I don't know about you but when I go out looking for a new car I start off with this image in my head that there is one perfect car out there waiting for me to buy it. It usually takes me a good week to come to my senses and realize that there are several alternatives to the car of my dreams that are just as good if not better. That's when things get easier. Alternative.to is a great advice search tool to help you make those difficult decisions much less stressful and complex. It attracts all those who ... Read more
If you shop online, and let’s face it who doesn’t these days, then any opportunity to get discounts and cash back is going to be a welcome bonus. Read more
If you’re one of those people who always has good intentions when it comes to charitable giving but are perhaps rather forgetful then as long as you use Twitter or Facebook you could overcome that problem. Read more
There are people out there that make it almost a full-time occupation to search the newspapers for coupons and deals from their favorite stores. There have been reports of people following the paperboy as he delivered the morning papers and stealing the insert of discounts and promo codes before anyone could get their hands on them. uDealium saves you the indignity of following the paperboy with its search engine that instantly finds the newest coupons, deals, codes and discounts from hundreds of top stores. Their motto is You search. You click. You save. It’s simple. And it really is ... Read more
CastTV was set up by a couple of entrepreneurs who found it hard to keep up with episodes of Survivor and The Super Bowl when they were away on holiday. CastTV has developed search technology that aggregates, indexes and presents data on millions of TV shows, movies, music videos, news and sports clips and viral videos from more than 1,000 web-video sources. CastTV is a free online movie, tv and video search tool developed in San Francisco, California in 2006 by Edwin Ong and Alex Vikati and their services include a video search engine and the licensing of video ... Read more
Now here's a very useful movie site for the hearing impaired or non English speaking viewers. When I was running DVD stores it was a regular event for people to come in and ask if a certain film had subtitles in a specific language. Sometimes because there was someone at home who was a bit deaf, sometimes because they didn't speak any English. Then there were the people who just wanted to learn a language by watching a movie. All those problems can be solved with the real time subtitle search engine TinySubs which grabs all the subtitles you'll ever ... Read more
If you’re a bit of a wordsmith and fancy the challenge of writing a haiku then this website is a place where you can have a bit of fun and share your efforts with all the others trying to squeeze their creative juices into 17 syllables. Read more
There have been plenty of times when I've said to a Twittere friend "Have you read any Jonathan Carroll books?" Of course, they've generally never heard of him so I offer to send them something so they can see if they like his writing. That's where it gets a little tricky. I could just go out and buy a copy of "Sleeping In Flames" and post it off but that takes time. I could use a file sharing site but, let's face it, that's a bit of a hassle. Twtebook is a PDF book share tool for Twitter that let's ... Read more
If you are anything like me when it comes to buying a car you get it all wrong. Usually I will have this idea in my head of the one perfect car for me and nothing will change that. Then after a week or so I come to my senses and realize there are a good twenty or so cars out there that fit into my demographics. CheapCarFinds is one of those great classified car search tools that hunts through cars for sale on Craigslist, Cars.com and Autotrader to find one of those twenty or so cars that is just ... Read more
While Facebook users have begun to realize that there is great way of advertising through the social network the same isn't really the same with Twitter. Up till now, that is. Boxrockit is a very simple Twitter ecommerce tool that allows creative users to market, sell and track their digitally downloadable products on Twitter and schedule their advertising tweets to best effect. Boxrockit is a social commerce application that allows users to sell digital products on Twitter. It allows creatives and other digital nomads to sell eBooks, videos, digital art, photography, fonts, software and other downloadable products simply and ... Read more