I ICE-d my phone as soon as I heard about this great idea. Simply put ICE which stands for In Case of Emergency in the name section of the person you want alerted in an emergency, and the emergency services will know immediately who to contact. Simple, easy and oh, so sensible.

Do you Google your symptoms when you’re not feeling well? Try symcat instead …

Chorma – organize your chores the simple way! If you’ve got room mates, or family or you live in a shared dorm room – you’ve got chores. But now you’ve got no excuse for not sorting out who does what, when. It’s chorma – and it’s cool.

Have you ever seen a bird and wondered what it is – or why it has webbed feet or a long curved bill? Your answers are waiting for you at Merlin – an app for portable devices from the Cornell University Lab of Ornithology.

Fall Cooking – fall breads to baked apples, delicious pumpkins and squash – it’s that satisfying time of year at Taste of Home.

When you have to convert files from one format to another it can be a real pain.  But with this online converter it’s simple, quick and easy!

When you arrive in a place you don’t know and you want to sample the best of what the locals do and eat – touristlink is you a great way to do it!

Where did all the wonderful old cinemas go? — You have to map them and see which ones still exist.

Get rid of all those repetitive chores online.

Fed up with all the noise on the page when you’re trying to read an article online? You need Readability, a clever little app that turns your cluttered page into something more readable.