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Cull: Music Television Right In Your Web Browser

MOin — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 17:01:11 +0000

The great thing about television is that all you need to do is turn it on and turn to your favorite channel. From then on all you need to do is sit back and relax. The same television experience is now brought to you by Cull – a web service that acts as an online music television.

Cull plays the best music currently trending. You need only visit the website and set your web browser to full screen. Music videos then start playing without prompting you to do anything. The right side panel appears when you place your mouse pointer over it. From here you can search for channels and share videos.

You can also log in and curate your music channels according to your preferences. The video playlists appear on the left pane and let you skip to other videos if you want.

Features:

A user-friendly web service.
Acts as an online music television.
Plays good quality music videos.
Lets you share videos and search for channels.
Shows video playlist.
Similar tools: TV-FOX and Kylo.
Also read related article: TV Browser – A Desktop TV Guide For Your Favorite Channel Listings.

Check out Cull @ www.cull.tv (by MOin from Urban Savior)

CommentTo: Share Article Excerpts With Friends & Gather Comments

MOin — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 19:01:48 +0000

Would you like to share an excerpt of an online article with your friends? If yes, then you could simply copy the excerpt and email it to your friends. But if you want to keep a record of the excerpts you share and let your friends easily comment on them, then you should check out a site called Comment To.

Comment To is a free to use web service that lets you save excerpts from online articles and share them with your friends. You start by creating an account on the site and then inviting others to it so you can have friends on the site. Next you install the site’s browser add-on for Firefox or the extension for Chrome. These help you easily save any highlighted text within the browser to your Comment To account. Your friends can read the excerpts, see which site they belong to, and leave comments.

Features:

A user-friendly web service.
Lets you share excerpts with friends.
Lets friends comment on excerpts.
Provides link to original website with excerpt.
Also read related article: Better Comment Tracking tools.

Check out Comment To @ www.commentto.com (by MOin from Urban Savior)

Tubufy: Watch YouTube Videos Of Songs In Your Spotify Playlists

Umar — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 23:01:59 +0000

Music videos often add another dimension to the songs that you already like. If you use Spotify to listen to songs and create playlists, finding relevant YouTube videos manually can easily become a time-consuming task. Thankfully, there is a web service titled Tubufy that automates the task for you.

Tubufy is a free and simple to use web service that plays relevant YouTube videos for songs in your Spotify playlists. All you have to do is provide Tubufy with the URL of your Spotify playlists. Next, Tubufy automatically searches for relevant YouTube videos and plays them in the order of the playlist. You can choose to skip songs or use the traditional controls offered by the YouTube video player. You can also shuffle the playlist songs or reload them.

Features:

A user-friendly web service.
Lets you find YouTube videos for Spotify songs.
Lets you skip songs.
Lets you shuffle songs.

Check out Tubufy @ http://www.tubufy.com (By Umar from TechCityInc)

TheTravelFilmArchive: Lists Historic Travel Video Clips (1900-1970)

MOin — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:01:24 +0000

Due to today’s advances in technology we often forget what the world used to be like. Thankfully, a large collection of travel video clips exists from the past that documents the real world back then. You will find these videos on the Travel Film Archive.

The Travel Film Archive is a simple and free to use website that archives videos from the period between 1900 and 1970. The site is basically a collection of travelogues, educational, and industrial films that shows the world the way it was. You can find videos by keyword searching, through random playing, or filtering them through regions, countries, states, cities, filmmakers, decades, and subjects.

Features:

A user friendly website.
Does not require any registration.
Lets you search historical video clips through keywords.
Lets you browse travelogues and educational videos from 1900-1970.
Videos can be browsed via region, filmmaker, decades, and subjects.
Similar site: CriticalPast.
Also read related article: 10 Websites For Virtual Sightseeing With Travel Videos.

Check out the Travel Film Archive @ www.travelfilmarchive.com/home.php (by MOin from ThumbPress)

CriticalPast: Watch Historic Video Clips Online

abhijeet — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:01:13 +0000

CriticalPast is an interesting site that has a collection of more than 57,000 historic video clips and 7 million photos that are royalty-free, available to watch for free online and can be downloaded at an affordable price. You’ll find video clips of the first steam engine, World War II, the Vietnam War and many more.

You can also enter your birth date on the sidebar and it will show historic videos for that specific day in history.

Most of the videos and pictures are of historic events that occurred in the U.S. That’s because the data is collected mainly from U.S. government agency sources.

Both videos and photos can be ordered in variety of formats and are available for immediate download. Prices start at $1.97 and go higher according to your requirements. You can also get still photos from the site as professionally printed photos.

Features:

Comprehensive historic video archives online
Watch online for free. Buy high resolution versions starting at $1.97.
Data mainly drawn from U.S. government agency sources.
Images and clips are royalty-free.

Check out CriticalPast@ www.criticalpast.com (By Abhijeet from Guiding Tech)

Inslices: Crop Any Website To Save Relevant Content

TehseenBaweja — Sat, 08 May 2010 21:01:53 +0000

Hundreds of web services let you bookmark, save and share web pages, and they are all great. But many times people are just interested in sharing a small portion of the page and this is where Inslices comes in. It is a great tool that lets you crop any webpage and then save exactly what you want.

Once sliced, each image or text box would become a different slice and you’ll have the option to save as many or as few slices as you want. If you want to go the traditional route and save the whole page, that is an option too. Moreover, you can organize and search your slices, share them with others and explore public slices saved by others. You can also create custom channels to track new slices on your favorite topic.

Inslices can be installed as a Firefox add-on or used as a bookmarklet for other browsers.

Features:

Slice a webpage to save relevant portions.
Share your slices or complete pages with others.
Import Gmail contacts to enable quick sharing.
Browse public slices and keep track of them.
Similar tools: WebNotes, RoohIt, iCyte, Ibrii, Markkit, AwesomeHightlighter and more.

Visit Inslices @ www.inslices.com

Ibrii: Create Notes by Clipping Web Pages

abhijeet — Sun, 31 May 2009 11:01:44 +0000

Ibrii is a new site using which you can create notes by clipping web pages. It lets you cut and paste things like videos, pictures, text or any other object from a site on the net and save it in your Ibrii account. Later you can directly view those notes and objects on Ibrii without the need to visit that site. You can also share your content with others using Facebook, Twitter, IMs and email.

How it works:

As you can see in the above screenshot, when you join ibrii, you get a bookmarklet called ” create note.” When you need to cut and save something from a site, select it, click on the bookmarklet and drag the selected item to the sidebar that appears and save it. Later on you can view it in your ibrii account.

See Ibrii in action:

Features:

Create your personal notes by clipping web content.
Clip videos, pictures and text.
Saved item can be directly viewed on ibrii without going to the original site.
Content can be shared with others using Facebook, Twitter, IMs and email.
Sharing of content can be done even if the other person is not using ibrii.
Saves time as you need not write down notes or download anything.
You can publish your notes as RSS feed.
Similar sites: Snipd, Thumbtack, and Clipmarks.

Check out Ibrii @ www.ibrii.com (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

Thumbtack: Online Bookmarking Tool By Microsoft

abhijeet — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:26:39 +0000

Thumbtack is an online bookmarking tool recently launched by Microsoft. Based on Javascript, it helps you collect clips from webpages or bookmark full webpages and organize them within its interface. Like other similar bookmarking tools, it provides a bookmarklet which can be used to save content from the internet. You could also copy paste content directly to its interface.

Features

Online Bookmarking site to clip partial text and webpages.
Use the bookmarklet to easily save webpages.
Copy and paste content from the web.
Nice user interface.
Organize and search your bookmarks.
Use Windows Live ID to login.
Similar websites: MiddleSpot, Clipmarks, Tizmos.

Check out Thumbtack @ thumbtack.livelabs.com (Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

Snipd: Quickest Way To Clip Information from The Web

abhijeet — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:27:12 +0000

Snipd is a cool web clipping service recently out of private beta and now open to public. It lets you clip snippets from a website, be it text, images or videos. It’s simple, easy to use and you don’t even require an account to start with. Just drag the bookmarklet which they provide to your bookmarks toolbar and start clipping. You can even share your collection with friends or email it to yourself with one click.

Features

Clip text, images and videos from webpages.
No registration required, just need to create a username and password later.
No software, just a simple bookmarklet.
Share with friends.

Check out Snipd @ www.snipd.com ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )