Posts by Category: Cool Web Apps & Sites

Cool web services and sites we really like.

Bookmark This! August 20, 2008 posted by

8Tracks – cool Muxtape replacement proves that the music industry keeps losing, stays stupid

So the RIAA has shut down Muxtape? No fear, here’s 8Tracks. And if they shut that down, there’ll be another. And another. And another… There’s something of a pattern here isn’t there? Sigh. Oh and by the way, this is a very cool music sharing application notwithstanding music industry stupidity.  8tracks is a simple way for people to share and discover music through an online mix. A mix is a short playlist containing at least 30 minutes — roughly 8…


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Cool Web Apps & Sites August 12, 2008 posted by

Monitter – live Twitter monitor lets you browse your life away, one tweet at a time…

Monitter is a new Twitter browser which lets you monitor Twitter for up to three key words at a time. Should you find any of your life left over after squandering it on this innocuous and yet oh so dangerous pastime, then why not embed the thing in a widget on your website too? That way you can spread the infection properly. Oh and did we mention you can limit it geographically too? Marked under ‘scary tech’. Tags: monitter, twitter, online+application


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Bookmark This! August 12, 2008 posted by

Graspr.com – instructional videos done with elegance and style

Graspr is a new video service which provides a platform for anyone to upload their ‘how-to’ videos for the world to share. You want to learn how to skateboard backwards singing the French national anthem? Cool. You want to teach people how to fillet macaroni cheese? No problem. There’s a bunch of these sites out there, and we’ve featured a fair few, but what made us sit up and take notice with this one is the beautifully clean design, and…


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Bookmark This! August 5, 2008 posted by

Widgenie – smart, gorgeous data visualisation tool comes online

Widgenie is one of those sparklingly beautiful single function web applications which make you want to scream with joy. OK, well perhaps that’s a little over the top, but these apps – like wufoo.com and gliffy.com – really do make business applications simple to use in a way that I’ve not seen since the early days of shareware. There’s nothing really rocket science about making charts and tables from spreadsheet or .cvs data, but this app does it all in such a…


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Cool Web Apps & Sites July 18, 2008 posted by

Guideal – psst…fancy becoming a tour guide?

Guideal is an interesting little idea. It’s basically an online portal for amateur and professional tour guides. The idea is to harness the wisdom of the crowds to match those who would like a tour of a location with those who would like to give a tour of their favourite locale. Some of the guides want money, some offer tours on the site for free, but either way you’ve got to love the sentiment.   It’s very early days yet,…


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Cool Web Apps & Sites July 15, 2008 posted by

Jamglue – remixing for the masses

Jamglue. Upload your tracks and play around. Add cool FX, mix and max different tracks, let your imagination run rout/reet/riot. The developers have thrown in all the usual community stuff, as well as a smattering of contest action to keep you engaged as you play away. Not a bad effort really, nice and clean and immediately engaging if you’re into this sort of thing, although I do have a feeling they’re trying just a bit too hard. Ah well, check it out all you LL…


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Cool Web Apps & Sites July 11, 2008 posted by

Switchabit – write once, copy everywhere…but why…?

Switchabit is a new service which lets you deliver your communication to multiple sources automatically. Kind of like an online social network switchboard. So say you have a Blogger account and you want your posts to go to Twitter, Facebook and Flickr, just set it up here and every time you post something in Blogger Switchabit will automatically copy it to the networks you’ve selected. Is it just me or is the web becoming just a little bit over self-absorbed with all…


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Bookmark This! July 10, 2008 posted by

Inner-Live – world wide web television with a difference

Inner-Live.com is a new web television service with a twist. The idea is you don’t just look at the programs, but chat about them in real time too. Hmm…interesting. I’m not sure that text chat and television go together so well, but maybe during the commercial breaks it makes sense? Anyhoo, the chat room box is there for you to use if you want (as well as favouriting a channel, voting et al). The video quality is pretty good, and…


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Bookmark This! July 7, 2008 posted by

Spendji – excellent online group planning done super easy

Spendji is an excellent online application which aims to take the hassle out of arranging group activities. You know, things like joint vacations, parties, family or friend reunions, even things like weddings and home improvements. What makes it cool is the thought that has gone into incorporating all the tools you might need to get things done as a group. Collaborative budgets, money movements, best price search, as well as the usual stuff like to-do lists, calendars and group messaging. Mind…


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Bookmark This! July 3, 2008 posted by

Palabea – the language community

Palabea is an online language learning service. Yes another one. No I have no idea why there are so many. Yes, it’s German. No I don’t know what the name means. Well, possibly it could be an excuse to find cute partners in exotic countries, or even get a Green Card, but I can’t tell from here. Yes, the site is very well designed, and has some heavyweight partners like the BBC and Deutsche Welle. OK, well since you asked…


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Cool Web Apps & Sites June 10, 2008 posted by

FlyTunes – portable music service for the iPhone

FlyTunes. Free online music service streams 375 channels of ‘music, news and sport’ for you to consume everywhere on this planet. Uh…except tunnels. Or caves. Obviously. Anyhoo, it works over the Edge network, so you don’t need WiFi, but you do need a flat rate data plan. Or a very rich uncle. Check out the online demo.  FlyTunes is a FREE service that gives you what you really want – portable music and talk radio that’s better than Satellite radio,…


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Bookmark This! June 3, 2008 posted by

BrandDoozie – DIY marketing materials for small companies

BrandDoozie is a new online service which lets you create a full suite of marketing material quickly and easily. The package includes tools to create your brand logos, marketing documents like brochures, stationery and business cards and even photos relevant to your industry sector. The service is free while in beta, and it looks like an interesting way for a small business to get up and running quickly with a respectable brand, but of course what the site doesn’t do…


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Bookmark This! May 28, 2008 posted by

Dipiti – vertical message board search with some smarter sauce?

Dipiti. On the face of it this beta level search engine is just another forum search tool, like Omgili or Twing, but unlike these two this new service makes no attempt to be all things to all men. That’s because Dipiti is catering specifically for some tightly defined vertical search sectors like Health, Legal, Money and rather strangely Pet Care. The result is that the search results should be significantly better than the generic results from Google and the others. The company…


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Bookmark This! May 21, 2008 posted by

BookRabbit – a new kind of online bookstore and social network

BookRabbit. Well it had to come and now it has, a socially networked online bookstore with all the trimmings and none of the dusty shelves stuff. The idea is to bring together people’s love of books, with an innovative categorisation system and lots of social discourse. The site is crammed with Web 2.0 type loveliness, from the slots for video reviews, to reader reviews and a fab ‘meet the author’ feature. One unique feature is the ability to upload a photo…


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Cool Web Apps & Sites May 21, 2008 posted by

Litmus – painlessly test your email and web designs

Litmus is a nice looking new service which takes screenshots of your web site and email newsletters to show whether the design works properly across browsers and clients. Browsershots exists already in this market, but it’s always good to see competition, isn’t it? Worth a bookmark if you’re a designer type.  Litmus shows you precisely how your designs will be seen by your customers. We deliver screenshots of your web sites and email newsletters in seconds across all popular platforms….


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