Bookmarking and browser extensions have always been a very messy aspect of computing. It's rare that people manage to find the time to box up their favorites and use them on a regular basis. I know mine is a mess. There have been big flashy startup pages that have tried to solve the problem but they tend to be over complicated and just don't get used. To be quite honest, I don't know of any apps that provide the perfect answer to the problem. So when a simple no frills start page like Yourls comes along it's got to be ... Read more
It's probably the introduction of devices like smartphones and tablets that have brought about the likes of an app like Startific. iPhones and iPad have their apps lined up so neatly and precisely within the interface that we now realize how pleasant and efficient it is to have all our accessible information laid out at our fingertips via their colorful icons. Startific is a beautiful, functional and customizable startpage where you can import and organize all your most important links, bookmarks, icons and widgets so that they are now just a fingertip away from access. Startific is a very ... Read more
The worst problem with keeping a note taking application on your iDevice is that they never really get used. I'm still constantly astounded by friends who, despite having perfectly fine note-taking apps on their iPhone, still pull out a pen and paper when they need to take notes, phone numbers or important details down. One can only assume that the apps they have are not user-friendly enough. So when an app like NotesBox comes along it is easy to see how it could well gazump all the others and become the industry standard. NotesBox looks like a million dollars and ... Read more
I've been saying for a while now that having much more than a couple of hundred Facebook friends almost turns into a full time job trying to keep up with the numerous feeds. Add that to your Twitter feeds and the rest of posts and status updates and you can start to feel a little overwhelmed by information - and most of it is probably of no interest to you whatsoever. LikeHack is a social content curator that personalizes your social network feeds giving you only the tuff you are really interested in. LikeHack is a simple, easy to ... Read more
Maybe you are not so familiar with the bookmarking app named pinboard. It has gained a lot of fans by providing a way for users' to archive, tag and search all those interesting sites that you discover and has been described as being like the popular deLicio.us when it frost started up. Pinner takes the bookmarking app one step further by creating a smart-looking version for both tablet and smartphone that improves the whole bookmarking experience with great search, add, edit and tagging capabilities while you read your pages. pinner is a fast, no-nonsense new bookmarking app that manages ... Read more
If you have just the one domain that you monitor it's not too much of a problem to see that it is running 24/7. But when you have multiple sites it's verging on becoming a full-time job to try keep track of them all. If your site is monetized and has some downtime while you aren't looking then it is costing you money and nobody wants that to happen. Dominder is a new internet management application that lets you monitor all your domains from one single easy to navigate control. This makes your workload somewhat lighter and gives you more ... Read more
To steal from David Fincher's excellent film Fight Club, what's the first rule for your website? The answer is, of course, to never have any downtime. When your server or browser is down and you don't know about it, there's a pretty good possibility that your visitors will go elsewhere and possibly not come back. Appfail is a cloud-based error monitoring system that enables online businesses to discover, diagnose and track failures in their websites and immediately let's you know about it with an email or message straight to your device. Organizations invest significant resources to encourage customers and ... Read more
I have to admit the the whole bookmarking concept is a very useful way of saving favored web pages for easy reference later... so, i ask myself, why on earth don't I use them more. Considering I'm at or near my computer close to 14 hours a day and use it constantly that has to be considered a problem. The bottom line is that I haven't found one up to now that fulfills what I'm looking for. What I really want is an easy to use and user-friendly way of saving, organizing and sharing web pages that i can use ... Read more
It must be the most difficult time ever for fundraising these days! Governments worldwide are being forced to reduce their humanitarian exploits and families are under pressure from all sides financially and there is not a lot left to give. So now methods and pathways are required to encourage people to hand over their hard earned money to charity. GoalsForGiving is a charity application specifically designed for charitable fun runners and takes your fundraising into your social networks. Goals for Giving is a way for fundraisers to raise awareness of their charities by using social networks. While training for ... Read more
If you are a bit of a news junkie like myself you will be on the search continually for interesting news stories that you might not find in regular circles. Sometimes the best way to find what you are looking for is to just go with the flow and truly surf the net going from one story to another. But there are better ways. NextStories is an intuitive kind of bookmarklet application that delivers a constant stream of news stories based on your current viewing pleasure. So, if you are hunting down stories about, let's say Mitt Romney's tax imbroglio ... Read more