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Station Web App Organizer
Web-based applications are great, but web browsers are not built for them. That’s where Station comes in. Available for Windows and MacOS, it organizes your web apps in one place, with unified search and notifications. It already supports over 300 services.
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DIY 3D Printed Letter Board
Agustin Flowalistik made a fully 3D-printed letter board that looks nearly as clean and solid as one made from off-the-shelf materials. He’s sharing his 3D models for free. The set includes four different board sizes; subscribe to his Patreon and you’ll get access to the source files.
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Jauntful DIY City Guides
Jauntful lets you make online city guides and browse user-made ones for free. It’s great for helping out visiting loved ones or planning your own trips. It can also format guides into print-friendly versions.
Shubaloo Concert Directory
In the mood for live music? Check out Shubaloo, a brilliantly streamlined online directory for concerts. It lets you search by location or specific venues as well as music genres, stream artists’ tracks from YouTube and of course buy tickets.
Roadeo
Made by Bernhard Handler, Roadeo is a racing game with an odd twist: instead of two cars going head-to-head, it pits a car against the road it’s on. It has both versus and co-op multiplayer modes.
Album Reminder
Album Reminder is a godsend for music junkies. Just add your favorite artists and it’ll send you an email whenever any of them comes out with a new album. You can also subscribe via RSS.
UFO On Tape (Game)
A simple game for Windows by Nicolai Troshinsky. Use the mouse to keep the UFO in your camera’s sights for as long as you can. No word if the aliens have lasers. Download it for free at GameJolt.
Mouse Jiggler
Mouse Jiggler is a simple program that fakes mouse input. Useful if you’re watching movies, installing software, or reading on your computer and you don’t want the screensaver to kick in.
Lifehacker Windows Pack 2010
Whether you just got a new PC or you’re looking for free and useful programs, Lifehacker’s Windows Pack 2010 has got you covered, from productivity tools to media apps.
Portal is Free
If you never played Portal, or just forgot how much fun it was, great news. The guys at VALVe are giving the game away for free for both PC and Mac. One catch – you need to grab it by 5/24.
Desktop Wallpaper Project
Check out the Desktop Wallpaper Project at art and design blog Kitsune Noir for some of the best wallpapers you’ll ever see, pre-formatted for PCs, the iPhone, PSP and even the iPad.
U.S. Army iPhone App
The U.S. Army goes mobile with the release of its own iPhone app; it’s surprisingly not FUBAR’d thanks to a nifty Fact Files area that supplies news on weapons, equipment, and vehicles.
Poster: Brand Alphabet
Benson Chou revamps the classic Brand Alphabet with his own 21st-century version that includes everything from Facebook to DC Shoes; download the 11×17 poster free here.
The Company of Myself
The Company of Myself is a platform puzzler in the vein of Braid and Winterbottom that mixes time travel and cloning; we just can’t decide if it’s singly multiplayer or multiply single player.
Zombie Outbreak Sim
Even a heavily-armed DC is no match for the undead hordes in this Zombie Outbreak Sim; this Google Maps mash-up lets you tweak everything from zombie speed to infection time.
Free: Atari Arcade
It’s coin-op/cartridge goodness, minus the coins or cartridges; Atari Arcade lets you play six classic games for free, including Asteroids, Adventure, Battlezone, and Lunar Lander.
Free Book: Shatnerquake
Priceline Shatner would name his own price, but you can’t beat Shatnerquake author Jeff Burk’s offer: his bizarro-cool sci-fi opus about alt-universe Shatners will be free on his website 11/17.
MacHeist nanoBundle
It’s not MacHeist 4, but the nanoBundle includes six apps worth $154 (Hordes of Orcs, Twitterific) for free; the sixth app, Mariner Write, will be released when 500k bundles are downloaded.
App Installer: Ninite
Making the jump from XP or Vista to Windows 7 with a clean slate? Ninite graciously provides gain without pain with a one-click install of an ever-expanding suite of must-have apps.
Free: Xenogears ReMixed
We always love freebies, but Xenogears ReMixed goes beyond awesome: based on Yasunori Mitsuda’s original Xenogears music, it’s reconceived by no less than 32 musicians.
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