Cool web services and sites we really like.
If you want to travel long distances, there’s a good chance that you’ll consider flying. After all, in an airplane, you can travel to the other side of the country in a matter of hours, rather than days. Of course, if you’re driving, you don’t have to worry about an annoying passenger sitting next to you. Wouldn’t it be great if you could not only pick where you sit, but who you sit by? Soon you will.
Treshr is a kind of mashup between Craigslist, Google Maps and Freecycle, and offers a place where you can find stuff people are giving away. Cute name apart (dig for treshr, geddit?) the app is actually quite neat, although I do wish the search was more global and not confined to a location. I suspect this is just because there’s very little material on there at the moment, which makes finding a hand embroidered gold taffeta doily a tad difficult. But stick to San…
Yep, we’re a sucker for a new launch, so we’ve gone and set up a Google+ Page of our very own. Took a mere 5 minutes (including uploading the image) and off we went. Nice! You can find us at https://plus.google.com/103925240319608422257 (I assume eventually we’ll get vanity Page names, eh?) and don’t forget to add us to your circle if you’re already a Google+ user. If you’re not, why not? I’ve been playing around with it for a few weeks now, and…
Google+ still has a long way to go if it’s going to overtake Facebook as the social network of choice for the masses. Of course, it does have some features that Facebook can’t offer. Take, for instance, their new built-in photo editor. While it is certainly no Photoshop, the newly launched editor is one of the more powerful online ones around. You aren’t limited to just cropping, rotating and doing some minor brightness/contrast tweaks. The robust toolset provides you with…
When surfing the internet,� you’re always encountering new and interesting or funny things. Your natural desire is usually going to be to share these things with your friends, however, that may not be the smart thing to do. What if this wonderful new thing has actually been around for years? Now your friends are going to think that you’ve been living under a rock! Well fear not, as Is It Old? has you covered. This simple website has one simple…
If you’re going to spend some money on something, you generally want to make sure that it lives up to your expectations. Sure, you probably aren’t going to be too worried about that $10 flash drive you picked up on a whim. But what if you’re spending a few hundred bucks on a new TV, or a few thousand on a car? The obvious answer is to get online and seek out reviews on the item you’re considering. There are…
Do the people in your house (or office) waste too much time playing Facebook? Have you ever wanted to make sure they couldn’t play them, but still allow them to browse the social network? As it turns out, there is a way to do it, so long as you don’t mind messing with some settings on your router. The guys over at MakeUseOf have put together a great guide on how to block most Facebook games on your network. One…
The internet is a crazy place. Between emails, status updates, tweets, news articles and more, there is a lot of information coming at you all at once. The trouble is actually finding a way to harness all of that information and make it work for you. I think I have stumbled onto one of the greatest tools that can help make the most of your internet experience. It’s called ifttt. ifttt sounds pretty boring, but it stands for �if this…
When it comes to social networking, Facebook still reigns supreme. A lot of people really want Google+ to take off, but without a broad user base, it never will. An interesting approach that people are taking is instead of completely switching to one, they’re finding ways to integrate Facebook into Google+. One such way of doing this is with SGPlus. If you head to the SGPlus page, you can download their browser extension, login to Google+, and grab your photos…
Do you have a specialized skill that you think is going untapped? Do you think that people would actually pay for your advice on a specific subject? If so, there actually might be a way for you to earn a bit of extra cash, simply by giving advice to other people. At least that is the idea behind MinuteBox. This interesting site lets you sell your time, or purchase someone else’s. Depending on the role you want to take, you…
As much as I’d like to believe otherwise, Google+ hasn’t exactly risen up to overthrow Facebook. In fact, so few of my friends have joined and regularly use it that I barely log on anymore. It’s hard to enjoy a social network when you remove the social aspect. Well, if you’re dedicated to Google+, you might find Gooce+ to be of interest. With Gooce+ you can integrate both your Facebook and Twitter feeds into your Google+ feed. No more logging…
One of my favorite ways to communicate with someone that’s not in the same room is via IM. Something about phone conversations has always bothered me, and texting is too much of a hassle. I figure that since I’m generally close to a keyboard anyway, why not just open a chat window? Facebook has unfortunately become the IM client of choice for a number of people, so I find myself using it from time to time. I’m not a fan…
For many years I’ve done the majority of my online communication via instant messengers such as Yahoo, AIM, and more recently, Skype. However, it seems that a lot of people are instead opting to use Facebook’s own chat functionality. Personally, I’ve never used a more buggy messenger, but the convenience of having it built into a social network is what appeals to most users. Well, if you want to take your Facebook chat with you no matter where you go,…
Despite being the most connected person I know (and spending a majority of my time on the internet) I actually don’t care much for social networking. Twitter is one service that still baffles me to this day. I get that there are some uses for it, but for the average person, I just don’t think that there is much of a point. Needless to day, despite my thoughts on the matter, millions of people use it, and many want to…
DropTunes is a clever new online app which lets you use Dropbox.com as a music locker to store your tracks. Yes of course you could use Google Docs or Amazon’s new storage area or any of a multitude of online services, but the use of DropBox means you can sync the tracks across computers and even do cool things like play your iTunes library from within Dropbox on any synched computer. Pretty cool stuff. And it’s free. DropTunes accesses and…
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