The first time you sign into the app, you will be asked to indicate your city location which you can change afterwards. FTF currently supports 34 US cities, with more being listed due to user requests. With FTF, you can easily follow, via Twitter, the different food trucks within the location that you chose. You may even search the Twitter feed for a particular location or food truck which can be very useful if you are looking for something very specific.

Users can also purchase the ad-free Food Truck Follower Pro. Although it doesn’t offer new features; it does however help in the development of the app so it is a great way to support the developer.

Features:

• Find food trucks within a city using Twitter feeds.
• Follow the Twitter feeds of various food trucks.
• Supports 34 US cities and still growing.
• View by food truck or by Tweet feed.
• Search the Tweet feed for a particular food or location.
• Similar Tools: DiningIn, Gourmet Library, and Campus Food.

Check out Food Truck Finder @ https://market.android.com/details?id=dl.ftf

Currently in beta, Google Offers is a free to use web service that lists the latest discount offers available nearby. With each offer you get detailed information on the offer itself, the original price of the offer, the terms, the remaining time, and details of the deal as well as the business.

Offers can be found by visiting the Google Offers website or by subscribing to the service by selecting your region; information on offers is then emailed to you.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Lists popular offers.
• Provides detailed information for each offer.
• Lets you purchase offers online.
• Lets you subscribe to local offers via email.
• Similar tools: TheDealMap, Dealery, SaleLocator and CoupRecoup.
• Also read related article: 5 Best Sites To Find Cool Deals Near Your Home.

Check out Google Offers @ www.google.com/offers (by MOin from ThumbPress)

Using SaleLocator is pretty straightforward. All you need is to enter your city in the field to bring up a list of deals. Click an item to view the details of the sale including when and where it will take place. You can also click to view the store map and directions.

While there are many deals listed in SaleLocator, you can likewise save the deals that you like to your dashboard. Browse by categories or use the search field to find specific types of deals in your area. It also allows you to save your searches for quick access in the future.

SaleLocator is cool web and iPhone app that focus on providing local retail information.This is especially useful for anyone who wants to discover new stores within the area and check out fresh places to find the best deals.

Features:

• Plot local deals in Google Maps.
• Change locations to find best deals in the city.
• Emphasis on local retail information.
• Save your recent searches and deals.
• Browse deals through categories or by using the search field.
• Sign in with Twitter or Facebook and share deals.

Check out SaleLocator @ www.salelocator.com

The site lets you search for bathrooms across the United States and displays the results on a map. You can filter the results to find gender neutral and free bathrooms.

The site also lets people add a bathroom easily.  You just need to fill in the details and go through an anti-spam check. For each bathroom, it also has more information like directions and comments made by other users. And you can also access the site from your mobile phone.

Features

• Find safe and gender neutral bathrooms.
• No sign up required to do a search.
• Uses Google Maps to show the bathroom locations.
• Provides information like address, directions and user comments.
• Similar tools:   SitOrSquat, TheBathroomDiaries and MizPee.

Check out Safe2Pee  @ www.safe2pee.org (By Abhijeet from Guiding Tech)

Gloe is an experimental, user contributed search engine that lets you find online content relevant to our location. You can enter your location in the field provided and a list of all relevant websites will be shown, according to your selected search parameters. These parameters include the type of website (photos, restaurants, places, etc.), the radius of the search (in miles), and the number of sites we want to view. Each result is accompanied with the number of views and votes it has received (through Gloe).

Currently an experiment, Gloe aims to provide a platform for location-based discovery of information for mobile Web users, a rapidly growing audience.

Additionally,  you can also recommend sites associated with particular location.

Features:

• Connect with your Facebook account.
• Gloe bookmarklet available to bookmark a webpage for specific location.
• Result fetching is fast and accurate.
• API available for further development.
• Helps us rely on users rather than potentially biased search engines.
• Will help cellphone users easily find content relevant to their present location.
• Similar tools: BatchGeo and iMapFlickr.
• Also check out related article: Top Mapping Tools: Maps, Local Guides & Driving Directions.

Check out Gloe @ www.hpgloe.com

LucyPhone is a free web service that acts as a customer telephone switchboard so that you don’t have to wait on hold again when calling customer service.

To use LucyPhone, go to the website and search for a company name or type any toll-free number. Then enter your phone number and click the start button to initiate the service. LucyPhone will call you first then patch you through to the company. Interact with the company’s phone menu normally and once you are put on hold, just press ** and your call will be disconnected.

Once an agent is available on the line to talk to you, LucyPhone will call you back straight away and connect you to the customer service representative. You may also repeat pressing ** when you are put on hold again.

For more info watch demo video:

Features:

• Never wait on hold when calling customer service.
• Add a company’s number to the LucyPhone directory.
• Tweet about your LucyPhone call or publish it in Facebook.
• Free, signup is optional.
• Similar tools: IVRHacks, DialAHuman and GetHuman.

Check out LucyPhone @ www.lucyphone.com

The Dealmap is a free to use website that shows us special offers from around the world. It provides users with a map view of these offers. We can head on over to any active location on the map and view the offers available there.

The map is shown on the right pane and offers can be filtered using controls in the left pane. We can filter offers according to restaurants, shopping, events, hotels, services, etc.

The site also has applications for popular mobile phone operating systems and can be followed on Facebook and Twitter. We can choose to subscribe to Dealmap’s email as well.

Features:

• Great user interface.
• Many categories to choose from.
• Presents offers in an understandable way.
• The map view indicates how far an offer is available from the place we live.
• Similar tools: Offeretti, MashSpots, Deals.Woot and Groupon.
• Related article: How To Become An Online Power Shopper With The Right Tools.

Check out The Dealmap @ www.thedealmap.com (via VentureBeat)

You could search for local food by the type of distributor or by the name of product, within a radius of 10 to 500 miles. Both buying and selling of local food could be done through the site.

The diagram below shows how this web service works. Email alerts can be set to know when your desired local food is available. The tool is currently US only.

Features

• Locate fresh local food shops for buying. Sellers could use it to find customers.
• Search by the type of product seller or the product itself.
• Also, search within a radius of 10 to 500 miles.
• Currently available in US only.

Check out Local Dirt @ www.localdirt.com (via Lifehacker By Abhijeet from Guiding Tech)

Fwix goes beyond aggregation, however; you can comment on any story directly through Fwix, thanks to a frame around the article. This is a great way to comment on articles for newspapers that don’t include comment functions, or to bypass any rules and regulations your local newspaper might have in terms of commenting.  Every article linked to on Fwix also includes a quick survey regarding the article at the top of the article. This helps create a community that stretches beyond any one news source.

The service doesn’t cover the entire world, though it does cover most major cities in the USA as well as a few in Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland (although the latter only includes Dublin.) American cities are overwhelmingly favored at the moment: my home city of 100,000 people is included (Boulder, Colorado) but international users in towns and cities of similar sizes are for the most part left out.

Features

• Aggregates local news in hundreds of cities; mostly in America, but also in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and Great Britain.
• Answer simple polls or leave comments untouchable by the given media organization.
• Similar website: Everyblock.

Check out fwix @ www.fwix.com

Results will then display eBay listings in your neighborhood sorted by distance. Bringing your mouse over any listing will show you more details and clicking on it will take you to the actual eBay page. You can also sort your results by date or price and narrow them down by entering a minimum or maximum price. Location of each seller is also displayed on a Google map to give you a better idea about the proximity.

Features:

• Filter eBay listings for local results.
• Sort by date, price or distance.
• Refine results for auctions or BuyItNow items.
• Search using a specific category and price range.
• No registration required.

Visit Flippity @ Flippity.com