{"id":29244,"date":"2017-07-16T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T16:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=29244"},"modified":"2017-07-21T11:43:20","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T18:43:20","slug":"five-crime-novelssong-exploderfree-app-finder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/five-crime-novelssong-exploderfree-app-finder\/","title":{"rendered":"Five crime novels\/Song Exploder\/Free app finder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Five good crime books:<\/strong><br \/>\nOn the excellent Five Books website Author Simon Brett is interviewed about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fivebooks.com\/interview\/simon-brett-on-whodunnits\/\" target=\"_blank\">his five favorite crime novels<\/a>. Three of his picks (<i>A Kiss Before Dying<\/i>,\u00a0<i>The Big Sleep<\/i>, and\u00a0<i>The Talented Mr. Ripley<\/i>) are among my favorites, so I added his other two picks to my wish list. \u2014 MF<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summer enjoyment:<\/strong><br \/>\nI spent almost four hours lounging in this\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2uAcyTh\" target=\"_blank\">papasan float<\/a>\u00a0on the 4th of July and it\u2019s now my favorite purchase of the year. Half my body stays in the water, so I\u2019m able to stay cool while basking in the sun. The only drawback might be how easy it is to relax \u2014 time went by so fast, I got sunburned. \u2014 CD<\/p>\n<p><strong>Outstanding listen:<\/strong><br \/>\nYou know about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/songexploder.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Song Exploder<\/a>, yes? It\u2019s this amazing podcast that takes one well-known song each week and explodes it into its component parts. The musicians who wrote and perform the song take it apart track by track, sometimes beat by beat, explaining what they were thinking as they created the pieces: what challenges and dead-end they met along the way, how the song changed as they worked on it, and why they like the final version. It\u2019s the x-ray into music I always wanted. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n<p><strong>Free app finder:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/daily-app-advice-formerly-top-apps-gone-free\/id470693788?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\">Daily App Advice<\/a>\u00a0shows you which paid apps are currently being given away for free in the iTunes App Store. I\u2019ve found many useful free utilities and games here that usually cost between $1 and $10. \u2014 MF<\/p>\n<p><strong>Movie night must-have:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinesift.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cinesift<\/a>\u00a0is a website that combines film ratings from Rotten Tomatoes, IMDB and Metacritic and gives you the average. What I find the most helpful is that I can filter my movie search by genre, and limit results to only those available on Amazon Prime and\/or Netflix Watch Instantly. That way I don\u2019t waste time flipping between services searching for a movie. \u2014 CD<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best work surface:<\/strong><br \/>\nI have a large self-healing mat on my workbench, and I have smaller cutting mats I lay on a table if I am working. The non-skid surface keeps parts and pieces stationary, while the cushion prevents dings in the table top beneath. And of course, the self-healing mat is ideal for cutting fabrics, paper, etc. with razors and blades. Also protects from spills better than cardboard. It is easy to clean up: just tilt and wipe. It\u2019s become my default surface for any work. Get the largest size you can. At the minimum, an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2u0UAfD\" target=\"_blank\">18 x 24 inch mat<\/a>\u00a0covers well and yet is portable and easy to store. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/recomendo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Get the Recomendo weekly newsletter<\/a>\u00a0a week early by email.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recomendo: issue no. 51<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2323],"tags":[2324],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29298,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29244\/revisions\/29298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}