Posted by Samer on January 17, 2012 in Audio, Facebook, Internet Radio, Music Sharing, Social Media, Web Apps, Web2.0 | Tagged music, Music Sharing, Radiohead |
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 order to figure out what music you might like (assuming you do a lot of ‘Like’-ing of Facebook) and takes it from there. It will construct a playlist that it thinks you might like, and allow you to vote the music selections up or down within a very minimalistic and straightforward interface. It also offers a ‘surprise’ mode where it will take a chance on music selections that you will probably like, but might not. Continue reading ..
Posted by B.C. Tietjens on January 17, 2012 in Flash / SWF, Games, Internet | Tagged Alchemy, Casual, Flash Games, Game, Logic, Puzzle |
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, and is just one of the great free games at Zachtronics Industries. Continue reading ..
Posted by B.C. Tietjens on January 16, 2012 in Internet, Translation, Spelling, Thesaurus | Tagged Free, Interpret, Language, Speech, Translate, TTS |
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 best ways to quickly and easily handle your everyday translation and interpretation needs. Continue reading ..
Posted by Samer on January 15, 2012 in Android, Audio, Internet, iPhone / iPad, Podcasts, RSS Readers, Web Apps, Web2.0 | Tagged Podcasts, Text to Speech |
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 without any human emotional inflection does not sound too appealing. But being a software reviewer, I gave the Vocalyze service a try, and was extremely impressed.
Vocalyze lets you choose from a wide range of text articles and news sources, and delivers them in voice, podcast style. It can be run as a web app on your computer and is available a a free app for iPhone and Android. Continue reading ..
Posted by B.C. Tietjens on January 14, 2012 in Audio, Audio players, Audio Tagging, File Management, Internet Radio, iTunes, Utilities, Video, Video Utils, Video/DVD players | Tagged Audio, Media, MP3, Organize |
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 play most often and remembers them for use in shuffles and other playlist options.
There’s never been a shortage of free programs to play multimedia files, and Banshee comes into the game fairly late, but it comes in strong with some great features and a very clean looking interface. Add to those the fact that it is an open source program, which means that there are levels of customization not available with other kinds of programs, and Banshee makes a good showing. Banshee is multiplatform (Windows, Linux, Mac). Continue reading ..
Posted by Maximillianx on January 11, 2012 in Backup, The Cloud, Utilities, Web2.0 |
If you are a computer enthusiast, then it is very likely you have more than one computer at your home. You also are likely to have quite a bit of data stored on your computer which hasn’t seen an external drive or other backup location in quite some time, if ever. You are likely to have tons of free space on all of them. So why not back them up to each other? CrashPlan is a ‘set it and forget it’ backup app that will do exactly that, and it offers a free plan that can meet the needs of most users. Continue reading ..
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.
