Snapask is a cool tool which delivers information such as wikipedia articles, stock quotes, weather, flight status, dictionary and many other stuff through email. It is basically meant for cellphone users to get information easily by sending an email to ask@snapask.com and sending the question in form of a command in the subject line ( they have given a list of commands on their webpage ).
Here’s how it works:
- 1. Add email to your cell phone or Blackberry’s address book.
2. When you have a question, e-mail email with a command in the subject line (body of the e-mail can be blank)
3. In less than 30 seconds, you’ll receive an e-mail with the information!
And that’s it ! Just make sure you check the various commands so that you can get the maximum information when needed. List of things you can check with Snapask:
- flight status
- traffic
- weather
- dictionary
- local time
- stock quote
- latest news
- Wikipedia entry
- movie showtimes
- yellow pages
- local businesses
- song lyrics
- slang term definitions
- sports scores
For more applications that let you obtain web information in similar way see MakeUseOf’s Ask Questions section.
Check out Snapask @ www.snapask.com [via Labnol.org] ( by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )