Don’t be like the masses who post on their friend’s Facebook walls, “Happy Birthday John!”  Stand out! Be special! Post a fun birthday wish to your friend’s wall with the ALOT FB Birthdays app.

The app allows you to easily check whose birthday it is on Facebook and instantly send them a birthday wish.  You can send them a birthday card image that will be posted on their wall or just send them a simple message.  You can also view whose birthday is coming up.

We’re excited to announce that ALOT has reached over 5,000 Facebook Likes!  Thanks to everyone who has Liked us and use our product!

We just launched the Horoscopes app that allows you to check your personal horoscope daily.  It also provides links to celebrity birthdays, love signs, numerology, rune stones, and tarot cards. Best of all, the app allows you to share your horoscope with all of your Facebook friends!

Click here to download the ALOT Horoscopes app today:
http://www.alot.com/app/horoscopes

Imagine you’re sitting at work, you can’t pull out your mobile device, and you have to stare at your computer screen all day long. What is one to do? Well, there’s ALOT to do! Over the past few weeks, we’ve been releasing some fun, new games. We’d like to highlight a few that are sure to get you excited!

Farm Frenzy 3 makes penguin breeding and grazing corn the most fun you can have on an a computer screen. Play over 95 levels, tend to over 30 animals, and put your farming skills to the test. The inviting colors and animation make this casual game a fan favorite!

Treasures of Montezuma 2 is the match-three craze that’s sweeping the nation! With more levels and more challenges than the previous edition, it’s arguably more intense than other matching games. Rack up trophies and other cool stuff that’ll make your gaming experience a real ‘blast’!

Hotel Mogul lets you unleash your inner tycoon by helping the story’s character, Lynette, buy, develop and sell commercial properties to make a profit all while sticking it to her husband who cheated her out of her family business!

Whether you’re taking a break from work, studying, or just looking for some entertainment, these new games can easily be downloaded onto your browser’s alOt Appbar and opened without having to visit different websites every time. It’s the new and efficient way to procrastinate!

To see these and more games visit: Alot Games!

alOt Rewards is a new app that will not only help you save money, but make some in the process. The idea is simple: search for your favorite products from over 1,600 online stores, purchase, and then get cash back!

If you’re surfing the web and are signed in through alOt Rewards, the “CashBack” app on your Appbar will begin flashing, indicating that the site you’re on has cash back savings. Clicking the button, “Get Cashback Now” will apply the savings so that any purchase made on that site will be tracked by alOt Rewards. When you’re done purchasing, the cash saved is directly applied to your alOt account. No cash back available? No problem. Our app will also show you the Top Daily Deals from around the web. The more you buy through alOt Rewards, the more you save!

We hope you enjoy using the alOt Rewards app. If you have any comments on the app or alOt Rewards, reach out to us @alotapps on Twitter, on our Facebook page, or here on our blog. What are you waiting for? Start saving!

To start earning cash back, get the latest version of the Appbar.

We just launched our App Builder! Now anyone can create their own apps easily for their Appbar and share it effortlessly with their friends and family. Users can publish their own RSS feeds, create links to their websites, or build custom apps using standard HTML. After creating an app, users get cut-and-paste code to promote the ad on their blog or website. Check it out and let us know what you think!

We’ve been getting quite a few requests in from people who want to be able to leave comments about their favorite apps at alOt.com.

Well, we listened…

We’ve now added a way for you to easily post comments on all of our app details pages. Here’s what the new feature looks like on our radio app page:

Thanks to those of you that asked for this cool new feature. Keep the requests coming in (and we’ll keep passing your ideas off as our own).

Here we are. Warts and all. Not that I think any of the team have warts, but if we did, now you can see and ask us about them.

When we launched alOt in 2007 we got right down to work making the best products for displaying apps on your PC. Ten million odd users later, we realize that we got so busy we forgot to introduce ourselves. Sorry about that. Well now we’ve added more pages to alOt.com so you can get to know us a little better and ask us some questions.

Visit our “Team” page to get to know the alOt crew.

Visit our “About Us” page to dive a little deeper into what we’ve been up to and to find out how to get in touch.

What we hope you come away with is that alOt is a small company doing big things out of the SoHo neighborhood of New York City. We are a diverse group of individuals with each person bringing their own character to the company and everything alOt does.

Now that you’ve met us, we’d love to hear from you. You can get in touch via Twitter or Facebook.

The alOt Radio App has quickly become a favorite download in the alOt app marketplace. We have a feeling it’s going to be even more popular now that we added a way to search for and enjoy 7,000 new , premium radio stations.

From classic rock to sports, alOt again built on the success of its PC radio app with this new access to more than 50,000 channels from across the world – including a way to find and listen to radio programming that before was only available on major media websites.

Working again with our favorite streaming radio aggregator, RadioTime, we developed a clever way for anyone to search, listen and bookmark their favorite terrestrial and Internet radio stations from any PC or laptop with the unique functionality and controls alOt apps provide – all in real time, without having to visit multiple websites or sign-up for multiple services.

The alOt Radio App was first released in late 2010 and skyrocketed to one of the most popular apps in the alOt app marketplace. Who knew radio would be so popular? With the additions announced today, we expect it to remain a favorite now that you can discover more radio programming from around the world.

While we added this unique way to access premium, third-party radio streams, we haven’t taken away any of the familiar use and control functions that make this app so popular. Keep reading →

Mozilla released Firefox 4  on March 22.  Microsoft released Internet Explorer 9 on  March 14.  Google updated Chrome  on March 8. That’s alOt of updates, which can mean alOt of confusion. so we wanted to share our thoughts on how each browser affects alOt customers.

The Good – New versions mean new bug fixes, better performance, and increased security. For developers in particular, new versions support new code (HTML5, new CSS, etc). All the new browsers also come with a host of new features.

The Bad – Each new browser  comes with a laundry list of new features, that really not everyone needed.  This is not necessarily a positive for some everyday users. For example, when I open my browser to check a sports score, I’m already getting what I want.  If a browser is going to change that experience it better be a positive change. Any change should increase my browsing experience – enough to outweigh my annoyance at change. We know our customers aren’t intentionally late to adopt browser upgrades, it’s often because the  payoff is not just worth it. I have already had to learn at least 4 versions of  Microsoft Word to do the exact same thing, and with every change it’s not getting any better.

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