Ask Engadget: best job search tools?

Ask Engadget best job search tools

We know you’ve got questions, and if you’re brave enough to ask the world for answers, then here’s the outlet to do so. This week’s Ask Engadget inquiry is from Hildy, who’s looking for a new job and doesn’t just want to trawl the back page of the local newspaper. If you’re looking to ask one of your own, drop us a line at ask [at] engadget [dawt] com.

“I’m on the hunt for a job, but I was wondering if there’s a site or service that people think is better than the rest? Is there perhaps a service, like Kayak, that pulls together all of that data from various sites and aggregates it all together? The other thing I want to know is if there’s a program that would track applications at their various stages and offer reminders rather than just using a spreadsheet? Any ideas and help would be fantastic, thank you!”

So, what do you all think? Have any of you managed to avoid a pink slip with job search website or app that you’d like to recommend? Did you pay for a month’s free LinkedIn premium and you’d never turn back? Let us know in the comments below.

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Bo Xilai Guilty: Disgraced Chinese Politician Convicted In Corruption Case

JINAN, China — A Chinese court has convicted fallen politician Bo Xilai of corruption and sentenced him to life in prison, capping one of the country’s most lurid political scandals in decades.

The Jinan Intermediate People’s Court convicted the former Politburo member and Chongqing city Communist Party chief on charges of taking bribes, embezzlement and abuse of power. He was sentenced to life in prison on the bribery charges, 15 years for embezzlement and seven years for abuse of power.

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BlackBerry pauses BBM rollout for Android and iOS following leak

BBM for Android and iOS

We hope you weren’t scheduling your weekend around the launch of BBM for Android and iOS, as BlackBerry has paused the rollout following a leak of the Android version. There were too many simultaneous users, the company says; with over 1.1 million active clients in the first eight hours, the messaging service just wasn’t ready to handle the load. There’s no mention of when the BBM deployment will continue, although BlackBerry is disabling the unofficial Android build to prevent future problems. Unless you grabbed BBM’s iOS version in the first several hours, you’ll just have to be patient.

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Source: Inside BlackBerry

BBM iOS and Android releases paused: staggering forward

Though the software teams at BlackBerry suggested they’d be beginning the roll-out of BBM (BlackBerry Messenger) as an app for Android and iOS starting this week, it would now appear that they’ve hit the proverbial pause button for both platforms. While it’s unclear at the moment if this cut in downloads and service to the […]

Nilton Goal: Cruziero Midfielder Scores Incredible Goal Against Botafogo (VIDEO)

By Jose Martinez, Complex Sports

We don’t know how to properly identify this goal by Cruziero midfielder Nilton against Botafogo other than…freakin’ awesome!

Like, how did he do that and manage to get it by the goalkeeper?

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Mobile Miscellany: week of September 16th, 2013

Mobile Miscellany week of September 16th, 2013

If you didn’t get enough mobile news during the week, not to worry, because we’ve opened the firehose for the truly hardcore. This week brought additional details of the upcoming Jolla smartphone, along with an unusual showing of cooperation between Verizon and T-Mobile. These stories and more await. So buy the ticket and take the ride as we explore all that’s happening in the mobile world for this week of September 16th, 2013.

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Jordan Hall Uses Referee As Blocker To Score Touchdown In Ohio State-Florida A&M Game (VIDEO)

Ohio State running back Jordan Hall turned one of the officials into the Buckeyes’ 12th man on the field en route to a 18-yard touchdown run. Hall ran into an official after busting up the middle. But he kept the ref in between him and a Florida A&M defensive back as he ran into the end zone.

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Chew to reload: Light-gun concept game tries to make eating vegetables fun (video)

Chew'emup concept game tries to make eating vegetables fun at TGS 2013

The Tokyo Game Show isn’t just triple-A console titles and new hardware. Oh no, there’s Food Practice Shooter too. It’s the work of Takayuki Kosaka from Kanagawa’s Institute of Technology, with the noble aim of getting kids to eat more vegetables. How? By making vegetable eating an integral part of a light-gun game. The shooting part is pretty standard: you pull the trigger and shoot the veggie enemies on screen just like any point-and-shoot game you’ve played in the arcade. However, to reload, you need to pluck one of three vegetable-based snacks from the cups on the surface in front of you. (We’d assume real-life tests would use vibrant, fresh carrot sticks — these snack substitutes were a little too tasty in their own right). Then you chew. The PC running the concept game connects to a head-set with a distance sensor pointing at your cheek — you calibrate your chewing before you get into the game itself.

As you chew on each snack, it recharges one of three ammo category, whether it’s green peppers, tomatoes or carrots. Gnaw faster and you’ll recharge more ammo. The game also snaps a brief shot of the player once they’ve finished reloading — it’s also another opportunity to calibrate the sensor to your (non-masticating) face. Catch our test subject’s smile on the high score screen — you’ll find it at the end of our video, which is right after the break. %Gallery-slideshow89880%

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The NYPD Really, Really Wants You to Upgrade to iOS 7

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Jeff Driskel Injured As No. 19 Florida Beats Tennessee 31-17

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The second Jeff Driskel started waving for help, Florida coach Will Muschamp knew it was bad.

It turned out to be the worst-case scenario.

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