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ZeroPC: Access & Navigate All Your Cloud Content From A Single Platform

TehseenBaweja — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:01:35 +0000

If you are an Internet user, it is more than likely that you store some of your content in the cloud be it Facebook, Google Docs, Dropbox or others. ZeroPC allows you to connect all your cloud storage in one single space and navigate through it seamlessly. The services supported are Box.net, Dropbox, Facebook, Twitter, Evernote, Flickr, Google Docs, Instagram, Picasa, Sky Drive and Sugar Sync.

Once you have authorized all your accounts, you only need to sign in once to your ZeroPC to access all your cloud content from various services. Then suppose you want to move your PDF files from Google Docs to Box.net, you can simple drag and drop them to complete the transfer in a Windows Explorer window. You can also search and analyze your cloud content and backup the important content. You also get lots of web apps and you can upload/download files to ZeroPC like it is a separate computer.

It is by far one of the most useful cloud services.

Features:

Access all your cloud content from various web services.
Organize, search or move your content.
Single sign-in to access your content in all the services.

Visit ZeroPC @ www.zeropc.com

Symbyoz: Share Ideas & Connect With Important Friends On Facebook, LinkedIn & Twitter

Umar — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 23:01:47 +0000

On many of your social networks, you have friends and contacts that you often do not converse with. This applies to Facebook, LinkedIn, as well as Twitter. Keeping in touch with special contacts on these networks separately can be difficult. Here to offer you a single platform for keeping in touch with those people is a free to use web service called Symbyoz.

Symbyoz is a free to use website that helps you connect with important friends on networks like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. All you have to do is start by connecting your accounts. Your friends are imported and you can add which ones are important to you. While adding your friends you can specify if they are buddies, partners, or VIPs. You can also specify an extra email address for them.

With your friends added you can begin sharing ideas with them and keep in touch with their important updates; they, in turn, can do the same. You can also check out the public ideas forum where you can read valuable ideas shared by all Symbyoz users.

Features:

A user-friendly web service.
Lets you share ideas with friends.
Lets you add special contacts from other social networks.
Supports Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

Check out Symbyoz @ www.symbyoz.com (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)

Wappwolf: Perform Multiple Tasks Online From One Place

Hammad — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:01:17 +0000

Do you want to reduce the clutter of apps you have for different purposes? For example, you perhaps have an app for watermarking your images, one app for reducing the file size and another for converting word to PDF. Well, look no further and check out Wappwolf.

Wappwolf is an online personal toolbox that allows users to perform more than 25 actions in one simple go. When everything you need is in one place, you can avoid the trouble of having different applications for different purposes.

To get started, click on the “Start Using Wapwolf” button and it will show you the list of tasks you can perform using Wappwolf. For instance, if you want to convert any document to PDF, select the PDF converter and upload the file to Wappwolf. You can even upload the file hosted on any website, Dropbox and Google Docs. Set the action you want to perform on the uploaded file and just click “Action” to perform the action.

Features

Perform more than simple 25 taks with just one simple online tool.
Free sevice – easy to upload from either PC or Dropbox, or you can even email.
Available for iPhone.

Check out Wapwolff @ https://app.wappwolf.com (via RWW)

Matcha: Catch Up With Your Favorite TV Programs Online

MOin — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 23:01:43 +0000

Keeping a track of the movies and television shows you like is not easy with a busy schedule. People often miss a show and are then unable to watch the episode they missed. To resolve this, people will record an episode to watch it later. But a web service called Matcha provides a more convenient solution.

Matcha is a web service that, in addition to providing you with TV show recommendations, lets you users track their favorite TV shows and movies. The site partners with other popular services such as Netflix, Hulu, and Comcast to provide users with the function to create movie and show queues. You can mark shows as your favorite for their updates to appear in your feed; the feed shows all the latest available episode along with showing which episode you saw last.

As soon as an episode becomes available online, you are able to stream it; in case you miss a show, you can log into Matcha anytime to stream the episodes you missed.

Features:

A user friendly web service.
Helps you catch up with missed shows and movies.
Lets you create queues of your favorite movies and shows.
Provides updates on which episodes have bee watched and which latest ones you have not seen.
Similar tools: Showtime and LocateTV.
Also read related articles:

How To Produce Your Own Internet TV Show
Best Sites To Watch TV On Your Computer Over The Internet.

Check out Matcha @ www.matcha.tv (via Gigaom) (by MOin from Thumb Press)

DealItem: A Site That Aggregates Amazing Deals From Around the Internet

MOin — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 03:05:00 +0000

If you did quick search of items currently available for discount online, you will obtain countless valid results. There are numerous deals and offers out there that attract the online shopper’s attention. But jumping from one online retailer’s website to another retailer’s website can be inconvenient. Here to solve this problem by aggregating popular deals on a single dashboard is a tool called DealItem.

DealItem is a free to use website that aggregates wonderful discount deals from around the web for its visitors. The site’s forte is that is focuses on the latest deals being made available. Occasions such as Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and holiday shopping are all extensively covered on the site by carefully searching for online deals wherever they can be found. With each deal you find on the site you get a price comparison with the original rate, an option to search similar deals, and add the deal to your alerts.

Signed up users can use the Deal Alert option to have alerts of certain deals emailed to them. They can also browse deals categorically or search for particular deals using an item’s name or brand.

In case you find that a particular website is being overlooked by the site’s searching algorithm, you can submit your own websites as well as coupons on the site. All these features, along with numerous others, make DealItem an excellent website for online shoppers.

Features:

A user-friendly web service.
Aggregates online deals for you.
Keeps a collection of the latest deals.
Lets you browse deals categorically and search for items name-wise and brand-wise.
Lets you sign up for Deal Alerts to get offer details in your inbox.

Check out DealItem @ www.dealitem.com (by MOin from Thumb Press)

TimeKiwi: Aggregates Your Twitter, Blog & Photo Feeds In A Beautiful Timeline

MOin — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 01:01:01 +0000

With so many social networks around you may often find yourself jumping from one webpage to another just to view your updates. The task becomes even more time-consuming if you have signed up for blogging and photo sites. Here to help save time is a web service called TimeKiwi. It is a website that aggregates feeds from the services you have signed up for, and presents them in beautiful timeline format.

Your timeline is populated and displayed with each entry having a date, time, and indication of which network it belongs to.

The site is free for personal use and charges money for corporate use. Supported services for aggregation include Twitter, Tumblr, Posterous, WordPress, and Instagram. All you have to do to get started with the site is to click on a main button on the site and then enter your handles for the abovementioned services.

In case you are going to use the site for your company you will first need to sign up for one of the premium packages that begin from $5 per month.

Features:

A user-friendly web service.
Aggregates posts from various web services.
Supports Twitter, Tumblr, Posterous, WordPress, and Instagram.
Offers premium accounts for companies.
Free for personal, premium accounts supported.

Check out TimeKiwi @ www.timekiwi.com (by MOin from Thumb Press)

Tweetalicious: A Deal Aggregator App For Twitter users

Umar — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:07:59 +0000

Although Twitter is used by many companies to publicize their special deals and offers, users often have a tough time to find interesting deals as soon as they are available on Twitter. To solve this problem in an effective way you can begin using the wonderful web service called Tweetalicious.

Tweetalicious is a free to use Twitter client that searches the network for deals you might find interesting. When you first authorize the app to connect with your Twitter, it asks you to specify the item categories and brand names that you are interested in. The app then provides you with an interface dividing your stream, messages, and deals in different panels. One of these panels corresponds to trending deals while a special ‘featured’ deal is displayed at the top of the interface. Multiple featured deals are available and you can always refresh through the “Deal Me” button to view new deals. For iOS device owners, the app’s creators have made available an iOS application.

Features:

A user-friendly web service
Helps find interesting deals on Twitter
Lets you indicate your favorite item categories and brands
Offers an iOS application

Check out Tweetalicious @ http://www.tweetalicious.com/ (By Umar from AllthatIsApple)

Primadesk: All In One Cloud File Access For Your Photos, Emails & Documents

Israel Nicolas — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 21:01:26 +0000

Cloud services are steadily becoming a huge part of our computing experience. Using too many cloud services can be tedious at times because unlike desktop file managers, you need to log into different services just to access files across servers. Primadesk is a web app that allows you to access and manage your personal cloud files all in a single interface. This web app consolidates your email accounts, online photo accounts, and document accounts all in one place, which makes accessing your cloud files a breeze.

Primadesk supports a variety of popular cloud services that are used today including Gmail and Yahoo Mail, and even POP3 for emails; Facebook, Picasa, Flickr, and PhotoBucket for photos; Dropbox, Google Docs, and Zoho for documents, and many other services. Primadesk lets you view your files in an Explorer-like interface and clicking on a file will open a new tab that will take you to its corresponding service and location. Since Primadesk is a web-based app, it works on multiple platforms and on mobile devices.

Primadesk also offers backing up your cloud files on Amazon’s S3 cloud storage, so that you’ll have an extra copy for the really important files. Primadesk is still in beta and users can use it for free.

Features:

Consolidate your cloud files in a single Explorer-like interface.
Works with up to 26 web services.
Unified inboxes for various emails.
Drag and drop documents from one service to another.
Back up your online content.
Multi-platform, can be accessed by mobile devices.
Some similar tools include: Filestork, Dropdo, and Views.FM.

Check out Primadesk @ www.primadesk.com

LiveGo: Merge Your Social, Email & IM Accounts Into A Single Easy To Use Interface

MOin — Tue, 10 May 2011 19:01:53 +0000

Most computer users connect with their friends through multiple social networks and messaging clients. Staying up to date with all accounts therefore becomes quite complicated and time consuming. Here to offer a solution by merging social networking, email, and messaging is a web service called LiveGO.

LiveGO is a free to use website that lets you merge your social networking, email, and instant messaging accounts. You control these accounts from a single interface – your browser – and easily save valuable time.

The first step in using LiveGO is to create an account on the website. Next you start adding accounts from other services; these services include MSN, Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Yahoo, and AOL. With the accounts added, you will be able to view your email and networking updates on your LiveGO dashboard; the email will be located on top.

You can select the number of emails and updates shown using the buttons in the top right of both sections.

The email view lets you conveniently read emails and reply to them from within LiveGO. The default view for the updates is to provide updates from all services together, with the latest ones on top. In this view an icon at the end of every social update indicates its source.

You can also filter posts from each service by using buttons located in the leftmost pane.

The site also offers built-in chat capabilities that enable you to send and receive instant messages with people you are friends with on your connected accounts. The chat area is situated in the rightmost pane; here you can see a list of contacts that you can click and start chatting with.

In case you want to update your status message on Twitter or Facebook, you can use the textbox located on top.

Features:

A user-friendly web service.
Integrates social networking, email, and instant messaging.
Supports MSN, Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Yahoo, and AOL.
Lets you simultaneously update status on Facebook and Twitter.
You control the number of updates and email shown.

Check out LiveGO @ www.livego.com (by MOin from ThumbPress)

MokiTV: Aggregates Movie Streaming & Subscription Services In A Single Dashboard

Umar — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 23:01:39 +0000

Signing up for different subscription services for series and movies can become a little inconvenient when you end up jumping from one site to another. Here to solve this problem is a site called MokiTV. It is a free to use website that combines various series and movie subscription services namely Netflix, Hulu Plus, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Amazon VOD, Apple iTunes, and XfinityTV. You can connect your MokiTV account to your accounts on these sites and import ratings, movie queues, series schedules, etc. Media that is available to you is displayed and can be played right from within MokiTV.

You can also search movies and series according to the name, genre, cast, or directors. The movie ratings submitted by users contribute to the ratings of the celebrities associated with the project.

Features:

A user-friendly web service.
Imports series and movies information from various subscription websites.
Supports Netflix, Hulu Plus, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Amazon VOD, Apple iTunes, and XfinityTV.
Displays and plays media available via your subscriptions.
Lets you look for movies/series in different ways.
Display user-submitted ratings for movies and celebrities.

Check out MokiTV @ www.moki.tv (By Umar from TechCityInc)