It's said that for every dollar invested in bettering the usability of your site there is potential for increasing your revenues tenfold. moustach.io is a usability app that encourages you to share your site with your social networking friends to get critical feedback and reviews on it's user-friendliness. They will aggregate all your reviews and feedback for a very cost effective monthly fee. Hiring professional reviewers has been known to cost upwards of US$40 per review. moustach.io is a business application to see how much we can learn about our software, web design and workflow by asking our friends, ... Read more
One thing that's proven tricky in the past when advertising or promoting your event or product (or yourself, if it comes to that) on Facebook has been the virtual seminar. Evinar may well sound like a Arthurian adventure but in this case it's a rather wonderful event promotion application for Facebook to host any number of live events for your business (ad)venture. Here you can arrange casual hook ups, host group chat sessions and watch promotional videos with your fans and, if you are just running the one Facebook page, it's totally free. Evinar is a safe and secure ... Read more
Potential! Vifinition Video Dictionary has heaps of it. This video sharing application takes video crowdsourcing in a slightly different direction by redefining the way we perceive words and phrases in our search mechanisms. Rather than relying solely on our tried and tested methods of the search engine, Vifinition turns the video search on its head by relying on the urban dictionary concept of finding interesting videos and adds a great element of fun to it, too. If I said the word fiasco to you - how would you define it as a piece of video art? Vifinition introduces a ... Read more
Assuming you have a job posting to offer it makes sense to get the position out to as many of the right people that you possibly can. Zip Recruiter is a business tool to ensure that the job you have to offer reaches out to those people via twenty five of the top job boards and social networks. What's more, it does it faster, easier and cheaper than ever before and does it all from one single submission. ZipRecruiter is an innovative web-based platform that makes job posting faster, easier, and cheaper than ever before. ZipRecruiter distributes your job ... Read more
If you look for the word Instamazing in the Urban Dictionary it will be described as an amalgamation between the words 'Instantly' and 'Amazing' which seems to be a rather apt description of this well timed free image and photo share application. It's the place to go to see the squillions of wonderfully warped photos submitted by Instagram members. You can view the artistic photographic skills in real time and coming at you from all parts of the world. So, there may be some people out there who aren't sure what Instagram actually is. I know it's hard to ... Read more
You must have heard about GarageBand. It's Apple's glorious music creator that has been around for a little while now. Well now it's available for iPad iPod Touch and iPhone and, without doubt, I have to say that it is one of Apple's finest creations. For those not aware, GarageBand gives you an array of tools that allow you to play copious amounts of instruments, record music and even jam with friends. What's more, you can play wherever you have an Internet connection and whenever you want. Whether you’re a musical prodigy or just love creating your own walls ... Read more
It seems that the jury is still out on Facebook's new Timeline presentation. Most people seem to like the way it draws a line through your life and presents your information in chronological order. UsualWords is a social share application that not only displays and shares your life events but allows others to connect and follow you and react and comment on your trends. And herein lies UsualWords' interesting underlying social experience. By aiming to track all of life's experiences the chance beckons to pass on knowledge and experience to your followers leading to a much more philanthropic take on ... Read more
You must have made a mix tape or two in your life, surely? If you saw Cameron Crowe's seminal 80's movie Say Anything you'll know exactly what it is. Mixtape.li is a free MP3 music application where you can either create very cool mixes of music yourself or hunt through the copious amounts of personally chosen lists featured inside. Sounds pretty basic, doesn't it? But this is where the real beauty of Mixtape.li kicks in. It just happens to feature some of the coolest mixes of lists, connections to great music to stir your interest. Mixtape.li is a surprisingly ... Read more
If you've ever wanted to find a way to play the audio and video files stored on your Mac or PC when you are off on a trip you will know what a pain it can be. Airplayit is a next-generation video and audio streaming application for smartphones that solves that problem without asking you to spend ages copying them from your computer for watching and sharing. It works in two parts. One part sits on your computer sharing your files on your hard drive or iTunes library while the other sits on your iPad or iPhone and allows you ... Read more
It seems the days of the humble business card are nearly numbered. The introduction of a digital identity application like cloudcard almost registers them obsolete when so much information can be kept more efficiently and attractively on your mobile phone in the guise of this marketing tool. Basically, cloudcard allows you to create your own personal app where clients can click your personal icon with all your information. This includes email, links, directions to your office and even a personal introduction video, which are displayed at the touch of your mobile phone. Cloudcard allows any business person to have ... Read more