If you’ve installed an app, game, or extension for Facebook, Google, Dropbox, Flickr, or a slew of other web services, then you no doubt have granted said app permissions to do any number of things, such as access your contacts list, your email, post or send email on your behalf, to name a few. Most →
Put YouTube on your desktop with YTubePlayer
YTubePlayer is a free desktop client for YouTube that lets you create Playlists of YouTube videos and play and save them without using your internet browser. This software brings an ad-free, basic YouTube video watching functionality to your desktop, including full-screen video mode, but is largely designed in the manner of a music player. It →
Love NPR? Check out “Infinite Player”, which streams NPR programming tailored to your interests
If you are a fan of NPR (National Public Radio), as I am, you might like “Infinite Player”, an NPR streaming player that wants to establish a personal relationship with you and learn to guess the type of programming that you would like. Clearly influenced by social music sharing sites like Pandora or Last.FM, “Infinite →
Wunderkit is a free, comprehensive task management and project collaboration platform
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 may have read about Wunderkit’s sister project previously on →
Access your music and movies anywhere on any device with Qvivo media player and organizer
In the future, your media library will reside in the cloud, and you will be able to access your videos and movies on your computer, on your smartphone or other device, anywhere you are. Qvivo is a software platform that aims to make that a reality right now, letting you upload any media file to →
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 marker, and get a shortened URL when you are →
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 radio channel that connects with your Facebook account in →
Hojoki: create a “river of news” type stream to keep track of cloud files and information
With the proliferation of cloud services such as Dropbox and Google Docs, as well as social networking sites like Twitter to broadcast and share information, those who work in teams or collaborative settings might find themselves struggling to keep up with all changes that their teams might make (e.g. updates on important documents somewhere in →
Monitor your child’s Facebook activity with Minor Monitor
Minor Monitor is a free website that helps you monitor your child’s Facebook activity. Specifically designed to monitor Facebook accounts, Minor Monitor is loaded with tons of different options to keep track of your child’s Facebook activity. There’s nothing to install on your computer, and you can use the website to monitor your child while →
PowerInbox enhances your Facebook, Twitter, and Groupon emails
Powerinbox is a free program that enhances your web-based email. It adds more functionality for emails from Facebook, Twitter and Groupon by allowing you to interact with those emails in new ways, such as the ability to respond to email notices, watch videos, or comment on photos right from your inbox without having to head →
How to use unlimited Spotify in countries where it is not supported
You may have heard about Spotify, the ad-supported music service that will let you listen to almost any music on-demand, and a favorite of mine. Spotify is only supported in a handful of countries though, so what do you do if you go to their site only to discover that, unfortunately, the service is not →
View your social networks, email and media in one program: AVG MultiMi Beta
As if we can’t get enough of social networking in general; i.e. having every moment of our lives commented on and “liked,” a new application has come to us promising to help reign in all those social networks and media sites into one smooth interface. Currently in beta but promising to be free, AVG’s MultiMi →
