This week in Sites We Like, we’ve got a fistful of fun and its rushing towards your face. Watch as the sucker-punch of superb sites delivers you Chrome generative audio joy, free audio books delivered when you want them, a huge playground full of Flash games and a great free way to super-charge your snaps. Read on and take a look…
Recommended by Mic…
Podiobooks
Free audio book heaven
If you listen to a lot of audio books, Podiobooks is brilliant. It lets you set up custom feeds of free drama series with episodes delivered to iTunes or via RSS on a schedule you set. I’d say Heaven Season 1 by Mur Lafferty as a good place to start.
Recommended by Jen…
Balldroppings.com
Chrome-powered audio oddity
A “Chrome experiment in generative audio composition”, balldroppings gives you the power to draw white lines on a black background and control the movement, and therefore sound, that the program is creating. Like a primitive Bloom, this is completely mesmerising.
Recommended by Ben…
Kongregate.com
All new, Android-friendly Flash fun
Remember how Newgrounds was the Flash portal of choice for all your internet memes a decade ago? We’ve long since got bored of fan made Flash movie spoofs, but we still enjoy a good Flash game when they come along, and Kongregate’s the place to go to for them, whatever genre takes your fancy. It’s packed with surprisingly polished and inventive action, puzzle and strategy games, and some of these can even be played on an Android phone, courtesy of Flash support in Froyo. Fun times.
Recommended by James
Find out what those error codes really mean…
Got a nasty error on your Mac or PC? Scratch your head no longer. Just head to Error Goblin, tap in the error number and it’ll point you in the direction of a fix. If you’ve got a specific error giving you grief, it’s even faster than Google at diagnosing faults.
Recommended by Mic…
Instagram effects for any photo
Rollip is an awesome free service that gives you tonnes of effects and processing tricks which you can apply to your photos via a really simple web interface. It’s like Instagram’s filters but for the web rather than tied to your iPhone. Definitely worth checking out.
