Entries Tagged as 'Cool Stuff'

Notify.Me is an Alerting Service, Not an RSS Feed Reader

From the recently opened .ME Registry comes a very cleverly named online service which lets you receive near real-time alerts when your favorite web sites are updated. Even sweeter is the fact that you can specify in which variety of ways you want to receive the alerts – that is on your mobile device, IM, [...]

Idea Connection: Hire a Solution

Do you have a problem that requires an innovative solution? Are you an expert problem solver and looking for work? IdeaConenction connects companies or individuals that have problems to the solution experts.

Introducing MySpace Toolbar

Available today for MySpace users in the U.S., U.K., Australia, Canada, New Zealand, India and Ireland, is MySpace Toolbar. This is MySpace’s latest move to ensure that members would have instant access to their MySpace as they do their daily web surfing habits. MySpace Toolbar runs on IE 6 or higher and Firefox 2.0 or [...]

Sit Back, Relax, and Listen to your Delicious Bookmarks

You read it right folks, we really mean “listen” to your Delicious bookmarks. As Yahoo, which we all know of course owns social bookmarking site Delicious has partnered with FoxyPlayer to allow you to turn your Delicious bookmark into a one big music/mp3 playlist.

Poken Lets You Expand Your Social Network with a Wave of a Hand

Now this is a rather weird idea. Poken.com lets you expand your social network with a wave of your hand. How’s that sound to you? Weird right? But it’s true, using a Poken you can immediately connect with people you meet in the real world in your respective social networking sites. Provided of course that [...]

Social Bookmarking Site Qitera Comes Out of Hiding

If major social bookmarking sites such as Digg and Delicious are already boring you to death, you might want to try out the newest kid on the block Qitera. Knowing that it is entering what could be “a dying market” Qitera has infused some cool features to its social bookmarking services in the hopes of [...]

GoodShop: Give Without Giving This Holiday Season

With the economy slipping, charities across the nation are bracing themselves for declining contributions this holiday season.
While individuals still want to support their favorite cause, they may not have the time or the money to do so. There is a solution. More than 70,000 nonprofits have partnered with a new Yahoo-powered search engine [...]

Amazon.com Now Has an iPhone App, and It’s Pretty Cool Too

Receiving major news coverage today is Amazon’s entry into the iPhone apps market with its very own free iPhone application which is simply called Amazon.com. What makes this new iPhone application cooler is one of its features which let you snap photos of things you encounter and the app will match it with the same [...]

Find Movies w/ the Movie Genome Project

What do you want to watch tonight? I don’t know. What do you want to rent? I don’t care.
We’ve all been there. Well this new Web site, Jinni.com, helps make the decision a bit easier. As they refer to it, their “movie genome project” helps match up users to movies and TV shows by sorting [...]

Sling.com Opens Up to the Public and Becomes More Social

In a not so crowded online video portal market, we definitely have extra room for another player. Joining Hulu and the others is Sling.com with its premium, high-quality video contents all available online and ready for us to stream and watch.

File Sharing Site Drop.io Rolls Out its New Site Interface, and Some Features Too

Drop.io, a used to be simple and private online file sharing solution is now the web’s most convenient way of privately sharing images, video, audio, documents and other digital content. The popular file sharing site has just redesigned its website and is now simpler and easy to use.

Gmail Gets New Theme Selection Feature

Recently, Google has just rolled a new feature for Gmail and quite honestly it could either be a good and bad feature depending on a user’s perspective. I’m talking about Gmail’s new Themes, which is similar to what Google did with its startpage product, iGoogle. The new Gmail Themes customization feature could either annoy loyal [...]