Searchgonzo is a surprisingly sophisticated free product discovery and shopping comparison application that provides a search tool to find some excellent fashion, travel, sporting or home based products online. What's more, goods on offer are thankfully not provided by advertisers, paid for with spam attached or even cookie based to get something out of you. Searchgonzo is a very clean and intuitive service with a constant stream of quality products in its database making this online shopping experience a positive one. Read more
GasBuddy is the app that every North American driver needs to own. With gas prices across the country varying so much from area to area and some gas stations seemingly plucking the price of a gallon of petrol out of a hat it's more important than ever to know where you can get the cheapest gas price closest to where you live. GasBuddy is a free and totally up to date online method of gathering gas price information based on consumer input and enabling you to identify the cheapest fuel prices across North America. GasBuddy.com is a gas price ... Read more
Do you have any idea what you are buying your family and friends for Christmas this year? No, there are very few of us that do this early in the year. iWishfor is a social gift shopping application for iPhone that let's you plan your Christmas shopping nice and early and find gifts that your extended family actually wants rather than having to pick up some makeshift gift the week before the event. What usually happens in my house is that i swear every year that i will be organized in my present buying endeavors. I will check out ... Read more
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
If you've ever put a blog or website together you will know what a pain it is to display relevant items and keep them up to date. ShowSpace is a free app that makes it easy for you to gather all sorts of products from all over the web and display them on your blog or website as a way of monetizing your hard work. For example, if you were promoting an artist or band you could not only display their discography but also books, Tshirts and other merchandise associated with them. And so you dont have to keep checking ... Read more
There'll be figures every month in the newspapers telling us how inflation is on the rise or falling and we all collapse in shock and awe. Sticker Shock is a finance tracking application for iPhone that allows you to put those figures into their true perspective and to check your shopping prices as they rise or fall over weeks months or years. It's a quick, easy and attractive app where you can track the price of items you buy on a regular basis. Life's getting expensive, isnt it? Tired of costs spiraling out of control and never remembering what ... Read more
So, you've designed your website and are ready to go live and you think that its looking pretty good - but how do you know if it's what your viewers want? If it were a movie it would be put in front of various focus groups to get feedback on whether it looks and works well. Tesdor takes the place of the focus group by offering any number of tests on your website to give you the amount of feedback that you think you need. Tesdor is a safe and secure web design research and review application that's used ... Read more
I was watching an episode of Anthony Bourdain's excellent No Reservations show a few years ago and, whilst drinking and eating with locals in the mountains somewhere in Asia, Bourdain holds up his glass and shouts "Damn Skippy!" Why would a native New Yorker like him be uttering a phrase that is so obviously Australian and yet I'd never heard it before? Well, So Slang is a search engine where you can get that information. Its an easy to use free urban slang wiki dictionary where you can your own meaning to the millions of slang words featured. So ... Read more
It's all very well if you have a large company with the funds to have designated people to notate ideas and log everything that goes on within your business walls but it's not so easy if you are a small business with only a few of you doing all the work. Neutrino is a wiki share business tool that organizes and helps the small to medium sized business keep a tab on ideas and important information so none of your concept go amiss and enable you to never forget why an idea came about in the first place. What ... Read more
There are endless ways of advertising your product on Facebook. There seems to be another innovation every couple of months and BrandMask certainly throws it's keys onto the table with this social Facebook advertising application. Brandmask is a free application where you can mark the brands you like in various fields then the social side kicks in and you can find people who think similarly and receive special offers from the relevant brands. BrandMask is a fascinating new kind of social advertising application for Facebook. The general idea is to go there create your own "Brand-Profile" and mark a ... Read more