Calculates and creates GPS waypoints. Displays their heights above sea level and also their longitude and latitude. Includes an address search and output function and is based on maps taken from Google Maps and OpenStreetMap.
Helps with vehicle management including calculating the costs associated with owning a vehicle. Calculates fuel consumption and CO2 emissions and reminds you when to change the oil and when an MOT test is due. Generates graphs to show mileage and consumption and supports CSV imports and exports for data on refuelling. Requires registration with a valid email address.
Visualisation of political, economic and social data from numerous countries which can be accessed according to the idea of Open Data. Data sets for EU member countries are available from Eurostat. Data is visualised as a time series or according to geographical location.
Assists with learning of more than 40 languages. Contains 100 lessons on subject such as people, numbers and telling the time, plus audio material to aid pronunciation. Languages include German, English, French, Spanish, Finnish, Italian and Swedish. Audio files are available via download.
Flash-based interior design planner for homes and offices. After creating a design plan, pictures of real furniture can be added. In addition to the free standard functions, additional paid functions are available. Saving only possible after registration.
Displays all current flights in real time on a world map including flight information. Currently only displays aircraft with ADS-B transponders within range of the vendor's 100 receivers. Also available as a free version as well as an extended, paid pro version for iPhone etc. in the iTunes Store.
Calculates travel routes and displays the natural gas (CNG) or autogas (liquid petroleum gas, LPG) filling stations along the route. You can save the found filling stations in a KML or CSV file that can be loaded into a navigation system. Includes LPG filling stations in Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland and Switzerland.
Project with more than 30,000 free texts in different languages that can be read online or downloaded. Offers works (and sometimes translations) by international authors as diverse as Galileo Galilei, René Descartes, Sigmund Freud, William Shakespeare, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Heinrich Heine, Franz Kafka, Immanuel Kant and Richard Nixon.
Browses the largest video sites, such as YouTube, for music. Videos are automatically recognised and assigned to a music database. The integrated search function allows fast finding of complete music albums and adding to a playlist.
Home and interior design software for your web browser. In just a few clicks you can draw your own floor plans and design rooms. Make your selection from the pre-prepared design ideas and edit them to suit your needs. Before you can save your own designs or export them in JPG or DWG formats, you need to register (free).
Online tool offering a fun way to learn and practice different foreign languages (Spanish, French, Italian, English and German). A multimedia language trainer with pronunciation examples with a worldwide community looking to further their language skills.
Track community for outdoor activities. Users can create routes on the web site or upload and describe GPS tracks presented as Google Maps mashup. Tracks can be marked for various activities (including walking, mountain biking or skiing) and downloaded in formats, such as KML or GPX. Available as standalone app for iPhone and Android.
Online tool for creating and sharing interactive floor plans for houses and flats. Allows storing, printing and sending drafts or publishing it on your web site. Available as free basic and pro version.
This science fiction series appears in regular installments in a multitude of formats, including PDF, PDF2, MobiPocket, HTML and XPS; 36 novels are currently available (as of 02/2012); the story takes place in the 22nd century where the world's nations have joined together to form a global federation which is facing the last great challenge - the conquest of space.
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