Software for nuttin’.
Best hotel morning wakeup call of my life. Me, “Is it 7 Already?” Hotel operator, “Yes dear, I’m afraid it is.” You just don’t get that kind of sympathy from your alarm clock. Your alarm clock doesn’t care. With the app Wakie installed however, you can get a compassionate person to help you start your day.
![Wakie – get a wakeup call right to your cell phone [Freeware]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Wakie.jpg)
If you’ve ever suffered the run around on a company call center system, you’ll know just how annoying it can be. It’s not just the waiting on hold that’s painful, it’s also the fact that you usually have to listen to a repeated litany of inane corporate marketing ads or even worse, badly recorded musak. Now, thanks to a clever app, you can avoid all that and save your ears and your sanity.
![Lucyphone – never wait on hold again [Freeware]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/lucyphone.jpg)
Hands up if you ever owned a Nokia cell phone. Now did you like the maps function? It may not have been as pretty as some of the others, but it was certainly fast, wasn’t it? Well now you can enjoy the same experience again but on your Android phone, now that Here has been relaunched in beta form.
![Here – Nokia maps return for Android with snazzy new offline mode and lots of cool [Freeware]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/here1.jpg)
A picture is worth a thousand words. Imagine how much you can say with a group a pictures and music. You could probably tell a whole story. With Flipagram, you can combine your photos with music to share your story with the world.
![Flipagram – share your story in pictures [Freeware]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/flipagram-screenshot-004.jpg)
The massively popular SIM City franchise has been a source of joy for many people over the years. The game gives you total power over creating your own city and more from the ground up, and the real pleasure comes from watching as the population moves in and starts going about their daily lives, commuting, working, enjoying your creation. Now for a very short period, you can download it free.
![SIM City 2000 Special Edition – now available for FREE download for a limited time offer [Freeware]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/simcity2000.jpg)
If you’ve been on the hunt for a job recently then you know that finding a job, is like a full time job. Searching, filling out applications, creating stream lined resumes and cover letters, etc. All of these things go into landing the perfect gig. Huntsy is the Chrome app that helps you stay on top of it all.
![Huntsy – free add-on turbo charges your job search [Freeware]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Huntsy-in-use.jpg)
They say that knowledge is the first step to wisdom, so anything that can help us improve has got to be a good thing, right? Especially when it has to do with how we feel and how we’re getting on with our lives. Now there’s a free app which promises to help us understand more about what makes us tick, and so help us optimize our lives in different ways.
![Thrivetracker – free app helps you track and improve your moods [Freeware]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/thrivestream.jpg)
Do you have trouble making decisions? Have you ever needed to flip a coin or generate a random number or card? If you don’t happen to have any random chance options on hand, Certified True Randomizer is an app to help you with all your “chance†needs. And who knows, it might make you a happier, less indecisive person. Or not.
![Certified True Randomizer – let your phone make your decisions for you [Freeware]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/randomorg-coin-flipper-e1415899472472.png)
The internet is a vast landscape filled with all sorts of information and time wasters. The problem is, most people only go to the same handful of sources and miss out on all the wonder that the internet has to offer. Random is the app hoping to change that.
![Random – the app that finds you cool new stuff to enjoy [Freeware]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/random.jpg)
This one is for the littles. And I don’t mean like, imps or fairy people. I mean children. Learning to read is a big step in development and the app, Endless Alphabet, is a cute and practical way to help children pick up the skill.
![Endless Alphabet – cool learning app takes the stress out [Freeware]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Endless-Alphabet1-e1415899954434.jpg)
The people at Microsoft may have made the Windows platform more stable (forgetting Vista of course), but that doesn’t mean it’s fault free. The fact is the new versions can still be very annoying, which is why it’s always good to hear about tools which can help make them work better.
![FixWin 2.0 for Windows 8 – cool little utility fixes Windows 8 annoyances with a click [Freeware]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/fixwinwindows81.jpg)
Yow-ee, the Internet Archive has gone and done it again. Remember those coin op arcade games that rocked the 8 bit pixel world back when time forgot? Well the Internets has decided to rescue these 1970s-1990s classics, using some clever emulation software which runs in the web browser.
![Internet Arcade – 900 free coin op arcade games in your browser [Freeware]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/internetarcade.jpg)
Learning a new anything can be such hard work. Especially when you’re a working individual with a super busy schedule. Time is never on your side. But the Memrise web and mobile app turns learning into a fun game that can be practiced, or played, in just a few moments a day.
![Memrise – who knew learning could be such fun? [Freeware]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/memrise1.jpg)
There are two types of people in this life. Those that are happy with the base functionality of their computer mouse, and those that need more control, more power, more everything from those few buttons and wheel. If you’re the former, move on, but for the freaks among us, here’s a chance to give your mouse more super powers than your head can probably handle.
![X-Mouse Button Control – suddenly your mouse is more powerful than a speeding bullet [Freeware]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/xmousebuttoncontrol.jpg)
To do lists are so helpful. Have a million things to do? Make a list! Cross things off! Feel accomplished! This post is on my to do list, and when I’m done, I’ll feel great. But what if you have multiple people who need to be involved? Well Wunderlist lets you share your lists with others, so productivity becomes a group effort.
![Wunderlist – power through your To-Do lists with this cool sharing system [Freeware]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/wunderlist4.jpg)
