Top 10 St. Patrick's Day Songs for St. Patrick's Day PowerPoint

As an Asian, I'm extremely interested in other cultures. Saint Patrick's Day, a cultural and religious holiday, will be celebrated on every 17 March. As a saying goes, "everyone's Irish on St. Patrick's day". Perhaps we' not real Irish, but we can also enjoy the happiness of holiday. We can send home-made St. Patrick's Day eCards to our Irish friends, learn to sing an Irish folk song or make a St. Patrick's Day PowerPoint slideshow and share it with friends.

Today I've found 10 St. Patrick's Day songs from YouTube. It's free to rip them off and set them as PowerPoint background music. You can simply embed these St. Patrick's Day music video to your slideshow, too. Enjoy the songs as well as the green holiday!

1. Danny Boy

2. When Irish Eyes Are Smiling

3. Seven Drunken Nights

4. The Irish Rover

5. The Fields of Athenry

6. Black Velvet Band

7. Fiddlers Green

8. I'm Looking Over A Four Leaf Clover

9. Peg o' My Heart

10. Galway Bay

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Top 10 Free Music Download Websites

“Without music, life would be a mistake.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

Music lovers, are you looking for free download music on the Internet? Today I've collected some websites which provides free and legal music for your downloading. You can listen to music on your computer or mobile devices. Of course, using some of these music as PowerPoint background music is also available.


No.1 Jamendo

Jamendo is a multilingual site accessible to global users. The music available is free and legal to download. Over 32,000 albums are available to download. The site incorporates tags and reviews to help users find music.

No.2 Free Music Archive

The Free Music Archive is called the library of high-quality music downloads. All the tracks have been pre-cleared by the rights holders and are free for listening and educational use. Music can be browsed by curator or genre.

No.3 MP3.com

MP3.com allows artists to upload music and fans to download free music. The site has an easy search function which helps users seamlessly browse through music by genre or time period.


No.4 ccMixter

CCMixter is a community music site that promotes remix culture and makes samples, remixes, and a cappella tracks licensed under Creative Commons available for download and re-use in creative works. The site contains over 10,000 samples from a wide range of recording artists.

No.5 Last.fm

Last.fm is a music recommendation service where you can discover new music, track your listening habits and download free MP3s.

No.6 Pure Volume

PureVolume is a website for the discovery and promotion of new music and emerging artists. Fans can find music downloads as well as the latest on independent festivals and new artists here. Search for music to download by checking out featured artists, top songs, top downloads and past features.

No.7 Stereogum

Stereogum was one of the first MP3 blogs and remains the leading online community for independent and alternative music news, downloads, and videos. Many songs on the site are directly from artists, giving them an air of exclusivity.

No.8 NoiseTrade

Noise Trade is a music-sharing site where artists can upload and share music. Music fans can download songs for no charge or tip. They can also browse through top downloads or check out the most recent shares.

No.9 Bandcamp

Bandcamp is an online music store. Similar to Stereogum, this site is also a platform for independent artist promotion. Artists on the site have a customizable micro-site with the albums they upload. All tracks can be played for free on the site and some artists offer free music downloads.

No.10 Dogmazic

Created in 2004, Dogmazic is a French-based free music download website. It maintains a database of work by roughly 2000 artists.


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Currently the World's Slimmest Smartphone: Alcatel One Touch Idol Ultra

Alcatel One Touch Idol Ultra

What keywords can you describe those smartphones shown at CES 2013? 5-inch screen? Or quad-core processor? And what highlight of a phone can catch your eyes and easily help you tell it apart from other similar products? A larger screen? Or waterproof performance? Alcatel, the French device manufacturer, shows up a new handset to audience: One Touch Idol Ultra, currently the most thinnest smartphone in the world.

BBK Vivo X1, the former slimmest smartphone, is 6.55 mm in thickness. Now the Alcatel One Touch Idol Ultra beats its predecessor by 0.1 mm thinner, becomes the new record holder. 

The One Touch Idol Ultra is just 6.45 mm thick and comes with a 4.7-inch 720p AMOLED display, a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor, 1 GB of RAM and an 8.0 MP rear camera. The phone runs Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. 

Alcatel also announces another 2 new models: the One Touch Idol and the One Touch Scribe HD. For the One Touch Idol, it's not as thin as the Ultra one, but Alcatel claims that this handset is "the lightest smartphone in its category" for its 110 grams in weight. This phone also runs Jelly Bean and has a 4.7-inch display, though it's an IPS one other than an AMOLED.

Alcatel One Touch Idol

As to One Touch Scribe HD, the 5-inch model among the three, is the first device which utilizes MediaTek's MT6589 quad-core processor. This chip is able to make the smartphone a solid way to enjoy graphics-intensive games and apps.

Alcatel One Touch Scribe HD

These three phones will be available in China this month. Only the One Touch Scribe HD is planning to be sold in the US for Q2 2013. The projected price of One Touch Idol Ultra will be $444, the One Touch Scribe HD will be $397. The last and lighter One Touch Idol's price is currently unconfirmed.



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5 Useful Apps For Viewing PowerPoint on iOS Devices

No matter you love it or hate it, there's no doubt that Microsoft's Word, Excel and PowerPoint have become the default file formats for your business or even daily life. 

With the rapid development of smartphones and tablets, dealing with these files on our handsets becomes more and more common. Of course, gadgets with different OSs may use different applications and methods. Besides simply converting PowerPoint to video format, some useful apps for viewing PowerPoint on Android were introduced in the past. An alternative for playing PowerPoint on Lumia 920 was also mentioned last week. Today we'll talk about some Office apps for playing PowerPoint on iOS devices. No, I'm not going to introduce Keynote, apple's official tool but some free or paid third party apps.

No.1 Documents To Go - Office Suite

Price: $9.99

Updated: Nov 23, 2012

Suitable for: iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

Introduction: DocsToGo is a 13-year-old quality software brand. This Office suite allows users to view PowerPoint files and view/edit/create Word & Excel files.

Key features:

• VIEW/EDIT/CREATE Word & Excel files(Office 2007/2008/2010). 
• VIEW PowerPoint, PDF, iWork, Text, .RTF, and more.
• Send & receive attached supported documents using the built-in Mail app. 
• FREE desktop application with your purchase. Compatible on Win & Mac allows you 2-way file sync with a WIFI connection.
• Open & Edit files within DocsToGo from any 3rd party app that supports the “Open In” feature.
• Supports iTunes File Sharing via USB cable for manually moving files.

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No.2 Quickoffice Pro HD
Price: $19.99
Updated: Oct 15, 2012
Suitable for: iPad
Introduction: Quickoffice is now part of Google.This office suite for iPad includes tracked changes and comments for documents. Edit ALL Microsoft Office document, spreadsheet, and presentation formats, as well as view PDF files on the go. The file manager also lets users manage local files, access Google Drive or other cloud accounts, and works with iPad email attachments. 
Key features:

• Create, View & Edit 1997 – 2010 Word® documents (.doc & .docx).
• Create, View & Edit 1997 – 2010 Excel® spreadsheets (.xls & .xlsx).
• Create, View & Edit 1997 – 2010 PowerPoint® presentations (.ppt & .pptx).
• Track Changes, Add Comments, & Spell Check in documents (.doc & .docx).
• Save files as PDFs and print using iOS AirPrint.
• Open, edit & save files from SharePoint (Requires both Quickoffice Pro HD and SharePlus Pro or Coaxion applications).
• File support includes 97 – 2010 DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX.

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No.3 Slide²

Price: $3.99

Updated: Oct 19, 2012

Suitable for: iPhone and iPod touch.

Introduction: Slide², an intuitive and straightforward presentation editing tool, makes it easy to open, view, create and edit PowerPoint (PPT & PPTX) files on the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Key features:

• Create, edit and save PowerPoint PPT & PPTX files.
• View and edit the presentations stored in Google Docs, Dropbox and MobileMe iDisk,etc.
• Move and copy presentation files between or within local and cloud folders.
• Slide show mode with simulated laser pointer.
• Slide show presentation on external monitor.
• Wireless printing.
• File storage and transfer to an from Slide².
• Open email attachments and email presentation file within Slide².

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No.4 SlideShark

Price: Free

Updated: Dec 18, 2012

Suitable for: iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

Introduction: SlideShark is the an app for viewing and sharing PowerPoint presentations on the iPad and iPhone with animations, fonts, colors and graphics intact.

Key features:

• Upload a PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx, .pps or .ppsx) file from your computer, iPad, iPhone or iPod touch to your free, secure account.
• Use the app to download and view the presentation on your iDevices.
• Share the presentation online or by email for on-demand viewing by others and track the viewing results.
• No internet connection required when viewing/presenting.
• Access & import presentations stored in Box, Dropbox, Syncplicity and G Drive.
• Connect to projector or TV using a VGA/HDMI adaptor or AirPlay via Apple TV.
• Use your iPhone or iPod touch as a remote control to advance and navigate slides.

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No.5 OliveOfficeBasicHD

Price: Free

Updated: Dec 21, 2012

Suitable for: iPad

Introduction: OliveOfficeBasicHD is a software suite for viewing Microsoft Word(doc/docx), Excel(xls/xlsx), PowerPoint(ppt/pptx), OpenOffice Document Text(odt), Microsoft Hypertext Archieve(mht).

Key features:

• View Microsoft Word(doc/docx), Excel(xls/xlsx) and PowerPoint(ppt/pptx) files.
• Create new Excel files with templates.
• View .rtf files.
• View OpenOffice Document Text(odt).
• View Microsoft Hypertext Archieve(mht).
• Remotely control local PPT file (use iPad to control PC or other mobile device to display PPT file).

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View Office files on Android devices?

Modern people are always busy working day after day. Office workers like me, have to sit at my computer all day, dealing with different annoying problems in marketing. When I'm off to work, sometimes I can't stop reading proposals on a go (e.g. on a bus). Thanks to technology, I can play PowerPoint on Android smartphone with specific apps. Though Microsoft's Office app for Android is not available yet, these free alternatives allow me to open, view or even edit office files. Here I introduce some of my favourites, all can be found and download on Google Play.

1. OfficeSuite Viewer

Introduction: This app is a universal and ad-free office document viewer for Android devices. It enables you to open native office documents and attachments anytime, anywhere.
Average rating: 4.2 points, 61,876 votes
Key features:

• Open native office document formats (include password protected documents)
• Open PDF, ZIP files and email attachments
• Thumbnail preview in Slideshow mode
• Support for animated slideshows
• Embedded images & charts (in Excel module)
• Extended cloud support, compatible with Microsoft SkyDrive
• View the last opened files at a glance with the OfficeSuite Recent files widget
• WiFi Direct support
• Share documents via email or Bluetooth
• Print documents via Google Print Share

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2. Documents To Go

Introduction: View native Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files & attachments with this app. Supported file formats include .doc, .docx, .xls,. xlsx, .ppt, .pptx.The free version of app doesn't support editing features unless user pays $14.99 for a full version.
Average rating: 4.1 points, 67,734 votes
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No.3 Kingsoft Office

Introduction: Kingsoft Office is the only mobile office app that allows user to view and edit office files with full-features FREE.

Average rating: 4.6 points, 47,210 votes

Key features:

• Rich and free editing features
• Small size, stable operation and special interface
• Supports 23 kinds of office files
• Built-in file manager that can automatically organize user's office document
• Tight integration with the mail application
• Supports cloud storage such as Google Drive, Dropbox
• A variety of gestures operations, which make user's work more interesting

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No.4 ThinkFree Office Mobile Viewer
Introduction: This app is a free document viewer that shows office related files only.
Average rating: 4.1 points, 8,723 votes
Key features:

• Fast to open and view MS Office docs(Word/Excel/PowerPoint)
• Send/view email attachments
• Optimized file management on mobile devices
• High rendering quality and compatibility
• Upload/download via web storage services
• Print function (need to buy "ThinkFree Mobile Printer" Application)

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No.5 Olive Office Premium

Introduction: This app is a software suite for Android devices that enables users to create, open and edit Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint files. It can also view PDF and CHM (compiled help manual) files.
Average rating: 3.9 points, 9,120 votes
Key features:

• Create,open and edit Microsoft Word documents
• Create,open and edit Microsoft Excel spreadsheets
• Create,open PowerPoint presentations and edit slide text content
• View presentations:images,autoshapes and rich text formatting:bold,italics,underline,font size
• Open PDF files with quick navigation and zoom in/out functions
• Open CHM files and follow hyperlinks
• Open MHT files

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