The site shows the snowfall forecast for the current and next day, and the amount of snow you are likely to encounter during your morning or evening commutes, which is quite helpful if you frequently travel out of the city and want to know the best time when you are likely to find the least snow.

Features

• Snowfall predictions for US cities.
• Weather data sourced from National Weather Service of the US government.

Check out How Much Will It Snow @ www.howmuchwillitsnow.com (By Abhijeet from GT Mobiles)

Airport Monitor has a simple interface, which is a good thing for sorting through all the flight data. It will give you the origin and destination, the airline, flight number, gate number, and estimated time of arrival. You can also search through the airline name, flight number, gate number and more.

You can also send flight details to your friends through your e-mail – great if you want to be on the same flight or if there is someone picking you up. And if you are a frequent flyer, you can bookmark you favorite airport for quick access.

Airport Monitor Lite is a handy app for anyone who needs the latest flight details on their fingertips. This is especially useful for people who bounce from one airport to another on their day job and need to get advanced flight information for booking.

Features:

• View arrivals and departures from top US airports
• Sort list by time
• Search through flight data
• Bookmark airports for quick access
• No need to check flight number to know

Shiroube lets you find people who are willing to show you around their neighborhood for a minimal fee. This gets you an intimate and small-group tour without being pushed over by schedules and large tour groups. This way, you get to experience the destinations on a more grounded setting.

With Shiroube, you can either find a guide, or be the guide. Prospective guides can place up to three ads for free. Once signed in, you can post specific guide ads – guide details, price, activities, and pictures of the destination. If you want to look for a guide, just browse through your planned destination and view the different tours.

Shiroube is a nice app for anyone looking for a tour guide on a budget. Since you are contacting the tour guide directly you can save lots of money and hassle in planning your trip.

Features:

• Search and contact local tour guides.
• Tour guides can sign up and post ads.
• Free up to three ads and three contact e-mails.
• Browse through destination through Google Maps.
• Find the best local guide rates.
• Similar Tools: Vayable, Roadside America, and Traveletiquette.

Check out Shiroube @ www.shiroube.com

Currently the site is only limited to the US, and works well except that the number of options it gives vary from route to route. Enter the origin and destination, select one of the routes it presents as options and you are good to go. It shows the map on the right and the list on the left.

Features

• Find what’s on the way in your road trip.
• Easy to use and navigate.
• Similar tools: MyScenicDrives, Rome2rio, RouteFriend, Route4Me, Route Planner, POIs Along A Route, UMapper and The Route Planner.

Check out OnTheWay @ www.onthewayapp.com (By Abhijeet from GT Mobiles)

Mobile LogBook is a free to use web application that can be used from a computer browser or your phone’s browser. You can quickly create an account on the site, specify the type of vehicle you own, and start recording trips. For each trip you can specify its name and the odometer readings before and after the trips. The stats for your trips are displayed in figures as well as graphically. If you want, you can export the data to a CSV file that is emailed to you. This file can be used with other financial applications to import data regarding your vehicles.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Lets you record distances travelled on your vehicles.
• Displays data in figures and graphically.
• Can export data to a CSV file.
• Similar tools: View Distance Calculator and DistanceFromTo.

Check out Mobile LogBook @ www.logbook.flydigital.com.au (by MOin from Urban Savior)

The service is US only and supports the reward programs of almost all the top US airlines. They use SSL and AES 256 encryption for securing your reward program details.

Features

• Track all your reward programs at one place.
• Check how to pay for a flight using miles, points and cash to get the best deal.
• Add over 200 reward programs.

Check out Milewise @ secured.milewise.com (By Abhijeet from GT Mobiles)

With Travelstormer, you can create a travel plan for you and your friends. To add friends to a travel plan, just input their email address to send an invite link where they can place their RSVP. Once you have a travel plan set up, you and your friends can start brainstorming on the details of the trip.

One unique feature of Travelstormer is that you can crowdsource using Facebook or Twitter, so that you can get useful inputs from other people. Another useful feature of Travelstormer is the expense-tracker which splits the payments that have been made among the members of the trip.

Travelstormer is an invaluable tool that can make the planning phase of any group trip hassle-free.

Features:

• Plan group travels easily with your friends.
• Brainstorm about the different details of a group travel.
• Crowdsource brainstorms to Twitter and Facebook.
• Set the privacy settings of group travels.
• Send out group and private messages to members of a travel group.
• Manage payments easily with the expense-tracker.
• Add flight details of your travel plan.
• Assign trip task to the members a travel group.
• Add events to your group calendar regarding group-related decisions.
• Similar Tools: Twalaba, Plnnr, Stay, and ToursByLocals.

Check out Travelstorm @ www.travelstormer.com

Peakery also provides you with a list of peaks near a particular peak along with the list of people who claim to have climbed that peak. You can get a summit badge at the site for every peak you bag.

Features:

• Browse over 150,000 peaks in 3 different views.
• Search mountain peaks by region in the peak directory.
• Other information like photos, trip reports, peak stats, route information, and maps available.
• Go through the experiences of others who have climbed or tried to climb a peak.
• List of peaks in the same region.
• Create a profile page with all your peak quests.

Check out Peakery @ www,peakery.com (By Abhijeet from GT Mobiles)

You can click on any pin on the map to see more information about a bid including the hotel name and the amount of the bid. You can also see information such as how long ago the bid was won, by how many people and if it was a weekday or weekend bid. BiddingTraveler also shows you the rating of the hotel such as 3-star or 4-star. You can also restrict results by hotel rating and enter your lowest/maximum bid to see  if your bid has a good chance of being accepted.

Features:

• See history of winning bids for hotels on Priceline.
• See results on a map and filter by hotel ratings.
• Enter your lowest and maximum bid to see if your bid would stand a chance.
• No registration required.

Visit BiddingTraveler @ www.biddingtraveler.com [Via LifeHacker]

What Was There is a wonderful website that lets people upload old photographs of places in the world. Visitors to the website can view these photographs by browsing to different locations on a map. You can see what different sections of your native city or any other place in the world used to look like. With each photograph there are details that you can view to get better information. Amongst other things, these details include the year the photo was taken. Sections of the photographs can be magnified to get a better look at those old photos.

Features:

• A user friendly web service.
• Helps see how places looked like in the past.
• Lets you browse places via a map.
• Lets people upload old photographs of sites in a city.
• Covers numerous cities.
• Similar tool: LookBackMaps, SepiaTown, Georeader, HistoryPin, SimpleGuideTool and VideoMap.
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Check out What Was There @ www.whatwasthere.com (by MOin from ThumbPress)