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TheRestartPage: Have Fun With Computer Restarts Of Yore

Dave LeClair — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:01:07 +0000

This is some good, clean geeky fun. No matter how far back you go in computing history, one thing that has always been around is shutting down and restarting. Whether you owned an old Apple, PC or Amiga, you still needed to shut down or restart your hardware from time to time. This is where The Restart Page comes in. It allows you to relive the way these old computers ran through their restart process.

When you launch the site, you will see the restart buttons for all the different operating systems. As if that was not cool enough, the buttons actually work. If you click one of them, the web page will run through the restart process exactly as it appeared back in the day. Who would have thought sitting through a computer restart could be so much fun?

Features:

Features restart buttons from all kinds of computers.
Apple, Amiga and Windows are well represented.
Buttons actually function in your browser.
Will run through the entire restart process as it was in its time.
Plays exact sounds.

Find The Restart Page @ therestartpage.com

What’s Outt: Check Out The Latest Movie, Music, Books & Game Releases

Umar — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:01:09 +0000

When you have to check the latest media that has been released lately, you normally have to jump from one site to the other. For example, you will visit one site for movies, another for music, another for books, and a different one for games. Here to provide all such releases in the same place is a site called “What’s Outt”.

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)

Rage Faces For SMS: SMS Rage Faces To Your Friends [iOS]

Umar — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:01:38 +0000

If you use the Internet regularly, you might have come across ‘rage face’ comics. These comics have a certain set of faces that express various emotions and usually produce an extremely funny effect. iOS users can now use these faces in their emoticons, thanks to an tool called “Rage Faces for SMS”.

Rage Faces for SMS is a smartphone app for iOS devices. The app is sized at 5.3 MB and compatible with iOS devices running version 4.0 or later. After installing the app from the iTunes store, you can open it up and choose any of the many ‘rage faces’ available. Simply tap a face from the app’s grid and it is copied to the clipboard of your iOS device.

When you are composing an SMS, simply paste the contents of the clipboard’s content to include the rage face within your message.

Features:

A user-friendly phone app.
Compatible with iOS devices.
Lets you paste rage faces into SMS.
Includes many rage faces.

Check out Rage Faces for SMS @ http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rage-faces-for-sms/id406504595?mt=8 (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)

WitStream: Find Funny Tweets On Twitter

Hammad — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 23:01:05 +0000

Are you a Twitter addict and looking for something funny in your Twitter timeline or the trending topics? If the answer to this simple question is yes, then you should give Witstream a try.

Witstream is a web and iPhone app that follows most of the funny people, comedians, professional writers, etc, on Twitter and shows you their latest tweets. The service displays all the funny stuff gathered in one place! You can up vote any tweet you like so that it can come up in the main spotlight section and help the service display the funniest tweets.

The website has four parts – Spotlight, Live Feed, The Black List and Tweet the Press. The funnier ones are present in the Black List and Spotlight (featured) tabs. Tweet the Press is more regarding the current happening events in the world.

The word “aristocrats” is a word that simply describes WitStream’s handpicked contributors. You can even vote a tweet funny or not which probably helps the website display only the funniest of all.

Features

Simple and easy to use.
Finding all the hilarious, witty tweets in one place.
Ability to vote good/bad tweets make the algorithm better.
Retweet funny tweets.
Available on iPhone.

Check out WitStream @ www.witstream.com (Via The Next Web) (By Hammad From TechnicallyDigital)

OccupyTheURL: Witness URLs Getting Occupied Like Wall Street Was Occupied

Umar — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:01:02 +0000

Many of you already know about Occupy Wall Street – an ongoing series of protests that are against the unequal distribution of wealth and are protesting the power that corporations have. The movement started from Wall Street, New York and quickly spread to various other cities worldwide. A dedicated online tool to the movement’s efforts is a website called Occupy the URL.

Occupy the URL is a free and fun tool to use that occupies any URL much like the protestors occupying Wall Street. All you have to do is provide the site with the URL of a valid webpage. The site then loads up the webpage, displays it, and starts showing the protest participants on the webpage along with each participant’s sign.

After covering the entire page with the protest messages, you are shown a final message of the “99%” slogan. The final message also includes support links to Facebook and Twitter accounts for the protests.

Features:

A user-friendly web service.
Animates webpages getting occupied by protestors.
Protest pictures are taken from Occupied Wall Street events.
Supports the Occupied Wall Street movement.

Check out Occupy the URL @ http://occupytheurl.com (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)

LipMe: Make Funny Impersonations Using Friends Pictures

TehseenBaweja — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 03:00:34 +0000

Inspired by the mock interviews on Conan show, LipMe lets you replace the mouth area on any photo and record your own impersonation of that person. This wonderful app, which is free for both iPhone and iPad, can let you easily record the impersonation into a video and share it with the world.

Pictures can be uploaded from your device or can be taken from the front or rear camera. You can even use your friends’ Facebook profile picture to create a funny gig. You can change brightness on an image, adjust colors, crop or even add blemish. If you don’t like what you have recorded, simply click undo to record fresh. Once done, you can save the videos to your device or upload them on Facebook or YouTube.

Features:

Create impersonating videos based on images.
Upload images from device or get from Facebook.
Upload video on Facebook or YouTube.

Download LipMe from iTunes

iFakeText: Create Fake iPhone Text Messages

Israel Nicolas — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 03:01:19 +0000

Did you know that you can just as easily create fake iPhone text conversations screenshots, for the purpose of pranking other people? iFakeText is a web app that that lets you create a fake iPhone text message screenshot. The generated screenshot is highly customizable, and you can even choose your “carrier network”.

To create a fake iPhone text conversation screenshot, go to the page, enter your name (which will be displayed on the top of the conversation screenshot), choose a carrier, and type in the conversation that you want to generate. You need to observe the proper text format in order to ensure that what you have entered is displayed properly in the generated screenshot. Finally, hit the ‘CREATE YOUR SCREENSHOT’ button to generate the conversation screenshot image using what you have entered.

iFakeText provides quick links to easily share your generated conversation screenshot to your social networking sites. However, since these links uses the iFakeText.com domain, it may not be the best idea if you plan on pranking somebody if you are serious about it, so it’s better if you just save the image and upload it yourself.

Features:

Create a customized fake iPhone text message conversation screenshot.
Lets you enter your name and carrier which are then reflected on the generated screenshot image.
Share your generated conversation screenshot to social networking and social bookmarking sites, or via email.
Free to use, no signup is required.
Similar tools: FakeiPhoneText.

Check out iFakeText @ www.ifaketext.com

TunesIQ: Cool Song Guessing Game Online

Umar — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 19:01:43 +0000

If you consider yourself a music fan, you would appreciate a fun music-related game. This is exactly what TunesIQ is – a fun music game that has you guessing the song being played.

TunesIQ is a free to use website that is basically a song-guessing game that tests your music knowledge. The game involves audio being played with song options to choose from on the right. The more songs you guess correctly, the higher you score. You can create an account on the site and create your own quizzes by adding songs; the tunes for the songs are from YouTube. You can create multiple quizzes and share them with friends over social networks. The site serves as a simple yet effective fun tool for all music fans.

Features:

A user-friendly online song guessing game.
A music-related fun game.
Plays songs and asks you to pick the right one from options.
Lets you create quizzes and share them with friends.

Check out TunesIQ @ www.tunesiq.com (By Umar from TechCityInc)

Gender Genie: Find Out The Gender Of An Author By Analyzing Text

azim — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 17:01:29 +0000

There is a difference between the writing styles of men and women. Now you can find out the gender of an author of a text instantly thanks to Gender Genie. It is an online service based on an algorithm, which analyzes and categorizes keywords within the text into feminine and masculine. Then it calculates the overall score and gives you the final result accordingly.

You can analyze any type of text – from a book or from a blog entry. It works best with texts that are at least 500 words.To try it out, go to their homepage, enter the text and click “Submit”. Once the text is processed, scroll down for the results below to see the predicted gender of the text author and see the analysis of feminine/masculine keywords on a chart.

Features

Predict the gender of an author by analyzing the text.
Works best on texts with at least 500 words.
Free, no registration.
Based on an algorithm by Moshe Koppel (Bar-Ilan University in Israel) and Shlomo Argamon (Illinois Institute of Technology).

Check out Gender Genie @ www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.php (via Socialtimes)

Gzaas: Create Huge Attention Grabbing Messages & Send To Others

Umar — Sat, 21 May 2011 01:01:08 +0000

Gzaas is a free website that lets you set up huge attention grabbing messages in your browser and send to others. When the browser is set to full screen the message appears across your entire display. You start by entering your message on the site’s homepage and then pressing enter. Your message is displayed on the subsequent screen with various controls located at the bottom. These controls let you change the display appearance style, font style and color, background color, background pattern, and text shadows. The text can also be changed once your style has been customized.

The variety of options offered let you easily obtain a desirable text display that will look appealing on a large screen. The site will be very helpful for store owners who have got large screen displays in public places.

Features:

A user-friendly web service.
Lets you set up text messages for large screen displays.
Offers a variety of customizations such as text style and color, background pattern and color, etc.
Lets you change the text once your display style has been customized.
Similar tool: BigAssMessage.

Check out Gzaas @ www.gzaas.com (By Umar from TechCityInc)