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Cool Websites and Tools [May 3rd 2012]


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Radioactivity Counter – Have you ever wondered what amount of radiation is emitted by devices such as scanners at airports? If yes, then now you have a simple way of measuring that radiation through your smartphone, all thanks to an Android tool called Radioactivity Counter. The function of the app is to help you measure radiation in your surroundings. Read more: Radioactivity Counter: Measure Radiation Levels with your Android

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WpThemeGenerator – Often while running a WordPress site, a webmaster may feel the need for a custom site theme. You can save money by creating the theme yourself but using the appropriate theme-creation tool is essential. Here to be that tool is a site called “WordPress Theme Generator”. Read more: WpThemeGenerator: Create WordPress Themes & HTML / CSS Layouts

 

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Camera Size Comparison – When you are shopping for digital cameras online, there are not any clear indicators that help you properly visualize the size of the camera. But here to change that is a helpful web service called Camera Size Comparison, a free to use web service that helps you find out what the actual sizes of digital cameras are. Read more: Camera Size Comparison: Visualize & Compare Digital Camera Sizes

 

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Colorblind Assistant – People who suffer from colorblindness need tools to help them identify the colors they are viewing on a computer screen. Thankfully such tools exist and many of them are freely available online. One such tool that helps colorblind people as well as web developers is Colorblind Assistant. Read more: Colorblind Assistant: Get Information About The Color Your Mouse Cursor Is On

 

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The Faculty Project – is a handy online website that is dedicated to bringing some of the finest educational material online from some of the most experienced professors in the world. The Faculty Project has sought to bring some of the world’s best professors from the world’s leading universities online. Read more: The Faculty Project: Free Online Courses From Top Professors

 

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Cool Websites and Tools [May 2nd 2012]


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Plangr – is a social tool that lets you create plans with your friends and then share them easily. You can create a new plan for an event, invite your friends or simply browse plans that other users have made and choose to join. If you are making a plan with a group, you can also assign parts of plans to different people. Read more: Plangr: Create & Share Plans The Social Way

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Simplymeet.me – Are you a popular Internet personality or person with a valuable skill that could benefit from video conferencing with people? Simplymeet.me is a service designed for this. Basically, Simplymeet allows you set up live video meetings with people who will pay for them. Read more: Simplymeet.me: Create A New Revenue Stream With Video Appointments

 

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Stereogranimator – Have you ever thought it would be fun to make some really old pictures animated? Well the New York Public Library is hoping that is the case, because they have created Stereogranimator to allow you to do just that. In fact, they actually want you to do it. They have over 40,000 images that they want altered. Read more: Stereogranimator: Make GIFs & 3D Images From The New York Public Library Image Collection

 

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HashtagMom – This probably has to be one of the best services available on the Internet for kids who go out with their friends or whatever and want their mom to know they reached safely. Hashtag-mom (#mom) allows users to connect using their Foursquare account and then once you make a check-in, your mom automatically receives a text or a call. Read more: HashtagMom: Let Your Mom Know That You Reached Your Destination Safely

 

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GroupDocs – If you have important documents on your computer that you want to access from a remote location later on, it is a good idea to create a backup of them online for better accessibility. Offering this service and the service of sharing your digital document files online is a website called GroupDocs. Read more: GroupDocs: Back Up Documents Online & Easily Share

 

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Cool Websites and Tools [May 1st 2012]


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CheckThis – is a handy online utility which allows users to publish anything. Whether you want to share a story with your friends or anyone, sell anything, hire someone or simply anything in a quick and easy way. CheckThis provides the user with an easy to use interface and gives them 4 options to choose from. Read more: CheckThis: Publish Anything Online & Share It

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HeyCheck for Facebook – Whether you are an Android or iOS device user, you will easily find a smartphone app that lets you upload images from your phone to Facebook. But what if you want to add effects, filters, and even icons to the image before uploading it to Facebook? The answer is HeyCheck. Read more: HeyCheck for Facebook: Apply Filters & Add Icons To Images Before You Upload Them To Facebook

 

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AutoGlance – When people look for used cars online, they often jump from one site to another to look for listings. But what if you could use a search engine that gathered listings from various online resources and that let you search them? AutoGlance aggregates used car listings from Cars.com, AutoTrader, etc. Read more: AutoGlance: Find The Best Used Cars Listings

 

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Hojoki – Since everything is moving to the cloud now, Hojoki aims to be your one stop shop in knowing what’s happening within your various cloud services. You can add and authenticate your accounts at Twitter, Dropbox, Google Calendar, Google Reader, Delicious, Beanstalk, Github and more. Then all you have to do is log into Hojoki anytime. Read more: Hojoki: Get A News Feed Of All Your Cloud Services

 

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HappyFox – Nothing is important for a business than timely resolving customer issues. HappyFox provides you with a great medium for doing exactly that. It is a help desk and ticket management solution that let’s you professionally deal with your customer issues. To start with, it provides you with a web interface that your customers can use. Read more: HappyFox: A Web Based Help Desk Tool For Small Businesses

 

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Cool Websites and Tools [April 30th 2012]


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Bellbot – Though buying and selling on the web has come a long way, selling a product online still isn’t easy. When you are starting out, any small incentive can pump you up and motivate you to work harder. Bellbot is a tool on those lines. It alerts you with a beeping sound when a customer lands on your site and ends up buying your product. Read more: Bellbot: Get Notified By a Loud Beep When Someone Buys Your Product

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Sorezki SEO Plus – Webmasters and social media experts often use various online tools to check the SEO stats of a particular website. But different tools are offered on separate domains which means a lot of jumping around from one site to another to view various analytics. Here to help Google Chrome users cut back on that jumping around is a browser tool called Sorezki SEO Plus. Read more: Sorezki SEO Plus: Add Immensely Useful SEO Tools To Google Chrome

 

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AudioBooks – Offering a digital product for a monthly fee is all the rage now. You have Netflix and Hulu killing it in the video space. Spotify and Rhapsody are doing their thing in the music space, and now you have Audiobooks.com looking to capitalize on that model in the audio book space. Read more: Audiobooks.com: Listen To Unlimited Audio Books For A Monthly Fee

 

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MockUps – There are several ways for designers to share mockups with their clients including screenshots, presentations and videos, but none of them are as hassle free as MockUps. MockUps is a tool that let you quickly upload your mockup online along with a background image and share it through a custom URL. Read more: MockUps: Share Your Design Mockups With Clients Online

 

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CSS Border Radius Generator – Before CSS3 came into play, developers had a hard time putting round corners in their design. CSS3 solved that problem by introducing the Border Radius element, but it still requires you to write code to specify different values for each corner. CSS Border Radius Generator lets you generate CSS code for your desired values automatically. Read more: CSS Border Radius Generator: Generate CSS Code For Desired Border Radius

 

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Cool Websites and Tools [April 29th 2012]


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Eat Different – Junk food is a big part of most people’s diets. We should all try to cut back on food types that we feel are not benefiting us. Here to help you accomplish this is a web service called Eat Different, a free to use web service that helps you cut back on specific food types. Read more: Eat Different: Get Help In Changing Your Eating Habits

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Fav-Links – Organizing bookmarks is big business. There are literally hundreds of services out there that want to help you keep your bookmarks neat and tidy. The problem is, most of these are installed to your browser, and therefore, only work on that specific browser. Fav-Links is different, because it works with a web app and a Windows-based app. Read more: Fav-Links: A Beautiful Way To Organize Your Bookmarks

 

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CSS Super Scrub – CSS files can get pretty complex and messy especially if you have worked on them over time. CSS Super Scrub is a simple web based tool to clean your CSS of unneeded content and reduce it in both size and complexity. It does that by removing redundant calls, removing unnecessary white space and more. Read more: CSS Super Scrub: Make CSS Cleaner & Smaller

 

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PDF Converter – Sometimes you want to take a PDF and make it tweakable, and the fact is, you cannot really do that with the PDF format. The solution is convert them to an editable format like a DOC, XLS or PPT, but most of the time that involves downloading a converter program. PDFConverter.com allows you to convert your PDF documents from your browser. Read more: PDF Converter: Convert PDFs To DOC, XLS & PPT From Your Browser

 

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Convert Bookmarklet to Chrome – is a pretty self-explanatory name. Yes, the tool helps you convert a bookmarklet to an extension for Chrome is a simple drag and drop way. Well, that’s a part of the process. You do need to follow some steps which involve extracting the extension file and then loading it on Chrome through the Developer mode in Extension Settings. Read more: Convert Bookmarklet to Chrome Extension: Easily Convert Bookmarklets To Chrome Extensions

 

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Cool Websites and Tools [April 28th 2012]


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Deappetizer – Dieting is hard. No one likes having to eat less than they want, but if you want to lose weight, it is the only way. The hardest part is controlling those midday stacks. When the mood to have a little snack strikes, you might want to check out Deappetizer to make you feel a little less hungry. Read more: Deappetizer: Control Food Cravings By Looking At Gross Food Related Images

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Website Builder – Free online service created by somebody who wanted to design their own website. Realising the lack of reviews for site building tools, they decided to review as many site design tools as possible and put them on a single site – Website Builder. On this site you will find numerous site design tools properly reviewed with their strengths and weaknesses pointed out. Read more: Website Builder: A Place To Find Reviews For Website Creation & Design Tools

 

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Smartr-Contacts – The iPhone has a decent contacts application, but for some users, it is not enough. Smartr is designed to improve the contacts by adding a slew of features. The most important thing about Smartr is that is intelligent. It finds people you know from email, calendars and social networks, and populates your contacts with them. Read more: Smartr-Contacts: Get More Detailed Contacts Automatically On Your iPhone

 

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Calibre eBook Management – For anyone who loves eBooks, Calibre is a must-have program. Calibre allows you to convert eBooks from any format to any other format. So, if you download a book that isn’t supported on your reader, there is no need to worry, simply use Calibre, and you will be good to go. Read more: Calibre eBook Management: Convert eBooks From One Format To Any Other Format & More

 

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Save Images In Folder – If you are looking for a simple and effective way to save images in Firefox, then check out this great addon for Mozilla Firefox known as Save Images in Folder. As the name of the add-on suggests, the extension allows users to save images in any folder they want without going through the hassle of browsing and finding folders. Read more: Save Images in Folder: Easily Save Images From Webpages [Firefox]

 

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Cool Tech Deals Of The Week – HP 2311GT 23in Passive 3D LED LCD Monitor (1920×1080) $189.99 Free Shipping& More


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Cool Websites and Tools [April 27th 2012]


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OnlineBeta – If you are a reviewing enthusiast and love to test products before they are released to the public, try OnlineBeta. It is a website that allows users to participate in beta tests of unreleased products. Users get a chance to review products from well-known companies such as Logitech, Dell, T-Mobile and many more. Read more: OnlineBeta: Get A Chance To Test Beta Products

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ABBREX – When you are browsing websites, you will come across countless abbreviations. These abbreviations can be anything, ranging from Internet slang to something specific to the website you are visiting. What you need is a tool which you can use to quickly reference abbreviations and their possible meanings without having to leave the webpage you are currently on. Here to offer you that is a service called ABBREX. Read more: ABBREX: Automatically Reveal The Meanings Of Abbreviations On Webpages [Firefox & Chrome]

 

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Postable – If you are a code developer who shares code online, you already know the problems – changing the > sign to &gt and using &amp to add an ampersand. Making these changes in a long piece of code for publishing online can be time-consuming. Here to help you save time is a web app called Postable. Read more: Postable: Automatically Make Your Code Ready For Online Publishing

 

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How Much Will It Snow – When it comes to online services that can forecast the weather, you will probably find lots of them. But if you want to know exactly the amount of snowfall a place will receive then a simple service like How Much Will It Snow is likely to be your best bet. Read more: How Much Will It Snow: Snowfall Forecasts For Cities In The US

 

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Near2There – Has it ever happened that you had a place – such as a restaurant, a tourist attraction, an art gallery or any such place – in your must-visit list and you were near it but didn’t know and ended up finding out later? That’s why an app like Near2There can come in so handy. Read more: Near2There: Get Alerted When You Are Near The Place You Wanted To Visit

 

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Cool Websites and Tools [April 26th 2012]


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Albums to PDF – If you are looking for an easy way to send your Facebook albums to your friends and family, rather than sending them the Facebook album link, send them a digital album instead in PDF format. Give Albums to PDF a try, a a great online tool that allows users to convert their Facebook albums into digital albums. Read more: AlbumsToPDF: A Simple Tool To Convert Facebook Albums To PDF

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GetTheMath – Textbooks and exams are all good when it comes to teaching math, but how do the students know when/how to apply that math in the real world? GetTheMath is a project that aims to do just that, i.e. teaching students how math is used in the fields of fashion design, video game design and more. Read more: GetTheMath: Videos & Challenges For Using Algebra In The Real World

 

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FindList – When searching for the same word or phrase on multiple webpages, it becomes annoying that Firefox doesn’t remember the word or phrase and you have to re-enter it every time. FindList solves this problem by saving your last 50 webpage searches into a drop-down list. Read more: FindList: Add-On That Turns Your Searches Into A Drop-Down List [Firefox]

 

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Drag2Up – is a handy little extension for Google Chrome that allows users to drag and drop files to text boxes on any website, upload and share them easily. With the Drag2up extension, you can paste the file in text boxes on any website from your computer, and it will upload the specific file to your selected host. Read more: Drag2Up: A Simple Way To Upload Files to Multiple Hosts With A Single Click [Chrome]

 

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Skip Ads On YouTube – If you do not like wasting time watching the ads before the start of any video on YouTube, check out this nifty little extension for Google Chrome that will allow you to skip the ad and jump right to the main video. The extension is totally legit and authentic. It is legal as it does not block the ads. Read more: Skip Ads On YouTube: Skip YouTube Ads Easily [Chrome]

 

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Cool Websites and Tools [April 25th 2012]


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VicMan Visage Lab – One of the coolest things about combining the iPhone’s camera with applications is the ability to take your photos and do awesome things with them right from the device. VicMan Visage Lab is an example of this. This application automatically touches up your pictures to make any people in them look better. Read more: VicMan Visage Lab: Automatically Enhance Your Photos On Your iPhone

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Excel Recovery – Having data become corrupt in an Excel spreadsheet can be devastating. However, there are a few methods available to extract the data and save it. Thankfully, there is an app called Excel Recovery that takes care of all the possible methods with one app. Read more: Excel Recovery: Use Every Available Method To Recover Corrupt Excel Data

 

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LabGuru – When you are researching anything, you often collect a huge number of resources and you may subsequently find it difficult to manage them. The task becomes even more difficult if you are working in a laboratory. But if your lab work involves research relevant to life sciences, you can use a helpful service called LabGuru. Read more: LabGuru: An Online Service That Helps Organize Your Research

 

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Wolfram Education Portal – Wolfram has long been offering educational tools for teachers and students. Its latest is an online tool that offers teachers the ability to easily deliver math concepts to their students. The tool is called Wolfram Education Portal, a free online tool that helps teachers with the math courses they are teaching. Read more: Wolfram Education Portal: A Helpful Tool For Teachers To Deliver Math Concepts To Students

 

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TinyLetter – When you plan to create a newsletter or email subscription service, the first thing you should think about is how people are going to subscribe to your service. One of the easiest ways you can set up a subscription page is through the service TinyLetter, a free web service that lets you quickly set up an email subscription page. Read more: TinyLetter: Quickly Set Up A Newsletter Subscription Page

 

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Cool Websites and Tools [April 25th 2012]


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VicMan Visage Lab – One of the coolest things about combining the iPhone’s camera with applications is the ability to take your photos and do awesome things with them right from the device. VicMan Visage Lab is an example of this. This application automatically touches up your pictures to make any people in them look better. Read more: VicMan Visage Lab: Automatically Enhance Your Photos On Your iPhone

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Excel Recovery – Having data become corrupt in an Excel spreadsheet can be devastating. However, there are a few methods available to extract the data and save it. Thankfully, there is an app called Excel Recovery that takes care of all the possible methods with one app. Read more: Excel Recovery: Use Every Available Method To Recover Corrupt Excel Data

 

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LabGuru – When you are researching anything, you often collect a huge number of resources and you may subsequently find it difficult to manage them. The task becomes even more difficult if you are working in a laboratory. But if your lab work involves research relevant to life sciences, you can use a helpful service called LabGuru. Read more: LabGuru: An Online Service That Helps Organize Your Research

 

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Wolfram Education Portal – Wolfram has long been offering educational tools for teachers and students. Its latest is an online tool that offers teachers the ability to easily deliver math concepts to their students. The tool is called Wolfram Education Portal, a free online tool that helps teachers with the math courses they are teaching. Read more: Wolfram Education Portal: A Helpful Tool For Teachers To Deliver Math Concepts To Students

 

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TinyLetter – When you plan to create a newsletter or email subscription service, the first thing you should think about is how people are going to subscribe to your service. One of the easiest ways you can set up a subscription page is through the service TinyLetter, a free web service that lets you quickly set up an email subscription page. Read more: TinyLetter: Quickly Set Up A Newsletter Subscription Page

 

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Cool Websites and Tools [April 24th 2012]


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TextThisToMe – There are many ways to send information like links, notes, etc from your computer to your smartphone. But if your phone is not a smartphone then things become a little bit difficult. TextThisToMe is a Chrome extension that wants to make life easier in such situations. It installs a small blue phone icon on your Chrome extension bar. Read more: TextThisToMe: Send Text Message From Browser To Your Phone In A Click [Chrome]

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PumpYouUp – If you are in a fun mood and want to shake your body, dance music becomes an essential ingredient to having a good time. To have the most fun, you need the best dance music. For this reason, fans of dance music like to stay in touch with the top music artists in the genre. But at the same time they like to discover good new dance music coming out. Here to help you with the latter is a wonderful web service called PumpYouUp. Read more: PumpYouUp: Get Free Dance Music To Download

 

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Tixik – is an online travel planning tool that has a different interface than most other travel planners. It presents information like hotels, tourist attractions, transport, etc in an organized way, all on one page. You may begin by searching for cities, and they have a pretty efficient search tool. Read more: Tixik: Online Travel Planner With Better City Search & Google Maps Integration

 

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Internet Anonymity Test – Your web browser transmits various types of information to other websites online. By using this information together, a site can create “browser fingerprints” that are unique, identifiable, and a violation of your privacy. To test which information your web browser transmits, you can use a web service called Internet Anonymity Test. Read more: Internet Anonymity Test: Find Out What Information Your Web Browser Transmits To Websites

 

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Web-Developer – Web developers see websites differently. Instead of the usual front-end, web developers see the blueprint where they visualize the layout, structure, CSS sheets, and headings of a webpage. Web Developer extension is a development tool within your Chrome browser to let you filter views, edit, and diagnose webpages to check for implementation issues. Read more: Web-Developer: Developer Environment Within Your Browser [Chrome/Firefox]

 

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Cool Websites and Tools [April 23rd 2012]


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Streamified – If you own a smartphone, you probably use separate applications to keep in touch with your Facebook and Twitter accounts. In case you are using an application that lets you view updates from both, you are not able to control the precise features of each account you view. Here to change that is an iOS app called Streamified. Read more: Streamified: Get A Customized Stream Of Your Social Networks [iOS]

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Citelighter – Research papers are a major pain. Writing them is no problem, but gathering all the information you need is an incredible headache. You need to go to the source and write down all the bibliographical information to make sure you properly cite quotes or paraphrases. Thankfully, Citelighter exists to make this process easier. Read more: Citelighter: Makes Gathering Information For A Research Paper Easy

 

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SelfRestraint – People who use their computers to get work done often procrastinate by wasting time on distracting websites. What you could use is an application that blocks such websites for the duration you are working. Here to offer that service is a tool called SelfRestraint, a Python-based free to use open-source desktop application. Read more: SelfRestraint: Block Distracting Sites For A Fixed Period Of Time

 

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Code Cogs Equation Editor – is great for parents of home-schooled children who need to set up problems for their kids to solve. Using this handy editor you can create mathematical equations of all kinds with little or no coding skill required. Most of the equations are created by simply clicking on an image and filling in the numerals needed. Read more: Code Cogs Equation Editor: Create Equations With Latex & Save Them For Later

 

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PhotoCal – If you use your iPhone or Android phone as the primary camera and take a load of photographs with it, then try out PhotoCal, which organizes images according to their date, making them much easier to find and sort. The application allows users to sort their photos by date, month and more. Read more: PhotoCal: Sort & Organize Photos By Date Taken [iPhone & Android]

 

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Cool Websites and Tools [April 22nd 2012]


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WatchMe – If you are tired of using the classical single use alarm clocks, try out WatchMe that may be used to set and keep track of multiple alarms at the same time. This saves you the hassle of setting new alarms every time. You can set multiple tasks ahead of time. Read more: WatchMe: Set Up Multiple Alarms & Timers [Windows]

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Music Pop Quiz – Guess-The-Song is a game in which someone hums a tune while the other guesses what song it is. This game also has a knack for showing your musical tastes. If you like to play online, you should check out Music Pop Quiz, a website that lets you play guess-the-song. Read more: Music Pop Quiz: Online Guess-The-Song Game

 

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Hopper – is a very simple website that does one thing, and it does it in the quickest, easiest way possible. Basically, it allows users to copy and paste anything into a box, and save it for later access. You can drag and drop files, or copy an image, and it will be in your Hopper when you need to come back to it. Read more: Hopper: Easily Save Text, Links, Images & Files

 

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StartWire – The thing about applying for jobs online is that it can get really messy and time consuming after a while. StartWire is a web based service that wants to make this easy for you and also take care of the most important part of the entire process. Namely, getting a followup on your job application. Read more: StartWire: Organize Your Online Job Search

 

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Documentary Log – If you love watching documentaries and often watch them online then Documentary-Log is a site you’ll want to visit again and again. It is a community website that curates free and legal documentaries from around the web. Their focus is science documentaries. Read more: Tidely: Find Local Tide Tables For Different Cities [US Only]

 

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Cool Tech Deals Of The Week – Motorola Charm MB502 Smartphone Unlocked 3G (Android 2.1) $99.99 Free Shipping & More


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Cool Websites and Tools [April 21st 2012]


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Notification Control – Most social networking websites and media websites send you an email notification each time somebody comments or likes your uploaded media. These notifications can clutter your inbox in no time and make it difficult to find the important emails. Here to help solve the problem is a web service called Notification Control. Read more: Notification Control: Disable Email Notifications From Social Networking Websites

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Beat The Boot – Are you quick with the keyboard? Do you think you will perform well in a game that tests your speed? If yes, then Google’s new game called “Beat the Boot” is just what you should check out. is a simple collection of games, offered as a browser extension for Google Chrome. There are various games that test your basic quickness with the keyboard. Read more: Beat the Boot: Test Your Speed With Google’s New Game [Chrome]

 

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Microworkers – We all have a few extra minutes in our day which we spend browsing the Internet. Imagine transforming those minutes into not only something productive but also lucrative. Thanks to the Internet, you can now sign up for jobs that can be quickly completed within the daily free time you have. To get these jobs or to post about them, check out a site called Microworkers. Read more: Microworkers: Post & Get Jobs That Can Be Done Quickly

 

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Antimap Log – is a tool that comes in the form of apps for iOS and Android phones, and helps to record and visualize – as they call it – “your own data”. The presence of the word “map” in their name might have given you an idea that it probably has something to do with location. It’s true. Read more: Antimap Log: Record & Visualize Activity Data [iOS & Android]

 

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Tidely – If you are planning to go fishing and you want to know whether the tides on that specific day will be high or low, give Tidely a try. It is a handy online tool that let users know at what time the tides will be low, and at what time they would be at their peak. This is great for people who want to catch the best tide. Read more: Tidely: Find Local Tide Tables For Different Cities [US Only]

 

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