Type with your voice with this genius note taking app

Back in the ancient times of the 1980s, if you wanted your thoughts quickly translated into text and didn’t want to spend all day transcribing all those meticulously archived notes yourself, you either needed to hire a secretary or a stenographer.

Now, rather than spending thousands of dollars a year on an ultra-fast typist, technology and voice recognition has boiled that ability down to a trusty app. Dictanote (for the Chrome browser) lets you easily switch between using your keyboard and your voice to take any notes you want to keep.

Dictanote brings together the versatility of a fully-featured notebook with AI-based speech recognition, making it easy for anyone to let notes spill out in their own words while magically appearing on their screen.  Dictanote has built-in a Microsoft Word-type editor to help format notes, which are also downloadable as PDF or .docx files.

While we can all think of some time-saving practical uses for Dictanote, it’s especially useful for those who conduct interviews or sift through loads of information, like journalists, lawyers, podcasters, students or professional transcriptionists.

With Dictanote, it’s truly as simple as hitting the record button to dictate an email, meeting notes or even a to-do list. You can also just snap a picture of a sketch and then see that image translated to text with 90 percent accuracy. In fact, the makers of Dictanote claim their app outperforms most offline services, including the popular Dragon Naturally Speaking.

Dictanote even has a few tricks up its sleeve, like a set of voice commands that allow you to put some form and structure to your notes, all with the use of your voice. With a few quick words, you can add line and paragraph breaks, delete your last line or other handy verbal shortcuts to keep a clean, running record of your thought process.

And Dictanote is truly an international app, capable of transcribing notes in over 40 different languages and 52 different dialects, covering about 80 percent of the planet. 

A lifetime of Dictanote access would usually cost $180, but right now, it’s on sale for the one-time price of just $19.

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This Pro Photography and Photoshop training gives you a high-quality crash course in all things photo

If you’re invested in learning a new craft or even just elevating your abilities in a current skill, you likely want access to as much information as possible to help expand your talents. Different learning courses can definitely aid that pursuit, but it’s often tough to know exactly what’s included in any coursework and whether it adequately covers the topics you want to know. 

Because if you don’t know it, how do you know you’ll get to know exactly what you need to know, you know?

The answer is...volume. In The Pro Photography and Photoshop 20 Course Bundle, we’ll get access to a virtual avalanche of photography training that’s truly exhaustive and ready to help address any of their picture-taking questions.

Not three, not five, not even a dozen courses, this bundle packages together 20 separate courses housing a colossal 120 hours of photography training that should set you up to learn all the steps and methods to take great pictures with every click.

Of course, it all starts with the basics, which is why the Photography Master Class is the perfect introduction. First-time students grasp concepts like exposures, aperture, shutter speed, ISO, and more so that by the end of the course, the Auto mode is off forever and they’re making the minute adjustments in Manual mode from now on that make all the difference.

Meanwhile, Photoshop, its Adobe companion app Lightroom, and open-source editor GIMP are industry-standard image editing software and these courses dig into every facet of how to navigate these feature-rich apps like a pro. After getting the lay of each app with courses like the Photoshop Made Easy and Adobe Lightroom CC Classic Made Easy training, you’ll find instruction in all the major areas of concern for any photographer.

If you want to understand the impact of proper lighting, it’s here in Photoshop Light Effects: Let There Be Light. If you have questions about portrait retouching or landscape photography, the Lightroom Portrait Beauty Retouch: Full Edit & Workflow and Photoshop Fall Edits for Outdoor Portraits + Landscapes courses are there. There’s even a complete guide to becoming a well-paid wedding photographer as well.

You’ll also find dozens and dozens of projects to test your abilities, from 47 Photoshop Projects for Aspiring Graphic Designers to 27 GIMP Projects and 547 GIMP Templates, where you can learn to create your own custom graphics, logo, flyers, brochures and more.

These 20 courses cover almost $2,000 worth of intensive photography training, but you can get all of it for just $39.99, less than $2 per course.

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Plungers are disgusting so the Toiletsaber is changing the toilet clearing game

Look, nobody wants to be talking about unclogging a toilet. There are few tasks more unsavory anywhere on a homeowner’s to-do list.

Unfortunately, everything that ends up swirling its way down your porcelain throne doesn’t always find its final destination in the sewage system below. If a child decides to flush half the contents of a bathroom counter, you’re likely looking at a call to a plumber and a bill that could end up topping $300. 

Or it could just be an incident so vile you don’t even want to get too close. Possibly ever again. We get it. So instead of dropping a huge chunk of change on a plumbing repair, the Toiletsaber lets you attack the problem yourself.

The Toiletsaber is a revolutionary new unclogging tool with a unique J-shaped, flexible head that makes maximum contact with tough visible clogs and swiftly and neatly clears the problem. And just like other sabers, the one is well over two feet long, assuring that you and your hands never need to get anywhere close to the scene of the crime.

The Toiletsaber head is designed to first rake any excess waste away from the waste trap, while the other side of the Toiletsaber can then snake through any remaining clog to clear the obstruction.

And as opposed to that disgusting plunger, the Toiletsaber wipes clean in seconds and its shatterproof, chemical resistant frame doesn’t become a breeding ground for gross bacteria.

The Toiletsaber is also lightweight and safe to use with any toilet without ever scraping or leaving any scratches behind.

While it all sounds pretty crude, the Toiletsaber’s credentials are well in order with more than 200 5-out-of-5 star reviews praising its effectiveness.

And when stacked against the cost of bringing a plumber into the house, the price of the Toiletsaber is definitely right. Regularly $34.99, you can even save an additional $5 right now and get a Toiletsaber for only $29.99.

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Watching these Maker Mind Meld Masterclass videos will have you ready to create

The masterclass concept is a simple one — get a foremost expert in their field to sit down and verbally walk through their area of expertise with a room full of eager young learners. It’s a sound practice...because how better to learn the true tricks of the trade than from an absolute stone-cold master of their craft?

Many tinkerers in the maker culture are in particular need of that guidance. With so many directions to take in DIY engineering and electronics, it’s easy to get lost or miss some simple, yet meaningful ideas. Last year, the 1st Maker Mind Meld Virtual Summit brought together 22 expert Makers to talk about how they turn electronics, software, wood, and plastic into entirely new creations.

If you’re interested in building and solving problems, but missed the summit, The Maker Mind Meld Masterclass is truly the next best thing.

This collection features the video presentations made by all 22 Maker Mind Meld experts, each focused on sharing their best advice and top strategies to help you become a better maker. Summit host and organizer Dr. Peter Dalmaris speaks with each expert as they explore their individual tech passions, including CSEduino, micro:bit. JSON, Internet of Things, and more.

Over more than 30 hours, you’ll go deep on everything, from electrical engineer Jon Evans talking about getting involved in open source projects, to creative technologist Gil Posnanski discussing why Making is important to humanity, to instructor Richard Park on how to teach IoT concepts.

Meanwhile, there are also several sessions that play more like how-to lessons for Making something cool of your own, including how Maker Mark Wilson created an Arduino version of the classic Flip clock or how engineer  Karsten Schulz made a computer processor with a B4 kit. 

Each of these experts break down their knowledge and creative process into actionable steps so that you can learn and adapt skills that actually work for you.

With this offer, the complete package of all 22 Maker Mind Meld Masterclass videos is now available for only $27.99, more than $450 off its regular price.

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