10 [More] Killer Dropbox Tips and Tricks

July 2nd, 2010
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We recently rounded up 15 Awesome Dropbox Tips and Tricks, which was accompanied by a giveaway. Entries required a comment with your favorite Dropbox tip, trick or hack you use. From that massive collection of entries we bring you 10 [more] killer Dropbox tips and tricks to make the most… read more

Crazy Simple Client Tracking with Clientr

June 30th, 2010
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Just as the title says, Clientr is a super simple app for tracking clients and your deals (projects) with them. In addition to that, Clientr is rocking a very sexy Mac-like interface that I love seeing in web apps. Read on to see what we think of the app and… read more

Quick Look: WORKetc

June 30th, 2010
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Quick Look posts are paid submissions offering only a brief overview of an app. Vote in the polls below if you think this app is worth an in-depth AppStorm review!

In this Quick Look, we’re highlighting WORKetc. Here’s the developers description.

Why struggle with using multiple web applications when you can get… read more

Paprika: Minimalist Task Management

June 29th, 2010
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Developed by Paste Interactive, Paprika is a different kind of project and task management app. Though we’ve reviewed many different task management apps, it’s always a pleasure to review one with a different approach on managing tasks and projects.

Paprika simplifies the process of note, task and project management by making… read more

10 Great Online Support and Help Desk Apps

June 28th, 2010
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Providing great customer service can make all the difference in creating a brand that people trust. In a recent example of great customer service, online shoe retailer Zappos paid out $1.6m to customers for a mistake they made themselves. The move brought both great PR and an reaffirmed sense of… read more

Elegant Feed Management with Feedingo

June 25th, 2010
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Everyone has their favorite blogs but it often can turn into an irritating task to have to manually check each one for new content. Most blog owners tend to equip their blogs with RSS feeds to collate their latest posts for increased accessibility of their content and it’s easy to… read more

10 Amazing Apps Used by the Envato Team

June 24th, 2010
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If you’re familiar with the Envato network of sites, ranging from the Tuts+ network to the variety of marketplaces and even our own AppStorm network, you’ll know that Envato’s staff is a collection of people that live not only on the internet but by the internet.

Apps making the most of… read more

50 Fabulous Twitter Backgrounds

June 23rd, 2010
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Now that everybody and their cat is on Twitter, it is time to stand out in the crowd. Make a statement not only with your tweets but also with a background that says who you are.

It is a proven fact that people with profile pics and custom backgrounds tend to… read more

Simple Online Collaboration with Stixy

June 22nd, 2010
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With the advent of social networks, there is a huge surge in file sharing. However, file sharing is asynchronous and is in its infancy at the top social networks. Sometimes it’s necessary to have an online space to share common photos, notes, reminders and the like.

Stixy enables us to create… read more

Efficient Task Management with Doit.im

June 21st, 2010
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Task management is critical to enhance productivity. Arranging tasks in a sequence and scheduling them is the key to efficient time management. Doit.im promises to make your life efficient by managing your time and tasks. Can you depend entirely on Doit.im to manage your tasks with its ability to delegate… read more

OnLive: Next Generation Gaming

June 18th, 2010
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Among the many E3 announcements was OnLive’s debut, officially launching yesterday, June 17th. If you haven’t heard of OnLive, be sure to checkout our brief look at it and their pre-registration.

I was fortunate enough to be invited to OnLive’s Founding Members Beta, helping stress test their system prior to launch…. read more

$100 Dropbox Credit Winner

June 18th, 2010
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The Dropbox team has generously offered one lucky Web.AppStorm reader $100 credit, and we want to sent out a huge thanks to them for their generosity and for supporting the AppStorm community!

Earlier this week we announced the Dropbox giveaway along with 15 Awesome Dropbox Tips and Tricks, which has generated… read more

10 Great New Features in WordPress 3.0

June 17th, 2010
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WordPress is by far the most popular blogging platform available and with over half a million known websites running on the software, it’s no surprise there’s a big news surge when a new version is released.

And yes, you heard it right! WordPress 3.0 has been officially launched today and brings… read more

YouTube Video Editor: The Basics

June 17th, 2010
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Since its initial launch in early 2005, YouTube has really taken over the multimedia aspect of the web. With over 100 million users each month, equating to 1/5 of the world’s internet users, it is clear that YouTube is the place to broadcast your content to an already-established audience.

They’ve recently… read more

15 Amazing Apps for File Storage in the Cloud

June 16th, 2010
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In a new age of online solutions, it didn’t take long for a diverse range of internet entrepreneurs to target one of the most common problems for almost every computer user; hard drive failure. Suddenly, someone had the idea of allowing people to backup their files in the cloud and… read more

Document Embedding and Sharing with Scribd

June 15th, 2010
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We’ve reviewed several apps for online document storage and editing but our options for easy document embedding and publishing has been limited. So, we bring you our review of Scribd, an easy way to publish, socialize and embed your documents.

Read on to see what Scribd can do for you.

Overview

You might… read more

Magical Music Creation with Roc from Aviary

June 15th, 2010
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Music mixing and editing apps for the desktop cost dearly and is a huge stumbling block for those who are testing the waters & to those bootstrapped garage bands. Thanks to Aviary’s music creator, Roc, now anyone can create music and beats completely from scratch and right from within their… read more

15 Awesome Dropbox Tips and Tricks with $100 Credit Giveaway

June 14th, 2010
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Not long ago we ran a giveaway including four very popular web apps with the entry requirement of letting us know what apps you would like to see in future giveaways. Of the many apps requested, Dropbox was, by far, the most requested. When inquiring about people’s favorite internet integrated… read more

IdeaScale Empowers Communities to Drive Innovation

June 14th, 2010
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IdeaScale is a place where a user submits an idea, others vote on the ideas submitted by others and the best idea gets bubbled up. In this way you can ensure that you are in close relationship with your customers. IdeaScale is used by all types of organizations ranging… read more

Fight It Out At Tanki Online

June 12th, 2010
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Thanks to Adobe Flash, there is no dearth of online casual gaming apps these days. Right from growing vegetables and feeding fish to washing dishes, there is a game for everyone in the longtail. Multiplayer games with friends and family can be so much fun.

Today we’ll check out how much… read more

Lock and Load Your Guns with GunWallet

June 11th, 2010
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Despite being a controversial subject, guns can protect us when in danger. Being small, portable and extremely profitable in gray market sales, guns are always vulnerable to theft. Then there are those natural disasters that can bring the house down. In such scenarios, we must have the details of the… read more

Robust Management with Skylight

June 11th, 2010
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When you’re running a business, there often comes a point where you realise that it really is hard to keep track of everything yourself and run a successful business at the same time. Of course, you could employ someone to take care of this but, if you lack sufficient funding,… read more

8 Bug Tracking Apps

June 10th, 2010
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Any software project is going to need issue and bug tracking. The bigger the project, the more the developers and the larger the userbase, the more critical it gets to keep tabs on what issues are outstanding, what features are in the pipeline, what schedules you are keeping and what… read more

Sell Online with Ease Using Shoply

June 9th, 2010
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If you’re thinking of starting a new business or simply want to sell your creations, chances are that you’ve considered selling your products online. If you’re not as tech-savvy as some, chances are you’ve hit your first snag. The often long and enduring process of finding a web host and… read more

Create and Collaborate with Creately

June 8th, 2010
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Sometimes the easiest way to explain something to someone is through a picture. However, most diagram drawing apps are either easy to use, but limited in features or full-featured, but have a steep learning curve.

Enter Creately, a full-featured diagram drawing app with a user friendly, intuitive interface. In addition to… read more

40 Fantastic eCommerce and Shopping Cart Themes

June 8th, 2010
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In the Internet Universe, looks are everything. Your website design should be beautiful enough to catch the attention of the visitor. Having a neatly designed website is a must for online store owners, as shoddy design tends to cast aspersions over your business itself.

We have put together a list of… read more

Snackr: A Desktop RSS Ticker

June 7th, 2010
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RSS used to be the preferred method of staying up to date on news and for many it still is. With the advent of Twitter, however, RSS has begun what may be a long and slow death. Though I still check my RSS feeds somewhat regularly, Twitter has primarily replaced… read more

30 Best Free Online Games

June 7th, 2010
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Browser based games have always been there for those who have fallen on hard times. Times when no games are currently installed on their computer. Mac users especially have suffered.

Lest we forget those who have lost their lives searching for games only to starve before they found something worth… read more

Stacks Giveaway Winner

June 4th, 2010
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Stacks, an app for group or team task management, is generously giving one Medium plan, free for a year, to one lucky Web.AppStorm reader. If you’re not sure what Stacks is or how beneficial it can be to your team, be sure to checkout our review, Stacks: For Managing Group… read more

Easy Google Apps Management with Gpanion

June 3rd, 2010
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We all love Google and the dozens of great services & apps it offers. The problem is there are dozens of them and we tend to use a quiet a few as time passes on. The drop down under the more option is ever changing and often won’t list the… read more

Painless Recurring Billing with Chargify

June 2nd, 2010
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Even at the very peak of this Web 2.0 era, it’s not exactly easy to setup a payment gateway. Supporting multiple payment gateways needs extreme coding expertise. Now if you add recurring payments to the mix, we will have a glorious mess in our hands.

Chargify helps novices and large businesses… read more

25 Awesome Google Search Tips and Tricks

June 2nd, 2010
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We all love Google. It’s a great place to search and find things that we do not know about. The beauty of Google is its all powerful algorithm that executes billions of search queries. In addition to showing top notch search results, Google’s algorithm has a few interesting features.

We’ll be… read more

9 Email Marketing and Newsletter Apps

June 1st, 2010
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Email is arguably one of the cheapest, most effective marketing tools at your disposal. Assuming your subscribers have knowingly signed up to your email list, you have at your fingertips a group of customers who have given consent to hear from you at regular intervals about your product. You’ll… read more

Efficient Knowledge Sharing With Co-op

June 1st, 2010
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Emails cannot be anymore boring, and more so in an office environment. Can you just imagine how many emails you’ll have to send and receive before you know what your team mates are up to? Umpteen. To add to this agony, you will have to rinse and repeat this charade… read more

OnLive Pre-Registration Opens With Freebies

May 31st, 2010
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The long awaited OnLive Game Service is just around the corner, scheduled for a June 17th launch, when they’ll begin activating “launch member” accounts. The OnLive Game Service is an on demand service for games, capable of delivering major game titles via home broadband. The best part? You don’t need… read more

Using Facebook’s New Privacy Controls

May 31st, 2010
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If you’re a Facebook user, you’re likely to know about the shady privacy practices the social network giant has developed a strong reputation for. For many the poor handling of people’s privacy has caused many to see alternatives (see our 6 Alternatives to Facebook). Currently, however, no other social network… read more

Stacks Giveaway

May 28th, 2010
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Stacks, an app for group or team task management, is generously giving one Medium plan, free for a year, to one lucky Web.AppStorm reader. If you’re not sure what Stacks is or how beneficial it can be to your team, be sure to checkout our review, Stacks: For Managing Group… read more

Pixza: Pixel Gaming in Real-Time

May 28th, 2010
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Pixza, a new really real-time multiplayer game, will likely appeal to those of you who already push pixels whether for profession or just fun. The game has a very original concept that will certainly appeal to many Facebook gamers.

We’ll take a look at Pixza and how to play this pixel… read more

Measure Your Online Social Influence with Klout

May 27th, 2010
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Ego and the quest for power are part and parcel of being a human being. Your real world influence is extremely is easy to determine – with the ability to jump a queue, get a table in a crowed restaurant, offering people deals they could not refuse and the like…. read more

Stacks: For Managing Group Tasks

May 26th, 2010
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Some of the best apps are ones developed when a real problem needs a real solution, the solution is developed and the developers of the solution later on realize their solution would be very helpful for other people with the same problem. You might think most apps are created this… read more

Quick Look: Sign-Up-Sheet.com

May 26th, 2010
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Quick Look posts are paid submissions offering only a brief overview of an app. Vote in the polls below if you think this app is worth an in-depth AppStorm review!

In this Quick Look, we’re highlighting Sign-Up-Sheet.com. The developer describes Sign-Up-Sheet.com as a simple web based event and attendee management application…. read more

Socially Connected Address Books with Plaxo

May 25th, 2010
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Keeping track of contacts is a tricky task. With the advent of social networks there’s been a significant increase in the number of contacts we have in our address book. And, due to the ability to use multiple mail accounts from a single inbox, there is hardly any segregation between… read more

101 Apps for Your Web App Startup Toolbox

May 25th, 2010
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With the multitude of web applications available today, it can be difficult choosing, let alone finding, an application that fits your needs and wants. There are so many fantastic apps available, many of which are bound to be beneficial for you and/or your business.

From mind mapping, design and development to… read more

Live Documents: Office for the Internet Generation

May 24th, 2010
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Live Documents is the office suite for the internet generation — a set of web-enabled, feature-rich applications for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations that increase personal productivity and facilitate group collaboration.

This review of Live Documents will take a quick look at the app(s) and some of the neat features it… read more

Flash Up Your Website with Wix

May 21st, 2010
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Despite being the technology partially on the way out, Flash is ever so popular. For aspiring website owners & webmasters alike, Flash is a shiny tool that grabs eyeballs. Creating a flash website needs a lot of expertise and not to mention outrageously priced development tools from Adobe. Design budgets… read more

GTD Task Management with Nirvana

May 20th, 2010
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We’ve covered a multitude of task and project management apps, which probably only account for a fraction of what’s available on the web. While we don’t want to bore our readers with a gazillion more to-do and GTD apps, I really felt this one was worth checking out.

Nirvana is an… read more

Social Communication Merry-go-round with 6rounds

May 20th, 2010
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It may be for work, business or education; it is now very common for people to stay away from their home for extended periods of time. If you are one such person, where will you meet and mingle with your friends or family? On an instant messenger platform like Yahoo… read more

The Next Step in Cloud Computing: Chrome Web Store

May 19th, 2010
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As I’ve said before, we’re seeing the lines between web apps and desktop apps quickly blurring and we all know where this is heading. It’s safe to say we can expect to see usable cloud computing solutions actually capable of replacing desktop systems for many people.

Google just kicked it up… read more

Powerful Presentations in the Cloud with 280 Slides

May 19th, 2010
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If you deal with presentations on a regular basis, you’re likely familiar with PowerPoint or maybe even Google’s Presentation web app. There are advantages to both desktop and web-based presentation apps, but one web app that may close the gap even further is 280 Slides.

280 Slides is a free and… read more

The Landing Page Design and Resource Toolkit

May 18th, 2010
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Landing pages are specially designed and optimized pages that companies create to target specific types of visitors. So for example, you might have a landing page for a particular ad campaign, or you might make a landing page that is search engine optimized for a particular keyword. In all cases… read more

Bulletproofing Passwords with LastPass

May 18th, 2010
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Have you ever felt like a sitting duck? Not on a lake or pond, but on the dark annals of the web where thousands of hackers and millions of their bots are trying to steal your identity all the time? Well I did feel like a sitting duck, roast beef,… read more

Google Integrated Task Management with GQueues

May 11th, 2010
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Getting things done is a tough job. But wait. There is a tougher job than that – selecting the right GTD app that can help you complete tasks. GTD apps are mushrooming all over the Internet, most of them with the same feature set with a slight twist. So if… read more

Spice Up Your Presentations with Prezi

May 11th, 2010
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Meetings and presentations tend to be boring most of the time. Often times it’s not the content but the presentation slides that put everyone to sleep. In the corporate jungle, Microsoft PowerPoint happens to be the weapon of choice for pumping the sleeping gas into the conference room. So how… read more

Quick Look: SUBERNOVA

May 10th, 2010
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Quick Look posts are paid submissions offering only a brief overview of an app. Vote in the polls below if you think this app is worth an in-depth AppStorm review!

In this Quick Look, we’re highlighting SUBERNOVA. The developer describes SUBERNOVA as an app that puts control back into your business…. read more

22 Brilliant Tumblr Themes in the Wild

May 10th, 2010
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Tumblr is a pioneer in the field of microblogging – a new format of publishing for those who want to express their thoughts short and sweet. The primary advantage of Tumblr is that it does not threaten new adopters with a complex back end yet offers limitless possibilities to power… read more

Streamd.in: Local Tweets in Google Maps

May 7th, 2010
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There’s a whole’lotta tweets out there but fortunately there are great apps like Streamd.in that make it super easy to find and view tweets from anywhere you might want. You’ll not only be able to easily find localized tweets, you’ll see them streamed onto Google Maps while you use the… read more

SmugMug Pro Plan Winner

May 7th, 2010
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Earlier this week we walked through the process of customizing a SmugMug photo gallery theme, for both easy and advanced editors. As part of the how-to, SmugMug offered to give one lucky reader a free Pro plan, which covers a full year and is valued at $149.95!

Recap and winner announcement… read more

10 Marketing Resources Every App Should Provide

May 6th, 2010
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This is for all you web app developers out there. There are ten resources every app should make easily available to members of the press, including bloggers, via their website. These are resources for people interested in sharing information, reviews or thoughts about your web app — with a few… read more

Blippy: Socializing Your Purchases

May 6th, 2010
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Sharing information among social networks these days has grown from your typical profile to nearly every bit of information an individual desires sharing, sometimes even information an individual doesn’t want shared. We’re increasingly sharing private details of our lives and one service takes a step further into that realm, socializing… read more

Creating Fonts with FontStruct

May 5th, 2010
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Creating fonts can be tricky and time consuming business, especially for those who are only just starting to explore the font designing world. The crew at FontShop was apparently aware of this and decided to do something about it, developing FontStruct.

FontStruct is likely the easiest way to design and share… read more

Tabzon: A Free Co-Worker In-Out Board

May 5th, 2010
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Keeping tabs on your employees or co-workers is no easy task. In most work places, in-out monitoring is done using a whiteboard & marker which has to be updated by hand or a clunky desktop app that does not allow everyone to access the status board. Tabzon is placed comfortably… read more

Go MAD at Make A Dare

May 4th, 2010
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If you’re looking for some entertainment or perhaps to add a little spice to your life, you should definitely visit Make A Dare (MAD). As the name suggests, the site enables visitors to view, dare, vote and compete in the dare hilarity and madness.

How MAD works and what you’ll find… read more

10 HTML5 Games Paving The Way

May 4th, 2010
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HTML5 is still a developing technology and we’re barley beginning to see its capabilities in more advanced uses such as games. Though HTML5 isn’t even in its infancy yet, it’s beginning to emerge and here are 10 HTML5 games paving the way.

Quake II GWT Port

Quake II GWT Port

Unless you were… read more

Custom SmugMug Gallery Theming

May 3rd, 2010
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Of the many photo storage and sharing sites out there, few offer built in theming options and even fewer offer options for users novice to expert. For those looking to do more with their photos, this is an important feature to have available.

SmugMug, one of the best sites for storing,… read more

Simplified Small Business Accounting with FreeAgent

May 3rd, 2010
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Keeping track of accounting is an important task, and taking care of your books regularly can prevent your business from going under. Gone are the days when you have to hire a full time accountant or be at the mercy of a pricey chartered accountant.

With advent of web 2.0, there… read more

12 Templates and Themes with Kickass Javascript Effects

May 3rd, 2010
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Our sister site ThemeForest is jam packed with killer templates and themes, and lately some of them have some pretty spectacular Javascript and jQuery effects. I’ve compiled a dozen of the best and brightest into today’s roundup to show off what your next website could look like!

Creative Zodiac

By _freshface… read more

Web Apps Week In Review

April 30th, 2010
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With as much technology news as there is, most of us are bound to miss lots of great information. While it would be impossible to cover everything that happens in a week, we would like to bring you a roundup of web app news you may have missed this week.

Week… read more

Hit the Bull’s Eye with Hunch

April 29th, 2010
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We find ourselves at crossroads or overwhelmed with choices more often than ever. With the world getting more social by the day, there are plenty of places where we can ask around before making a difficult choice.

There are already services like Yahoo Answers and Vark that help you tap… read more

Google or Yahoo Mapping with BatchGeo

April 29th, 2010
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When you need to map out multiple addresses, it can be a bit of a pain, not to mention time consuming. An easy way to get all your addresses mapped into Google or Yahoo maps, is with BatchGeo. Using a spreadsheet of your location information, BatchGeo will do the rest,… read more

Top 10 Google Chrome Extensions

April 28th, 2010
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Although FireFox is still king of browser add-ons, Google’s Chrome is surely gaining a great selection of extensions to make it an even more powerful and versatile browser. Checkout our top 10 Google Chrome extensions after the jump.

Web Developer

1. Web Developer

For the web developers out there, this one will be… read more

Instant Customer Feedback with KISSinsights

April 28th, 2010
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As we all know, your website’s visitors are its most valuable commodity. As such, it’s incredibly important to constantly get feedback from them so you can improve your site and give your visitors more of what they want. There are many ways to accomplish this but my favorite methods are… read more

The Essential Magento eCommerce Toolkit

April 27th, 2010
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Magento is a PHP based eCommerce platform by open source experts, Varien, and it’s fast becoming the program of choice for savvy developers wanting a flexible solution for their projects. Magento isn’t just limited to seasoned developers though; its ease of use has also made it… read more

Small Business Management Made Easy with WorkingPoint

April 27th, 2010
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If you stumble on the web, there is very good chance you will fall on a streaming music site or an invoicing app. There are simply too many of those sites online; I’ve wondered if they just buy a script and just change the CSS and logo.Contrary to music sites… read more

Google Maps Now With 3D Earth View

April 27th, 2010
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Google Maps was groundbreaking when it was first introduced, and really exemplified the future and capabilities of web apps. As the massively popular app has matured, so has its features and capabilities. Yesterday Google announced and released Earth view within Google Maps, a 3D look at Earth and a growing… read more

Nurph: A Chatroom Anywhere, Instantly

April 26th, 2010
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You visit your favorite website(s) daily and you love their communities, but you feel there’s something missing. Perhaps a live chatroom? Nurph has to be the easiest and fastest way to add a simple chatroom to any website, immediately, then securely sign in with your Twitter credentials. See how simply… read more

Instant Screen Sharing and Collaboration with dimdim

April 26th, 2010
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I can’t begin to tell you the number of times I’ve needed to be able to easily share my screen or see someone else’s, whether it was for collaboration reasons or simply being the IT guy for family. dimdim gives you the ability to quickly and easily share your screen,… read more

Manage, Publish and Embed Videos with VP Factory

April 23rd, 2010
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Wouldn’t it be nice to easily be able to collect and manage your videos and video playlists in a central location? Or easily customize video player skins with a few clicks? Embedding video players and playlists can be a little tricky, especially for those who aren’t familiar with it. VP… read more

Content Changes and Site Updates

April 23rd, 2010
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Based on feedback from our wonderful readers, we’ve decided to slightly change our content formatting and broaden some of the subjects we’ll cover. As already shown, we’ll also begin providing screencasts along-side applicable posts, such as how-tos and reviews, when possible.

More info. on the content changes after the jump.

Content Formatting

We’ll… read more

Earth Day: How Are You Contributing?

April 22nd, 2010
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It’s Earth Day and people everywhere are taking action, no matter how small, to contribute or change the way they consume to reduce their impact on our environment. Thanks to the internet, there are fantastic ideas gushing from all over the globe to help you find one or more ways… read more

AudioBox.fm: Like iTunes in the Cloud

April 21st, 2010
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When we say the world is increasingly moving towards desktop-like applications in the cloud, AudioBox.fm is a perfect example proving just that. Although there are many great music web apps, none of them give you the capabilities and interface AudioBox.fm does.

The AudioBox.fm is consistently making improvements and enhancements, sure to… read more

Easy Time Tracking and Invoicing with FreshBooks

April 20th, 2010
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There’s quite a few invoicing apps out there, many of which do a fantastic job. One of my favorites though, and the one I actually use personally is FreshBooks. It’s arguably the best time tracking and invoicing web app available, certainly making billing far less painful.

Several Freelancers I’ve spoke with… read more

The End of Slideshows with Animoto

April 19th, 2010
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We come across a boat load of images every single day. In this social age, we share images of friends, happy moments, anniversaries, karaokes, pet hamsters, etc. via email or social networking sites. However awesome or how many images there may be, the standard form of consumption is click and… read more

Four App Giveaway Winners

April 16th, 2010
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This week’s giveaway was sponsored by some of the most popular and absolute best web apps around; Formstack, SpiderOak, SmugMug and Remember The Milk. All together we have 10 lucky winners this week! Read on to see who they are.

Thank You!

I’d like to first send out a big Thank You… read more

Become a Social Network Ninja with Brizzly

April 15th, 2010
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It’s another day and we have another ninja app lined up for your attention. Today’s social network ninja app is Brizzly that has been making waves with its acquisition of the Twitter iPhone app Birdfeed and making it available for free. Brizzly lets us manage two of the leading social… read more

Explore Social Network Media with Some Lemonade

April 14th, 2010
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Social networks are such amazing means for sharing thoughts, photos, videos and just about anything else. When everyone is sharing more details of their lives than ever before, it can be incredibly easy to miss great photo and video content of the people you follow.

With Some Lemonade you can explore… read more

16 Apps to Help Fight Email Spam

April 13th, 2010
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Spam tends to be an occupational hazard of using the internet. Everyday we receive tens or may be hundreds of spam mails, making life online unpleasant. All it takes is one rogue website to sell our email address and we will be in every spammer’s database in no time. Using… read more

Become a Social Network Ninja with CoTweet

April 12th, 2010
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Here at Web.Appstorm, we love social networks and we love the web apps that help us manage our networks. Be it for personal or for business use, it is very useful to be on top of your social network. That is why we have this ongoing series to help you… read more

Formstack, SpiderOak, SmugMug and RTM Giveaway

April 9th, 2010
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At Web.AppStorm we review and round up the best web apps from around the internet. This week we’re giving away some great goodies from a few of the most popular web apps we’ve covered. A big Thank You goes out to Formstack, SpiderOak, SmugMug and Remember The Milk for sponsoring… read more

Top 10 Web MMORPG Games

April 8th, 2010
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Ready to take a break from work? Or maybe you would like to play a game with many other people online? We’ve rounded up ten of the best browser-based MMORPG games to bring you some entertainment, even if it’s just for a few minutes during your break at work.

If you’re… read more

15 Apps to Enhance the Tumblr Experience

April 7th, 2010
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Tumblr is fast becoming the micro blogging platform of choice across all sections of Internet users. The Tumblr app in itself is well rounded with a gorgeous user interface and nice set of features. Being the spoiled brats of the internet age we are, the quest for accessing and managing… read more

Topnotch Microblogging with Tumblr

April 6th, 2010
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In a world where even adults have the attention span of a three year old, conventional blogs with thousand word posts will not cut it. Blogs are very effective for professional bloggers and blogging networks like Envato, Techcrunch, etc. However, when it comes to personal weblogs, blogs are going fast… read more

Backup, Sync and Sharing with SpiderOak

April 5th, 2010
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There’s an abundance of data backup and sharing apps, regardless of which platform you use. However, there are only so many that do a great job and run on all the major platforms (OS X, Windows and Linux). If you’re seeking a quality backup and sharing app, you might consider… read more

Ask Your Questions at Aardvark

April 2nd, 2010
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Everyday we find ourselves at cross roads, unable to decide about things. When in doubt we always turn to friends and family to get our queries answered. Now that the world has become so connected by way of social networking, we have access to experts from across the globe.

There are… read more

MidLifing: The Wingman for Your Midlife Crisis

April 1st, 2010
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1-in-4 Adults over the age of 35 go through a midlife crisis, a period of dramatic self-doubt. It can be difficult dealing with a midlife crisis, especially coping with the repercussions.

A new web app and service seeks to help those having a midlife crisis. MidLifing.com offers a variety of tools… read more

Best April Fools Day Web Pranks 2010

April 1st, 2010
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April Fools’ Day is upon us and the web is bustling with pranks and jokes of all sorts, ranging from injuries caused by the sudden acceleration of PCs to Hulu’s secret plan depicted in a 10 minute internal training video. Here’s our roundup of fun and entertaining April Fools’ Day… read more

Top 20 Photo Storage and Sharing Sites

March 31st, 2010
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Looking for the best way to store and share your photos? You’re not alone! There are many fantastic sites for photo sharing and we’ve rounded up the top twenty. One or more of these are bound to meet your needs and much more.

We’ve rounded up the top twenty absolute… read more

Update Social Networks with Ping.fm

March 30th, 2010
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Overwhelmed by social networks? You are not alone. I constantly find myself jumping from one social network to another, often times updating each network with the same information. Realistically though, logging into multiple social networks to update your status or share info. that’s the same is just silly. There has… read more

Become a Social Network Ninja with Seesmic

March 29th, 2010
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In the Twitter ecosystem, Seesmic has carved a niche for itself with its apps deployed across various platforms: desktop, mobile and web. Seesmic’s web app was launched to much fanfare and gets feature upgrades on a regular basis. The web app is boasted as being a tool to manage and… read more

Feed My Inbox Giveaway Winners

March 26th, 2010
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Thanks to everyone who participated in our Feed My Inbox (FMI) giveaway, generously sponsored by the FMI team! Read inside to see if you’ve won.

Not long ago we also reviewed Feed My Inbox, a great way to receive RSS feeds via email. If you haven’t read the review yet, be… read more

Flickr, Picasa and SmugMug Shootout

March 25th, 2010
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Flickr, Picasa or SmugMug—which is best? Which one best suits your needs and your budget? What kind of professional level features do you get with each? These are questions I’ve been asking for awhile and it’s now time to compare three of the most popular photo storage and sharing services… read more