Posts by Category: Cool Web Apps & Sites

Cool web services and sites we really like.

Cool Web Apps & Sites November 3, 2010 posted by

Field Agent – the first app that pays you

Field Agent bills itself as ‘the first app that pays you’, and it’s a clever idea all right. The concept revolves around having people download the free app to their mobile phone, after which they register as an ‘agent’ available for freelance jobs. Clients can then hire these agents via the phone app to do tasks, rather like Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, for which they’re paid. The power of this approach lies in the instant communications system, the power of a…


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Bookmark This! November 2, 2010 posted by

Cloudfire – photo sharing for busy parents

Cloudfire is a easy to use online photo sharing service designed for people who don’t have the time or interest in doing things complicated like uploading to servers etc. To get going download the free software and set up your own gallery. Then when you want to share new photos with friends and family, just drag and drop them into the gallery and the app will notify your sharers and they can view the updates. Think of it as a…


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Cool Web Apps & Sites October 28, 2010 posted by

100 Greatest YouTube Hits in 4 Minutes

Don’t usually cover this stuff, but I thought for history’s sake, I would include this 100 Greatest YouTube Hits in 4 Minutes video for y’all, so that future generations of anthropologists could quickly grab a snapshot of our vapid Internet culture circa 2010. It makes for LOLS viewing, peeps. Really.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BudhFVnN2o0 PS I’m so glad Matt made the cut. Tags: 100+greatest+youtube+hits+in+4+minutes, youtube, video


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Awesome October 27, 2010 posted by

MapCrunch – Chatroulette meets Google Street View

MapCrunch is a delightful little online app which marries the random voyeurism of Chatroulette with the cool travel vibe of Google Street View. Just click the Go button to be transported to a random location on this great big beautiful globe of ours. You know what? It’s incredibly addictive, in a ‘I really want to see the world‘ kind of way. Even better, you can set it up as an automatic full screen slideshow and travel the world from the comfort of…


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Awesome October 26, 2010 posted by

OpenFile – is this the perfect model for a new era of grass roots journalism?

OpenFile is a new and very cool online service which is attempting to put the vroom back into local news reporting. What’s clever about this Canadian site is the fact that any member of the public can login and trigger a story they want covered. The site will then allocate one of their team of professional journalists to cover the stories as needed. It’s not clear whether these journos cover all submissions or just the most popular/best ones, but in any case…


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Bookmark This! October 20, 2010 posted by

Dropitto.me – free upload service makes it super easy for people to send you files

Dropitto.me is a new free service for Real Easy file sharing. All you need to do is set up an account, and then give someone a URL –  e.g. dropitto.me/ferret – from where they can upload the file they want to give you. The upload page requires a password for security, and uploaded files (max size 75MB) are automatically dumped into your Dropbox folder. That’s it. Sweet and simple. It’s in beta at the moment, but well worth bookmarking for emergencies. Oh and you…


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Bookmark This! October 19, 2010 posted by

Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator – cool free tool for sprucing up your website

The free online Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator is a neat little tool for web designers which helps create slick looking gradients for groovy web sites. It’s based around the very latest web technologies, so you’ll need the latest version of the web browsers to use it. Nice.  You’ll need a recent version of Firefox, Chrome or Safari to use this Gradient Generator. The resulting CSS gradients are cross-browser – they will work in these browsers and will also fall back to…


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Bookmark This! October 18, 2010 posted by

18 Social Network Alternatives to Ning and Facebook

This list of 18 Alternatives to Ning and Facebook, offers up a selection of jolly worthy social networking sites which each provide a decent feature set and yet will probably shamble along in the shadow of the great one until such time as the Facebook starts to atrophy from old age. Still it’s worth a look if only to check out what other cool things you can do with a group of people online. And now that Facebook has introduced…


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Bookmark This! October 14, 2010 posted by

Journalism Warning Labels – bringing the fight to sloppy reporting

I have to take my hat off to Tom Scott, the chap behind Journalism Warning Labels. We’re entering into a new gruesome age of ‘churnalism‘ such as the world has never experienced, which makes it as good a time as any to help fight the disease. The idea is to print off stickers and stick them physically onto free newspapers in the cities, to ensure that at least some folk understand how little information in newspapers is actually genuine, rather than PR…


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Awesome October 7, 2010 posted by

Waze – crowdsourced GPS navigation promises lots of awesomeness

Waze is an awesome new free GPS navigation service which promises to radically improve the road travel experience in a number of very cool ways. For one thing the software –  available in 4 languages for just about every phone platform on the planet –  learns as you drive, so it will pick up on your favourite routes and suggest those after a while, which is something I have always wished for in a navigation package. The coolest thing though…


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Bookmark This! October 7, 2010 posted by

QVAC – instant irc type chat gets a Swedish makeover

QVAC is a new instant group chat service which aims to make it uber simple to set up and chat in groups. Yesterday’s introduction of the new Groups feature in Facebook shows that there’s a demand for more contextual conversations, and I like the simplicity of this service a lot. You can set up private or public groups for any topic you like, and invite your friends to hook up instantly and there’s a private messaging feature built in if…


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Cool Web Apps & Sites October 4, 2010 posted by

Mulve – freeware music finder offers 10 million tracks for free download

Mulve is a freeware music finder program which makes no pretension to be anything other than a way to find and download music tracks. What makes it different is the fact that it’s very fast (download a track in 4 seconds or less) and the scope of the library, which the developers say offers 10 million tracks. The interface is bare bones, you get no streaming or auditioning of tracks and there’s no subtlety about the search. Enter in a name…


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Cool Web Apps & Sites October 4, 2010 posted by

Internet Eyes – spot a crime and win a cash prize

Internet Eyes is a spooky new service which lets members of the public sign up to monitor random CCTV cameras to hunt for crimes being committed in shops. The watchers pay a monthly fee to join, and receive a small ‘watching allowance’ depending on their hours logged in, and the ‘Viewer’ who makes the best contribution to the prevention or detection of a crime each month can win up to £1000.00 in prize money. Scared yet? The service comes across…


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Bookmark This! September 23, 2010 posted by

Wikitup – freeware brings a global knowledgebase to your fingertips

Wikitup is a freeware program which gives you CTRL-Right Click access to an instant dictionary and search engine, from any Windows program, browsers, word-processors, spreadsheets et al. The cool bits include a live YouTube search and video player, and instant access to Wikipedia definitions for any word you highlight. I can’t say I’m hugely in love with the interface, it’s a little too fussy and olde style for my liking, but there’s no question that the utility of the program…


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Bookmark This! September 22, 2010 posted by

iRadeo – start your own online radio station for free

iRadeo. Minimalist interface, live streaming of unlimited MP3 files to unlimited listeners, player customisation and web embedding, stream downloading option. They don’t do the hosting, so you’ll need to have web addresses for the files you’re streaming. There’s also a Pro version for $9 a month.  iRadeo provides unlimited streams and with the ability to support unlimited listeners – all free. Unique features such as complete customization of player types, favorite reporting and digital delivery are just a few great tools…


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