15 Cool, New and Useful Web Apps You’ve Never Heard Of

Steven Finch — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:19:19 +0000

I have spent a long time lately trying to find unique tools that will help me simplify certain tasks in my day to day activity. I have put together a list of 15 web apps that have really help me to save time online. All these applications are different markets but they all have one thing in common, they are cool, new and very useful!

Waze

Driver-Generated Live Maps and Real-Time Road Information. Driving with waze mobile client lets users passively and actively share real time data and receive the optimal route to their destination.

Spacky

Spacky is a free keyword research tool. Spacky lets the user type in any keywords and then lets them know search volumes in Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.

Curculator

Curculator is a very simple currency converter and calculator that has been design to save users time. The currency converter uses daily mid-market rates from various trusted sources. All rates are refreshed daily. However, I would really like to see them announce their source for the financial information

Itumz

Itumz is a powerful web application that lets you make lists, access them from any web browser, and share them with your friends and the world. The rich user interface is simple to use and makes it easy to create to-do or task lists.

Superminder

To-do’s are too simple, calendars are overly complex, sometimes you just need to be reminded. Superminder is a micro-application that will make sure you don’t forget.

Springo

Springo is a visual search engine like no other. Currently Springo lists some of the main search results but is still yet to get very detailed.

Tatango

Tatango, the ad-supported group SMS service. The service is dead simple to use, as it should be. I made the jump from accountless bum to en masse messaging mogul in all of about 2 minutes.

Amplify

Amplify is a service for sharing clips from articles, blog posts or anything else you read on the web with your friends on Twitter.

Topsy

Topsy is a search engine powered by tweets. Topsy sees the Internet as a stream of conversations. Topsy treats people differently from the webpages they create and the things they say.

Moogo

Create your own website with ease. It’s fast and it’s free! You can have your own website in less than ten minutes and begin using it right away!

Snipi

Snipi uses drag and drop technology that will change the way you browse, organize, shop, share, and discover the Internet.

Charts.fm

Charts.fm is the ultimate tool to create your personal music charts by (re)mixing the charts of more than 2650 radiostations.

FeedMingle

FeedMingle makes lives simpler for web designers/developers, feed readers, bloggers, or just anyone who wants to merge two or more RSS / Atom feeds into one. It mixes all the feeds provided and creates one RSS feed, Atom feed, JSON feed, and a html widget to simply paste into your website or blog.

Fotopedia

Fotopedia is breathing new life into photos by building a photo encyclopedia that lets photographers and photo enthusiasts collaborate and enrich images to be useful for the whole world wide web.

Twitcaps

Twitcaps is a directory of images inside twitter messages by arranging into list that refreshes as new images are tweeted. Twitcaps is a great stream of twitter images and you can even see which are the newest and most popular.

UIzard: In-Browser Web App Development Tool

Steven Finch — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:38:34 +0000

UIzard is an in-browser web application development tool built on various Javascript Framework. You can add and arrange UI components easily by using Drag & Drop in-browser environment. You can also edit JavaScript Code or Html Code on the in-browser environment without operating other editors. You can preview the result of your works immediately.

UIzard is an open source project, following GPL v2 License. However, it is only a beta version so it can be a little unstable at the moment.