A few years ago I tailored my skills as a writer by writing a blog for a video and DVD organization but I would spend half my time researching interesting information on what I thought my reading audience wanted to hear. These days, those same research skills are still used by writers and businesses worldwide though things are a wee bit better organized and analyzed in the techno savvy 21st Century. Inbound writer is an Internet marketing app for writers to optimize their online content and gives them a much clearer vision of what their viewing audience is talking about ... Read more
If you have just the one domain that you monitor it's not too much of a problem to see that it is running 24/7. But when you have multiple sites it's verging on becoming a full-time job to try keep track of them all. If your site is monetized and has some downtime while you aren't looking then it is costing you money and nobody wants that to happen. Dominder is a new internet management application that lets you monitor all your domains from one single easy to navigate control. This makes your workload somewhat lighter and gives you more ... Read more
I'll start off straight away by saying how much I love this news search application. Being a little bit of a news junkie myself I regularly find myself trudging through countless sites to find out what is going on in the world. ScoopWeb is a wonderfully slick looking app that delivers all the completely up-to-date news that you will ever need from over five hundred reputable sources including local, national and worldwide publications. This ultra fast and beautiful looking app also splits your search into videos, photos and documents as well as the best of the news from the rest ... Read more
I wonder how many of you know what's going on in terms of entertainment in your city tonight. You'll probably think you have a pretty good idea but it's actually fairly difficult to get a grip on the multitude of events that are happening every night in a major city unless you buy an evening newspaper, the local 'whats on' guide and then check a few local Internet sites. Wikido is a very flexible geolocalization-based entertainment search engine that hunts down all the entertainment in your city from countless websites whether it be a concert, a rodeo or sports event. ... Read more
Around this time of year the media usually serves up their end of year 'best of' offerings where they will list everything from the best films of the year right through to the best anti sexist speech against an opposition leader by a standing PM...and yes, Julia Gillard, you do win that one hands down. But who decides just who is on the list and what order they come in. Generally it's one journalist with an attitude. So Listnerd takes the concept of the list back to the people and lets them decide. This crowd sourcing community application is a ... Read more
To steal from David Fincher's excellent film Fight Club, what's the first rule for your website? The answer is, of course, to never have any downtime. When your server or browser is down and you don't know about it, there's a pretty good possibility that your visitors will go elsewhere and possibly not come back. Appfail is a cloud-based error monitoring system that enables online businesses to discover, diagnose and track failures in their websites and immediately let's you know about it with an email or message straight to your device. Organizations invest significant resources to encourage customers and ... Read more
Never before have their been quite so many home build projects going up around the world. It's probably something to do with the fall in house prices globally that is making it a more sensible plan to adapt or enlarge your present home or knock the place down and start all over again. Either that or it's the plethora of TV shows like the excellent Grand Designs and Design Star that are inspiring people to build their own place. FloorStyler is a superb new floor design application that allows you to lay out your house's new floor plan with a ... Read more
When one thinks of plagiarism the first thing that comes to mind is the student cut and pasting information off the Internet - something that of course is very much frowned upon. However, PlagSpotter is a plagiarism tracker with more universal aspirations. In reality, this free application features a set of tools that are effectively what is known as a duplicate content checker. For a start, it enables you to analyze exactly how your content is being shared on the net and whether it is being stolen or not. What's more, some sites who 'borrow' or 'duplicate' content might well ... Read more
The Internet is a weird evolving object that springs up more than a few surprises. People can be even weirder. If you have read any Malcolm Gladville you will be well aware of the organized chaos that we live in. Take social networks for example. I remember a friend telling me not long after Facebook's inception to "just sign up" and it wasn't that long before its reputation grew and the "Tipping Point" was reached. Now it is getting close to a billion users and everyone from cute Kentucky girls to Sherpas in Tibet seems to have an account. Add ... Read more
While being a very simple photoshare application Instatrip surprisingly turns out to be quite an engaging little Instagram offshoot - especially for those who love to take photos of the fantastic places that they visit on their travels. And really, all you need to do is to tag your Instagram photos with their location as your photos are automatically generated out of your Instagram photostream. It's a place where you can create and share your photos from your vacation or holiday trips and share them with your friends as well as the rest of the world. Many vacationers tend ... Read more