Power
of Group Buying
Groupon : Its a
group buying website that allows users to strike mouthwatering deals for
products or services. Discount ranges from 25% to 90%. You have to pay nominal
upfront fee to the website and if the deal does not struck, you get the refund.
So watch out for deals available for your city.
Encyclopedia of Life
: "Imagine an electronic page for each species of organism on
Earth.". It is a free, online collaborative encyclopedia intended to
document all of the 1.8 million living species known to science. It aims to build
one "infinitely expandable" page for each species, including video,
sound, images, graphics, as well as text.
Print what youlike : With this online utility, you can remove ads, images of a webpage
before printing. You can also change font size or font type. Save money and
environment by reducing paper and ink usage.
Quillpad
: Write in your own language
Quillpad is a free
online typing tool. You can write in 10 Indian languages including Hindi,
Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu etc with its online editor. For example, type 'aap
kaise hain' in the Quillpad editor and it will convert it directly into
Devanagari script. You can save or email your message.
Wobzip
: Uncompress on the fly
Wobzip : Sometimes, you
may go to your friends house and download some zip file. But, maybe your friend
PC does not have software to uncompress it. Wobzip can help you by providing uncompress service on the
fly. It suppost various format, and the maximum file size supported is 100MB!
On the other way round, MailMyZip (Max size 2 mb per file) allows you to compress up to 5 files and also email the same.
On the other way round, MailMyZip (Max size 2 mb per file) allows you to compress up to 5 files and also email the same.
Free
DTP software
If you don't want to purchase expensive DTP software like
Pagemaker, here is a list of free open source Desktop Publishing software which
are also rich in features.
1. Scribus
2. Passepartout
1. Scribus
2. Passepartout
RentAcoder
: Outsource your work
RentAcoder: If you
are a freelance programmer or want to outsource your work, this site will help
you.
Rent A Coder is a web-based marketplace that connects businesses in need of computer programming expertise with a global, freelance market of programmers. It also connects businesses and freelancers in the areas of graphic design, writing, translation and numerous other services.
Rent A Coder is a web-based marketplace that connects businesses in need of computer programming expertise with a global, freelance market of programmers. It also connects businesses and freelancers in the areas of graphic design, writing, translation and numerous other services.
Palshare: Need to
share or send large files/folders? Upload your files (upto 250 mb) and let your
recipient(s) come to one place and download. Automatically Zips Multiple Files
& Folders. It's free.
Copyscape
: Defend your site
Copyscape : The
Copyscape service makes it easy to find copies of your content on the Web.
Simply type in the address of your web page, and Copyscape does the rest.
Copyscape finds sites that have copied your content without permission, as well
as those that have quoted you.
Project
Gutenberg : Free ebooks
Project Gutenberg : Freeebooks : There are over 20,000 free ebooks in the Project Gutenberg Online BookCatalog. The collection has ebooks on variety of subjects like literature,
history, art etc. All the ebooks can be freely downloaded.
Scribd
: Online Library
Scribd is a big online
library where everyone can publish original content.
... the idea behind Scribd is that everyone has a lot of
documents sitting around on their computers that only they can read. With
Scribd we hope to unlock this information by putting it on the web.
eHow
: How to do just about everything
eHow : A reference site for just about
everything else. Want to know how to tie a tie? Make pizza dough? Install a
bathtub? This is the place.
Spypig
: Free email tracking system
Spypig is a free email
tracking system that lets you know when the email you sent has been read by
recipient. It works with virtually all modern email programs: Outlook, Eudora,
Yahoo Email, Gmail, Hotmail, AOL Email and many others. Cool tool and it's
free!
Deezer
: Listen to good music
Deezer : is a very good
site where you can find massive amounts of songs to listen to (you can´t
download them, only listening is allowed).
Web2PDF
Web2PDFOnline Widget allows you to quickly provide PDF creation capability to your
blogs and websites, converting HTML to PDF.
Web2PDF will also keep track of the PDF conversion
activities from your site, which provides a metric to measure what is most
popular or useful for your readers.
Wikitravel
: Travel around the world
Wikitravel is a project to create a free,
complete, up-to-date, and reliable worldwide travel guide. So far we have 16,861
destination guides and other articles written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe.
Like wikepedia, this site is going to be next super hit. Must for someone who travels around the world a lot.
Like wikepedia, this site is going to be next super hit. Must for someone who travels around the world a lot.
Contactify
: Email without the address
Contactify : Create
your own personal contact form. Contactify creates the link, people click on it
and then they can send you a message without you ever having to reveal your
email address. Anyone who has ever put an email address online can appreciate
the benefit of this! And it's free. Registration is super fast.
Fix-It
Club
Fix-it Club : Learn
how to repair or recycle household items that you might otherwise throw away.
A
Word A Day :The magic of words
Wordsmith :If you
are a die hard word lover, this is the site for you. It emails you new word
every day with meaning, its origin etc. Subscription is free and very easy. It
has half a million subsribers !
labnol
: Best Tech Blog ?
labnol : There are many
tech blogs around, but this one by Amit Agarwal, India is truly the best tech
blog I have come across. Its no surprise that it generates more than 1 million
hits per month. Strong content. Worth a visit.
flauntR
: Online Image Editor
flauntR : While the
basic image editing features in FlauntR are no different from other, what
impressed the most are the variety of photo frames, textures and light effects
that you can apply to digital images in a click. This is very handy when you
have to quickly finetune a web image or a family picture but there is no
graphics software like Photoshop, GIMP or Picasa installed on you computer.
Voip
Guide
Voipguides :
Arguably, the most comprehensive blog on the subject covering a to z of voip.
FilesTube is a search engine designed
to search files in various file sharing and uploading sites. Search for
"All" or by media type (mp3, wma, zip).
Mango Languages has launched a in beta. Mango
is an online tool for learning a language - Spanish, Russian, French, Italian
and more. There is also option for English for Spanish speakers and English for
Polish speakers.
Palette
Generator: Generate a color palette from a photo
PaletteGenerator: Automagically create a harmonious color palette from a photograph
- use your own photo, a photo on the web or on Flickr or Photobucket.
StrokeIt
: Mouse Gestures for Windows
StrokeIt - Mouse gestures are
simple symbols that you "draw" on your screen using your mouse. When
you perform a mouse gesture that StrokeIt can recognize, it will perform the
"action" associated with that gesture. Free for individual.
Bubblesnaps
Bubblesnaps
- add a caption to your digital photos. The posibilities for fun are endless!
SketchUp
SketchUp - new from Google, plan out your home or
garden and see it in 3D. Bookmark worthy just because it's so darned cool.
Yahoo
Translator
Yahoo! Babel Fish - Translation - a
handy bookmark to add, for all your translation needs, powered by translation
old-timer Babel Fish, and with a similar interface that is familiar and easy to
use.
Empressr
: Online Presentation software
Empressr : online,
ajax-powered presentation software. Impressive looking ... and free!
Picupine
: Share photos for a week !
Picupine
simple solution for quick sharing of photos for a short term. Uploaded photos
disappear from the web after one week.
Daytipper:
daily tips, tricks and techniques
Daytipper: Welcome to Daytipper.
Based on the premise that everyone is an expert on something, Daytipper
collects tips from a variety of areas (home, food, gardening, tech etc) and if
they like your tip, they'll pay you $3 for it as well!
Daytipper is obviously really new and some of the tip
categories are a little lean, but I'm sure once the word gets around a bit, the
tips will start flowing in. A great site to add to your newsreader.
Good
Widgets: photo display widgets
If you're looking for a nice and different way to display
your photos on your website, you really should go and have a peek at GoodWidgets.
Currently Good Widgets offers 3 different photo display
widgets - the book, the stack and the slideshow. Each one is customizable to
suit your site. Also, each is available in two flavours - free but has the Good
Widgets logo and a smaller number of photos per widget OR Standard, which is
priced from $2 to $4 and doubles the number of photos.
Phixr - Online Photo Editor is a site
that can come in handy whenever your regular photo editor isn't handy. Perhaps
on vacation or at a family members for Thanksgiving?
Simply upload a photo (or point to the photo's url), edit
the photo with some easy to use photo tools (crop, rotate, sharpen, color balance,
convert to black & white etc). Phixr actually has a nice selection of
tools! To finish, either save your photo, email it or upload it to a photo site
such as flickr, all from within phixr.
LabPixiex
: Nice Gadgets
LabPixies - Coolest Gadgets OnThe Web - whatever your flavour of personal start page, LabPixies has a
good selection of gadgets to add. Most available for Google and Windows Live
and many available also for Pageflakes and Netvibes, with easy click-to-add
functions.
Musicovery:
a very cool way to discover music
With Musicovery : interactive webRadio
you can determine what music to listen to by your mood, define it by genre or
narrow it down to a particular decade. Choose to hear only only hits or only
non hits or set it to discovery mode to, um ...discover.
Make your picks then watch musicovery deliver just the right
musical choices for you. I like!
Signbot:
make your own animated scrolling text LED sign
Signbot - makeyour own animated scrolling text LED sign. Write your text, select a sign
width then generate to add to your MySpace or website or use as your forum sig
or avatar. The generator will generator regular and LiveJournal-specific code.
Wordie:
Like Flickr, but without the photos
Calling all Wordies. Wordie lets you make lists of words. Words you love, words you
hate, words you just want to share with the world. Then you can see who else
likes your words or comment on other people's choice of words. Or whatever.
Wordie has a bookmarklet that will let you select and then
import words right in to Wordie.
List
of free online education sites
Online Education Free - for anyone in a
perpetual search for knowledge, a huge list of links to online sources of
education.
Footnote:
view original documents online
Footnote - The placefor original documents online a new site with millions of images of
original source documents, many of which have never been available online
before. Beyond viewing these documents though, the site offers the user the
ability to annotate, organize and add their own documents to share with others.
"Footnote has something for everyone, from individual
history buffs to groups and societies looking for a smart way to make their
collections available to millions of people."
Fascination stuff and a great site to get lost in for a
while.
Movers
2.0
Movers 2.0 - Follow theWeb 2.0 traffic trends - see which sites are on the move, who is gaining
(or losing) rank.
WIth so many sites popping up everyday, it's interesting to
see who has been able to break away and grab a decent market share. Also a
great place to discover some of the up-and-comers. Interesting.
Todoist:
simple, dynamic todo list manager
Simple todo list manager: Todoist
is a simple, efficient and dynamic todo list manager, aimed at getting us
organized it "Getting Things Done" fashion.
Free sign up required to get started.
Good
Reads: see what your friends are reading
Goodreads | see what yourfriends are reading and keep track of what you've read and what you'd like
to read. Goodreads allows users to rate books, so it's easy to see which books
are hits with people you know
Big
String: Get your email back
BigString.com - The World'sCoolest Email allows you to recall any sent email for those inevitable
moments of email remorse.
Free, and paid Premium/Business Accounts available.
Newseum:
Newspaper Front Pages from around the World
Newseum
: 495 front pages from 50 countries. See how papers all over the place are
covering a story. Interesting.
Kool
Messenger
Kool IM - log in to many
popular messenger services at the same time through Kool IM. The services
include ICQ, Yahoo, MSN and Google Talk.
Create
PDF Online
PDFOnline : Simply upload the document you want to convert to PDF and voila
it's done!
Zapr
- Really Simple Sharing
Zapr - Really Simple Sharing is not
just another Drop Send clone. You don't have to upload anything. You can share
files by having them retrieve the files right from your computer.
Free
polls for your blogs and websites
PollDaddy is simple
and flexible, allowing you to customize the styles to match your website or
email campaign. Deliver your poll through JavaScript, direct link, widget or
RSS feed. And free, too. Currently in public beta.
Free
Auto Bibliography Generator
OttoBib- Free Auto Bibliography Generator is a great tool for anyone who is in
research mode!
Free
Receive-only email
dodgeit - free.receive-only. email. no set up. rss. for those times when you have to give
an email but you really don't want to give one that you actually use.
Online
Alarm Clock
Online Alarm Clock -
Sometimes, the very simplest tools are the most useful. I can think of ways
this would be useful. If you can too, head on over and bookmark for future use.
Foxit
PDF Reader
Foxit Software released v 2.0 of it's free PDF
Reader, a great alternative to Adobe's Reader. Combine the free Foxit PDF
Reader with the Firefox PDFDownload Extension and Bob's your uncle.
Zippy:
A new way to search
Zippy - The webmaster's metasearch engine - goes beyond just search results. Check SEO information,
related searches, compare two urls etc.
Create
a collage from a single photograph
Hockneyizer:Create a simulated collage from a single photograph - a couple of styles to
chose from to create a unique photo presentation.
Eight
Ways to Quickly Resize Images
Image resizing tools aren't just for people who don't have
Photoshop, or the non tech savvy. I often take screen capture snippets for
posting to this blog and if they exceed the width of my content area, I need to
resize them. And I don't want to open up Photoshop (or another image program)
to do it. Call me impatient or lazy or whatever, but that just seems like
killing a fly with a hammer. So, with that in mind, here are 8 ways to quickly
resize images ...
Lyrics
plugin for Windows Media Player or Winamp
The Lyrics Plugin is
"an add-on to view lyrics in WinAmp or Windows Media Player. No more
searching for lyrics. Just start listening to your favourite songs and lyrics
will be displayed automatically. Oh, and if lyrics is not found, you can add it
yourself :)"
Lyrics Plugin is malware, adware, spyware free and is
currently in open beta.
Free
website monitoring service
"Mon.itor.us is
the only external website monitoring service which provides commercial grade
distributed monitoring services absolutely for FREE."
Monitor.us service is free and there are no limits on the
number of sites monitored. Get notifications via RSS feeds or email,
performance reports and customizable metrics and a desktop workspace.
Clocks
for your website
ClockLink
From their websites "provides fashionable clocks that you can easily embed
in your web page. All you need to do is simply paste the tag on your web page.
Our clock will display the city name of your choice if you choose. You can also
choose a time zone for your clock so it will show the correct time."
Website
Thumbnails For Your Site
WebSnapr - WebsiteThumbnails For Your Site. : It is a screenshot tool and also provides
screenshot thumbnails for use in link thumbnails (hovering over a link shows a
thumbnail-sized screenshot of the link destination page).
mypictr:
online image resizer
mypictr - is an online image
resizer that is perfectly suited for creating a custom sized profile image but
could also be used for any quick and easy image resizing needs.
mypictr offers a handy dropdown box for a bunch of social
networks, which will spit out the correct sizing for each one. There are also
some generic sizing options as well as (I assume) the ability to just plug in
your own dimensions.
Once resized, you can download the image to your own
computer. Images are not retained on mypictr.
Textorizer:
Vectorize a picture
Textorizer -vectorise a picture using text strings. To use the cool textorizer
generator, simply point to an image on the web, enter the text to add, set some
size and effect controls and then Textorize! Neat effect.
Clock
Screensaver
Would you like your screensaver to display the time? Here's
a small (472kb) Windows screensaver program to download and install that
contains 14 different clock screensavers. ClockScreensaver:
The handwritten one is very cool and the timeline is very
slick. Don't be put off by the fact that the site looks a bit dated. The
software will run fine on WindowsXP and is spyware, adware etc free.
Zamsar
: Convert files online
Zamzar - Free online fileconversion - without downloading or installing anything!
Zamzar converts to a wide range of image,
document, audio and video formats. The maximum file size is limited to 100MB.
gabmail
: Free Video Mail
If you'd like to be seen as well as heard, check out Gabmail - a free, video
email tool, that requires no download, installation or registration.
Ambient
Clock
AmbientClock
is about more than telling time. At a glance, it shows you your events for the
day. The backlighting changes color prior to your next appointment to subtly
get your attention, as well.
This online beta will hook up your Google Calendar with a
Google Personal Homepage gadget, and wrap your daily schedule around the clock.
Weebly
: Create your own website
Weebly - Website Creation Made Easy
says it's the easiest way to a create great looking website and share it with
the world for free. And featuring a drag and drop interface, a variety of
themes, personalized subdomains, zip exports (in case you want to host your
site on another server) and many content elements (photos, videos, maps, ads
etc), they just might be right.
Looks like a great tool for those who want a site but don't
have the skills to build one or for anyone who just wants a fast and easy site.
Phrase
Express: say more, type less
PhraseExpress Autotext -Clipboard Utility organizes your frequently used text phrases and allows
you to paste them into any application.
"Do you find yourself typing common phrases over and
over again? Just store abbreviations, answers to frequently asked questions,
email templates or text snippets in PhraseExpress and reuse them again and
again."
Phrase Express is a small (1.3MB) Windows program, with a
lot of features to save keystrokes in every program - like MS Office programs,
MSN Messenger, comments on blogs etc.
Free
Online Ringtone Maker
Free web ringtone maker.
Load up a tune from your computer, an audio url or the web (max size 5MB) and
turn it in to a ringtone. Accepts mp3, midi, m4a, aac, wav and mp4 formats.
Online
Icon Maker
Online
Icon Maker - createyour own icons in an online free editor - A quick and easy way to create
your own unique icon or favicon. Use their editor or create a favicon from a
picture on your computer.
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