Easy Intranet Management with Papyrs

The software situation in enterprises is an unholy mess. From the top level management to employees, everyone has to be at the mercy of the feudal lords also known as system admins. Your productivity is dependant on whatever version of software they choose to impose on you. And if the… read more

Manage Passwords Simply with Mitto

Until a central user identification method is adopted universally, chances are you’ve got accounts with lots of different websites. The best practise for security is to also have a different password for each of these services. Both circumstances when coupled together create one hell of a problem when you’re forced… read more

Visual.ly: A Social Network … For Infographics

Everyone loves a good infographic. It is such an easy way to digest statistics instead of having to read endless lists of boring and confusing figures, and it certainly makes the lunch break browse of the ‘Net a lot more interesting. Websites such as Mashable publish plenty of infographics and… read more

Find The Cheapest Flight Quickly with Google Flights

If you do a lot of traveling, you’re no doubt familiar with services like Kayak and Hipmunk that let you quickly and painlessly book flights on the cheap. This past Tuesday, Google threw it’s hat into yet another ring with a relatively quiet launch of Google Flight Search.

Built right into… read more

Share On Social Networks Without Distractions

After taking a break from social networking, I was interested to see a review of the Twitter app Wren in our sister site Mac.AppStorm.net. Wren’s a beautifully designed app for posting on Twitter … and nothing else. You can’t see your Twitter feed, DMs, @replies, or anything else. All… read more

Manage Your Internet Marketing Campaign With Raven Tools

Given the explosive rise in Internet usage over the past few years, businesses are now turning to the virtual world of the Internet to advertise their products and services. Sites such as Twitter and Facebook are now commonplace for advertising as they offer a number of advantages over traditional forms… read more

Quick Look: DeskTime

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In this Quick Look, we’re highlighting DeskTime. The developer describes DeskTime as an app that helps you keep up with how… read more

Aviary’s New APIs Democratizes Photo Editing, Online and On The Go

“The best camera is the one you have with you”, the old adage goes, and with the proliferation of smartphones with high quality cameras, it’s more true today than ever. Even though I only have an aging phone with a 1.3 megapixel camera, it’s still the first thing I’d grab… read more

Create Your Own Question & Answer Site with Answerbase

People sure do ask a lot of questions. When you’re trying to make a large purchase, or find a new tool for your needs, chances are you’ll come up with a ton of questions you want to ask. Since a lot of purchasing of products and services is happening online,… read more

Weekly Poll: Have You Ever Taken a Break from Social Networking?

Have You Ever Taken a Break from Social Networking?

About a month ago, the very first superstore came to my small town of Tak, Thailand. Everyone was excited to have the extra shopping destinations, restaurants, ice cream and donut shops, and even an Apple Store of all incredible things. But… read more

Why iCloud is a Real Winner

Apple is set to debut iCloud sometime over the next couple months, their fourth try at cloud-based services after iTools, .Mac and MobileMe. iCloud will feature some pretty major changes to Apple’s software lineup, mainly centring around the syncing of data between devices and iCloud.com. Although the lineup of iCloud… read more

Keep Your Weight Loss Goals with Skinnyo

Some of my friends love working out. They enjoy going to the gym, or running, or lifting weights. While I enjoy doing activities like playing Racquetball or Baseball, I find in order to go to the gym, I need some motivation- I need something that will help keep me to… read more

Hosted Notes: Like a Sticky Note in the Cloud

Managing all your account credentials can be a cumbersome task if done from memory, and potentially insecure if you use a traditional method like writing them down on paper. And that problem has spawned a niche in the market for a web app that can safely store your login credentials,… read more

Google’s App Killing Spree: Toolbar, Labs, Aaardvark & More

The goal of all Internet startups is so very predictable. Most of them want to be the next Google. And the rest of them want to gain some quick traction, so that they can be acquired by Google. And in turn, Google doesn’t disappoint them either.

As soon as there is… read more

Create Automated Quotes with Socket

As a customer, quotes don’t mean much to us. They are just pieces of paper filled with a list of items and the best prices a business can offer us. However, on the other end of the spectrum, quotes and leads are the bread and butter of almost every business…. read more

Automatically Bookmark Your Favorite Sites in Pinboard

We’ve all done it: you read an interesting article, and plan to share it with your friends or just for your own reference later. The next day, we think of it again, and can’t find where in the world the article was. Was that on AppStorm or Engadget? Or was… read more

Collaborate On Concepts, Anywhere, With ConceptBoard

Sharing feedback is one of the most important aspects of teamwork. It’s what gets (and keeps) everyone on the same page and helps to ensure everyone is working together properly towards a common goal. This is easily achieved in face-to-face meetings… But it’s 2011, so how does one get comprehensive,… read more

Quick Look: GatherContent

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In this Quick Look, we’re highlighting GatherContent. The developer describes GatherContent as an app that makes it easier for web professionals… read more

Podio: A Social And Online Work Network In One

Since the explosion of cloud computing, small businesses are now turning to Internet-based software to help collaborate internet processes and help with the daily grind of tasks, meetings and memos. Internet-based software is much more appealing to businesses as it avoids the needs for expensive software licence fees and complicated… read more

Pancake: The Self-Hosted Invoice Solution

Invoices are used all of the time by various organisation types. From freelancers to large businesses, a lot of people rely on the need to present a total cost for their services in a standard document form. There are quite a few web apps that make this task so much… read more

Weekly Poll: What’s Your Favorite Site for Sharing Videos?

What’s Your Favorite Site for Sharing Videos?

Back in the day, we were doing good to share text on the internet. Early chat and email strained networks, and even sharing a full eBook seemed like an audacious plan back when Project Gutenberg was first founded. Fast forward to today, however,… read more

Is Google’s New, Universal Design a Great Step Forward?

Google’s always had a minimalist design, one of the simplest designs on the web. And for the most visited website in the world, that’s provided a very user-friendly approach making searching somewhat of a breeze. The problem is, Google is no longer about search since, with the arrival of a… read more

Schedule Your Social Life with feedCal

Getting things scheduled isn’t productivity. Getting them all done at the right time is. I do have a scheduling system to keep up with all of my blogging assignments for a couple weeks at a stretch. I rarely get them all done on time, but at least the schedule and… read more

Taking Web Apps Beyond Their Limits: 6 Unique Ways to Put Apps to Use

Have you ever tightened a screw in with a key? Or pried a nail out of wood with pliers? Or, perhaps, made a stand for a book or iPad out of a hanger? Chances are, at some time or another, most of us have improvised when we needed a tool… read more

Quick Look: TabJuice

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 TabJuice. The developer describes TabJuice as a FREE social commerce application that allows businesses to… read more

Reel in Your Audience With Reel Presentations

Of all the files we need to share, it seems that presentations often are the most frustrating. PowerPoint 2007 can open a PowerPoint 2010 presentation, but it’ll lose many of the graphics effects and transitions. Keynote presentations look beautiful, but they can only be opened in Keynote on a Mac… read more

Use Social Media More Effectively with Crowdbooster

Anyone who’s anyone in the social media game these days is familiar with Klout. It’s a service that measures your social media influence across multiple platforms by determining who you engage with and how effectively you engage with them. It’s a great metric for determining who you influence, how much… read more

Simplified Emails with Shortmail

Despite being one of the earliest forms of electronic communication, today email is probably the most disrespected formats. Be it the unscrupulous marketing mailers, mountain of spam or an overloaded inbox, everything works against the underlying platform – email. Even being a free, simple and relatively unintrusive modes of communication… read more

FlowTorch: Free Finance Management With an Envato Marketplace Twist

If there’s one thing that everyone, office workers and freelancers alike, dread, it’s tax time. No one likes parting with their hard earned money, but worst of all, you’ve got to have your finances organized too. That can be worse than writing a check to the government.

It’s not uncommon to… read more

Quick Look: Tjeklist

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In this Quick Look, we’re highlighting Tjeklist. The developer describes APP Tjeklist as an app for all your tasks, to-dos, projects,… read more

12 Ways to Get, Discover, and Read eBooks

I know that the summer, a time in particular where people take time to read, is just about done, but that doesn’t mean you have to stop reading! Heck, when Hurricane Irene hit my neck of the woods and power was out, just about all I could do was read…. read more

Weekly Poll: How Do You Prefer to Format Text?

How Do You Prefer to Format Text?

Formatted text. It’s either the best thing to ever happen to the world of computing, or the worst, depending on who you ask. Plain text is the simplest; you can read it on any computer or app, and it looks the exact same…. read more

Strawberryj.am: Trends Based on Friends

Even before the social media revolution, we have always linked to popular things things we find online, usually the latest trends and things that popular people are using. I like Will Smith and might be willing to check out the gadgets or apps he is using. However, not everyone likes… read more

Action Method: Can Task Management be “Radically Different”?

Oh hey! Look! It’s ANOTHER task/project-management application! Hold on for a second while I minimize the two other task-management apps on my computer, both of which are currently clamoring for my attention. Okay, now I’m…dang it, I gotta turn off my iPad; you don’t want me distracted by the to-do… read more

How Steve Jobs’ Reign has Changed the Web

Steve Jobs is perhaps best known for the groundbreaking, market-leading products he has introduced under his reign as Apple CEO. He and his team created products that have literally revolutionised industries, or even nearly created new markets for tablets and media players, and that’s what the general public recognise his… read more

Quick Look: HotGloo

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In this Quick Look, we’re highlighting HotGloo. The developer describes HotGloo as a web app that has been designed for the… read more

Make Meetings Matter With yaM

For as long as I can remember, technology has really influenced the way we do things, such as the way we communicate, receive news and generally look at the world. This influence has also spread to the world of work. Nowadays, technology has meant that companies can reach out globally,… read more

Bootstrap From Twitter Is A New Web Designer’s Dream

I’ve just finished designing a website, and I used a ton of CSS: everything from laying out my content, to styling elements like the headings. Then, Twitter released Bootstrap, and I’m pretty disappointed I didn’t delay starting to design it.

Say you’re a web designer new to the scene and don’t… read more

Create Winning Resumes with ResumeBaking

Those who have searched for a job will know how tough it is to get the right one, if you can find one at all. You will have to be able to market yourself to the prospective employer, and customizing your skills and appealing to different corporate environments can be… read more

What Web App Developers Can Learn From Steve Jobs

Today, the world is waking to the news that Apple’s dynamic leader, Steve Jobs, is stepping down from his position as CEO of one of the greatest companies in the world. Nearly 15 years after returning to Apple, and 11 years after becoming CEO again, Jobs is leaving Apple as… read more

Manage Your Projects Simply Yet Efficiently With Pivotal Tracker

Anyone who works in a business will know how important collaboration is on a project. It allows you to work more effectively by knowing exactly who is doing what and can save business time and, most importantly, money. In today’s world, which revolves around technology and the Internet, project management… read more

Quick Look: Spendful

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In this Quick Look, we’re highlighting Spendful. The developer describes Spendful as a tool that lets you create budgets easily. It… read more

How Mozilla Can Resurrect Phone Web Apps

Imagine a time when your phone does not need an app store, but rather loads up it’s apps via the web. Instead of installing an app through an app store, you just load up a website through the browser. Web apps have become much more sophisticated in recent years, especially… read more

Ma.rs: Create A Mobile Marketing Platform Without Programming

Mobile phones have, in the last few years, become a sheer necessity in almost everyone’s life. Imagining life without a mobile phone is like imagining a world without air – nothing would function and people would be at a loss on what to do. We use mobile phones for everything,… read more

Weekly Poll: Do You Create Online, or Just Share and Consume Content?

Do you create online, or just share and consume content?

When the iPad came out, many people worried that it would only be used for consuming content, and if people shifted to using tablets as their only computers, the internet would turn into little more than a glorified TV. Turns… read more

OLO: An Experimental Touch-Based HTML5 Game

Up front, I’d like to admit that I’m no coder. My knowledge of HTML is rudimentary at best – simply formatting tags for text often give me a run for my money. But I like to think I can recognize when something really cool is happening in the web development… read more

6 Tools to Create a Google Plus Profile Widget for Your Site

Google+ is in many ways the hottest social network in these days.  It’s reported to have gotten 25 million users faster than any other social network, and has already seen a lot of engagement from popular users. Whether it’s found a place in your social networking life or not, Google+ can definitely… read more

Efficient Customer Support with Tender

The ultimate goal for any business is to make your customers as happy as you possibly can with the product or service you provide. That’s why some of the bigger companies invest large sums of money into customer service and utilise online help desks to provide prompt and thorough… read more

Quick Look: Business Card Designer

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In this Quick Look, we’re highlighting Business Card Designer. The developer describes Business Card Designer as an online tool for creating… read more

What We Can’t Live Without: The Web.AppStorm Team’s Favorite Web Apps

Several weeks ago, I took a short 2-day working vacation, carrying my iPad along to keep up with Web.AppStorm and my other work while I was traveling with my family. Even from the back of a car in the middle of nowhere in Thailand, I could schedule articles in WordPress,… read more

Splarchive: Save Your Documents Forever

I am a very vocal supporter of cloud computing. However, there are few limitations to moving your life and documents entirely to the cloud. First, you get locked into one service provider and their proprietary format. Second, if the service goes bust or you violate their terms (knowingly or otherwise),… read more

The Birdy: Keep Track Of Your Spending Easily Online

Being a student, I know that budgeting prudently and knowing exactly how much you’ve got in my accounts is very important. There’s nothing worse than logging on to your online banking and realising that all those “little transactions” you made a few days ago have put a big dent in… read more

Find Engaging Content with KnowAboutIt

The most awesome thing about social networks is the ability to share stuff with friends and loved ones. And it is really ironical that the same sharing feature is fast becoming the most annoying thing as well. From over enthusiastic peers to professional spammers, people just mindlessly click away the… read more

Quick Look: TODOFeed

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In this Quick Look, we’re highlighting TODOFeed. The developer describes TODOFeed as an app that gives users a social way to… read more

Interview: Meet the LucidChart Team

Laying out diagrams and charts should be easy. But for the most part, it’s not. I had to use Visio for a painful few weeks during a class, and was constantly frustrated by it. I was pleasantly surprised to find how much nicer LucidChart is even though it is a… read more

Up Your Sales Game with Pipedrive

As a freelancer, I do a lot of wheelin’ and dealin’. At any given time I’m managing current projects, writing proposals, trying to close deals, and getting new clients. Depending on how busy I get, this can get very hard to keep up with. While traditional CRMs are great for… read more

Weekly Poll: What’s Your Favorite Social Network?

What’s your favorite social network?

Social Networks. Like them (pun not intended) or hate them, they’ve changed the way we communicate. Email’s the underpinning of online communications, and IRC is perhaps the pinnacle of geeky online communications. Social network is everything in the middle, from the business-trying-to-be-cool network LinkedIn to… read more

Simplicity is a Feature

The past couple decades of computing have seen an explosion in apps on all platforms. VisiCalc might have been the killer app on early PCs, but development didn’t start there. Today, many of the apps we use on a daily basis didn’t even exist several years ago. For that matter,… read more

Win a Tout Subscription From AppSumo and AppStorm

Our contest is now closed, and the winners are Lee, Jeff P, and creatix. Congrats! Thanks for commenting, and stay tuned for more giveaways in the future!

Most of us have to send way more emails than we’d like to. No matter what your job is, you likely feel like your… read more

Wave Accounting – Bookkeeping for the Rest of Us

Accountancy is a very respectable profession. There’s millions of the guys, all diligently working away like beaver to ensure every penny is accounted for. They keep business moving day-to-day, advise the board of directors and help us with our taxes. We love you guys. So all accountants, you can look… read more

Get chatty with IRCCloud

I remember the first time I saw IRC in action: I was about 10 years old and an older cousin, a computer engineer who lived with us, would log on to chat rooms to play Acrophobia, Trivia and MadLib. We were on a US Robotics Sportster 9600 baud modem and… read more

Quick Look: Vogogo

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 Vogogo. The developer describes Vogogo as an easy way to send and receive online payments…. read more

50 Fun and Free Online Games

Games sure are a fun way to cool our heels after a hectic day of work. But for some of us games happen to be more than a pastime and in some cases, passion. Broadband played a pivotal role in not only making games more interactive but also making way… read more

Create Landing Pages With Forms Quicker With Formstack

It’s happened to all of us: you’re standing in the shower, and all the sudden get a great idea for a new site, book, app, or anything else. You hurry getting ready for the day, thinking of everything you’ll need for the project. Then it hits you: you should see… read more

Seamless Studio: Pattern Design For the Rest of Us

Creating a seamless pattern isn’t as easy as it looks. It’s easy to spend hours in Photoshop trying to create texture that will repeat perfectly, only to find that it’s slightly off, but it isn’t easy to get those little imperfections fixed. Instead, you need a tool that will automate… read more

Zerply: A professional network based on skills and passions

With over 120 million members (as of 8/4/2011) and a new-member sign-up rate of two per second, LinkedIn is the undisputed leader of the “professional” social-networking scene. Still, some people have a problem with LinkedIn’s conservative design scheme. They want something that represents the excitement and passion that comes from… read more

Formsly – Awesome Contact Forms

These days, the first interaction a company will have with a customer will most likely be via its website. I know any time I’m about to make an important purchase or consider a new service it’s straight to the Internet I go. It’s quick and easy; no wonder major companies… read more

Quick Look: yaM

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 yaM. The developer describes yaM (yet another meeting) as an app that lets you prepare… read more

Read Your Kindle Books Online With Kindle Cloud Reader

Amazon blazed the trail for eBooks with their Kindle platform, starting with the original Kindle device and the Kindle store. Since then, they’ve broaden their scope, and released native reader apps for almost every platform available: Windows, Mac OS X, iOS, Android, Windows Phone 7, and more. Even still, that… read more

Weekly Poll: Does Your Work Stop When the Internet’s Down?

Does Your Work Stop When the Internet’s Down?

This morning (or last night, depending on where you live), Amazon had severe network issues with their EC2 service, taking a good portion of popular web apps offline. I discovered something was wrong when I tried to upload a screenshot with Cloud… read more

Redefine Scheduling With Meetin.gs

Effortless and meetings are two words that don’t go well together. They are contradict with each other so much, they would make the term “effortless meetings” an oxymoron. Even with the help of enterprise grade calendering and scheduling apps, planning an all hands meeting might be a tiresome process.

A lot… read more

Stay Sane Managing Multiple Accounts of the Same App

Remember waiting to get a Gmail invite, or thinking carefully about what Twitter handle you wanted? These days, it seems like most of us manage too many different accounts to keep track of. I personally have nearly a dozen active email accounts, from my college and work emails to a… read more

Go Viral with Pay With a Tweet

The biggest problem that faces anyone trying to make a name for themselves, their band, book or company is gaining quality exposure. You could have the best idea in the world, but without a great marketing department capable of generating word of mouth discussion, it’s likely to stagnate and die.

What’s… read more

BrowserID: A Revolutionary Way of Signing Into Websites

Websites of all types and sizes require us to create an account and use that login credential to sign into their service everytime. This was all fine and dandy ten years ago when we were using just couple of websites often. But today, a lot of us learn and earn… read more

Interview: Meet the Buffer Team!

Google+ may have gotten all of the publicity this past month, but for most of us, Twitter has continued to be the social network we check most. That’s good news for the Twitter team, which just raised another mammoth amount of funding, but it’s also good for the hundreds of… read more

Turn Your Backyard Into a Garden Like a Pro With SmartGardener

Nothing beats fresh herbs and vegetables in your heart warming soups during fall or colder winter months. And who doesn’t like making a garden fresh salad during the blistering summer? No matter what time of the year it is, a little sunshine and time away from your screen can always… read more

Quick Look: SiteLog

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 SiteLog. The developer describes SiteLog as a simple and easy way to monitor your website’s… read more

Create Awesome Online Portfolios With Pixpa

As a photographer or a creative professional, it should be easy to shoot or design your best work, day in and day out. That isn’t the problem. Showcasing your work is. If you are planning to sell your work online, that adds another layer of complexity to the process. To… read more

Weekly Poll: Do You Sync Your Files Online?

Do you sync your files online?

When Dropbox was founded in 2007, many people assumed it would be a flop along with the dozens of other file sync and sharing apps that had cropped up since the internet bubble of the ’90′s. Today, however, more people than ever rely on… read more

Adobe Unveils Their Edge

The Web is an ever-changing place. What’s hip this week is forgotten by the next. The half life of an Internet meme feels like it’s less than five minutes. But we love the Web because of that, don’t we? It’s not just the content of the Web that ebbs and… read more

Win a Blinksale Unlimited Subscription!

Whether you’re a freelance designer or a developer running a new startup, there’s one thing that’s always frustrating: billing. Sending out invoices and making sure their paid on time can be one of the more irritating tasks, especially when you’d rather be designing or coding an awesome new web app.

Blinksale… read more

First Look at the New iCloud Web Apps

Apple just recently opened the floodgates to their new iCloud web apps, and in short, they’re easily some of the most impressive web apps online today. There was initially some speculation as to whether Apple was going to continue the tradition of MobileMe’s web apps and let you use iCloud… read more

Measure Customer Satisfaction With Customer Thermometer

When you’re doing business without completing much customer research beforehand, a lot of assumptions are made. These can sometimes be way off because you’re not really asking your customers what they think, instead relying on preconceptions that are sometimes wrong. This is where Customer Thermometer comes in.

This handy little app… read more

SmartQ: Visual Project-Management That Conforms to You

When it comes to project management, most web apps offer the same basic features: a group of to-do lists, some kind of messaging board, a few gigs of file storage, shared document-editing, a calendar of some sort, and if you’re lucky, a set of reports.

But what most don’t offer is… read more

Interview: Meet the Gojee Team!

This week we featured a new cooking site, Gojee, that takes a unique approach to helping you find great meals to make. You can find the foods that you can cook with the ingredients you already have. The only problem is, the pictures look so good you’ll wish you could… read more

6 Apps to Make a Quick Profile Page

Most of us have a social networking account from a site such as Twitter or Facebook. For individuals, this gives us a great way of networking with interesting people interesting people. For businesses, it allows customers to really engage in a more personal level.

However, sometimes we want more from our… read more

Sparked: The Noble Microvolunteering Network

Whether you’ve only got minutes of free time or have a week to kill, you might like some more productive way to use your time than simply watching TV. On the other hand, non profit organizations are usually under staffed and are looking for someone to lend a helping hand…. read more

Minutes.io Makes Meeting Notes Easy

When I was in college (4 years ago, for those of us keeping count), I had the pleasure of being the Student Government’s first ever Director of Technology, cementing myself as the school’s top geek (at least top social geek). We’d have bi-weekly meetings to discuss pending bills, campus updates,… read more

Peers.me: Advanced Group Messaging

Group messaging via email is a mess. If you send an email to multiple people, it’s inevitable they’ll forget to “Reply to All” and then others miss out on the conversation. You end up having forks of the original message, including and un-including recipients at will. Wouldn’t it be great… read more

Quick Look: Clicktotweet.me

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 Clicktotweet.me. The developer describes Clicktotweet.me as a tool that allows individuals and businesses to gain… read more

Gojee: Taking Web Recipes to the Next Level

In a lot of ways, the sharing of recipes harkens back to times past. To a time when family recipes were closely guarded secrets, when picnics and get-togethers were an every weekend affair, and showcasing those family specialities was a point of intense pride.

Sharing recipes was an intimate thing,… read more

Simple Project Management with Project Bubble

It’s pretty clear to anyone looking for a project management web application, there are plenty of them out there. Finding the right one for your business can prove to be quite difficult. There are a select few apps out there that have a good range of features that would benefit… read more

Weekly Poll: Do You Use Video Chat?

Do you use video chat?

Telephones are one of the biggest inventions people have tried to one-up, perhaps only seconded by email. Voice calls work fine for most purposes, and most of us increasingly rely on text messages to communicate. But the wheels of innovation roll on, and… read more

Google Puts In-App Web Purchases On the Web

Back at Google I/O earlier this year, Google announced it was bringing in-app purchases to web applications through its somewhat popular Google Checkout product. A few days back, Google finally launched their Google Checkout-powered system, allowing web app developers to open to door to their virtual shelves.

The service gives web… read more

The History of WebKit

Look back six years ago, to the year 2005, and the Web is a different place. The Browser Wars are still raging, and while Netscape is putting up a valiant fight, Microsoft and Internet Explorer are looking more and more invincible. It looks like the Web will fall to the… read more

Protecting Yourself From the Dangers of the Cloud

The cloud can be a dangerous place. Malware can infest your computer, stealing your passwords and more. Hackers can brute-force crack your passwords or use social engineering to get into your accounts. And web app operators can accidentally delete your files, removing years of memories in a click.

We usually assume… read more

Visualize Your Goals in a Refreshing New Way With Goalscape

Goals are powerful catalysts to leading the human life. Whether you end up achieving them or not, they set a direction and instill a sense of achievement that helps you go on with our lives. Some might find the idea of using apps to achieve goals a bit out there…. read more

Quick Look: Raven

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 Raven. The developer describes Raven Internet Marketing Tools as an online platform that helps users… read more

A Dozen Ways to Get Design Inspiration and Feedback

We’re surrounded by beautifully designed sites and apps nowadays. Every new app, it seems, has an increasingly intricately designed icon, and bad designs almost feel startling. Unfortunately, when most of us set down to design a new icon or lay out a clean interface on our sites, we feel like… read more

500px: A Worthy Flickr Alternative

Over the past several years, there was an avalanche of photo sharing and showcasing web apps. Interestingly, though, most of these have been aimed at letting you quickly share simple pictures, rather than being designed around professional photography like Flickr. Facebook usage exploded and it turned into the World’s largest… read more