Hashtag-mom (#mom) allows users to connect using their Foursquare account and then once you make a check-in, your mom automatically receives a text or a call telling her that you arrived safely at your destination.

Using the service is easy, simple and fun. All a user needs to do is log in using their Foursquare account and key in their mom’s phone number and choose whether she prefers a “call” or “text”. Once done, your account will be set up.

Now, when you go to any place and check-in to the area, just be sure to add the #mom hashtag to your check-in and your mom will automatically get an automated call, or text (as you choose) informing her of your safe arrival at the destination.

Features

• Never forget to inform your mom.
• Free service.
• Call and text both available.
• Connect using Foursquare.

Check out Hashtagmom @ www.hashtagmom.com

You’ll obviously need to add the places as placemarks on the tool first so that it knows what’s on your list of must-visit places. It’ll pop up a notification on your phone alerting you that you are somewhere near that place, provided that it is able to exactly determine your location.

Features

• Get notified when you are near your favorite place.
• Apps for both Android and iPhone available.
• SImilar tools: Remember It App and Getupp.

Check out Near2There @ www.near2there.com/index.aspx (By Abhijeet from GT Mobiles)

What’s Outt is a user-friendly website that shows its visitors the latest releases in movies, music, books, and games. You need not create any account on the site; simply visit its homepage and check out the latest releases that are sorted categorically. You can use further filters to find releases over the previous week, previous two weeks, or just the current week. Placing your mouse pointer over the thumbnail image of a release reveals its Amazon link where it can be purchased.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Shows you the latest releases.
• Covers movies, books, games, and music.
• Provides purchasing links.
• Similar services: TrackNewBook, and Music2Mail,

Check out What’s Outt @ www.whatsoutt.com (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)

Winter Wake Up is an iPhone application that uses the Internet to establish the weather for the area a person is living in. Once done, you can easily go to sleep. If it snowed last night, the Winter Wake Up application will wake the user up earlier than normal. You can set how many minutes you want to wake up earlier than your scheduled alarm time so that you can easily clean the driveway, defrost your car and get to work without being late.

To use this application, you must have an active Internet connection and must grant permission to the application to use your location, so that it can check the weather forecast in your area.

Features

• Free application.
• Set how many minutes earlier you want to be woken up if it snows or rains.
• Available for iPhone and Android

Check out Winter Wake-up @ http://itunes.apple.com/app/winter-wake-up/id487687174?mt=8 (via Techcrunch)

However, notification is obviously just one part of the service. The best part is that it tells where you can watch that particular movie right now. Sources include, Netflix (Streaming and DVD), iTunes, Vudu, Amazon, RedBox, Movies OnDemand on Cable and even theaters through fandango.

Features:

• Find where to watch specific movies right now.
• Get notified when a movie becomes available on your favorite service.
• Sign in with your Facebook account.

Visit WatchIt @ http://gowatchit.com [Via TechCrunch]

Earthquake Notification Service (ENS) is a free to use web service that notifies its users via email of whenever there is an earthquake in their region. All you have to do to get started is sign up for an account on the site. After signing up, you can indicate the region for which you would like to receive earthquake updates. You can simply choose a few regions by clicking on them from a list or you can draw a custom region on the world map, as in the image above. Earthquake updates for your selected region will be emailed to you whenever they are available. These updates include the exact location, magnitude, and depth of the earthquake.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Emails you earthquake updates for your region.
• You can specify your regions by selecting cities or drawing a region on a map.
• Updates include earthquake details.
• Similar tool: PNWQuakes.
• Also read related articles:
  4 Web Services To Keep Track Of Earthquakes & Storms Around Us
  3 Apps To Alert You Of Natural Disasters [Android]

Check out Earthquake Notification Service @ sslearthquake.usgs.gov/ens (via Labnol) (by MOin from Thumb Press)

ExpertFlyer does not sell tickets. What it does is let users know when to buy tickets, online or offline and keeps users up-to date about seat availability so you can buy your favorite seat the moment it becomes available.

The website has two packages – free and pro. The free package allows the users to get seat alerts for the seats, find flights and more. The PRO package, however, allows users to not only get seat availability alerts, but also gives them the best information on flight fares, search over 400 airlines, detailed seat maps, a mobile edition and more.

Features

• Free and paid plans available.
• Never miss your favorite seat – buy it the moment it’s available.
• Find the best fares and options through the PRO package.
• Similar tools: FlyTimeNotify.

Check out ExpertFlyer @ www.expertflyer.com

TextMotivate is a very useful application that provides you with the motivation you need to achieve your goals. Various studies have shown that receiving regular motivation for your goals through text messages is extremely effective for people. TextMotivate makes use of the same SMS procedure.

You start by creating an account on the site and picking your goal from the list provided. These goals include the most popular ones people set: regular exercise, sticking to a diet, stop smoking, etc. With your goal set, the site sends you motivational text messages on your cell-phone for a monthly subscription fee of $9.99.

Update: The webmaster behind TextMotivate has offered Makeuseof readers a promo code “MAKEUSEOF”, which will give 7 day trial for free.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Sends you motivational text messages for your goals.
• Supports numerous goals that people normally set for themselves.
• Accepts credit card payments.
• Similar tools: Daily Motivator and 101-Smart-Goals.

Check out TextMotivate @ www.textmotivate.com (by MOin from Thumb Press)

Hangout.io is a simple website that allows users to create ‘events’ and invite people to them. Such a system ensures that only private friends, or anyone who is sent an invite, are invited.

Using the service is very simple and easy. All a user has to do is sign up for Hangout.io which takes around 4-5 seconds. Once done, all you have to do is create a Hangout from the dashboard, where you can enter the details of the event – number of people, time, date, location, optional message, etc.

As you add the guest list, the invites are automatically sent to their inbox. The email simply shows them the time, date and place where the event is occurring and custom message, if any.

Features

• Free invitaton service.
• User-friendly website, very easy to use.
• Allows only private friends to be invited.
• Upto 10 people can be added to an event.

Check out Hangout @ http://hangout.io (By Hammad From TechnicallyDigital)

The app is basically a combination of 3 apps into one – a speed trap and radar warning system, speed limit warning system and a head-up display showing average speed, digital clock, distance, elapsed time and other such data. The app is free but you’ll need to shell out 99 cents for the maps.

Features

• Get speed limit alerts.
• See the route, elapsed time, speed traps ahead.
• Similar tools: Drivia, Fly-Or-Drive-Calculator, DriveMeCrazy and DriveSafe.ly.
• Also read related article: 6 Effective Tools To Avoid Police Radar Speed Traps.

Check out MyRoute Safe Drive @ itunes.apple.com/pk/app/id457284116 ( By Abhijeet from GT Mobiles)