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

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.

Organise Your iPhone and iPod Touch Apps into Folders

No I know what most of you are thinking, why the hell isn’t this an iPhone app or why hasn’t Apple done this already, well they should have! The Next Web is reporting on a new app that is really going to help.

It’s an awesome app in Cydia called “Categories” which lets you organise your apps into folders. The app provides an array of different icons you can use, you can easily rename folders via the app and adding/removing apps is relatively easy. However, this is not available in the app store and you need to have your iPhone jailbroken.

Currently, on my iPod touch I have over 5 pages worth of applications that I use on a monthly basis. At the moment I’m having so much trouble keep track of the apps and actually arranging them so they can be easily used and organised. Apple needs to come up with an app like this, either that or they need to be able to arrange your apps directly in iTunes.

One limitation: the app doesn’t recognise iPhone web apps only genuinely local apps.

As I noted above, this is only for Jailbroken iPhones. Other features which Cydia (jailbroken app database) brings is copy & paste, 5 apps in the dock amongst hundreds of others.

Twones The Music Lifestream Aggregation Service. Friendfeed But Only For Music Sites

Today, Amsterdam based Twones launches in private beta. Twones is a new Music service that tracks the music you’re playing on your computer (iTunes, WMP, Winamp) AND on 18 web services (Youtube, Last.fm, Myspace, Muxtape etc.).

Twones is funded by concert giant Live Nation (source: hypebot ), with TheNextWeb having a minor stake in the company as well. Additionally, Twones shares office space with TheNextWeb.

Twones’ goal is to make playing music on the web more organized and enjoyable. “Let real people, relevant to you, collectively filter and recommend music and music services”,  says Tim Heineke who with Diederik Martens and Johannes La Poutre founded Twones. “Our goal is letting users find great music and sites and services through relevant people on cool music sites. We work together with the other services, we don’t compete.”

The only thing that Twones is missing is the music. Other than embedded YouTube videos, to actually play a song you have to click through to the original music service where it was streamed from in the first place. Twones is more about trying to capture the musical meta-data of the Web, socializing around music, and organizing it.

The service itself really needs to have the ability to play songs from within the site and create playlists. Until this happens I cant really see the service having a real reason to use it.

Twones Video Demo from Twones on Vimeo.