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BlockChalk: Post Anonymous Messages on your Neighborhood

BlockChalk is an iPhone app that lets you your phone to leave anonymous messages on your neighborhood and see what your neighbors are saying.

You can use the app to ask, answer, praise, gripe, report, prevent, borrow, trade, and much more. It’s easy and free: you don’t even have to sign up.

Apps like BlockChalk have the potential to become a powerful social media tool. However, its potential can only be truly reached depending on the community that uses it. Only time will tell how BlockChalk will fare against competitors. Its success will also depend on the community that uses and supports it.

Tags: app, BlockChalk, iphone

Spgrab: Free ScreenShot Sharing Windows App

SpGrab is a Windows application that allows you to quickly create screenshots and share them with anyone online via a tiny URL that is automatically copied to your cipboard. The tiny app runs in the background of your computer and can be accessed via shortcut keys.

What are the default Keys?

» FullScreen: Ctrl+Shift+F

» Selected Area: Ctrl+Shift+S

» Active Window: Ctrl+Shift+A

How does SPGrab work?

SPGrab allows you to take screenshots of your entire screen, active window, or of a selected area. Once the image is grabbed you can:

» Save to your computer

» Copy to your clipboard

» Upload to our server

» Upload to your own FTP

Check out the images below to see SPGrab in action

Tags: app, Download, FTP, screenshot, SPGrab, Windows

SpellBoy: Spell-Check The Web

SpellBoy is an online spell-checker tool. If you are a blogger/online publisher, a good spell checking tool is a must-have. Misspelled words can affect the search engine optimization of your website which can result in mis-searches or non-indexing of search engines.

You can use SpellBoy to check spell words that you are unsure of. Sometimes a quick Google search for the word also works. Simply search for the word you want to check. If the word that you typed is misspelled, Google will suggest a correctly spelled word.

If you’re thinking what you need SpellBoy for, since Google, Microsoft Word and your blog editor helps you out with spelling, here’s your answer: SpellBoy can check-spell and entire page for you. You just have to simply enter the URL of the webpage you want to spell-check, and it will return words that it doesn’t recognize as words with spelling errors. By doing this, you can quickly review the found words and make the proper changes if necessary.

Tags: Blog, Spell-Check. Spelling, SpellBoy

UFO Search Engine: Search Alien Related Manuals

UFO Search Engine or Manuals-Search-PDF.com is a PDF search engine that caters a specific search service. It returns results of manuals that are UFO related. If you are having a hard time looking for alien related or UFO sightings ebooks using regular search engines, UFO Search Engine might be able to help you in finding what you are looking for.

The overly simple and single function search engine works like most search tools. Place the keywords and search. The results will display links where you can get/download/read the manuals, which is pretty much about it.

There’s just one thing that I noticed when I tried the search engine. When I searched for the keyword “Area 51” it returned several results about a computer brand “Alienware.” It could probably use some filters when giving search results. Since the search engine is new and all, it’s no big deal.

Tags: Aliens, ebooks, pdf, search-engine, UFO

BlogRadio: Listen to Any Blog Anywhere

BlogRadio is a cloud based, streaming media for RSS. It simply means that you can listen to any blog that has RSS (which is almost all blogs). If you’re too busy to read your favorite blogs but still want to be updated, you can listen to them while you do your stuff. And it’s all for free.

How it works

You’ll have to download a desktop application which supports three major operating systems (Windows, Linux, Mac OS-X). Once installed, simply subscribe to your favorite blog(s) using the BlogRadio Desktop Manager Tool. BlogRadio will convert the text of the blog to an audio file for you. All that’s left for you to do now is to sit back and listen.

BlogRadio is an alternative way of keeping in-touch with your favorite blogs. If you’re too busy to read them, why not listen to them. You can choose a male or female voice to read for you and they are made to sound as natural as possible.

Blog Radio also has an iPhone app that allows you to sync your streams and listen (and view images) using your iPhone.

Tags: Blog Radio, Blog Streaming, Desktop App, Download, linux, Mac, Podcast, Windows

The PicLab: Online Photo Editor for Quick and Simple Editing Jobs

ThePicLab is like most online photo editors that are available out ther on the web. And like those online photo editors, you can use it for free and do simple photo editing jobs that doesn’t require too much effects or heavy layouts.

The tool has your common editing tools like crop, change pic size, filters and custom size adjustments. ThePicLab also supports layers so if you are very specific about this particular feature then this online tool has it.

Overall, the tool is pretty basic and its features are similar to what other online photo editors are offering. It can be useful when you are in need of a photo editor and does not have one on the desktop that you are using or for simple and quick editing jobs for online use.

Tags: editor, photo, The Pic Lab