Wunderkit Beta is a free browser-based organizational and networking tool. Otherwise known as a ‘productivity platform’ it combines organizational essentials like task lists and project management tools with networking functions to give you a well-rounded solution for your needs, whether they are business or personal. You →
Annotate and share the web with Marker.to, a “yellow highlighter pen for the web”
Imagine that you just read something on a webpage that you like and that you would like to highlight and keep, or even share with others. With Marker.to you could simply highlight the content on the page in bright fluorescent yellow, as you would a real →
The Fantastic Contraption 1 and 2 – hours of logic puzzle fun at no cost!
The Fantastic Contraption 1 and 2 are two of the most fun ‘thinking games’ on the web today. Reminiscent of an older game called The Incredible Machine, The Fantastic Contraption will have you concentrating on puzzles of logic, physics, geometry and more. The bright colors in the interface →
Learn programming with 3D video producer ‘Alice 3’
Somewhat along the same vein as Kodu, which we wrote about earlier this month, Alice is a free teaching tool to explore object-oriented programming in a 3D environment. You can use Alice, developed by Carnegie Mellon, to create short videos or 3D games. It is an →
Make designs for 3D printing with netfabb Studio Basic
3D printing is most likely the next revolution in computers and many other industries. It allows you to create objects on demand to whatever dimension you need, using specialized ‘3D printers’. Entire industries can benefit from the capability, whether you are a designer interested in producing →
Alter Ego – Text adventure with a twist
Alter Ego is a great game full of humor and insight, and is a revival of a much older game and genre. It’s a text adventure built on the idea of guiding another ‘you’ through his or her entire lifetime. The complexities of a human lifetime →
Marble Arena 2 – Marble mayhem and multiplayer madness for free
Marble Arena 2 is a great sequel to a well done original. It’s a free game that puts you in the driver’s seat of a marble in competition with other marbles for collection of energy in the form of stars. Marble Arena 2 features some great, →
Mentor FM provides one-click discovery of new music you will like
Wouldn’t it be terrific if you could just switch on the radio and just get the music (or kind of music) that you like, without a lot of messing around? That, in a nutshell, is what Mentor FM tries to do. Mentor FM is an internet →
The Codex of Alchemical Engineering – a great free game that makes you think
The Codex of Alchemical Engineering (COAE) is a free logic puzzle and building game that can help improve your logic skills as well as entertain you for hours on end. It features some cute flash graphics and a great soundtrack, innovative ‘building’ and ‘logic’ style gameplay, →
imTranslator speaks your language, and everyone else’s too!
imTranslator is a free website that lets you use powerful interpretation software, and will even speak for you in other languages. With support for more than fifty different languages, tons of TTS (Text To Speech) options, and downloadable widgets and plug-ins imTranslator is one of the →
Convert print articles to voice with Vocalyze for the web, iPhone and Android
If I told you that there was a service that can read (print) news and blogs automatically and convert them to speech, would you be interested or would you run away? Frankly, I would have done the latter, as the prospect of a robo-voice reading articles →
Organize your multimedia with Banshee
Banshee is an open source freeware multimedia manager that will help you organize and centralize your media. It is loaded with tons of options for sorting, organizing and playing your music and video files, and even has a nifty ‘favorites’ feature that tracks what files you →
