I prefer Brainscape to Anki because this tool offers more various media content, not only text, but also image and sound. It means that you can increase the impression of new knowledge to your brain.
Brainscape is total free and multi-platform which available on web and iOS, promising to be a convenient learning tool for your self-study habbit.
P.S: I recommend an article discuss in details how human memory works to understand scientific theory behind Brainscape. (Sorry for the inconvenience that this article is in Vietnamese)
Evernote, as its slogan, "note everything", may best describe this free multi-platform tool functionality. Let's imagine, you wanna capture an information on the Internet, or note an idea accidently coming to your mind, or a special view on the street, then save them into a center storage where you can access later everywhere. Your desire will come true with Evernote. Now, Evernote will be your smart external memory.
Dropbox is a pioneer in Cloud storage industry. It offers multi-platform such as Windows, Mac OS, Web-based, iOS and Android. It good alternatives are Google Drive, SugarSync... Anyway, Dropbox is successful to change human habit from using USB to storing light documents on Clound foundation. With DropBox, you just upload your documents to the Internet, and use it later everywhere with an Internet connection. My preference on DropBox is that it allows importing ebooks (pdf and epub) into iBooks app of iOS.
UTorrent is an application downloading file(s) from the Internet with a seed file in a sharing network called torrent. Behind UTorrent there are 2 tales. First tale talks about torrent - the biggest peer to peer file sharing network over the Internet. This network has such a special strong structure that an interesting book in 2006 writing about this topic called "Starfish and Spider" became the best seller in the US that year. The second tale is the relationship between reading books and uTorrent. If reading books is an events chain including finding a book, buying (or downloading) it, and reading it; uTorrent should play a survival role in this chain for those cant afford to buy their favorite books. For example, a guy find a best seller on Amazon, but he cant afford to buy it, so he should 'google' a torrent of this book, and then use this torrent file to download the book with uTorrent. This way may make pulishers angry uselessly, because they cant forbidde people to share their files to each other, and our guy is happy with his desire book.
Viber is a popular voice over IP (VOIP) application for
smart-phones (iOS and Android). Its advantage over other opponents in
the same category is that Viber binds user to his/her real mobile
number. So, with an Internet connection and a smart-phone, you can call
any one you want with Viber for free. Indeed, additonally, you may use
other common apps such as Skype or Yahoo Messenger, Lines, etc which are
available for all platforms.
Flipboard is a news collector, a social magazine where you can read news feed and articles from any source. This app has both iOS and Android versions. Therefore, instead of visiting multiple websites via our browsers, we can see all them in one app. It is even cooler that you can save interesting posts to Pocket for later uses or share them to your social network like Facebook or Twitter. I use Flipboard and Pocket almost everyday. Trust it, it's worth trying.
Flipboard is a news collector, a social magazine where you can read news feed and articles from any source. This app has both iOS and Android versions. Therefore, instead of visiting multiple websites via our browsers, we can see all them in one app. It is even cooler that you can save interesting posts to Pocket for later uses or share them to your social network like Facebook or Twitter. I use Flipboard and Pocket almost everyday. Trust it, it's worth trying.
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