There used to be a time when most people got their news from the radio. You must have seen those pictures of mum and dad with their ears cocked to the bulky old bakerlite radio with the kids playing at their feet. These days we get our news from so many different sources. Newspapers, TV and the Internet. The only trouble now is that we don't have as much time as we used to and much of the news that would be of interest to us is lost in the maelstrom. We've turned into a nation of headline readers and ... Read more
If you fancy contributing to the world of financial journalism, but in common with most budding hacks find the "staff job" door firmly closed, fwisp.com could be the place to get heard. If you happen to be a blogger too then exposure to a much wider audience could be just one of the other benefits. Read more
If your job is about to send you far away and into the exciting but sometimes slightly frightening world of the expat then you really need to know what you’ll get for your dollars. Read more
Imagine being able to take a financial adviser around with you all the time, and one that talks in plain English too. RateRush.com is a great one-stop-shop for all of the questions you might have from the best credit card and payday loan deals around to the more worrying subject of serious debt problems. Read more
Now here's a great idea. Imagine you're camping out somewhere and you forgot to pick up some important thing you need. Or maybe you have an important dinner party at home and you forgot to pick up the mango chutney. If you need it now Swifto can help. This local marketplace tool is a unique way of solving your pressing problem whether it's a car mechanic or a pool boy that you're after. Just send out a request on Swifto and they'll find someone who can help you. Read more
Everyone loves sites like these. You know how it goes, you search for a video called biggest crocodile ever caught and you'll find it here. Four hours later your mouth will be dry and you'll have watched everything from a story about Fighting Obesity With Marijuana to Pics of Pippa Middleton topless. BuzzFeed is a free and very cool looking tool that features all those weird and wacky videos and crazy stories that have the potential to go viral. Read more
Most food sites are a collection of unrelated recipes. Pages and pages of recipes from one source. Punchfork offers a new take on the traditional online food site by taking top quality recipes from the best culinary sites like Serious Eats, Simply Recipes, The Kitchn and 101 Cookbooks and using customer tweets and Facebook recommendations to rate them. Then they are presented in a beautiful magazine-style easy to use interface. Read more
Here's a snappy little social networking trending tool that could bring out the voyeur in all of us. TopicStatus does just what it's name suggests. If you really want to find out what people are talking about on Facebook or showing on YouTube then this trending topic site will serve the purpose. Alternatively you can start your own hot topic and send it into cyberspace and create your own trend.Simple to use and absolutely free, Topic Status features the simplest of interfaces. You can view the myriad of trending subjects and just click to see who is talking about it. ... Read more
This app caters for the hardcore gaming fans who want the inside story on the industry. N4G is run by its members, which means all news stories are posted by the community. Members search the net for the most interesting stories, and hundreds of stories get submitted by N4G contributors each day. The most interesting stories get featured on the N4G homepage where they are rated by a temperature score reflecting the popularity of each story. Read more