Collections of data are often meaningless without order and structure, but how can you best show off a carefully ordered collection or list without building your own website from scratch? What if the data you’re using has statistics attached which you’d like to exhibit in a coherent way? If the thought of embedding a few [...]
While CD sales have slowed and cassettes have all but died out, vinyl continues to steadily sell copies despite much of the music-consuming public switching to digital mediums. Whether it’s the perceived increased quality over even CD recordings, the pop and crackle of a well-worn record or the bargain prices of second-hand 45s and LPs; [...]
Since the massive success of Pinterest, the site that allows users to “pin” images in public (and private) collections, there has been a huge surge in similar websites. Very shortly after Pinterest experienced high usage thanks to its ability to drive an incredible amount of traffic to websites that rely on images and videos, there [...]
If you have a large collection of movies on your computer, organizing them and viewing their information can be difficult. But here to help is a desktop application called TViXiE. TViXiE is a free to use desktop application for Windows computers. The app’s setup file is at nearly 14 MB but it also comes in [...]
If you have a lot of movies stored locally on your computer, then you will know that maintaining them and keeping them organized is not an easy task. Here to help you with that task is a Java-based application called Movie Renamer. Movie Renamer is a small Java-based desktop application that helps you rename and [...]
Curating your stuff online is the cool thing to do these days, thanks to the popularity of Pinterest. Still, there are many ways to collect and share stuff with friends, and one app, Thingsly, lets you do it entirely from Google Chrome. Thingsly’s interface is pretty simple. Once installed, you can click its toolbar button [...]
Do you have a large selection of DVDs that you need to catalog and keep track of. This can be easier said than done. In the digital age where everything is downloaded and stored in folders on our computers, it is easy to forget how hard it can be to keep track of physical media. [...]
There is no dearth of notepad or note-taking tools with many of them these days offering advanced features like OCR, audio notes, etc. However, if you need a notepad just for the simple task of cataloging your collection then each of those options might seem a bit too much. Collector Notepad is software for Windows [...]
If you love reading eBooks, then you must have a large collection of them stored on your computer. Finding a book from this collection can be problematic if you do not have your collection organized well. Here to help you properly organize things is a desktop app called All My Books. All My Books is [...]
Anybody who seriously pursues a hobby spends a huge amount of time on it. But most of the work that results from our hobbies is often viewed only by us. You should have a place where you can showcase your hobbies. Such a place is provided to you by a site called Hobzy. Hobzy is [...]
Creating a list of DVDs, games and books you own helps you manage your media. Additionally the lists make it easier to let your friends know what media you own. Here to help you create, manage, and share such lists is a web service called iCollectMedia. iCollectMedia is a free to use web service that [...]
If you are an art fan, you already know that while getting images for popular paintings is easy, it is not the same for lesser known paintings. To discover those lesser known pieces of art you need a community where art lovers share pictures of amazing paintings. Art Finder is precisely that community. Art Finder [...]
If you download movies every day, you will quickly find yourself stuck with so many unorganized files with no way of knowing which is which. While media centers like Boxxee do a good job of organizing movies, sometimes you just need a tool that is lightweight and gets the job done, such as Movie Monkey. [...]
If you are an art enthusiast and wish that you could attend all the major museums in the world (but know that it might not be possible), then you will love Google’s new offering: Art Project. Google has collaborated with 17 art museums around the world, which include big names like The Metropolitan Museum of [...]
There are many online catalogs that let you browse through, preview or add books to a virtual list. However they all treat each book individually even when they are part of a series. FictFact lets you track books by series and tells you which book is next in the series you are reading. You can add a [...]
Virtual Museum is a website that lets you browse a number of European museums online, and explore the most remarkable items of European prehistoric culture and heritage. You may browse and view items by country, museum, time period BC and categories. Each item has it is own page with related historical & archeological information and [...]
Championship-Rings is a marketplace for authentic Championship Rings, Medals, Trophies and other sport memorabilia that belongs to famous athletes and coaches for both professional and collegiate sports. It includes trophies from almost all major sports leagues (NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, MLS, PGA, NASCAR, CART, Pro Boxing, Olympics and others) The site is popular among pro [...]
Colnect is a social network for collectors and the place for managing personal collections (stamps, coins, phonecards etc.) online. The site has variety of collectible catalogs submitted and updated by collectors community. It is based on a wiki model, which means anyone can edit and update collectible catalogs, and as compared to printed catalogs, Colnect [...]
OurShelf is a nice cataloging application which lets you catalog all your personal items (CDs, DVDs, Books etc) online and share this information with others. You can add items to your shelf and organize them by different labels, borrow and lend items with your friends and create and share wishlists. Browse shelves of other users, [...]
Have you ever been to a Chinese restaurant, got a fortune cookie and really liked the fortune message hidden inside? Instead of collecting all those fortune paper slips in your wallet or pockets, now you can save and access them in one place at FortuneKookie.com. Register on the site to save, edit and access your [...]