2. Socso

If you are deeply into music, then it is time that you had your own music server. Enter socso - the free Java based application , which will create a home based server for you in a matter of few steps only.After that your PC will become the medium through which music can be streamed , so that others around t5he world can happily tune in by using myriad web based technologies.The system also can prove beneficial when you have too many computer systems working at your home or office - you can have all the music files stored in one computer, while the other PC's and laptops can connect to it, when ever they7 need to groove to a tune.

That way you end up saving your valuable disc space. The system will support music files of the types -MP3 , OGG Vorbis, Flacand WMA.


3. Zemanta

For many of us blogging has now become a way of life. But coming up with coherent , informative posts and images turn out to be cumbersome chore. How about having your own assistant to help you with your blogging activities! Zemanta fulfils that.It is a software which is compatible with many of the blogging platforms such as Wordpress , Flickr , etc.

Once you have installed it, as a plug in to you favorite browser, Zemanta will work quietly in the background to ensure that you get easy access to relevant information pertaining to your blog post that you are creating.

4. Scratch

How about trying to create some animated cartoons , small video games or other interactive artworks! You can all do this even if you don't know a bit of flash and coding.

All you need to do is to visit this website :
http://scratch.mit.edu . Scratch has a Set of informative tools through which people without any computer programming skills can create animations. Just download the free software from the site and get started .

With its comprehensive menu based system , scratch is eminently easy to use.

You can either upload images from your own computer or you can use the ones that already exist In the scratch library.

5. Fast Stone


The advent of the digital age has surely made it easy for us to go on a image capturing spree.So how many of these images are really of good quality!You may not be able to shoot like a Pro, but there are other ways by which you can enhance the quality of you pictures.For instance , there is a software called FastStone which does do just about everything you would expect from an image viewer.

You can crop , resize, fix red eye, adjust image tone and do so much else.All this is available for free.

6. Project Gutenberg

This website is having over 33000 e book editions of the books.You even don't need to register in the website and just need to open it and you can start downloading the books which could be read on you PC , notebook, ipad , iPhone or any other portable device.

7. Internet archive



Ah Nostalgia! Reminiscing the good old days is such an enjoyable way of passing time. Hoe about reminiscing the websites as they were a decade ago or what did Google look like 10 years ago, a period of time when the i9Internet was still in its stone age era?

Only internet archive has the answer.The mission of internet archive is to back up the entire internet.As of now it has more than 3 petabytes of information in its servers, that's 85 billion web pages. A mind boggling number you will have to agree.


8. Kiva

This is one of those websites , which re dedicated to letting you pick up the role of a good Samaritan.Out here you can do some micro lending of your own and contribute to the cause of alleviating poverty.There are so many people around the world who are in need of sums as small as 25$. Kiva introduces you to them. As of now the website claims to have a default rate of less than 3%.In 97% of the cases, the lenders got their money back.Kiva is a charity and not a broker, so you don't get any interest on the money you have lent; What you do is get the feeling of having done something help a fellow human being.
Till now Kiva has facilitated a loans of more than $100 million.

9 . Moodturn
When you are totally stressed about the one thing or the other, a tryst with MoodTurn might go a long way helping you calm down.This is a website that promises to turn your mood by playing soothing music , which conjures visions of sublime nature , while visuals of nature scenes are playing on the screen. MoodTurn has already become a source o9f succour to thousands of employees.


10. Craigslist

The classifieds out here are divided into different categories.So if you are looking for a job in Bangalore , then you go to the Bangalore section of the website and there you have to browse though the jobs category.Much of the service that you get here is free of cost, and the website is not averse to receiving donations from users.


11. Zwaggle

The truth is that most of us own items which might not be of much use to us anymore .However, we have no idea how to donate these items to people who are in need . That is where websites like Zwaggle comes in. Out here you can log in and find ways of giving away your superfluous items to needy denizens of the world.