Entries Tagged as 'Cool Stuff'

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 [...]

Is Google Trying to Destroy YouTube?

Update: The YouTube Blog has finally made a statement regarding this new muting policy.
One of the things that made YouTube such a big hit was the fact that it enables users to upload their originally recorded video, be it coming from their videocamera or a slideshow of photos created using Windows Movie Maker. Using [...]

ScreenToaster 2.0 Offers Screencasting in the Clouds

The first time I came across new screencasting service, ScreenToaster 2.0 a couple of weeks ago it was still in private, by-invitation-only beta mode. Although I was able to get an invite, unfortunately I wasn’t able to test it out during the lack of time. Anyway, ScreenToaster 2.0 has just announced that it is now [...]

Create a Virtual Flipbook With Daily Mugshot

One of the things I appreciate most about the people I follow on Twitter is their ability to make me aware of Web destinations I didn’t know existed.  In case you’ve forgotten, the Web is a massive place, one where it’s impossible to be aware of every neat tool or service.
The most recent Web site [...]

20 Best iPhone Games of 2008

Still couldn’t get enough of your new iPhone 3G which you’ve received as a Christmas gift? Still scouring through the Apps Store looking for applications to install? Look no further as we’ve selected 20 of the best iPhone games which made it big in 2008. Most of these iPhone games are paid apps, so [...]

Weekly Blog Highlights: Hackers and Phisers Attack Twitter

The social networking world, more particularly the Twitter dominion was up and about early this week with separate incidents compromising the accounts of millions of Twitter users. The first incident which was reported sometime last week was about phising scam spreading through Twitter Direct Messages, while the second incident was about hacking attacks on the [...]

Will You Drop 10 of Your Facebook Friends for a Burger King Whopper?

Apparently, despite being a ridiculous idea, many Facebook users have already done so – that is unfriend their Facebook friends to get Burger King coupon that will entitle them to a free Whopper. Sounds yummy right? To the more than 16,000 Facebook users, the temptation of the Burger King Whopper was too strong to resists [...]

Zumbox: The Alternative Postal Service?

Zumbox, or the self-proclaimed “Alternative Postal Service”, aims to please by sending paperless mail online from street address to street address.
Excuse me?

Organize Parties with Your Friends Using Atomeet

Organizing parties and events is a daunting task. Well, at least before when you have to manually organize everything including sending out the actual invites through snail mail. But of course, with the available technology all around us, everything have come quite faster and easier. That includes organizing parties and events. Especially if once in [...]

Spruce Up Your Twitter Account with Tweetree

If you’re tired of seeing the same old interface of your Twitter account, you might want to try out Tweetree, a third-party Twitter service which provides you with a new way of reading and looking into updates of your Twitter contacts. Instead of straight-forward one-update per line, Tweetree gives you an alternative tree-like structure which [...]