Mention is a neat little service that will track any mentions of you, your brand, or your favorite topics across the internet, including Tweets, Facebook mentions, blog posts, etc. The free plan provides 1000 mentions a month, and the results might surprise or entertain you. Who doesn’t want to know when others are talking about →
Add file type icons to Gmail attachments with ‘Attachment Icons for Gmail’ Chrome extension
When you receive an email with attachment in Gmail, it shows a paperclip icon by default. Wouldn’t it be great if you can find out what type of attachment it is at a glance? With Attachment Icons for Gmail, you can. Attachment Icons for Gmail is a free Chrome extension that replaces the default paper →
Remove clutter from web pages and make them easy to read with Clearly for Chrome
The internet is choc full of great content, but it also has a knack of bombarding you with all sorts of visual stimulation, from links to ads to buttons, videos, images, and everything else. If you’ve ever wished that you could clean up a page and just focus on the content then check out Clearly, →
Two free ways to learn to play a musical instrument online
There are any number of good resources for learning to play a musical instrument online and two of the best are Guitarlessons.com and Harmonica4kids.com. Both are oriented towards the absolute beginner and both are totally free. If you are like me and have a lingering desire to learn to play a musical instrument then you →
Lookup the meaning of words on webpages instantly with Multiple Dictionary Lookup for Firefox
If you’ve ever needed to lookup the meaning of a word on a webpage, we’ve got good news: ‘Multiple Dictionary Lookup’ can make this as easy as right clicking the word in Firefox. What’s even better, it gives you multiple dictionary options to choose from. As the name suggests, the add-on allow users to search →
Share bookmark lists and save webpages offline, with Blinklist
Blinklist is a great free way to save webpages offline for later reading and to share them with others. You can save pages into lists and access them on your own unique webpage from any internet capable computer or device. There are more ways to organize Internet bookmarks than there are fish in the sea, →
Brick Force – Is Massive Multiplayer Online Gaming dying or is it just evolving?
Massive Multiplayer Online Games, also called MMOs, have been around for some time now and it has been stated by some supposed experts that they are on the way out the door. The Internet community in general and the more than two billion people who play them tend to argue differently, however. One game that →
Build and publish non-CMS based web pages fast, free and easy with Buildor Lite
Buildor Lite is a convenient, totally browser based online WYSIWYG web page editor. It costs nothing to use the lite edition and it will offer you a number of basic but powerful options for your non-CMS web site. In 2010 there were more web pages available than there were people in the USA. This doesn’t →
Three great solutions to collaborate online: Dropmark, Online Support Tools, and Fullsync
We keep saying things like, “The world is smaller now,” and “The shortest distance between two places is now a byte’” and when it comes to business these days we are just as likely to be working with someone two states or continents away as we are someone two blocks away. In this post we →
Stream live audio or webcam video feeds for free with BrainRepublic
Ever wanted to stream your own live show?, or broadcast a live audio or video webcam event to a group of collaborators, colleagues, students, fans, etc? Ever wished there was an easy way to log in and just go live, for free, with the simplicity of pressing a button? Well guess what; there is, and →
Create simple comparison tables with HTML or CSS with CompareNinja
Do you have a point or a message to communicate? Do you want people to compare different facets or features of an issue or topic? If so, what you may need is to make your point visually, with a table. CompareNinja is a free web site that will allow you to make simple visual comparison →
Collaborate on projects and keep documents and code in sync with QikPad
Working together with someone else can be rewarding, certainly, but it can also have its challenges, especially in the modern world where we don’t all live next door to each other. QikPad is a handy online program that will let you collaborate on projects, letters, code, and anything else you can work with through text, →
