Entries Tagged as 'Cool Stuff'

MySpace Music Previews U2’s Latest Album

If you got excited when Sydney Morning Herald reported that the full copies of U2’s latest album No Line in the Horizon have found their way to the web, you might want to stop scouring the web to find ways of obtaining it the not so legal way. MySpace  is offering an alternative, by way [...]

Family Tree 2.0: Dynastree

Have trouble keeping track of your family? Dynastree allows you to create a family tree and connect with family members for free. You can set up a profile (to allow other family to search for you on the site), add photos of you and your family, and research your genealogy.

Top 15 Free Online File Storage Sites

Following our coverage of online file storage Box.net which just became a little more social, here are 15 more free online storage sites which you can use for storing, sharing  and backing up your important files.

Google Book Search Goes Mobile

I knew this was bound to happen.  With Google slowly making its web content and services on the mobile phone, it was just a matter of time before it makes Google Book Search available as well. Although it would have been a cooler idea if Google created a native iPhone or Android application,  the mobile [...]

Skype 4.0 Launched

Skype fans, rejoice.  As your favorite VOIP calling/chatting service has just announced version 4.0, which according to the Skype blog, is the most distinctive release of Skype to date.  Key features of Skype 4.0 include full-screen video calling, crystal clear quality and easier interface more than it was before. Of course, you’d still get the [...]

Five Q&A Sites That Answer your Burning Questions

Question and Answer sites have been around for quite some time now. But despite the its being useful, it is one online niche that has never really received too much attention. So, we can count only a handful of Q&A sites which have managed to live on. Here are five top Q&A [...]

Hotbooks Will Bring Your Facebook Photo Collection to Life

For the fast couple of weeks, I must admit that I was getting pretty annoyed by the sudden influx of my Friendster college friends to Facebook.  And of course, I can’t turned down their invitation to connect to them via Facebook. But what bothers me is the rate that they are posting photos on their [...]

Techmeme Uses Twitter to Get News Tips

For tech bloggers and writers, a good way of getting publicity for their articles is to have them indexed/featured by tech news aggregator Techmeme. However, compared to other news aggregator, Techmeme is very hard to infiltrate. If your blog doesn’t have that much traffic yet, you won’t get into the Techmeme cloud that easily even [...]

Top 5 Best Free Photo Sharing Sites

Here you go, your definitive lists of the best photo sharing sites available today. You don’t need to have a lists with 40 or 50 of these sites. Ten is enough to help you decide which photo sharing site to use if you haven’t done so in the past. Or if your current photosharing site [...]

SlideShare Becomes Even More Useful with YouTube Video

For those who upload their Powerpoint (or Keynote) presentation online, chances are your using either SlideShare or Google Docs Presentation. SlideShare has been around in this web 2.0 niche for quite some time now and has made great strides in making their service as useful and as functional as possible. And the latest feature [...]

Find the Fat in Restaurant Menu Items

Just in time for your New Year’s resolutions, Fatburgr allows you to check out nutritional information from some of the most widely spread fast food and restaurant chains. Of course, it won’t actually help you lose the weight- just let you know how badly off course you have gotten. Its primary focus is to unveil [...]

BarCamp Idol – there will be blood

As it was last year in the first weekend of February Barcamp Baltics will take place in Riga. From February 6ht to 8ht we will have presentations, ideas and many discussions about different aspects of web. If you are familiar with the Barcamp idea in general you know how much fun is to be there [...]