Cool Free Websites and Apps

Symbaloo - Generic webmix Description: Symbaloo allows you to organize all of your websites in one place. It is free and its biggest advantage over some other solutions it that it is based on a visual organization. Your preferences are stored in a cloud so you can seamlessly switch between your devices. The following short video provides a quick overview of how this service works. Creating an account: It essentially works as a bookmarking service. You can share your bookmarks with anyone by making them public or share them with a select group of users. The first thing you will want to do is create a free account, which is very simple, you only need to fill out four fields.   Symbaloo - Creating an account Creating a webmix using quick start: Once you sign up, you can start creating your webmixes, you even have an option to select the quickstart option, where Symbaloo will let you create a webmix using some favorite websites in less than a minute. The...

Description: Padlet (formerly known as Wallwisher) is a web-based tool that allows you to build a wall of thoughts. It is a simple, yet powerful website with unlimited possibilities. You can build a private wall to organize your own thoughts or maybe create a visual list of goals or you can create a public one and share it with the world or even embed it on your website.  Padlet  allows you to create walls using different templates and you can add various multimedia. You can even use  Padlet  for real time collaboration with others. There are so many possibilities, I am sure you will love it. Padlet - Travel Bucket List Example Padlet  is very easy to use and very intuitive. One of its strengths is also in the various ways you can share what you create. The following is the screen shot of the sharing options, which all come with the free account: Padlet Sharing Options Others have used  Padlet  to plan events, to organize their Christmas s...

Description: Delicious is a free web-based tool that allows you to organize and search your bookmarks so that you never again lose a link to something you find interesting or important. Whether you need to come back to the link a few times to write a research paper or you wish to visit it a lot, you can track it using Delicious and categorize it accordingly and if you no longer need it, you can simply delete it. You can bookmark anything you encounter using various different devices thanks to an app in combination with the browser tool. The site also lets you connect with other people and gives you suggestions for links you might find interesting that you can bookmark. At first you need to create your free account or you can choose to sign in with your existing Facebook or Twitter account. After you create a profile on Delicious , there are various sections of the website you can interact with. If you are using Delicious mostly to organize your links (its main purpose), then yo...