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

2houses is a web service that is currently free to use. It lets separated couples share information about their child with one another. You start using the site by creating an account and detailing your child’s name and your ex-partner’s name. When your ex-partner is on board you can start logging events, parenting schedules, expenses and payments, and messages in the site’s online interface. You can also add detailed information of your child to share with your ex-partner; this information includes ID card numbers and clothes sizes, amongst other things.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Helps separated couples manage children’s schedules with one another.
• Lets you share parenting schedules, expenses, and messages.
• Lets you share child’s details with one another.

Check out 2houses @ http://www.2houses.com (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)

My Baby The Star is a wonderful web service that lets you maintain an online record of your baby’s first activities. The site payment plans start from $9.90 per month but a free 10 day trial lets you try out all the site has to offer – which is a lot.

After you create an account on the website you can create your baby’s very own website and start adding firsts such as first words, first crawling, first tooth, etc. You can even go as far back as the announcement of the pregnancy and discovering if it will be a boy or a girl. You can add a playlist of songs to be played for the website and add your baby’s pictures, stories, and videos to the webpage.

The colors, background, fonts, and privacy of your website are completely customizable. Using the privacy controls you can add other friends to administer your baby’s website and make addition to the online diary.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Helps keep an online diary for your baby.
• Lets you record virtually everything relevant to your baby.
• Lets you add records, stories, pictures, and videos.
• You can add friends and let them manage your baby’s online diary.
• Similar tools: BabyNameWizard, Switch Baby Maker, BabySquatter, BabyNotify and TinyEyes.

Check out MyBabyTheStar @ www.mybabythestar.com (by MOin from Urban Savior)

Spend Day With Kids is a free to use website that lets you find nearby recreational spots for children. You can enter the name of your city, the searching radius, and whether the activities offered are indoor ones or outdoor. A list of results is quickly generated and displayed.

You can click on a result to read the place’s detailed description and gets its exact location.

Moreover you can browse all the places listed by the website and even suggest places you know of that are not listed on the site.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Helps find fun and recreational places for children.
• Lets you find places nearby.
• You can specify whether the activity should be indoor or outdoor.
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Check out Spend Day With Kids @ www.spenddaywithkids.com/home/index (by MOin from ThumbPress)

You can zoom in to see crime numbers in specific neightbourhoods and view street intersections with the most crimes. Click on a crime circle to see more detailed information – types of crimes committed (theft, assault, robbery etc), recent crime history and exact crime locations.

The black circles show the recent crimes (last 10 days), whereas the heatmap shows the long term crime trends of the area indicating incidents per block per year.

Features:

• View crime rates by state, country, city, neighbourhood and postal code on an interactive map.
• Filter crimes by type (shooting, robbery, assault, arson etc) and zoom in to see the intersections with the most crimes.
• View crime trends by hour and by day.
• Provided by Trulia, a real estate search engine.
• Free, no registration to use the app.
• Similar tools: CrimeReports and SpotCrime.

Check out Trulia Crime Maps @ www.trulia.com/crime

BabyNameMo is a free to use web service that analyzes the name you provide it. It displays a popularity chart, origin, and meaning for your typed name. Note that the site does not have data on all names, only English names. In addition to the abovementioned information, the site displays an industry analysis bar graph, monthly normalized metrics, Ivy League universities analysis, income analysis, and education analysis.

To gain access to these latter analysis charts you will first need to register for an account on BabyNameMo.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Helps determine the popularity of certain names.
• Analyses names with respect to many factors.
• Represents information graphically.
• Helps decide names for your children.
• Similar tools: BabyNameWizard, What A Lovely Name, BabyNameMap, and Nymbler.

Check out BabyNameMo @ www.babynamemo.com (By Umar from TechCityInc)

The video gives an example of the kind of messages people are likely to leave.

The app isn’t difficult to use if you are brave enough to keep aside other apprehensions or feelings. It lets you use your webcam to create a video and connects with your Facebook account just like any other app.

Features

• Post your last message to Facebook.
• Video and text message option.
• You will need to appoint 3 trustees who will confirm your death.
• Message will be posted only after their confirmation.
• Similar tools: Myvirtuallockbox.

Check out If I Die @ ifidie.net (By Abhijeet from GT Mobiles)

Once added, you can quickly see a person’s whereabouts in real-time over a Google Maps overlay. The app runs in the background, allowing for constant tracking 24/7, and even if your child wants to remove it, they will need a password to uninstall the app. Most importantly, Footprints can measure the speed of the person as he moves, which is interesting if your kid is driving.

Footprints is one of the few tools that has no qualms about debates in privacy, since they believe that when used correctly it helps keep the family safe. The accuracy of the tool is suspect but at least you’d know if your child is in a bad neighborhood or not.

Features:

• Know where your friends and family are.
• Share location in Facebook.
• Real-time location update.
• Available for iOS devices only.
• Similar tools: Puntalo, BuddyWay, NavXS, ChildPulse, Lookout, Prey and FindMyiPhone.

Checkout Footprints @ itunes.apple.com/us/app/footprints/id400119299?mt=8

To sign up for the daily newsletter, enter your email and her details including her name, date of last period and length of the cycle and click “submit”. You can modify the information later at any time.

Here is how a typical email looks like

Features:

• Follow hormonal cycle of your woman (girlfriend,wife) and receive daily reminders and tips.
• Currently tracking around 6,000 women.
• To receive daily newsletter, sign up with your email or your Facebook information.
• Similar sites: MakeYourGirlfriendHappy, PMSBuddy and SaveMyAss.

Check out The Daily Cramp @ www.thedailycramp.com

uSwim is a iOS application for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad running iOS 3.1 or later. uSwim’s download setup file is sized at nearly 16MB. The application provides various tutorials for adults to help them teach swimming to young children. The tutorials are organized into 3 levels. The first level is for children under the age of 3; the second level is for children above the age of 3; the third level is for children above the age of three who have learned the skills of level 2. Tutorials within each level are neatly presented and make the adult’s task much simpler.

In addition to the tutorials, the app also provides step-by-step instructional videos.

Features:

• A user-friendly smartphone application.
• Compatible with iOS devices.
• Requires iOS 3.1 or later.
• Provides tutorials that help teach swimming to toddlers and kids.
• Tutorials are categorized according to children’s age group.
• Similar tool: Swim.com.

Check out uSwim @ itunes.apple.com/us/app/uswim-teach-kids-to-swim/id411167209?mt=8 (by MOin from ThumbPress)