Demo Time! 10 New Apps I Need to Try

It’s been a hectic week. I’ve had my sister visiting me from Paraguay where she’s serving in the Peace Corps, so there hasn’t been as much time to delve into things like usual. (Case in point, as I began to write this last night she came in to ask where was that website to find album art for her iPod? AlbumArt.org I re-googled for her. Yes, her American splurge was a new iPod classic. Apparently there are only so many episodes of America’s Top Model dubbed in Spanish you can handle.)

However, I have run across some interesting things this week that I’m going to be trying shortly. Since I’m a little behind, feel free to comment with your thoughts on these items if you’ve already given them a whirl.

1. feedly+delicious: The new Google Reader synced-up start page, feedly, has integrated del.icio.us bookmarks. As long as you’re running feedly 1.0b3.2 and the latest add-on, you’re good to go.

2. PicLens 1.7 Launches: Firefox plugin PicLens launches their FF3 compatible plugin with new features like Return to PicLens, Discover, and Shop Amazon (read more about these here). This plugin really makes you feel like you’re surfing some futuristic version of the web with its 3D Wall and 3D Video Search features. So cool it’s almost scary.

3. Torrent Relay: Will the next generation of pirates use their mobile phones to steal music and movies? If so, TorrentRelay may be their tool of choice. The software takes existing torrent links and turns them into http links instead. Give that nearly everything supports http, downloading torrent while mobile may be a real possibility. MakeUseOf has a walkthrough.

4. Mento Goes Mobile: Thanks to this SocialGeeks podcast, I was intrigued enough to give Mento a look, but honestly haven’t transitioned there yet. And now they have a mobile website at m.mento.info. I’ve never been 100% satisfied with bookmarking services. I want a simpler service that presents itself like a Google search engine that I can query. Hasn’t been invented yet? Oh, and I have 6 Mento invites if you need one. (First come, first serve. I just need your email address).

5. Blackberry Media Sync: Whoa! Seriously? iTunes to Blackberry sync? NO FREAKING WAY.

Image Courtesy of Crackberry

6. Last.fm Integrated Open Source iTunes Competitor: With lots of features, this cross-platform media player called aTunes that’s built on Java is worth a look. Of course, without the iTunes music store, it could be harder to impulse shop…which may be a good thing.

7. Fox’s Private Social Network: OK, can’t demo this but want to! Fox is pairing with social networking service Passenger to launch a private community for giving feedback on programming and marketing. Since I love me some TV and tend to watch a lot of Fox shows (House, Terminator, Bones, SYTYCD, AI, Prison Break Family Guy, Simpsons, etc), I think I should qualify. It’s like HeyNielsen! for Fox shows.

8. Earth Album: Mashup Google and Flickr and explore the world with Earth Album, a simple service that mashes up flickr photos overtop a Google Map. It’s no Virtual Earth or Deep Earth, but it’s still a fun timekiller. (Thanks, Appscout).

9. MyBlogLog Connector: OK, back to work…MyBlogLog launches Connector, your own personal social directory. With this, you can find missing links in your social network. Connected to one person here but not there? Connector will then take you to their page so you can add them. Once direct authentication is supported, they say they’ll then include built-in friending. Now, that would rock.

Plurkair: Now that I have an Adobe AIR app, will I actually start Plurking? Is plurkit better? Do I even need to Plurk?

The only question now is where do I start?