Dynastree is a free online family tree maker. OK, so maybe we’re suckers for a hoppy poppy name and some cute little graphics representing relatives. Stranger still, this is apparently a European born clone site of Geni.com (which we love and have reported on before) which makes the whole thing kind of incestuous. OK so we’re reaching for the metaphor, but you get what we mean. Where it blows Geni away is in the range of countries supported (11) and languages…
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Mail2Feed – your email messages delivered via an RSS feed
Mail2Feed is a free new service which lets you grab your email messages via an RSS feed. Super simple to set up, just enter in your mailbox details, whether you want the feed to be private or public (!) and press go. You can then pick up the feed address and add it to your favourite reader. Easy huh? Interesting application, especially if you have a lot of different mail services running IMAP, POP and stuff, and want to maintain a…
Read MoreThe Red Ferret Product of the Year 2008 – Software – Artisteer
Last year was the year of the CMS. By that I mean, it was the year WordPress came out of its shell and proved to the world that it could become as much of a mainstay of the Web as say, Paypal or Google. It’s for this reason that we’ve awarded Artisteer the software product of the year. This program, which lets you instantly create great looking CMS site themes, is not freeware, but the utility of the program is such…
Read MoreKRK Ergo Room Correction System – optimize the acoustics in your bedroom studio
The KRK Ergo is a mix optimisation device which is used to calibrate the acoustics of your studio – home or professional – and ensure as good a speaker output as possible. It’s a great example of a product which has come about because of the changing dynamics of a music industry which no longer uses those huge multi-million dollar studio complexes so loved by the stars of yesteryear. Nowadays a lot of music comes out of smaller digital studios built into…
Read MoreEee PC Privacy Filter – stop the snoopers snooping your work
The Eee PC 7 Inch Privacy Filter is a small plastic sheet which you stick on the screen of your ever so trendy ultraportable to ensure no-one can read the important stuff on your screen. Like the Solitaire game cards, or the begging emails from Mrs Miggins. Anyone remember when the marketing blurb for them new fangled TFT screens trumpeted the wide angle of readability? Hah! Around $48.00 in Yen like. EeePC is small and easy to carry it around…
Read More9Tailors – the DIY online custom clothing company
9Tailors. I can’t help feeling that setting up an online bespoke DIY shirt tailoring service right at this moment is not perhaps the wisest of moves. Priced at $60.00 a shirt, drag out your Amex one last time. 9tailors is a “DIY (Design-It-Yourself)” custom clothing company. This means that we empower our customers to make the most critical decisions about how they want their clothes to look, feel, function and fit. We help our customers create one-of-a-kind pieces that reflect their own…
Read MoreInfiniter XP 5 – the four-in-one super useful pen
The Infiniter XP 5 is a four-in-1 pen utility pen for people who work in the dark a lot. It’s equipped with everything today’s account executive needs to move through their day with a minimum of fuss. There’s a pen of course, with propel and retract functions (i.e. the nib goes in and out). There’s a PDA stylus made from scratch resistant material to protect your delicate PDA equipment. There’s a 5mW, 650nm (red) laser pointer visible to 500 yards…
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Blank Sheet Music Maker – create your own custom sheet music blanks
The Blank Sheet Music Maker lets the musicians among us design and print off their own sheet music…er…pages. Clefs, staffs, time signatures, all that stuff. I have absolutely no idea what I’m talking about. Time to hum a little tune and move on methinks. Oh, before I go, there’s also a bunch of ready made templates on the site available for printing, including guitar, piano and choir stuff. And you can save your custom pages for printing as needed. Nice resource all…
Read MoreSite checkers – everything you need to know about that website
If you’ve ever wanted to know a bit more about your domain, website, or indeed the website of other people, then this set [updated – thanks Tom] of tools should be an essential part of your tool kit. Quarkbase. Beautifully designed website snapshot tool provides information on just about everything under the sun. Hosting, ownership, traffic, popular pages, lunch menus, you get the picture. Fascinating stuff. Whoishostingthis. More down to earth search tool to find the webhost of a particular site. Very useful for contacting a…
Read MoreThe Red Ferret Product of the Year 2008 – Web – Spotify
Oh there was such a lot of competition this year from the exploding web application industry. Significantly cool applications this year include the amazing Aviary online graphics toolset, the fabulous DropBox which offers totally seamless online file storage and sharing, the gorgeous and incredibly user friendly SnapPages website designer, and last but not least the awesome Notifu, which is simply the best online/offline telephone messaging application in the world. But at the end of the day, for sheer incredible, disruptive, beautiful, new paradigm…
Read MoreRetro Mini Media Centre – technology wrapped up in yesteryear
Can we just put a vote in for more retro designs like this project Mini Media Centre? Sure it’s frivolous, but it may go some way towards placating us while we’re waiting for our flying cars. And hover toasters. Tags: retro, mini+media+centre, gadget
Read MoreYeti – Portable Security System
The Yeti is a portable, outdoor alarm system designed to protect your valuables from other people’s temptation. It’s designed to be left unattended in the back of your truck, near your tools or wherever your good stuff is bound to get nicked. It works like a car alarm and comes with a handy key fob to turn the unit on and off remotely so you don’t set it off as you go back and forth. It’s equipped with a 110dB…
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UV Razor Sanitizer – the disposable bug killer…huh?
This UV Razor Sanitizer has us completely baffled. So it’s supposed to kill the bugs on your razor blades? These are the disposable blades that you throw away anyway? So basically you’re killing bugs for the landfill? What? Did we miss something? $29.95. Razor Sanitizer uses proven UV technology to kill up to 99.9% of germs and bacteria in minutes, for safer, cleaner shaves. First used and long-proven in hospitals and dental offices, UV light eliminates 99.9% of the…
Read MoreMitsubishi i MiEV Sport Air Electric Car – electric cars get some design love
This new Mitsubishi i MiEV Sport Air electric car concept has a touch of arty 1950s design in it, which is neat. Of course all these proposed electric cars have huge hurdles to overcome when they start rolling off the line in earnest. Like where are we all going to plug them in? Forget about traffic jams and parking wars, we’re more likely to see a surge in plug rage in the future, as frantic commuters scrap with each other…
Read MoreCinematheca – freeware lets you manage your movies and swaps
Cinematheca is a neat hybrid freeware and web application which lets you manage your movie collection. What makes it different is the online module which gives you the power to monitor the times you loan or exchange DVDs with your friends. We all know how annoying it is to lend a mate a film and realise several months later that you’ve forgotten who’s got it. Well worry no more, dear person, for now you can track the loan and send…
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