Now here's a very useful movie site for the hearing impaired or non English speaking viewers. When I was running DVD stores it was a regular event for people to come in and ask if a certain film had subtitles in a specific language. Sometimes because there was someone at home who was a bit deaf, sometimes because they didn't speak any English. Then there were the people who just wanted to learn a language by watching a movie. All those problems can be solved with the real time subtitle search engine TinySubs which grabs all the subtitles you'll ever ... Read more
If you are anything like me when it comes to buying a car you get it all wrong. Usually I will have this idea in my head of the one perfect car for me and nothing will change that. Then after a week or so I come to my senses and realize there are a good twenty or so cars out there that fit into my demographics. CheapCarFinds is one of those great classified car search tools that hunts through cars for sale on Craigslist, Cars.com and Autotrader to find one of those twenty or so cars that is just ... Read more
For any small company, or even startup, when it comes to hiring good people to help grow the business it’s often a bit of a hit and miss affair. Jobmuncher.com has been developed with these types of business in mind and provides all the tools necessary to give a high level of organization to the process. Read more
When it comes to starting a business it’s hard enough to find the time to get all the ducks in line before it launches let alone after. Throughout all of this activity the one thing you must continue to do is spread the word and market, market, market! Read more
Why is it that sometimes you are the last to know when your email account has been hacked. Your ISP knows, the people that hacked your account know and it seems some Indian guy that keeps calling me up also knows that my computer has been compromised. Lucky for me he's just in the next town as opposed to being in Hyderabad where he sounds like he's calling from. The eponymously titled MyEmailHacked is precisely that. It's a very simple service that tracks and monitors your email account for suspicious activities and let's you know via your phone immediately if ... Read more
Just think how popular you would become if you remembered all the important events coming up over the next year or so. Firstly, of course, you'd never miss a birthday again. Maybe you you need a reminder on the earliest date you could purchase those tickets for the big festival before they sell out. Or maybe you could use Remind2.me as a business tool and schedule all your customer greetings messages for the major holidays for the year to come. This email reminder tool fulfills all those services and more. Remind2.me is a free email reminder service where you ... Read more
Qidiq is a ruthlessly efficient and seriously fast way of collecting feedback and information from all the groups whose opinions you value the most. In an interesting piece of response marketing they have developed a technique that makes it as much of an effort to delete or ignore an email as it is to answer a simple question. Hence, the response rates are much much higher. Qidiq is a simple mobile and email feedback tool for Android and iPhone that asks a group of people pertinent questions in real time. Respondents answer via email, a web interface, or an ... Read more
One definition of the word mojo is that is an often elusive quality that sets one person apart from everyone else. In the case of mojopages.com the aim is to set businesses apart from each other on account of a rating system based on customer reviews. Read more
Let's face it, pretty well every one of us has an email address these days. That's not quite the fact with a fax machine though. I've lost count of the number of times someone has said to me that they'll just fax the information to me. I don't have a fax. So how can I get a fax sent via email to my computer or mobile phone? It's simple. FaxDesk is a cost effective Android and iPhone email tool that allows customers to either send or receive faxes via their email. FaxDesk provides local fax numbers in any of ... Read more
Do you find it hard to keep up with all the books that are released these days? You used to be able to walk into your local bookstore and pick up a 'what's new' pamphlet but the humble and much-loved bookshop is beginning to become a thing of the past. Then there's the online releases too, of course. So where do you find out about all the latest book releases? BookPeeper is a simple book shopping tool that details all the books, whether online or on paper, that are released today. BookPeeper is a simple shopping tool that gives ... Read more