Plan out your next redecoration or plot the layout of your next furniture rearrangement with online room mapping tool PlanningWiz. You can either load pre-made plans and modify them to suit your space or create your own plan from scratch. There are templates for furniture covering everything from couches to tables to beds and cribs. Save the plans you create, share them via email, or print them out. You can even customise the background of your floor plan, if you just can’t visualize your new living room layout knowing the default flooring just doesn’t match your swanky green shag carpeting. PlanningWiz is similar to previously mentioned Furnish or even Google SketchUp, but there’s no download—all the magic happens in your web browser.
PlanningWiz [via Download Squad]Windows only: Cataloging utility Coollector tracks your movie collection, including flicks you’ve seen but don’t own and DVDs you’ve loaned to others. Unlike other programs of its ilk, Coollector comes preloaded with an enormous database of movies, directors, actors, and actresses. Entering movies from your collection is a breeze with an easy-to-use search function. Coollector goes beyond simple cataloging by tracking movies you’ve seen but aren’t on your own shelf, which fills in the database of your cinematic tastes. Coollector also includes a tracking system for DVDs you have loaned out. For a visual treat, you can integrate previously mentioned PicLens into Coollector to get a slick Cover Flow interface to your searches and collection browsing. Coollector is a free download for Windows only.
Coollector [via gHacks]Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): Free review-aggregating extension Pluribo adds a subtle tweak to Amazon product pages that can often have hundreds, even thousands of reviewers weighing in on a product. After scanning the reviews, Pluribo adds a small pop-up bar at the bottom of each Amazon page, stringing together the most prevalent adjectives and thoughts on each product into one or two cohesive lines. Hovering over each adjective gives you a pop-up with more detail on how it was used, so you be sure you’re avoiding the same kind of editing used in summer movie posters. The extension works mostly with electronics at the moment, but the creators aim to expand soon. Pluribo is a free download, works wherever Firefox does.
Pluribo [via Digital Inspiration]
