FreshBrain – Showcase Your Talent
A website which encourages teens to showcase their creative talent to the whole world. FreshBrain allows users to create projects using handy tools which are all freely available through the site interface, then share these projects with the community.
The site is non-profit and is partnered by giants like Sun Microsystems, T-Mobile USA and Google. The site offers scholarships to talented students from various localities. They also boast a huge community of students, parents and teachers who take an active part and collaborate among each other to hold different events in their areas.
You can also donate towards the different programs managed by the site and can even sponsor scholarships.
TicketLeap – Free Tickets Management
Signing up is free if you are an event organizer. The site charges a nominal flat rate per ticket which changes depending upon whether the ticket is under or over $10. If you want to give away free tickets, the site won’t charge a dime. The service is open for USA, Canada and Mexico for the moment although we’d like to see it expand to other regions like Europe. Moreover the site advertises your event through a host of web sites across the web.
Both printed and electronic tickets are supported and the customers are free to use any major credit card for purchases. A nice innovative play in the crowded ticketing space.
MarketRiders – Investing Made Easy
Today we stumbled upon MarketRiders when we were looking for a fund manager with a low fee. The headline was “Say Goodbye to Wall Street and High Fees”. That got our attention and we decided to explore the site in detail.
The first thing we saw was that the site doesn’t hide any information and pretty much tells you about the whole market operations and how investors are milked for money if they are not prudent in their investments. The site advices professional to invest in Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) which basically spread your investment over a much larger base of stocks than investing in one. The site also provides coaching services like professional advice in portfolio management.
They also have an E-Adviser software which uses intelligent algorithms to alert you about the building and successful management of your portfolios. They are charging 0.5% on using this service which is a lot less than what is usually customary. All in all something worth giving a try.
WikiAlarm – Protecting wikis
Imagine a company which uses wiki to distribute information to its customers. One day a prankster logs in and edits all the important information and the company is now banging its head against the wall.
WikiAlarm is a service which protects owners of wiki pages against editing of content without their knowledge. This service monitors the wiki pages every hour and as soon as a change is detected emails the owner of the page with the changes highlighted in color , all for free.
No more headaches about keeping tabs on important pages as a roll back is always an option once wikialarm is involved in the management of your wiki pages.
Openzine – E-zines for everyone
Ever thought of publishing your own e-zine? For free? Look no further than Openzine.com.
Openzine are have created an easy and free way of creating an ezine. The most important and eye catching feature of a magazine is the title page which is really fun and easy to create in the interface which openzine provides. Although not as powerful as the professional solutions, it is far better than most online image editors and comes packed with a lot of self explanatory features. The site also has a video tour explaining the process of title creation which is what others should follow.
The site provides numerous templates for content management. A text editor is provided for adding some professional touches to your creation. The author can save the unfinished work and resume it later for that extra polishing before finally publishing it. So write some content, sign up for an account and publish your creation for the world to see.
RentJungle – Find affordable living
RentJungle aims to be the search engine and resource for all your rental needs.
The site has a really simple and intuitive interface displaying a map of the USA. Just click on the place where you are planning to move and the site will return the rental housing options which are available in that particular area. The search can be by state, city or even a university/college locality. Students will love it as our searches located apartments under $80 within minutes.
The results can be filtered using price ranges, number of beds or baths and can be sorted. Sometimes duplicate results are generated as the site takes information from other sources on the internet.
One nifty feature is the articles area where you can find information about rentals, insurance, leasing and even roommates (or how to choose a good one).
A handy site to visit for those who are planning to make a move to another place and want to have an estimate about the prices and the facilities you can expect.
Creative.gd – Professional Designs Today
Another entry in the world of outsourcing but this time specializing in graphic and design content. Creative Graphic Design (CGD) is a company from Germany providing a place for designers and buyers to interact. The designs can vary from ad and banner to illustration and t-shirts designing.
If you are looking to have something designed and you want to approach a huge pool of designers to choose the best one for the job at hand, look no further than CGD. You can signup for free, then provide a design brief and an amount for the project and you will get to meet designers from all over the world willing to work on your project. You can then choose a final winner by checking the designs they post and getting the work done at the price you want.
As a designer, it is easy to sign up, review briefs posted by clients and then submit designs. The funds are escrowed before work so both the clients and designers can do their respective jobs securely.
ShopLunaChics – A Fun Shopping Experience
Women love to shop. And what’s better than to shop and have fun at the same time.
LunaChics is taking women’s apparel and accessory shopping experience to a whole new personalized and fun level. Be it jeans, tops, jewelery or bags, this store offers both online and off-line shopping facilities. The online catalogue is limited to bags, gift and jewelry items but their RL store offers the full range of products of different brands. The site accepts all the major credit cards.
How does it make it a fun to shop? The answer is the conducive environment it provides to its customers. The store provides reclining facilities for the customers with large screen TVs (even the husbands will have something to smile about during their visit) and a place where kids can play and have fun.
FactorGaming – Customized Gaming Laptops
Today’s games demand high performance machines. Traditionally desktops have been the driving force behind the success of games but now the shift is starting towards laptops. Choosing a right gaming laptop is difficult though. That is where factorgaming.com comes in.
FactorGaming.com uses templates to give the user an idea of the bare minimum machine. The users are then free to add customizations to suit their particular taste. Things like processor, RAM, hard disk, operating system and accessories like camera, battery, carrying case etc can be added on the fly and the price quoted. You can then place the order of your dream machine and it will be delivered within 10 days.
The website accepts Credit Cards, PayPal eChecks, Money Orders, Personal Checks, and Wire Transfers.
Happy gaming everyone.
Glearch.com – Localized Searches
Glearch.com provides localized searches from around the world. The striking feature you will notice when you first visit the site is a clickable world map. You can choose a country, select the search engines whose results you’d like to include (currently three engines are indexed yahoo, google and msn), type the search term and off you go.
Information about the country itself is readily available through predefined searches. There are buttons for government, business, tourism, science etc which will return results based on that country only. The search local newspapers is a nice feature for research oriented work. You also have access to maps about the regions using google maps.