For busy people who want to effortlessly stay informed, Vocalyze provides a personalized mobile news and entertainment service that turns Tweets, blogs and and other written web content into real-time audio podcasts. How about if a robot reads to you your favourite news articles while you are driving to work!!. The service switches between a male and female voice after a couple of posts, which keeps things from getting monotonous.
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We are featuring Howcast as a good source for instructional video content. With tens of thousands of short, helpful, high-quality videos to choose from, Howcast will help you with pretty much anything you need to know about; from How to Bake a Cake to How to Survive an Alien Abduction. The quality of the content is far superior to what you will find in youtube.
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Khan Academy “supplies a free online collection of over 2,000 videos on mathematics, history, finance, physics, chemistry, astronomy, and economics.” - Wikipedia-
It is probably the most useful website for school children. Every parent and school age child should bookmark this website. If Bill Gates is using it, I don’t see why other parents are not benefiting this valuable resources.
Freebase is a large collaborative knowledge base. It is an online collection of structured data harvested from many sources, including individual ‘wiki’ contribution. Freebase aims to create a global resource which allows people to access common information more effectively. It is developed by the American software company Metaweb and has been running publicly since March 2007. Freebase data is available for use under a Creative Commons “attribution” license, and an API, rdf endpoint, and database dump are provided for programmers. Google’s News Timeline includes media information from Freebase
Zattoo is real TV on your PC– and it’s absolutely free! It’s the football game as you chat, the news as you email, and your favorite soap as you pay your bills. Zattoo is also TV when you don’t have a TV – it’s the channels you want, when you want, where you want.
Zattoo is a proprietary peer-to-peer Internet Protocol Television system with current focus on European channels, licensed content, and Digital Rights Management. It is developed by researchers and programmers based out of Ann Arbor, Michigan, with corporate offices in Ann Arbor and Zurich. The player is based on H.264, and is Mac OS X, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista compatible. It needs a minimum downstream bandwidth of 1 Mbit/s (2 Mbit/s for HiQ channels) on the client side.
You have all sorts of files and you want to convert between them. Look no further than Zamzar. Don’t ask me what Zamsar means but they do damn job of converting all kinds of files types online for free. We tested it and it is rock solid. Give a try.
is a global service that supports e-book content on most major handsets as well as the PC and Mac. Kobo has just announced that it will be making available 1.8 million titles from the Internet Archive, free of charge. This partnership will give Kobo users access to Internet Archive’s recently-launched BookServer project. Internet Archive’s library of titles will be added to Kobo’s current selections, which include titles from all top publishers, as well as literary, independent and regional presses.
Trend Micro is one of the top messaging, network and web security companies around and many fortune 500 companies go to Trend Micro for securing their mission critical endpoints, messaging and web. What many people don’t know is, they offer many free tools for the little guy the home user. Here are some of their goodies:
CLEAN UP TOOLS
HijackThis” Scan your computer to find settings changed by spyware, malware or other unwanted programs. Trend Micro HijackThis generates an in-depth report to enable you to analyze and fix your infected computer.”
“Scan your PC for a wide range of Internet security threats including viruses, worms, Trojans, and spyware. HouseCall identifies and fixes vulnerabilities to help prevent re-infection.”
“Scan and monitor your computer for potential infection and suspicious activities associated with Bots. Upon discovering a potential infection, RUBotted prompts you to clean your computer.”
“Clean your computer of CoolWebSearch infections. CWShredder is the premier tool to find and remove traces of CoolWebSearch – a wide range of insidious browser hijackers.“
“Scan for hidden files, registry entries, processes, drivers, and Master Boot Record (MBR) rootkits. Trend Micro RootkitBuster can also clean hidden files and registry entries.“
Sources: Trend Micro Website
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“The goal of Documentary24.com is to collect the best documentary films available on the internet and to present them to your for free. All documentaries can be watched inside the browser without the need of registration or downloading the movies. This page is not for financial profit but for the intellectual education of everybody who watches the movies”
Dirpy Studio, which is currently in beta, is a tool to convert your favorite YouTube videos to high quality mp3′s and also download the videos directly. Dirpy Studio provides many useful features like real-time transcoding, id3 metadata tags, offsets, support for high quality formats (including HD), and more.
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provides tons of how to information from electronics, computers, arts, entertainment and anything in between. It provides you the ability to research, share, and discuss instructional solutions that help complete day-to-day tasks and projects.
Thousands of articles and How to guides can be found at about.com
“Instructables is a web-based documentation platform where passionate people share what they do and how they do it, and learn from and collaborate with others. The seeds of Instructables germinated at the MIT Media Lab as the future founders of Squid Labs built places to share their projects and help others…”
“…From car engines to search engines, from cell phones to stem cells, and thousands of subjects in between, HowStuffWorks has it covered. No topic is too big or too small for our expert editorial staff to unmask … or for you to understand….”
“MAKE Magazine brings the do-it-yourself mindset to all the technology in your life. MAKE is loaded with exciting projects that help you make the most of your technology at home and away from home. We celebrate your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your own will.”
“wikiHow is a collaboration to build and share the world’s largest, highest quality how-to manual. Imagine if everyone on Earth had an expert coach who could teach them how to do anything. Eventually, our multilingual how-to manual should contain accurate instructions on almost every imaginable topic. This freely available information will improve millions of lives, in both small and large ways.”
Our previous post Get free stuff every day was more giving out an actual gadget such as computers, sunglasses etc. Give Away of The Day is similar website that gives away for free commercial software every day. Head to 
to claim your free software of the day.
You may be familiar with Google, Yahoo, Bing, Kosmix, Wolfram, and Cuil. But have you heard YANDEX the largest search engine in Russia or GINIO a new search engine taking Latin America by storm. Does this remind you of the US banks!! Once the largest banks in the US were competing each other that they forgot outside the United States exist another world and one morning they woke up to the fact that the biggest Banks were Japanese banks and not US banks. Don’t you think one day google, Yahoo and Bing will wake up being smaller search engines known only in the United States?
“No need to install anything on your computer. Use the easy upload interface to convert your file. Your original file will not be affected, and you can choose your own file name for the converted file which will instantly download to your computer…?
The Joornaal does not endorse specific products or specific software. However, we cannot help but notice Splunk, A software which makes the job of IT Infrastructure management (Applications Management, Security and Auditing) under one platform and does such a good job. We believe these dudes are into something huge. Who needs to buy expensive multiple IT infrastructure management software, when the ingenious Splunk brings under one umbrella? My SysAdmin buddies are happy with Splunk
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Corporations have been backing up their data in multiple locations sometimes offshore to safeguard against loss. Now the average home user have access to the same facilities that huge corporation had access to with very cheap and easy to use tools. Today, we would like to bring your attention to two of the best online back up available in the market.
Hey you could lose your data, you could accidentally delete it, it can be stolen and or it can be lost. There are many ways you could lose very important data so back it up.
We believe this is one of the best Windows online backups out there. If your computer data is important to you for $54.95 you will get unlimited online back up. It is secure and very easy to use.
Carbonite launched its online backup service in May 2006. Our industry-first offer of unlimited backup space for a flat low price revolutionized the market for consumer and small business backup services. So far, we have backed up and protected more than 2.5 billion files and restored more than 160 million lost files for customers in over 100 countries.
Mozzy is really simple online backup and you cannot beat the price of unlimited backup for $4.95 a month. It is one of those online backups that you should give serious consideration if you are not backing up your data. Hey what does your data worth to you?
If you are the kind of parent who tells his/her children pick subjects you like, consider this statistics.
U.S. Department of Education’s Mathematics Equals Opportunity White Paper – October 1997, the authors concluded the following:
• Students who take a rigorous K-12 mathematics sequence are more likely to go to college than those who do not.
• Students of all income levels who take rigorous math courses in high school are more likely to go to college.
• In the job market, students who have strong mathematics backgrounds are more likely to be employed and earn 38% more per hour than those with insufficient skills in algebra, geometry, measurement, and probability.
The subject of mathematics has been taught in schools in a boring and lifeless fashion. Children grown up with cartoons and fast computer games cannot bear the slow, repetitive subject of mathematics taught by dull teachers. As a result, the students are choosing subjects in humanities and arts. In fact the average North American students are getting less and less in engineering and computer science undergraduate level and are almost non-existent in the post graduate level as a result. If you don’t believe me, look the profiles of the Engineering and Computer science PhD in the major Ivy League universities.
However, now parents and students have HeyMath, a company the New York Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize winning author Thomas Freedman calls the Google of Mathematics. According to company “HeyMath! is the #1 E-Learning program for Math in Singapore – a country that has been ranked #1 for math proficiency globally in a recent study conducted by the American Institutes of Research”
As a parent, I amazed how these lessons give the subject of mathematics in a new meaning. I am impressed by the amount of work and dedication that went into designing and presenting the subjects in such easy and understandable fashion. It is fun, informative, easy to understand, relevant. The student can relate to and as a result they can retain more of what they learn. I do believe, Mathematics has been told before while HeyMath shows and does mathematics. It went beyond my wildest expectation. Parents, students and school administrators should test drive the free trial and see for themselves. I am sure they will come away with the same impression that I got from. After the trial period it is $99 for the whole year for students in US and Canadian curriculum and cheaper in other places like Indian curriculum.
Google’s free online language translation service instantly translates text and web pages
Yahoo! Babel Fish provides free online text and web page language translation and it is free
The Firefox Web Browser is the faster, more secure, and fully customizable way to surf the web.
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Microsoft Internet Explorer: I am assuming we all know this one. The latest release Internet Explorer 8 is said to be fast, easier and safer.
Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.
Apple
It’s a browser. It’s a platform. It’s an open invitation to innovate. Whether on a Mac, PC, iPhone, or iPod touch, Safari continuously redefines the browser
Opera gives you the full Web experience everywhere.
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