Pest Exterminator is a web service that helps provide you with DIY pest removal solutions. On the site’s homepage you will find articles sorted according to their popularity, recentness, and category. If you are looking for something in particular you can start by accessing the relevant category of articles – pest prevention, DIY pest control, pest profiles, or hiring a pest professional. The site also helps you find a nearby pest control service by searching through your zip code.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Helps you access DIY pest control solutions.
• Includes informative articles on pest profiles.
• Shares tips for pest prevention.
• Lets you find local pest removal services by entering your zip code.

Check out Pest Exterminator @ http://www.pestexterminator.com (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)

Homeowners know that there is always a million things to do, and it can be next to impossible to keep track of them all. With HomeSpot, it becomes much easier, because you can keep everything you need in one place. It makes it easy to remember when your hot water heater needs to be changed or what color you wanted to paint your home office. Instead of having notes and papers scattered around, you will have an organized, easy to access spot for everything.

In additon to keeping track of projects and maintenance, HomeSpot also has the ability to keep track of objects in your house. So if you want to keep track of all your tools you can do that. They even have owner manuals for many popular items.

Features:

• Keep track of all maintence that needs to be performed on your house.
• Plan and keep track of new projects.
• Keep track of items in your house.
• Owners manuals for many items.
• Easy to use and has everything in one place.
• Similar tools: Keepm and HouseholdProducts.

For the time being, the service is free. All you need to do is sign up for an account and then start adding items to a list. You may wish to add them all in one place, or maybe be a bit more civilized and add them according to your room. For example “Attic”, “Dining Room”, “Bedroom 1″, etc.

When you start adding items and their values, the service will automatically start adding up the “Total Value” and show it to you on the main dashboard. You can even categorize the items according to their type such as electronics, furniture, clothing, etc, so you can even get a report if you ever want one for a specific type, or a specific room.

Features:

• Free and easy to use.
• Keeping track of items made easier.
• Exporting data allows you to backup your data.
• Generate reports for analysis.
• Similar tools: Quidaty Home, Cosanote, OurShelf, StuffSafe, EasyRoomIn and OneSimpleMove.
• Also read related article: Two Home Inventory Tracking Apps to Insure Your Assets.

Check out iKeepm @ www.ikeepm.com (By Hammad from TechnicallyDigital)

HouseFix is a web service that lets you publish details of your house construction projects online. You can specify your house’s location along with the detailed nature and type of the construction you are planning. You can even add a planned start date for your project. Next you can make the project’s details publicly viewable.

Various contractors then check out your listing and bid on the project to provide you with their expertise at competitive prices. You can then choose your contractor from the application based on their ratings.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Helps you find contractors.
• Lets you publish details of your projects.
• Lets contractors bid on your projects to give you competitive prices.
• Similar tools: DeckDesigner, IKEAHackers, Fixr, FurnitureDesignBank and iFixit.

Check out HouseFix @ www.housefix.com/homeowner/benefits (by MOin from Urban Savior)

Quidaty Home is a simple and wonderful website that lets you keep a list of things you own. You can start by creating an account on the site and then start adding items you own and their details. With each item you can enter details such as model number, purchasing date, and warranty term. In addition to keeping a track of your belongings, such details will also help you with warranty claims.

Additionally the site lets you keep online lists of important documents, contacts, and passwords.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Lets you keep an online record of belongings.
• You can record assets, documents, contacts, and passwords.
• You can enter numerous details about assets.
• Similar tool: Cosanote, OurShelf, StuffSafe, EasyRoomIn and OneSimpleMove.
• Also read related article: Two Home Inventory Tracking Apps to Insure Your Assets.

Check out Quidaty Home @ www.quidaty.com (by MOin from ThumbPress)

The Burning House is a simple and free to use website that lets people share their list of most valuable items. You are simply required to share the list of items you would carry to safety if your house was burning down; these items can be important to you because of their cost or their sentimental value. You can share your list along with a picture of the items so others are able to view them.

For each list, site visitors are able to leave comments and leave their thoughts.

Features:

• A user-friendly website.
• Lets you share the list of items you would save if your house was burning down.
• Lets others comment on your list.
• Lets you view the list of other people.

Check out The Burning House @ http://the-burning-house.com (By Umar from TechCityInc)

Using Attikis is very simple. Just configure your home security alarm system to call Attikis. Then you just need to define what action should be taken when the alarm is triggered. You can configure Attikis to notify you by SMS, phone, and e-mail. You can also check the status of your home wherever you are in the world with your profile dashboard.

Attikis offers free and paid accounts. A free account only offer beeps, and phone-only notification, while the paid accounts add SMS and e-mail notification as well as auto-redial to prevent missed calls. Attikis is a cool tool for anyone who need a solid notification system for their home alarm at a fraction of the cost.

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Features:

• Save money as a alternative home monitoring system.
• Easily configure your alarm system to call Attikis.
• Set-up response rules for your to phone, SMS, and e-mail.
• Free and paid options available.
• Similar Tool: UGOlog and HighlightCam.

Check out Attikis @ www.attikis.com

Fixr is a free and simple to use website that lets you post up a house improvement or maintenance task and then get bids from contractors. The idea is quite simple: contractors compete for the tasks that you post and you select whichever contractor you feel is best. By going through the contractor’s bids, their reviews, and interacting with them through the site, you can reach a good decision.

Another cool thing about the site is that it provides a detailed info about work you need done and give you detailed labor and total work cost estimates.

While the site is free for job posting users, it charges nearly a 5% fee to service providers in case they secure a bid.

Features:

• A user friendly web service.
• Lets you find contractors for home repairs and improvements.
• Lets contractors bid for your jobs.
• Helps house maintenance contractors compete with each other and find new jobs.
• Similar tools: DiyOrNot.

Check out Fixr @ www.fixr.com (By Umar from TechcityInc)

SnapShop Showroom is a free application sized at 1.3 MB for iOS devices ““ your iPod Touch, iPhone, or iPad needs to run iOS 3.1 or later to run this app. The app is unique because it uses augmented reality. Walk into your living room and launch the application; then select a sofa from the ones provided in the app; the sofa’s image will be overlaid on the image of the room. You can move the sofa around to fit the image.

You can also easily change the sofas and their colors using convenient finger swipes. The image can be saved and emailed to yourself and friends. When you like a sofa, you can head out searching for a similar sofa or simply visit the retailer’s online store using the app itself.

Key Features:

• Visualize and plan your room furniture prier buying.
• Compatible with iOS devices ““ iPod Touch, iPad, and iPhone.
• Lets you visualize different sofas in your rooms.
• Lets you visit the retailer’s online store to buy the sofa online.
• Similar tools: Jordan’s Furniture Room Planner and ASimpleMeasure.

Check out SnapShop Showroom @ itunes.apple.com/us/app/snapshop-showroom/id373144101?mt=8#

Bragadoo.com is a site designed to help users hire reliable and trusted home service providers. It is a place to hire people that your friends or your neighbors trust and brag about. You can find over 60,000 service providers ranging from mechanics, cleaning and fitness providers to landscaping services, child care providers, beauty consultants and more. You can also search for service providers for your business needs here.

Bragadoo makes it easy to search for the service providers you may need since the list is arranged categorically by Family, Home, Personal, and Business. You can also help other users choose the right provider by bragging about the one that you got on the site.

This service is entirely free. All you need to do is sign up on their website to get free access to various service providers they have on file. On the other hand, if you’re the one providing the service, you can also post or brag about your service on the site so you can have potential clients browse over your profile.

Features:

• Trusted and reliable home service providers.
• Easy search engine.
• Users can share views and opinions about the service providers via the online forum.
• You can invite your friends and neighbors to join, too.
• A good place to expand your network.
• Spam-free.
• Similar tool: Redbeacon.

Check out Bragadoo @ www.bragadoo.com