It seems that the jury is still out on Facebook's new Timeline presentation. Most people seem to like the way it draws a line through your life and presents your information in chronological order. UsualWords is a social share application that not only displays and shares your life events but allows others to connect and follow you and react and comment on your trends. And herein lies UsualWords' interesting underlying social experience. By aiming to track all of life's experiences the chance beckons to pass on knowledge and experience to your followers leading to a much more philanthropic take on ... Read more
Whilst social networks like Facebook and Twitter often promote charitable events one could hardly call them a social charity. Talkic, on the other hand, actively promotes itself as a social network where contributing to topics benefits causes. In real terms, that translates into Talkic donating US 1.1 cents to one of 20 Canadian charities every time you click on a topic when signed in. Talkic is a social network where topics are friends and where by clicking or contributing to a topic you will indirectly be benefitting various causes. Just by contributing to topics Talkic donates 1.1 cents for ... Read more
You must have made a mix tape or two in your life, surely? If you saw Cameron Crowe's seminal 80's movie Say Anything you'll know exactly what it is. Mixtape.li is a free MP3 music application where you can either create very cool mixes of music yourself or hunt through the copious amounts of personally chosen lists featured inside. Sounds pretty basic, doesn't it? But this is where the real beauty of Mixtape.li kicks in. It just happens to feature some of the coolest mixes of lists, connections to great music to stir your interest. Mixtape.li is a surprisingly ... Read more
If you've ever wanted to find a way to play the audio and video files stored on your Mac or PC when you are off on a trip you will know what a pain it can be. Airplayit is a next-generation video and audio streaming application for smartphones that solves that problem without asking you to spend ages copying them from your computer for watching and sharing. It works in two parts. One part sits on your computer sharing your files on your hard drive or iTunes library while the other sits on your iPad or iPhone and allows you ... Read more
Pinterest could well be the next social networking site to take off - following nicely in the footsteps of Facebook and Twitter. And the reason for that is that it is not only totally addictive but it's good too. This photo, video and memory share application is virtually pinboard for all the stuff that you love and want to share socially with others. Think of it as a virtual bookmarker that displays all the things you love in a beautiful interface and then let's you share it with your friends. Pinterest is a virtual pinboard and social photosharing app ... Read more
Attention all you actors (and waiting staff, of course) and casting agents out there - this one is for you. Voices.com is a unique jobs and employment application for iPhone which presents a chance for voice talent to connect with casting agents and deliver audio and video representations of their work and vocal capabilities. Equally, it's a place for casting agents to listen to audio samples from all over the world to find exactly the right person for the job they have in mind. Voices.com has designed an app to cater for both those hiring talent and voice talent ... 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
Some think the 140 character limit to your Twitter tweets is too many characters while there are others who want to pontificate until the cows come home. You can't please all the people all the time. Given some of the inane ramblings of some tweeters it is probably a blessing in disguise that there is a limit but sometimes you just can't get your story across in that small amount of words and that's where Twishort comes in handy. This Twitter and blog tool let's you get your message up with a link for your avid readers to follow to ... Read more
TumblrPlayer is a free music player and web design application that allows you to insert a player onto your blog so that all your friends can listen to your favorite music while they read your fascinating diatribes. This simple to use music app is a very elegant addition in the music player marketplace and gives you the freedom to create your music playlists from either your own music library, YouTube, Tumblr or your Blogger account. TumblrPlayer is a free music, blog and web design application that allows you to use the wizard on the website to generate the code ... Read more
There are plenty of music player applications available but there aren't too many that do the things that FuniPlayer does. You see, apart from being a regular music player, this one has a few other snappy tricks up it's sleeves. For a start you can strip all the music off a song and be left with just the vocals - acappella style. Or you can turn it round and take the vocals off the instrumental and have your own karaoke versions of your favorite songs.you can even play it backwards or speed. It up or slow it down if you ... Read more