iPad: The Khan Academy provides over 3,000 free educational videos, exercises, and lectures covering the span of everything from math, physics, finance, and history. It’s one of our favorite places to get a free education online , and now its complete library is available on-the-go on your iPad. More »
If you’ve long been annoyed by the 20MB limit in the iOS App Store, get ready to be slightly less-annoyed! Apple’s just raised the limit to 50MB, making way for larger apps on your 3G—and soon-to-be 4G LTE iPad—connection. No limit would be nice, but I suppose that’s what jailbreaking is for. Happy up-to-50MB downloading! More »
Windows is great. The way Windows installs applications, however, is an out-of-date mess, adding local dependencies and unnecessary cruft to your system. In this day and age, there’s no reason to stick with Windows’ antediluvian default. What’s the alternative? Using portable apps, you can install an app once, have all of the necessary files in one place, and even sync its settings across different machines with Dropbox. Handy, right? Here’s how it works, and why you should do it. More »
Docracy is a free web service that not only provides legal documents for anything from a non-disclosure agreement to an apartment lease (and more), but it also lets you sign the documents as well. More »
Email inboxes can get full of newsletters, subscriptions, and other useless junk pretty easily. Just because you ordered a sweater three years from a store doesn’t mean you need to continue getting a catalog from the company. Unsubscribr scans your email box for newsletters and unsubscribes you quickly and easily. More »
Android: Last week, we discussed Circuit Playground for iOS, a comprehensive electronics reference manual. Android users can get in on the action with ElectroDroid, a collection of electronic reference information and tools available now in the Android App Market. More »
Mac OS X: iBoostUp cleans out the crap on your drive and fine-tunes your system for better performance. It’s simple, it’s quick, and it’s free. More »
