Online ordering is a wonderful thing. Nearly every e-commerce site has nearly perfected the ability to let you order something one day, and magically receive it almost the next day. Slice is a free, simple, secure service that organizes everything you've bought online from large merchants such as Amazon, eBay, and Apple, to daily deal sites such as Groupon & LivingSocial. You do the shopping, and they will take care of the rest - from tracking packages, to giving you all the info you need to facilitate a return. With access to your email inbox, webapp Slice automatically analyzes emails containing
Read MoreStylate was launched as a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) on September 28 by William Simmons which says “hackers are good at everything except naming their projects”, the new company aims to reduce the stress associated with choosing names that startup companies go through by selling logo and domain name combinations. Simmons says We are attempting to become part of the startup ecosystem by creating a second market for brandable .COM domain names. Essentially, by coupling logos and brandable .COM’s together, we believe that we can offer a low priced alternative to the current domain aftermarket. If you’re at the inception stage of a
Read MoreSirkel is a simple, location-driven app for random chatting. The keys to the service are location, realtime, and identity. Sirkel is a geolocation based chat application that won VMware's Flings Contest among all interns in the Americas. It was built in 3 weeks using Rails, Cloud Foundry & Pushr App. Sirkel is built on VMWare's Cloud Foundry Service, powered by Pusher, with the help of the Google Maps v3 API. Use Sirkel in an HTML5 ready browser such as Chrome. How to chat using Sirkel Log in with your Facebook account, the app asks you for your location. See new people pop up
Read MoreIn case you didn’t notice, you are living two separate lives. You’ve created an alternative, digital persona- a persona that can be judged as a Facebook profile or a Tweet or in LinkedIn. Tru.ly,founded by Ashish Datta and David Gordon a Boston-based startup presents launched an officially verified identification platform for digital personas. Translation: It’s your official ID for the Internet era. Tru.ly's new age verification API authenticates the age of an online user based on government issued data and is the first available solution to the problem of Internet age-gating. Sites with age-restricted information can now guarantee the authenticity of
Read MoreGreat web apps already allow us to share documents freely, easily, painlessly on the Web. Why isn't it the same for web conferencing? There are still a number of pain points with existing web conferencing platforms, including having to install software, complicated pricing plans, poor usability, and cluttered interfaces. LiveMinutes is hoping to disrupt this space with its free, simple document-based web conferencing service. That's what LiveMinutes is going to change, in HTML5. LiveMinutes adds LIVE to document sharing and deliver a free, no sign up, simple, and productive service. What's the catch? There's none really. Later they will introduce
Read MoreMany services and web apps require you to sign up with a valid email address, and they usually check that by sending a verification email to your specified address, which, in turn, might contain a link that you need to visit for the sign up process to complete. While this seems authentic on the service’s part, most users feel uncomfortable in doing so because of the resultant plethora of spam and promotional emails that bombard your inbox. If you don't want to give out your real email address to register for a site and don't want to go through the
Read MoreLooking to develop web app through one of the more popular programming languages on the web, RubyMonk can teach you to code in the Ruby language. It features interactive lessons and exercises that you can learn right from your web browser. RubyMonk combines the advantages of learning from a book, pairing with a mentor and actual hands-on coding and delivers it on a fun interactive platform for amateurs and enthusiasts who are discovering the Ruby language. RubyMonk is an ongoing endeavour from the guys at C42 Engineering who have found that picking up the Ruby language and its best practices can
Read MoreCaptchas are an easy way to prevent automated bots from diminishing the quality of a website, which is why you’ve probably spent a good amount of time squinting at their bent, fuzzy text. Current computer programs have a hard time reading them, and it turns out that so do humans. On average it takes us about 12 seconds to solve one. They’re one of the only online spaces where consumers involuntarily apply any focus. Solve Media's proprietary TYPE-IN™ is branded CAPTCHA (human authentication), which places relevant brand messages where users are already engaged. TYPE-IN™ ads provide value for Advertisers, Publishers and
Read MoreNeed a secure password enter WolframAlpha the mathematical search engine, can generate a customizable secure password for you on the fly. Do a search of “password of 8 letters” or “secure password” and a password will be created with a phonetic form that will make it easier to remember. It allow you to customize the output you can include or restrict letter case, numbers, special characters, etc. In addition to that it gives you properties of the password, such as password entropy and more. It also calculates the time it would take for a computer to crack the generated password.
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