Phone-Size lets you select the latest smartphones available and line them up to compare their design profile. To get the exact dimensions displayed, adjust the options to match your screen’s resolution. This will give you a great feel for the phone’s size.

If you are more concerned about screen resolution, click “Toggle Screens” so that all phones will display the same picture as allowed by the phone’s resolution. This will give you a definite comparison on how the phones’ display match up against each other.

Phone-size is a must-see reference for all current and future phone buyers. With this tool you never have to guess again what a phone actually looks like in reality.

Features:

• Compare size of smartphones.
• Relevant smartphone models included.
• Compare screen resolution and display size.
• Exact measurement tailored to your monitor’s screen resolution.

Check out Phone-size @ http://phone-size.com

AudioLiterate lets you search for audio files by author and genre. The simple homepage shows the recently added book, genre categories, as well as feature audiobooks. Clicking on an entry will allow you to download the whole audio file from archive.org, although you can also choose to stream each chapter with their embedded audio player.

With several public domain titles available, AudioLiterate is a great way to consume all these great works as it makes it very easy to access for students, audiobook listeners, and avid readers. The site’s collection is currently sparse, but expect more books to become available as the website grows.

Features:

• Free streaming and download of audiobooks.
• Categorized by genre and author.
• Stream audiobooks by chapter.
• Read book description before listening.
• Similar Tools: Audiobooks App, Audiobooks.com, and Librophile.

The Faculty Project has sought to bring some of the world’s best professors from the world’s leading universities online – available free for students, making effective use of their computers, tablet and smartphone devices.

The Professors range from diverse fields of teaching – history, economics, anthropology, and more. They also range from some of the world’s finest universities such as the University of Miami, University of Southern California, Dartmouth College and more.

Making use of this helpful service is easy. Just visit the website and look below for courses that are currently available. Choose one, and click on the button that says “Enroll”. You can then make an account or sign up with your Facebook account to access the course. The courses are conducted through video lectures, slides and PDFs.

Features

• Service is free to use and helpful.
• Some of the world’s most finest professors dispensing their knowledge.
• Variety of courses available to study.
• Similar tools:  Computer Science 101, FreeVideoLectures and Lectr.

Check out Faculty  Project @ www.facultyproject.com (via FreeTech4Teachers)

Wolfram Education Portal is a free to use online tool that helps teachers with the math courses they are teaching. Mainly the tool focuses on algebra and calculus. Among the many tools offered by the Education Portal, teachers will find an eTextbook, a lesson plan, demonstration tools such as graphs, and widgets such as calculators to solve questions quickly. Soon the site will be offering practice questions with answers.

To get started with the site, you will have to sign up for an account on it and then download its player through which you will be able to use the online tools.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Helps teachers teach math courses.
• Supports algebra and calculus.
• Offers numerous tools such as lesson plans, online textbooks, and widgets.
• Similar tools: RhymenLearn and Mathematics In Movies.

Check out Wolfram Education Portal @ http://education.wolfram.com (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)

Citelighter is a handy Firefox toolbar that grabs information directly from the source and stores all the bibliographical information for you. You simply need to highlight the information you need and tell the toolbar to capture it. It will pull as much bibliographical information from the webpage as it can find, and you may only have to enter a couple of fields. Once you save it, it will be stored on your account and accessible from anywhere.

Once you finish gathering information, you can start writing your paper or working on your outline from the app. You can even share your findings with friends via Facebook.

Video demo:

Features:

• Easily keep track of your research in one place.
• Automatically logs bibliographical information from sources.
• Syncs to your account so you can get access to your research from anywhere.
• Ability to share your findings with others via Facebook.
• Ability to write paper right from the app.
• Similar tools: Snippin, Sniply, GotProject, Memonic, WebNotes, RoohIt, iCyte, Ibrii, Markkit, AwesomeHightlighter and more.

Find Citelighter @ www.citelighter.com

Once you have an equation created you can quickly adjust the size of the output and then save it as an image file to your computer for later use. It is a painless process for parents who need to set this sort of thing up for their kids, or anyone who wants to make some cool equations for any reason at all.

You can save certain base equations as favorites for later access. So if, for example, you were focused on Matrices, you could have them in your favorites for quicker access. Similarly, you can use the history feature to get access to the equations you have recently used.

Features:

• Use Latex to make equations and save them as images for later.
• Easy enough to use with little or no coding skill.
• Save favorites for quicker access later.
• Export to many popular image formats.
• Adjust size and font of output.
• Similar tools: Daum Equation Editor, Fooplot and Text2img.

Find Code Cogs Equation Editor @ homeschoolmath.net

The Candidate Match Game gives the users several options to choose from which they have to answer in order to find out which candidate they are most similar to in terms of the questions answered.

The questions range from a variety of on-going issues such as Afghanistan, climate change, defense spending, etc. The user has to slide the bar depending on whether that matter is more or less important to them.

Once done, click “Begin the Quiz” and you might be asked a few questions to ensure that the results are as accurate as they can be. After answering the questions, the service will display the candidates who are most similar to you.

Features

• Debate different topics and find the candidate that thinks the same as you.
• A fun and interactive way to find the best candidate to vote for.

Check out Candidate Match Game @ http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/candidate-match-game

The default scale is Celsius but you can change it to Fahrenheit with a single click. Along with the current temperature, it also displays the maximum and minimum temperatures for the day and weather for the next 4 days. There is absolutely nothing to input or click. Simply launch the site and view weather in a fun way.

Features:

• Displays weather with fun geeky sketches.
• Switch between Celsius and Fahrenheit scales.
• Change location.
• No registration required.

Visit Weatherage @ http://www.weatherage.com

SmarTots is a website which provides the best educational apps for children to use and enhance their learning skills. SmarTots-compatible applications allow parents to get a report of the time spent by the children on these apps, the type of game they most prefer (maths, science, art, etc.) and so on.

With the reports generated, SmarTots can also recommend you with similar applications, which will allow you to further enhance your children’s learning skills and their knowledge in that particular field.

To use SmarTots, just visit the App Reviews section, and select the age or content area for your field. You will then be displayed the reviews of all those apps suitable for that age/content.

Features

• SmarTots reviews both paid and free apps.
• Find suitable apps for your children.
• Statistical reports allow parents to discover interests of children.
• Similar tools: KinderTown and MyAmericanFarm.

Check out Smartots @ www.smartots.com (via FreeTech4Teachers)

RTBot is a free to use search engine that provides with various real-time information content. The site combines search results from video sites, articles sites such as Wikipedia, public mentions from Twitter, documents from the web, blogs, URLs, and images to provide with you a complete research package for anything it is that you search for.

The results are neatly sorted under various categories e.g. videos, Wikipedia, images, Twitter, etc. Click on a category to reveal its respective results.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Does not require any registration.
• Provides various search items under a single dashboard.
• Neatly sorts search results into proper categories.
• Similar tools: FacePinch and NachoFoto.

Check out RTBot @ www.rtbot.net (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)