Cool Product of the Day

Web retailers are always looking for new ways to connect with their audience.  Regardless of whether it’s a company selling a product they made or an ecommerce site pushing other retail items, better ways of selling on the web are constantly in high demand.  Cool product Mulu aims to deliver a new and helpful way for companies to connect with audiences and sell their products more conveniently.  Mulu combines ecommerce with strong content to engage readers right when they are most interested in a product of service.  When a company uses Mulu, web articles with good content that mention their product or service will turn into mini web boutiques that sell the item.  This cool product not only allows for another channel to sell products, but it does so at a time when someone is most likely to consider purchasing that product.  If a user is reading an article about tech support concerns, it is likely that they would seriously consider purchasing an online computer repair service.  By embedding the option to buy that service in the article, companies are giving themselves their best shot at drawing a person’s interest.  Read more »

Communication between professors and students at the university level is extremely important, but not always easy to facilitate.  Even with digital services such as email, getting in touch with a teacher can be difficult for a student.  Students’ messages will often get lost within a large group of messages that are in a professor’s inbox.  Universities also discourage teachers and students from using public social networks like Facebook in order to communicate, eliminating that option.  Read more »

Social networks like Pinterest have grown subcultures within themselves where users post and share craft projects and do-it-yourself scenarios.  There has proven to be great interest in social networking as a tool to help people create and not just entertain themselves or communicate.  Foodzai is one such social network that is joining this trend.  This cool product allows people to post, share, and review recipes.  While Pinterest has started to help people create crafts, Foodzai wants to harness similar energy to help people share and create different types of food.  Foodzai encourages users to create personal “cook” profiles and post recipes publicly on the site.  Each recipe contains detailed instructions, an ingredients list, and pictures of the final product.  Cooks can also post pictures of the process on their recipe pages, but that is an optional addition to each post.  Anyone who wants to join Foodzai, but has trouble creating an account can seek the appropriate help through a computer support company. Read more »

With the advent of digital music and especially the popularity of digital singles, the album is becoming an antiquated musical format in many ways.  Consumers no longer purchase entire albums based on how much they like a specific song they heard on the radio.  They purchase individual tracks that they enjoy.  With less people listening to full albums, artists and bands can have trouble when they want to make a record that’s a complete experience, more enjoyable as a whole than in individual tracks.  Read more »

It may sound like a small issue, but in truth, the font used for the typeface a company chooses for their website is actually quite important.  Any visitors to a business’s website spend more time reading the content on the site than doing anything else there.  The typeface on a website can make a company seem professional, edgy, bland, cheesy, or intelligent. Any web designer knows how important making the right choice can be to the visual presence of a company.

Fontdeck is a cool product that provides a large variety of fonts that users can integrate into their websites.  On the Fontdeck website, the company keeps a marketplace of different typefaces available for companies to use on their own sites.  Fontdeck has hundreds of professionally styled fonts available at any given time for companies to purchase.  The company prices their fonts individually for any users that wish to use them.  Fontdeck also tries to make it as easy as possible for companies to integrate any purchased typefaces into their websites.  Users only have to input some lines of code in order to render the font they want on the web.  Any companies without the proper technical staff or business IT support will still need help integrating any Fontdeck fonts. Read more »

Smartphones can sometimes seem like a contradictory term, because while these devices have added many smart features, the phone aspect of their function mostly remains unchanged.  The only real advantage that smartphones have over regular phones is the transplanting of an alphabetical address book into digital format.

Cool product Brewster believes that more is possible when it comes to changing how people use the phone aspect of their mobile devices.  Brewster socializes and makes a user’s contact list “smart”.  With this cool product, someone’s digital address book doesn’t simply organize alphabetically, but through the relationships that person has.  Brewster categorizes users’ address books based on how often they contact each person in them and the relationships that the users have with their contacts.  Brewster pulls information from your social networking profiles in order to organize your address book appropriately.  Through connections with services such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Google Plus, the team at Brewster claims it can create an address book that is more suited to each individual user than the standard alphabetical format.  People who have trouble connecting their social networking accounts to Brewster can get help from a mobile tech support specialist to fix the problem. Read more »

While ridesharing apps like Uber and Lyft have gained significant momentum, the most common way for most people to get a ride in a major city is still an old-fashioned yellow cab.   There is still a way to use technology to make it easier for people to find a ride even when they want to take a taxi.  Cool product Hailo is a mobile device that allows users to hail cabs with their smartphones or tablets.  Rather than calling a taxi company and potentially ending up on hold for a long time, people can just open up their phones and tap away to call a ride right away with Hailo.  This cool product wants to erase the uncertainty of trying to find a cab on the street.   The app lets people call cabs specifically for them, rather than hope to catch taxis that are simply passing by the area.  Hailo wants to revolutionize the urban transportation industry in order to get people service in an on demand capacity just as many other industries, such as remote computer support, have in recent years. Read more »

The QWERTY keyboard layout debuted on the typewriter in 1873 and has been the standard for typing since that time.  This wide adoption was mostly due to the popularity of the Remington model of typewriter that used the design.  Due to the popularity of the QWERTY layout, personal computers also adopted it early on in the development of the technology.  Most have never questioned it due to the similarities between word processing on a computer and typing on a typewriter.  However, once the QWERTY keyboard became a standard for touch screen mobile devices, some disadvantages became apparent.  The confusing layout lost the advantages it had on tactile systems when transferred to the confined space on a mobile phone screen.  Since most users were only using their thumbs or a few fingers to type, the QWERTY keyboard was no longer optimal.  That’s why cool product Dextr wants to challenge the QWERTY keyboard standard on mobile devices and replace it with an alphabetical layout. Anyone who wants to try Dextr’s new style of mobile keyboard but has trouble setting it up on their phone can ask a mobile tech support professional to help them install this cool product. Read more »

People want their greeting cards to stand out.  That’s why so many people spend so much time on their Christmas cards, wedding invitations, and even birthday cards.  Stikr.it is a cool product from a new startup that wants to help people make their greetings cards even more memorable.  With Stikr.it, people can enhance their cards or any other physical written message with digital images through the company’s Stikr.it codes.  Stkr.it codes are obtainable through the company’s website.  Each Stikr.it code comes in two forms: a ten-digit number and a QR code for mobile phones.  Both the alphanumerical code and the QR code link to the same content once a customer has produced them via the website.  Customers must purchase each Stikr.it code separately, but once they own a code, they can edit it as they wish.  That means if someone wants to reuse a Stikr.it code and change the content connected to it, that person has the ability to do so through the Stikr.it site.  Anyone who has trouble generating Stikr.it codes on the product’s website should seek help from a home tech support specialist. Read more »

Small business owners who don’t have the technical knowledge or the right connections can have a lot of trouble setting up an online store for web-based clientele.  Cool product Volusion provides a complete e-commerce solution for businesses covering every aspect of the process.  Volusion distinguishes itself from its competitors by including every aspect of e-commerce for small business rather than focus on one particular point of it.  Other services provide help with an online POS system, social media marketing, or order processing.  However, these services usually come from separate companies, making the process less convenient and fractured for already-stressed business owners.  Volusion differentiates itself by offering solutions for all of these things in one complete package.  The company wants to be a one-stop solution of sorts and give small businesses one experience for all of their e-commerce dealings.  In theory, this sort of all-in-one solution could reduce the need for business IT support services.  However, in practice, that may not be the case, as people may need tech support to help them learn the ropes of Volusion’s software. Read more »