There's always the old epithet of 'less is more' but it isn't always true. For some there's no point in getting nothing but the whole story when reading the news. All the juicy information on all the stories. However, that isn't always possible to achieve. We lead very busy lives but that doesn't mean that you can't keep up with what's going on in the world. Headlynes is a microblogging social news application that let's you read and deliver news headlines in 77 characters or less so you can get a kinda potted history of the top stories going around. ... Read more
Have you ever been into a newsagent and just read the newspapers until they throw you out for not buying anything? Whaddya mean no? You haven't lived until you've been there. Anyway, headslinger let's you read all the most interesting articles from all the most interesting news sources and all from the comfort of your own home. And you'll never get kicked out for doing it. headslinger is a news sharing and social application that allows you to create a custom news list by news source. Whats more, it allows you to categorize your news by folder.The way we ... Read more
If you want to be up there with the big boys in your Fantasy Football League you really do have to be on the ball all the time. If you put a fair amount of time into your team you will get a fair amount of success. So how do those guys always seem to be at the top of the league each year? Its like they have inside knowledge or something isn't it? Well in truth they probably use a fantasy sports tool like BallNotes. A better way to do your fantasy sports research. Read more
Having access to the question paper before sitting an exam would obviously give you a considerable advantage but few of us have ever had that luxury. It strikes me as slightly comical therefore that a group of business school students have got together to develop a site that aims to give you the answers to questions that might arise when you’re being interviewed for a management consultant post. Read more
It is a fundamental human trait to need to ask questions and get responses. In the old days when we tended to live in smaller communities this was possible with face-to-face communication. However, as society has grown it has become impractical for one person to communicate their thoughts and news with everyone on a daily basis. Then newspapers and printed media entered the scene offering content and insight to a broader crowd. Then came the digital age and then came CivicBoom. It's a news app that connects the people that have news content with the people that need it. Read more
Math tutoring has got to be one of the most thankless tasks that every parent has to go through if they want their child to excel at the subject. So what do you do about it? Do it yourself? Aaaargh! I don't think so. You could hire a tutor but that could get a little expensive. Or you can make math fun for your kids with MathChimp. This free and colorful math app for kids gathers together cool math games and organizes them into degrees of difficulty. Read more
Beebble is one of the very first Geo social games for your iPhone and let's you discover a hidden fantasy world hidden in your own real environment. Beebble is a rather addictive virtual town simulator that is somewhere between Farmville, Sim City and FourSquare in it's operation and developed by SeventhSide Games. SeventhSide Games has just launched its first social game “Beebble”, a city builder (a virtual town simulator) geo-localized at a junction between Farmville, Sim City and Foursquare that offers players the possibility to allow their virtual environment to interact with their real world location. The game’s story ... Read more
You know what Stickman games are don't you? They started off when you were a kid as the cheapest and simplest form of entertainment known to all. Hangman and the like. Then they developed into an online phenomenon. Fun little games that anyone can play and guaranteed to while away an hour of your life when there is nothing better to do. StickmanGames compiles all your Stickman games together along with squillions of other simple, fun online games in one free, easy to use game tool. The more you investigate StickmanGames the more you seem to find. Action games, ... Read more
Do you feel envious when you are driving around town in your rented Ford Fiasco and watching as all the cool luxury cars whip past you? It would be great to be able to hire something a bit more upmarket to make a change. The problem there, of course, is it's a little cost prohibitive, isn't it? While it would be nice to shell out for that Mustang for a day it's not particularly cheap and could set you back hundreds of dollars. So if I told you there was a cool little members only club you could join where ... Read more
I must be one of the luckiest people around. I’ve travelled a bit both for business and pleasure purposes but I’ve never had the misfortune to be eaten alive by bedbugs! I’m not quite sure what the people behind this site hope to achieve but I suppose they are providing a public service of some kind. Having said that I do think their mission to "report and follow bedbug information around the world" could be just slightly bordering on the over ambitious. There are a number of ways of interpreting the activity (or lack of it) on the site and some are ... Read more