Posted by B.C. Tietjens on December 18, 2011 in Games | Tagged Art, Freeware, Games, History, Iran |
Upon first hearing the title, The Cat and The Coup sounds like some kind of Dr. Seuss book about Fidel Castro or something. Fortunately, it’s a lot more fun that that. A free historic documentary game, the story takes place in the summer of 1953 and focuses on the death of the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran, Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh.
The Cat and The Coup features gorgeous artwork, a compelling story and addictive gameplay. It also has lots of educational value but it’s so much fun you will forget you are actually learning history. Available for Mac and Windows. Continue reading ..
Posted by Samer on December 17, 2011 in Free GiveAway, Graphics, News, OCR, PDF, Screenshot taking | Tagged OCR |
Ever wanted to edit or use some on-screen text from a PDF or any other source, only to find that for whatever reason you couldn’t do it? (say, the text was in fact an image, or the clipboard was disabled, or whatever reason). If so, then check out AABBYY Screenshot reader, a nifty screenshot-to-text OCR conversion tool that is available for free for a limited time through the Christmas season.
This software lets you take a screenshot of anything on your screen, converts the screenshot to text, and then sends it as editable text to the clipboard, text editor, or the MS Office application of your choice. Supports multiple languages. Continue reading ..
Posted by Samer on December 17, 2011 in Download Managers, Internet, Web2.0 | Tagged TED |
Most everyone knows about the TED conference, which grew from a one-off event held in California in 1984 to being the one of internet’s most important forums for thinkers to present their ideas. The so, called ‘TED Talks’ are not only thought provoking but quite entertaining. You can watch these on TED.com or on the TEDTalks YouTube channel; but if you want to download TED talks en masse then TED Downloader is for you.
TED Downloader grabs a list of TED Talks (1048 in all, as of this writing, but growing every day), lets you select the ones you would like to download, and proceeds to do it for you; useful for anyone who has intermittent or unpredictable broadband access, anyone who is travelling and/or want to load up their device with TED Talks, and will appeal to the hoarder in all of us. Continue reading ..
Posted by Samer on December 15, 2011 in File Management, FTP, Internet, Internet Utils, The Cloud, Utilities | Tagged Cloud, Dropbox |
Do you have files on multiple cloud storage accounts (e.g. multiple Dropbox accounts, Box.net, Google Documents, Picasa, even FTP and others) that you would like to manage from a single interface? If so, this service is for you. Otixo is a free online service that will connect with multiple cloud storage accounts and present them to you in a single, easy to use dialog. It allows you to perform all of the usual operations of copying, renaming, sharing, and uploading, but will also let you do this across accounts (cutting a file from Dropbox and pasting it into your Box.net account, for example).
Otixo can be mapped as a network drive in Windows explorer, bringing desktop integration to all of your cloud storage services. At the time of this writing Otixo supports Dropbox, Box.net, Picasa, MobileMe, SugarSync, FTP, WebDav, Amazon S3 and Google Docs. Continue reading ..
Posted by Samer on December 14, 2011 in Productivity & Applications, Web2.0 | Tagged QR Codes |
You see them everywhere these days; they look like square 8-bit blotches of spilled ink with squares in 3 out of 4 corners. These two-dimensional barcodes can contain messages such as URLs or text up to 2000 characters, and are designed to be easily read by your smartphone, simply by scanning them with the camera using a special QR reading app.
QR generator is a tiny freeware that will let you create your own QR codes and save them as images. Users can encode messages of up to 2000 characters; you can do this for fun or for any other purpose (if you can think of applications, please leave them in the comments section). Continue reading ..
Posted by Samer on December 14, 2011 in Internet, Translation, Spelling, Thesaurus, Web Apps, Web2.0 |
A visual thesaurus creates a graphic representation of the word you are looking for in relation to other synonyms, which is precisely what the free online service does: enter your desired word and it will be displayed in the middle of the screen surrounded by various synonyms. Mouse over the round ‘nodes’ that separate your word from others, and a tooltip will appear to explain the general meaning relative to that particular branch of synonyms. Continue reading ..
Posted by Samer on December 14, 2011 in Art / Animation, Graphics, Video, Video Download | Tagged Morphing, Video |
Morphing animation done with WinMorph
If you’ve seen one of those animations where one image turns into another (a young boy into an old man, Brad Pitt’s face transforming to Angelina’s, shown above) and would like to try your hand at creating a few of your own, this software is for you. WinMorph is a free program that can create an animation of one image morphing into another. It is different from other programs in it’s in the relative ease and user friendliness that will have you creating morphing animation very quickly. Continue reading ..
