Posts by Category: Cool Web Apps & Sites

Cool web services and sites we really like.

Bookmark This! October 28, 2009 posted by

Stylizer – freeware CSS editor lets you craft gorgeous websites…maybe

Stylizer is a free CSS editor which is designed to let non-coder people wrestle the CSS of their site into shape using an on-screen menu system. The heart of the software lies in its real time preview which lets you manipulate and tweak the page right before your eyes, which makes the whole process of alignment and beauty much easier for the brain. There are a fair few freebie CSS editors around, but none as ambitious as this one, and there…


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Cool Web Apps & Sites October 23, 2009 posted by

Yebol – Semantic web search

I’ve been playing around with Yebol, a newish, and still beta search engine, and to my surprise I’ve found that I like it. Yebol is one of these semantic search engines, in that it combines results found using computer algorithms with results found by people to give you a great mix of search results. Yebol takes the opposite approach to the now-mainstream way of searching. It’s the same way that Google was a much-improved version of the old cluttered way…


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Bookmark This! October 22, 2009 posted by

WhenIsGood – no-fuss online meeting planner

If you have ever tried to coordinate a teleconference, meeting, or even dinner with your mates you know how hard it can be to find a time that is good for everyone. What’s more, if you’re doing this by email it can be pretty complicated keeping track of who replied and when they said they could make it. In most office situations there would be some enterprise application to help out, but outside of the office what can you use?…


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Cool Web Apps & Sites October 21, 2009 posted by

Allerta InPulse – mobile phone accessory keeps your hands free while messaging

The Allerta InPulse is a wrist worn mobile phone accessory that will display alerts and messages as they arrive to your phone without you needing to take the handset out of your pocket or bag. Right now it’s all very vapourware, with vague promises and specifications flickering across the Web. The inventor, Eric Migicovsky (pictured below) came up with the idea while at the University of Waterloo in Canada, and has been working on commercialising the thing since the tail end…


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Bookmark This! October 20, 2009 posted by

SeaMonkey – a cute but strangely irrelevant all-in-one Internet suite from Mozilla

Back in the day web browsers were not content to stay simple but bloated into huge sprawling products called Internet Suites. Well hey ho, here we are a decade later and what do I spy – why the SeaMonkey Internet Application Suite. My how time flies…in a circle. This suite of net tools contains a browser (based on Firefox ‘natch) an email client, HTML editor for creating web pages, IRC chat client and some web dev tools. It’s a lovely…


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Bookmark This! October 15, 2009 posted by

Google Wave Add-on For Firefox – free plugin brings Wave to your browser

I’ve been playing around with Google Wave for a few days now, and it’s definitely a fascinating piece of technology. The idea is to drag email and text communications into the 21st century by restructuring the way we chat with each other. As with all innovative tech, it’s going to take a while to see what benefit this initiative will bring to the table, but I’m tending to agree with Daniel Tenner in his view that at the very least…


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Bookmark This! October 6, 2009 posted by

Setster – swiftly embed an instant appointments calendar onto your site

Setster is a very cool new application to let you embed a fully functional appointment calendar on any website with just a few lines of code. There are other appointment services around – e.g. BookFresh.com – but this is the first time I’ve seen one which uses this cool widget type interface as a user interface. By doing it this way, the service immediately becomes more attractive to small companies with a web presence who don’t want to ‘offshore’ their service…


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Bookmark This! September 8, 2009 posted by

Wishpot – manage your wishlist across multiple websites

There are at least as many wish list services out there as there are shopping sites. What makes Wishpot different is that they not only provide a single consolidated location for your entire wishlist from Amazon to Zappos, they also will let you know when one of the merchants on their list has the item you want on sale. You can add stuff from any website via the IE Toolbar or Firefox plugin. And if you’re strapped for ideas you…


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cool tech August 20, 2009 posted by

Pixorial – Archive your youth

I’ll hazard a guess that just about everyone has boxes of old non-digital movies or video lying about the place. Film of backyard barbecues, or you and your siblings fighting over ice creams in front of historical landmarks. All safely locked away on Super8 or VHS. The only real way to preserve this old footage is to get it converted to digital and the best way to share it is to stick it on YouTube or Facebook. But that’s all…


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Bookmark This! August 10, 2009 posted by

Brandstack – new brand marketplace says yah boo to ad agencies

Brandstack is a new online marketplace for logos, domain names and anything else you might need (like a ready built website) to create your new business empire. Need a hot domain name like weturtle.com? You got it. It also copes with your print needs too, or it will do sometime soon. And it’s got a community and forum too, how awesomely awesome is that peeps? We’re liking anything that helps to spread the design and branding love, so we’ll give…


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Bookmark This! July 24, 2009 posted by

Quirky – the product development community with smarts

Quirky is a clever new community portal based around the idea of product development. Submit an idea, other members of the community vote on it and the winner product gets made in a factory and everything. The site promises to deliver a new product every few days, which is a pretty ambitious goal. The catch? You’ve got to hand over $99.00 to get your product idea on the board. Everything else is free.   I particularly like the fact that…


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Bookmark This! July 20, 2009 posted by

Wakoopa – discover new software and games

Wakoopa is certainly something new. It’s a software and games community sharing tool which looks at what you like and then starts to recommend the same kind of tools that others in the community are using. Download and install the free program and it monitors which programs you use. It also, rather scarily, uploads this information to the community server so it can be analysed, so if you’re a little worried about letting the world know you use MS Paint,…


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Bookmark This! July 16, 2009 posted by

Grouply – all your Yahoo! and Google groups in one place

Grouply is a cool way of managing your Google and Yahoo! groups all from a single login. Not only can you read all your messages in a handy collated digest form, but you can interact with friends, post Facebook type messages and generally mess around with your groups from a single nicely arranged location. You can’t create or join groups directly from within Grouply yet, that’s apparently coming later, but as anyone who’s ever suffered through the Google Groups interface will know, anything that makes…


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Awesome July 15, 2009 posted by

Minimum Noise – awesome crowdsourced music marketplace offers cash opportunities for musicians

Minimum Noise is a superb new online marketplace which connects musicians with people looking for custom created music. It’s based on a conventional marketplace meme such as you’ll find on all those freelance coder and designer sites like Rent-a-Coder, in that the buyer posts a need for a piece of music, and the musicians bid to win the contract. The musos can also upload clips to show the type of music they would/can supply and there’s a nice comments area where everything can…


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Bookmark This! July 15, 2009 posted by

Goofram – Google vs WolframAlpha

Still unsure whether the results WolframAlpha is coughing up are any good? Worried that Google isn’t giving you the full story? Fear no longer netizen, cos now there’s Goofram. Google results and WolframAlpha results side by side, although you may have to wait a little longer for the WolframAlpha results in my experience. There’s even a Goofram add-on for Firefox. Bookmark this and carry on. Search results are copyright their respective providers. All other content © 2009 Goofram.com Goofram.com is…


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