The title pretty much describes it all; we at Review of Web took the time to check out some of our favorite Facebooks apps and pick 5 most valuable apps for your Facebook profile. Without further ado, let’s take a look at our picks.
Ayos iShare is definitely one of the best file storage application designed for Facebook. You can use it to store files, documents, videos, even MP3s and post them on your profile page or share it with friends. 2GB of storage is provided for your files, so you wouldn’t have to worry about running out of disk space — it is not as whopping as Google’s 7GB and counting enjoyed by Gmail users, but it is still more than enough. You can easily share brochures and samples to your digital products; great for attracting new customers and spreading the words.
2. SplashCast – Your Very Own Multimedia Channel
SplashCast for Facebook is a platform designed to enable you to post videos, podcasts, and presentations on your personal multimedia Channel. It already has a lot of great multimedia contents, plus you can upload your own and compile them together into an appealing stream of contents that will attract friends and viewers. If you are running tutorial or how-to sites, or if you are selling books about certain topics, you can surely compile a nice preview and redirect viewers to the actual product.
3. 30Boxes Calendar – Events and Schedules on the Spot
If you are already familiar with 30Box amazing features, you can now add similar features to your Facebook profile page. Use it to share events or schedules with your Facebook friends or list your upcoming promotional offers and share it with them.
4. Class Notes – ScanR to the Rescue!
Want to share hardcopy documents with your Facebook friends? Use Class Note to help you without hassle. Use your phone’s camera to take pictures of documents and Class Notes will convert them into PDFs, ready to be shared on your Facebook profile.
5. SlideShare – (Claimed to Be) World’s Largest Presentation Sharing Community
If you are sharing presentations and PDFs on a constant basis, SlideShare for Facebook will be the perfect application for you. You can upload documents and presentations to SlideShare to make it available for sharing with friends or embed them on your profile page.
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The Observer is back with another great post, just for you! We at Review of Web are participating in Daniel Scocco’s Daily Blog Tips Group Writing Project: 2009 in Review, and we took our time to pick 20 of the best web applications available in 2009. Let’s get crackin’ shall we?
1. Adobe Photoshop Online | https://www.photoshop.com/
Photoshop has been the most intuitive photo editing software for years, and Adobe is now launching an online version of this amazing software to help you edit, manage, and share photos online. You can upload images to your account and edit them using web interface very similar to the offline version of the software, and then share them with friends and colleagues.
2. CurdBee | http://curdbee.com/
If you are looking for a solution to manage invoices without hassle, CurdBee is the place to go. You can create and send invoices to customers and input confirmed payments as you go. The site offers easy, fast and secure online billing experience.
3. MediaFire | http://www.mediafire.com/
Looking for a reliable place to host your files? MediaFire is definitely worth checking out. This web app is very simple for everyday use but offers a lot of features even advanced users would really love. Use it to host your files and share them with visitors or friends.
4. ReInvirogate | http://www.reinvigorate.net/
ReInvirogate is the new way of tracking your site’s performance. Forget about old-school tracking scripts; ReInvirogate will give you so much more than just the amount of visitors coming to your site.
5. HowCast | http://www.howcast.com/
Publishing you own how-to videos or looking for one about any particular topic? Visit this video streaming site specializing in how-to videos.
6. Moodstream | http://moodstream.gettyimages.com/
Moodstream by Getty Images is an online collaboration platform for designers and creative workers. You can brainstorm ideas and search for images, footages, and audios at the same time.
7. AWebber | http://www.aweber.com/
Email marketing is definitely one of the oldest tricks in the book, and what could be best than managing your entire email marketing campaign from a single intuitive and comprehensive web application, right?
8. Wufoo | http://wufoo.com/
Need web forms but don’t have HTML coding skills? Wufoo will build them for you in no time at all.
9. Carbonmade | http://www.carbonmade.com/
Carbonmade is basically an online portfolio platform that you can use to show off your work. It is probably the easiest way to display your portfolio online and attracts more clients.
10. Backpack | http://backpackit.com/
Share information with your team using Backpack’s online intranet platform allowing you to manage your documents, discussions, and schedules in one place all the time.
11. Google Wave | https://wave.google.com/wave
Although the app is still in preview, Google Wave is definitely one of the best future online collaboration platforms available.
12. Celoxis | http://www.celoxis.com/
Another online collaboration and project management platform designed to help you handle big projects with ease.
13. Evernote | https://www.evernote.com/
Need to carry your notes all the time? Visit Evernote and find your problem solved instantly; the iPhone and mobile interface of this web app will enable you to access your notes anytime, anywhere.
14. Meebo | http://www.meebo.com/
Multinetwork instant messaging platform is the new hype, and Meebo is definitely offering one of the best web-based IM available.
15. Emusic | http://www.emusic.com/
Care for some nice tunes? Visit Emusic and find virtually any song you are looking for.
16. Netflix | http://www.netflix.com/
If movies and TV series are what you love, let Netflix stream them to your computers instantly.
17. Ask.com | http://www.ask.com/
No more unanswered questions; you have Ask.com hosting answers to countless possible questions you may be asking.
18. Zoho | http://www.zoho.com/
Zoho has transformed from a simple collaboration platform into a full-featured web productivity suites; you can do virtually anything with Zoho’s line of web applications.
19. Backpack | http://basecamphq.com/
Project management, collaboration, and task software provided by Backpack are definitely one of the best available.
20. Google Docs | http://documents.google.com/
This web app may seem simple, but simplicity has always been Google’s strong suit. Edit documents and share them with colleagues swiftly.
Check these videos, produced by the very creative team of CommonCraft. The way they explain complex things is really commendable. Other than being simple, their USP is that the videos size of all videos created by them is nearly 3 minutes in length.
Even if you are a internet veteran, see these videos. I’m sure you will love them.
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This comes straight from Google. In collaboration with the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute and the PlanetLab Consortium, Google has launched Measurement Lab. Measurement Lab (M-Lab) is an open platform that you can use to test your internet connection. Though there are tools already available in the market that can help you with such needs but most of them do not provide an accurate description of the problem. Mainly because of the lack of widely-distributed servers with ample connectivity.
Acc. to the post from Official Google Blog:
M-Lab aims to address these problems. Over the course of early 2009, Google will provide researchers with 36 servers in 12 locations in the U.S. and Europe. All data collected via M-Lab will be made publicly available for other researchers to build on. M-Lab is intended to be a truly community-based effort, and we welcome the support of other companies, institutions, researchers, and users that want to provide servers, tools, or other resources that can help the platform flourish.
As of now there are three tools available:
Network Diagnostic Tool (NDT) provides a sophisticated speed and diagnostic test. An NDT test reports more than just the upload and download speeds — it also attempts to determine what, if any, problems limited these speeds, differentiating between computer configuration and network infrastructure problems. While the diagnostic messages are most useful for expert users, they can also help novice users by allowing them to provide detailed trouble reports to their network administrator.
Glasnost attempts to detect whether your Internet access provider is performing application-specific traffic shaping. Currently, you can test if your ISP is throttling or blocking BitTorrent. Tests for other applications will follow soon.
Network Path and Application Diagnosis
NPAD diagnoses some of the common problems effecting the last network mile and end-users’ systems. These are the most common causes of all performance problems on wide area network paths.
There are other tools like DiffProbe (To determine whether an ISP is giving some traffic a lower priority than other traffic) and NANO (To determine whether an ISP is degrading the performance of a certain subset of users, applications, or destinations) that are in pipeline.
Coming from Google we can be assured of reliability of these tools. I had faced this issue in the past and I can tell you it becomes quite annoying when neither you nor your ISP, webhost are able to pinpoint the source of error. It took me a lot of time dealing with my webhost , DNS and ISP to sort out this issue.
Great initiative from Google! Don’t forget to bookmark this site.
Here is a SMS guide that contain some free SMS utilities to help you with your day-to-day tasks.: 
AreMySitesUp:
A free service that warns you when your site goes down. It lets you check up to 20 sites. Site checks are performed 25 times per day. Premium Service is priced $75/year that lets you check up to 60 sites.
Notifixio-us:
This free service lets you monitor your favorite websites for updates. As soon as a new post is up on a site, Notifixious will send you an update on SMS, IM or email. Pretty cool!
StuffAlert:
Similar to notifixio-us but for ebay. It alerts you when items you want are listed on eBay.
TextMe2Day
Send free SMS worldwide from the comfort of your computer. No registration required.
Cherple
Send and receive SMS from your computer. Currently this service is available in US only.
UmbrellaToday
Get SMS alerts when there is a chance of rain in your area. Currently available for US only.
rmbrME
Create a virtual business card and then instantly share it via SMS.
YouArchiveIt
Lets you backup your iPhone SMS messages online.
Watch My Cell
This app periodically check for your cell phone balance and alerts – via SMS – you when it’s close to going over.
Hope you enjoyed our free sms utilities guide. Let me know through the comments below if you know about other such sites.
ForeverSMS is a free web based service that allows you to send text messages to any mobile in the US right from the comfort of your web browser. To start sending the messages, enter your email address, recipient phone number, recipient wireless provider (optional), your message, check ‘Agree to TOS’ checkbox and click ‘Send Message’ button. Your message would be delivered instantly. In case you don’t know the recipient wireless provider, don’t worry. The service has the facility to auto detect the wireless provider.
Other features include, iGoogle gadget to send SMS’s right from your iGoogle homepage. Also, you have the facility to block a number, if someone misuse this service to send you repeated unsolicited SMS’s.
Check out ForeverSMS
Want to surprise someone with a cute message, without letting the person know who has sent that message. Use NoSpm. It’s a free, no-frills-attached, anonymous email outbox service that can be used to send anonymous messages online to any email address.
To start sending messages, enter the email id of receiver, subject line, mail text and hit Send button. Your mail would be delivered instantly.
I have used this mail service twice, once to send mail to a corporate mail id and other time to Gmail, I can vouch for the reliability of service. Sincerely hope that this service do not get attacked by spammers and does not shuts down like the similar free anonymous SMS service AnonTxt (that is currently down due to abuse)
Check out nospm.org
A free web based service that offers one of the easiest ways to host and broadcast your personal video and audio clips. You can upload your audio/video clips through the web, email or even your mobile phone. It also provides you with the ability to post audio/video clips on your blogs hosted on Typepad, Blogger, MovableType or Friendster CMS.
Some important features:
- You can publish your own podcasts using itunes.
- You have the option to create and share your own video profile.
- Current service is in alpha phase which is ad supported.
- It provides unlimited bandwidth and 100 MB of storage.
Service is currently in alpha. You may have to wait for some time to get your free account.
Want to create a mobile version of your website or blog? Now you can do that with xfruits. After a 2 min sign up process, here is how you can generate the mobile version. 
- After login. Click on RSS to mobile.
- On the next page enter the title of the mobile version (of your choice) and tags with which your site should be identified with. Also enter the feed URL of your blog. Click on Publish.
- On the next page right click on “RSS to mobile” box and copy the URL of your mobile site.
- Done. Your site’s mobile version is ready to be displayed and shared on mobiles.
Among other, xfruits can also be used for combining multiple feeds into one or for converting RSS input to a voice output.
Use UserName Check. With a click of a button this site checks availability of your favorite username across 69 social networking and blogging websites.
This is how this site showed the result when I checked for “row”.
Check out now and make a unique name for yourself. Pretty cool!
