The app monitors Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, and Gowalla accounts to gather opinions, news, and updates. You can filter the app’s content based on your interests and location. Each location has markers shown on a map where the updates are originating from. If you have a friend in your Banjo account and they happen to be nearby where you are, the app sends you a push notification and vice versa. These features along with others such as messaging and gathering opinions through comments make Banjo an excellent social discovery service.

Features:

• A user-friendly phone app.
• Compatible with iOS and Android devices.
• Lets you discover friends who are nearby.
• Lets you gather local opinions through comments.
• Also read related article: 5 Best Location-Based Alternatives to Foursquare.

Check out Banjo @ www.ban.jo (via TechCrunch) (by MOin from Thumb Press)

feed2mail is a free to use web service that helps you get notified of new entries in your RSS feeds. Like in the case mentioned above or in case you are not fond of RSS readers, you can use this site to send you email notifications any time there is a new entry in your favorite RSS feeds. The site does not require any signups. All you have to do is visit the site, enter the feed’s URL, enter your email address, then click on the confirmation link that is emailed to you. You can repeat this for as many feeds as you like.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Sends email notifications for RSS feeds.
• Supports unlimited RSS feeds.
• Does not require any registration.
• Similar tools: SendMeRSS, ToRSS and FeedMyInbox.

Check out feed2mail @ www.feed2mail.com (by MOin from Thumb Press)

The app has definitely struck a chord with Android users going by the number of downloads it sees every week. It is completely free to use and also lets you pause pops whenever it might an inconvenience (like in a business meeting).

Features

• Make boring notifications fun with animations and videos.
• Ever growing gallery of animations and videos.
• Works for Email, SMS, Facebook, Twitter and more.

Check out Pops @ www.getpo.ps (By Abhijeet from GT Mobiles)

I’m OK is a service that lets you notify your contacts if you are alright or if you are in an emergency and need help. The service works by first asking you to register your phone number and reply with a confirmation text message. Next you add your emergency contacts to the service. The service gives you a phone number on which to text in order to send the text to all your emergency contacts instantly.

You can include anything in the message but the supported hashtags certainly save your time. Among the supported hashtags are #imok to indicate you are alright, #needhelp to ask for help, and #loc to include your location’s latitude and longitude in the message.

Features:

• A useful emergency service.
• Lets you text many people using only one text message.
• Helps notify contacts if you are alright or in an emergency.
• Lets you quickly include your geographical position in the text message.

Check out “I’m OK” @ http://imokapp.appspot.com/home (By Umar from TechCityInc)

TrackNewBook is a free to use web service that sends you email notifications about books that you would be interested in. You can have the website send you notifications about upcoming books by a particular author, on a particular subject, that include particular keywords, or that are similar to a particular book. Having such a wide selection choice you can easily stay in touch with the new books that you would be interested in. You can even set your preferred book format: print, Kindle, audio, or HTML. The frequency of email notifications can also be set up.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Lets you stay updated with new book releases.
• Sends notifications via email.
• Lets you select frequency of notifications.
• Similar tools:  Book-Buzzes, AnyNewBook, FictFact, Expert Advice, BookArmy and Biblio.
• Also read related articles:
  How To Track New Book Releases From Favorite Authors
  4 Great Ways To Keep Track Of Your Expanding Book Collection

Check out TrackNewBook @ www.tracknewbook.com (by MOin from ThumbPress)

You can delete alerts for any author at any time, and also instantly see the last book released by that author. Clicking on the book title takes you to Amazon where you can buy that book. Its a great tool especially if you are following a book series and don’t want to miss out when the latest book comes out.

Features:

• Get email alerts when your favorite author releases a new book.
• Customize by country and binding.
• See latest books for your favorite author.
• Quick and simple sign up.
• Similar tools: AnyNewBook, FictFact, Expert Advice, BookArmy and Biblio.
• Also read related articles:
  How To Track New Book Releases From Favorite Authors
  4 Great Ways To Keep Track Of Your Expanding Book Collection

Visit BookBuzzes @ www.book-buzzes.com

Labelert is an Android app that allows you to change the LED colors of your phone using the labels in your Gmail account. It also lets you set the notification sounds, vibration settings, and LED flash interval for each label so that it will instantly give you an idea of what the new mail is about without opening it.

To use Labelert, first you need to set up the labels and filters in your Gmail account. Once you have done that, download and install the app in your Android phone and go to preferences. Then choose a label that you want to associate to each color option. Finally, go to the Gmail application of your phone and disable the email notifications in the settings.

Features:

• Get customized email alerts on android.
• Change LED colors for each label.
• Set notification sounds for each label.
• Set vibration settings for each label.
• Change LED flash interval settings for each label.
• Change the color of LED for other emails doesn’t have labels applied to them.

Use qr code below to download the app:

Download Labelart @ www.appbrain.com/app/labelert-beta/com.labelert

Alertful is a free to use website that helps you set up email reminders. The site does not ask you to register for an account. It gets right down to business. You can click on one of the pre-defined reminders on the site or create your custom reminder. The reminder interface lets you name the reminder, set up a reminder date, enter your email address, set up the reminder frequency, set your time zone, and enter some text to go in the email.

With these options set all you have to do is enter the verification code and click on the “Submit” button. With these simple steps you can set up an email reminder for any event or task with your preferred frequency. If you feel you have selected a frequency that is too high ““ in other words if you are getting too many emails ““ you can simply click on the “Unsubscribe” link in the email and stop the reminders.

Features:

• A user friendly web service.
• Lets you setup email reminders.
• Offers predefined reminders or custom reminders.
• Lets you choose the frequency of reminder emails.
• Similar tools: FollowUp, RemindTRON, PingMe, YourLi.st, PleaseNotify.me, Memorari, Urge-Me and QuickReminders.
• Also read related article: 5 Kick-Ass Reminder Services.

Check out Alertful @ www.alertful.com (by MOin from ThumbPress)

Any New Books is a free to use new book release notification website that keeps you updated on new books that are relevant to your reading interests. The site’s function is quite simple: it lets you subscribe to weekly email notifications for each type of book genre. The genres include fiction, non-fiction, programming, history, horror, law, and many others.

In addition to getting updates on regular books you can choose to get updates on new Kindle books as well, by checking an option.

According to your options, you are sent a weekly email for each genre you selected, keeping you notified of new book releases.

Features:

• Get book release alrts.
• Lets you select the books genre-wise.
• A number of genres is shown.
• You can also get updates on Kindle books.
• Similar tools: FictFact, Expert Advice, BookArmy and Biblio.
• Also read related articles: How To Track New Book Releases From Favorite Authors and 4 Great Ways To Keep Track Of Your Expanding Book Collection.

Check out “Any New Books” @ www.anynewbooks.com (by MOin from ThumbPress)

The app requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later, is compatible with iPod touch and iPad and takes up only 5.8MB of space. There’s a paid version too which gets rid of the advertisements. For email notifications, it provides you with an email address where you can forward emails from your primary account.

Features:

• Get push notifications on ipad and iphone.
• Nifty push notification app for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.
• Works with Twitter, Facebook, Email, RSS, Atom and Growl.
• Supports popular Twitter and Facebook third-party clients.
• Supports multiple Twitter accounts.
• You can customize the settings.

Check out Boxcar@ www.boxcar.io (by Abhijeet from Guiding Tech)