Too good to forget!
Gizmo Call is offering free calls to landlines or mobile phones around the world. Just type the phone number in the box and press call (the first time you use it, a browser plug-in will be installed). Calls limited to 10 minutes per day and there appears to be a small print $5.00 limit on the page, so it looks like another one of Michael Robertson’s marketing schemes. Still an interesting idea though. Tags: voip, internet+phone
The Fakefinder search engine lets you identify those fake RIAA and MPAA torrents which are placed on the network to trap, entice and otherwise make you seem culpable. Quite a useful little tool. Tags: bittorrent, riaa+fakes, riaa
Unyte is a pretty cool desktop sharing plug-in for Skype. Just download, install and you’ve got 1:1 sharing of your Windows desktop, applications and tea cups (we wish!). We wrote about this when it launched beta in January, but now it’s released properly, and it actually does work well. And with hardly any lag etc. Better still, they have priced it really aggressively. Free for 1:1 limited view sharing, and just $30 a year for 1:1 shared control access. Unfortunately there’s…
Senduit. Beautifully minimal interface masks a lovely little file sharing application. Set an expiry time, upload your file and distribute the link to whoever you want. Perfect. If only the filesize limit was larger than a paltry 100 MB (hey, is it 1997?) Senduit’s service provides users with the ability to upload a file via HTTP-Protocol and receive a custom URL address to download the file from Senduit’s servers. This address can be shared by the user freely and can be…
The DIY Portable Solar Power Kit. Pretty clever. You need to know how to channel geo-thermal isotopes and downgrade fissionable Deuterium, but hey how hard can it be? Oh all right, just kidding. This is definitely worth a bookmark. This kit weighs about 2 lbs, costs $180, and will power my Macbook for 1.75 hours (1.83ghz, browsing the web and checking email via Airport Extreme, bluetooth off, screen brightness about 70%) with a little more than 5 hours of good sun…It’s great for…
Top 10 Magic Trick Tutorial Videos. Learn how to stuff coins through soda cans and other feats of amazingness. The Magic Circle must be having fifty fits right now… Today I went to the liberty of scouring the internet to track down the top 10 video magic tutorials that I could find. Many of these are simply amazing, others are simple yet stunning. I hope you enjoy…THIS IS GOING TO SAVE YOU HUNDREDS ON PURCHASING THOSE VIDEOS! It will…
Guerrilla Mail. Get an email address which expires in 15 minutes. Just enough time to sign up and receive opt-in confirmation for some service or other that you’re not sure about. And if you need more time, you can extend the cut off. Guerrilla Mail provides you with disposable e-mail addresses which expire after 15 minutes. You can read and reply to e-mails that are sent to the temporary e-mail address within the given time frame.
LibriVox is another free audiobooks site which looks quite nice. You can also volunteer to read some public domain works into the library for them. It’s very Open Source, very community. Deserves to get an audience, so do take a look. LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net (via podcast and catalog). Our goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books. We are…
3 specialist search engines which you might find useful. BTBot – BitTorrent search engine. WikiSeek – Very cool way to search Wikipedia Complete Planet – Pretty neat public database search engine
Evil RSS. Weird name notwithstanding, this is a nice little utility. Enter in a search term and get back the Google results in RSS form so you can add and monitor them in your RSS reader. Clever. The EvilRSS feed turns Google search results into an RSS feed. Just enter your search query below and click submit. You can then subscribe using your RSS reader and be alerted anytime the search results change.
Tiny Apps. We’ve mentioned Tiny Apps before, because we simply love the site. Lots and lots of little applications and utilities for all sorts of things. Browsers, editors, optimizers, you name it. What’s good about small computer applications? They’re fast and really simple to use and install. And did we mention they’re almost all free? Check out Easy Thumbnails as a great example of the genre. Bookmark! Welcome to TinyApps.Org, a guide to very small software for your PC. Virtually all of the…
Jotle. A combination of Google Maps, Flickr and Wikimapia. Oh and YouTube. So basically it suggests photos and videos for locations that come up on the map. Quite an interesting app, but there are a few of these out there, so it’s not totally alone. Worth a look. [Thanks Michael]
Learn Chinese Online. The way things are going this free online Mandarin Chinese course may become an indispensable business tool one day, so get going while it’s still gratis. Comes complete with nicely done native speaking conversational audio clips on-site. Mandarin Chinese is the language spoken by the most number of people on this earth – more than 874 million native speakers at last count. Compare that to English which is spoken by a mere 309 million. Chinese is also…
Create your own free Customized Browser Toolbar. Pretty cool tool. We’ve made a fantabulous Red Ferret Journal Toolbar for you to download too. If you like it, let us know and we’ll tweak it better.
Listable now has a list of some 160 + online file storage services. That’s a lot of files and a lot of competition in one small market. The trouble is that few people will trust their precious data to a small company which could go belly up next week, so these tiny services are probably doomed as soon as Google offers its own version for real.
