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How could we here at the FeedMyApp offices pass up the opportunity to review an app with a name as tasteful as this one. After all, is there anyone out there that can manage to refrain from offering a smile when someone even mentions the fart world. We are a strange race, that's for sure. Fart Guitar is actually a music application for iOS and Android that offers a new take on the grunge guitar sound. It lets you play your licks on your device with some of the wildest farting guitar sounds this side of the Black Keys. You can play all your favorite songs but with a particular down and dirty sound rather than the clean sounds of a normal guitar sound. Fart Guitar is a heap of free fun for those of us with a warped sense of humor. well, we've all heard of the phrase musical fruit,' i would guess. Fart Guitar is guaranteed to bring a laugh to you and your warped friends while you make music. This good looking app features flatulent notes as well as real guitar tones mixed in together and can be easily adjusted to make a true Hendrix like experience. Well, i might be exaggerating slightly there but it is certainly guaranteed to break the ice at parties. At the moment, the app offers chords in the key of G on an acoustic guitar but plenty of others are in the mix for future release. Electric guitar, with distortion, is the first of the updates and coming soon plus, there will also be other keys and effects. Dont think, by the way, that we are being served up shonky guitar sounds here either because all the guitar samples are provided by four-time Grammy nominated guitarist Andy Reiss and the fart samples are provided by renowned producer Karius Vega. There's absolutely nothing even vaguely highbrow about Fart Guitar, that's for sure. It's a simple guitar distortion effect that lets you play your notes on your Android or iPhone in exactly the same way you would play a normal smartphone guitar app. The big difference here, though,is the sound that comes out of it. It's big, it's fat, it's dirty but, thankfully, it isn't smelly. Personally I can see some enterprising new grunge band recording a whole album using it as a guitar effect. And, just in cae you are wondering, the grunge revival is literally just around the corner now that the '80's thing is finally about to end. fart Guitar is a fun music app to impress your friends with your new dirty guitar sound. Let's hope one of the upgrades that come isn't anything to like smellovision.

Do people still play real board games, I wonder. One thing's for sure, it's getting harder and harder to find a true toy store that sells these sort of games. The problem is, I guess, that with so many games now being transformed into games that can be played digitally there is a perception that if they ain't on your smartphone or tablet then they aren't worth playing. The introduction of the incredibly user-friendly iPad a few years back and the consequent rise of the tablet revolutionized the market even more and opened up all these games to a new technology geared audience. Choozwho is one of those such games. Do you remember playing a game called Guess Who when it introduced in the '80's. This fun and very entertaining free game is a two-player picture based guessing game where players take turns to identify the mystery celebrity orf rind that their opponent has picked by asking simple yes/no questions. ChoozWho is a modern take on the classic board game It is a two-player picture based guessing game, packed with the latest celebrities, where users pick a mystery face and have to take it in turns to try and work out who their opponent has picked. Users can play anonymously against other players or connect to their Facebook account and play against their friends. Earn virtual tokens from the games you win and collect and use then to unlock more features. To begin with, the user selects a card which their opponent will try to guess. If you play against a random player, you can choose a current celebrity or, if playing against a Facebook friend, you can pick from your mutual friends. Players then can ask each other yes/no questions in an attempt to eliminate some of the faces, until they feel confident enough to take a guess. You can select from the questions embedded in the game or make up their own specific questions. When you think you know your opponent's which card they can make a guess and the first player to correctly guess their opponent's card is the winner. The more games you win, the more tokens are earned and they can be exchanged for badges that can be used to give you advantages in winning the game. I remember playing Guess Who when I was younger and it was a whole heap of fun and, thankfully, ChoozWho loses nothing in entertainment value when translated into a digital format. While the celebrities format is a whole heap of fun though, the best use of this game is when playing against your Facebook friends where, instead of having Bradgelina or Posh and Beck to unravel, you can delve into the secrets of your family of mutual friends. You can even modify the appearance of your friends' faces with a hilarious range of props. ChoozWho is a great free time waster that reintroduces the classic board game to the digital world to give hours of entertainment for friends and family.

In Douglas Adams’ book The Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy, a vast computer named Deep Thought spends several eons constructing an answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. A full 7.5 million years later, it arrives at the answer: 42. Google appears to be referencing that bit of geek cult humor in a new device, the H2G2-42, that it is currently submitting to the FCC for regulatory testing. H2G2 is a Wikipedia-ish guide to “life, the universe, and everything” inspired by Adams’ books. There’s little data available about the device, but Google does say it is a “media player,” and a “fixed base station” with 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, which would make it almost certainly a replacement for Google’s failed Nexus Q. The Q was Google’s ”first social streaming media player” that met with almost universally negative reviews, underwhelmed users, and is no longer for sale. Source: FCCGoogle device H2G2-42 is in FCC testing One change that seems likely: It appears that the H2G2-42 will allow users to plug in external monitors via provided USB ports: Source: FCCGoogle’s H2G2-42 may be connectable to external monitors As The Verge notes, Google’s new streaming music app broke compatibility with the Nexus Q. The Google Play Music All Access product is impressive, enabling personalized “radio stations” and inexpensive streaming music. Google calls it “radio without rules,” and it seems reasonable that Google would want a shiny new device to go with this major new music push. Photos are not yet available and more details will have to wait until 45 days after certification. And it’s unlikely that a music streaming device will be the ultimate answer to the ultimate question. But meanwhile, enjoy: Image credits: Google, FCC Filed under: Business, Cloud, Gadgets, Media

Sept. 9 - 10, 2013San Francisco, CAEarly Bird Tickets on SaleMore than 20 million students currently use Google Apps, and another 10 million are soon to join, thanks to a deal with Malaysia. As students and schools are increasingly storing more of their data and documents in clouds of Google’s servers, Backupify recently announced that it has tripled its education user base, with more than 40,000 new education users since January of this year. Schools are using the cloud-based backup service to ensure critical data is archived and safe, even if it would be accidentally deleted or lost on Google’s servers. Education is a notoriously slow adopter of technology, but Google Apps is growing quickly, if not virally, doubling over the last two years. And the current 20 million users include seven million inside the U.S. alone — led by Oregon that adopted Google Apps in all K-12 classrooms in 2010. And sometimes, they’re using Backupify because they have to: “Millions of students and educators around the world are currently using Google Apps to enhance collaborative learning,”  Backupify CEO Rob May said in a statement. “The education sector is ahead of other industries in this regard, but faces unique compliance requirements for data privacy and retention that demand an effective backup strategy.” To celebrate the recent growth of Google Apps for Education — and their own growth — Backupify put this infographic together: Image credit: John Koetsier/Venturebeat Filed under: Business, Cloud .blurb-cat-cloud .event-boilerplate { width:278px; margin:0px 0px 10px 20px; padding:10px; float:right; border:1px solid #e4e4e4; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; color:#000; } .blurb-cat-cloud .event-boilerplate .logo-date-wrap { width:100%; display:block; float:left; margin-bottom:8px; } .blurb-cat-cloud .event-boilerplate img { float:left; } .blurb-cat-cloud .event-boilerplate .date-location { float:right; font-size:12px; line-height:14px; text-align:center; padding-left:7px; padding-top:5px; padding-bottom:3px; border-left:1px solid #e6e6e6; } .blurb-cat-cloud .event-boilerplate .cta { display:block; clear:both; width:100%; border-radius:5px; border:1px solid #1864b1; color:#fff; text-shadow: 0px -1px 0px rgba(0,0,0,0.3); text-align:center; text-decoration:none; font-weight:600; font-size:18px; line-height:17px; padding:4px 0px 6px 0px; background: #1f80e4; background: -moz-linear-gradient(top,  #1f80e4 0%, #1862ae 100%); background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%,#1f80e4), color-stop(100%,#1862ae)); background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top,  #1f80e4 0%,#1862ae 100%); background: -o-linear-gradient(top,  #1f80e4 0%,#1862ae 100%); background: -ms-linear-gradient(top,  #1f80e4 0%,#1862ae 100%); background: linear-gradient(to bottom,  #1f80e4 0%,#1862ae 100%); filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#1f80e4', endColorstr='#1862ae',GradientType=0 ); }

Company / App Name: ProofHub http://www.proofhub.com Twitter – proofhub What does it do? ProofHub is a web based project management software that helps to manage, discuss and communicate projects with team members and clients at one central place. Why do we need it? For Project Management and Collaboration at one central place. Who is it for? Business Organization, Students, Anyone who need to manage project and need a central platform to manage projects with team members and clients at one central place. What makes it stand out from the crowd? ProofHub is loaded with many features like To-do’s, milestone, discussions, file sharing, proofing, inbuilt browser chat, time tracking, casper mode and some more. Multiple projects can be managed with ProofHub at one time. What’s next? With Time, proofHub provides more features that will help to manage projects with more ease. ProofHub on Mobile: Manage your Projects with Proofhub on the Go Pitch Video http://www.proofhub.com

Stagecrush is an exclusive global music community! Stagecrush is the home for your online music collection. It's a place where you can easily store, share, and listen to the songs and music videos that you find from across the web.

Google’s I/O developer conference is over, and we’ve learned quite a bit: Devs just can’t get enough of Google Glass, design is a bigger focus for the company than ever before, and Larry Page is kind of sad about a lot of things. It’s been a whirlwind ride, but honestly we’re just glad to be out of San Francisco’s Moscone Center. Check out our highlights from I/O below: Google I/O 2013 keynote live blog Larry Page is sad, hopeful, and frustrated in his heartfelt Google I/O speech Google Glass apps are easy to develop, but brutally difficult to design well What hardware is Google making after Glass? Mary Lou Jepsen knows What’s next for Google Glass: More units, more apps, more colors How cognitive science and user empathy powered Google’s design breakthrough OK, Google, your conversational search is awesome as hell Maps rebuilt from the ‘ground up,’ iPad version coming this fall Google Play for Education could kill the iPad in schools Major design overhaul makes Google+ look a whole lot like Pinterest Google announces its Spotify competitor, Google Play Music ‘All Access’ — ‘radio without rules’ Hangouts, the best part of Google+, gets standalone iOS, Android, and Chro Filed under: Business, Dev, Mobile Big Data and Predictive/Real-time Analytics startups: Are you looking to jumpstart development & accelerate market traction? Sign up for the SAP Startup Focus program to receive technology, support, resources and community to help you develop new applications on SAP HANA, a cutting edge database platform. Get started here, and enter promo code “VB2013? on the form. .blurb-cat-dev hr { margin: 10px 0 10px 0; }

Tumblr wants more. The popular and fast-growing blog service is mulling a $1.1 billion acquisition offer from Yahoo. But while the massive blogging powerhouse only pulled in $13 million in revenue in 2012, and raised $125 million at a lower $800 million valuation, Tumblr CEO David Karp feels $1.1 billion is too little. I guess it depends what yardstick you use. If you look at an Instagram-style deal, which was originally around a billion dollars but eventually, due to Facebook’s stock market woes, came in a little lower, he might be right. But that deal had one thing going for it that Tumblr does not. Instagram chief executive and co-founder Kevin Systrom had multiple suitors, while Tumblr only has one. That’s because, as Forbes reveals, Yahoo is currently negotiating under a lockup. So even though Facebook, Microsoft, and potentially other acquirers are interested, Yahoo has at least a period of time in which it is the only one on the dance card. In addition Tumblr, which famously hates advertising and only started trying to make money after five years in existence, is in a bit of a pickle, as its $125 million in funding is running out, giving the service only a few-month window in which to raise a new round or find a sugar daddy. That’s likely a strategic error on Karp’s part, who has said that advertising “really turns our stomachs.” Tumblr only started to get serious about ad revenue in mid-2012, and is only planning to roll out its third major ad product — pay per view, in which you pay to get others to view — sometime later this year. Being more aggressive on monetization would have given Tumblr more runway to make a leisurely decision about an acquisition, or made the company more attractive to investors if it tried to raise another funding round. There’s no question, however, that Tumblr is a traffic powerhouse. It ranks ninth on the list of most-popular U.S sites, and with 217 million global monthly unique visitors and 74 million million posts each and every day, the site is both huge and fast-growing. Few companies could monetize its 108 million blogs, 51 billion posts, and 16 billion monthly pageviews as well as Yahoo. So while Yahoo is likely to come up a little, Karp could pick worse partners. And he might do well to finalize a deal sooner rather than later. Filed under: Business, Deals, Entrepreneur, Media, Social

Cameron Peron is VP Marketing at Newvem When was the last time you went to a tradeshow? How did you measure the impact that the event had on your business or personal goals?  Attending tradeshows is more than just cruising the aisles and looking and exhibitor booths. Understanding the inherent mechanics of trade shows, executing a well-defined game plan, and measuring the results in your professional life can make the difference between a useless visit and a game changing trip. And, of course, going to interesting shows and great places more and more often. Attending a trade show is an investment We exhibited at AWS re:Invent in November 2012, making a major investment to meet Amazon Web Services (AWS) users in order to help them improve and optimize their cloud infrastructure. For an attendee the ticket price cost $1,000 just to set foot in the door. Put airfare, hotel room, and a decent expense budget into the picture and an attendee could easily spend $4,000 – $5,000.  For a show attendee justifying an investment like this, both in terms of hard cash and time, is hard if not impossible to achieve.  Especially when managers and other staff see an empty desk for a few days. Or is it? Break down the expectations from the event and consider an active game plan (both during and after the event) to measure the time and money ROI the event cloud potentially deliver. Let’s take a closer look. There are two main areas that a trade show can show a valuable impact on the company: knowledge and deals. Gaining knowledge Many tradeshows offer breakout sessions to learn from experts in a specific field of work, industry or vertical.  Think of an accelerated course to capture knowledge that could improve your ability to solve specific issues, learn best practices, and improve workflow analysis and overcoming issues as they come along. But breakouts are not limited to your direct line of work. For example if you’re on the sales and marketing side, attending breakout sessions of an IT, cloud, or IT operations event can help improve your knowledge of the everyday flow your customers and prospect are experience. Leveraging this knowledge cloud have a direct impact on your day to day operations (e.g., improving cloud availability for DevOps) or give you added insights on how to engage your customer base (e.g., understanding what factors are important for DevOps to address when improving availability). Deals, deals, deals The objective here is to show measurable value in starting new deal flow, accelerating conversions in the pipe, and improving value from existing business. There are a few methodologies to include in your in-event game plan to ensure you allocate the optimal amount of focused time: Reach out to everyone related in your industry and start booking meetings Take an assertive approach and book 15-30 min time slots based on the objective you want to achieve.  Don’t stop until you get an answer.Total time investment: 50% Book sessions with exhibitors in advance This is important. Randomly cruising show floor booths is not a preferred strategy unless you’re open to discuss partnerships. Consider that each booth potentially represents months of planning and budget negotiation, meaning that each staff member at the booth is focused on building new business themselves.   Booking time in advance will ensure a decent amount time to carry out your main objective rather than randomly pulling someone out of their booth.Total time investment: 40% Cruise the show to understand the landscape. Some of your time must be invested in cruising the show to better understand the landscape, identifying potential partners, keeping tabs on competitors (both future and current), and staying in touch with associates.Total time investment: 10% Understanding the underlying mechanics of a trade show and putting the right game plan to harvest the value at the show — and execute when you return to the office — can help you win budget each and

Company / App Name: PokerStoker http://www.pokerstoker.com Twitter – PokerStokerApp What does it do? Stop sucking at online poker! Track your opponents and ascertain their playing style. Use that information to exploit them! Why do we need it? More information leads to better play. Who is it for? Online poker players What makes it stand out from the crowd? It is the only poker tracker app available through the web. Very simple and easy to use! What’s next? Additional statistics and features. Pitch Video