One of the first, lame criticisms of Apple's iPad was that it would only be useful for consuming content, not creating it.
Wrong!
Sure, the iPad is great for reading web pages and watching videos. But it has also become a very potent, very cool device for being creative.
Its creative use cases range from a DJ kit -- that's iPad DJ Rana Sobhany pictured -- to a tool for making amazing illustrations and music.
And app developers and artists are creating new uses all the time. Let us know if we've missed something cool.
360desktop extends your Windows® desktop as a user generated, photo-panoramic space and delivers a personalized web, free of the browser, into a virtually unlimited desktop.
Zimbra for hosting enterprise-class e-mail, Amazon's S3 for offsite disk storage, basecamphq.com for project management, Concur for expense reporting, and Jive Software's Clearspace for document and workflow management.
resources and tools to be more productive on the web. Due to popular demand, we’ve brought all these lists together into one gigantic meta-list: 5000+ Resources to Do Just About Anything Online.
m:lab East Africa is the region’s new incubation facility for entrepreneurs and innovators with a focus on mobile technology. The lab aims to facilitate demand-driven innovation by local and regional entrepreneurs, ensuring that breakthrough low-cost, high-value mobile solutions can be developed and scaled-up into sustainable entreprises that address social and economic needs. The facility’s services include business incubation, training, consumer research and application testing. The facility will also assist developers and entrepreneurs to access capital for scale up of their innovations as well as to access markets and business partnerships. The lab’s activities are aimed at helping to make the East Africa region a global hub for mobile innovation.
A collection of screenshots encompassing some of the best, most beautiful looking Android apps.
Aiming to provide inspiration and insight into Android UI conventions.
The iBase App allows you to search and retrieve millions of academic open access documents within BASE, one of the world's most voluminous search engines for academic documents like preprints, journal articles, theses, etc..
AppFurnace provides everything you need to transform your cool designs into hot apps!
You get your own set of online, logically designed tools that will inspire you to design, build, test, publish and track mobile apps yourself.
We host all of your work and when you are ready to publish we provide you with a fully packaged app for you to submit to the App Stores. (Apple App Store now, Android coming soon).
Themen-Special: Apps für die Radtour: Das Smartphone mit der passenden App ist weitaus handlicher als herkömmliche Radwanderkarten, zeichnet Touren auf, stärkt die Fitness und warnt rechtzeitig vor Regenschauern. Die Apps sind aber nicht nur beim Radfahren, sondern auch beim Wandern und bei anderen sportlichen Aktivitäten nützlich.
Google Apps Status Dashboard enables users and businesses to monitor the status of individual Google Apps services. Users of Google Apps can now view the status of individual services such as Gmail/Google Mail, Google Calendar, Google Talk, Google Docs, Google Sites and Google Video for businesses. Administrators of Google Apps Premier Edition, Standard Edition, Partner and Education Edition can also view status of the Admin Control Panel.
TightVNC is a free remote control software package derived from the popular VNC software. With TightVNC, you can see the desktop of a remote machine and control it with your local mouse and keyboard, just like you would do it sitting in the front of that
WebOS is a virtual operating system that runs in your web browser. More precisely, it’s a set of applications running in a web browser that together mimic, replace or largely supplement a desktop OS environment.
Themen-Special: Pfiffige Android-Apps: Android-Smartphones und -Tablets sind zwar gut mit Software ausgestattet. Zusatz-Apps machen die mobilen Geräte jedoch noch vielseitiger und komfortabler.
BlogDesk is totaly free of charge and optimized for the blog systems WordPress, MovableType, Drupal, Serendipity and ExpressionEngine as well as the bloghosters Blogg.de and Twoday.net.
The QlikView Business Discovery platform delivers true self-service business intelligence that empowers business users and drives innovative decision making
ConceptNet is a freely available commonsense knowledgebase and natural-language-processing toolkit which supports many practical textual-reasoning tasks over real-world documents right out-of-the-box (without additional statistical training) including
"ClipboardPath" software adds a new command "Copy Path to Clipboard" to the context menu for files and folders. Pasting the complete filename or foldername into any dialog or editor is just a mouse click away. You always get the full path. This software is free for end users.