Sometimes staying in front of your computer all day surfing the Web can be a waste of precious time. There are lots of sites that are great just to hang around, commenting and talking to other people about practically nothing. However, if you look real hard, you can come across several useful places. These digital oases are excellent to expand your knowledge, establish meaningful discussions and put your imagination to practice. In the latter group, you’ll find tools with which your creativity can work to achieve awesome products practically from scratch. If you are willing to take a ride with me, I’ll introduce some of the best sites of this category to you.

As many of you surely know by now, the top Apple devices don’t support Flash. This isn’t a mistake or an unfortunate omission: Steve Jobs and company don’t want the Adobe plug-in in their gadgets. Period. That was one of the main complaints the company had to put up with, at least until Skyfire was released. This app is an Internet browser with which the iPhone users can enjoy Flash contents available on the Web, bypassing the device’s limitation. For no one’s surprise, the app was downloaded frantically and it became one of the most demanded apps on the Apple store. Obviously, the company responsible for Skyfire’s development wants to make the most of its success so it decided to launch another promising app: Skyfire for iPad.

If there was something missing about FarmVille for us to become even more addicted to playing this game it was its availability in new platforms that allow us to harvest anywhere and anytime. The version for iPhone has already been released and now it is time for the iPad version. The guys from Zynga know that this is the most popular application in Facebook and that we can’t stop playing it. This popularity, together with the explosion of downloads of the game in AppStore, have, finally, made its developers release the [...]