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ReminderGuru: Remind Yourself Of Events Via Email, Texts & Calls

Umar — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:01:12 +0000

We all mark important events on our calendars. Yet we forget about important dates and events because of our busy schedules. Here to help remind you of important events is a web service called ReminderGuru.

ReminderGuru is a free to use web service that reminds you of events. You start using the site by creating an account. To verify your email address, the password of your account is emailed to you. Using the password, you can log in and begin creating a reminder. You can add a reminder title along with a date. You can also specify the exact time for the reminder. You can select the frequency of the reminder; you can select the reminder to be a one-time deal or you can have it recur weekly, monthly, or yearly.

Next you type in your email address and phone number and select how you would like the reminder to be send: through email, text message, or call. After typing a security code you can finalize your reminder. The reminders you set can be managed and deleted by viewing their list.

Features:

A user-friendly web service.
Lets you set reminders.
Sends reminders through email, text messages, and call.
Lets you describe reminder and set specific time for it.
Lets you set frequency of reminder.

Check out ReminderGuru @ http://reminderguru.com (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)

DoAttend: An Online Event Management Tool

abhijeet — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:01:22 +0000

DoAttend is an online event organizing and management tool that helps people manage registration and ticketing of events with ease. The tool is quite feature rich and has almost all the essential options that such a service should have. You can manage multiple events using it, create personalized e-tickets, track attendees, send customized email reminders and create a beautiful event page. It also has a registrations summary dashboard where one can see ticket sale stats.

One of the cool things about this tool is that it has nice social integration features and there’s a live event coverage page that lets you do live tweets and also track what others are tweeting. The tool comes free for free events and charges 1.5% per transaction and 49 cents per visitor for paid events.

Features

Full-fledged event management service.
Free for events with free tickets only.
Send personalized e-tickets and emails.
Similar tools: Moredays and Kuandoo.

Check out DoAttend @ www.doattend.com (By Abhijeet from GT Mobiles)

ArtSpotter: Finds Local Museum & Art Gallery Eexhibitions

Hammad — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:01:33 +0000

Have you ever wanted the opportunity to visit art galleries and museums and have the option to know when there will be an exhibition? Well, ArtSpotter makes that wish come true.

ArtSpotter is an online website that allows people to interact with galleries, museums and street art right from the website. Just click on the “Discover” button, and you will see a map open up down below with markers placed on it pointing out all the art activities, events and happenings around the world. If you happen to find one you like, just click on it to know where the event is happening and even find discount tickets.

You can even follow events to know when they start, end, and even get discount tickets with ArtSpotter. If you are the ‘travelling’ type of a person, you can contribute to ArtSpotter and add locations to the map where there are museums, art galleries, street art, graffiti, etc.

The Artspotter app is available on the iPhone as well which helps you find exhibitions on the go.

Features

Never miss local/international exhibitions and art shows.
Follow event to get discount tickets, and much more.
iPhone app available – makes it possible to keep in touch everywhere.

Check out ArtSpotter @ http://artspotter.com/venues?keyword=&location=co3+9bb (via TNW)

WhatsNextUp: Discover Upcoming Entertainment Events

Umar — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 03:01:07 +0000

Finding the next entertaining event to go to is often a time-consuming process. You log onto your computer and spend precious time looking for an interesting movie to watch next, a stimulating book to read, or a great new album to listen to. What you need is a tool that automatically factors in your likes and serves you relevant upcoming events that will interest you. This is precisely what What’s Next Up offers.

Here, ‘event’ refers to the release of anything entertaining you will like such as a game, book, album, movie, etc. All you have to do to start using the service is sign in with your Google ID and then connect the site to your Facebook account. Your likes are fetched from your Facebook account and relevant events are served on your dashboard neatly categorized according to their nearness.

Features:

A user-friendly web service.
Helps you discover latest entertainment events you will be interested in.
Fetches you likes from Facebook.
Shows release dates for interesting games, movies, music, movies, etc.

Check out What’s Next Up @ http://www.whatsnextup.com/index.jsp (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)

Hangout.io: A Private Event Notification Tool

Hammad — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 17:01:41 +0000

Have you ever wanted to invite people to an event without having to create a Facebook event page or messaging them? Hangout.io can solve this problem.

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)

Gidsy: A Marketplace For Events & Activities

abhijeet — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:01:28 +0000

If you are in New York or Berlin and looking to organize an event or a group activity but worried that not enough of an audience will not turn up, then you should probably check out this new service called Gidsy. It is a marketplace for activities, meaning visitors can see a list of events being organised in the city across different sectors and sign up for the ones they want to attend. Only paid events can be listed, the host should have a Paypal account and Gidsy charges a 10% service fee from the ticket sales.

The activity can be anything like a DIY workshop, a yoga class or a tour of a historical place. It’s a quick way to organize a small (and paid) event. As a host, you cannot be anonymous. Your profile details will be required. Limited to Berlin and New York City at the moment.

Features

Marketplace for group activities.
Only paid events can be hosted.
Currently, it shows city pages only for New York City and Berlin

Check out Gidsy @ gidsy.com (By Abhijeet from GT Mobiles)

CostumeDB: The Perfect Place To Share & View Costume Ideas

MOin — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 19:01:35 +0000

Comicon and various other similar events have popularized the art of creating costumes for yourself. People from around the world generate unique costume ideas and then share them with others through the Internet. One source that lets you view and share costumes is Costume DB.

Costume DB is a free to use website and a place for costume creators to share their ideas. The costume can only be shared through pictures. In other words, if you have created a costume, you simply put it on, take a picture and then post it up on the website. Site visitors can then view your pictures, read any details you typed in, and then vote it up or down.

Visitors can also search for particular costumes doing a word search. In this simple way, the site makes itself an excellent place to share your costume ideas and get great ideas for costumes.

Features:

A user-friendly web service.
Lets you share your costume ideas.
Helps you get costume ideas.
Lets visitors vote on costume ideas.
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Check out Costume DB @ www.costumedb.com/costumes.php (by MOin from Thumb Press)

Moredays: A Wonderful Web App To Organize Your Schedule, Events & Tasks

MOin — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:01:40 +0000

Although there are numerous task management websites available online, most of them offer an unintuitive interface that seems too impersonal to use. Moredays is a web service that is here to help remedy this and offer you a neat interface in which to organize events, tasks, notes, and contacts.

Moredays is an excellent free to use web service currently in its beta stage. After the site sends you a sign up email when you request an invitation, you can log into your account and start adding tasks, events, and notes. With each item you add you can add various details such as the geographical location. A calendar on the left pane lets you easily jump to specific dates. There is also a strip of tabs in the center that lets you quickly navigate to sections such as notes, tasks, contacts, and your calendar. A Sketch section shows a navigable section in which you can overview upcoming events and tasks in an easy way.

These and many other useful features make Moredays an excellent management app that improves your productivity.

Features:

A user-friendly web service.
Lets you organize tasks and events.
Lets you add geographical locations and notes with each entry.
Stores contacts.

Check out Moredays @ www.moredays.com (by MOin from Thumb Press)

Twoppy: Easily Create Mobile Friendly Event Guides Online

TehseenBaweja — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:05:23 +0000

Managing an event involves a number of crucial steps and providing adequate information to the participants is probably on top of the list. Twoppy is a web app that helps you create an event guide online that is both mobile friendly and easy to browse. Start by adding general event information like venue, description, ticket information and more. Then use Google Maps to create a specific event map or simply upload your own.

You can add a list of performers/speakers and even add a list of program items along with the scheduled time, meeting place and more info. Once all the info is up, publish your app and promote the unique URL with a QR code or spread it through social networks. All these services are free but for a small monthly fees you can also brand your even app and get analytics.

Features:

Create event guides online.
Publish schedule, maps and list of performers.
Spread word through QR code or social networks.

Visit Twoppy @ www.twoppy.com

Tentative.ly: Bookmark Events To Be Reminded Of Them Later

Umar — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 23:01:02 +0000

Online calendars and reminder services do a great job of keeping you updated with upcoming events. But opening up your calendar or reminder service to add the details of every new event is inconvenient for many computer users. Here to make the process far more convenient is a web service called Tentative.ly.

Tentative.ly is a web service that helps you bookmarks events right from their webpages. After you create an account with the service by visiting its homepage, you can start making use of its helpful bookmarklet. Whenever you are on an online event’s webpage, click on the bookmarklet and a bar on top will drop down with fields corresponding to Name, Venue, Address, and Date.

You can click on a field in the bar and highlight the corresponding text on the webpage to have it automatically copied in the field. You can make manual edits too. Clicking on the Save button in the bar bookmarks the events in your Tentative.ly list. When an event is about to come up, you are sent an email reminder.

Features:

A user-friendly web service.
Lets you easily bookmark events through online event pages.
Provides a bookmarklet to speed up the process.
Maintains a list of your upcoming events.
Sends email reminders.

Check out Tentative.ly @ https://www.tentative.ly (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)