With midterms now behind us, and finals still far enough in the future to ignore for another week, it’s easy to forget that one of the most difficult periods for a student on the quarter system is nearly upon us. As term-papers pile up and due dates approach, we’ll all soon find ourselves in the library, resolving to crack down and make up for lost time. We’ll open our laptops, start a new internet browser window, and log on to whatever service- Angel, ProQuest, or Wikipedia- holds the promise of a passing grade… and then, through the escapism of tabbed browsing, we’ll open another one for Facebook, one for Hulu, and one for whatever other distraction we can rationalize to allot ourselves- I mean, come on! You already Googled “cartesian dualism in contemporary epistemological theory;” the work is half done!
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TeuxDeux

“What deux yeux have teux deux teuxday?” asks TeuxDeux.

And if you’re like me—always making to-do lists on scraps of paper that are with you one second and lost the other—you’ll appreciate it.

TeuxDeux is a Web-based to-do list that presents your daily tasks in a clean way with several key advantages over other sloppy methods.

Unlike paper, you can always just bookmark your TeuxDeux account and find it again later. And TeuxDeux developers are promising apps for iPhone, Air and Blackberry.

TeuxDeux is simple. Some calendars and to-do applications are confusing or consume too much of your time requiring you to fill in fields that you won’t even need most of the time. Making a TeuxDeux account takes seconds, and there’s no learning curve.

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Courtesy 5-Minute Games

The goal: war proliferation. This is the tag line for an all-new iPhone game titled “Balance of Power,” by 5 Minute Games. This action puzzle thriller has the player taking on the role of an arms dealer in an unnamed modern war. With dollar signs for pupils, the player has to strategically deal weapons to both sides of the conflict in order to maximize profit.

Who wins the war doesn’t matter. The only thing that matters is how deep your pockets are when the dust settles and the inevitable cease-fire brings your lucrative business to a standstill. Care to take a shot at it?

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I am a Best Buy Salesperson. I am the writer of famous Twitter account shitmydadsays. I am the creator of Ren & Stimpy. I am Roger Ebert. Ask me anything.

This is the basic premise of IAmA, a recently-added sub-page of the social news site reddit. Reddit usually has its users voting on links to stories and content submitted from elsewhere on the Web, but IAmA takes a different approach: turning the comments page that is part of every submission into a large-scale virtual interview.

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iSlate? iTablet? iPad? One of the biggest mysteries surrounding the upcoming Apple press event isn’t what they’re going to release, but instead what the almost inevitable tablet Mac will be named, and more importantly, what it will do. We will all find out on Jan. 27 when Apple holds one of their world-famous press conferences to announce new gadgets. The tablet Mac is almost a certainty, and it’s about time.

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