New Online Tools To Make Your Life Better

A few online tools to make your day-to-day life easier: Backup all your online accounts (Facebook, Twitter, Wordpress, Flickr, etc.) with Backupify--sign up free through January 31. Online backup tool Carbonite backs up your entire computer and stores your stuff securely online ($54.95/year for unlimited backup). Use animoto (free) to create really good-looking video and photo slideshows. Tripit is an online travel itinerary and trip planner--e-mail all your travel confirmation e-mails to Tripit, and the site organizes them into a master travel itinerary. Mobile app Waze provides turn-by-turn navigation based on live road conditions and is entirely crowd-sourced. Hunch helps you make decisions ("Should I buy a Mac?" "Which religion should I consider?"), providing based on the collective knowledge of the community, and improves each time it's used. And Dorthy, "the first topic-based social network," can help you keep your New Year's resolutions: Users create "dreampages," and each page searches the web for relevant content.