BrightWorksgives charities and non-profits an easy way to connect with volunteers. While sites like Idealist act as a comprehensive tool for charities, BrightWorks cuts through the noise and gets straight to the point. Using the new micro-volunteering tool, charities can instantly reach a network of volunteers, and best of all, it’s completely free. Charity organizations have a quick and easy tool at their disposal to dole out tasks to volunteers and have them completed....

We’re big fans of OS X email clientSparrow. It’s a beautifully thought-out app that is the closest thing you’ll find to an official desktop client for Gmail, with seamless support for many of Google’s email features like archiving and labeling. Now the Paris-based team behind Sparrow has rolled out a new update that integrates another favorite app amongst the TNW team,Cloudapp. In case you’ve missed it, Cloudapp is a simple way of storing and sharing all sorts of files – you can just drag a file to the icon on your OS X menu bar, it’s uploaded and a URL is added to your clipboard for you to paste wherever you want to share the file to....

Two Miami Advertising School students, Lisa Zeitlhuber and copywriter Katharina Schmitt created this brilliant digital idea for UNICEF. The student project aims to create awareness for UNICEF’s education program. Using the spell-check-window as a medium, the project reminds users of children in need of education whenever they misspell a word. By using it, you can donate your misspelled word and teach others how to write and read. Since the spell-check works over the browser, the idea would work in cooperation with Google Chrome so that “Donate a Word” comes automatically with the next browser update, spreading UNICEF’s message on every website....

If you travel a lot,Rome2Riois a great service for searching for the best way of getting from A to B via multiple modes of transport. Now it’s added train and bus routes from 170 different operators, making the service more useful for anyone who lives in, or visits, North America. The service is simple to use. You simply enter your starting point and end point and it will tell you how to get there, sketching out on a map which makes it easy to understand....

The world was waiting with bated breath when Instagramreleased its APIthis past February. Since then, we’ve seen numerous playful web apps giving users 30-seconds of playtime until they forget the we.b ad.dr.ess or CuTE app name. The Barbarian Group, a NYC based media group always at the lead of innovation, has just released an Instagram-driven screen saver called “Screenstagram” for Mac that’s impossible to forget once installed (unless of course, you never take your mitts off your keys)....