Vox is a brand new blogging service from the good folks at SixApart, well known for other blogging products such as the bloggin community LiveJournal, and the blogging platforms MovableType, and TypePad. Vox makes blogging simple and fun, and is in many respects similar to a MySpace page (minus the horrendous coding). Sign up for a free account, and select one of 150 different themes for your blog. Next, you can set various privacy settings so you’re in complete control over who can view your blog posts and pictures. With all that set up, you’ll want to have your friends and family join Vox, or you can become part of one of many neighborhoods and make new friends. The key part here being the last, and with so many social sites of these sort popping up I wonder how successful Vox will be. Still, Vox is beautiful and is a great alternative to other bloated services of it’s kind.

Inquisitor is a superb Mac application which integrates into the Safari browser. If you’re an OS X user, chances are you know about Spotlight, the search as you type search system. Inquisitor works in much the same way but in your browser, so that as you type search queries into the Safari search box, you get possible results popping up immediately. While previous versions had to be bought, the latest version is completely free.

Yahoo! Bookmarks has been around the Yahoo! stable for quite some time now, and those of you who may have tried it may remember that it was basically simply a list of web addresses which was tied to your Yahoo! account. Not anymore, as Yahoo!’s redesigned Bookmarks into a much more feature-filled product with a completely redesigned site, the addition of tags, site thumbnails, and the ability to move bookmarks into folders. If you haven’t yet tried Bookmarks, it may be worth a look.

As your site grows in popularity you are bound to face some downtime with your site, particularly if you end up getting dugg or slashdotted. Once your site reaches its bandwidth limit, users will start seeing error messages and may end up forgetting about your site and not coming now. There is a new service cleverly called L8ter which should help out. If you find a site that’s down, but that you’d like to come back to, simply head over to L8ter and enter the link of the site as well as your e-mail address. L8ter will then query the site until it comes back up, then inform you, via e-mail so you can go back to it and check it out. Additionally, L8ter offers a Firefox extension called Monitor with L8ter, so you can monitor a site right from your browser. Like all great things, it’s 100% free.

By now, many of you have probably learned how to use Google’s advanced search features, and some of you may even be able to create custom search strings to find any kind of data you want. If you’re not sure what I mean about custom search strings, then you can check out this blog post which explains it pretty effectively. While you could use these custom search strings to find a particular file, you may not want to type them out in a search box or even bother remembering how to create them. No problem! Why not use Briefli? Briefli lets you create custom search strings visually by entering a search term, and then selecting a file type and file extension. Briefli will then query Google and you’ll be able to reach the deepest bowels of the Internet to find whatever your heart desires.

As this site and many others can attest, the number of social bookmarking (social anything really) sites has grown exponentially over the past couple of years, and it can often be difficult to keep track of all the accounts you’ve created (unless you’re like me and you start canceling subscriptions left and right). Fortunately, there is a way to keep track of all those accounts with the somewhat humorously named Profilactic.

As more people buy mobile phones with video recording capabilities, and more site begin supporting video sharing, there is an increasing need for an application which makes posting video from your phone to your website extremely easy. YouTube does support such a feature but it can be a little cumbersome to use. Enter Veeker.