About Mara Kelland

Mara Kelland is a licensed Simply Music Piano and Inner Musician Play A Story teacher. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from AUT and a Certificate in Freelance Journalism from the New Zealand Institute of Business Studies. Through all her studies, music was her constant companion and is her first love.

Selfie sticks are banned — wtf?

Fuck — what happened to the selfie stick? I read in the herald that the palais de Versailles has banned selfie sticks. The Louvre, also inParis, hasn’t but is reviewing its photography policy constantly. I was saddened to hear this. I got a selfie stick for my birthday and find it vuseful. I also have a tripod [...]

What? Buffer?

Interesting, I was reading this book, “The Art of Social media” author forgotten. But it talks about some interesting apps. One of them is called Buffer. That’s an app that I think some folks I associate with actually need. Essentially it’s a scheduler and composer for Twitter, FaceBook and other social networks. It’s really rather [...]

Vine acting weird

I recently got back into Vine. That thing owned by twitter that lets one make video loops of between 3 and 6 seconds. I have put stuff up there before and folks seem to like it. So I thought I would renew my relationship with Vine. That’s all fine until it starts acting a little [...]

Braille app

It seems rather cynical to write and tell you all that there is a new braille app for the iPad. Well there is. It’s called ibraille notes and is exclusively for the iPad. And I am very impressed. First off the app has backspace and new line keys. This is a plus. The premise is [...]

Throwback Websites and other news

Was reading in the Herald today about some old websites that are still around. Funny thing is most of them I used to go on — geocities, MySpace, LiveJournal. And I have heard of most of the others. Interestingly most of them survive in Asia or Russia. In other news, the studio goes well — got to post a [...]

BeMyEyes and Stuff

Well, i heard the other day about this app called BeMyEyes. it connects blind people with sighted people to find out stuff basically. And the gentleman and ladies i had assisting me were very nice and able to tell me what I wanted to know. I also got educated a bit about which way is [...]

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