Scrapbooking was huge during the nineties if I remember rightly but i guess it got rather swallowed up by the social networking phenomena over recent years. Wollage re-activates the scrapbooking theme and brings it up to date with the new century technology by turning it social. Rather than painstakingly sticking photos, precious memories and a myriad of other stuff into your scrapbook and then filing it under the stairs for viewing later by a select few, Wollage brings your collective memories into a social setting by allowing you to create your scrapbook online and then sharing it with friends and ... Read more
Let's face it, airports really don't have a reputation for fun places to go in search of a good time. The only people who enjoy the experience of expensive food, long walks to terminals, high security and jewelry that you don't want are planespotters and small children. Airport Chatter is a new social travel application that gives you the opportunity to discover just what your airport has to offer in terms of amenities, services and shopping and where to find it. Airports in general are not really people friendly places although I'm sure that the people who design them ... Read more
Do you think you know what's really happening in world events? Can you hold your own in a conversation about the Middle East, the benefits of Mac over PC or which TV shows the greatest of the 21st Century. State A Debate is a social news app that let's you put your opinions on the line and debate the issue with others the world over. This free and easy to use app allows your pit your opinions against others and argue your case on the big stage. There's even a scoring system to see who rules the roost when it ... Read more
Well first up, let's get the plaudits out of the way. PocketCloud Explore was named Best Mobile App at the recent Mobile World Congress by Laptop Magazine and MSNBC Gadgetbox. It was also named Best App Ever by another organization. So why does utter so many accolades? Because it's the missing link that we've been looking for, that's why. Explore let's you grab all your photos, multimedia and documents on your computers while you are out and about on your smartphone. Wherever and whenever you like. Gee, we've really moved on over the last few years when attempting to ... Read more
It was Andy Warhol who said that in the future, everybody will be famous for 15 minutes. Meriad doesn't offer quite that much time but it does offer you 30 seconds to record your thoughts for the rest of the world to see and hear. This free video microblogging social application for your mobile let's you capture moments in your life rather like a Twittering video diary where your friends and the rest of the world can get a glimpse into your world - 30 seconds at a time. Meriad.co is a new social networking platform that enables you ... Read more
One of the most perplexing problems of learning a language online is that it's difficult to get immediate feedback on some of the nuances of the language you are learning. Fixoodle goes some way to addressing this problem by going social and having online friends who speak the lingo oversee and correct any mistakes that you might have made. By connecting you with fluent friends this language and learning application puts a whole new spin on the art of linguistics by letting you converse with native speakers via global messaging, virtual classrooms and video sharing. Read more
HeapNote is a custom-fit online notebook that lets you manage your ideas, bookmarks, to-do lists, expenses or anything else that is important to you. It does this by utilizing an extremely flexible, powerful and easy to use interface and fulfills the role of information manager that is geared to small businesses as well as private individuals. HeapNote is an Information Manager for small business and individuals and lets you manage all the stuff that's important to you with an easy to use interface. People use it for tracking bugs, managing their business contacts not to mention storing your recipes ... Read more
The business management tool Schedule was developed because the alternatives, quite simply, weren't very good. They were too slow, too complicated and too expensive. Schedule is an ultra cost effective business tool that's free if you have less than five users. It's an easy, fast and communicative way to resource your team and assign everyone their role whilst keeping everyone in the loop on the bigger picture. Schedule is the easiest way to resource your team. It was developed as an internal business product because all the options our there failed to come up with the goods or were ... Read more
One of the saddest things that has happened over the last few years has been the demise of the music store. Gone are the days when you could Wander down to the local record bar, have a chat to the guy behind the counter about his latest faves, listen to a few tunes and walk out with some great music. These days you have to do a lot more work to find some good new music. Sworly is a social music and video share application that could well be a way of making your music searching a little easier by ... Read more
The way it stands at the moment when I find an interesting webpage that I want to hang on to and look at again later with my friends I do one of two things. I'll either save it to the myriad that is Facebook or I'll bookmark it into another myriad of messiness. Meaki turns the whole bookmarking thing on it's head by making it social. It's a microblogging and sharing application where you can collect and share the cool web pages you find and it presents them in a great looking package. It's almost the Flipboard for web pages. ... Read more