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Do you want straight teeth but don’t want to deal with the tyranny of braces? Well, you can avoid being a brace face and a trip to the dentist with Straight Teeth Direct, the service that will help you straighten your teeth right at home.
We all need calendars, most of us just use whatever app comes with our phones but there are those times you need a good old-fashioned paper calendar. If you don’t need or want to commit to a full glossy year, check out Custom Calendar Maker and print out your own custom month, all for free.
There are a lot of ways to learn something but one thing remains fairly true across the board, the better your teacher, the more solid the skills you learn will be. So why not learn from award winners? Hoffman Academy is giving away their piano lessons for free.
2016 has been an awful year for music. So many greats passed in the first few weeks much to the dismay of fans. Even though they’re gone, they’re not forgotten and their music lives on. Radio Dead plays only the music of musicians that have passed to honor them.
The weekend is coming up, any plans? How about working on that novel? Writer’s block you say? Well the cure for that is just to write and The Most Dangerous Writing App will make sure you do that. Because if you stop, it eats your text.
We’ve all had that moment when we’re talking or writing and the perfect word is right there but you just can’t think of it. You can only come up with similar but not as good words. Before you try Google, check out the OneLook Reverse Dictionary, the dictionary that lets you search by definitions.
If you want to get into graphic design, chances are, no matter how much you try to avoid it, at some point you’re going to have to use the pen tool. If you want to pick up this skill but are having trouble, check out The Bezier Game, the online game for mastering the pen tool.
Years ago, when it was time for a school report, kids trekked to the library and pulled out encyclopedias for information. Now, we Google it. Less trekking and more up to date information. The downside is that not everything that comes up in search is appropriate for young learners. Enter Kiddle, the search engine for kids.
More and more, we’re communicating with the written word whether it be through email, text, or on newsfeeds, being able to write things is important. We aren’t all great wordsmiths though and although casual conversation doesn’t require hard core grammar, it might be a good idea to make sure all your punctuation is in the right spot for a professional chat. Ginger Grammar Checker is software to help you communicate better.
We all use search engines, in fact “Google” can be used as a verb now. It’s the fastest way to find out information. Now you can use your web searches to find new recipes and save the Earth. Ecosia is the search engine that plants a tree every time you look something up.
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Ever been stuck in traffic and just wish you could drive over every car in front of you? Not to hurt anyone but just to get to where you’re going. That will probably have to stay a fantasy but you can at least imagine that you’re driving over a traffic jam with the Drive A Tank package.
Some people just want to watch the world learn. One science mad pirate wants the flow of scientific knowledge to be free to the people so they’ve created a pirate site dedicated to nothing but official peer reviewed papers. Sci-Hub is the pirate bay of hard science.
Happy Monday! If you’re at work you probably wish you were somewhere a little more fun. Unfortunately, if you’re at work, you probably need to be but that doesn’t mean you can’t dream of something more exciting. Check out these free retro space posters, print your favorites out for free and dream of a vacation that spans the solar system.
The world of technology has changed quickly over the past few decades. Services and devices that we once couldn’t live without are now embarrassing relics of the past, collecting dust in landfills or gone completely from the internet landscape. One of the things we’re losing is the sounds. The Museum of Endangered Sounds is cataloging the technology based tones and sounds that are disappearing from the world.
Not everyone has a 3D printer but that doesn’t mean you can’t join in the fun. Many places have printers you can use for a fee or places you can send your designs to be printed. The trick is, you have to design something in 3D. Tinkercad is the easy design tool for quick and fun creation.
