Need to buy or sell something fast? StuffBuff lets you take advantage of the real-time stream and gives you a 10 minute auction rather than 10 days. It’s easy to catalog all of your items with cool tools such as web-cam barcode scanning, image recognition and mobile integration – you can even chat with buyers and sellers in real-time!

 Looking for a fun way to explore your city? FourSquare is a mobile app where users can find new and interesting things in their city. Finding different items lets you earn virtual badges and unlock new recomendations from other people. FourSquare also allows you to become the “mayor” of a particular hangout spot with rewards (such as free coffee and ice-cream) specific to each location.

 Rippol is a simple discovery solution for finding new things to watch from the social web. It uses a butterfly-effect algorithm to find material based on your preferences, and guarentees that every video can be watched online immediately.

 Do you need to send faxes in your business? Do it for free! MyFax is simplified online faxing and supports many standard document and image formats. You can send up to a 10 page document to 41 different countries, you get an editable cover page and a confirmation when the fax completes.

Rackup.com is a new style of fast and thrilling auctions in which consumers compete for gift cards and for an extra free cash bonus of up to 100%, their model results in a win-win situation for both consumers and sellers.

This is a great search engine that combines the tabbing feature of an internet browser with other major search engines like Google, Bing and Dogpile. You can also specifiy on the search bar what source types you want to look at such as news, lyrics, jobs and social bookmarks.

 Forgotten friendships or want to check your own web presence? Pipl.com is the most comprehensive people search available on the web, you’ll get the latest blog posts, social media, and website mentions of the names you search. You can even specify the city!

 Yahoo Glue presents lot of different search result formats on the same page. You get to see video, pictures, articles, images and more with each search. The Glue-topic pages help you keep everything organized and streamline the way you view information.

 Is your desktop filled with icons? BumpTop is an easy intuitive way to organize everything! BumpTop transforms your desktop into a 3-D workspace where you can create “piles” similarly to how you do on your desk. Icons can be sized by use, and you have the ability to toss photos directly to Twitter or Facebook from the desktop.

Font is something we often take for granted, but it can make or break a website or document. My Fontbook is a broswer-based viewer that lets you quickly and easily browse through your fonts. You can tag fonts (by style, creator, project etc) and even rate them with the familiar star-interface.

 Printee is a web-printing tool for Internet Explorer that lets you print only what you want from a website. No more printing ads, no more copy/paste to Word, and you can reduce your paper and ink usage. The interface is completely “what you see is what you get” so you get complete control over your website printing!

ShareFlow lets you organize your emails into flows based on a team structure. It is like your inbox merged with a message board! You can post to your flow directly from email, preview photos and even edit document attachments online! ShareFlow will also integrate with your mobile device to give you complete flexibility.

 How do you manage social media? Postling provides an elegant solution, you can manage all your social media posts from a single page! You will no longer need to log in to each account individually, Postling supports Wordpress, Blogger, Typepad, Squarespace, Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr. It also allows you to centrally manage comments from all of these sites!

 Attention BlackBerry users: Beyond411 is an incredibly cool and incredibly useful free app! Beyond411 is the fastest way to look up business listings, driving directions, and web pages on your Blackberry. It can even search based on your exact location using GPS. You can set multiple search locations and even integrate the results into your address book.

 Dropcard is a direct feed of articles for business news. It includes articles from CNN Money and MSN Money as well as other sources. There are no frills on the website, but you can search through their archives for older articles.

 Do you shop online frequently? How do you find the best deals? Invisible hand will help you get the lowest price, wherever you shop! InvisibleHand shows a discreet notification when the product you’re browsing can be bought for a lower price elsewhere. It gives you a link directly to the product page at the competing retailer. It also refreshes the price-comparisons every time you use it so you’re always up to date!

 Etherpad.com is a real-time collaborative document platform allowing you and your colleagues to edit a document together and see each others changes instantly! When you create a pad for editing it gives you a custom URL, there is no emailing or delay between users, you call can work on the same URL at once. Etherpad updates character level changes in the document every half-second (compared to every 15 in Google Docs), making it one of the fastest collaborative editors available.

 
LTL Prints.com allows you to create custom larger than life self-adhesive wall prints from your photos or personal images. Do you need a reusable wall mural of your company’s logo? LTL Prints is definitely the way to go! Prints can be made in standard sizes ranging from one foot to seven feet or you can define your own custom dimensions. Each print is durable and re-usable, it will self-stick to many surfaces and can be easily removed.  

Hulu Labs has put out a new product Hulu Desktop! Hulu Desktop is a lean-back viewing experience for your personal computer. It features a sleek new look that’s optimized for use with standard Windows Media Center remote controls or Apple remote controls, allowing you to navigate Hulu’s entire library with just six buttons. It is a downloadable application that can run on both Windows and Mac platforms.

 Have you ever needed a more high-powered image editor but didn’t have one installed? Pixlr.com brings advanced image manipulation and photo editing tools to your web browser! You can upload an image, make your changes, and save it back to yuor desktop without having to install any software. Pixlr supports layers, custom brushes, filters and many other must-have tools for successful graphic design.

If a picture is worth a 1,000 words, then a video is worth 10,000! Jing is a desktop tool for simple visual communication. It allows you to capture images or videos from your screen and add voice-over or drawn figures with text explanation. The best feature is that you can upload your video or images to a screencast.com account (free when you download jing) and send the URL to others so they can easily see your explanations from email or IM.

Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers (even from PC to Mac). It is intended for users with multiple computers on the desk (e.g. a desktop plus a laptop). Synergy also merges the clipboards of all the systems into one and synchronizes screen-savers. To move from one computer to another, you simply move your mouse off the side of the screen. Some configuration is required (see this week’s tech-tip).

Launchy is a free application launcher that will make you forget about your Start Menu! It indexes programs, documents, bookmarks and folders so you can launch them with a single simple search. Lightweight and easy to configure, you will wonder how you lived without it.

CoolIris.com – cooliris is a firefox plugin that transforms your browser into a fast cinematic image browser. It allows you to quickly scoll through images in a walled view for instant navigation. You can also view pictures stored on your computer, view video thumbnails, and get bookmarked feeds for News, Sports, Music, TV, events and more!

meebo.com – instant message anyone! meebo is a online messaging aggregator, allowing you to communicate across instant messaging platforms. If you have a AIM account, you  can talk to people on an MSN, Yahoo! or MySpace profile from a web-page (no installation required)!