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Google Translate alternative frontend that enhances privacy, supports 108 languages and includes Text-To-Speech features for versatile language translation needs.

Animated book summaries for visual learners. If you don't like reading but want to learn from the best non-fiction books, this is the app for you.

Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. Released in beta in November 2004, the Google Scholar index includes most peer-reviewed online journals of Europe and...

Wikiless is a free open source alternative Wikipedia front-end focused on privacy.

At its core, Tatoeba is a large database of example sentences translated into several languages. Search example sentences translated into many languages. Add and translate your own sentences. It's collaborative, open, free, and even addictive.

Pluralsight is the global leader in high-quality online training for hardcore developers and IT pros. The revolutionary Pluralsight training library provides techies with instant access to a rich collection of online training courses delivered by industry authorities.

Lumosity.com grounds all of its brain exercises in extensive research; Scientific Advisory Board includes researchers from such institutions as UCSF and Stanford.

Mochi is a cross-platform desktop tool that lets you take notes and make flashcards using markdown, then study them using spaced repetition.

Poedit is cross-platform gettext catalogs (.po files) editor. It is built with wxWidgets toolkit and can run on any platform supported by it (although it was only tested on Unix with GTK+ and Windows). It aims to provide more convenient approach to editing catalogs than...

Offers courses for 12 languages, with expert-created lessons in grammar, vocabulary, reading, writing, listening, and speaking, plus community practice and placement tests.

Keypunch lets you practice typing. Thanks to fast-paced sessions with instant feedback afterwards and a plethora of available languages, you might even have a little fun doing so. With determination, proper technique and some time, you will observe a noticeable increase in both...

Become a keyboard ninja! Simple and stress-free typing tutor will help you type faster and with fewer errors.

Provides university-level technical courses online with self-paced, interactive project-based learning, industry collaboration, mentorship, and certificates.

This is a javascript electronic circuit simulator. When the applet starts up you will see an animated schematic of a simple LRC circuit. The green color indicates positive voltage. The gray color indicates ground. A red color indicates negative voltage.

BeeRef lets you quickly arrange your reference images and view them while you create. Its minimal interface is designed not to get in the way of your creative process.

Sky Map (formerly the Google Sky Map) turns your Android-powered mobile phone into a window on the night sky.

Easily learn how to do anything from wikiHow, the world’s leading how-to guide. Step-by-step instructions on every imaginable topic. Become the DIY master of anything, instantly.

TED-Ed’s commitment to creating lessons worth sharing is an extension of TED’s mission of spreading great ideas. Within the growing TED-Ed video library, you will find carefully curated educational videos, many of which represent collaborations between talented educators and...

We are an online tech magazine, dedicated to providing interesting articles, how-tos, and even fun trivia to our audience of geeky — and not-so-geeky readers. We’ve tried really hard to make sure that our content is understandable for regular people, but geeky enough that the...

Open Yale Courses (OYC) provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University.

Read hand-picked articles from today’s thought leaders. Save the ideas that inspire you and the methods that could take you to the next level. You absorb, remember and act more, with just 5 minutes per day.

BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) is a software platform for volunteer computing and desktop grid and volunteer computing.

Gnuplot is a portable command-line driven interactive data and function plotting utility. It was originally intended as to allow scientists and students to visualize mathematical functions and data. It does this job pretty well, but has grown to support many non-interactive...

The free Dictionary.com app delivers content from Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com, including nearly a million words and definitions and 90,000 synonyms and antonyms. No internet required!

Top nonfiction books summarized into their essential ideas concisely and comprehensively.