Neighborhood Improvements: Like Kickstarter, Lucky Ant aims to provide funding to neighborhood spots for improvements – examples of projects featured on the site are: sponsoring the construction of an outdoor patio for your usual café to helping a local high school build a student-run restaurant.

Match Made in iTunes: You and your boyfriend do not have the same taste in music — you love Katy Perry and he (still) loves KORN. Is that a sign that your relationship is headed for Doomsville? Maybe you should both download ChuChu Tunean – an app that assesses a couples’ compatibility by comparing the individual’s playlists.

Tree Music: This turntable interprets the rings in a slice of tree as music – check it out here!

— Lauren M.