April 3, 2007
It’s all about money today. Here are a bunch of services for quickly settling shared bills/debts among friends using the mobile phone, and a couple of services for express international money transfers directly from your PC. (1) Send/Receive Money on your Mobile (via Text Messaging) These are relatively new services that let you instantly transfer [...]
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March 31, 2007
Cool Software and Websites: (All free unless stated otherwise) AniBoom – it’s all about animations here; lots of free-to-watch animation movies, open competitions, and bunch of tools for producing something of your own AppUpdate (Mac) – “…free Dashboard Widget that can automatically check for updates to your installed software. It supports Apple’s software directory, MacUpdate [...]
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March 30, 2007
Finally something for wordpress folks, my all-time favorite, carefully-selected, top 20 wordpress plugins. Enjoy! 1. Advanced WYSIWYG Editor – adds more editing options to the WYSIWYG post editor. See it below 2. Akismet – default wordpress plugin which does an excellent job at filtering spam comments. To activate it you’ll need WordPress API key, which [...]
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March 29, 2007
Today we digg into All-In-One Messengers (aka multi-protocol Instant Messaging clients), these handy apps merge several messenger platforms (AIM, Yahoo, MSN, Google Talk, ICQ, Jabber…) into one messenger. We got it all covered: web-based ones (to access from work or school), desktop downloadables and for mobile devices. Online Instant Messengers Meebo (AIM, Yahoo, MSN, GoogleTalk, [...]
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March 27, 2007
Cool Software and Websites: (All free unless stated otherwise) Buddi – free cross-platform(Win/Mac/Linux) budgeting program that helps you manage your finances Boomshine – addictive Flash game: The aim here is to explode certain number of moving dots with one shot. As you move towards next level(12 in total) the number of dots keeps growing, as [...]
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March 26, 2007
BUZZ pages are pretty cool creations, they aggregate buzzing stuff from popular resources (i.e. Digg, Reddit, del.icio.us…) and nicely display it in an easy-to-digest manner. Below, I present some of the coolest BUZZ pages out there: some for booming news, some for popular Videos and a bunch of topic specific buzzers, i.e. gaming, photography, etc. [...]
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March 25, 2007
Cool Software and Websites:(All free unless stated otherwise) Gotvoice – converts voicemails from your home and cell phone into MP3s and sends them to you by email (only for U.S. phone numbers). Newspapers24 – lists over 12.000 online newspapers. Browse newspapers by language or country. Socializr – free web service for sharing event and party [...]
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March 22, 2007
Cool Software and Websites: (All free unless mentioned otherwise) Clicky – powerful, user-friendly and well-designed traffic analytics tool for bloggers and other website owners [Note: free for all sites with less then 1000 pageviews/day, $1.99/month for bigger ones] Cool Games(Netvibes Tab) – in case you’re using netvibes check out this Game tab: it features 6 [...]
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March 21, 2007
Whether you’re looking for a free way to cut down on bandwidth costs or need an easy-to-use and powerful image hosting service to manage your pictures on (myspace, ebay, etc) than this is for you. Ranked by popularity, I’ve listed below some of the coolest free image hosts on the web along with their main [...]
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March 19, 2007
Cool Software and Websites: Editgrid – web-based alternative to Microsoft Excel. Offers standard Excel functions plus some handy extras: spreadsheet sharing, team collaboration, export to (.xls, .csv, .pdf…) and some more. LordOfTV – online TV channel directory that lists 1000+ channels. Lets you browse channels by country, category(movies, music, science…) and popularity. If that’s not [...]
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March 18, 2007
All for Gmail: handy Firefox extensions, best Greasemonkey scripts, some desktop tools and lots of useful tips. Take this Gmail thingie to another level. Enjoy ;-) FIREFOX EXTENSIONS Gspace – multi-platform firefox addon that turns your gmail account into powerful online storage tool Gmail Search Extension – search your gmail account directly from the firefox [...]
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March 17, 2007
In this post we are going to look into how to stream your music from work as well as music websites that let you create playlists from favorite tracks and access them from anywhere. Moreover, we are going to recommend a couple of music services that will auto-play tracks similar to what you like. (1) [...]
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March 16, 2007
Cool Software and Websites: Berkeley Webcast – free video and audio classes from UC Berkeley: US History, General Psychology, Intro to Computers, General Biology, Intro to Statistics, European Civilization and more. Couchville – free TV channel guide. You’ll only need to enter a zip code and select your cable provider.(US only) Isnoop – UPS, FedEx, [...]
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March 13, 2007
Cool Software and Websites: Adcalls – free unlimited landline and mobile calling within US and Canada. iNetWord – online document editor and collaboration tool. Lets you create, share and collaborate with several people on multiple documents PicResize – powerful and extremely easy-to-use online image editor and resizer Searchles TV – lets you create and share(eg. [...]
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March 12, 2007
Couple of months back I had covered Greasemonkey, a powerful and all-favorite firefox extension. Now I am taking it further and want to present some of the coolest greasemonkey addons(aka scripts) out there letting you do crazy things such as: downloading apple trailers and clips from popular video sites(Youtube, GoogleVideo….etc), integrating google reader into gmail, [...]
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