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SeeMyDesign: Free Interior Design Software Online

jpot — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:01:38 +0000

Thinking of giving your walls a coat of paint and buying some new furniture? You’ll find the process is much easier if you can visualize how things are going to look when you’re done. Web based and free interior design software SeeMyDesign gives you the opportunity to do just that. Using this tool you can see how furniture, rugs and paint of different colors will look together by mixing and matching from a variety of pre-set colors and textures.

Another tool on the same site allows you to try out furniture layouts which is useful if you’re thinking about rearranging your couches and tables. While neither of these tools will give you an absolute idea of how your design ideas will look when made concrete, they can both help enough to spur your creativity. Let your juices flow!

Features

Try out furniture, flooring and wall combinations before going to the store.
Lay out furniture to see what will fit in your floorspace.
Java-based web applications.
Similar tools: SmallBluePrinter, Buildy, ProjectDragonfly and 3 other Apps to Decorate and Plan your House.

Check out SeeMyDesign @ www.seemydesign.com

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Jordan’s Furniture Room Planner: App for Planning & Furnishing Rooms Online

Israel Nicolas — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:01:14 +0000

Jordan’s Furniture Room Planner is a web app for planning and furnishing rooms online. It helps you create detailed room plans without using complicated design software. You can design a room from scratch or select from prebuilt rooms. You can design bedrooms, dining rooms, home offices, living rooms, and youth bedrooms by adding furniture, patio, gym, appliances, wiring, and many other elements to your design.

You may also import a picture of an item that you want to incorporate into your home if it is not included in the selection. Useful tools that you can use include a text tool, wall tool, and dimension tools which can add important details to your room plan.

After designing your room, you can save the plan, share it to other people or send it to Jordan’s Furniture staff so you can get further advice. While far from being the sophisticated interior design software, this simple nifty web application certainly does the job done in planning your room.

Features:

Design a room from scratch or select from prebuilt rooms.
Save your rooms and share them to other people.
Send your design to Jordan’s Furniture staff and get design and selection advice.
Import items into your design.
Export your plans to JPEG.
Print the room plans that you created.
Similar tools: SmallBluePrinter, Buildy, ProjectDragonfly and 3 other Apps to Decorate and Plan your House.

Check Out Jordan’s Furniture Room Planner @ www.jordans.com/roomplanner.asp

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Jordan’s Furniture Room Planner: App for Planning & Furnishing Rooms Online

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Digg 365: Visualize Digg Front Page Stories

abhijeet — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:01:14 +0000

Digg 365 is a new visualization tool under Digg Labs that was launched recently on the occasion of Digg’s fifth anniversary. It shows the most dugg stories (top ten) by date and highlights the ones that are hot favorites for that day. It displays a nice circular calendar in the middle which helps you select the year, month and the specific date for which you want to check out the top ten popular stories.

Also check out the top ten stories in different categories by year. Clicking on a story takes you to the corresponding page on digg.com.

The site also has a horizontal menu bar at the bottom which gives you options like going to the previous or next date, refreshing the page and fullscreen view. Overall, a cool site for Digg lovers.

Features

Digg front page stories visualization tool.
Part of tools under Digg Labs.
Lets you check out top ten hot stories on a date, month or year.
Select the year, month and date in the circular calendar.

Check out Digg 365@labs.digg.com/365/ (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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Usabilla: Website Usability Testing Tool

abhijeet — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:40:54 +0000

Usability testing is very important for any website in order for it to become successful. If you don’t know what users feel about your site and where they click, there is high probability that you lose visitors and revenue in the long run.

Usabilla offers an easy way to quickly collect visual feedback on a webpage, mockup, sketch or an image. It has a nice interface with clear instructions on how to get the user feedback.

Here’s how it works:

A nice thing about this tool is that visitors can give feedback right on the page they are at. They could write notes, mark the things they don’t like etc, right on top of the mockup, image or the webpage. Also, as you can see in the screenshot above, the statistics are presented visually in forms of heatmaps and other such methods. You can also easily export the data in CSV, XML or plain text.

Check out Usabilla @ www.usabilla.com (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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Buildy: Create A Floor Plan Of Your House

abhijeet — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:40:24 +0000

Buildy is a new web based service which lets you easily create floor plans of your house or apartment and then share it with others. It comes in handy especially for those who are looking to rent out their premises. They could include their created floor plan in the adverts so that prospective tenants could have a better idea about the rooms.

To start, sign up for free and create a project. Then add room drawings to the project using provided designer tool (requires Microsoft Silverlight). Once you feel you’ve got the correct drawing, add photos of the room and you are done. A link to the project is created which could be easily shared anywhere online.

Demo video:

Features:

Create and share house/room floor plans online.
Create unlimited projects for free.
Draw floor plans and add house photos using their in-built designer tool.
Share the project link on social networks and advertisements for the house.
Requires Microsoft Silverlight.
Free and sign up needed.
Similar tools: ProjectDragonfly and other in 3 Apps to Decorate and Plan your House.

Check out Buildy@ www.buildy.net (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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IKEA SpaceMaker: Visual Room Designer Online

abhijeet — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:06:15 +0000

IKEA Space Maker is a useful website by none other than the world’s biggest furniture maker, IKEA. It helps you plan and design your room and make the maximum use of the space. You could either start designing from scratch or select a pre-designed theme to work with. The interface is visually rich and you can drag and drop furniture, decrease or increase their sizes, flip them left or right and more to create the perfect room.

They also have a “how it works” video which shows you the entire process. Once you are done, you can save it, email it or print it out to use as a shopping list at the IKEA store.

Features:

Visual online room space designer from IKEA.
No registration required. Start designing instantly.
Start from scratch or choose from a wide variety of themes.
Drag and drop furniture and adjust their sizes.
Save, email or print out the design.
Similar sites: DesignYourDorm and more in 3 Web Apps to Decorate & Plan your House.

Check out IKEA Space Maker @ www.ikea.com/ms/en_US/rooms_ideas/youth/index.html (By Abhijeet from Appscrazy)

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Personas: Visualize Your Online Identity

abhijeet — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:33:50 +0000

Personas is an interesting tool which lets you see a colorful representation of your online identity. The tool is flash based and developed by MIT Media Lab. It just asks your first and last name and then crawls the web to find out who you are and what you do online. As it discovers you, you can see the colors and the bars changing. Each horizontal bar with a different color represents a part of your identity or work profile. The longer the bar, the more you are into that persona.

Features

Get a visual and colorful representation of your online identity.
Developed by researchers from MIT Media Labs.
Each color represents an identity.
Uses natural language processing to compile the data.
Similar tools: GeekChart.

Check out Personas@ http://personas.media.mit.edu/personasWeb.html (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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DesignYourDorm: Online 3-D Interior Design Tool For Students

abhijeet — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 01:33:02 +0000

DesignYourDorm is an innovative 3-D interior design tool and shopping store which is primarily meant for university students. With the help of this tool they can create an idea of what their dorm would look like before they move in.

Here’s how it works for a student.

He/She creates a 3-D model of dorm using this tool.
Then select the products He/She would like to have in his room.
Collaborate with his/her roommates and discuss the design.
Finally, when the design is finalized, the items can be added to cart and shipped directly to the university.

The orders are handled by Amazon.com. This tool also benefits parents. There is a special option called “care packages” which allows parents to send gifts/care packages to their children. These packages can be shipped directly from the store to the university.

If you liked this tool you can also check 3 Web Apps to Decorate and Plan your House.

Visit DesignYourDorm @ www.designyourdorm.com (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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Vizzl: YouTube, Ebay & Amazon Visual Search Tool

abhijeet — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:46:57 +0000

Vizzl is a nice search tool which helps you visually search and browse Amazon, Ebay and Youtube. The visual interface is very intuitive and easy to use. There are 4 different view options like compact view, tiny view, extended view and list view. You can also sort visual results by parameters like price, name, release date or choose from various categories.

Features

Visual search tool with a rich and intuitive interface.
Currently offers search for Amazon, Ebay and Youtube.
Visualize results using different view options.
Sort the data visually or use category view to choose products.
Similar websites: BidFlyer, PicClick, oSkope, CLHacks and Like.

Check out Vizzl @ www.vizzl.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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ManyEyes: Visualize Statistics & Interesting Facts

azim — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:46:17 +0000

ManyEyes is a web resource where you can visualize statistics and interesting facts such as “Fertility rates in different US states”, “Shakespeare favorite words” or “Alcohol consumption worldwide” on charts. All charts are interactive and allow you filter information, highlight different areas, zoom in/out and more.

Chart data comes from numbers and statistics uploaded by users. You can browse charts by topic hubs, by tags or view top rated ones. If you are a numbers and statistics nut, you can build visual charts by uploading your own data or using existing data sets.

Features:

View interesting facts and statistics on interactive visual charts.
Upload and share your own numbers and statistics (data sets) and build visual charts.
Build charts using more than 59,000 publicly available data sets.
Visualizations (charts) are free to view and comment on, with no signup.
Tool provided by IBM.
Register to submit data sets, track activity and join topic hubs.

Check out Many Eyes @ http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes

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VirtualMirror: Try Eyeglass Frames Online

kaly — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:09:03 +0000

Want to buy a new eyeglass frame but unsure which one suites you the best? VirtualMirror can help, it is an online application form EasySpecsOnline.com, which lets you upload the photo of your face and then try different frames online. The concept is not 100% perfect, but still can help you decide what type of frames you should be looking for.

To try a frame simply upload your image, select a frame and then align it with the face to see how it looks. You can also save, print or email your image with the frame on to someone else.

Features:

Try on glasses online.
Easily align, resize and rotate frame.
Variety of frames to try on.
Save, print or email your image.
Free, no sign up required.
Similar site: FrameFinder.

Check out VirtualMirror @ www.easyspecsonline.com/virtualmirror

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ChartPart: Create Charts Online

azim — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:39:22 +0000

ChartPart is a web tool that lets you instantly create charts online. The application supports different types of charts including pie charts, line graphs and grouped bars.

To create a chart, first select a chart type and then enter the data into provided fields. The data starts appearing on the chart as you type it in. Moreover, you can easily edit the input numbers along the process and see the chart automatically regenerate.

Once chart is ready you can share it by forwarding a URL or embedding on your site or personal web page.

Features:

Generate charts online.
Create charts in different types – pie, 3D pie, line, grouped bar and more.
Customize chart size.
Embed chart on your webpage or share it by sending its URL.
Similar tools: HohliCharts, ChartTool and Charts.

Check out ChartPart @ www.chartpart.com

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WordSift: Visualize Text & Related Information

abhijeet — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:16:30 +0000

Wordsift is a new tool which can help you get more information about a word or a sentence by displaying the related images from Google, visual thesaurus showing word relationships and more information about the text, all on one page. The tool was created primarily for teachers so that they can visualize text vocabulary structure and share it with their students.

Here’s how it works:

For more info watch demo video below:

You might also want to check other similar apps for visualizing text and words which we have profiled earlier. These are Lexipedia, VisuWords and Wordle.

Check out Wordsift @ www.wordsift.com (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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WidGenie: Easy Tools for Presenting Raw Data Visually

TehseenBaweja — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 01:40:47 +0000

Data in its raw form does not make sense to everybody. If you are like me, you would want to see data visually through a chart or a graph to understand it better. WidGenie allows you to do just that. You can upload your data (Excel spreadsheets or CSV file) either from the local drive or feed it from sources like Google Docs.

After you have uploaded your data, just use the drag and drop feature to create charts and graphs, and save them as widgets. These widgets can be customized using different colors, size, headings… etc. and also shared across various blogging platforms and social networks through a simple embed code. You can also track how many views your widget gets.

Main Features:

Web service for presenting data visually in form of a widget.
No installation or download required.
Upload data from your local drive or through Google Docs.
Embed widgets on the web or email a permanent link to people.
Track number of views and unique visitors to your widgets.

Check out WidGenie @ www.widgenie.com

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TvCalculator: TV Screen Size Comparison Tool

kaly — Mon, 18 May 2009 01:25:19 +0000

Planning to upgrade your monitor or TV and want to find out what size you should be going after? TvCalculator is a simple screen size comparison tool where you can enter the dimensions for up to 4 screens and visualize them side by side.

In addition to providing visual comparison the app also gives you detailed info such as viewable image dimensions, screen utilization (%), pixel density and equivalent sizes.

Further more you can save your comparisons and easily share them with others.

Features:

Monitor and TV screen size comparison tool.
Compare up to 4 screens side by side.
When adding screen dimensions you may use inches, aspect ratio, pixels etc.
Save comparisons online and share them with others.
No registration required.
Similar website: DisplayWars.

Check out TvCalculator @ www.tvcalculator.com

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Lexipedia: Graphical Dictionary

azim — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 05:33:02 +0000

Lexipedia is an interactive graphical dictionary. You enter a word and it displays the related nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, synonyms and more, on an interactive spider web chart. You can view all the related words on the chart or view only related nouns, verbs, adjectives etc. by clicking on the left bar.

Hoover with mouse over words to view their definition, hear right pronunciation and usage within a sentence. Each word type has it own color on the chart: nouns are red, verbs are orange, adjective are blue.

Features:

Online graphical dictionary.
Enter a word and view related verbs, synonyms, adjectives etc. on an interactive spider web chart.
Point with mouse over words to read their definitions and hear the right pronunciation.
Filter chart results to show only related nouns, verbs, adjectives etc. by clicking on the left bar.
Similar site: VisuWords

Check out Lexipedia @ www.lexipedia.com

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SmallBluePrinter: House Plan Creator

kaly — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:12:37 +0000

SmallBluePrinter is a dead simple house plan creator that lets you quickly and easily draw your house plan online. The application is straightforward and doesn’t require you to have designing skills. Simply grab the walls, doors and windows from the menu and arrange them in any way you want.

When the plan is ready you can view it in isometric view from above, take 3D walkthrough and print it out.

Features:

Quick house plan sketch up tool.
Create as many plans as you want.
View created plans in isometric view from above and take 3D walkthroug.
Print out your plans.
No signup needed.
Similar websites: ProjectDragonfly and PlanningWiz.

Check out SmallBluePrinter @ www.smallblueprinter.com

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ProjectDragonfly: Design 3D Floor Plans Online

kaly — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:18:28 +0000

ProjectDragonfly is a new 3D floor plan designing tool that lets you design and plan your rooms online. The application has lots of features and provides with drag & drop visual editor which makes floor planning very easy. You can quickly build rooms in different shapes, adjust size, add/remove walls, doors, windows, and fill rooms with furniture. All added items can be easily moved around and rotated as you like.

Once the floor plan is created you can view it in 3D, save it online (registration needed), share with others and print it out. You can also check out gallery of user created floor plans, view them or use as a template to build one of your own.

Features:

Recreate and plan your room online
Create as many plans as you like.
Add furniture and appliances (drag-and-drop interface).
Move and rotate objects to your liking.
View plans in in 3D view and from any side.
Save your plans on the site or print them out.
Share your plan with others.
Browse and preview gallery of plans created by others.
Also see 3 Web Apps to Decorate and Plan your House.

Check out ProjectDragonfly @ www.dragonfly.autodesk.com

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FrameFinder: Try Glasses On Your Photo Online

kaly — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 06:48:00 +0000

If you are planning to purchase eyeglasses or sunglasses online and not sure if they fit you, FrameFinder has a solution. It is on online application that lets you browse eyeglasses and virtually try them on after uploading your picture.

Works simple, first signup and upload your image. Then follow step by step instructions to preview and try glasses on your photo. The concept is not fool-proof, but still can help you decide what type of glasses you should be looking for.

The site has a rich choice of frames for you to try on. You can browse glasses by designer, shapes and materials they made of. Additionally, you can save the frames you like in your favorites and optionally purchase them.

Features:

Try glasses online on your image.
Supported image formats: jpg, .gif, .bmp, .png and .tif
Minimum size 6. 5″ x 7″ – (also set at 150 dpi or at least 700 pixels wide.)
Image should be taken straight on eye level not farther than 3 feet away.
Variety of eyeglasses to try on.
Browse glasses by designer, shapes and materials they made of.
Free. No signup required.

Check out FrameFiinder @ www.framesdirect.com/try-on.asp (via matteodini.com)

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Navigaya: A Different… Really Different Way To Browse The Web

abhijeet — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 01:07:43 +0000

We know there are a lot of alternative and different search engines which try to present a new surfing experience. But Navigaya sets itself apart by providing a really different search experience. It’s a flash based browser and gives you various search engine options ranging from Google to Wikipedia and Cuil to Search.me. It also combines the websites under different categories like videos, maps, finance, playlists and much more.

But what’s really cool about Navigaya is it’s interface and the way it presents the entire stuff. Once you visit the site it starts playing music with changing background wallpapers which can be customized. There are various menus, styles and interfaces which can be set according to your choice. And if you experience it in the full screen view mode, it’s just awesome !

Check out Navigaya @ www.navigaya.com ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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CLHack: A Cool Visual Search Tool For Craigslist Users

abhijeet — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:10:22 +0000

If you talk about classified ads the first site which comes to mind is of course Craigslist. The comprehensive listings at this site make it a popular destination to buy and sell products and services. CLHack is a site or rather a Craigslist mashup which aims to give a better experience to Craigslist users by providing a visual view, an interface with pictures of products. It actually lets you search and visually browse Craigslist for listings with pictures and then get them in a thumbnail interface.

You can also hover your mouse over a particular item and then click it to get further details about the item which includes its price and location.

Plus the left navigation bar makes it very easy and quick to switch between locations and product categories. Certainly a useful tool for Craigslist users.

Check out CLHack@www.clhack.com ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog ) [via TechCrunch]

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Viewzi : Visualize your Search Results

abhijeet — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:31:16 +0000

If you go by the user interface and graphics, you can easily regard Viewzi as one of the most awesome search engines available. As the name suggests, it lets you visualize your search results in a dynamic way using different views to give a different experience altogether.

Visual search engines are usually pretty horrible, however Viewzi seem to be ding just right. Following are the various views which Viewzi supports :

1. Celebrity photo view
2. Web screenhot view
3. Simple text view
4. Timeline view
5. Album view
6. MP3 search view
7. Video view
8. 3D photo view
9. Amazon book view ..and many more

Each view has its own specialty and characteristics. Like the following screenshot shows the search for the query ‘ Britney Spears ‘ in web screenshot view.

On the oher hand, in MP3 or Video views you’re also able to playback results without leaving search results page. Quite convenient.

Viewzi is flash based and you would need the latest version of Adobe flash player to make it work.

Check out Viewzi @ www.viewzi.com ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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Mydeco – Room Planner : Design and Plan Your Room in 3D

kaly — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:14:57 +0000

Mydeco is a web-based room planner that lets you recreate your room (or grab it directly from the uploaded photo) and then plan, decorate and furnish it in a 3D environment. The cool thing about it, it lets interact with almost every aspect: change colors, add wallpapers, try furniture etc. You can visualize changes from any angle you want.

Features

Recreate and Plan your room in 3D environment.
Apply paint, wallpaper, flooring , accessoires etc.
Rearrange layout of your room: Change doors, windows, add new or move existing furniture etc.
Preview applied changes from any angle.
Recreate your room by uploading its images. Please note, it may take up to 24 hours before you will be able to add effects to your images
Share your plans and design with others.
Browse and preview rooms created by others, rate them and leave comments.
Absolutely free.

Check out ‘Mydeco – Complete Room Planner’ @ [ www.mydeco.com/plan-my-room/ ]

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DisplayWars : Compare TV Screen Sizes

Aibek — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 04:36:06 +0000

Dead simple web application that helps you visualize and compare TV screen sizes by mapping one display size on top of the other. Not sure about display size? DisplayWars will show you just how big the size difference really is.

You can use it to compare two different display types with different dimensions (say a ‘52 inch Plasma’ and a ‘34 inch HDTV’) or more as reference tool by comparing your own TV against something you’re planning to buy. Along with a comparison screenshot you also get a bunch of other size-related details. See below

Comparison Settings:

Available Aspect Ratios: Widescreen 16×9 (TV), Widescreen 16×10 (Monitor), 4×3 (TV), 2.35:1 (Projector Screen).
Diagonal size: type in inches or centimeters.

Check out DisplayWars @ www.displaywars.com

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VisuWords: Visual Dictionary and Thesaurus

kaly — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 16:37:56 +0000

VisuWords is a web-based visual dictionary and thesaurus tool. Search for words to look up their meanings and associations with other words in a visual interface.

Feature Overview

Visualize word definitions and derivations in an interactive colorful dashboard.
See how it’s connected to other words (sinonym, antonym, derivation, etc.).
Use mouse wheel to zoom in and out.
Hover the mouse cursor over word node to view its meaning.
Double-click nodes to expand them even further.

Check out VisuWords @ www.visuwords.com

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oSkope: Visual Search for eBay, Youtube, Flickr …

kaly — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:33:35 +0000

oSkope is an impressive visual search engine for searching on eBay, Amazon, Flickr and Youtube. It allows users to conveniently browse through large amount of images (or videos) and preview information with a minimal effort.

Feature Overview

Visually search for products / images / videos on popular services like Amazon, Ebay, YouTube or Flickr.
Search using ‘website (Youtube, Flickr, Ebay, …) + category + keyword’ combination (ex. Youtube->Comedy->funny cats).
Visually appealing drag’n drop interface: move search results, resize results, rearrange, hover to preview, change background color, etc.
Hover over the image to get a larger preview of the item (ex. some eBay item). Click on the image to get all item-related info (ex eBay item description).
Switch between different display modes: Grid, Stack, Pile list, and Graph.
Save Images: To store images just Drag them to “My Folder” tab located at the bottom of the screen.
Still Lost ? Check out demo video below.

See oSkope in action

Go to oScope @ www.oSkope.com

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Sizeasy : Visualize Gadget Sizes Online

kaly — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 15:30:18 +0000

Sizeasy is a handy online tool that lets you visualize and compare something you already own to the the item you’re planning to buy. For instance, you can compare your current mobile phone or iPod against an iPhone and see how much bigger/smaller/wider/taller it is.

How does it work.

1. Enter dimensions of an item you are planning to buy (iPhone).
2. Provide details for the item you already have (iPod Nano).
3. Click compare and get 3D size comparison for both of the objects.

Sizeasy Features:

Compare and visualize multiple items.
Get a 3D, side, top, and front view of compared items.
Browse the latest and most popular comparisons.
Search through entire user-contributed object size database.
Save and share your comparisons with others.

Check out Sizeasy @ [www.sizeasy.com]

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Tafiti : Your Web Research Assisstant

Aibek — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:55:09 +0000

Tafiti is a unique visual search engine + research application from Microsoft. It’s aimed to help people conduct web research in a user-friendly feature-rich visual interface. Search on multiple search engines simultaneously (search news, web, images, books, RSS feeds), visualize search results, share research results, save results for later and more.

Tafiti Featues

Search in News, Web, Images, Books, and RSS feeds.
Shelf: located on the right side of the screen and provides a place to store associated search results.
Add labels to shelf stacks, forward stacks by email, post stack to your Windows Live Space.
Modify search results and save them in your shelf stacks for later reference.
Visualize all of the items in any of the shelf stack.
Visualize search results in a search tree.
To run Tafiti you need to have Microsoft Silverlight (Free)
Learn more on Tafiti help page, OR check video below.

Tafiti Video demo:

Check out Tafiti @ [www.tafiti.com]

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