Too good to forget!
There’s clearly some sort of massive upheaval going on in the travel world, if the rash of new flight planning applications are anything to go by. Our guess is aggressive cost cutting is masking a slow but steady fall in numbers, which is forcing the industry to sponsor new ways to attract customers. One way to do this is make backend flight routing data more easily available to app makers.
We’ve got a feeling this is the first ever music video shot entirely inside a medical MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) machine, and it’s a doozy. It’s a fabulous song too, which helps. And no, no magnets were harmed in the making of this video. Full video after the jump.
Smartphone hardware has improved by leaps and bounds over the past few years, with processing power, memory and even battery life that would have been unthinkable back in the dark ages. But strangely enough the one area still lagging is the networks, which still struggle to provide reliable, consistent coverage for their long suffering users.
![Open Signal helps you get the best out of your phone signal [Freeware]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/opensignal3.png)
Google engineer Dany Qumsiyeh has spent his 20% free project time at Google to produce an ingenious automatic non-destructive book scanner, using low cost components and a vacuum cleaner. Yes, a household model. The thing about book scanners is they’re either fiendishly expensive to buy because of all the technology needed to keep the pages safe, or they’re cheap and kind of cumbersome, requiring manual page flipping and button pressing to do the job. Enter Dany’s design, which is cheap…
If you’re like me, you’ll be carrying around a phone which contains literally hundreds of photos stored in some random gallery or other, in no particular order and with no way of easily locating or displaying them to friends or strangers. It’s weird how much effort we put into recording special moments, and then how little time we spend making them easy to access afterwards.
![Million Moments – finally, an instant photo album maker for your phone that doesn’t suck [Freeware]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/millionmoments3.png)
Minecraft lovers out there, and we know there are *lots* of you, may be interested to learn that Canadian Miguel Cepero appears to be building what looks like an almost photorealistic derivation of Minecraft, but ‘without zombies’. The project, which seems to be going under the title of Procedural World, is clearly a pet love of his, judging by his blog posts, but we’ve got to say the early video run throughs look amazing.
You’ve all probably heard about 3D printing by now, but just in case you haven’t, it’s likely to be a huge market in a few years time as the technology evolves. We first started raving about 3D printing four years ago, and the tech looks like it’s finally starting to come together. When you remember that most technologies take around 10 years to hit mainstream, we’re still on the right trajectory. The process basically involves using plastic string (or filament…
There are times when you feel proud to be a member of our crazy, chaotic, insane civilization, and often these periods result from discovering that people are capable of kindness for no reason at all, other than it feels right. It kind of restores your faith in humanity and demonstrates that it’s not all ugly out there.
Skype continues to dominate the Internet phone market, with over 663 million registered users, and the sheer scale of the free and paid service has spawned a whole ecosystem of add-ons and additional services. There are quite a number of Skype recorders available, with several free ones for recording audio, but for the first time a video recording add-on has been announced.
![Free Video Call Recorder for Skype – world’s first free video recorder for Skype arrives [Freeware]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/freeskypevideorecorder2.png)
Imagine the scenario. You’re going about your business in all innocence, gaily enjoying the fruits of your computing while using Windows XP, when all of a sudden, wham…along comes some people from Redmond, Washington who change things all around and tell you must use Windows 8 from now on, complete with a whole new strange and intimidating interface design. What to do?
![Classic Shell – revert your Windows 7 or 8 to a more familiar XP look [Freeware]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/classicshell2.png)
Where’s My Cellphone Dot Com is a free service designed to help you find your mobile phone in case you’ve misplaced it in your home or other mysterious location. Just enter in your lost handset’s number (US only) select a time delay up to 5 mins and it will call your phone for you to help you find it. Good luck if it’s on silent or off. Or maybe not. This has been a public service announcement.
We admit it. We’re suckers for speed. In some things. Most especially in things like web browsers where life’s too short to hang around waiting for a bit of software to load so you can find the opening time of your local restaurant. So every time we stumble across a cool, fast browser which comes with all the goodies, we sit up and take notice.
![Slimboat – the fastest loading web browser on the planet? [Freeware]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/slimboat4.png)
Running a small business is hard work, and marketing it to get more customers is even harder. The cost of advertising and press activity can be prohibitive, and it takes time and effort to find the best option for small budgets. Now a new company has come up with something that might make a difference.
Why is it that you always need that particular missing file, when you’re nowhere near your own computer? Frustrating isn’t it? Sure there are services like Dropbox around which let you share and access your files on remote machines, but they’re based on remote services which have access to your private stuff, which can be a concern. Now there’s a way to deliver the kind of cool access of a Dropbox, only using your own home computer instead of their…
![Syncbox – turn your computer into a free personal Dropbox clone [Freeware]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/syncbox3.jpg)
Psst…wanna learn how to play the guitar without spending money? Have you got your own guitar, a computer with a microphone attached, plus a nice comfy chair? Yes? Then we’ve got something you might be interested in.
