My word how school life has changed! At the risk of giving my age away I was at school in the days before even photocopiers were a widespread part of a teacher’s kit. I can still remember the smell of the duplicating ink on the History hand-outs. As for the excuses about why a particularly nasty piece of homework was missing well, leaving it on the bus was about as original as I got. It follows then that a site like Schoolrack would have seemed as far away as a manned expedition to Mars but educational software has now got one ... Read more
You must have heard about GarageBand. It's Apple's glorious music creator that has been around for a little while now. Well now it's available for iPad iPod Touch and iPhone and, without doubt, I have to say that it is one of Apple's finest creations. For those not aware, GarageBand gives you an array of tools that allow you to play copious amounts of instruments, record music and even jam with friends. What's more, you can play wherever you have an Internet connection and whenever you want. Whether you’re a musical prodigy or just love creating your own walls ... Read more
For people of a certain age who considered the whiteboard replacing the blackboard and chalk as a bit of a revolution in the classroom, look away now! Collaborize Classroom has taken student participation and homework to another level, and what’s more it’s free. Read more
Wreck A Movie is like a big community where all the elements of the movie-making experience can come together to make the business of filmmaking a simpler and less complicated one. Here is a movie collaboration tool that manages to blend the Internet community with the film industry. Wreck A Movie is a movie collaboration tool that specializes in blending the Internet and the film industry together by unleashing the creative potential of Internet communities and changing the whole chain of filmmaking. It unleashes the creative potential of Internet communities and changes the whole chain of filmmaking. It's parent ... Read more
When it comes to business or simply personal activities, it is important to really take organization into the biggest consideration possible. From school students to corporate managers, rule number 1 for their success is based on order and organization. Several psychological studies have proven that these two aspects are pretty much a key for anyone to reach their maximum analysis capacity. Therefore, when someone gets to be very organized and ordered in their job or school, things start to look a lot easier than they did. This is the reason why some people find some subjects very hard; due to ... Read more
If you are looking for a management app for business that tackles all the obvious organizational projects as well as having full integration with Google Docs and Evernote than it would be hard to go past Peletonics. You wouldn't be alone as their services are also used by huge companies like Warner Bros, Intel, IBM, Cisco, Jeld-Wen and MIT to name just a few. Read more
If you have worked on a collaborative document with someone in another country or workspace you'll know all about how frustrating it is sending emails back and forth. ThinkFold goes some way to addressing those problems. This collaborative thinking tool puts an end to back and forth emailing, multiple document versions, unstructured wiki pages and confusing planning tools with this simple, easy to use structured thinking tool. Read more
Collabor8Online is a very clever cloud-based online project management collaboration tool. It enables you to share your desktop project with colleagues and clients without them seeing any other projects you may be working on. Collabor8online allows you to create a “workspace” or “online folder” for any project, event, client or team and invite colleagues, contacts or clients to join. Anyone you invite from another organisation doesn’t need to “have” Collabor8 online; you’re effectively inviting them to “your” Collabor8 environment. A “workspace” is made up of folders (just like the ones you create on your desktop), simple security measures make ... Read more
How do you communicate with your work colleagues, customers and business partners all at the same time? Well there's Facebook, of course, but there's so many distractions in there which tends to take people away from their intended place. So how about if you had a social network that was purely for your company? Lumoflow is pretty well just that. A private Facebook for your company and partners. Read more
Okay, hands up who knows what a gantt is? If you dont know then the chances are you won't need this excellent project collaboration tool. If you do know what a gantt is read on because TeamGantt is one of the easiest ways to create a schedule for your project, track your progress and invite others to collaborate with you. For the uninitiated, a gantt chart is a type of bar chart that illustrates a project schedule. TeamGantt is a seriously collaborative online tool that makes project management easy. It helps you create beautiful gantt charts as well as ... Read more