Archive for the ‘Web Apps’ Category
Remindr – through Twitter, email, mobile, GTalk, etc
Want to get reminders through Twitter, email, Jabber, GTalk or your mobile phone? Remindr does just that. Remindr is one of those clean and simple web app that lets you get reminders of anything you want, and this one does it via a couple of channels. If you use Twitter daily, this web app is a fun ...
How to sync photos from Facebook to your Address book
I still remember the old days when I got my first Nokia symbian based phone where I can assign photos to my contacts. The idea was great, but the process was painful. With the advancement of technology and thoughtful people, this problem was solved by Dan Auclair who made this simple but useful app that takes ...
How to host your own short URLs
There are countless URL shortening services out there that shortens your URLs, only a handful lets you track clicks. A service that lets you shorten URLs using your own domain name is even harder to find. Shorty is one of the rare gems. Shorty lets you install your own URL shortening service on your server. Suberapps.com ...
The Best Free Online File Storage & Sharing Service
Everyone needs one of these free online file storage / sharing service one of these days to easily send large files to your colleagues, clients or friends. The biggest gripes with the many big names in online file storage services like YouSendIt, Box.net, is not the amount of space you can store files in your online ...
Mint – A Fresh Look At Your Site
Mint (live demo here) is a web app that lets you track your website statistics, for stats addicts! What I love about Mint, as opposed to using Statcounter or Google Analytics is because of it’s beautiful design, lightweight, no ads, lets you install it on your own server (http://www.yourdomain.com/mint/), much like Wordpress. You can also install ...
Flock – The Social Web Browser
Flock 2.0 (Mac & PC) is not only a web browser but it is optimized for your social needs. You can pack all your social services into the browser’s sidebar also known as the “Friend Activity Widget”, tracking them every second while you browse. RSS feeds are also browsable through the sidebar just by switching tabs. Social ...
Deadline – one promising reminder app
I am always looking for simplicity when it comes to apps, whatever the app is. When an app is bloated with functionalities, it might be useful for some people, but half the time you might not use every single feature. This is made worse if it’s not a free app. A simple app that handles only ...
4 useful RSS apps
Real Simple Syndication, or RSS for short, is a part of the Web 2.0 phenomenon. RSS has been around for quite some time and my bet is you see them 90% of the time when reading blogs especially. I am very surprised at how a handful of people are still not acquainted with it. As time ...
4 useful day-to-day productivity tools
As a sucker for productivity tools, I am always looking around, reading reviews and trying out new native and web applications to manage my day to day life – personal or work wise. You might already be using some that you love or deem useful, but I would like to share 4 tools I use ...


