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Plangr: Create & Share Plans The Social Way

TehseenBaweja — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:01:06 +0000

Plangr is a social tool that lets you create plans with your friends and then share them easily. You can create a new plan for an event, invite your friends or simply browse plans that other users have made and choose to join. If you are making a plan with a group, you can also assign parts of plans to different people and display the whole task stream on a calendar.

If you are making a plan for an event, but not really sure what to do to make the event fun, ask the Plangr community and people can share their thoughts. Each plan is integrated with a calendar and Google Maps to make it as interactive and social as possible. You can also send and receive messages to other users and get notifications when plans are updated.

Features:

Create plans with your friends online.
Share plans and discovery what others are doing.
Integrate with Facebook, Google or Twitter.

Visit Plangr @ http://www.plangr.com

Kuandoo: An Interactive Way To Plan Social Events

abhijeet — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 23:01:20 +0000

If you have ever planned a party at home, like a barbecue bash or a birthday celebration, then you will know that all the fun aside, it isn’t usually easy to satisfy all your guests with the arrangements you’ve made. Kuandoo wants to change that and help you organize the perfect social event. It is an interactive tool where you can connect with the guests beforehand, plan out the transportation (like car pools etc), get a consensus on the type of drinks and food that should be served and determine the budget for the party.

You can either register with them or log in with your Facebook account. The tool is easy to use (just create and share the widgets) and can contribute significantly in the smooth organization of social events.

Features

Plan social events easily.
Interact with guests beforehand to discuss things.
Plan drinks, food and transportation.
Determine the budget for the party.

Check out Kuandoo @ www.kuandoo.com/index.php (By Abhijeet from GT Mobiles)

MeetMe: Schedule Meetings By Showing Your Available Dates

MOin — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:01:23 +0000

Arranging a meeting with a business partner or friend is not very easy when you have a busy schedule. Communicating your free dates through the phone or email might not be a very convenient solution. To schedule the meeting effectively, you can make use of a web tool called MeetMe.

The idea behind MeetMe is quite simple: you start by creating an account on the site and then marking your available dates and times on a calendar. Your calendar of available dates can be viewed through a public URL that you can share with others. Your meeting partner can view your available dates on the calendar and select one that is most convenient for them. They then notify you of the time they selected to confirm the meeting.

Features:

A user friendly web service.
Lets you easily schedule meetings.
Lets you specify date choices and time slot choices for the event.
Provides available dates and times on a calendar that has a public URL.
Similar tools: Congregar, MeetWithMe, Doodle, PermaTime, NeedtoMeet, MeetWithAgenda and TimeBridge.

Check out MeetMe @ www.doodle.com/about/meetMe.html (by MOin from ThumbPress)

Exhibit Core Floor Planner: Create Event Floor Plans Online

MOin — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 19:01:53 +0000

Before organizing a party that involves many people, it would be a wise idea to plan the floor arrangement to accommodate everybody. Thankfully there are numerous web tools that can help you virtually organize your room and visualize your ideas. Exhibit Core Floor Planner is one such web tool to create event floor plan online.

Exhibit Core Floor Planner is a free to use web service that lets you create floor plans and save them. You can easily create an account on the website and start working on your floor canvas. Furniture is located on the left-most pane from where you can drag it onto your floor. You will find that the items list includes a wide variety of things that you can place in a room. The right-most pane is where you can change the floor color, grid size, and the floor’s dimensions.

When you are done with your floor design you can save it and directly share it on Facebook using the buttons provided on the site. Asking your Facebook friends’ opinion will surely help you create better flooring arrangements.

Features:

A user friendly web tool.
Lets you create virtual floor plans.
Offers a wide range of editing tools and furniture edits to create your plans.
Lets you save your plans.
Lets you share your plans on Facebook.
Similar tools: Marquee Planner, ProjectDragonfly, PlanningWiz and Buildy.
Also read related articles:

Check out Exhibit Core Floor Planner @ www.exhibitcore.net/e_manager/floorplanner/ExhibitCorePlanner.aspx (by MOin from ThumbPress)

LoveMyHome: Visualize Interior Design Ideas Prior Implementing Them

MOin — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:01:46 +0000

It is best to visualize your interior design plans first before you carry them out. In case you are planning to implement any new interior design ideas, be sure to first pay a visit to Love My Home. It is a free to use website that helps you visualize your interior design plans. You start by installing the site plug-in that enables you to use the website’s design interface. The actual designing starts with an empty room. Afterwards you can add items to the room.

You can add furniture, decorations, televisions, and much more, but you can also start from a pre-furnished room. The products you customize the room with are actual top quality products offered by specialist retailers. Advanced item placing tools and view options help you best visualize your ideas. You can save your work and show it to friends to get their opinions.

For more info watch demo video:

Features:

Lets you preview interior design ideas.
Lets you customize rooms with actual items and products.
Offers great customization and viewing tools.
Lets you save and share your work.
Similar tools: SeeMyDesign, Houzz, DesignYourDorm, SmallBluePrinter, Buildy and ProjectDragonfly.
Also read related article:

Check out Love My Home @ www.lovemyhome.de/?lang=en (by MOin from ThumbPress)

Calme: Create Beautiful Planners & Calendars

abhijeet — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 23:01:34 +0000

Calme is a Windows only application for creating creative and beautiful planners, monthly or yearly and nice looking calendars. While creating a calendar using this tool, you can customize it by choosing fonts, colors and pictures. Uploading photos from your computer to Calme is easy. Holidays can be added directly from the software. There are 12 calendar and planner templates available. Calendars can be created in different sizes, like letter, legal, A3, A4 and A5. This facilitates their printing as actual calendars that can be put up on a wall or placed on your desk.

Calme is free for personal and non-commercial users and requires Java to operate. The interface is easy to understand and use.

Features

Create great looking planners and calendars.
12 calendar templates available.
Software, works on Java, Windows only.
Add your own pictures to individual calendars.
Holidays can be sourced from the application itself.
Create and print in various sizes.
Similar tools: DoneCal, Re-Print.me, Coolendar, and Weekis

Check out Calme @ calme.mecoding.com/index.html (By Abhijeet from Guiding Tech)

Plnnr: Free Personalized Trip Itinerary Planning Tool

TehseenBaweja — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 01:01:38 +0000

Plnnr eliminates the need of worrying about the planning part of your trip. Just tell Plnnr your preferences and the tool will create your itinerary taking into account all major and minor details including distance, open hours, etc. Start with selecting one of the major tourist cities, then select your arrival date and trip duration.

Once you specify the nature of your trip (outdoors, with kids, cultural) and select the level of leisure you desire, Plnnr will create a trip plan for you. All the attractions suiting the theme of your trip and within a reasonable distance will be shown on a map along with their descriptions in the sidebar. Clicking on any one will add it to your trip’s plan for that particular day. A map is also created for your itinerary showing your hotel as the center point.

For more info watch demo video below:

Features:

Create a customized and smart trip plan.
Just specify your preferences and Plnnr will do the rest.
Considers nature of your trip, duration, hotel choice and desired leisure level.
Creates a visual map-based itinerary for easy-following.
Similar tools: Tripit.

Visit Plnnr @ www.plnnr.com

Wanderfly: Get Vacation Suggestions Based on Your Preferences

Israel Nicolas — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:01:52 +0000

Have you ever thought of going on vacation to a random place in the world? Wanderfly is a web app and online flight booking service that lets you do that easily. Wanderfly will suggest you a random place for vacation that suits your preference. All you have to do is input where you are coming from, your budget, when do you plan on vacationing, the place that you want to explore, and your interest about a place.

To use Wanderfly, go to its homepage and enter the necessary parameters for the search. You can even specify a range for your budget and as for the date, you can choose a vague part of a month (early, mid, or late) and specify the number of days.

As for the place that you want to explore, you can specify a certain country or you can just leave it at “˜anywhere’ if you are feeling adventurous. Then you can choose from casino, eco, food, culture, outdoors, romance, shopping, spa, party, beach, entertainment, and luxury, so Wanderfly can also suggest the activities that you can do within a place.

Features:

Holiday recommendation engine.
Plan a vacation on a random place in the world.
Specify your budget, date of vacation, place (optional), and interests within a place.
Suggest places, as well as flights, hotel, and activities based on the parameters you’ve input.
Provides information about the place suggested.
Can suggest multiple trip ideas.
Similar Tools: Gowaza, BudgetYourTrip, IgoUgo, and GlobeTrooper.

Check out Wanderfly @ www.wanderfly.com

SnapShop Showroom: Preview Furniture In Your Room Before Buying

Umar — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 21:01:48 +0000

Are you about to buy new furniture for your home? If yes, then to save time on shopping you should at least have an idea of what furniture would look good in your home. For this purpose you could use SnapShop Showroom, a tool that helps you visualize different furniture in your house or apartment.

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#

Placepad: Quickly & Easily Sketch House Plans Online

Umar — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:01:55 +0000

Are you planning to have a home built? If yes, then it would be a good idea to draw what you want your home to look like. To communicate your plans to a professional, you will need a good drawing of your plan. Placepad is a web service that will let you quickly and easily sketch house plans online.

Placepad is a web service that allows you to draw your house plans for free. After answering a series of questions like how many floors there will be, how many rooms on each floor, etc. ““ you will get a canvas where you can place rooms, garages, kitchens, etc.

You can drag the rooms onto the canvas and they will snap into place. Room resizing tools and wall shapers help you get the exact design you want. For each room you can upload a picture that captures the intended final look of that particular room. After finishing a floor you can move on to drawings for other floors. Finally you can save your design and revisit it later using your web browser.

To see PlacePad in action watch demo videos below:

NOTE: Placepad does not function on Google Chrome.

Features:

A user friendly website.
Lets you draw your house plans.
Provides a number of simple and useful tools to create professional looking drawings.
For each room you can upload pictures of how you want the room to finally look.
Is a great help in communicating your idea to contractors and builders.
Similar sites: Roomle, PlanningWiz, Jordan’s Furniture Room Planner, ColorJive and Mydeco ““ Room Planner.
Related article: 3 Floor Design Services to Decorate and Plan your House.

Check out Placepad @ www.placepad.com