Posts by Category: Cool Web Apps & Sites

Cool web services and sites we really like.

Bizarre December 1, 2010 posted by

American Express now lets you exchange reward points for FarmVille credit

I’m starting to think that I’m the last person to use FaceBook without ever playing FarmVille. It’s probably for the best, as it seems to be one of the most addicting games� known to man. A while back they introduced FarmVille credit, which allowed you to exchange real money for virtual items in the game. That seemed crazy enough, but now things have gone even further. American Express will now allow you to trade in reward points for FarmVille credit….


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Bookmark This! November 29, 2010 posted by

TicTacDo – a collaborative to-do checklist service on steroids

TicTacDo is an interesting new service which aims to beef up the humble To-Do list and make it much more collaborative and easy to use. For starters you just enter in the project you want, and the system will try and find a ready made to-do checklist to use as a template. It’s a neat idea and could save a lot of time. The list of ready made lists ranges from the banal such as teaching your kid how to…


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Bookmark This! November 26, 2010 posted by

AudioDraft – crowdsource your next music need

AudioDraft is a new crowdsourced music service, which helps musicians hook up with those who need custom music tracks. Anyone can post a request (or contest) for some music, which musicians can bid for. The buyer sets the license terms (exclusivity and duration) and the prize fee, and then gets to select and rate the best entries. Once a winner is chosen, the fee is paid to the lucky musician and the buyer gets their music to use as specified. It’s a clever adaptation of the current…


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Cool Web Apps & Sites November 23, 2010 posted by

zButterfly – gorgeous looking freeware for downloading movies

zButterfly is a new freeware program designed to let your grandma download movies for free. Really now, this is getting more than silly. Every time the poor old media industry knocks off one product, up pops another even more sophisticated and easy to use. This is like a war of attrition which only the mutant virus wins. Anyhoo, the Java based program comes with a number of different interface options, ranging from the default granny friendly beginner mode, to a…


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Bookmark This! November 23, 2010 posted by

Compassion Pit – chat anonymously with a stranger and unburden your troubles

Compassion Pit is a nice idea. A free anonymous chat room which lets people ‘connect with someone who will listen’. Kind of an online Samaritans I guess. The service is open to both listeners and talkers, and while we’re not sure how the service moderates the listeners to ensure quality, it’s still a nice idea. What a shame, though, that our Western society has become so fragmented that we need things like this, eh?  You want to share your feelings, but you can’t…


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Bookmark This! November 22, 2010 posted by

Hooeey Webprint – freeware lets you automatically save your web browsing trail as you go

The quirkily named Hooeey Webprint is a new freeware software and online service combo which automatically captures your web surfing history as you go. Think of it as a web bookmarking system on steroids. But wait, I hear you cry, you can already do that with default bookmarking or with tools such as Scrapbook or Evernote. Ah yes, dear reader, but this is an automatic service. No button pushing or logging in needed. Just fire up your browser with the Adobe Air…


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Bookmark This! November 19, 2010 posted by

Mielophone – cool new open source music sharing program covers it all

Mielophone is a new freeware music sharing program which really does cover it all. The open source software (the source code is here) is based on the Adobe Air platform, and lets you stream and download tracks, watch videos, and listen to a radio playlist of artists similar to your search criteria. The Russian developers are claiming it to be a ‘Napster like application’, and it does have a very complete feature list.  However it isn’t as effective as the late Mulve.com software at…


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Bookmark This! November 16, 2010 posted by

12 YouTube Hacks – how to get maximise your enjoyment of everyone’s favourite video site

I really like this list of 12 YouTube Hacks, as it defines just how popular this video site has become for all of us, both young and old. I particularly like TubeChop (which lets you splice YouTube videos to highlight a specific section) and the YouTube Labs. I am currently trying out the super lean Feather version of YouTube from the labs, and it’s fun.  Whether you want to view a video with a far-away friend, compare two clips, or find…


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Bookmark This! November 16, 2010 posted by

QR Generators – how to make your own for free

QR barcode generators are cool. So cool in fact that one day they’re going to be a mad craze, you watch. Just as soon as someone works out how to use them on products for fun and profit via smartphone cameras and stuff. So, being one step ahead of the game, here’s our offering of a trio of QR generators you can use to encode virtually anything to be smartphone readable. Kaywa QR Code Generator. Very cool online barcode generator which copes…


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Bookmark This! November 10, 2010 posted by

OpenHatch – the free portal for open source projects

OpenHatch is a neat online portal which aims to bring together open source projects and potential contributors. It’s a great resource for those who would like to get involved but don’t know where to start looking. It’s all totally free, and anyone can add their project to the database in order to find contributors, which is cool.  OpenHatch was founded in May 2009 by three alumni of the free culture and free software movements. The company was part of startup…


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Bookmark This! November 9, 2010 posted by

Likify – generate Facebook likes for your product anywhere

Likify is a very cool bit of tech which lets anyone solicit Facebook Likes for their product or service using QR barcodes printed on real stuff. So for instance you can print out a barcode for your tea shop, stick it on your menu and have people scan it with their smartphones and give you a thumbs up if they enjoy your Earl Gray. Or whatever. This combination of off and online is just delicious, and we’re giving it a…


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Bookmark This! November 9, 2010 posted by

We Love Your Songs – artist site offers new music and cool voting

We Love Your Songs is a neat new unsigned music artist portal, which features lots of nice tracks, community voting and competitions too. It’s nice to see the music sector continue to muster up new initiatives like this.  Our principal aim is to empowers artists that are not yet signed by any music label, and we are committed to provide the best environment possible for the artists that are part of our community to be heard on internet, and for the music fans to discover…


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Bookmark This! November 8, 2010 posted by

Easy Photo Uploader for Facebook – simple Simon

Easy Photo Uploader for Facebook. Open Windows Explorer, select the photo/s on your computer you want to upload to your Facebook account, right mouse click and select ‘Send your photo to Facebook’. Job done. One task freeware, no fuss.  Easy Photo Uploader for Facebook is a windows application to automatically resize and upload photos to your existing or new Facebook photo album. Save time and send pictures without being online on Facebook web site. Tags: easy+photo+uploader+for+facebook, freeware, photography, social+networking


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Awesome November 4, 2010 posted by

Phile – cool new way for groups to chat about stuff they love

Phile is a new beta online application which brings together a bunch of cool features to let groups of people chat and share their passions via the web. The key feature is the ease of set up and administration and certainly the devs have done a superb job of making it easy to set up the database and populate the site with starter content. The whole UI is clean, uncluttered and easy to navigate and there’s a great starter wizard to help…


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Awesome November 3, 2010 posted by

FrostWire for Android – the first mobile P2P file sharing freeware

FrostWire for Android is the world’s first P2P file sharing network program for a mobile phone. It’s WiFi only so no 3G transfers allowed, and it comes with all the chat and sharing features you’d expect. The freeware is based on a new file sharing protocol called MetaFrost which is optimised for mobile phones, which means your choice of general public content will be less, but your downloading experience should be better. I especially like the dev’s commitment to open source the code once it’s…


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