EggJax: Five almost related web services in one

Posted Apr 29th 2008 10:00AM by Brad Linder
Filed under: Internet, Web services, web 2.0

We're big fans of software that does one thing and does it well. But we also have a soft spot in our hearts for jack of all trades style applications. And EggJax almost falls into the latter category. Except we're not entirely sure why all of these trades are in the same package. Here are the five things you can do from the EggJax page:

Reverse phone number lookup
People finder (enter a name, city, and state and try to find a street address and phone number)
Business directory
Weather forecasts by city
TinyURL creator

Now, maybe it's just us, but one or two of these things are not like the other. Sure, we can imagine a situation where you're looking up an old friend in the city you grew up in, want to find the company where he now works, and then want to check the weather forecast for next week so you know whether to bring an umbrella when you show up to surprise him. But what's the TinyURL clipper for?

[via MakeUseOf]

Tags: eggjax, phone-directory, tinyurl, weather

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

4-29-2008 @ 11:14AM

AJ said...

Reverse Phone Lookup needs some work. I have tried 6 so far...public numbers, with no success at all. Semi good idea though...just a little odd.

4-29-2008 @ 12:20PM

Kevin S. Brady said...

Sort of handy--I might be inclined to use it from time to time. It might be better in the form of a Google gadget.

http://users.goldengate.net/~kbrady

5-02-2008 @ 5:11PM

Robert said...

Sucks... People finder requires a city as well as a state. I was looking up ex-girlfriend from 10 years ago, she could be in any of 20 towns surrounding Seattle yet I have to choose city. No thanks.

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