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Granted, there are many, many photo apps out there but the market isn’t saturated yet. SnapSeed has enough great features to warrant adding to your collection. What’s quirky and cool about it is that you swipe around the screen to adjust the filters.

Moving your finger up or down will toggle through menus and begin adjusting brightness, blur and special effects. Best of all, with a bit of tweaking, it renders the most mundane photo into a work of art! It’s on the iPhone and iPad and coming soon to Android.

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The Sodshow

This is ostensibly a specialist podcast about gardening, but lively and engaging horticulturalist host Peter Donegan injects some humour and off-topic banter, making this one podcast you’ll likely to return to for giggles and music as much as botanical expertise. Continue the conversation on Twitter with the hashtag #sodshow because Peter tackles listener questions, sometimes featuring them on the show. Also on radio at DublinCityFM.

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Media symposium at Volvo Ocean Race

The Volvo Ocean Race isn’t all boats and buoys. The Global Village business expo has a great mix of innovation-centred events, and for those interested in the future of media, a symposium entitled Irish Innovation – Global Media will take place on July 5th. Speakers include RTÉ Digital managing director Múirne Laffan and The Irish Times’ Karlin Lillington, with cutting-edge media tech insights from Deri researcher Dr Bahareh Heravi.

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Why are email scams written in broken English?

Expert question and answer site Quora.comis a wonderful way to while away time. Any topic that has ever piqued your curiosity is covered. Finally, you can find out why scam emails always claim to come from a Nigerian prince whose father was a wealthy cocoa merchant. In a nutshell, the badly written English is deliberate as a filter to catch "the absolutely most gullible, ignorant, susceptible, suckers they can find", but there are other factors too.

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