Posts by Category: Web 2.0

Web 2.0 comes to town

Bookmark This! December 20, 2012 posted by Nigel

By People Bundle – 5GB of completely free themes, icons and other design elements for download [Freeware]

The folks at ByPeople.com are launching a ‘curated network of useful content for web ninjas’ next year, and as part of their pre-launch promotion, they’re giving away a full 5 GB of downloadable design elements for completely free. The ByPeople Bundle includes themes, icons, backgrounds, buttons, sliders, boxes, business cards…in general a sample of just about everything you might need if you were looking for design help.

Bookmark This! November 21, 2012 posted by Nigel

Tackk – the easiest web noticeboard in the known universe?

The web is changing all right, and one way you can tell is by looking at the new tools coming down the pipe. Instead of heavy clunky web design programs and services, we’re seeing a definite rise in the number of quick and easy tools to create online content. At one end you’ve got the elegant and iconic Pinterest, and at the other you have tools like Tumblr. But that still leaves a gap to fill.

Bookmark This! September 17, 2012 posted by Nigel

Buildor Lite helps you run up a website in minutes

Websites are still the compulsory component of any business or public endeavor. If you don’t have a website, you’re basically invisible to the world. It’s surprising therefore how hard it is to find simple tools which people can use to create a site without having to hire expensive programmers or designers.

Bookmark This! August 10, 2012 posted by Nigel

Is BidKat the future of online auctions?

Buying and selling stuff on teh Internets can be less than optimal sometimes. There’s all the hassle with searching, checking whether the other person is legit or not, not to mention shipping and payment. For some people all that work makes it more trouble than it’s worth to use auction and classified sales sites on the Web.

Bookmark This! July 6, 2012 posted by Nigel

Comic Strip Generator turns everyone into a witty political pundit

Well if we can’t do anything about all this insane stuff, at least we can laugh, right? Pick a subject, any subject – catholic priests at work and play, lying bankers, stupid bankers, lying and stupid politicians, sinister politicians, pointless reality stars, blah blah blah. The list is endless.

Awesome July 3, 2012 posted by Nigel

Declaration of Internet Freedom – please sign if you wish to keep the Internet safe

A new move has started to draft a global Declaration of Internet Freedom which aims to protect the Internet from attack by governments, commercial and industrial interests and anyone else who would try to twist and pervert it to their ends. It may sound very fluffy bunny but at its core the message is seriously important. The Internet is turning out to be one of the most significant developments in human civilisation since Gutenberg’s printing press, and we are at a…

Bookmark This! June 21, 2012 posted by Nigel

Movies.io is a brilliant example of how future movie consumption should be tailored

Every now and then there’ll be a report in the press about yet another RIAA/MPAA initiative to crack down on piracy, and the PRs will trot out the same old tired stats and make the same old weary comments about how their industry is being ruined by piracy. But the fact is most people don’t pirate and have no wish to, all they want is their digital entertainment delivered in the fastest most efficient way. And they’ll pay for it too. But…

Bookmark This! May 25, 2012 posted by Nigel

WunderMap is an interactive weather map on steroids

What is it about the weather that’s so fascinating? Sure it’s nice to know whether it’s going to rain, but apart from that who needs to know the wind direction at 2.30pm? We reckon it comes from our primordial past when man worked with the elements to survive harvest panics and stuff like that. We also suspect that weather forecasting hasn’t really improved that much since the days when a Shaman threw some bones in the fire, but tell you…

Bookmark This! May 3, 2012 posted by Nigel

JotForms offers a massive 500 form templates for free [Daily Freeware]

Online forms services are all the rage at the moment, and we’ve mentioned a few in the past like Wufoo and PandaForms. We’ve also commented on how great they are for creating quick and easy forms to embed in your blog or website, and how they can save a ton of work in design and implementation.

Bookmark This! April 10, 2012 posted by Nigel

Family Leaf gives you a private family room on the Web

The massive scale of social networks like Facebook and Google+ is really astonishing in many ways. The idea that half a billion people can sign up to a single service and exchange phone numbers is, frankly, astonishing. But it can also be quite unnerving to some folk, and even intimidating to those who prefer a slightly more quiet life.

Bookmark This! April 9, 2012 posted by Nigel

The new Shoes of Prey service lets you design your own ladies shoes

If you’ve every had an urge to roll up your sleeves, switch on the desk lamp and set to work designing your own shoes, now’s your chance. The new Shoes of Prey site, gives you a limited but fun set of choices over the design of a range of popular ladies shoe types.

Bookmark This! April 9, 2012 posted by Nigel

Google Account Activity lets you see exactly how much time you’re wasting

It you’ve got a Google account of any kind, YouTube, Google Mail or any of their other line of products, you may be interested to learn that you can now check how much time you’re spending on each of the applications you’re using. So if you suspect you’re spending too much time dawdling around on Gmail or doing too much searching on the Google search engine, this is the place to find out.

Bookmark This! April 5, 2012 posted by Nigel

Fixoodle language translation community uses the wisdom of die horde

We’ve long had the feeling that social networks, cool as they are in many ways, could be so much better. For instance, instead of a community just logging in to gossip and chat about trivia, why couldn’t they spend time doing something genuinely useful for each other? Something which would confer a real benefit rather than just take up time?

Freeware April 4, 2012 posted by Nigel

Social Folders is a spamtastic way to sync content across social networks

There’s a large and growing number of online services and social networks clamouring for your attention and content. The mighty Facebook rules of course, as does Flickr for photos and Twitter for…um…tweets, but beyond these there are others coming up in the wings. Sites like Instagram for mobile photo sharing, Evernote, Picasa, Veoh, and more. One of the problems this presents is how to manage them all, and ensure that you keep control of where your content is going and…

Bookmark This! March 26, 2012 posted by Nigel

Bliss Control is a superb way to manage your social network settings

How many social networks do you belong to? At least one I bet. Well that’s all well and good, but what happens if you’ve signed up to a bunch of them, and you’re trying desperately to manage them, i.e. do things like change password, or email settings or your profile photos. It can be a nightmare to find all the relevant parts of each admin panel to get things done.