If you visit a great website on your computer and you want to open it up on your phone, what do you do? Do you type in the entire URL through your phone’s keypad? If yes, then there is a much better alternative to send links from your computer to your phone. It is called [...]
As location is turning out to be the next big thing online, it’s imperative that new apps will emerge in order to make use of this opportunity. The Hotlist is one of them, and I’d say a pretty useful one. It aggregates location-specific data from various sites (primarily Facebook) and shows the hot events around [...]
Traffic jams are time consuming and frustrating. In NYC more than half of the jams result from a lack of parking spots. A great solution to this is presented by Roadify. Roadify is a free web service that helps NYC residents find parking space. The spots are updated by the site’s own members. In exchange [...]
Apple’s iOS devices are some of the best in the world, but many will agree that you are compromising a lot when you use an iPhone or iPod touch. One compromise is the fact that your iPhone can only be synchronized with one computer. Fortunately PhoneAble is a downloadable utility that lets you sync iphone [...]
When it comes to innovation, it’s hard to beat Google. That’s exactly what the Google Sky Map app for the Android phone shows. It helps you explore the night sky by just pointing your Android phone to the sky. It uses the phone’s GPS, built-in compass, accelerometer and clock to get your location and detect [...]
CRADAR is one useful emergency app to have come out in the past few months. This free Android motion sensing applications that gets activated whenever you fall, waits for a predefined amount of time (30 – 120 seconds) and if you don’t move at least 8 feet within that time, sends an alert to one [...]
Apps are a way of life now. However, since apps are so common, one shouldn’t have to be a developer to create an app. Based on this principle, AppInventor lets you create android apps without writing any code. Instead of writing code, AppInventor lets you use pre-defined components like buttons, labels, location sensors, list picker, [...]
No matter how much you love watching the World Cup, you have to admit that the buzzing sound coming from the vuvuzela annoys you. If you are streaming the game online, you can have a quick audio fix simply by downloading the Devuvuzelator. This desktop program works by identifying the frequencies of the vuvuzela and [...]
Twitter has it. Facebook has it. And now, Google Buzz has it, via a third party. BuzzViaSMS is a web app that allows users to post to Google Buzz via SMS. Just sign up, register your phone, and posting to Buzz will become as easy as sending a text to (925) BUZZ-SMS. The service officially [...]
If you are a movies fanatic and like to impress your friends with your movies knowledge and the number of movies you have seen, then iCheckMovies is just the site for you. iCheckMovies is a free to use website based in the Netherlands; it lets you register for an account in which you can keep [...]