Cool Sites & Apps

Back-Up & File Syncing

  • Backupify – Secure your online life. Twitter backup is always free.
  • Carbonite – Now everyone can survive a computer disaster. Works automatically and quietly in the background, backing up every new file added to your computer. No effort on your part.
  • Dropbox – File syncing, sharing and backup that rocks.
  • Expandrive -ExpanDrive acts just like a USB drive plugged into your Mac or PC. It lets you open, edit, and save files on remote computers from within your favorite programs.

Blogging

  • Posterous – The place to post everything. Just email us. Dead simple blog by email. Will automatically distribute posts to Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, Tumblr, Flickr, your personal blog, and a variety of all of your social media presences. “It’s just so simple.” –Leo Laporte, Net@Night podcast

Business

  • Ceevee.com – quick & painless résumé management. The smarter way to create and share your resume.
  • Elance.com – Hire, manage, and pay experts to do your work.
  • Snapily – Create personalized business cards with special effects like 3D and video.
  • CompareMyDocs – Compare, recombine, and merge your document versions.

Computer Repair & Trouble Shooting

  • iFixIt – Self Repair made Easy.Free Detailed Step by Step Manuals for Apple Repair and TroubleShooting

Communications

  • Fonolo – Fonolo lets you skip the phone menus when calling large companies. Connect to the right person with less hassle!
  • Google Voice – Get one number that calls all of your other numbers, free calls in the U.S., low international rates, free SMS anywhere, voicemail and text messages sent and transcribed to your inbox.
  • Phonetag – Like the opposite of Google Voice. Calls to any of your numbers go to one number, place, and email. Voicemail transcribed by a human. For those who prefer email to voicemail. Keep a record of your all of your voicemail forever.

Design

Firefox Extensions

  • Feedly – The ultimate homepage. Feedly weaves your favorite content into a fun, magazine-like start page.
  • Firebug – Web development evolved.
  • Noscript – Provides the most powerful security available in a browser
  • PowerTwitter – Makes Twitter better. Shows link content inline, and gives other features of a Twitter client.
  • Yslow -analyzes web pages and suggests ways to improve their performance based on a set of rules for high performance web pages.
  • Xmarks – Synchronizes your bookmarks and passwords across multiple computers and platforms.

Fun

  • FourSquare – The place to stalk your friends and unlock your city.
  • MovieClips.com – Search 12,000 Movie Clips Legally from 6 Studios.
  • ShirtsTasteGood – Funny T-Shirts/ Youtube Inspired T-Shirts
  • URDB.org – The Universal Record Database. an open platform for world records. We welcome you to get involved, whether discussing records, beating records or setting new ones of your own.

Hardware

  • Atlona Technologies – Wired and Wireless Video Converters. Connect older Mac’s DVI to Mini Display Port. Wirelessly connect laptops to HD TVs in HD Quality
  • OtherWorldComputing – Innovative memory and storage solutions for Mac.

Internet

Iphone Apps

  • AppBox Pro -AppBox Pro No.1 Paid App in 40 Countries! Is huge set of applications which has 18 apps including Battery Life, Clinometer, Currency Converter, Date Calculator, Days Until, Flashlight, Holidays, Loan Calculator, Periodic Calculator, Price Grab, Random Number, Ruler, Sale Price, System Info, Tip Calculator, and Translator. $.99
  • ReelDirector –  Video editing for iPhone3GS! Like iMovie for the iPhone. ReelDirector makes it simple for everyone to create movie right on iPhone 3GS. With a drag-and-drop timeline, multiple text watermark styles and 27 pro grade transitions, you’ll turn your scattered video clips into polished movies in just minutes. $7.99
  • Say It and Mail It – Record and email voice memos using your iphone or ipod Touch. Use it to email reminders to yourself or email messages to anyone.
  • TweetReel – Share Videos on Twitter with the new Iphone 3GS
  • Tweetero – A Twitter Client that also supports Video and Photo Tweets on the yfrog platform

Music

  • Streampad(Who Has It?) – Sites that utilize the Streampad Music Player. A great glossary of innovative music sites.
  • FredWilson.fm – By the innovative venture capitalist, Fred Wilson. Plays great indie, Creative Commons licensed music. Indie musicians can even easily submit their music to his station via his convenient drop box.
  • IndieBall.com – Indieball is the web’s best place for outstanding, innovative, eye-opening indie pop. You can even download their tracks for free.
  • PolluxApp.com – If you’re using iTunes and not using Pollux, you’re missing out. Never worry about organizing your music library again.
  • Tuneage – Tuneage aims to broaden your musical horizons, be it brand new music or music that’s forty years old.
  • Spinner – Free MP3s, Interviews, Music News, Live Performances, Songs and Videos.
  • Youtube Music Discovery Project – And Playlist Creation Tool

Photo-Editing

Software

  • AlternativeTo –  Alternatives to Windows, Mac, Linux, and online software
  • Formulate Pro – Overlay text and graphics on PDF documents. Great for filling out forms.FormulatePro helps you open and write on PDF documents. You can fill out any PDF form document, drop in graphics, scribble with the mouse or a tablet, save and print.
  • Screencast-O-Matic – Screencast-O-Matic is the original free and easy way to create a video recording of your screen (aka screencast) and upload it for free hosting all from your browser with no install!

Travel

  • Everlater – Record and share your travel experiences with Everlater. It’s fun and free!
  • Lastminute.com – Save up to 70% on last second travel deals!
  • MySkyStatus.com – While you’re in the air, MySkyStatus sends altitude, location, departure and arrival updates automatically to your Facebook and Twitter pages. It’s travel made social and it’s easy to set up.

Twitter

  • Brizzly – The BEST way to experience Twitter. A web based Twitter client with a rich array of features like in line media, grouping, push and threaded DM’s and mentions, link expansion, and more!
  • Vidly – The best way to share videos on Twitter

Utilities

  • SuperDuper! – Heroic System Recovery For Mere Mortals
  • Clamwin – Free Anti-Virus Open-Source Security for your PC
  • iPhone-Explorer - Want to put your iPhone or iPod Touch in disk mode? Use an iPhone as a flash drive? iPhone Explorer is an iPhone browser for Mac that lets you browse the files and folders on your iPhone as if it were a normal USB flash drive or pen drive.

Video

  • Anyclip – Find any moment from any film, instantly.
  • Fliggo – Create Your Own Video Site in Seconds
  • Mag.ma – Must Watch. The Current Top Videos to Watch Right Now.
  • MovieClips.com – Search 12,000 Movie Clips Legally from 6 Studios.
  • Know Your Meme – Documenting Internet phenomena: viral videos, image macros, catchphrases, web celebs and more…
  • Vidly – The best way to share videos on Twitter.

Webcams (HD)

  • Logitech – Quickcam Pro 9000 – Get razor-sharp video with ultra-smooth Autofocus and high-precision Carl Zeiss optics. (Crisper image, but less frame-rate)
  • Microsoft Lifecam Cinema – This full-featured webcam, with ClearFrame image-processing technology, delivers smooth, detailed 16:9 video in full 720p HD quality and crystal-clear audio. (Better frame rate than the Logitech, but less crisp image)

Web Dev/Authoring

  • Aptana Studio – The Web Developer’s Choice -Why are Web developers world-wide choosing Aptana Studio? They’ve discovered that Aptana Studio offers unprecedented support for Ajax combined with today’s popular Web platforms. Download Studio standalone or plug it into Eclipse to see for yourself. It’s your choice.