Now Play It brings you simple lessons on how to play your favourite songs – sometimes even taught by the performers themselves.
Designed to provide busy, active travelers the ability to create a comprehensive journal of their adventures, Your Travel Journal gives you an online secure place to keep all of your photos while traveling, make unlimited journal entries and easily tell all your friends when you update your trip.
There’s Santa’s Naughty or Nice List where Santa with a little help from Mum and Dad can move your child's name from one list to the other plus Christmas games and activities including music and lyrics for family
singsongs.
Take a sneak at Santa’s Secret Village where you can write to Santa, read stories, enjoy Karaoke, send e-cards, find recipes, play games and even control a Disco Dancing Santa.
At Get Makeovers.com you can try a different hairstyle, change your eye colour, try out some new lipsticks, see which sunglasses suit you best, throw on a hat and much more.
Interpret your dreams from a dictionary of over 4000 keywords and 12,000 different meanings also visit the Dream Bank and search through dreams that have already been analysed.
From precision drivers to how dieting works, how to survive a grizzly bear attack to how do dual flush toilets work you’ll find all the answers at how stuff works.com
Browse the world for strange sitings of a floating man, a big ship parked between buildings and in Cervantes, Western Australia – could it be an alien landing pad the size of two football fields? See what you think at www.mapofstrange.com
PaperToys.com is packed with paper fold-up toys including a London taxi, Sydney Opera House,
the Space Shuttle and even Santa. Select a toy and download the template, cut it out and
glue it together!
With the PocketMod, you can carry around your notes, keep them organised in any way you wish,
then easily transfer them to your mobile or computer.
Elf Yourself is an interactive website that allows you to transform your
family into disco dancing elves and then email your friends.
Create 3D models of anything you can imagine, redecorate your living room, design a new piece of furniture or model a new city for Google Earth. Simply download the free software, create a model using the tools.
In most people’s minds a “Tarot card reading” means a woman in flowing robes, leaning over a small table in a candlelit room, foretelling impending doom well not any more, thanks to e-tarot cards.
Readymechs are free, flat pack toys that you can print and build. They are designed to fit on a standard A4 page and then printed from your computer.
Click on the new X Falling Sand link and then add lines and barriers for the sand to follow, fall down and collect. You can then add spouts of water, oil and even fire to your creation.
From directions on how to hook up a modem to carve a turkey, knit your first scarf or load your new iPod – you can now find all the answers online without the technical jargon at Dummies.com
Find out here what country best matches your sexuality, if you could survive another great depression and discover what type of person you are by taking the ‘snow test’.
Google takes aim squarely at Microsoft with the release of its new Web browser, Chrome. Even though it isn't jam-packed with features, Chrome rethinks the Web browser in a clever and convenient way.
iview is an exciting tate of the art, on demand website where you can catch-up on a range of ABC shows you may have missed delivered over five channels straight to your computer via your broadband connection.
Use the interactive map to find out where the hubble telescope is orbiting right now, check out the gallery its great discoveries from the past 15 years and even make your own scale model of the telescope.
Tour Eiffel is the official site of The Eiffel Tower and it boasts a 360 degree virtual visit where you use your mouse to spin the view from left to right, up and down as if you were standing there yourself.
Following in the ‘foot steps’ of the Iraqi television journalist who threw his size ten shoes at outgoing US president George Bush you can take aim and try it yourself.
Alcatraz was the final stop for the USA’s most dangerous inmates. Now from the safety of your computer you can read letters from inmates, re-live their daily routine, tour the prison and read about the 14 failed escape attempts.
Humanclock.com shows a photograph of the current time with the photo changing every minute of the day, all 1,440 occurring minutes!
Voted the UK’s best fun and games site for 2008, Zylom is packed full of games to play right from your desktop, both for Mac and Windows.
The original work of a Sweedish Flash developer Tomas Eriksson, this clever site lets you drag a 3D spider around your desktop, change it’s size, colour,
speed and leg thickness then feed it by clicking on the space bar to add insects around the screen.
Am I Right dot com has an archive of over 90,000 songs featuring a selection of misheard lyrics with the real lyrics side by side.
Second Life® is a 3-D virtual world created by its millions of residents from around the globe. From the moment you enter this cyber world you'll discover a vast digital continent full of people, entertainment, experiences and opportunities. .
Voted the best tv and radio website of last year, Discovery dot com brings you the exciting world of the Discovery Channel right to your computer.
Choose the genre – from r and b to regae, classical to disco and rock to funk, then the mood of the music and finally the era from where it should come to create your own interactive radio station.
Send a large attachment of up to 100meg free by email using Mail Big File.
The official site of the author of the outstanding Harry Potter series, J K Rowling. A fully interactive site where you can explore the latest Harry Potter news and extra material that’s not included in her books.
Sandlotscience dot com features the world's most mind-boggling and interactive live optical illusions, games, puzzles - one even features the new US president Barack Obama
Geocaching is a high-tech treasure hunting game played throughout the world by adventure seekers equipped with GPS devices. The basic idea is to locate hidden containers outdoors, called geocaches and then share your experiences online.
Mealopedia brings you a fresh, innovative way to decide on what to cook for dinner. This handy site helps you to create a fast weekly menu with a shopping list to match that will make your supermarket trips easier.
In simple terms, a blog is a web site, where you write stuff on an ongoing basis. New stuff shows up at the top, so your visitors can read it, comment on it, link to it or even email you.
Laugh Lab was created by Prof. Richard Wiseman and involved people sending in their favourite jokes from all over the world which resulted in over 40,000 jokes and 1.5 million ratings.
Free Rice, the sister site of Poverty dot com is basically a word quiz where for every question you get right they donate 10 grains of rice through the UN World Food Program.
Created by TV and film producers, Animoto lets you turn your best photos into stunning video in minutes. Fast, award-winning production values plus there's a library of over 200 free, commercially licensed songs to add mood to your production.
A simple site for translating text or even a whole web page into another language. Simply enter the text or the web address and choose the language – Chinese, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Spanish and more.
Ancestry dot com dot au boasts the world¹s largest collection of family history with more than 810 million names from over 100 countries in over 8 million family trees.
Next, if you have ever wanted to be like David Copperfield, Derren Brown or Chris Angel then here is a site packed full of card tricks and street magic.
Inspired By Chocolate is packed full of interesting and unique moulds for making your own creative chocolate gifts and party treats.
Based on the popular BBC TV series Spooks now showing in Australia on Foxtel, Facespook.co.uk puts you in a virtual fight against crime
and terrorism. This funky, interactive site lets you star in a short clip based on the new series of Spooks, Code 9.
Internetshout.com is a chat site with a difference, where you make
make as much noise as you like. The difference is that voice, rather
than text is used as the medium of communication
Kosmix lets you explore the Web by topic - presenting a dashboard of relevent videos,
photos, news, commentary, opinion, communities and links to related topics.
Qik dot com enables you to share your moments live right from your mobile phone!
You can share your travels, show your baby's first steps as they happen or have Grandma "attend" a
birthday party even if she's on the other side of the world.
The Cooliris 3D Wall is an infinite and interactive wall providing a lightning fast and
visually stunning way to view your photos and videos across the Web and your desktop.
If you are the type of person who likes making lists - Birthday lists, Top ten lists or even just To Do Lists,
then this site should be at the top of your list. From the top ten memorable movie quotes or 10 books
that changed the world to the 10 common medical myths including the top ten unfortunate x-rays.
This fairly basic site uses regular sugar cubes, about 4 grams of sugar in each to show how the sugars in our favorite foods literally stack up, gram for gram.
On Ustream.tv anyone can broadcast themselves now for free. First, you will need to give the site permission to access your webcam and microphone and you can even broadcast direct from your mobile phone.
Now every young girl's dream is surely to own a pony and there's probably a few young boys that would like one too, but if you don't have the drive for those early morning rides or mucking out a stable you can now experience it all online.
If you are tired of waiting on-hold when you call the bank, your phone company or any other service provider then waste your time no longer now you can get them to call you.
A tool for sharing interesting content directly with your family, friends and co-workers.
What you lack in street cred you can now more than make up for on the Infinite Wheel. This great interactive site allows you to create your own banging dub tracks and the best news of all is that you need absolutely no musical talent to begin.
When it comes to studying the internet Sparknotes packages up study guides
for you across a broad range of subjects,
including computer science, economics, literature, maths and philosophy.
Regardless of your profession, writing skills are a big part of everyone’s
life. Dailywritingtips is written by group of well
educated and worldly people and provides a really nice, simple source to
improving your skills with words.
Founded in October 2006, Justin TV is the largest online community for
people to broadcast,
watch and interact with video.
Learn your hidden feelings and deepest secrets with the Dream Analyser – simply describe your dream and then click analyse!
Choose from the latest, most popular or ending soon catalogues, search by
product category or retailer and even check out the weekly specials from your
local IGA supermarket.
At snowflakes look and feel dot come you get a pre-trimmed and folded piece of paper on the screen for you to cut and shape using an interactive pair of scissors.
The biweekly podcast of stories selected from the pages of the TTA Press magazines Interzone for science fiction and fantasy, Black Static for horror and Crimewave for a taste of crime and mystery. New stories are added every other Monday.
Enjoy controlling the actions of a chook by simply typing in a command like ‘jump’, ‘sit down’ or even ‘lay an egg’ then watch as the Subservient Chicken does exactly what you’ve asked.
UniQlock or Unique Clock is a fun digital clock that displays the local time from your computer interlaced with short video clips.
Upload your own face or create an average face by combining faces from the online gallery you can even see how a baby might look by selecting the mother and father.
Classic Games Arcade is a online games website featuring over 60 popular arcade games from the past three decades.
First published in October 1955 Guinness World Records has sold over 100 million copies making a record of its own. Keep up with the latest record breaking attempts and failures.
Questacon is Australia¹s National Science and Technology Centre that each year attracts 400,000 visitors while another 700 000 see their exhibitions in other museums and centres around Australia.
Twitter is all about gaining followers to your micro blogs – a series of short messages that are limited to 140 characters. Basically you update your Twitter at any time and as often as you like.
From vital assistance in natural disasters to helping with local community activities, 34% of our adult population or around 5 million people are volunteers.
Calculate your households water usage or play the interactive game and top up your water wisdom by helping a water wasting family reduce their water usage.
Imagine a photograph of the 2009 Obama Inauguration where you can instantly zoom in and see in focus the face of every individual in the crowd.
iMedix is a free website that helps you simply find and share health information. It¹s the members of the iMedix community that share their experiences online to make health information personal, organised and accessible to everyone.
An easy to use, online file sharing service that provides users with a simple and private way to share images, video, audio, documents and other digital content.
Click on ‘player’ and watch full length episodes of your favourite shows like Skins, Mythbusters, Feast India and a selection of great documentaries.
Crossword Forge can easily turn your puzzles into interactive web pages – all you need are the questions or clues and the answers.
Find out your true age by taking the comprehensive, online test that compares your biological versus calendar age. Once completed the site automatically emails you the results with recommendations on how to stay healthy.
A community of people who regularly post and share discount coupons they find online and in print.
Sodaconstructor from Sodayplay dot com is an online construction kit for interactive creations using masses and springs. The sodaplay community has so far created over 967,000 projects using the free Java based applications.
The official site of pay tv channel, Comedy Central. Here you can watch the best bits from popular shows like South Park and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart as well as some great cult classics.
Click on the ‘fun and games’ tab where you can learn how to be a TV reporter or take a 3D virtual tour of this huge museum which features the 9/11 gallery exploring the horrendous events of Sept. 11, 2001.
A multiplayer online role-playing game where you become a pirate, solve arcade-style puzzles, win treasure and further the story of your character and the virtual ocean world around you.
Why not have some fun and download some very cool fonts for your next letter, invite, or school project?
Discover a mobile phone with a built in electric shaver, global voice translator, projector, coffee brewer and harmonica – is this the shape of things to come?
Check out a clever site that has captured before and after shots from some of the biggest cities in the world during the recent Earth Hour initiative. Click on the images to see them fade from before to during Earth Hour 09.
Google’s new dedicated shopping search engine, Froogle dot com. This clever search engine limits your search results to just one product per website, making it easier to view the different sellers who have the product.
Test my speed dot com will easily measure the current upload and download speeds you're getting and how they stack up against the norm for your type of service whether it be cable, ADSL or modem.
Live Drive gives you unlimited online storage for your music, photos, videos, documents and other files which you can then access from any computer, the web or your mobile at anytime.
ScreenToaster is a web-based screen recorder that is designed to capture your screen activity, audio and webcam images in real-time then publish and share them in blogs and websites.
No more dragging your CD collection from party to party, the DJ-1800 uses music direct from your iTunes library or iPod so you can mix them together direct from your PC or laptop and become the DJ at your next party.
Lifehacker is a technology blog with a difference - the site not only features new products, software and gadgets but also asks how this technology makes work or play faster, more efficient and even more fun.
Enjoy video game reviews and commentary from Joystiq's many bloggers covering the three main platforms of
CrazyMonkeyGames.com for a wide selection of great online games like Warfare 1917.
Scribd is the place where you can publish, discover and discuss original writings and documents.
Get Paint is a free image and photo editing solution that features an innovative user interface, unlimited undo’s, special effects and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.
Recycling-revolution.com is a website that offers a really down-to-earth introduction to all things related to recycling and it's not as simple as you might think.
Answers.com is your free "one-stop shop" to instant information on over 4 million topics delivering useful answers in a snap.
Will it blend dot com looks at the basic principle of will stuff blend – that is what will happen if you put something in a blender and hit the on button.
Colour Lovers is a resource that monitors and influences color trends around the world where you can find inspiration and talk openly about your love of colours with like-minded people.
Pageonce is your own online Personal Productivity Assistant – basically a one-stop-shop for online account management on your BlackBerry,
Individuals and organisations upload their presentations to share ideas, connect with others and generate leads for their businesses using SlideShare.
Aniboom is the first virtual animation studio in the world, bridging the gap between the global community of independent
animators and the professional animation industry in all its forms
Browse through 85 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago and see how your favourite website has developed over the years.
Unfortunately you cannot download movies from sites like MSN Video,
YouTube and Google videos, well not until now - thanks to Splandoo dot com.
The service is simple yet effective it's basically an itineriser - if there is such a thing - that
takes all your travel documents and plans and combines them into one comprehensive and easily digestible itinerary.
You simply create your own invite in the form of a webpage for your event, then
choose whether to sort out the money yourself or do it through Wigadoo and then
send your friends a link to your page or use Facebook to invite them.
The unique search engine has the ability to interpret complex questions from our
everyday language and then answer those questions by consulting disparate pieces of information.
Start by swinging your mouse back and forth to build up momentum and when you are ready to throw,
hit the space bar to see the little, well basically a ball with an eye - fly at speed across the screen.
Gimp is a free image manipulation program distributed under Public License that will allow you to
make complex or simple changes to the images you are working with in a matter of minutes.
Now with Rollyo you can easily create your own custom search engines that they call Searchrolls and even explore, save and personalise those created by others.
Introducing Digg the new place for people to discover and share content across the web - from the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog.
Take your internet viewing into outerspace with the latest interactive offerings from NASA TV. This state of the art website recently broadcasted live coverage of the space shuttle Atlantis mission to upgrade the Hubble space telescope.
Hushmail is a web-based e-mail service that lets you send and receive email in a security environment where your messages and your attachments are encrypted using open PGP standard algorithms.
DeTouch.org reveals the tricks and cheats used in photographic publishing, showing you what those picture perfect models looked like before the touch-up artist got involved.
KidZui brought together a team of over 200 teachers and parents and 5,000 other curious young beta-testers to scour the web in search of the best content for kids.
This sightseeing site is a blog where visitors are invited to submit any
unusual or interesting sightings they
have found and then each weekday your guides James and Alex present these
new weird and wonderful sights.
Includes a handy dictionary with over 6000 computer definitions so you can
decipher what your computer
geek it really telling you and a great search tool for doing basic
troubleshooting.
Mindmeister is free to join simply create your login and then create,
manage and share mind maps online
which can be accesses anytime, from anywhere.
This software enables you to organise programs and icons on multiple 3D desktops and then switch between them using your mouse and keyboard.
From sky diving at 24th in popularity to losing weight at number one, this social networking site is a place for people to set themselves goals and then keep a record of how they are doing.
Wakoopa keeps you updated about what your contacts are using and then sends you smart recommendations on new games, the latest audio and video players, instant messengers or office tools – in fact whatever is hot right now
Zoo Qoo works on the same principle as a social networking site and lets you choose how you want to post and distribute your creative talents online
The teenage years for kids can be challenging times and often as parents we don’t have all the answers. Now there is a site that hosts an online community and content aimed at making those teenage years a little less confusing.
You just choose and click on a brush type and then move the swirling bubbly cursor about the screen to make a picture you are happy in a kind of chemical structure.
Pantheon houses what has to be the best collection of images, information and links around the subject of ancient mythology and religion on the web.
There more than 600,000 articles and 160,000 high-quality videos, written and produced by the experts and the site attracts over 37 million people every month.
At Wild Mood Swings you select a mood from the onscreen drop-down box then click on ‘take me away’ and the site whisks you away to a site that matches your mood.
So what is a byte? Well now you can find out all you’ve ever wanted to know about about the mystical byte in all its sizes. From a Bit through to a Terabyte which is approximately one trillion bytes or 1,000 Gigabytes.
Source Forge claims to be the world’s largest open source software development website that helps people build cool software and then share it with people like you and I.
From Arnold Schwarzenegger to Ashton Kutcher, Coldplay to Pink. With over 6000 tweets a week this site is packed with all the buzz from the stars.
While the design of this site is a little basic, the content is an invaluable resource to anyone who needs a few tips on the best places to hang out to capture those planes on film.
It’s basically a web service that allows people to place domestic and international calls using their own phone. To make a call you simply enter your number and then the number you want to call and PokeTalk will connect you.
Zefrank.com is full of toys and interactive widgets that are pretty simple to handle, quick and easy to load and make for a great original use of interactivity.
You basically turn your keyboard on its side and hold it like a guitar and then use your F1 to F5 keyboard keys as your frets – remember to hit the enter key for some strumming action.
Now owned by the people at the travel site Trip Advisor, Seat Guru basically shares information on the differences between airline seats.
Dust off the history books, open your mind and go back in time with World Digital Library – a virtual museum of cultural treasures including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs and architectural drawings.
When you first visit Melzoo dot com it looks much the same as any other search engine – that’s until you hit enter button on a search term and the screen splits into neatly in two.
Now it’s time to enhance those great digital panaromic shots with a unique photographic technique called Tiltshift that basically changes the focus of a picture in unusual ways – often making your photos come to life in 3D.
From World War Two to the War on Terror, the Imperial History of the Middle East to the History of Religion – you’ll find it all and more at Maps of War dot com.
Family Fun is your online source for arts, crafts, recipes, fun activities and great family vacations.