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Picking the right University program is certainly a tricky issue, but the complication does not stop there. Choosing the most suitable University is also vital, and the sheer number of educational institutions available means that this can be a taxing experience. Fortunately, there are online resources like MyUniversities to guide you all the steps of the way.
In essence, this web-based service stands as database of US College and University programs that can be searched in several ways, in order to find what you need right when you need it.
This way, you can specify not onl...  read more
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The tagline of this new endeavor is “Discover the best of everything” and this is quite an accurate description of what can be achieved through the site. In principle, BestCovery comprises a thorough database of products which are compared and contrasted in order to highlight the best deals around.
As it was to be expected, the site is split into a wealth of different categories such as “Best laptops”, “Best plasma & LCD TVs” and “Best Xbox 360 Games”, and these are augmented by a section that lists the most popular queries so far. In the latter case, the answers that... read more
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Knowmore is an online resource that aims to raise awareness as regards corporate abuse, and empower members of the online community to be able to tell which companies are trustworthy from the ones that are best left alone.
To these effects, the main page includes a search tool that reads “What does your purchase power support?” where you can key in the name of any brand, product or company you want to inform yourself about. In addition to carrying out a search, you can consult a section named “Popular Pages” that showcases these companies that for right or wrong reasons have a... read more
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A startup that is attracting a lot of attention lately, Smule is best-known for his Ocarina app, that turns an iPhone into such an instrument in a very easy and novel manner. This app is thoroughly discussed on the site, and sheet music can be procured under the relevant heading. A score generator is also included for you to conjure and implement random scores.
Although Ocarina stands as the product the general public more readily associates with the company, three other items are available and each merits at least a small mention.
To begin with, a real-time voice shifter tha... read more
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Self-dubbed as “the perfect way to collaborate on a text document and keep everyone literally on the same page”, EtherPad sets out to do something the ever-popular Google Docs has bypassed so far: the edition of text in real-time.
As it is pointed out by the programmers, the premise behind EtherPad was to come up with an infrastructure in which every keystroke is shown onscreen at the same time. Moreover, the idea was to make for instant collaboration – if you think about Google Docs, you will remember how every person had to be a registered user in order to collaborate, not to... read more
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Lymabean is a new social network that has a clearly-defined target audience: college students. Through this social site, these will be able to interact with each other while also being able to connect with different service providers located around campus.
The site actively features all the shareable contents that characterize social networks in general, and it is possible for members to upload pictures and images while entering into online discussions about all that matters to college students. This way, information about upcoming events can be readily shared. Moreover, events can be... read more
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According to the team behind this startup, StickyChicken was created in order to revitalize the online community by giving its members a chance to have a more active lifestyle and meet up with new people face-to-face.
As a result, StickyChicken stands as an online resource that will let anybody organize and join local pick-up games. The site makes it very easy to discover games that are going to be held as well as arranging one from scratch yourself.
The main page includes a search tool that will let you specify the name of the game you are interested in playing as well as ... read more
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Kontagent can be best described as a viral analytics platform that is geared towards social network application developers. The company itself is headquartered in San Francisco, and it has been founded by serial entrepreneurs Albert Lai and Jeffrey Tseng.
Currently, this platform works with the existing Facebook API, and support for OpenSocial and MySpace is underway. Kontagent is implemented by providing a wrapper for the Facebook client library that extracts the pertinent information, and this is processed by the platform’s analytics system.
The aspects that Kontagent c... read more
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Nature calls when least expected, and it is always handy to have a resource like this one at hand. Generally speaking, this online service will let you know about restrooms in your close vicinity by displaying such information either on your web browser or your mobile device.
SitOrSquat does much more than telling you about available toilets, though. It actually offers a succinct review of each and every location that makes up the online database. This way, you will be able to figure out what to expect. No alarms and no surprises indeed.
This service has the added advantage o... read more
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Snapily is a young startup that will give you the chance to bring to life your business and greeting cards, and the same goes for items like notebooks and scrapbooks. The provided system makes for taking pictures and images and applying a host of effects to them such as morphing and mixing. Moreover, you can easily cull images from your preferred videos and apply them to the media in question.
The process for crating such a print is very intuitive, and the site will let you chose the design that you feel will match your intended creation from several ones. These have names such as “... read more
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Self-defined as “the next--generation program that makes working with bookmarks safer, faster and easier”, Tidy Favorites is a news service that aims to let you store and access your collection of bookmarks in a new light.
This new system is based upon an interface which displays a gallery of thumbnail images of the sites you have bookmarked. This list that can be visualized using any web browser, and it can be customized at will, too – you can drag and drop links with great ease, and also resize the bookmark thumbnails themselves. Moreover, the search process is made suppler by... read more
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A search engine that serves a specific purpose, What A Lovely Name is there to ensure that new fathers or those who are expecting will be able to settle on the right name with a minimum of a fuss.
The search process itself can be focused on three different aspects. To begin with, you can take into account different nationalities and ethnicities by clicking on any of the “Tradition” tags that are featured. In second place, you can choose any of the existing “Dispositions” keywords in order to streamline results. In this case, you can have your pick from adjectives such as “F... read more
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