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We’ve all heard or Bit.ly, TinyURL and the rest. All of them shorten URLs so they can be discreet and fit places (like in the restrictive Twitter posting area). But what about the opposite end of the scale. What about huge URLs? And I mean HUGE.
HugeUrl.com is a website that takes you average sized link and makes it really big. I’m still yet to come up with a good use for it other than to annoy friends and for your own individuality.
I was planning on posting a link here to the Crenk Twitter account or something but when I got the link lengthened at hugeURL.com it was over forty lines long which I though was a bit much to have on the homepage.
Another similar service which I found was http://www.abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com/ who offer the worlds longest e-mail addresses. Apparently they’re so long that some software and online forms won’t accept them and “people have a hard time typing in your e-mail address” – obviously.
So long story short (pun intended) – go to HugeURL.com if you want ridiculously long URLs which are useful for nothing and go to http://www.abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com/ for the worlds longest e-mail address.
Back in the day a simple notch on the bedpost was enough to track how often you got down and dirty. Well now there is a web app called BedPost that lets you track your sex life.
It’s still in its Beta stages but you can sign up for an invitation. Using the online calendar you enter when you had sex, with who, how good it was and how long it lasted. The idea is that after a few months of tracking you can look back and analyse your results such as what days you most commonly got lucky for and at what time of the day it was.
This is a unique app that’s worth a look by the more ‘active’ of our readers. Check it out here at www.bedposted.com .
Ever been on a date, in a meeting, an awkward situation or just bored out of your mind at a party? Well an app called ‘Escape my Date’ can easily get you out of that sticky situation.
Basically, once you have signed up at www.EscapeMyDate.com you’ll be fully equipped to get out of any situation. All you have to do is to send a tweet (which can be done by text or by using a twitter application on you phone) to @escapemydate. The program will then send out your plea for help to a group of your selected friends.
If none of them respond in five minutes for whatever reason (either enjoying seeing you in agony or simply busy) then the program will call you itself so you can fake a drastic emergency and flee the scene.
This is a cool app that you’ll eventually be cursing yourself for not having! It’s available here.
Reading the Bible, for those who are interested can be difficult in some regards. The most obvious being that the thing is huge with thousands of years worth of literature crammed in one binding, not exactly making it a pocket-sized reader.
iBible is a web app which makes reading and referencing the Bible easy.
Basically, because it’s all so simple and plain; consisting mostly of buttons for each chapter and the rest being text, loading it on any device connected to the internet is quick and easy. This makes it suitable for PC users as well as when you’re on the go such as on a mobile phone using GPRS Internet, a PSP or iPhone.
It’s available in several languages including English, French, German and Polish. The home screen is where you select you language and the screens after this whittle your choice down from Testament, to books, to chapters such as the one I read; Genesis 6.
Ever been on a buddy’s computer, at work or just in a very low-tech situation? Yet you still want to chat with your friends on your IM service of choice, or perhaps even chat with friends across all the popular IM services at the same time!? Well Meebo is a cool app that I found that will let you do just that.
It’s entirely web-based so it requires no download. All you have to do is go to the homepage and sign in. It will then detect your current friends on what ever service you decide to use and you can start chatting to them using the messaging window (which is basic but what do you expect?).
It supports several IM services such as MSN, GTalk, AIM and Yahoo IM. And it’s not only for instant messaging. Meebo also carries some of the popular social networking sites such as FaceBook and MySpace.
When you’re actually using it everything is simple and easy to use. It’s no problem at all to get to grips with – which is handy seeing as you’ll likely only use it a few times as a back-up. To summarise, a great web app that will come in handy for the power user but I fear a little outdated for most situations given the amount of mobile tech we have.
There are probably a dozen other web apps like it, but none as cool as Ingboo, and none that do their job half as well. Keeping things in the one place isn’t that hard of a task. Just set up some RSS feeds, subscribe to a few sites, create a twitter profile and only use YouTube. Wait, that’s not really keeping things in the one place. That’s keeping things in several places with you hoping it all balances out, right?
Ingboo is a cool new web app that takes all of the feeds you have, your accounts such as your twitter and your online interests such as finding a job, low prices on products or simply flagging keywords for you and puts then all in one place. It’s incredibly simple to use also.
When you first go to the homepage, you’ll see all the services. They’re under tabs such as News, Jobs, Entertainment, Sport and Popular.
Let’s say you click on the YouTube button. You’ll be greeted by the screen seen below. All you have to do is fill out the form and all of the related YouTube videos will be keeps on file for you. Simple. It’s the same process for tweets, jobs, news, entertainment, sport, business, blogs and just about any other website form you can think of!
If you like the online realms to the point where you have things flying at your from all angles, then Ingboo is something you should be seriously considering as your new best friend.
It’s the night before that big trip to visit relatives, an important meeting abroad or just before you go on holiday. You’re all packed, the taxi is ordered for early the next morning and you’re determined that you will not be late for the airport. All the while you wonder ‘Will the plane be late?’
Most likely. How late? Well nobody really knows. I’m pretty sure that pilots have a conspiracy going to make us all late. They have 500mph on the throttle yet your cruising speed always seems to be 340mph. FlightCaster.com is a new start-up site that aims to predict how late your flight will be; if at all.
There have been services like this before but the difference with FlightCaster is that they don’t just rely on what the airlines say. They take into account numerous other factors such as the weather reports and the average on time rate of that airline and the particular route. Its also dead easy to use. All they need is a piece of flight info such as a flight number and it’ll tell you all you want (or don’t want) to know.
This is a cool little web app that will come in handy. Or it could just make you more depressed as you use an internet terminal at the airport. All the same, I really hope that they release an app for mobile phones for the business people who travel every week. This one deserves to succeed.
Silicon Alley Insider has reporting that Mint.com has raised another $14 million in Series C funding.
DAG Ventures led the round; Founder’s Fund and existing investors Benchmark Capital, Shasta Ventures, First Round Capital, and Sherpalo also participated.
Mint founder and CEO Aaron Patzer declined to disclose Mint’s valuation, but says, “it is a decidedly up round.”
He adds: Mint.com is the leading online personal finance tool, now with 1.4m registered users. Mint is tracking over $175 billion in transactions, $47 billion in assets and has identified $300 million in potential savings for its users. Revenues are undisclosed, but are up 8x year over year.
Now that we have a sampling of about 2% of online US households, we’ve also been seeing some interesting economic trends. This data, particularly at the merchant level, has attracted considerable press interest as of late.
Other sites such as Venturebeat, Paidcontent and Techcrunch also reported the news. However, since Mint is already in Series C funding will they ever be in any other market apart from the USA? Currently here in the UK we have a few Mint competitors, but no one has really grabbed the marketshare.
Creating a podcast can seem like a fun idea at first. But then many amateur podcasters get put off when they discover all the feeds, tech know-how and fees that are involved. Uploading to iTunes requires a credit card and trying to host it all yourself can be like redesigning the space shuttle.
Podcast generator is different from your average podcast service. It’s this cool piece of software that is 100% free and really easy to use. First for all you download it from their website. Then, you can use it to upload almost any media file whatsoever such as mp3, WMA or Mp4.
You can add a title, description and tags so people can find it. As your episodes build up you’ll be able to see them in a
nice list format ready to be edited or deleted. You can also use the feed link to add the podcast to many download services like Feed Burner or Yahoo!.
One bad thing that I will say is that it’s all very basic. Your page is not very eye pleasing and promoting the podcast is difficult. None the less it’s a free podcast creator and is well worth a look if anyone is thinking of making their own podcast.
I’m starting to see a pattern here, readers. Every single day I find myself typing one post about having been tweeting from another Twitter App or a new Twitter service of some sort – if it keeps going at this rate, I’ll go insane and start making fifteen posts per day about Twitter. But I can understand why – Twitter rules. Blogs were so 2007.
This time it’s the turn of TuneIn to really jump on the Twitter bandwagon. The have just secured a massive investment of no less than half a million dollars from True Ventures to build upon their existing site which was launched just a few short weeks ago.
At this current point in time they offer the basic tweeting service but that is where the similarities end, full stop. They describe themselves as a highly visual media dashboard that will transform your Twitter experience. They organize other tweets from your network of followers and those you’re following into categories of the most active/popular amongst the users. It will also let you keep an eye on media and sites that are linked to your network.
According to TuneIn, this is but the tip of the iceberg. As a result of getting such a massive amount of money from True Ventures, there is certainly a lot more heading our way said Adam Hertz, the founder of InTune.
Bookmash is a program that allows you to view, download and store films, mp3s and pictures from some of the web’s favourite sources. This program is similar to others reviewed here on Crenk such as Vuze only it supports song and pictures as well.
The program allows you to browse pictures on Flickr, videos on YouTube and a host of other websites such as Metacafe and Last fm. You can then choose to download these songs onto your computer using the easy interface and controls.
It beats using outdated programs whereby entering every specific URL and details were required. Now, Bookmash does all the work for you.
It can also be synced with your existing preferences such as Downloading RSS feeds like podcasts or news and can be linked in with Digg, the popular bookmarking tool.
Upon getting the program myself for the purpose of this review, I was downloading videos and pictures that were all optimised in the search results to meet my demands, unlike other similar programs that just throw dozens of results at you 1% related to your search-phrase
However, there are some draw backs. At first, there is a learning curve that one needs to overcome. This is mainly due to the amount of options you have which is a blessing in disguise.
Version 0.21 added a welcome page which is handy for getting the ball rolling, but more intriguingly it introduced Bookmash to the world stage by giving the user the ability to choose from 13 different international languages.
All in all a good piece of kit that allows you to have everything in the one place. Not essential but useful for those who enjoy organisation to the extreme.
There are so many video sharing websites in the market these days, YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo, Metacafe etc. All of these sites are great for showcasing your content, but they take so much effort to maintain. Additionally to upload your videos manually to all of these sites is very time consuming and quite a boring task.
TubeMogul help a user upload to all these sites at once and then also keep track of their stats via a very detailed analytics package.
Features of TubeMogul
1. Stunning Charts – easily create charts that track videos and/or video publishers.
2. Powerful Analysis Tools – create custom groups of videos, video publishers and online video sites, and receive analytics by group.
3. Universal Upload – Upload your videos to all major video sharing sites in one shot!
4. Aggregated Analytics – track online video analytics across online video sites including Google Video, MetaCafe, MySpace, Yahoo!, Revver, YouTube and more!
5. Communication Tools – email charts to the recipients of your choosing.
6. Data Export – exports charts and other data to Excel.
7. Ease of Use – intuitive user interface and easy to understand charts.
8. Advanced Features – Powerful analytics tools only accessible to paying users of Premium Products
We’ve all heard or Bit.ly, TinyURL and the rest. All of them shorten URLs so they can be discreet and fit places (like in the restrictive Twitter posting area). But what about the opposite end of the scale. What about huge URLs? And I mean HUGE.
