Zapd – This wonderful app offers an amazing free service. Create your very own website using Zapd’s system of templates and styles, add your mobile pics and voila, you are now the proud owner of a website. Zapd allows you to do all this on your iPhone, and the entire process from start to finish is fast, simple and fun.

Each website or “Zap” you create is automatically adapted to the device you used to make it, which means Zaps can be done via your iPhone, PC or tablet. And you can create as many Zaps as you wish, which is a great tool to use for simply sharing your interests and experiences, but also for special events such as birthdays, party invites, weddings and many more. Want to see some examples? Check out recent Zaps users have created.

To be honest, I’m surprised Zapd offers their sweet bundle of site creation for free. In other words, you’d better get this app now and start expressing yourself online! To learn more on how to use Zapd, see this intro video.

Redux – It seems everybody’s talking about content curation these days, and many see this as the next level of social interactions online. What it means in simpler terms is that users worldwide share things they’ve discovered on the Web in various venues, in addition to the conventional social networks and blogs. Redux is yet another content curation hub where everyone’s invited to share entertainment finds in the form of photos, music, videos and websites.

Here’s a video I found on Redux that is particularly enchanting. Think of it as your daily chill pill.

Pictarine – Storing and sharing photos these days is possible via Google’s Picasa, Facebook, Flickr and other photo hosting sites. The obvious question is how come there isn’t a single venue online that allows you to import all of your photos from various social networks and other locations to a single place? One that is easy to use, doesn’t require monthly payments to store your albums? Say hello to Pictarine, the site that invites you to “manage and share all your photos, whether they are on Flickr, Facebook, Picasa, Twitter, Instagram, your computer, your camera, and even your mobile. You can finally enjoy and share your photos the way you want in one place.”

In addition to storing and sharing photos, Pictarine offers a sociability feature whereby users can create ‘zests’ – a sort of a photo-based status update that friends can comment on and add their own photo to. Pictarine takes the chaotic world of dispersed online photo storage locations, and brings these all together to make it better and more organized.

Gojee – This recipe site -named after the funny looking berry from southeastern Europe and Asia- stands out from conventional recipe sites for a few obvious reasons. First, from the first moment you enter Gojee, all you see are large, hi-res, mouth-watering photos. Second, the site shows you (as opposed to merely ‘finds’) curated recipes depending on what you crave and what you currently have at home, while the system eliminates what you hate or can’t eat. The free style recipe search is also available if you must.

Whatever recipe you fall in love with can be shared on Facebook, Twitter or via email, and you can also mark it as a favorite. Who curated and tested these to-drool-for recipes? Meet the savvy cooks and foodie bloggers behind the scenes.

DeMilked – A design milking magazine? Say what? DeMilked extract (as in the verb, milk) “the world’s most creative minds and make you tasty inspiration cocktails by mixing industrial design, technology, concepts, advertising and a little bit of web design.” DeMilked certainly lives up to this promise. It is filled with inspiring, beautiful and surprising posts, all accompanied by hi-res photos and insightful commentary.

My favorite post currently on DeMilked -even though I’ve already seen this elsewhere on the Web a couple of months ago- is 40 Clever and Creative Bus Top Advertisements. Can you guess who is the brand behind these cool pop-up ads? Click the images below to see the post in full and find out.

Project Noah – What initially started out as an experimental project by NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program later became a mobile app – the interactive and social platform, Project Noah, where ‘scientific spotting’ are entered by users all over the world, and shared with the community. This, as Project Noah’s creators hope, will serve as a “go-to platform for documenting all the world’s organisms and through doing this we hope to develop an effective way to measure Mother Nature’s pulse.” And the best part of Project Noah? It’s designed to work on mobile phones (started with the iPhone). This means you can take a shot of that weird-looking beetle you found during your hike in the woods, and share it on Project Noah, thereby learning more about that organism.

Here’s a screenshot showing what users recently spotted in nature and shared with the Project’s community. Each image you click on takes you to a page where you can see the animal photo’s full size, discover who posted it and where was this taken. This app is particularly beneficial to families with young children, as it’s a wonderful way to experience and learn about the environment and the creatures living within it.

Pixlr – For those of you working in the graphic design and photography fields, Pixlr is a bliss. The company calls itself “an online cloud-based image tools and utilities” provider serving “both non-professionals and professional users with editing needs…”

Pixlr offers a wide collection of services, all centered around photo editing including the classic photo editor, and the Pixlr-O-Matic Facebook app that turns your Facebook photos into retro snaps. These are but two features Pixlr offers. Finally there’s a free alternative to the costly Photoshop software (although limited in features compared to the latter).

How to be a Retronaut – Tap into captivating time capsules in a variety of subjects, thanks to this super cool blog celebrating the wonder of history in digital form. The theme diversity of Retronaut makes it a genuinely encompassing experience in diving into the past right now, in the present. Discover rare photo collections of people and places in various contexts in Retronaut’s well-designed online time-machine.

See the two images below as wonderful examples. The first is an exceptional photo series from TIME magazine in the late 1950s, showing a photo shoot of Christian Dior in Soviet Russia. The second is a chic Polaroid of Sean Young and Rutger Hauer, the cast of Blade Runner (Ridley Scot film, 1982) took while on set. Click on the images to go to the full post and see additional photos.

Courtesy of www.seanyoung.com

PhotoCollect – The concept if this great photo collecting and sharing service is amazing: “Have you ever been on a trip with some friends and you want to gather everyone’s photos afterwards? Or been to a party and someone else got those awesome photos?” PhotoCollect lets you have all of those photos -whether taken by you or someone else at the same event- uploaded to one place where everyone can go to see them.

PhotoCollect currently offers its collecting services for free (up to three albums at a time, for personal use only), and if you wish to use the company’s photo upload and storage features there’s a price plan for you to check out (annual fee of $35 for premium).

MyPublisher – Who hasn’t come across those dreadful, totally over the top photo albums grandmas almost drool over at every large family gathering? Forget about those. Now there’s MyPublisher, a stylish website that helps you create affordable, high-quality custom-made books that offer “personal, creative outlets that let people truly express themselves.”

Take your pick between photo albums, photo calendars, scrapbook pages and even premium photo cards. I recommend checking out the site’s Just Published pages to see what other people have created, and to learn more about all the cool features MyPublisher offers. Here’s one of my personal favorites, Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong. Isn’t it adorable?

Dear Photograph – This cool tumblr blog is simple but also inspiring and compelling. Dear Photograph’s idea is straightforward, judging by its call to action: “take a picture of a picture from the past in the present.” This doesn’t say much, so here’s a visual example:

Dear Photograph is an ongoing feed of such posts made up of pictures of old photos, held up in the air at the location of the original ones. The result is captivating photos capturing both past and present in one frame, thereby keeping that old memory alive and kicking in an artistic way.

SoundTracking – Although currently available for iOS 4 devices only, this music app tries to offer an all-in-one bundle based on the music soundtrack of your daily life -the tunes that add a splash of color to your routine. SoundTracking comes with a built-in music ID feature, which is the standalone product of many music apps out there (such as Shazam and SoundHound). But SoundTracking doesn’t stop there. The app includes geo-tagging music snippets and sharing these with your friends along with a photo of the track’s artist or album.

Want more? SoundTracking lets you check in to Foursquare when you post a soundtrack with a location, and you in turn can follow friends’ location based on their tagged songs and check ins. SoundTracking is ideal for the iPhone users who love sharing in general, and sharing what they’re doing and what they’re listening to in particular. This app is free which is, considering all the perks it offers, surprising to say the least. In other words, go ahead and download this wicked app ASAP while it’s free.