free mac software and free online games or casual game downloads

Answer questions to find out what you’ve been wanting to know your whole life: what kind of donut are you? I KNOW you’ve been dying to know.

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Very cool kaleidoscope toy.

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Beckon the creative artist in you or vent your frustrations or love with this Jackson Pollack painting generator. My painting is called, “Brain Swimming in Over Chlorinated Pool in Brentwood California.”

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You know how some people can talk up a storm and it sounds relatively erudite but don’t really say much at all in reality? YOU CAN TOO. Just use this educational jargon generator and waste people’s time or write a kick ass grant application.

jargon generator

I featured the download version of this free dress up game but now there’s an online flash version!

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From Treehugger:

“The sci-fi action and adventure video game Escape from Diab should help prevent kids from becoming obese and developing diabetes and other related illnesses.

In the game, the player fights along Deejab and Delinda against evil King Etes to turn the city of Diab back into the Golden City. The King has gotten rid of any exercise opportunity in the city and instead is feeding the population unlimited amounts of free junk food. The only way to win the fight is by making healthy lifestyle choices, such as eating right and exercising, in order to defeat King Etes and his guards.

Escape from Diab was developed by Archimage in Texas, in collaboration with the Children’s Nutrition Research Center of Houston’s Baylor College of Medicine. The video game, due to be release next year, can be played on the web, PCs, handhelds and Nintendo’s Gamecube. Escape from Diab had been nominated for the INDEX: Award as well as the 2007 Webby Award. To get a feeling of the game and meet the characters, watch the trailer.

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Take the classic IQ test. Are you scared?

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This may not be that fun for some of you, but this online illustrated dictionary is very cool to me. Often times it just takes a few graphics (or one) to break up a bunch of text, and that makes it easier to digest. Here’s the new Merriam Webster Visual Dictionary.

Now go learn something

Ever dream about having your picture on the cover of magazines like Rolling Stone, People, Time, Vogue, Sports Illustrated, National Geographic, Fortune, and even PLAYBOY? Now’s your chance. All you do is upload you photo and voila!

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Today is America’s Recycling Day. You didn’t know that, did you? Do you care? If you don’t care, we can’t be friends and well, you are most likely a PIG. Your piggy-ness aside, try to learn something every day, WILL you? Don’t be an ignoramus. This game could teach you something very useful and very good for the planet. That means doing something good for you, your friends, your family for generations to come. You really should care about it.

If you don’t care, you need to be slapped with a very, very, very large trout.

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Mom always said never play with your food but forget that. Play with this cute alphabet soup message generator.

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Cool and definitely groovy snowflake generator.

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[via neatorama]

It lets you download your friends’ playlists, lets you add a now playing box to your blog, downloads cover art and helps manage your music.

Hook Up With Friends: See your friends’ tracks, playlists and what they’re currently playing. Your dynamic music profile lets you compare collections so you can see just how compatible you are. With BOINK you can add a now playing box to your blog or mySpace that changes with every track you play.

Find Playlists You Can Play: BOINK lets you download your friends’ playlists. It automatically tells you the tracks you can play based on what’s in your collection. Create new playlists and swap with your friends.

Enjoy Your Music: BOINK adds the missing cover art to your ripped tracks automatically as you listen. Hot-keys give you better control, and a pop-up window tells you what you are playing. You can view discography, look up lyrics and find new music based on what you like. Don’t like the track you’re playing - one click fast-forwards and un-checks the track so you won’t hear it again.

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This is an online version of the magnets of letters for your frig but it’s a white online board. Drag your letters to create your own note. It’s a community thing so your letters might be stolen before you can spell out your message! Look at the bottom left to see how many people are online and dragging letters.

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Online paint program. Fun.

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Download events and exciting happenings in more than 300 cities worldwide to your beloved iPod. This comes in particularly handy when you go to places like Berlin, Los Angeles or other large city, where you have little info on what’s going on. There are current events so download the files as late as possible before you leave for that city. You can also download movies and movie times, which is a very cool feature. It’s free but you have to register to be able to use the site.

Note: This doesn’t work with 1st and 2nd generation iPods. Your iPod needs to have the “Notes” mode in order to access all this info. And there are no maps except for the extra features that are available for mobile phones and pda’s.

Pod City Guides

Another fun online game with a little green nose in a place called Slugland - in search of flowers for sustenance, which, by the way, you must help it collect so that you can reach the next level. by Radical Play

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Cute version of online tetris from Japan. (click on second orange box from the top right “tofu game”)

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SplashBlog lets you instantly publish photos from your camera phone to an online photo blog to share with others. Just install the software on your PDA or smartphone, create your free splashblog.com account and start photoblogging!

SplashBlog

From cavemonkey50:

If you run a blog from your own website, most likely you’re using WordPress. While WordPress is great by itself, the majority of WordPress’ usefulness comes from its plugins. Some of the best and most creative features come from plugins, and because plugins are so easy to create and install, there are literally hundreds of WordPress plugins.

If you’re new to WordPress, finding the perfect plugin is often a difficult task. Sometimes there are eight plugins that do the same thing, which makes it difficult to find the plugin which works the best. Or, you just simply don’t know that a plugin exists. That’s why I’m here to help.

I’ve been a WordPress user since the 1.0 days. During that time, I’ve seen my share of WordPress plugins. Some have failed, while others have evolved into essential features. From my experience, I hope that when you’re done reading this list, you’ll have some plugins that will not only make your life as blogger easier, but that your visitors will find your site more useful.

The Top Ten WordPress Plugins

New place where you can chat about whatever, right from a website. You can ask friends to meet you at Gabbly if you’re on a public computer that does not allow instant messaging applications. That way, you can chat from the browser.

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An HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly.

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InstantFeed allows you to receive any web feed (RSS or Atom) via all major IM carriers including MSN Messenger, Jabber, AIM and ICQ. You can add the InstantFeed Button to your bookmark toolbar and let InstantFeed auto-discover feeds on any page or login and add the feeds you want to monitor manually.

InstantFeed

From the BlogBurst site:

How does BlogBurst work?

BlogBurst is an opt-in wire service for bloggers and publishers.

1. You sign up and tell us about your blog, then blog as usual
2. We promote your blog in our publisher workbench
3. Our top-tier publishers display your blog content on their sites
4. Clicks on your byline drive new traffic to your blog

What do you get out of this?

* Visibility and exposure on major news and portal sites
* Traffic through attribution and links back to your blog
* Authority and credibility within your topic area
* New readers who wouldn’t normally find out about your blog
* The opportunity to take your blog to the next level

What kinds of blogs are we looking for?

Our partner publishers are most interested in blogs that are updated frequently and contain well written, topically focused content — stuff that would be appropriate to appear on a major online destination.
Current hot topics (we’ll consider others):

* Travel
* Women’s Issues
* Technology & Gadgets
* Food & Entertainment
* Local Metros

Blog Requirements:

* Full text syndication feed in RSS or Atom; most common blogging systems will work fine
* At least weekly posting
* No advertising in your feed (for now)
* Family-friendly language and content
* Distinct, intelligent writing style

What makes BlogBurst unique?

BlogBurst is the first and only service that combines people and technology for the purpose of presenting blog content on major online properties. We have a growing roster of top-tier publishers ready to tap into the rich, diverse content that the blogosphere offers.

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