There are lots of travel guides and tourist books around but they’re generally written by expert writers or a country’s own tourist board so to get the views of ordinary people who have been there as well as people who live there gives a great personal insight. Read more
I must be one of the luckiest people around. I’ve travelled a bit both for business and pleasure purposes but I’ve never had the misfortune to be eaten alive by bedbugs! I’m not quite sure what the people behind this site hope to achieve but I suppose they are providing a public service of some kind. Having said that I do think their mission to "report and follow bedbug information around the world" could be just slightly bordering on the over ambitious. There are a number of ways of interpreting the activity (or lack of it) on the site and some are ... 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
If you love travelling but don’t want to join the usual crowds jostling to see the famous landmarks and attractions of the world then this site can provide a whole host of places you won’t find in the brochures. Read more
In this day and age with the internet being what it is planning a trip is certainly a lot easier. Gone are the days when you either bought all the guide books yourself or borrowed them from a library. All you need to do now is tap in the destination and a whole mine of information is revealed. Read more
There has been plenty of talk about this travel site in recent months with a successful round of fundraising and a revamp completed in February of this year (2011) and more recently a partnership deal signed with The New York Times. 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
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
You won't be able to miss Juicer when you see it in the app store for free. It's the one with the huge luscious red strawberry on the front. With summer not so far away we'll all be racing down the mall pretty soon to get our delicious and refreshing juice mixes. With Juicer there aren't any more trips down the mall. This food and drink tool for your iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch or Android gives you a super new juicing recipe each day and let's you share photos and postings on your favorite social networking sites. Juicer, The ... Read more