If you’re an amateur photographer trying to make a living off your work, you’d know how difficult it is to find clients and get them to at least take a look at your work. On the other hand, if you’re a customer trying to find professional photographers (that doesn’t cost the earth) for your special [...]
When you call a large company, it is a dread to listen and follow through all those phone menu instructions (“press 1 for English”, “press 2 for Spanish”, etc). Fonolo is a handy web service that lets you skip the phone menu instructions and connects you directly to your desired extension. Instead of listening to [...]
Here is a nice little web app for New Yorkers. PrimoSpot helps you quickly find free parking spots and garages in busy areas of NYC. At the moment it covers parking spots in Manhattan and Brooklyn areas. Queens, Philadelphia and Boston areas are coming soon. Enter the address, intersection, or a zip code and click [...]
Outalot is a location-based local directory. Tell Outalot where you are and it will show you the nearest restaurants, bars, movie theaters and shops. It lets find nearby restaurants, movie theaters (incl. show times), It will also show the exact location of the place on the area map. Currently Outalot supports only New York City [...]
Using MobileTraffic you can check live traffic cameras from your mobile phone and see whether one or the other road junction is busy. It helps you find out what is the best road to take. The service is quite new and already has 4,655 cameras across 7 countries, including most of the major cities like [...]
4info is an ultimate all-purpose free assisstant for your mobile phone. Want weather reports, stock quotes, flight status, package status, nearby WiFi hotspots,…. it’s all here. Quick, simple and free. How does it work? (1)
Boopsie is a thin, yet powerful search client for your mobile phone. The idea behind this search tool, is to help you find whatever you’re lookng with as little typing as possible. And it achieves this by combining live search with topic-specific search channels (dictionary, news, movies, etc.). LifeHacker: “Boopsie, a free mobile search app, [...]
One of a kind online service where you can instantly calculate the cost of a taxi ride in a number of top cities worldwide (London, New York, Rome …). Accessible both from the web and mobile phone. Please note that WorldTaximeter doesn’t give you an actual taxi fare but a failry good estimate (accuracy is [...]
MoDazzle makes it easy to access Facebook, LinkedIn and dozens of other web services (local directory services, weather, stock quotes, etc.) via email or mobile text messaging (sms). Using MoDazzle you can: 1. Access, retrieve and update profile information (ex. LinkedIN, Facebook): update your Facebook ‘status’, get ‘un-read’ messages from your Facebook inbox, get someone’s [...]
Fed up of automated answering machines? Enter GetHuman, a growing database of direct access phone numbers for top 500 US companies and government agencies. From major bank headquarters, airline offices, to IRS and FBI phone numbers. If a company you’re looking for is not listed, see the ‘tips’ page for a couple tricks on how [...]