PTE academic Anyone has any experience with this test, teachers here at italki or people from the community? I need 65 in all topics, recently i did IELTS and my lowest mark was 6.5 in writing. I have been reading a few forums and everyone says in some cases it's somehow "easier" than IELTS.

South American Electronic Music Generally electronic music is associated with countries like the United Kingdom, USA, Germany, etc. South american countries have been looking at the world when it comes to electronic music and usually the music made here tends to imitate the genres from overseas. In the last 5 years I have been noticing that this is changing and many countries like Mexico, Colombia, Chile and Argentina are developing their own sound , blending techno, acid or house sounds with cumbia, reggaeton, bachata and other latin dance styles. Its like we started to blend our own ‘dance’ music with electronic styles created in other countries long time ago. The final result it’s a really interesting mix and I definitely suggest to have a deeper look into electronic music from South America.

The rise of Web applications I'm writing this because i work as a developer and lately i've seen a huge amount of very powerful web-sites that work as a desktop application. Companies like Google have worked around this concept in the past, and now almost all of the social networking websites and even this one include some powerful functionalities. In the past web sites used to show static content only, by static i mean that there wasn't much interaction between the user and the website, you were able to see some text and images that could link to other pages, it was very simple. As time went by websites started to look a lot like a Desktop Application, imitating their behaviour and functional approach, it was called "The web 2.0". In december 2015 Google introduced a concept called "Progressive Web-Apps" which states that Web apps should be as powerful as a mobile apps. To have this power Web apps should support a couple things like: 1)Offline functionality 2)Notifications 3)Safe (using https protocols) 4)Installable The future of web apps looks quite interesting, so i wonder if in the near future Native mobile apps will be able to survive. More thoughts coming soon!