The idea is similar to Digg in that you can submit iPhone apps and people can vote them up or down, giving you a nice community snapshot of what app is performing, and what app isn't at any given time.
It also has implications for when new apps come out, and you want to be the first kid at school to get it.
Sure, you can read reviews in the Apple Store, but you don't get the full story like you do on a site with simplicity and ease of use.
It's rough around the edges but the idea seems clear. Submit, rate, and interact. But the difference here is that it's so granular and dedicated solely to iPhone Apps.
Chris gave us the early link to the Apple App Tracker too, and we'd like to see one for PC apps and maybe even Linux distributions. Since he can build communities, it'll be interesting to see how big of a community pops up around this new venture.
Sometimes the best web services are the simplest ones. Drivepricing lets you calculate the cost of gas for your road trip.
With gas prices so high its nice to be able to know how much to put in the piggy bank to save up for the trips you have coming up this summer.
So when you're going to visit grandma in Albany from Philly, you can drop your gas mileage in there and get an estimated cost of what you're going to have to beg her for so you can get home.
Even if you don't know your gas mileage they have a link to FuelEconomy.gov for you. Drop your zipcode in there, start address, end address, the type of gas you use (which is a great feature) and whether its a round trip or not.
After a few seconds of loading, booya there you have it. Price per gallon and cost for trip.
Bricksmith brings Lego building to your Mac. And in a big way. Sorry PC folks, Mac only.
When we say a big way, we mean this isn't just a drag and drop of lego parts, this is full modeling. You don't have to have a degree to do it, but you definitely have to have some time on your hands....but the payoff could be awesomesauce.
This sucker is like Photoshop for lego designs.
You have thousands of parts to choose from, some of which we've never seen in our lego pails.
There's a full color palette, copy/paste/undo, drag and drop modeling and more.
Best part is, you don't have to step on them in your bare feet in the middle of the night!
We used it for 5 minutes and it hurt our heads, but we bet you can come up with something great. Take a screenshot and put the link to it in the comments.
PCIncubator aims to help you find the right parts at the right prices to build your dream PC.
We've all built a PC at some point. It's fun, isn't it? Pick our your case, the mother board, memory, GI Joe Stickers.
What?
The pain in the neck part of the process is finding the right parts that you need and not paying too much for them...or buying really crappy parts as a default because you don't want to break the bank.
The parts are all out there, the internet is vast, but PCIncubator keeps tabs on the stuff that you need, the prices that are right, and does so very nicely if we may say.
They use NewEgg which is the geek chic place to shop for parts. They also keep a price history of all items so you can wait for prices to go back down if they go up. It's kind of like shopping for airline tickets. It also gives you that Dell and Apple builder feel
Once you've picked your perfect PC parts, you can toss them all into a NewEgg cart and away you go!
Some of us aren't good with numbers. The whole addition, subtraction, division, it's just not our forte.
Sure Windows and Macs have built in calculators but we're web people so we need something on the web to make us not feel like we're totally mathstupid.
Ecalc to the rescue. It's not just any calculator though.
It's pretty and webified.
They also have a scientific calculator for those who are past just trying to add up this months shopping list with the rent, which is as far as some of us go.
All kidding aside, scientific calculators are expensive...so it's pretty cool to have this tool available online.
They also have a rundown of all types of calculators if you're really into that.
So go be a mathematical genius...we're counting on you.
The premise is simple, you go through a series of days and launch HedgeHogs with a nice launcher gear, much like you would water balloons. Except these aren't balloons, these are dangerous little beasts called HedgeHogs. it's not quite Sonic, but we think it's way more fun.
The name of the game is to only get distance, but to grab money in the air while your HedgeHog flies.
The controls are quite easy, and you can play in fullscreen mode too. Just don't do it at work, because we can't be held responsible for having "HedgeHog Screwoff" on your permanent record. But that would be pretty schweet though.
You can dig in and tweak your thrusts left or right, and as you go through the days, your skills will get better and the stakes will get higher. Collect money, buy better rockets, some stylish goggles, and even a parachute to get better scores.
The music is addictive too.
So launch your hog and share your scores in the comments.
At desk jobs (ewwww), they sometimes pump in "White noise" to push out sound and give you a bit more privacy, but you can't control how much of it you get.
SimplyNoise works kind of like an air conditioner in that you can amp it up to as much as you need. SimplyNoise's site states that white noise can help get you in a zen state, give you more privacy while on the phone, help you fall asleep, and even ease migraines.
Since we're all writers, and some of us have annoying construction going on outside of their condo during the day, we'll put it to the test and you should too.
Let us know in the comments if white noise is the right noise for you.
Remember, that whole Firefox download day thing that we got so amped up about? Us too.
Remember when their servers screwed the pooch for most of "Download Day"? Us too.
How about that vulnerability that affected all 8 zillion of us who downloaded version 3? Yep, we remember that too.
Now you can put all those rough memories behind and sleep easy. Today, Mozilla "officially" announcedsetting the record, with 8,002,530 downloads on the release day of Firefox 3. It's fair to point out that, nothing was broken here... this was a new record, hence "setting" and not "breaking".
Will you remember Mozilla set the Guinness World Record for the most software downloads in 24 hours on June 18th, 2008? Neither will we.
But congrats on still being #2 Firefox. Let us know when that changes and we'll jump around and party like it's 2035!
Mario Paint Composer lets you do what you know you've wanted to do all of your life...compose music in the key of Super Mario. You'll remember this from the Super NES days, but everything is way more fun on the computer.
This baby is free and it's available for Windows AND Mac and it comes from unFun games. Yay.
Don't have any music writing chops? No problem, neither do we. It makes fun noises and has cool Mario icons. 'Nuff said.
The default song when you load up Mario Paint Composer is a jazzy version of your favorite video game theme song ever. But it's up to you to write the next masterpiece.
And not just any masterpiece, you get to use pigs and cats and hearts.
Best part is that when the app is loaded, everywhere you click on your computer, the sounds follow. I like hearing a nice Yoshi sound when I click on an email or on iChat.
unFun built an interface for you to lo in and download all the songs you want, for your personal listening and partytime enjoyment, but it took forever to log into the system, so we wouldn't hang our hats on that feature.
One of the only features some of us here like about Windows is that you can alt-ctrl-del and look at the open tasks and programs running at any given time.
It's nice to know what's sucking up all of your memory (pr0n) and what's bogging down your processor (DVD burning). Sloth for Mac OS X shows us exactly what's running, Windows style.
You can see which application is running which process, reveal the directory it's running out of, and kill it off if you want. If you're super geeky and/or bored you can even look at the IP and Unix sockets to see what application is connecting to the interwebs at any given time.
This is a really handy dandy tool, and the source is available too for monkeying...er, slothing around.
One of the better parts about Sloth is that it's a Cocoa app, and runs nice and slick on your Mac.
We all have a ton of DVDs laying around, and have no way to really keep track of them all digitally. Sure, there are services out there who have come and gone that promised to store your precious information once you've taken days and days to enter them.
Here comes another, called IHeartMovies.org. We want to preface this by saying that you should always look into the background of web apps and feel free to contact the company to see if you feel like they're in it for the long haul. Nobody likes putting info up, only for the company to dissapear in a week or month.
Having said that, IHeartMovies aims to be a social network for you and your friends (and people all over the world) to share your likes as far as movies go. Great idea, let's jump right into the features.
Rate Titles
Break your collections down into lists (TV or Film)
Check out your collections in multiple views (full description and icon view, or quick list)
Full search of your lists, others lists, and sitewide information
Share movie likes and dislikes on Facebook, StumbleUpon, Delicious, Google
Pretty standard stuff, right?
But it's all in the presentation here. When you log in, you're presented with a pretty neat dashboard that will show you whatever you want to see based on your interests. Things like what your friends have added and quick surveys.
With this type of format, we really hope that IHeartMovies Hearts us and stays up with things, and that means adding more functionality and more widgets. It's an ajaxified and friendlier IMDB.
Post your lists in the comments so we can see what kind of wacky movies you like.
Do you know those cool art spinning booths at festivals and carnivals? Of course you do, they're awesomesauce aren't they?
Well now thanks to CosmicPainter from garageCube you can bring that to your Mac OSX desktop, minus the carnies and smell of funnel cake (booooo).
CosmicPainter lets you make designs from different pre-set shapes and colors, as well as from other images you already have on your computer. You can really dig in with the shading and depth choices on the pallette and make some really rad shapes and designs.
Why would you want to use this? Because it's hella fun and free.
We sat in front of this thing for hours and got completely lost. But Chris Pirillo, the tipster who sent this in to us, warned us that we'd get sucked in...and we're pretty sure you will too.
This is probably the awesomest thing we've seen in a while. LOL Feeds takes the lolcat phenomenon and melds it with Twitter, Jaiku, Wordpress, or anything with an RSS feed!
Basically, you plug in your user name for Twitter (or an RSS feed of your choosing) and it will make what you've written into a lolcat complete with images and LOLFontz!
Netflix users are in an uproar, and rightfully so.
If you're not familiar with what Netflix is, then sorry...please move along.
Kidding...you can rent movies online, and you can create a queue of what you want to see, and they'll mail them to your house as they're available. It's like an autopilot feature and it frakkin rocks.
A few months ago the company put out an even cooler feature that let Netflix account holders create multiple queues under one account. So basically your baby daughter, mom, uncle Steve, and your parrot Whiskers could have their own queue of movies that they want to see.
Such a time saver, such a great function that really reminds you why you use and love (and pay for) Netflix.
Don't go and try to sign up just for that feature though, because Netflix just announced that they're taking it away.
We're talking part one, the one with the hot version of Jennifer Love Hewitt. And oh yeah, that's who you were downloading last week, and we know alllllll about it.
A recent study by Cyber-Ark, who asked 300 IT Professionals about the topic of System Admins checking out what you're doing online at work, says that 1 in 3 IT professionals snoop on their co-workers surfing habits and stats.
I mean why not, right...all the info is right there! They're just "protecting the company from harmful usage".
Sheah, right.
IT Professionals download more pr0n than the entire state of Texas.
Even scarier? 47% of those surveyed said that they accessed info about you that had nothing to do with their job.
No wonder most SysAdmins have the password g0d. Oy!
What might be even worse, is that the other 2 in 3 surveyed lied out of fear that someone was snooping on them while they were taking the survey, thus uncovering the fact that they snoop on us. OMS our heads hurt!
SysAdmins, do you snoop? Worker folk, are you snooped upon?
You can hiphopanonymously write a comment here and let us know about it.
The Lockergnome brand and Chris Pirillo know their technology, and now they're opening the doors up to a new iPhone App tracking site just for you and run by you.
Sometimes the best web services are the simplest ones.
Who doesn't like Legos?
PCIncubator
Some of us aren't good with numbers. The whole addition, subtraction, division, it's just not our forte. 
Launching stuff is cool, and doing so in a flash game online is even cooler. 
Have you ever been working somewhere and needed to focus on what you were doing, writing, saying, but there was too much ambient noise around you?
One of the only features some of us here like about Windows is that you can alt-ctrl-del and look at the open tasks and programs running at any given time.
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We all have a ton of DVDs laying around, and have no way to really keep track of them all digitally. Sure, there are services out there who have come and gone that promised to store your precious information once you've taken days and days to enter them.
Do you know those cool art spinning booths at festivals and carnivals? Of course you do, they're awesomesauce aren't they?
We're talking part one, the one with the hot version of Jennifer Love Hewitt. And oh yeah, that's who you were downloading last week, and we know alllllll about it.
