Topics: startups
If you are an art lover and tired of your desktop, projector screensaver than Digitalbloom has something for a change, an impressive change to be exact. The website is a marketplace for artists to promote and monetize their work and for art lovers to browse and find the best piece that matches their taste. Users can easily make purchases of both images and videos and display it on any hardware. The site claims to feature artwork that has been approved to be displayed by the art jury which will help ensure that users get the best in quality. If you are interested, you can buy images starting from EUR 2.50 and visuals at EUR 7.90.
If you come across a page on the web or a blog post and feel the urge to save it as its in a PDF format then HTML to PDF Converter will come in handy. The easy to use tool lets you simply place the URL of a page and convert it to PDF with a single click. That’s just one way to do it, you can also place a bookmarklet to simply click on it and begin converting a page to PDF or web master can add a button to their page, blog, etc to ease HTML to PDF conversion for its visitors. I like it pretty much as I always feel the urge to save my pages that I come across often and find printing/bookmarking to be pretty tiring, especially when I have to refer to them often. You can see the Save as PDF button below:
We covered FiredNetwork last month, a startup that appeared on the web as an Information Resource. The name astonished me as I first thought it was a network for fired employees and I guess that was the same reason why people behind it decided to go for a change. The startup is now known a FiredUpNetwork and to be honest it gives a whole new meaning. The network is for those who plan for a professional change and is categorized into five options; employment opportunities, entrepreneurial pursuits, company purchase, fund raising and education. I liked the service and the purpose for which it had been created.
With the development of smartphones and the developers leveraging these devices to bring better apps, the need to find the best out of the countless out there seems to be an impossible task. What one needs apart from the App Store or the Android Marketplace, etc is a showcase where one can learn about the best of the lot. SmokinApps is a new startup that makes sure owners of these devices remain updated with the most useful and popular apps. Developers can showcase their apps here and see how successful there apps are and also giving them a chance to be more easily discovered by the countless mobile device users.
If time management is your problem and your requirement is for an efficient and easy to use time management tool then Toggl is what you need to be using. With this you can set tasks next to its timer. Toggl can be used as a stop watch to measure time for each task or manually enter the durations for each task done. It also lets teams collaborate and easily handle projects, clients and share reports, etc and share them making sure you invest minimum energy and even lesser time to smooth line your management. Plus it also lets users view reports as a PDF file or a word document.
If Google appears a bit too feverish and you thought it’s more about each rather than answering your questions than Questioon provides you that chance to ask it from people. Works pretty much like the conventional search engine but provides you an alternative to include results from the Q/A sites. Plus it also includes results matching your query from Twitter as well. Questioon isn’t going to rocket itself to cloud number 9, but it’s definitely neat enough to make finding answers from users like yourself.
If you are looking for a way to find local users on Twitter then Tweetmondo. All you need is a signup and tolerate an auto tweet. The advent of GPS enabled phones, location based services has made it easier for locals to collaborate with each other and many services resort to leveraging the technology. Tweetmondo simply requires you to enter a location and it provides results with users closest to the location. The best part, it’s all in real time along with the added filtering options that include removing people who don’t have a certain number of followers too. It does have the real time feature but it really doesn’t tell you who is nearby right now. But that can’t be use to put off how useful the service is.
The days of Geocities, etc are long gone and creating website is more about clicks than punching lines of codes. Edicy is a startup that lets you create your own website without the need to know what programming is. All you need to do is sign up for the service, pick up a design and add photos and texts as you need them to be placed on your site. The idea is to provide professionals and individuals who aren’t good at building professional websites themselves or more importantly don’t find time to create or manage their pages. It’s pretty quick and more importantly gives the site a professional look, something which I find lacking in many other free website creating service out there.
