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Talkr: Convert text blogs to podcasts
Sometimes you just might want to sit back, relax and listen to your favorite blog reports instead of stare at your computer screen reading. For those times, Talkr might just be the web app for you. It lets you listen to your favorite text blog source. Talkr will not only convert them to audio, but they will create a podcast of the source, making it easier to listen wherever you are. Talkr is a pretty intuitive tool, it will also track your feeds and send the audio files directly to your computer as they become available. Talkr is free--kind of. Talkr has partnered with some well known blogs (Jeffrey Zeldman Presents, TechCrunch, and BrandShift among others) and are offering them for free. When users sign up for a free membership, they can listen to three additional blogs for free. So sit back and relax, and listen to some Download Squad care of Talkr.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
