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Midnight Beep Softworks has launched Midnight Inbox, a downloadable tool that is bound to simplify our lives as we know it. Midnight Inbox is an organizational tool, used to keep users’ email, calendar, lists, notes, files, and to-do lists accessible and in order. This tool is intuitively organized to help users work more effectively by organizing their data, and alleviating the headache of checking numerous sources to ensure all information and obligations are in one central location, at the right time. The look of Midnight Inbox encourages users to maintain their “zen,” thus taking ...  read more
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Bay Area based Kaazing offers n enterprise real time web platform, allowing companies to build scalable web 2.0 technology for online gaming, sports, and news broadcasting. For users this would mean they wouldn’t have to download desktop solutions for getting real time information about stock prices, betting information, and news. Kaazing offers companies a solution that is on all the time-24/7. It provides them with a two way messaging, without the need for extensive software or mainframe terminals. Kaazing uses its virtual machine to turn Java into Ajax in real time. The company’s ... read more
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TopTweet is a Twitter application that lets members stay updated on the top Twitter users. Those users’ profiles are frequently updated with posts and information that active Twitters and newbies both will find interesting. Two links on the TopTweet page link Twitter members directly to the site: one to the Twitter homepage, and the other to the Twitter users who are followed. Because all Twitter members are logged in, they are instantly connected to the network, hence allowing them to update their own status and information. With this app, Twitter users are instantaneously in touch with... read more
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How often do you run multiple applications out of one web browser, and inevitably, one page causes the whole browser- and all your work- to crash and close? Fluid has a solution. The program is available for Mac OS X computers, and it creates a site specific browser for all your favorite web applications. In other words, users click on a facebook or youtube icon (on the desktop, in the launch section, or in finder) and the application opens in a unique page. All links that are opened outside of the designated site specific browser will be opened in the system default browser (which means y... read more
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Can’t get enough Open Source? Look no further than BitNami. The site’s application stacks are ready-made, and easy to run: they include the app and everything you’ll need to operate it (Ruby, Apache, MySQL, etc). Execution and configuration is simplified for you, meaning all you have to do is download the stack and follow the installation wizard. Even the most non-technical person can use it. Current Bitnami stacks include apps for blogging, bug tracking, CMS and wikis: DokuWiki, Joomla, Drupal, Knowledge Tree, Liferay, Mantis, Opina, Redmine, Wordpress and Mediawiki. More are on t... read more
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.rar? More like .wtf? It happens to the best of us. You’ve downloaded a file only to realize (along with your computer) that you haven’t the slightest idea what to do with it or what application will open it. File Extensions tries to help you demystify that weird file extension by providing a searchable database of file extensions, what programs they are associated with, and how to use them. You can search for file extensions alphabetically, by symbol (if the three-character extension name includes one), or by number. Alternately, you can search by file type if you have some idea of what s... read more
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If you’re a website designer and use Google Maps’ API on a regular basis, you’re aware of its limitations in terms of creating custom markers. Shadowmaker is an easy tool which lets you create a believable-looking shadow behind your maker image to be displayed on your map. To use Shadowmaker, simply upload your image and click “make shadow”. Shadowmaker will then do the following in order to produce a shadow image: create a grayscale image of the original, scale the image by half of its original height, and rotate it 45 degrees, blur the edges of the shadow image, and then superimpos... read more
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The holidays are coming up, and you know what that means. Time to bust out the pen and paper and doctor up your wish list. Well, sort of. These days the old-fashioned hard copy wish list is being rendered obsolete with the advent of web apps like Wantz.it. Wantz.it is a simple tool that allows you to create a wishlist from your del.icio.us bookmarks, assuming you have an account. To use the application, sign up for Wantz.it and head to your del.icio.us account, where you can add items to your account as you normally would. When you stumble across something you “want”, click “dowant”, a... read more
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No time to read the day’s news on your homepage before hopping in the car and rushing off to work? Check out what Pimp My News, a new text-to-speech service which converts your favorite news and blog sites into audio. When you create a free account with Pimp My News, you’ll be able to specify which news sites and/or blogs you wish to have PMN convert to mp3 files. You’ll then be able to listen to these files on your iPod, computer, iPhone, and other mp3 playing devices. To find blogs and news items to subscribe to, you can search the PMN site by category, tag or by Google keyword search.... read more
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If you live in the UK, and have noticed a problem with your street lately (for example, a dead streetlight or a pothole, you can now use Fix My Street to report the issue instead of going to your local town council to file the complaint in person. To use Fix My Street, simply enter in your UK post code, or street name and area. You’ll then be given a map, where you can specify where exactly the problem is on the street. Once you’ve done this, all you need to do is enter in the details of the problem (for example, “grafitti on wall directly across from gas station). You also have the opti... read more
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It’s just not completely secure to send private information through email these days, so when composing a message with content for the recipient’s eyes only, it makes sense to check out a service like Lockbin, which lets you send your email privately. Using Lockbin is easy; agree to the terms and conditions and confirm that you can read the security code. Then, you’ll be prompted to compose your message. You can either cut and paste or use the provided email editor. Choose a password that will allow your recipient to unlock your message, which will be encrypted by Lockbin’s algorithm. ... 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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