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
One of the problems for copy writers for web pages is that they have far more interest in words than they do with the overall presentation. While it is the written word that is going to sell your product or idea to your customers, there is not a lot of point if your visitors get bored with the site before they get your message. This can be achieved a number of ways but the simplest way is to illustrate your article with relevant pictures to draw the eye of your visitors and have a better chance of keeping them reading. ... Read more
The whole purpose of an analytics application like Positionly is to improve the outcome of your search engine optimization. The end result being a possible improvement in a website's SEO ranking. This iOS app provides a whole set of powerful tracking and flexible tools to analyze daily changes, measure keyword performance and generally improve rankings. It is a cost effective and simple to use answer to SEO analytics that works in real-time. Positionly is a user-friendly and easy to use SEO monitoring solution, making what could be a complex process, into a much more efficient and enjoyable experience. It ... Read more
A few years ago I tailored my skills as a writer by writing a blog for a video and DVD organization but I would spend half my time researching interesting information on what I thought my reading audience wanted to hear. These days, those same research skills are still used by writers and businesses worldwide though things are a wee bit better organized and analyzed in the techno savvy 21st Century. Inbound writer is an Internet marketing app for writers to optimize their online content and gives them a much clearer vision of what their viewing audience is talking about ... 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
I'll start off straight away by saying how much I love this news search application. Being a little bit of a news junkie myself I regularly find myself trudging through countless sites to find out what is going on in the world. ScoopWeb is a wonderfully slick looking app that delivers all the completely up-to-date news that you will ever need from over five hundred reputable sources including local, national and worldwide publications. This ultra fast and beautiful looking app also splits your search into videos, photos and documents as well as the best of the news from the rest ... Read more
I wonder how many of you know what's going on in terms of entertainment in your city tonight. You'll probably think you have a pretty good idea but it's actually fairly difficult to get a grip on the multitude of events that are happening every night in a major city unless you buy an evening newspaper, the local 'whats on' guide and then check a few local Internet sites. Wikido is a very flexible geolocalization-based entertainment search engine that hunts down all the entertainment in your city from countless websites whether it be a concert, a rodeo or sports event. ... Read more
Around this time of year the media usually serves up their end of year 'best of' offerings where they will list everything from the best films of the year right through to the best anti sexist speech against an opposition leader by a standing PM...and yes, Julia Gillard, you do win that one hands down. But who decides just who is on the list and what order they come in. Generally it's one journalist with an attitude. So Listnerd takes the concept of the list back to the people and lets them decide. This crowd sourcing community application is a ... 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
Never before have their been quite so many home build projects going up around the world. It's probably something to do with the fall in house prices globally that is making it a more sensible plan to adapt or enlarge your present home or knock the place down and start all over again. Either that or it's the plethora of TV shows like the excellent Grand Designs and Design Star that are inspiring people to build their own place. FloorStyler is a superb new floor design application that allows you to lay out your house's new floor plan with a ... Read more