If you’ve never heard of Evernote, it’s the very successful cloud (ie Web) based content capturing service. The idea is you run their software in the background, and when you come across something you want to save, like a recipe, photo, news article or even road sign, you just clip it to Evernote and it’s instantly stored online for you to access from any computer anywhere. It’s clever stuff all right.
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OpenMeetings, the cool open source web conferencing program, grows up [Daily Freeware]
Way back in the mists of time, or somewhere around 3 years ago, we reported on a little Google Code project which was a rudimentary but functional web conferencing system, with scheduling and audio/video communication. As we said at the time, it was OK, but a little Spartan.
Read MoreIdroo combines Skype calls with free online collaboration [Daily Freeware]
We’re all learning more every day about how to collaborate online. From file sharing tools like Dropbox to full blown collaboration software like Google Docs, we’re becoming a sharing, caring networked world. The point is, that’s what networks are for, and the Internet is after all just one giant collection of computers, right?
Read MorePrayaya lets you run a full Windows computer on your mobile phone or iPod
There are times when you don’t want the hassle of carrying around your laptop or other Windows computer, even when you know you’re going to have to do some essential work, like over a weekend vacation. Sure you could use your host’s computer or a nearby Net cafe, but wouldn’t it be cool to have your full Windows system stored on your phone or other memory drive, ready for instant access?
Read MoreScrambls turns your browser into a cool encryption machine for private communications
Do you remember when you were small, and you invented your own private language so you and your best friend could chat to each other in the playground, and no-one would understand what you were saying? You didn’t, well you missed out big time. Of course, private languages are only for young folk, because we stop needing them when we get older. Or do we?
Read MoreBasket Buddy and Smoopa are great for bargain hunters, but not for retailers
Rather like using dynamite to fish in a lake, bargain hunting is becoming something of a killer sport, and the writhing creatures on the end of the line are the retailers, struggling to balance lower margins with increased price competition. Of course it’s technology that’s changing the odds in favor of the consumer, and a couple of new mobile apps are pointing the way to the future.
Read MoreWajam turbo-charges your web searches with social network results
The world now revolves around friends, the more you have the happier you are, and in fact if you don’t have thousands of mates, you’re a bit of a loser. Yeah right! OK so we’re talking social networking land here, which we all know is not exactly real. Even so, it was inevitable that companies would start to come up with clever ways to make use of all this Liking, Friending, Tweeting and Plussing…and so they have.
Read MoreTomahawk is a superb free open source music player which is a music magnet [Daily Freeware]
There’s a huge selection of software music players around at the moment, and they all have good and bad bits. However for the most part they all fail in one way or another, which means that you miss out on the best music choice on and offline. What’s missing is a tool which lets you combine just about every music source anywhere in one simple interface. Well, guess what…?
Read MoreClownfish Translator lets you text chat in Skype using multiple languages
You’ve just got back from vacation where you had a hugely fun time, and met lots of nice people. Perhaps someone even a little bit special? But the problem is they speak a different language to you, and you can’t wait until one of you learns the other’s lingo. How to keep the flame going without spending a fortune?
Read MoreGimp 2.6 delivers world class photo editing with an open source label [Daily Freeware]
Photo and image editing has been dominated for a very long time by the Adobe product Photoshop, and quite rightly so. No other program has come close to delivering the level of sophistication and feature set that Photoshop does, and that’s why it’s been the choice of professionals for so long. There have been attempts by other commercial companies to compete, most notably PaintShop Pro, now owned by Corel, but by and large they’ve not made any impression on the…
Read MoreGameXN lets you play free games solo or with others using your browser, phone or Skype
Online Flash games are nothing new, but on the whole they’re restricted to fairly basic features, just you against the clock or computer. Most of the big services also restrict you to their platform of choice, so you’re limited in when and where you can play, which can be frustrating if you really enjoy a particular game.
Read MoreMobile 3GP Converter lets you play your phone videos on your PC or TV [Daily Freeware]
Even in today’s smartphone driven environment, there are a huge number of handsets that record video in the 3GP format (.3gp). This is all well and dandy until you want to play back the video on something other than a phone, at which point you’ll discover that most computer players are not equipped to handle this mobile video format.
Read MorePhotoRec freeware recovers lost videos, photos and other files from corrupt media [Daily Freeware]
There’s few things worse than going on vacation, happily grabbing huge numbers of photos of family, locations and events and returning home to find that the memory card, or your hard disk storage is corrupt and the images are all gone. Unfortunately it happens all too often, and we generally think that there’s nothing we can do. But there is.
Read MoreMP3Gain cures the annoying LOUD and soft music tracks problem [Daily Freeware]
I’ve started to use my phone as a music player much more nowadays, especially when I bike down to the shops or whatever (yes I’m careful not to shut out traffic noise!). One of the thing I’ve noticed though, is how annoying it is when different tracks play at different volumes. I’m not just talking about quiet tracks, but also tracks which should be loud but which aren’t for some reason (probably because I ripped them poorly from my CD).
Read MoreUSB Guardian protects your PC from malicious flash drive attacks [Daily Freeware]
The humble USB memory stick and its variations have become a standard part of our computing world. Where we once used CDs or even floppy disks (remember those?) to move files around from computer to computer, nowadays it’s quicker and easier to grab a USB drive to do the transfer. It’s the modern day sneakernet, right?
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