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Open Fashion: A Social Shopping Fashion Community

There are many sites on the internet these days that allow you to buy cloths online and have it shipped to your house. But how often do you really shop your cloths online? Well, may be that is because you miss that personal touch when you would like to try out a particular outfit before buying it or ordering it online.

While shopping online, you might also not be very sure if the particular garment shown in the display of the site is really in vogue or not.

Well, these are some of the common concerns any online buyer worldwide would face… so and you are no different. Various online models have been worked around to overcome this problem- “pay it later” being one of them, where buyers pay for the garment only when they receive it.

OpenFashion is one service that comes very close to solving these concerns. What it actually does is add a bit of social networking element to the online garment shopping. This way they build over on word-of-mouth publicity by allowing the buyers to rate various clothes, as a result helping merchants winning their confidence.

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How does it work?

Openfashion allows its users to bookmark and tag their favorite clothes online. The users can create polls, so that the suppliers can learn from their opinions about various products. One of the most notable things about Openfashion is that it contains a number of status updates similar to Facebook and Twitter.

Open Social can be considered as a social shopping fashion network or community that connects consumers with the right products.

How can you participate in an innovative online shopping experience at Openfashion?

  • Create your social profile on Openfashion
  • Review a wide variety of goods
  • Save your favorite outfits and accessories
  • Tag and categorize the items you save
  • Keep your friends updated on your favorite outfits
  • Help your friends match outfits
  • Rate and comment on your friend’s outfits

Hope that an open discussion of products online will allow for a better customer experience and will also introduce products and trends to the community.

Link: OpenFashion

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Wufoo: Creating online forms made easy!

The process of creating an online form is a tedious one with all the database structures and scripts necessary to make it work. The entire process could take you days to complete. But why get into all the difficult stuff when you can have Wufoo handle that for you.

Wufoo is an internet application that can help anybody build amazing online forms! It’s hassle-free and quick, and automatically builds the necessary database, back-end and scripts, without you having to worry about it. All you need is a browser and an Internet connection and build a form within minutes.

Wufoo currently supports:

  • Internet Explorer 6 and higher
  • Firefox 2 and higher
  • Safari 2 and higher
  • The admin interface requires JavaScript and Flash to build and manage the forms
  • The public forms you share with others are built with degradable techniques that’ll work even if JavaScript is turned off.
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Here are some of the areas where Wufoo could be used:

  • Contact Form
  • Mailing List
  • Survey
  • Job Application
  • Workshop Registration
  • Event Calendar
  • Account Management
  • Customer Management
  • Invitations / RSVP
  • Online Orders
  • Wedding Planner
  • Address Book
  • Home Finances
  • Classifieds
  • Personal Journal
  • Quizzes / Tests

…The possibilities are endless! To view more examples, click here. Also, visit their Form Gallery where you can view and install over 80 templates and themes designed with Wufoo.

How much does Wufoo cost?

  • A monthly plan ranges from $9.95/month to $199.95/month. The price is based on
    • The number of users that you can manage
    • The number of forms you might need
    • The number of entries you can have submitted per month
    • The amount of disk space you can use for handling files, etc.
  • You could also use the FREE version and create up to 3 forms. On free accounts, forms will be deactivated once the maximum number of entries allowed for a given month have been exceeded.

So go ahead, create a FREE account, play around with the Wufoo services and see if you like them.

Link: Wufoo

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Loonapix: Create Funny Photos Online for Free!

Here’s your chance to make your photos funny and unique by using the free photo editing online service – Loonapix. Just embed your face from a photograph to any of the templates you like from their library, add a unique photo frame to it or maybe just stylize it with some effects and you have some creative pictures ready within minutes!

Loonapix offers 4 different image processing services you could choose from:

The Effector

This lets you embed your photos into different unusual interesting situations, letting you create funny pictures of yourself or others.

The Facer

With the Facer, you can add your face or someone else’s into various different templates, like those of celebrities, sport stars, etc. This also has special category with templates for children.

The Framer

Framer lets you easily a frame to a photo from the variety of 160 different frames. Frames are divided into categories like Friends, Emotions, Occasions, New, Top rated, Baby and Others.

The Trimmer

With the help of Trimmer, you can select a template and cut or trim a photo in different ways, in form of clouds, corners, stars, hearts, blobs, geometry, organic, etc.

Get a funny picture in 3 easy steps:

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  1. Select the service (from the list above)
  2. Upload a photo to the website (formats accepted: JPG, GIF and PNG, and size not more than 5Mb)
  3. Select the effect of your choice and click “Save” for the final output.
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Things you could do

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Once the picture has been created, you can:

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  1. Add it to the Loonapix gallery for others to see
  2. Send it to your friends and family and enjoy a good laugh
  3. Download it to your computer from the website and add it to your personal photo album.
  4. You also get an html-code, that you can put on your blog, website or social networking sites like Facebook, Orkut, Hi5, MySpace, etc and share them with the whole world.

Try it out for yourself. Get creative!

Link: Loonapix

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Your 5 Random Twitter Tools

Twitter is now a part of our online life and we all devour it. It is somewhat a 24/7 knowledge base altogether. Definitely these are just five random tools, there are now hundreds of them populated on the internet to let you become a power twitter user, so just fasten your seat belts… there is a lot more to come  your way.

Here are some 5 nice random twitter tools for our readers…

VisibleTweets

It lets you visualize your tweets by adding text effect to your tweets and @replies. You can set this page as your desktop screensaver.

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TweetName

It lets you register domains via tweets. Simply register available domains with a single tweet.

TweetThisText

This is a simple tool to let you tweet any selected text as quote. All you have to do is to add the “bookmarklet” and it will help you to tweet the text of your choice by simply selecting in one go.

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@twitlookup

It is a free info service on twitter which lets you check the meaning of any English word, weather, cricket scores, hastags definitions, acronym definitions with a single tweet. The reply will be sent back to you the way you sent the tweet to it. If it’s via DM then it will DM you the meanings.

Flirt140

Anice tool to let you find your love on twitter. Although this tool is only available for the U.S twitter users, more countries will be added soon.

Don’t forget to share you favorite ones and your experiences with us, as we love to hear from you.

Links: VisibleTweets | TweetName | TweetThisText | @twitlookup | Flirt140

[Editor’s Note: This post is submitted by our guest blogger 3rdbrain who writes on ActivR on topics related to technology, CMS and gadgets.

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byTAGG: A new medium to earn Extra Money from your Blog!

EDITOR’S NOTE: This post is out-date as it covers a service which no longer exists.

If you are a blogger or a website owner, there is good news for you. I came across this awesome new solution called byTagg that will allow you to keep track of your favorite blogs, keep recurrent visits going on your website plus will allow you to earn extra money without even having any visitor come to your site.

Features

  • Follow the list of the blogs that you read through alerts
  • Get to read RSS in a clean and easy way, all at one place
  • Set up an active search so that you get notified for a new search result on the whole web
  • Follow and interact with your friends on Twitter
  • Earn some extra money through the affiliate program
  • Increase traffic to your website
  • Use it for free!

Make easy money and increase your online audience!

If you have a blog or a website, then you could use byTagg to increase your advertising incomes from their affiliate program. It authorizes you to invite people to follow your blog with ByTagg, and you get 50% of all advertising profits that are generated. Isn’t that cool? What’s even better is that when someone downloads byTagg from your blog or your website, you earn 100% of all advertising profits during the users’ first month. When the user installs byTagg from your blog or website, they will get alerts on every new post that you publish. Chances are they might come back to your site to read the content, as a result increasing your online audience.

To get started

Currently byTagg is only available for Microsoft Windows XP, 2000, Vista. You will have to wait for a little longer for the MAC and Linux versions.

Link: byTagg

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Picture Collage Maker: The fast & easy way of creating a collage!

Now you would never have any hassles in making collages for your daily use! Picture Collage Maker will handle it for you! It is a very simple to use program which can turn your ordinary photos into stunning keepsakes. You can also share them with your family and friends! With some few clicks, you can create digital collages, scrapbooks, posters, invitations, calendars, and greeting cards. Amazing, isn’t it?

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YouTubeSnips: Easy ways to download high definition videos from YouTube

We all know that YouTube makes it possible for anyone who could use a computer to post a video that millions of people around the world could watch within a minutes. It covers a wide range of topics and has turned video sharing into one of the most important parts of our Internet culture.

If you are a regular reader of Devils Workshop, you might have read some earlier posts on how to download YouTube videos using different methods. Here is yet another convenient option for you to consider to download high definition videos from YouTube.

YouTubeSnips is a free tool that allows you download the highest definition videos off YouTube. You could also download the video in mobile 3GP format, MP4 format, and FLV format.

You could do this in three different ways:

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  • URL Download: By entering the Youtube URL or the URL of any public webpage that contains a YouTube video in the “Get DL Link” on their website.
  • Direct Download: After viewing a video on YouTube, in the URL location box, type snips after youtube, and click enter to download video.

For example, change:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bap-oZI-Grc to
www.youtubesnips.com/watch?v=bap-oZI-Grc

  • Bookmark downloader: You can make a direct download by bookmarking the site’s downloader

Now download your favorite videos in a simple hassle free way!

Link: YouTube Snips

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Click2Map: An easy new way to build your own Google Map

Here’s a way to embed Google Maps in your blog / website or simply create your own map mash-ups. Use this application to create, manage and publish online professional maps without any knowledge of programming. You just need to click on a map to drop your markers, and display them on the Internet in just a few mouse clicks

Features:

  • Create and manage unlimited number of maps and markers
  • Create groups of markers
  • Use your own marker icons
  • Import data from your existing database
  • Export data
  • Create marker templates
  • Get statistics to analyze how your customers use your maps
  • Create maps for different purposes like displaying
    • Points of interest
    • Wildlife
    • Demographics
    • Properties
    • Shops/stores
    • Market research
    • Travel and tourism, etc

You could customize every element of the map including its:

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  • Header
  • Footer
  • Fonts
  • Sidebar
  • Colors
  • Driving directions
  • Address finder

You could also add a URL and email to the footer of the map, making your Google Map a more effective lead and traffic generation tool.

Things you might like to do with your maps:

Click here to watch a video to understand better how you could customize your Google Maps with Click2Map.

Wish to try the 30 day Free trial offer? Click here.

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WikiPock: The offline copy of Wikipedia on your mobile

WikiPock is a mobile software that puts all the Wiki Encyclopedia on your mobile phone via a storage card (of size 4GB). The best part is that you don’t need an internet connection to access it.

However, it doesn’t come for free. The price starts at $9.99 if you have your own storage card. If you want WikiPock to send you the program on a 4GB storage card, it will cost $20.

Features:

  1. No internet or data connection required
  2. A simple interface and easy to use
  3. Well indexed articles (around 2.8 million in English) so, as you type your query, you get instant search results on your mobile screen
  4. Clean mobile-formatted pages
  5. The display time for the full editorial content is very quick, so there is no wastage of time
  6. Has an easy forward and backward navigation to read more articles
  7. Battery-life saver
  8. Preloaded microSDHC memory card available on the website
  9. Available for Windows Mobile and BlackBerry mobile phones
  10. Comes in ten languages:
    • English
    • German
    • French
    • Polish
    • Dutch
    • Italian
    • Portuguese
    • Spanish
    • Russian
    • Swedish
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How to get started?

  • Install WikiPock application on your mobile so that you could access the wiki encyclopedia offline.
  • After the installation, the full content of the articles is stored in your mobile phone.
  • You could access at your convenience all the articles offline.
  • In case you change your mobile handset after purchasing WikiPock, you could simply download WikiPock application to your new mobile from the website again.

Storage space required by WikiPock

  • The English version of the WikiPock needs a minimum of 4GB storage space.
  • The other languages require less storage space.

To buy WikiPock click here.

However, I am not sure how many people would be interested in paying for a copy of Wikipedia for mobiles, when you can get the same on the Web for free. For those who don’t mind the money factor, I think this service can be a useful one.

Link: WikiPock

(Image credit: WikiPock)

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Add Text-to-Voice capability in your blog using vozMe

Here is a pretty cool tool that I came across – it allows bloggers to easily add text-to-voice capabilities on their blogs or on any other site for that matter.

License

Select your choice of code / tool as per the usage requirement. The codes / tools are available as an easy download and are free to use and distribute.

Features

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The tool supports following functionalities:

  • Choice of selection of male or female voice options by users
  • Language support for English, Hindi, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Catalan

Availability

The tool is available as:

  • iGoogle gadget, Facebook widget and a browser bookmark for normal users
  • A WordPress plugin and generic blogger template for bloggers
  • A Joomla plugin for websites on Joomla platform
  • Various other combinations as website resources for webmasters

Steps to use vozMe on WordPress based blog

  1. Download a file vozme.zip from webmasters section
  2. Extract the compressed file
  3. Add the folder vozme to /wp-content/plugins/
  4. Goto WordPress administration tool > Plugins
  5. Click the “Activate” link within the vozMe plugin
  6. Access “Options > vozMe” and change options settings

Hope you find this tool useful for your blogs or for the internet browser when you have to read long text files and don’t feel like straining your eyes.

Link: vozMe