Get turn-by-turn directions and crowdsourced traffic information with Waze [Daily Freeware]

If you have a smartphone, there’s a very high probability that it has GPS built into it. This can be used for a lot of different functions, though one of the most basic is getting directions from point A to B. Unfortunately a lot of turn-by-turn navigation apps cost a good bit of money. But why pay for something, when there’s a free alternative out there?

Waze is an interesting navigation app that uses crowdsourcing for information. Just by turning on the app and driving, the app learns about roads, routes and traffic conditions. If someone else is using the app on a road that you’re planning on using, you can be notified if there is slow-moving traffic. You can also mark speed traps, accident locations, and more, just with a couple of taps. Like any good navigation software, Waze will guide you to your destination using turn-by-turn voice commands, in addition to the on-screen map. Just make sure that you’ve got a way to mount and charge the device while you’re using it in the car. You can download it to your iOS, Android, Blackberry or Nokia phone.

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Watch YouTube clips without your web browser [Daily Freeware]

When you want to listen to a specific song that you don’t own, what do you generally do? Pirating the song isn’t the best answer here. Generally the best legal thing you can do is head over to YouTube and punch in the song’s title. Maybe you have a bunch of songs on YouTube that you want to listen to. For that, you can create a playlist, but managing that inside of a browser can be a bit annoying sometimes. So why not use a dedicated program for listening to YouTube videos?

That’s exactly the idea behind YTubePlayer. This standalone program was designed to play videos from the popular site. You can choose to watch the videos, or simply minimize them into a small set of controls, much like you would find in other media players. You can then queue up a group of songs or a whole web series and watch them in succession. Definitely a neat concept.

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Digital Pillbox helps you keep track of your medication regimen [Daily Freeware]

If you, or someone in your house has a pill regimen that they have to take on a daily basis, it can be hard to keep track of them. Some are to be taken every few hours, while others are at specific times of day, and there are some that you can’t take at the same time as another. That’s why there are pill boxes out there with alarms to remind you at the appropriate time. However, what if you’re not sitting at home when you need to take a dose? Well now you can use your phone to keep track of such things.

While it wouldn’t be terribly difficult to set a number of alarms on your phone, this Digital Pillbox app will be more useful. If you’re carrying a box of pills with you, it might be hard to remember which one is which. you could always keep individually labeled bottles, but that would take up a lot more room than a small multi pill box. This app lets you take photos of each pill type, and when your alarm goes off, you’ll see a picture of the one you need to take. You’ll even be able to make your own database of pills, creams, and more. This allows you to easily create new schedules for each, without having to go back in and reprogram each one. Currently it is only available on the Android Market, but should be available for iOS devices soon.

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Digital Pillbox helps you keep track of your medication regimen [Daily Freeware]

If you, or someone in your house has a pill regimen that they have to take on a daily basis, it can be hard to keep track of them. Some are to be taken every few hours, while others are at specific times of day, and there are some that you can’t take at the same time as another. That’s why there are pill boxes out there with alarms to remind you at the appropriate time. However, what if you’re not sitting at home when you need to take a dose? Well now you can use your phone to keep track of such things.

While it wouldn’t be terribly difficult to set a number of alarms on your phone, this Digital Pillbox app will be more useful. If you’re carrying a box of pills with you, it might be hard to remember which one is which. you could always keep individually labeled bottles, but that would take up a lot more room than a small multi pill box. This app lets you take photos of each pill type, and when your alarm goes off, you’ll see a picture of the one you need to take. You’ll even be able to make your own database of pills, creams, and more. This allows you to easily create new schedules for each, without having to go back in and reprogram each one. Currently it is only available on the Android Market, but should be available for iOS devices soon.

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StrokesPlus lets you assign shortcuts to mouse gestures [Daily Freeware]

When you need to copy text from one place and paste it to another, how do you go about it? Do you highlight the words, then right-click, then click ?copy,? then right-click again in in your text field and hit ?paste?? Or perhaps you go up to the Edit menu and select ?copy? from there. I’m going to bet that most of the time you do neither of these things. Instead, you probably press Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V, because it takes a lot less effort. Now what if you could take that same concept, and apply it to mouse gestures? With StrokesPlus, you can.

Maybe you work in an environment where it’s easier to simply use a mouse, rather than sitting at a desk with a keyboard in front of you as well. Or it could be that someone only has use of one hand, and doesn’t want to have to switch between both input devices. Whatever the reason, StrokesPlus allows you to assign shortcuts like copy and paste to mouse gestures. You can teach the software any gesture that you like, and assign a variety of tasks to that gesture. When you’re ready to carry out one of those functions, just hold down your gesture button (this can be assigned any button on your mouse, or even keyboard) and draw the gesture that you created. It can be something simple like drawing a line from left to right, or a letter of the alphabet. This is certainly one of the more interesting accessibility programs that I’ve come across in a while.

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Watch YouTube clips without your web browser [Daily Freeware]

When you want to listen to a specific song that you don’t own, what do you generally do? Pirating the song isn’t the best answer here. Generally the best legal thing you can do is head over to YouTube and punch in the song’s title. Maybe you have a bunch of songs on YouTube that you want to listen to. For that, you can create a playlist, but managing that inside of a browser can be a bit annoying sometimes. So why not use a dedicated program for listening to YouTube videos?

That’s exactly the idea behind YTubePlayer. This standalone program was designed to play videos from the popular site. You can choose to watch the videos, or simply minimize them into a small set of controls, much like you would find in other media players. You can then queue up a group of songs or a whole web series and watch them in succession. Definitely a neat concept.

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JustSubsPlayer can add subtitles to any video [Daily Freeware]

Those of us with good hearing often take things like watching videos for granted. Thankfully most movies and TV shows have the option for Closed Captioning, which translates the dialogue to on-screen text. However, this doesn’t always apply to videos watched online. Thankfully there is a program that can assist you with adding captions to existing videos.

JustSubsPlayer is a neat piece of freeware that will allow you to integrate subtitles onto any video, provided that you can find the subtitles somewhere. If you know where to look, you can find .srt files, which contain subtitles for a variety of videos. Just plug the right file into the program, and you’ll be able to position the subtitles anywhere on the screen. This also works great for foreign films that might not have official translations in your language. The hardest part will be finding the captions to use.

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Install Plan B after you lose your Android phone to track it down [Daily Freeware]

Smartphones can do so many wonderful tasks, and these days most of us would feel lost without our favorite mobile device. Unfortunately, sometimes you lose track of your phone. Maybe it slipped out of your pocket when you were in a cab, or perhaps someone swiped it from your table at the coffee shop. Whatever the case, you can at least be comforted, since you installed tracking software on your phone. Wait, you didn’t? Well if you have an Android device, there’s still hope.

Plan B is a tracking app for your Android phone that is meant to be installed after your phone has been lost. Just login to the Android Marketplace and tell this app to remotely download to your phone. Within minutes, you’ll receive emails detailing the phone’s current location. It’s always best to install tracking software before there’s a problem, but it looks like this might be a good solution in case you forget.

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We The Lobby uses crowdfunding to lobby for non-corporate causes [Daily Freeware]

During the last few months, and especially in recent weeks there has been a lot of talk about SOPA and PIPA. Thankfully these bills, which had the potential to destroy the open internet as we know it, have been shelved. Of course, that doesn’t mean that they won’t be brought up again at a later time. What’s sad is that when you look behind these proposed pieces of legislature, you find little more than a group of lobbyists funded by large corporations. So how do everyday people fight this? By banding together and lobbying as a collective group.

A site called We The Lobby has cropped up in hopes to combat corporate lobbying. The idea is to use crowdfunding to receive representation for various causes. Think of it as Kickstarter for lobbying. Someone proposes a cause that they believe needs a voice, and they set an amount needed. People pledge to back it, and if enough backers are found, they will partner with another lobbying group with a similar interest, and fight for your cause. It’s definitely an interesting idea, and worth checking out.

We The Lobby uses crowdfunding to lobby for non-corporate causes

During the last few months, and especially in recent weeks there has been a lot of talk about SOPA and PIPA. Thankfully these bills, which had the potential to destroy the open internet as we know it, have been shelved. Of course, that doesn’t mean that they won’t be brought up again at a later time. What’s sad is that when you look behind these proposed pieces of legislature, you find little more than a group of lobbyists funded by large corporations. So how do everyday people fight this? By banding together and lobbying as a collective group.

A site called We The Lobby has cropped up in hopes to combat corporate lobbying. The idea is to use crowdfunding to receive representation for various causes. Think of it as Kickstarter for lobbying. Someone proposes a cause that they believe needs a voice, and they set an amount needed. People pledge to back it, and if enough backers are found, they will partner with another lobbying group with a similar interest, and fight for your cause. It’s definitely an interesting idea, and worth checking out.
http://www.wethelobby.com/

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JustSubsPlayer can add subtitles to any video [Daily Freeware]

Those of us with good hearing often take things like watching videos for granted. Thankfully most movies and TV shows have the option for Closed Captioning, which translates the dialogue to on-screen text. However, this doesn’t always apply to videos watched online. Thankfully there is a program that can assist you with adding captions to existing videos.

JustSubsPlayer is a neat piece of freeware that will allow you to integrate subtitles onto any video, provided that you can find the subtitles somewhere. If you know where to look, you can find .srt files, which contain subtitles for a variety of videos. Just plug the right file into the program, and you’ll be able to position the subtitles anywhere on the screen. This also works great for foreign films that might not have official translations in your language. The hardest part will be finding the captions to use.

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We The Lobby uses crowdfunding to lobby for non-corporate causes [Daily Freeware]

During the last few months, and especially in recent weeks there has been a lot of talk about SOPA and PIPA. Thankfully these bills, which had the potential to destroy the open internet as we know it, have been shelved. Of course, that doesn’t mean that they won’t be brought up again at a later time. What’s sad is that when you look behind these proposed pieces of legislature, you find little more than a group of lobbyists funded by large corporations. So how do everyday people fight this? By banding together and lobbying as a collective group.

A site called We The Lobby has cropped up in hopes to combat corporate lobbying. The idea is to use crowdfunding to receive representation for various causes. Think of it as Kickstarter for lobbying. Someone proposes a cause that they believe needs a voice, and they set an amount needed. People pledge to back it, and if enough backers are found, they will partner with another lobbying group with a similar interest, and fight for your cause. It’s definitely an interesting idea, and worth checking out.

We The Lobby uses crowdfunding to lobby for non-corporate causes

During the last few months, and especially in recent weeks there has been a lot of talk about SOPA and PIPA. Thankfully these bills, which had the potential to destroy the open internet as we know it, have been shelved. Of course, that doesn’t mean that they won’t be brought up again at a later time. What’s sad is that when you look behind these proposed pieces of legislature, you find little more than a group of lobbyists funded by large corporations. So how do everyday people fight this? By banding together and lobbying as a collective group.

A site called We The Lobby has cropped up in hopes to combat corporate lobbying. The idea is to use crowdfunding to receive representation for various causes. Think of it as Kickstarter for lobbying. Someone proposes a cause that they believe needs a voice, and they set an amount needed. People pledge to back it, and if enough backers are found, they will partner with another lobbying group with a similar interest, and fight for your cause. It’s definitely an interesting idea, and worth checking out.
http://www.wethelobby.com/

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Install Plan B after you lose your Android phone to track it down [Daily Freeware]

Smartphones can do so many wonderful tasks, and these days most of us would feel lost without our favorite mobile device. Unfortunately, sometimes you lose track of your phone. Maybe it slipped out of your pocket when you were in a cab, or perhaps someone swiped it from your table at the coffee shop. Whatever the case, you can at least be comforted, since you installed tracking software on your phone. Wait, you didn’t? Well if you have an Android device, there’s still hope.

Plan B is a tracking app for your Android phone that is meant to be installed after your phone has been lost. Just login to the Android Marketplace and tell this app to remotely download to your phone. Within minutes, you’ll receive emails detailing the phone’s current location. It’s always best to install tracking software before there’s a problem, but it looks like this might be a good solution in case you forget.

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Tubalr gives you a cleaner interface for watching YouTube music videos [Daily Freeware]

YouTube is one of of the most revolutionary websites to come out of the last decade. It gave us the ability to not only share new video creations of our own, but to watch commercially-produced videos any time we wanted. Of course, it took a long time for the record labels to agree to have their music videos on the site legally (with advertisements and such), but now it’s pretty easy to find most songs that you want. When there’s a specific song that I want to hear, and I don’t own it, I usually look it up on YouTube. It’s pretty easy to do, but there’s a lot of annoying clutter to deal with.

Tublar takes the fun of watching music videos, and gives you a simple, streamlined interface. Just type in an artist or song, and you’ll be taken to a page with a playlist, and the first video will begin playing. You’ll see the rest of the playlist on your right. You can even have it make a playlist based on similar artists. Once one song finishes, it will go straight onto the next. I’ve noticed that it does tend to skip songs now and then, presumably because the video is unavailable. If you want to buy one of the tracks, just hit the ?i? button, and you’ll be given a link to the artist’s page on Amazon.

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Steam for Android gives you the power of Steam on your phone [Daily Freeware]

If you’re a PC gamer, then there’s a very good chance that you’ve used Steam. For those not familiar, Steam is a platform that was designed by Valve to make buying, downloading and playing games as easy as possible. With great sales and plenty of features, there are few reasons not to use it. One of my only complaints is that Valve has yet to release a companion app for any mobile platforms. Thankfully, one company has decided to release their own unofficial app for Android devices.

Steam for Android appears to be a pretty complete experience, allowing you to do practically everything that the PC client can. Well, except actually buying and playing games, that is. You can check your achievements, look at the current sales, see what your friends are doing, and more. I still wouldn’t mind seeing an official app from Valve that added chat and the ability to buy games, but this one is nice in the meantime.

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Winter Wake Up app rouses you earlier when it has snowed [Daily Freeware]

It never fails. You forget to check the weather, and your alarm goes off in the morning at the same time as always. Then you get up, grab a cup of coffee and look out the window to see it. Snow. Lots and lots of snow. Quickly, you throw on your clothes, pull on your boots, gloves and hat, and grab the shovel, in hopes of getting your driveway cleared before you have to leave. And even if you manage to get all of that done, you’re still late to work because of the bad roads. Wouldn’t it be great if your alarm was smart enough to wake you up early when it snows? Now it can.

Thanks to the Winter Wake Up app, you can be sure that you’re ahead of the curve when there’s snow on the ground. The app keeps an eye on your location, and checks the weather in your area. If it detects that there has been frost or snow overnight, it will wake you up a bit earlier, so you can clear your driveway and scrape off your car. You can choose just how early you want to be woken up for each of these events. And if the weather is too bad, you can choose to not be woken up at all. Though I would use that setting with caution unless you have a really cool boss. This free app is available on both Android and iOS platforms.

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