Favorites: Rate Files By Importance To Better Organize Them [Mac]

For organizing bookmarks and web material, bookmarks are the right thing, and it’s only too bad that there isn’t something similar in Mac for your files. While files are theoretically organized into folders, there is often the problem of distinguishing identical files that are, in fact, different versions. It isn’t just the file names that make it hard to find them again; often you forget what a file is called, or don’t have the time to add it to the right folder. Favorites is a Mac app worth $4.99 in the Mac App Store that lets you rate files by their importance. It acts as an organizer for these rated files, and lets you create folders for the type of files you need to mark. Files can be filtered by their rating or searched for. The app also lets you quickly preview a file, or open it. Read More

A Better Queue: Find The Best Netflix Streaming Content With Rotten Tomatoes’ Ratings

Finding good Netflix streaming content is not an easy job, mainly because everyone has a different take on a movie, and you may not always want to rely on users' ratings to determine whether a flick is worth your time or not. Rotten Tomatoes’ Tomatometer can be a pretty reliable indicator of movie quality, but switching between Netflix and Rotten Tomatoes isn't really convenient. This is where A Better Queue comes in. This intelligent web application lets you filter and browse Netflix movies with the Tomatometer rating displayed alongside. With it, you will be able to view what's available to watch instantly from Netflix in a list, sorted on the basis of Tomatometer ratings. The service works perfectly and lets you find good movies faster, thanks to its advance filters like rating, year of release and movie genre. Read More

“Rate Everything” Social Networking App Jotly Released For Android

Jotly is a simple and fun way of snapping, sharing, rating and commenting on almost every facet of life from your smartphone. Whether it’s freshly baked pancakes, a glimpse of your new Galaxy Nexus, your new avatar, the scenery outside the window, or the routine traffic jam on the highway, just snap it, rank it and share it via Jotly to get instant feedback from users around the globe. Photos can be graded from A+ to F-. You can like, share, and comment on other users' posts, and filter ‘Jots’ (photos shared on the network) by vicinity, time relevance, popularity or by your personal activities. Jotly's iOS variant debuted in the iTunes App Store a few weeks ago whereas it has just been released to the Android Market. Read More

PhotoLikr: Create/Manage Picasa, Minus & Other Online Photo Galleries

Photo viewers are spread in thousands across the internet, but actually a few ones feel handy and unique. For us, a photo viewer should be aesthetically pleasing and should hold a few unique features, to consider it worthwhile for a review. PhotoLikr is probably one such software, which seem to have much potential. It is an image viewer that lets you review, rate and upload your images to Google+, Picasa, Gmail, PhotoOnWeb and Minus. Your friends can then rate your images and help you in sorting them out according to their ratings, its like those Hot or Not games you'd often play with your friends. The application allows you to share individual images, whole folders or set custom filters according to the Total number of votes, Likr Score or Personal rating. Once an album has been viewed, rated, liked and disliked by your friends, you can choose to either move low rated images to recycle bin or move best rated images to a new folder. PhotoLikr supports all popular image formats such as JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF, PSD, TIF etc, and lets you specify the default resolution of pictures before uploading. Read More

ChaCha For Android Now Supports Real-Time Q&A, Ratings & Push Notifications

Smartphone apps and online web services based on the concept of crowdsourcing data and information are slowly, but surely starting to make an impact around the globe. Whether it’s collecting weather information from various parts of the world, extracting general public response about a recent global event, or an attempt to find feasible solutions to any problematic facet of life, you're highly likely to find a reliable app/service that can provide answers to your queries. ChaCha is one such web service. It’s been quite a while since ChaCha has had its official Android and iOS clients available on the Android Market and iTunes App Store respectively. However, it’s the Android variant of the app that has recently been updated with a plethora of new and useful features, such as real-time streaming of Q&A and trending topics, supplementing answers with star-ratings, location-based Q&A, SMS alerts and push notifications for answers. Read More

YouTube Ratings Preview Shows ‘Like Bar’ On Video Thumbnails [Chrome]

Have you ever clicked a video thinking it was interesting because of the thumbnail preview and it turned out to be either boring or useless or both? Just as you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, you shouldn’t judge a video by its thumbnail and it is precisely why YouTube has a like bar. The like bar serves to tell users if a video is good or bad but the problem is you don’t see the like bar until you click on the video. Search results only show you the number of views for a video and you probably think, so many views can’t be wrong. YouTube Ratings Preview is a Chrome extension that lets you see the like bar on the thumbnail of a video in both search results and suggested videos, so you know if a video is worth watching or not. Read More

Rate iTunes Songs From Menu Bar [Mac]

If you use iTunes, there are good chances you rate your songs as you listen in order to make a preferred playlist. By default, iTunes comes with a directory called Smart Playlists which automatically creates playlist based on your chosen criteria. But, what if you want to see a song's rating before it is changed? In other words if you would like to see unrated songs in the library, you got to have a 'Rater" that may just as well let you do that! Read More