A while ago MakeUseOf profiled Felonspy, a website we believed that aimed to help people find convicted felons residing in the neighborhood areas. After a number of comments it became clear that the website was bogus and full of crap. This time we would like to introduce to you Family Watchdog: a national sex offender [...]
Update: Several readers report that the site is bogus. So keep it in mind when you try it. FelonSpy helps you find out whether there are any felons residing in your area. It tracks virtually everyone with a criminal record including sex offenders, ex-cons, and even those guilty of serious traffic infractions. The website uses [...]
MiVitals enables users to track and manage all health-related personal information in one place. Users are also able to share certain medical information and records with health professionals, family members or close friends. Basically, it’s all-in-one storage box for personal medical history. Each account also comes with some free storage that can be used to [...]
Smart baby name guide to help you find the ideal name for your newborn. Simply choose or enter the names you like and Nymbler will come up with number of names tailored to fit your style. Nymbler recommends a bunch of similar names based on origin, sound, meaning, and overall style. Next, you can refine [...]
Pretty cool flower delivery service that can help you automate the “flowers” part of your relationship and make you an ideal boyfriend/husband. SaveMyAss tags itself ‘relationship insurance policy’. And it’s a pricey one. Basically, it allows you to setup and schedule up to 10 flower deliveries throughout the year. Plus you also get some randomly [...]
HealthVault is a new offering from Microsoft that lets people collect, manage and share their health records online. Users can easily gather all of their health information in one place, including records from different healthcare-related sources (insurance plan, doctor, pharmacy). Feature Overview Manage and Share your health records online. Keep all your paper-based health records [...]
PiggyBank is a useful website that helps parents educate their kids about money: introduce them to saving, discourage careless spending, teach them about compound interest, etc. Feature Overview Teach your kids how to save money with PiggyBank account. Update balance: make withdrawals when they purchase something, deposit funds as rewards, encourage saving by setting up [...]
Genoom is web-based platform where you and your family members can come together and cooperate to create your family tree. Invite other family members and ask them to join, discover new family members/ancestors, visualize locations of your relatives, share pictures, etc. Genoom Features: Create, Share and Maintain your family tree. Invite other family members to [...]
Mixbook is a handy web service that lets you create and share interactive photo books. You can either do it alone or invite your friends and do it together. From the website: “Mixbook allows you to create books with your friends and family about the things that are important in your life. Mixbooks can be [...]
A family tree is helpful tool when it comes to tracing one’s genealogy. Compared to a family tree on paper, an online family tree is much easier to maintain and share with friends. Here to help you create such a tree is a web tool called “Geni Family Tree.” Geni Family Tree is a free [...]