Annie Wang

Here at Her Campus, we've told you a lot about Intel-inspired Ultrabooks, the category of high performance, high portability (and high style!) laptops introduced by Intel and made possible by their advancements in chip technology. We gave away many an Ultrabook in 2012 to collegiettes who, newly empowered, experienced an exciting upgrade in their lives at the intersection of work and play, where Ultrabook shines.

Earlier this year, the wonderful people at Intel sent me to CES 2013 in Las Vegas, and if there's one thing I learned, this is the year of the Ultrabook convertible with touch.

How are Ultrabook convertibles different from Ultrabooks? The difference is in the way Ultrabook convertibles are embracing a fundamental mindset shift in their design: our very notion of what a laptop looks like and how we interact with it. The new wave of Ultrabook models launching this year (along with some that have already come out in the tail end of 2012) have been designed like, well, convertibles! Take the Lenovo Yoga IdeaPad, for example, which Intel graciously provided me for my CES trip. The screen of the Yoga folds back in a full 365 degree range, meaning I can use it in one of four main (truthfully, infinite) positions:

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For example, now that Spring Break is right around the corner, use OneNote to manage your vacation schedule and plan which hot spots you plan to hit before you have to hit the books again. Simply create a OneNote notebook for all your Spring Break planning needs and use it as a virtual folder to compare different trips, paste in the details of a special deal you found, or even lay out your day-to-day itinerary. With Office's Web Apps functionality, you'll even be able to collaborate on one planning doc with all your friends by working together on the same notebook in the cloud. Say goodbye to long, difficult-to-use email chains; say hello to stress-free vacation planning! And when you're finally on the beach, you'll even be able to finish that last assignment if you really need to, because all your documents will be synced and ready for you on any device you pick up thanks to SkyDrive, even while you sip a mojito and catch up on some rays!

Thanks to our wonderful partners at Intel, I just came back from Las Vegas where I attended the 2013 International CES (short for Consumer Electronics Show) to check out the world’s latest and greatest tech toys made for consumers like you and me. I wanted to share my top 10 CES Do’s & Don’ts, including some highlights even collegiettes who couldn’t care less about technology shouldn’t miss, some tips for those of you who might find yourself at a future CES, and some recaps of the more notorious moments that made up CES 2013. Enjoy!

The packed Intel booth at CES

10. DON’T pack your heels

Unless you’re going to be partying it up at one of CES’s closing parties (read: nerds hilariously trying to pick you up with lines related to their companies’ tech – there is a story, but don’t ask), leave the heels at home! Walking around the 1.9 million square feet of exhibition space at CES is going to require some serious thinking around which of your shoes is going to give you the best comfort and support while not cramping your professional chic style. I opted for a pair of velvet Cole Haan x Nike Air loafers – perfect!

9. DO plan out your agenda (but DON’T load up on the printed literature)

Don’t have enough time to read the whole guide? You’ll be well on your way to making fantastic Instagram photos with my two personal favorite all-around apps, Frametastic and LINE camera, which accomplish the two fundamental photo-editing tasks -- creating multi-frame compositions, and decorating pictures -- required for making the perfect Instagram photo!

Between my dozens of photo apps, my multi-step editing process, and my endless Instagram feed, I think it would be fair to call me just a tiny bit obsessive when it comes to Instagram. Since my friends constantly ask me which apps I’m using for editing my photos, I figured I’d write up my top picks and tips for everyone’s benefit! I’ll walk through each app and give a bunch of step-by-step examples for how to achieve a certain effect, referencing the apps I've written about throughout this article.

Note: I use an iPhone, so these are all iPhone apps. However, some of them are available in the Android market as well, and I’ve noted where that applies.