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There’s a Web App for That is a long name for what is a useful little Chrome extension. Conceived and developed byMihai Parparita, theextensiongoes right to the source, studying your browsing history and letting you know if there’s a Web app available in the Chrome Web Store that might be of interest to you. When you first install the extension, it will instantly give you a list of Web apps based on your existing browsing history....

I have to admit, I’m a sucker for context. I can get lost in Wikipedia articles for hours and I read just about every artist bio that comes up on Spotify, even if I already know the stories. For those of you who are like me, I have a plugin that you’ll want to grab. It’s calledContexTubefor Google Chrome and it’s built on a platform calledSeevl. Essentially, as you’re watching YouTube videos, you’ll get a sidebar on the right that will pull in information about the band or group that you’re watching....

TLDR:The Ultimate Business Leadership Bundle features 10 courses to help round out anyone’s management abilities, from hardcore production and manufacturing to people skills. From Elon Musk to Jeff Bezos, from Bill Gates to Richard Branson, from your first boss to your current boss, no two leaders are exactly alike. Some leaders are born, some are made, and some are leaders in name only. Some are experts of logistics and strategic planning, others are masters of the soft skills that would make almost anyone follow them....

Canadian software company, Netsweep Inc., has added itself to a surprisingly long list of western software developers who are more than happy to sacrifice basic human rights in favour of a buck. According to Ron Diebert, director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs,Netsweep has had a hand in limiting the access of Arab Internet users. The Canadian company has sold its software to Middle Eastern governments who are struggling to keep a lid on protests in their cities, and Netsweeper makes no effort to hide that fact....

Did you know that almost half of the people in the United States regularly play video games? And that four out of five American households have video game devices? This probably isn’t a huge shock given how popular video games have become over the past few decades, but it might surprise you to know that there are companies out there looking to create economies for gamers to use. For instance, Steam recently released their Steam Store wherein players of games could sell certain items to other players....