Posts by Category: Cool Web Apps & Sites

Cool web services and sites we really like.

Bookmark This! March 3, 2010 posted by

Flavors.me – sharp stylish simple personal websites for free

Flavors.me is a very stylish, very simple personal website maker. It comes with instant sign up and a small but super cool set of customizations you can use to personalize your page. Add your Flickr gallery, Facebook, Last.fm music playlists, and tailor the front page with fonts, colors and styles. Check the video. Very nice indeed.  Flavors.me allows anyone to create an elegant website using personal content from around the internet Ideal for personal homepages, lifestreaming, splash and microsites, celebrity fan…


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Bookmark This! March 2, 2010 posted by

FreeTube – free online television done properly

FreeTube is free online television. And guess what? It actually works, and without blinding you with acres of advertising, blinky smilies, pop up marigolds or whatever other spammy nonsense those other TV sites serve up. It’s even got a handy diagnosis page to check whether you’ve got everything you need to enjoy the programming. Very nice indeed.  Welcome to FreeTube – a service that lets you watch live Internet TV channels online for free without the need for any special…


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cool tech March 1, 2010 posted by

Hobo 1.0 launches – open source ruby on rails toolkit emerges blinking from beta

Long time readers will remember that I’m a partner with the most awesome Mr Tom Locke in the Hobo project, an open source rapid web app builder for Ruby on Rails. Well, after 3 years of sterling work by the Hobo community and some very useful sponsorship from Barquin International in Washington, DC, the project has moved out of beta to Version 1.0. What’s that mean to you? Well nothing, unless you’re a web developer looking to create web applications,…


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Awesome February 26, 2010 posted by

Google Moderator – harnessing the wisdom of the crowds, Google style

Google has just introduced a new service in the Google Labs called Google Moderator. Simple idea, provide a web space where anyone can post a question, idea or topic and let the public vote, comment or suggest relevant responses. There’s a big handy vote button which gives you community moderation, and there are also private moderation facilities to manage trolls etc.   It’s a great idea, and the type of thing that only a company like Google would think of…


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Awesome February 25, 2010 posted by

Open source alternatives – keeping it real in a sea full of commercial proprietary

The most disturbing thing about the current Web 2.0 environment is just how much of our user data is owned by closed shop companies, who basically can do what they like with it. The fact is we’re slowly returning to a walled garden world – Facebook as the new AOL? Very worrying, as this post demonstrates. So it’s nice to know there are people trying to provide more open, free and non restrictive alternatives for us to use if necessary. Keep an eye…


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Bookmark This! February 18, 2010 posted by

Divvyshot – cool online photo album creator based around events

Divvyshot is a new online photo album which takes a different approach to sharing your photos. Everything is based around events, and once an event is created, anyone can add their own images to the site and have them displayed as part of the occasion. It may seem obvious, but this is something that I haven’t seen done properly in the past, this kind of thing is generally just an add-on feature which you can use. By putting event sharing first,…


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Bookmark This! February 11, 2010 posted by

How to do Everything in Google Buzz (including turn it off)

How to do Everything in Google Buzz (including turn it off). Typically valuable article from Gina Trapani on the new wunderkind from the big G. Buzz is predictably getting some buzz, and this piece helps to put it all into a bit of context. Will the service be useful? Time tells all, dear reader. Right now I think it has more instant appeal than Google Wave, but who knows in the long term?  I see Buzz being useful for more personal, direct…


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Awesome February 9, 2010 posted by

The Meaning of Color – a must-keep explanation of the impact of color in design

The Meaning of Color is an absolutely brilliant post (the first of three) from Smashing Magazine which looks at the meaning of color in terms of design. It comes with some great practical examples of the use of color in web design. If you’re involved in design or even just interested, then you really need to bookmark this and keep it for permanent reference.  Outside the western world, red has different associations. For example, in China, red is the color…


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Bookmark This! February 8, 2010 posted by

10 Alternative Uses for WordPress

10 Alternative Uses for WordPress. No question that WordPress is now becoming *the* go-to website creator. Effortless setup, massive theme library and a growing number of exotic app focused plugins which can convert your humble blog into just about anything you desire. Except a hairdresser’s lunch bag. [Update: Oh yeah I forgot, there’s a No 11 they forgot – ClassiPress. Turn your WordPress blog into a classified advertising site. Neat.]  Fortunately, WordPress has become more than simply a blogging tool; it’s now possible…


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Awesome February 5, 2010 posted by

Delete Your Account – how to delete your account from major online services

Delete Your Account. Awesome site gives detailed info (and direct links) on how to delete your account from the major online services like Facebook, MySpace, The Pirate Bay, Flickr, Amazon etc. Still a work in progress, but a must-have bookmark nonetheless. Hot on the heels of the most excellent Web 2.0 Suicide Machine, hmm…is there a trend here?  Information on how to delete your account from all of the major social networking, blogging, shopping, etc. sites and services across the web…Feeling a…


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Bookmark This! January 27, 2010 posted by

Random Image Generator – fast free way to grab placeholder images for your project

Random Image Generator. Need a placeholder for your web page design and can’t be bothered to grab, crop, select? Then pop over here and use this neat little app. Just select the size, colour and quantity you want and press the Go! button. Voila, images as ordered. Cool and very useful if you’re in the design business. Tags: random+image+generator, web+design, online+application


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Cool Web Apps & Sites January 25, 2010 posted by

15 to Fame – grab your 15 minutes of fame now, before it’s too late

15 to Fame is an interesting little take on Warhol’s claim that one day we’ll all be famous for 15 minutes. The site features a single YouTube video on the front page which anyone can use to show off their skillz and gain notoriety. Of course you’ll need to wait until the site gets a million visitors a day to really make it fly, but hey…stranger things have LOLCatz happened. [one hint guys: zero sign-up needed!]  15tofame is the best place…


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Bookmark This! January 22, 2010 posted by

20 Real World Uses for Google Wave – just in case you were wondering…

20 Real World Uses for Google Wave. Just in case you were wondering what to do with this puzzling and yet interesting new tech.  If you’re not entirely familiar with what Google Wave is all about, we should let you know that it’s essentially a “hosted email” service, in which you can send messages to other users in real time. You can also have a large number of individuals included in the Wave with you, as well as install add-ons…


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Bookmark This! January 20, 2010 posted by

Tribler – free P2P software aims to make BitTorrent sharing user friendly

Developed through funding from the University of Delft in Holland and the EU, Tribler is a free BitTorrent P2P file sharing client designed to make file sharing easy to understand and use. The program runs on Mac, Windows and Linux and the interface is as basic as you’ll find, just a big search box and that’s it. No fiddling with config or settings, just fire up and search. And it’s fast. Very fast. The other major difference between this and…


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