Free online games – are always a good option for gear up your work flow when you are in your office. It’s obvious that your boss can’t allow you to install games on your PC and play in your office time. That’s where online games come into play where you don’t have to install the game on your PC. Just open the browser, click on play button and start playing.
Google Chrome web store has come forward to deliver these HTML5 apps under its web store in Chrome browser. So, without wasting any time further, let’s have a look on our compilation ofTop 7 cool free HTML5 apps available in Google Chrome web store.
1. NYTimes : Experience the award-winning journalism of The New York Times through the Google Chrome browser. The NYTimes app for the Chrome Web Store is a sophisticated HTML5 application that leverages advanced browser features to deliver a unique and compelling reading experience that can be read online or offline.
2. Canvas Rider : Canvas Rider is an addictive game written in JavaScript & HTML5, using the most of the new <canvas> element. To ride the tracks previously drawn by other players, there are 2 bikes (BMX & MTB) with the same controls.
3. HTML5 Photo Editor by Aviary : Aviary’s new HTML5 Photo Editor is a revolution in quick and easy photo editing! With a few clicks anyone with an internet connection can edit a photo into a beautifully layered piece of art or perform a series of simple touch ups.
4. Ajax Animator : A html5 powered web-based animation suite. Its original goal was to be a usable Flash IDE alternative, but has evolved into a cross-platform/cross-format animation tool. It also works offline.
5. Manymoon Free Projects and Task Manager : Manymoon is the best way to get organized and complete projects like planning this weekend’s party, class assignments or renovating your home. Manymoon is trusted by hundreds of thousands of users and works seamlessly with your Google Account, Google Calendar, Google Docs and iGoogle. This app is built in HTML5 that let you drag and drop files from your desktop and share them with others.
6. Myousic.me : MYOUSIC.ME is a cool app to find and play music anytime, anywhere. MYOUSIC.ME searches audio files all over the web and indexes them in a user-friendly interface. These audio files are legally published on scanned websites. An HTML5 web app that uses audio tag and local storage API to save your favorite tracks in your playlist.
7. Game of Life : The classic Game of Life app, implemented in HTML5.
Being worked as a designer for a quite long time in a digital agency, I always love background patterns to use in the website designing. Background patterns helps you to make your website stand out from the regular ones. But using patterns is not only the way to ensure attractive website designing, designers should have an great understanding of using the background patterns otherwise your website will look like a disaster.
My favorite alternative when it comes to replacing Microsoft applications is usually Google. You may already be familiar with Google Docs, but did you know you can create presentations with the web-based app? Just click on the Create new drop down menu and select Presentation to get started.
As you might imagine, this online application is very simple to use. You can change the theme and background of your presentation, insert text boxes, images, and videos, import slides, and all that good stuff. And since you’re using Google Docs, you can share your presentation with others and work on it collaboratively.
SlideRocket is a higher end model of a collaborative, web-based presentation application. While this is a premium app, they do offer a nice free option, which gives you 250 MB of storage (15 MB file size), up to 5 multi-seat accounts, shared folders, items, and libraries, and the ability to import from Powerpoint and export to PDF.
We covered SlideRocket in an article 2 years ago and it has only got better since then. It has a beautiful user interface and a lot of great features, including the ability to add themes, layouts, shapes, charts, tables, pictures, audio, video, and Flash animations. You can also integrate content from sites like Flickr and YouTube, as well as utilize plug-ins.
To get a glimpse of SlideRocket, check out this short video:
280 Slides is another very easy to use presentation creation app. Last covered back in March of ’09, 280 Slides offers a host of great features, like the ability to upload your existing PowerPoint presentations and import them into 280 Slides, preventing you from having to start over.
Other great features include autosave and recovery, storing presentations online, downloading them in the PowerPoint 2007 format, adding photos and movies from Flickr and YouTube, posting to SlideShare and embedding, and running them straight from your browser.
Prezi, if you haven’t heard of it by now, is one of those really cool presentation applications that is very different from how PowerPoint and the rest function. What makes it significantly different is the fact that it doesn’t invoke the traditional slide-by-slide rules of a normal presentation. Rather, each presentation you create is a flowing, motion-based depiction filled with your creativity.
