I. Landing Page

What’s Good :

• Simple interface
• No Registration Needed
• Straight to the point

What’s Bad :

• Way too simple
• I don’t like the color combination between Gray, Orange and Blue

II. Features

What’s Good :

• Simple and easy to use
• Upload your picture from file or web
• Advance option available

What’s Bad :

• Small template library
• Using a transparent PNG image as your main image will resulting a blackened background for your main image
• Your calendar maximum size will depend on your uploaded picture size, no server side image resize option available
• The result will only be stored for 2 hour, so make sure to save your generated calendar to your hard drive
• Calendarika falsely detect my monitor as a wide-screen one, but in fact, it is not.

III. Verdict

Calendarika is a pretty fun to use free calender generator, if only Calendarika added more template library and an option to change the image size, it could be a lot more awesome.

Visit Calendarika Here

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Calendarika – Create a Calendar originally appeared on anggackt on January 4, 2010.

Up2Maps will maintain a library with all the Maps created by people to ensure that it will be possible to consult them at any time.

I. Landing Page

What’s Good :

• Fast loading map
• Simple Interface
• There’s no obligation for registering if you just want to see the data

What’s Bad :

• The logo

II. Features

What’s Good :

• An extensive help page
• Upload data for any map using a spreadsheet
• Exporting the map for your needs for free
• Very good for knowledge
• Voting system for each data provided
• Coloring system to differentiate map data density

What’s Bad :

• It doesn’t have much users yet
• The first to second screen of depth level for map choosing is lacking a zooming feature

III. Verdict

Up2Maps is a really amazing tools and resources for your daily dosage of knowledge regarding a certain country. Be sure to bookmark Up2Maps on your browser.

Visit Up2Maps Here

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Up2Maps – Map with Data originally appeared on anggackt on December 5, 2009.

I. Landing Page

What’s Good :

• Fast and easy to load
• Simple explanation of what they’re doing
• No need for email confirmation when registering
• There’s a Free Plan available

What’s Bad :

• It would be better that they explain how they do the crawling and stuff in a simple way to make people realize how potential and safe LinkAider can be

II. Features

What’s Good :

• A very detailed report about your website “health” , which means if there’s a broken link/duplicated title or not.
• Amazing breakdown to the most detailed point divided by easy to understand section
• A report about which page took the most time to load
• Monthly report even with the free plan (with maximum 500 pages tested)

What’s Bad :

• It took pretty long to complete all the test

III. Verdict

LinkAider really help a webmaster to develop a website. Not only that, they even provided a free plan for everyone to use. If you develop a website or just curious about your web “health”, LinkAider is your answer to it.

Visit LinkAider Here

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LinkAider – Website Analysis originally appeared on anggackt on November 27, 2009.

I. Landing Page

What’s Good :

• Nice to look design, almost..
• Flash News Section
• No confirmation email needed

What’s Bad :

• Mix language doesn’t help this site at all, the flash news is in Bahasa while the overall landing page is in English, more explanation for this at the verdict area.
• Typography for the registration explanation part really hurts my eyes, too small and choosing an almost blend-with-background color for their description doesn’t help at all. It is nice in design perspective but not in usability

• An odd way of registering by choosing one of Indonesian island and clicking “register here” in the pop-up window, why don’t they just automatically popped the register form when clicking an Island ? Again, nice in design perspective but a complete disaster in usability
• What the heck is my phone number for ? Phone marketing ? I didn’t use the main phone provider sponsor for this site which you can use for logging-in, so I think I don’t have any obligation to just put my phone number there which is not covered in their TOS and FAQ.

II. Features

What’s Good :

• All in one page with blog, videos,micro-blogging,shopping center etc etc
• You won’t have to reload everything to change a thing or two with the help of AJAX
• Share your status update to Facebook, Friendster and MyPulau*
• See status update for your friends in the same pulau with a very interesting graphic
• Set up your mood using a fast to load way, your mood is symbolize by weather condition

What’s Bad :

• Mix language again. The interface is in English while almost all content is in Indonesian. For example the mall/shopping center is a downloadable content store for Indonesian citizen.
• *There’s no update status to the provided social networking web option
• They provided a time zone selection but they use a compact definition for the time zone. Really, this is nice in design perspective but an utter fail in usability. I prefer a GMT based with the city name in it rather than this.

• That…bright…red…ugh…

III. Verdict

MyPulau, coming from a mobile telephone provider in Indonesia, is a nice effort to make a social networking all-in-one website for Indonesian based user.

Too bad, MyPulau is having a crisis identity with their language, a mix-match between Bahasa and English. This probably coming from Indonesian culture for applying a job which requires you to write your job application in English, while the employees and employer mainly using Bahasa in daily life work, hypocrisy ?

Okay, they provided a way to choose between English or Bahasa, but please, if your site is intended for Indonesian user, use Bahasa as the main language for the site, then English as an alternative option. All of my foreigner friend thought that this site is intended for International user with interest for Indonesia’s Islands. Realizing the main purpose only after they tried to register and found out that it need an Indonesia based phone provider number.

I love how they made thing simpler with the AJAX based navigation, but come on, why did they forget about the basic usability of the site ? Like the timezone way of selection and this :

Can you read the hovered link ? I bet you can’t :)

Visit MyPulau Here

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MyPulau – Consolidate Your Things originally appeared on anggackt on November 26, 2009.

PrintFriendly makes printing on the web better. You’ll save paper and ink, plus get great looking documents.

I. Landing Page

What’s Good :

• Nice Design
• Bookmarklet for you to use
• Button generator for your website

What’s Bad :

• -

II. Features

What’s Good :

• An option to automatically remove all pictures
• Per element editing, so you could manually delete any element you don’t want to print.
• Export to PDF

What’s Bad:

• I really hope I could manually set-up the layout given

III. Verdict

A very nice solution for printing a web page cleanly and easily without any fuss. Print Friendly is a very nice addition to the web application directory with their amazing system.

Visit PrintFriendly Here

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PrintFriendly – Print Friendly Web originally appeared on anggackt on November 20, 2009.

I. Landing Page

What’s Good :

• Funny (fictional) quotes from various legendary painters
• No Registration needed

What’s Bad :

• Pretty long loading time

II. Features

What’s Good :

• Many brush choices
• Default configuration for each brush is already more than enough
• Advance user can tweak it to achieve a more painting like result
• The capability for superimposing painted images

What’s Bad :

• Not so nice interface and icon for configuration, the tooltip is a must use

III. Verdict

A very – very nice tool for making an impressionist photo painting, now you can be your own Van Gogh or Monet with mouse.

Visit PsykoPaint Here

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PsykoPaint – Photo Painting originally appeared on anggackt on November 19, 2009.

I. Landing Page

What’s Good :

• Straight to the point
• Fast to load

What’s Bad :

• Those bezel buttons

II. Features

What’s Good :

• Easy to operate with sliders
• Automatically detect your face structure, although you can manually set it up to achieve a more perfect simulation
• You can review your own makeover

What’s Bad :

• It’s only a simulation and doesn’t represent what will really happened if you done a plastic surgery to your face

III. Verdict

LiftMagic, although only a simulation, really does provide a very good insight of what plastic surgery could done to your face. What they lack is a Maximum option to see how horrible your face will if you overdone it.

Visit LiftMagic Here

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LiftMagic – Instant Makeover Tool originally appeared on anggackt on November 17, 2009.

The simplest way to create fake Facebook Conversations.

I. Landing Page

What’s Good :

• Simple, straight to the point
• Explanation by example, pretty easy

What’s Bad :

• For the landing page ? None

II. Features

What’s Good :

• Really looks like a FaceBook conversation
• Picture Randomizer

What’s Bad :

• No option for faking a “like this” ala Facebook
• No option for changing time and date
• You can’t write smilies in it since it will not printed on the result (all smilies that started with “:” ).
• Well.. it’s fake

III. Verdict

I’m not encouraging all users in Lamebook to fake a conversation to make it funny, but I really find this tool useful just for some fun and that’s it. A simple and easy way to fake a Facebook conversation.

Comparison between Fakebook Quotes and a real(?) conversation posted on Lamebook

- Fakebook Quotes

- Lamebook real(?) Conversation

Visit FakeBook Quotes Here

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FakeBook Quotes – Fake the Wall originally appeared on anggackt on November 15, 2009.

I. Landing Page

What’s Good :

• The search feature available directly on the landing page, and you need not to register to use it
• Easy to navigate

What’s Bad :

• None, I can assure you, no major flaws on their landing page

II. Features

What’s Good :

• The amazingly advanced search feature, for each search you will given different advance search option according to your main search term, whether it is to search pool, instructor or many nore.
• Many many more features (requires a registration), such as news, guide, videos
• Some picture of the pools along with some details
• Some very interesting going to be added features such as a shopping center, swimming team manager, scheduler and many more

What’s Bad :

• Not all public pool listed on their database, which is normal. But this keeps me wondering why some of the biggest public pool in Indonesia doesn’t listed yet, they mainly listed pools from hotels.

III. Verdict

A very very nice swimming related all-in-one website. There’s so much features available that will make Swim.com a one stop web site for your swimming needs.

Visit Swim Here

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Swim – All About Swimming originally appeared on anggackt on November 14, 2009.

I. Landing Page

What’s Good :

• Simple landing page
• No registration needed

What’s Bad :

• Rather than making their own logo, NewOCR prefer to use Free Online OCR as their header image along with the hideous Comic Sans font

II. Features

What’s Good :

• Good recognition, with test result (Using NewOCR default option) :
  • Easy Test : Perfect
  • Medium Test : 1 Character wrong (Testing out NQWOCR)
  • LQ Photocopy Simulation : 1 Character wrong (Testing out NewO£R)
  • Hard Test : All Character wrong ([iii])
• Export to either Word document or Text document
• Rotate and resize image before recognition option
• Support for PDF documents and various image formats
  

What’s Bad :

• As per this review, there’s no support for East Asian and Middle East language / characters

III. Verdict

A very nice free online solution for OCR application. You really don’t need to spent hundreds of dollars for your OCR task, NewOCR is here to help you reduce your spending.

Images use for this test :

- Easy Test

- Medium Test

- LQ Photocopy Simulation Test

- Hard Test (this is almost impossible to read even for the most advanced and pricey OCR application)

Visit NewOCR here

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NewOCR – Free Online OCR originally appeared on anggackt on November 10, 2009.