Make Your Own Open-Source Soda at Home

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Ever wondered how to make your own soda? Turns out that an open-source company decided to create a recipe for open-source soda that you can make for yourself. So the next time you’re hanging out online, you can tell all your buddies that your soft drink is Open Source.

OpenCola

The Real-Life Paper Mario (Geek Fun)

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Love Mario and feel like doing a geeky craft project? You can make your own Paper Mario Diorama with a quick guide over at the Nintendo Papercraft blog. Hey, you probably need to get off the computer for a bit anyway!

Paper Mario Diorama

Version 9 of AVG Anti-Virus Free was Launched!

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Shortly after we talked about a review of AVG Internet Security version 8.5, the good people from AVG Technologies launched version 9.0. They say it fixes most of the complaints people had with v8.5. Until somebody publishes a complete review of the solution, you can check out yourselves if this is true or not.

Download AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition v9.0

Wolfgang’s Vault, 3000+ Live Concerts

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Browse by artist or date, create playlists and much more. We found some very rare soundtracks and great performances at Wolfgang’s, hope you do too. Registration required.

Wolfgang’s Vault

Flightgear: Open Source Flight Simulator

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100’s of aircraft. 1000’s of airports. Check those ailerons and go to Paris in time for dinner.

 Flightgear

Resize Images by Copying Them to a Folder

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This tiny application watches for anything that you’ve copied to a folder, and automatically resizes it to the size that you’ve specified. It’s not as good as the Image Resizer Powertoy Clone, but it’s still pretty cool.

Dropresize [via freewaregenius]

Play Duck Hunt in Your Browser

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Old school video games are just so much fun. You can play the classic Duck Hunt in your browser with this simple little flash game. Pity you can’t shoot that annoying dog.

DuckHunt

CyberSearch Extension Makes Firefox Awesome Bar 200% More Awesome

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If you want the Firefox Awesome Bar to give you search suggestions, act as a calculator, or add a spell-checker directly in the list without needing to waste time hitting the search results page, the CyberSearch extension is exactly what you need. Hit the download page for way more screenshots.

CyberSearch

IPGeoInfo pinpoints where any IP is

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In this case, Fayetteville, NC. IPGeoInfo will show your IP and search any entered IP address with results shown on a map, globally. 

IPGeoInfo

Spice up Gmail or Google Reader in Firefox

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Google Redesigned  by Globex Designs are open source themes for Gmail, GReader and GCalendar. Easy to install and without much (if any) degradation in loading times, these are beautiful enhancements for plain vanilla pages. For all gecko based browsers (Firefox, Flock, etc.) More screen shots here.

Install from Globex Designs

Install from Firefox Addons




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