Slice is a new way to organize your online purchases

October 30, 2011 |  by  |  Sites, Video  |  No Comments

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

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Sirkel is geolocation based chat app, talk to strangers you don’t know

October 29, 2011 |  by  |  Sites  |  No Comments

Sirkel 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

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Tru.ly verifies digital identity against government data, now releases free age verification API

October 29, 2011 |  by  |  Sites, Video  |  No Comments

In 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

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LiveMinutes free, simple document-based web conferencing service

October 29, 2011 |  by  |  Sites  |  No Comments

Great 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

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ZipSend transfers large files via email and ZipShare posts them to Facebook

October 27, 2011 |  by  |  Sites, Tips n Tweaks  |  No Comments

Know plethora of ways to share large files, but nothing may be simpler than email—if only there wasn't that pesky typical 25MB limit. WinZip's ZipSend service overcomes that barrier, with up to 2GB per email possible. ZipSend isn't really sending 2GB in the email message; what it does is connect to the new ZipSend file sending service (powered by YouSendIt) from your email client, automatically zips the large files, and inserts a link to the files at the top of the message. The plugin integrates with Outlook, Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, and Hotmail. When you send an email, your email server

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RubyMonk – ruby lessons right in your browser

October 20, 2011 |  by  |  News, Sites  |  No Comments

Looking 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

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Solve Media replaces Captchas with ads that consumers literally can’t ignore.

October 16, 2011 |  by  |  Concepts, Sites, Video  |  No Comments

Captchas 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

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Use WolframAlpha for a secure password generator

October 16, 2011 |  by  |  Sites, Tips n Tweaks  |  No Comments

Need 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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