, and almost everything distracting, and extract the actual content. It will only display the website name, the actual text content, photos/videos within the content, and all the links in it. All you need to do is install the extension in your favorite browser, then proceed in opening any article online. Next, click on the Readability extension button located at the upper right hand corner of the browser, and then select the Read Now option. The page will refresh after a delay, and you will notice that all the clutter will disappear.

Furthermore, you have complete control as to how you want the extracted content to look, including the ability to change the content size, day and night mode, and layout. If you suddenly ran out of time, you also have the option to save the article to read later, which you can choose right from the Readability extension button. (You need to sign up for this feature)

The Readability tool is compatible for Android and iOS devices.

Microsoft Edge's Reading View

Microsoft Edge comes with a built-in reading view that is fast and reliable. When you visit an online article, Edge will show a "Book" icon in the address bar. Simply clicking on it will remove all the unnecessary clutter and will just show the main site content. Be informed though that this tool doesn't offer any customization options. You will only get an easy-to-read webpage without any options to save or customize its look.

Firefox Reader View

If you happen to be a Firefox user, there's no need for you to use any third-party tool in order to make your life easier whenever you read websites. Firefox comes with a simple Reader View button (an open book icon) that you can find at the address bar, which when clicked will immediately clean the website and will show only the main content that you need. Similar to the Readability tool, you can also change the site's font style, layout, and even the background according to your preference.

You can also save your favorite articles with its saved to Pocket option so that you can easily view it later and to manage your reading lists. What's good about this browser feature is that it quickly makes a website easier to read unlike with Readability, in less than a couple of seconds, that is.