Xoopit is a service that turns Gmail into a powerful media browser, letting you quickly view your attachments. Since Yahoo! acquired it, though, it’s been available to Yahoo! Mail users, and now Yahoo! is looking to make it exclusive. Xoopit will become the My Photos feature of Yahoo! Mail, and it’s being pulled out [...]
Tabs are undoubtedly a hot thing these days with more and more applications moving to some sort of tab-like interface. Web browsers are probably the first thing you think of, but other apps like Microsoft Office even have a tab-like interface with the Ribbon. Why not go a little further? With WindowTabs you can [...]
Chris Saad tells Grant how JS-Kit works as an advanced commenting system for your blog, including stuff like OpenID and Facebook Connect. But it’s also more than that: it provides widgets for comments, ratings, polls and chat across a network of 600,000 blogs. Basically, JS-Kit is an all-purpose system to cross-pollinate your comments and other [...]
Microsoft is trying hard to show people that they are serious about online storage, and I’d say they are doing a darn good job of it. They just updated their SkyDrive online file storage service with numerous new features, but more importantly they bumped up the free storage quota from a mere 5GB to 25GB. [...]
MySpace.com has informed media that it will be making a "major announcement in regards to Internet safety" on Monday morning at a midtown New York hotel.
No other information was provided except that MySpace’s chief security officer, Hemanshu Nigam, will be on hand, along with other representatives from the News Corp.-owned social-networking site.
But if last [...]
Web Hosting Choice is a useful resource for those people who want to find web hosting plans suitable for a small site or for a large e-commerce website.For those that are new to webhosting, Web Hosting Choice offer them a learning area where they explain the basics of web hosting. For those that have a [...]
Convert any online video for your iPod, iPhone, cell phone, or pretty much any other mobile device with web site Movavi. We’ve seen similar conversion web sites in the past , but Movavi is focused on video, its interface is cleaner and ad-free, and it offers cool options like merging several videos into [...]
Microsoft just doubled Windows Live SkyDrive storage limit and are only at 1GB.
Aside from the storage upgrade the SkyDrive team also added a few new features:
RSS feeds for public folders – receive updates whenever a folder is updated
Integrated address book – add contacts from within SkyDrive
Upload identification – shows who has uploaded each file
Zoho has launched a new addition to the Zoho Suite – Zoho DB & Reports , which is a complete database and report management tool. It has a familiar spreadsheet interface that users will quickly be able to adapt to, and the chart creator is unbelievably simple.
Here’s an overview on the features it has:
Multiple views: [...]
Web utility URL Split creates single URLs that direct users to up to seven different web sites. The site is built on an interesting idea, but in practice it could use some work?in particular, one would expect to be able to continue following the link chain from each link location (through some sort of proxy [...]
YouconvertIt is a new web-based file conversion service. Like Zamzar, YouconvertIt lets you upload audio, video, image, or document files and convert from one format to another. Just select the file from your computer to upload, select your target format, and the web service will send you an e-mail when your new file is ready [...]
Teen-oriented virtual world Zwinky has expanded its e-commerce operations so that members can use real-world cash to pay for virtual goods. Starting Monday, credit cards and PayPal accounts can be used to purchase the in-game “ZBucks” currency, which members could heretofore only earn by visiting certain in-world locations and winning games. The cash will then [...]
Remotely Hosted WebOS
AstraNOS – Picture Windows 98. Then picture an OS X dock. Then picture a night sky. Then throw them all together. You now have a pretty good picture of AstraNOS.BeDesk – Basic wrapper for other online tools.cmyOS – Free hosted webtop powered by eyeOS.Desktoptwo – Not only do you get 1GB [...]
YouTubeDesktop is basically a front end for Youtube. When you first visit the site you’ll be presented with a thumbnail view of popular videos. You can browse or search for more videos. Click on one and a window will pop up and begin playing the video.
YouTubeDesktop allows you download the video as an FLV [...]
About two-weeks ago a simple site called Jjot launched as an easy way for you to aggregate all of your notes into one simple location. It?s a fast, lightweight, and simple service that doesn?t cost a dime.
Here are some things that I?ve noticed you can do:
Maximize a note so that you can easily view the [...]
RSS Mixer is a service for combining several RSS feeds together to create a master feed. The result contains all the feeds you’ve added, and makes it easy to plug it into a feed reader or share with others using a single URL. I gave the service a spin earlier today and it does just [...]
Appleopolis.com – An Apple iPhone application directory. This site was created as a way to help developers and users get the best possible experience for their iPhones. The team is also working on a way for users to start an account and be able to manage all of their iPhone applications from one central location. [...]
AOL Mail users were able to unlock a little surprise that started yesterday evening when they logged in, a new chat feature.
The new AOL Mail with chat can be accessed at http://beta.webmail.aol.com.
BlogTV is a new livestreaming service that’s been making a splash at the Supernova conference here in San Francisco. It’s the latest in several live broadcasting services that have popped up, including uStream.TV, Veodia, Mogulus, and Stickam. Like some of its competitors, BlogTV is combining live video and chat in one window, along with [...]
AOL Mail are set to make the service nimbler and more innovative, with unlimited storage and built-in chatting set for the coming weeks. A chatting pane will appear within the screen to display contacts from Mail and AIM, which remains the world’s most popular instant messaging service.
Embedded RSS feeds, attachment search capabilities, as well as [...]
