Music by Moods…

 

Moodagent, a cross-platform and mobile application, creates music playlists based on your mood. Tell it how you’re feeling and it picks songs that mirror your emotional state.

Feel like you need a computer to pick your music based on the mood you tell it you’re in, sure why not.

Happy? Sad? blah blah blah, adjust how sensual, tender or angry you want your music and pick the tempo too. It all seems very complicated for picking a song but it’s not. And hey you can seed in your own songs and it can use them to create a playlist to match your mood; quick grab you’re favourite Smiths record.

All in all its fairly smart, I just can’t imagine myself using it often if at all, but hey give it a go, maybe you might find the DJ of your dreams in this lil system.

Available on just about well anything, Android, iOS, Mac, Windows, Symbian… Moodagent

Sign Me Out (iOS)…

 

Sign me out is simply a lovely little iPhone app that lets you check if your Gmail and Facebook are signed in anywhere you don’t want them to be.

Don’t pretend you’ve never walked away from a computer leaving yourself vulnerable to the odd “frape” here and there, well it could be worse that if someone more malicious comes across your open account. Or in my case, hacks it.

If you find yourself logged in from other locations, one click of the big red button and that potentially unauthorized user is disconnected.

Any account you add to Sign Me Out will give you a count of the accounts activity and on clicking into that account you can gain even more details, remotely logging that account out even.

yes you can do this from your browser with Gmail anyway, but the point of this app is that you can do it anywhere.

If you buy the $1 full version of the app, you can add as many accounts as you want. If you just want to give it a try or only need to use one account, the free lite version will work just fine for you.

Check it Here : Sign Me Out / Lite ($1 / Free)

Dropbox, More Than Just Storage…

 

If you’re like me then you probably have multiple computers that are constantly in rotation. Or you might be using a work computer and so you don’t have access to your usual collection of tabs and bookmarks that you’d like. The familiarity of your home browser is nice right?

Well Dropbox, my favourite find ever comes in to save the day, again. With the use of a the lovely little portable versions of Google Chrome and Firefox and a few other extensions you can have the familiarity of your home browser anywhere without having to carry around a memory stick as seen above.

Now lets get started, get yourself Dropbox by clicking ME.

Ok, now that that's installed. get these, one or the other, or both if you’re partial to switching browsers:

Google Chrome

Mozilla Firefox

When you download them make you pick their install path as the Dropbox folder. (As portable apps they take up minimal space)

Now for those of you who are completely lost as to where we’re going now it’s all quite simple. Get yourself Google Sync for Firefox and this will sort you out.

For those using Chrome, in options you’ll find sync computer settings in the basic browser settings.

Now it’s just that simple function of syncing you’re browsers.

Ta-Da you’re done. Now you have some fully portable apps wherever you go, and its all there in your Dropbox and no one else can gain access to anything you’ve browsed, including history, mistakenly left open Facebook's etc.

If you require any other portable apps, for anything from video editing, to openoffice, check out this site; Portable Apps

Enjoi Tiny Browsing.

CloudMagic…

 

Windows/Mac/Linux (Chrome & Firefox): This is CloudMagic, the video explain it all really but in short, what used to be a speedy Gmail only app is now covering Google Docs and Contacts too. Helping you find your entire life in the cloud easily.

CloudMagic also doesn’t retain your Google password, for that little extra security too and although its not as in-depth as some search modifiers it is a lot faster.

Working with Chrome and Firefox on all kinds of Operating Systems get CloudMagic here: Integrated Instant Search for online data – Gmail, Google Docs & Contacts

RockMelt Web Browser…

Ok, so simply put RockMelt is another Web Browser, but it’s not just any Web Browser, in its own little ways, its unique. Based upon the Google Chromium Source (it looks like Google Chrome), RockMelt is what Social Networking addicts have been looking for.
It seamlessly integrates with Twitter and Facebook, allowing you to shout to the world your every status, update and tweet simply. It even hosts your Facebook chat list on the left hand side at all times allowing you to keep in constant contact with your friends no matter what site you’re on.
Here’s a quick intro to the Browser by its founder:

You definitely get the Google Chrome feel off of its interface, but this isn’t in anyway a bad thing, especially considering Chromes growing popularity. Good news: RockMelt is also available on Mac’s, [sorry Linux user, not your chance yet.] RockMelt has all the Google chrome features allowing you use extensions plus its own Facebook and twitter components.
The sad part, RockMelt is only available under invitation as its still in Beta testing, but you can get an invite off someone that already uses RockMelt, I have 3 to give away at the moment, or you can connect via Facebook and wait for your invite there.

That being said, I consider this a negative, RockMelt should think about growing its social networking experience and growing beyond just Facebook and Twitter.
But apart from that, RockMelt is pretty fantastic if not ridiculously distracting, building itself upon one of my favourite browsers and then adding extensions that just make things that little bit easier, particularly if you find yourself signing up to a lot of RSS feeds too.
I don’t know if RockMelt will become one of my more prominent browsers but I’m willing to give it a try, it is still in Beta testing after all. Given the chance to grow this could become huge, so give it a go, see how it suits your Social Networking Addiction.

RockMelt does so much more than I mentioned, the full tutorial can be found on the browser after you’ve installed it, Enjoy testing it out and it can be found here:
If you want me to Hook you up with a invitation, comment below or else connect and sign up to receive and invite view Facebook from their Website: I’d like to thank Brian W. for pointing towards this browser and for his invite into the world of RockMelt.

Get Ge.tt for Real Time File Sharing…

 

Ge.tt is a clever, instant file-sharing web-app that makes sharing files simple and fast. You can share a link to your file(s) immediately, without waiting for the upload to complete, and it doesn't use Flash, Java applets, or any other plug-ins.

Ge.tt is simple to use and doesn’t even require you to have an account (but theres extra benefits if you do sign up). Go to Ge.tt, select the files button, choose the files you want to share (or drag and drop in supported browsers) and there you go. Ge.tt will begin uploading your files instantly and then generate a unique URL for you to share so others might download your file.

You can share the link before the upload is finished—files will update on the download page in real-time, as they're uploaded, and the user on the other end can start downloading a file while you're still uploading it.

You can also add files after you’ve shared the link and any files you upload will show up automatically without without anyone having to reload the page.

For quick file sharing Ge.tt is fantastic and although the terms page doesn’t give you a lot of information regarding file size limits, they look to be pretty light on the limitations for the moment.

Get over to Ge.tt

Don’t be Left Wondering Why a Website Won’t Load…

 

 

Ever wonder why that page just won’t load? Is it  your computer, or the has the internet just lost it all together, maybe its a 404 of maybe you just took a wrong turn at 4chan.

By default the Firefox error page just tells you the page you are attempting to view is not available, but TryAgain displays actual useful information like is the site down for just you or for the world.

This extension simply swaps out the default error message  and instead displays useful information that it garners from Down For Everyone or Just Me? and Uptime Auditor.

It provides some other tools too; you can jump to the Google Cache of the site or even the WayBack archive if you really need to get a peek at the site. TryAgain also automatically reloads the page at intervals to establish contact without your intervention, making technology make you even lazier than before. Imagine.

TryAgain is a free app and works wherever Firefox does, so install it, test it out, it might come in handy, you don’t know. I certainly don’t know if the page you’re searching for is genuinely just lost to the internetz.

ch ch ch ch ch check it out: TryAgain