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It’s November 1986 and you’re at a sports bar. The Red Sox are about to clinch the World Series against the Mets. No problem, you’ve got time to run to the bathroom, right? Wrong, it’s the Sox, the athletic manifestation of Murphy’s Law. But let’s say you momentarily forgot this and headed to the bathroom quickly. You come back, the Mets have won the game, and you have missed one of the most memorable moments in sports history. Fortunately these days, we have cell phones and the internet to keep us on top of things to avoid situations like this. A site called RUWT? (AreYouWatchingT...  read more
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Buzzwire is a new service which brings streaming internet content (audio, video, and radio) to your mobile phone. Using Buzzwire’s content library of streaming media, you can personalize your own program lineup much as you would customize your own channel on on-demand television. You can also aggregate your own content and have it streamed to your phone as well, and all content is sharable with your friends (for whom you specify contact information in your Buzzwire account), and can be rated as well. To find content, you can search by keyword, or filter content by type, and results can be so... read more
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Do you know the abbreviations for airport codes better than you know the names of your family members? Do you have the pre-flight safety announcement memorized and recite to yourself along with the attendants? Does your heart not even skip a beat when landing in a thunderstorm? If this sounds like you, chances are you’re a serial air traveler, and have flown more times than you can even remember. A new site called Flight Memory helps you to remember where you’ve flown, and helps you to create a flight map showing air trajectories between international cities, distances, flight times, and a... read more
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CoverItLive is a software for live blogging which aims to take your blog to a whole new level. It’s ideal for political, sports, and news blogs, for which speed and presence count for everything. CoverItLive, offers truly instant publishing, with live pictures, video and audio, real-time reader interaction, instant replays, and 100% compatibility with all major web publishing software. With CoverItLive your live blog is displayed within your regular blog so readers won’t have to register or sign in to something new. The viewer window can be inserted as a hyperlink into any webpage. Yo... read more
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Cataplt is a marketing solution app service that lets you take charge of your email address book to help get the word out about your product or service. Unlike sending out mass emails directly via your email client, Cataplt lets you send emails to up to 5,000 recipients (although, at a flat fee of $10). To use Cataplt, you’ll need to sign up for an account and pay up. From there, you can upload your contacts from your email client, compose your message, and then send it out to your list. After two days, Cataplt will send you a report of how effective your email was, detailing the number of e... read more
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SeeToo is just like sitting around the TV watching your favorite videos with your friends, except for, you’re doing it in real time, not in real life. SeeToo lets you view videos from your computer (no need to upload) and share them with your friends online, so you can all watch the clip together. To use SeeToo, first select a video file from your hard drive. Then, SeeToo helps you send an automatic invite to your friends on Skype, AIM, Google Talk, etc so they can view it with you. Alternately, SeeToo lets you send emails with a link to the video in them to your buddies. When your friends r... read more
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How often do you find yourself saying, “Man, I owe you a beer”? Probably pretty often, right? If this sounds like you, you may want to enlist the help of Foamee, a Twitter-based “IOU” beer tracking service. That sounds way more complicated than it is; in fact, Foamee is a breeze to use. If you’re already a Twitter user, you can track Foamee via their username, “ioubeer”. When you owe someone a beer, send a message to Foamee in the format “@ioubeer @twitterscreenname “reason beer is owed”. Your IOU will then show up on the Foamee homepage for all to see. You can check who ow... read more
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In the last few months, there's been an overwhelming amount of awesome web based applications being developed. With technologies like Ruby on Rails, AJAX, XML powered Flash… etc, companies and developers alike are churning out awesome web applications every week. Thus, a showcase was needed. There's one or two other web application review sites, but few, if any provide commentary on the applications. WikkidApps team members experiment and try out every web application and then write their application from personal experience. It's a killer idea and receives many submissions every week.... read more
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Unless you’ve been sitting under a rock for the last year, you’ve heard of the Lolcatz phenomenon which has wreaked havoc upon our productivity in the office as much as it has sparked a revolution in internet hilarity. If you’re a fan of sites like I Can Has Cheezburger? which feature images of Lolcatz in conjunction with the requisite grammatically bizarre captions, you’ll probably love the Lolinator, a tool which converts the text of any web page into Lolcatz lingo. What does this mean? It means when you plug a URL into the Lolinator (clearly, you’ll want to use the most stoic, ser... read more
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If you’re the type of person that likes to accomplish tasks ahead of time so you don’t have to revisit them later, a new web app called WhenGuard may be of use to you. This simple app lets you enter in a link to your content which will only be displayed to your distribution list at a certain future time which you specify. For example, say you want to create an invitation to your birthday party today, but you don’t want the information to be made available to your guests for two weeks from the day you create the invite in case you need to make any time/location changes. You would enter in... read more
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Moblastic is an interactive mobile app that lets you swap pictures of your fine self with other people. To use Moblastic, start by snapping a photo of you (get your good side, this is a tool for remote flirting). Make sure you’ve registered for an account, and then you can start swapping your photo. On the Moblastic site you’ll find a picture of a random user, which you can choose to bypass in order to see the next photo, or you can opt to check out their profile for more info. Your photo and the photos of other users will show up on the Moblastic website, where you will have access to mem... read more
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Remember when you’d look at those pull-down maps on grade school and wonder why Antarctica looked bigger than other continent? CountrySize is a simple web application that clears up any remaining doubts you might have about the sizes of the world’s countries. Using data pulled from the C.I.A.’s global factbook, CountrySize compares the size of two countries which you select from side-by-side menus (ideally, one of these countries is one whose relative size means something to you). CountrySize then displays maps of both countries, showing relative sizes, and also giving concrete data (for... read more
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