Picks of the Week: Mixlr, Hear, Ifttt

Picks of the Week

Andrew's pick: Mixlr

Mixlr is a web site that makes it really easy to broadcast live high-quality audio to the world. Unlimited high-quality, live broadcasting, and it's free for everybody. Mixlr also allows you to easily podcast instantly with one-click export of live broadcasts to iTunes, SoundCloud, Dropbox and a range of audio and file-hosting platforms. And you can embed your audio anyway in your website, blog, or even your Facebook feed. Mixlr is perfect for podcasters, bands, live acts, DJs, conference organisers, journalists and many more.

To learn more about Mixlr go to http://mixlr.com

Erik's pick: Hear

Hear is sound enhancement software for the Mac and PC. Hear improves the sound quality from your headphones, internal or external speakers. Hear can also add 3D sound and other various special effects to the sound on your Mac and PC. Improve the sound from iTunes and make your music, movies, games or any other application sound amazing. Hear also gives you the ability to customize the sound to your preference with a 10 to 96-band equalizer for your Mac or PC. Once you try Hear you won't be able to go without it.

To get Hear, go to http://www.prosofteng.com/products/hear.php

Sunkast's pick: Ifttt

Ifttt, which stands for If This Than That, is a web site that puts the internet to work for you. At it's most basic form, Ifttt is a task automator. Ifttt can make it easy to do THIS every Friday with THAT. For example, If it's 5 o'clock on Friday, update my status on Facebook to say “Time for happy hour!” There are many services you can choose from including Twitter, Instagram, Weather, Email, SMS, and more. Plus Ifttt has tons of popular recipes already created for you to choose from, making it easy to get started.

To learn more and to get started with Ifttt, go to http://ifttt.com