Posts by Category: Cool Web Apps & Sites

Cool web services and sites we really like.

Bookmark This! September 22, 2010 posted by

Five Ways to Download Torrents Anonymously

Lifehacker has an interesting little article up entitled Five Ways to Download Torrents Anonymously. What it says on the tin.  With anti-piracy outfits and dubious law-firms policing BitTorrent swarms at an increasing rate, many BitTorrent users are looking for ways to hide their identities from the outside world. Here’s an overview of five widely used privacy services. Tags: 5+ways+to+download+torrents+anonymously, lifehacker


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Bookmark This! September 21, 2010 posted by

Fizwoz – auction your cameraphone pictures and videos…and profit!

So you’ve got a camera phone, why not make some money out of it? Fizwoz is a new online marketplace where you can auction your captured images and video to the highest bidder. You set the start bid and Buy it Now price, upload the content and sit back and wait for the dosh to come rolling in. Easy eh? It’s all very paparazzi sleaze, stalk me in the morning, but hey, welcome to life in the 21 cen. From what…


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Bookmark This! September 21, 2010 posted by

JetDL – the ultimate file finder service?

JetDL is a new file location search engine which appears to focus on file sharing/upload sites like Megaupload and Rapidshare. The result is you can find a heap of files on there, but will generally have to put up with painful split files and lengthy download times. Still it’s a very useful candidate for your bookmarks, especially if you often find yourself hunting for that rare and special file that’s hard to catch elsewhere.  We have developed the most advanced search…


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Bookmark This! September 15, 2010 posted by

WiseStamp – freeware lets you add an uber signature to your email messages

WiseStamp is a freeware program which lets you customize your email messages with snazzy signatures, social networking content, RSS feeds and even simple apps. It works with online email services such as Hotmail, Gmail etc and is one of those programs which could either make you very popular or a pariah in your community.  Email Apps enable you to easily customize your email signatures with your personal social profiles and allows you to add to each outgoing email dynamic content…


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Awesome September 13, 2010 posted by

Musopen – recording classical music to set it free for the world

Musopen is a non-profit library of copyright free music, which is currently undergoing a fund raising drive in order to hire an orchestra to record all the major classical music works and release them to the public domain. To say this is awesome is an understatement. The project has so far raised $36,000+ and it deserves more, much more. Pass it round to everyone you know, let’s show the copyright fascists what an open arts and culture society can do. There’s 39…


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Bookmark This! September 1, 2010 posted by

Activity TV – children’s television on the web

Activity TV is an excellent example of the kind of hybrid television and web experience that makes the most of the current multimedia strength of video and the web. The whole site is crameed with a huge selection of practical things to do, like learning how to create cartoons, how to do arts and crafts and even exercise for the fitness freaks. The design is very accessible and the content top notch. Definitely worth a visit if you have youngsters in the…


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Bookmark This! August 25, 2010 posted by

Super Conversion Button – create a beautiful conversion button

Super Conversion Button is a cool little online app which lets you specify a few variations and then download a conversion button for your web app or service. You know, like Buy it Now! or something. It’s simple, fast and free. I’d prefer it if they weren’t harvesting email addresses quite so obviously, but hey…the price is compelling.  What is a call-to-action button? A call-to-action is one of the most important parts of any web page, displaying the primary action…


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Awesome August 20, 2010 posted by

Hipmunk – cool online flight finder strips out the intimidating

Hipmunk is a very cool online flight finder, which has completely abandoned the traditional boring, listing design motif in favour of a super neat web 2.0 graphical interface. The result is you get to see a lot more information, and more importantly it’s very easy on the eye, so you can find bargains and suitable flights very easily. The whole thing takes a lot of the ouch out of searching for flights, and there are some great features to make…


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Bookmark This! August 19, 2010 posted by

Pandaform – great little online form maker gives Wufoo some competition

Pandaform is a very nice online form generator which goes a few steps beyond vanilla Wufoo by offering a rudimentary payment processor for taking money from people, as well as shared databases and enhanced contact management. There’s even a nice anti-spam captcha option available. The interface is really good, and there’s a great set of ready made templates for common tasks like venue booking and product orders. If you’re in the market for a slick online form manager, this is definitely…


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Awesome August 18, 2010 posted by

100 Free Open Source Design Tools

This 100 Free Open Source Design Tools list is pretty useful if you’re in the market for some bits to add to your development toolbox. Free web designs and templates, HTML editors, themes and layouts. Should be enough for just about everyone.  This pervasiveness of the open source spirit in web design now means that you can use open source software to design both graphics and your CSS and HTML, and you can also use the dozens of reliable open…


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Bookmark This! August 18, 2010 posted by

Quirky – crowdsourced product service showing how it’s done

We covered the online crowdsourced product development service Quirky when it launched last year, so it’s pleasing to report that it seems to be going from strength to strength. What’s interesting is not just that people are coming forward with product ideas for the crowd to vote on and promote, but the fact that the products are actually interesting and in some cases downright cool. There’s a lot of creativity out there languishing for lack of a convenient home. Check it…


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Bookmark This! August 17, 2010 posted by

Shuffler – cool free Internet radio via music blogs

Shuffler is a brand new (in public Alpha release today) music streaming service that delivers categories of music via music blogs. Just select the music type you like (e.g. indie, hip-hop, folk etc) and you’ll be transported to a selection of music blogs via an on-screen player. They’re saying it’s like Pandora for music blogs, and we’d agree. It’s definitely a very cool idea and worth checking out. The only caveat is you should ensure you’ve got a good anti-virus…


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Bookmark This! August 10, 2010 posted by

Likeourselves – make new friends using your mobile phone

Likeourselves.com is a brand new smartphone app which gives you the power to read people’s minds as you walk around doing your stuff. OK, so maybe not exactly, but kinda. The idea is you sign up to the free service, enter in your interests, and then fire up the mobile app on your phone. As you walk around, the application locates other members and checks out their interests, and if you both match and allow a connection, it helps you meet…


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Awesome August 9, 2010 posted by

Dragontape – awesome new app lets you create mixtapes of your favourite videos

Dragontape is a new web application for creating video mixtapes of your fave Youtube videos. It’s brilliant! Just fire it up, enter your search term and drag and drop the resulting videos onto the timeline. Perfect for creating an awesome music video playlist for your party, or just setting up a kittens video timeline to keep the little ones amused for a while.  Dragontape is a webapp that enables you to create mixtapes of your favorite online videos, so you can watch…


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