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Episode 83 – Tales of Typography and Tyson

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http://media.blubrry.com/nurtureandsupport/p/www.nurtureandsupport.net/ns/NS83.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | RSS  Mel’s Recommendation: App: Retype It’s $2.99 on the iTunes App Store. And yes, it’s only available for iOS devices. This is a cool Typography app that comes with built in  fonts, backgrounds, and quotes to use. You can alter almost everything you see on the screen. You can, of course, use your own pics as a background and change the quote on the screen. I think it will work awesomely for Demotivational Posters. Like this one. I’m Sorry.     … Continue reading →

Episode 76 – The Long Dark Open Table

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http://media.blubrry.com/nurtureandsupport/p/www.nurtureandsupport.net/ns/NS76.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | RSS    Kelly’s Recommendation: App: OpenTable a “Must Have” app for your smartphone if you ever need to make a restaurant reservation. It’s available on both Android and iOS. For all you introverts out there… you never have to interact with an actual human being! At least until you get to the restaurant. It allows you to make reservations at participating restaurants (good ones too!) by what’s available right now, or whenever you like in oodles of areas and even internationally. … Continue reading →

Episode 69 – Play the Misfit Card

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http://media.blubrry.com/nurtureandsupport/p/www.nurtureandsupport.net/ns/NS69.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | RSS   Mel’s Recommendation: Game App: Card Crawl A fun solitaire style dungeon crawler game. Let me explain: You pit your avatar card’s face value against monster cards attack value while collecting coin cards and health potion cards. If you survive to the end, you win the hand and get to keep the coins you collected. You get to use these to buy special ability cards. Simple right? It’s more challenging than it sounds. The app is available on iTunes for $1.99 … Continue reading →

Episode 66 – Hurricane Brocka

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http://media.blubrry.com/nurtureandsupport/p/www.nurtureandsupport.net/ns/NS66.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | RSSKelly brings you a new music recommendation that will calm you down after you check the next blast of winter on Mel’s app recommendation. Kelly’s Recommendation:   Music: Brocka Nolen‘s album Body Politic Her 6 song EP is available pretty much everywhere, including Spotify and Youtube Check out brockamusic.com for a free download. Her voice is very soothing, and reminds Kelly of a hybrid of Grace Slick and Peter Gabriel. She’s very active on twitter, follow here: @conservexx, @BrockaMusic There’s a bit … Continue reading →

Episode 64 – Unsimulate

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http://media.blubrry.com/nurtureandsupport/p/www.nurtureandsupport.net/ns/NS64.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | RSSThis week: a handy app, a great (short) book, and two lovable Russians… Kelly’s Recommendation: App: Just Unfollow (Now Crowdfire) Available as an iOS or Android App, and on the web. (Note that they now call it Crowdfire.) Let’s you easily track new follows unfollows/ Will also let you see a list of who is not folowing bsck Works for Twitter and Instagram!     Mel’s Recommendation: Book: The Plagiarist by Hugh Howey This is a  mind bendy novella about simulated … Continue reading →

Episode 63 – Lemon After Dark

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http://media.blubrry.com/nurtureandsupport/p/www.nurtureandsupport.net/ns/NS63.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | RSSScavenge in the mysterious post apocalyptic world of ‘A Dark Room’. If you’re lucky you’ll find some pasta and shrimp to make a yummy meal. So, Post-Apocalyptic Pasta, anyone?   Mel’s Recommendation: Game App: A Dark Room Available as either an iOS app or play it in your web browser at adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com An intriguing text based post-apocalyptic adventure! Stoke your Fire, talk to a Stranger, explore mysterious caves, and scavenge in abandoned neighborhoods. Can you survive?     Kelly’s recommendation Food: … Continue reading →

Episode 61 -Tips on tea, organization, and drones

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http://media.blubrry.com/nurtureandsupport/p/nurtureandsupport.net/ns/NS61.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | RSSLet our drones help you organize your tea collection. Mel’s Recommendation:   Food/Beverages: Adagio Teas (adagio.com) Adagio is a wonderful online tea seller that allows tea nerds to create their own blends in addition to their regular blends. One really cool thing about this is that really awesome people have created tea blends based on their fandom of choice! Examples include Firefly (of course), Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Penny Dreadful, Doctor Who. There are even ones based on game characters from … Continue reading →

Episode 59 – Toads of War

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http://media.blubrry.com/nurtureandsupport/p/nurtureandsupport.net/ns/NS59.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | RSSThis week we tell a tale of Bulltoads, Towers, and World War I. Enjoy. Mel’s Recommendation:   Game App: Dungeon Flicker by Gree Inc. This is a RPG Tower game that is FREE on both iOS and Android! Your anonymous hero advances through through each floor of the tower which consist of 16 rooms. But be careful, you only have so many moves to reach the exit. Work your way to the top, slaying monsters (like the Bulltoad), earn gold, and … Continue reading →

Episode 57 – Cardboard Space Pirates

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http://media.blubrry.com/nurtureandsupport/p/www.nurtureandsupport.net/ns/NS57.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | RSSAfter listening to this episode you might be able to enjoy a beautiful magna movie in your own virtual space!! Mel’s Recommendation: Movie: Space Pirate: Captain Harlock (2013) A beautiful movie based on the manga of the same title by Matsumoto in the 50s. It has Space Pirates that wear armor that looks like it could have come right off a Big Daddy from Bioshock. A young man must decide just who he will betray and how many times he will … Continue reading →

Episode 52 – One Year!!!!

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http://media.blubrry.com/nurtureandsupport/p/www.nurtureandsupport.net/ns/NS52.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | RSSWe have been “sharing all the awesome” for ONE YEAR!  Thanks to all of you who have listened. commented, retweeted, fav-ed, etc…  we truly appreciate it.   Kelly’s favorite Mel recommendation: Loot Crate http://www.lootcrate.com/ (episode 3) Kelly’s Top 10 Viva Joe Strummer – The Clash and Beyond (episode 12) Monument Valley (episode 31) QR Codes Kill Kittens: How to Alienate Customers, Dishearten Employees, and Drive Customers Away (episode 1) Alice Cooper – Special Forces (episode 38) gifgifmedia.mit.edu (episode 15) Suck (episode 21) Attack … Continue reading →