The care plans are also adaptive meaning they improve based on other users’ feedback. You can also take pictures of your plants and choose when to receive notifications. Sharing pictures and information about your plants on Facebook is another great feature Koubachi offers.

Features:

• Get reminders to help you care for plants.
• Care plans specific to species.
• Browse library and share photos.
• Similar tools: SmartGardener, MyGarden, Garden Pest Detective, GardenPuzzle, GardenPlanner, SproutRobot, iBotanika and MyPlantId.
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Download Koubachi from iTunes [Via TheNextWeb]

Homeowners know that there is always a million things to do, and it can be next to impossible to keep track of them all. With HomeSpot, it becomes much easier, because you can keep everything you need in one place. It makes it easy to remember when your hot water heater needs to be changed or what color you wanted to paint your home office. Instead of having notes and papers scattered around, you will have an organized, easy to access spot for everything.

In additon to keeping track of projects and maintenance, HomeSpot also has the ability to keep track of objects in your house. So if you want to keep track of all your tools you can do that. They even have owner manuals for many popular items.

Features:

• Keep track of all maintence that needs to be performed on your house.
• Plan and keep track of new projects.
• Keep track of items in your house.
• Owners manuals for many items.
• Easy to use and has everything in one place.
• Similar tools: Keepm and HouseholdProducts.

Lofts is a web service that helps you find property in and around the Boston area. You can simply visit the site’s homepage and search for property based on its location. You can also specify the price range and the number of bedrooms the place has. From the top option you can specify whether you are looking for a place to buy or rent.

Each listing has a unique ID that you can enter to be quickly taken to it. Apart from these searching options, the homepage lists featured loft sales.

On a loft’s page you will find completely detailed information including a description, square footage, and the sales price. The lofts you like can be added to your list of favorites after you create an account on the site.

In the bottom right of every lofts page you can view the agent who is to be contacted regarding the loft.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Helps you find lofts to rent.
• Helps you find lofts to purchase.
• Currently covers Boston and surrounding areas.
• Lets you search for lofts by location and price.
• Includes agent contact details for each loft.

Check out Lofts @ www.lofts.com (By Umar from AllthatIsApple)

HouseFix is a web service that lets you publish details of your house construction projects online. You can specify your house’s location along with the detailed nature and type of the construction you are planning. You can even add a planned start date for your project. Next you can make the project’s details publicly viewable.

Various contractors then check out your listing and bid on the project to provide you with their expertise at competitive prices. You can then choose your contractor from the application based on their ratings.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Helps you find contractors.
• Lets you publish details of your projects.
• Lets contractors bid on your projects to give you competitive prices.
• Similar tools: DeckDesigner, IKEAHackers, Fixr, FurnitureDesignBank and iFixit.

Check out HouseFix @ www.housefix.com/homeowner/benefits (by MOin from Urban Savior)

RentChimp aims to solve this problem to make your Craigslist apartment hunt faster and more convenient. It lets you bookmark and compare multiple rental listings on a screen with a single click. It groups each apartment’s features (number of bedrooms, rent, dogs, cats etc.) into separate columns, which makes it very easy for you to sort and rank the apartments depending on the feature .

As you add more apartments, you can rank listings yourself by arranging them with your mouse on the screen. Secondly, you will get notifications when any of your saved listings expire, so there’s no need to come back and check every listing manually. To try it out, log in with your Facebook account.

They also provide a handy bookmarklet. Drag-and-drop it onto your browser toolbar to bookmark listings directly from Craigslist with a single click.

Features:

• Bookmark and easily compare apartment listings from Craigslist.
• Share your bookmarked listings with friends, let them leave comments with their Facebook information.
• Search and filter listings without going to Craiglist’s website.
• View your bookmarked listings on a Google map.
• Free, login with your Facebook to start using.

Check out Rentchimp @ www.rentchimp.com

The web app also provides a search feature which lets you conduct a quick search for an item and find the corresponding container. Obviously, smartphone users will benefit more from this tool.

Features

• Create containers online with list of items.
• Label the containers and get QR codes for pasting on your box of items.
• Search for an item and its container online.
• Similar tools: MovingLabelKit, CityMove and BoxCycle

Check out Boxmeup @ www.boxmeupapp.com (By Abhijeet from Guiding Tech)

You can zoom in to see crime numbers in specific neightbourhoods and view street intersections with the most crimes. Click on a crime circle to see more detailed information – types of crimes committed (theft, assault, robbery etc), recent crime history and exact crime locations.

The black circles show the recent crimes (last 10 days), whereas the heatmap shows the long term crime trends of the area indicating incidents per block per year.

Features:

• View crime rates by state, country, city, neighbourhood and postal code on an interactive map.
• Filter crimes by type (shooting, robbery, assault, arson etc) and zoom in to see the intersections with the most crimes.
• View crime trends by hour and by day.
• Provided by Trulia, a real estate search engine.
• Free, no registration to use the app.
• Similar tools: CrimeReports and SpotCrime.

Check out Trulia Crime Maps @ www.trulia.com/crime

As of now, there are 27 available designs in the Furniture Design Bank. The designs are made using Google Sketchup and you can download them in Google’s 3D warehouse. This way, you can view them on your own computer, although you need to download and install Sketchup first (you don’t have to learn how to use the program, you just need it for opening the files). Also, the designs are also made to the scale in inches, so that you have a guideline on the dimensions of the materials.

The designs presented in the Furniture Design Bank are very simple so that even beginner DIY’ers will be able to do them on their own. The materials for the furniture can also be substituted. Lastly, the equipment required to make these furniture are just the basic ones and you don’t need fancy tools to make them.

Features:

• Browse various furniture designs.
• Designs are simple and can be made by entry-level DIY’ers.
• Designs are created to the scale in inches.
• View the 3D designs using Google Sketchup.
• Furniture designs can be made with variable material and basic woodworking tools.
• Similar Tools: IKEA Hackers, SnapShop Showroom , and A Simple Measure.

Check out Furniture Design Bank @ www.furnituredesignbank.com/Gallery.html

To get started, sign up for a free account, create your apartment and add housemates.  If required, use its rent-splitting calculator to fairly estimate how much each of the housemates should pay for the rent (based on the size of the bedroom, windows, closet and other amenities). Once you are done, each housemate can log in to manage shared bill-tracking, view reports and add comments.

Rent splitting calculator

Features:

• Split rent fairly between roommates
• Keep track of shared living expenses.
• Easy debt tracking.
• Automatic reminders.
• Furniture calculator: calculate the fair value of used furniture.
• Mobile version available.
• Free, sign up to get started.

Check out SplitTheRent @ www.splittherent.com via (Lifehacker)

VyooIT is a free to use web service that lets you create mobile-friendly real estate listings. After creating an account on the website you can enter the details of your property available for sale or rent to create a ‘Vyoo’.  Alternatively you can use the URL of an existing online property listing like that on Postlets.

The site generates a short URL and QR code for your listing. The short URL makes sharing the property over social networks easy and the QR codes helps smartphone users to quickly reach your property listing page through their phones.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Lets you create mobile-friendly real estate listings.
• Accepts new listing information or a URL of existing online listing.
• Provides shortened URL and QR code for listing.
• Offers direct sharing buttons for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and email.
• Similar tools:MyRental, Zilok, UnitConnect, PadMapper, RentBits and ASimpleMeasure.

Check out VyooIT @ www.vyoo.it (by MOin from ThumbPress)