As an amateur musician who uses GarageBand, the most common question I get asked is what’s the GarageBand alternative for Windows? When I answer that there’s none, most of them just can’t believe it. So far, I still haven’t found any that can match all of the requirements. Still there are alternatives worth mentioning. One of them is Anvil Studio.

If you’ve been to a family gathering or birthday party, you’ll notice how everybody seems to bring their own camera. You will also know how difficult it is to collect everybody’s shots into one collection. Browsing all of their Facebook accounts and downloading all the images one by one is not much easier either. A better solution is to set up a “dumping place” where everybody can put their images.

The popular implementation of the “learning by repeating” method is flashcards usage. Thanks to the power of technology, flashcard learning is not limited to physical cards anymore. It has been adapted as countless web and desktop applications. One of those web flashcard services is Brainscape. This one is unique because it has a different method of utilizing and presenting the cards.

If you own a blog, what can you do to make sure that your visitors read as many posts as possible? One trick is to display your posts at the top of your main page, so they will be instantly accessible. One of the tools that you can use to do this is Wibbitz, a web service that will help you feature the latest contents of your blog as an interactive slideshow.

Thanks to extensions, users can add new abilities and improve almost all the existing features of a browser – including bookmarking. If you are a Chrome user and you want to expand the ability of your browser’s bookmarking feature, you could try Quickmarks – an extension that will help you to quickly open bookmarks using simple keywords.

Due to copyright issues, the iTunes Store ‘discriminates’ against users based on their geographical location. While the US and a few other selected iTunes stores have all the goodies, other countries are extremely limited. To be able to access the goodies, non-US users could try to register for a US account. The problem is, the set up process requires a US credit card. Fortunately, there’s a way around that obstacle.

NASA, one of the pioneers in space exploration, has released a free iPad app which collects, customizes, and delivers an extensive selection of dynamically updated mission information, images, videos, and Twitter feeds from various online NASA sources in a convenient mobile package.

Facebook Pages is a great promotion tool. You can use it to promote your blog, your product, or even yourself. If you are a code novice and want to build and edit your Facebook Pages without touching any codes, you could easily do it using Static HTML – a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) web editor, built specifically for Facebook Pages.

Fast and reliable WiFi connections are not everywhere. Most of the time, especially in developing countries, people have to rely on slower and more expensive carriers’ data connections. What can customers do to save money? They can try to minimize their mobile Internet usage, or they can use Onavo.

If you are a fan of an iPad magazine layout and you want to publish your own, or if you just want to read your favorite news in this kind of layout, you could try Pressjack – a multi platform magazine publisher that will help you produce a web magazine from RSS feeds.

Most application launchers work the same way – open the launcher, type in the application’s name, and hit Enter to launch the item. There are many launchers available out there using this method. But if you are willing to try a different approach, you could try MadAppLauncher. This application will help you launch anything in three strokes or less.

It’s very easy to lose yourself amidst stacks of open tabs. The more tabs you open, the more difficult it is to keep track of them and to move between opened sites. Mozilla has tried to solve the tabs problem by adding a new feature called “Tab Groups” to the latest version of its popular Firefox browser.

Radio has evolved for the better by embracing the Internet. Now it’s more global: anybody can access almost unlimited choices in any imaginable genre from all over the world. If you are a fan of Internet radio, you might want to try StreamWriter. This is a Windows application that will help you listen to and record songs from Internet radio stations.

One of the players in the file sharing game is Dropbox. This popular file backup and sync service allows its users to share files easily via a “Public Folder”. With this feature, sharing files is as easy as sharing the download links, and if you want to make the Dropbox file sharing experience even better, here are two tools that could help.

News reading is becoming a trend again, thanks to the iPad and its list of available beautiful news readers. If you look at the available alternatives, it seems that most of the good readers are made only for iOS devices. But there are exceptions, and one of them is Taptu: a multi-platform news reader and curator available for iOS and Android.