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VyuMe – Literally hundreds of URL shrinking services have launched over the last couple of years and most of them offer nothing unique or different. In this crowd, VyuMe (pronounced View Me) is among the very few that do stand out due to unique features. In addition to offering a very good URL shrinking tool, VyuMe also adds a social touch to it. Read more: VyuMe: URL Shortening With Notes, Comments & Stats

		Tagg – Are you tired of uploading images and then tagging them one by one? Would it not be easier if you could just tag photos at the same time you take those images? Well, Tagg allows just that. It is a handy iPhone tagging app that allows users to tag their friends and family members visible in the photograph and share them online. Read more: Tagg: Automatically Detect Faces In Photos & Share Them On Facebook & Twitter [iPhone]
		Think With Google – is a data driven resource that provides you with lots of consumer trends, marketing insights and other industry-specific research information in an easy-to-read manner. To start with, you can browse the latest insights including information about that particular topic, and articles, studies and videos. Read more: Think With Google: Google Powered Data, Insights & Trends
		Src-Img – is a simple bookmarklet that helps you search for other sources of an image, using Google Image Search. One objective of the tool is to find the original creators of images you see on blogs without attribution. However, the tool can be used for lots of other purposes. Read more: Src-Img: Automatically Searches For Other Sources Of Same Image
		KinderTown – Children enjoy handling iOS devices. But if you are about to let your child use your iOS device, it would be best if you let them use an educational app. Searching for educational apps on the iTunes store is not that straightforward. A tool dedicated for this purpose alone is called KinderTown. Read more: KinderTown: An App Store For Education Related Apps (iOS)

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Enqueue – While there are several music players available in Windows, it is rare to find a great alternative for iTunes on the Mac. In order to be a good candidate to replace your iTunes, it should do some things better than iTunes, such as being quick, light, and no-nonsense. Enqueue is a free music player for OSX that is up to the task. Read more: Enqueue: An Elegant Playlist Manager [OSX]

		RetroGifts – Buying presents is usually a challenging task. One gift type that is always successful includes gifts that bring back memories of the old days. But you cannot always know what items belong to those ‘old days’. To help you out, a web service called RetroGifts was created. It lets you find nostalgia-inducing gifts for your friends. Read more: RetroGifts: Find The Best ‘Retro’ Present For Your Friend’s Birthday
		DocRaptor – Coding up PDF and Excel files can be an extremely difficult process. The code is long and tedious to write. Developers who have created XLS files are well aware of this problem. Here to offer you a far simpler solution to creating XLS and other document files is the highly useful web service called DocRaptor. Read more: DocRaptor: Convert HTML Code Into PDF & XLS Easily
		Full Page Text – Webmasters aim to keep the loading time of their websites as low as possible. But to ensure quick loading times, one needs an external testing tool and not simply ask people to observe how quick a site loads. Here to offer you that testing tool is a web service called Full Page Test that lets you measure the loading time of your website. Read more: Full Page Test: A Web App To Check Loading Time Of A Website
		Musicshake – Knowing how to play a musical instrument lets you create your own music. But playing a physical instrument is not the only way to make music. There is now a new web app called Musicshake, that lets you create musical beats with ease. Musical controls are loaded up with different instruments representing different notes/chords. Read more: Musicshake: A Web App To Help You Generate Musical Beats With Ease

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Castle.so – Do you want to upload your files faster and make your client download the uploaded files quickly? If so, stop searching and try out Castle.so, a simple web service that allows users to upload and download files seamlessly without any problems or interferences. No more ads to hinder your movement, and no more “time cap” to wait for. Read more: Castle.so: A Simple Online Tool To Upload & Share Files

		Multi Edit – If you have a moderate number of contact book entries, at times, you might find it difficult to edit entries or send messages to multiple people at once. Multi-Edit is an app made specifically for that purpose – to make changes to your iPhone phonebook easier. Read more: Multi Edit: An Easy to Use Phonebook Manager [iPhone]
		Krunch – While writing an SMS message or a post on an online forum and social network, you want to keep your text as little as possible. This makes it problematic to share multiple URLs in a single message. Thankfully there is a web service that squeezes multiple long URLs into a single shortened one. This service is called Krunch. Read more: Krunch: Squeeze Multiple Links Into One Shortened URL
		PancakeIO – When it comes to sharing a text file with your friends or your site’s visitors, you have to first open up your web browser, then manually upload the file, then make a few adjustments before the file is ready to be served. This process is made much quicker thanks to a web service called PancakeIO. Read more: PancakeIO: Easily Share Text Files & Other Documents With Friends Online
		Drinkify – Do you know what drink best matches your music taste? As it turns out, there is an app for that. Drinkify is a simple app that suggests drinks for you based on the music you are listening to right now. This idea may just be an offshoot of music suggestions based on your mood, but it works out to be a fun app nonetheless. Read more: Drinkify: Get Drink Suggestions For Your Music

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RentSavvy – Looking for an apartment is hard work. Normally apartment listings leave out numerous details about the environment. You have to visit the apartment and neighbourhood yourself to get a complete picture of what you will be getting. But here to change all that is a new web service called RentSavvy. Read more: RentSavvy: Find Apartments That Match Your Preferences

		FloodMap – In the unfortunate case of a flood, you will want to know how high the flood waters are and which areas are above that level. Only then can you make a wise and calculated evacuation plan. Here to help you with this is an immensely useful tool called Flood Map, that helps determine which areas will be underwater once a flood strikes. Read more: FloodMap: Easily Determine Areas Affected By Floods
		YouTube To Ringtone Converter – Have you found a YouTube video that you want to set as your phone’s ringtone? Normally to do this, you will first need to download the video, pass it through a video-to-audio conversion app and a separate application to extract the part of the audio that you need. But all of this can be done using YouTube to Ringtone Converter. Read more: YouTube To Ringtone Converter: Turn YouTube Videos Into Ringtones For Your Phone
		Hangout.io – Have you ever wanted to invite people to an event without having to create a Facebook event page or messaging them? Hangout.io can solve this problem. It is a simple website that allows users to create ‘events’ and invite people to them. Such a system ensures that only private friends, or anyone who is sent an invite, are invited. Read more: Hangout.io: A Private Event Notification Tool
		Rokker – Taking your favorite songs wherever you go is not easy. A far more convenient option is online media players. One of the best online media players currently out there is called Rokker, a free to use online media player that works best with either Safari or Google Chrome. It is best to first register with Rokker. Read more: Rokker: The Only Online Music Player You Need

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We recently reported that Picnik will be closing on April 19th. The demise of the popular online photo-editing service has been met with scorn from fans, who are unhappy with Google’s decision to kill one of the web’s best free tools in the name of consolidation.

There’s no need to panic, however. While Picnik will be missed, there are some solid alternatives available that are just as free.

Google+ Creative Kit

If you don’t consider the actions of Google to be a mortal sin, you may receive the best results by sticking with the Google family. The company’s Creative Kit is, in essence, a port of Picnik’s functionality into Google+. Users have been able to use this feature for several months, but awareness remains limited. That’s probably because the Creative Kit is easy to miss. To access it, you first need to click on a photo you’ve uploaded in Google+, then click on the rather small Creative Kit button tucked away into the upper left hand corner of the screen.

Most of the basic features of Picnik can be found here, minus the Advanced, Touch-Up and Frames categories. With that said, I’d be shocked if Google does not add in these tools within the next few months. I don’t think the company has anything against free photo editing – they just want people to use these tools through Google+ rather than a separate website.

Speaking of which, you can export all of your Picnik photos over to Google+, making it rather easy to migrate from one to the other.

Aviary (Phoenix or Facebook App)

One of the better free image editing options available on the web is Phoenix, which is part of the Aviary suite of free media editing utilities. Phoenix is not tied into any social network or any other website and it doesn’t require registration. You can load it and start editing within seconds.

The interface itself is more akin to a traditional image editing program like Photoshop, so it could be a little intimidating at first. You also won’t find some of the easy photo filtering features you find with Picnik.

Where you will find those features is the Aviary app on Facebook, which was just launched. Known officially as the Aviary Image Editor, this tool gives you the ability to open photos from your albums and manipulate them with a number of common tools. There are even stickers to add and effects to apply.

Better still, you can connect Picnik to Facebook, so you can edit and save photos now with Picnik but open them later in the Aviary Image Editor if you want to make any changes.

Pixlr

Making the choice for the third alternative in this article was tough. There’s a lot of good options out there such as Fotoflexer and Phixer. However, these simply seem to do the same thing as the Creative Kit and Aviary Image Editor, but offer an inferior interface and inferior social network connectivity.

So instead I direct you to Pixlr, a veteran of the online image editing wars. Pixlr is a lot like Phoenix. It’s a standalone photo editor geared towards advanced users. However, of the two I’d say Pixlr is without a doubt the more robust option. It simply has more features.

Pixlr also offers an easy editor called Pixlr-o-matic, which is available online, via Facebook and as an iOS and Android app. However, it’s focused on adding effects and filters rather than real photo editing.

Although not directly a part of any social network, Pixlr does include the stand social network connectivity, which means you can open and edit photos stored in Facebook and Picasa (among others).

Conclusion

I think that Aviary Image Editor is the leader of the alternatives listed here. Creative Kit is nice, but its integration into Google+ seems a bit Frankenstein. Google has taken a stripped-down version of the Picnik software and stitched it on to their social network. Hopefully they will put more work into the feature.

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MyRoute SafeDrive – One of the significant ways in which iPhone apps have helped humanity is by helping drivers on the road know what lies ahead, taking their phone calls for them, showing routes etc. I’m sure you know about such apps; there are many of these out there. MyRoute Safe Drive is a new entrant in this league. Read more: MyRoute Safe Drive: Speed Limit Alert App [iPhone]

		Zwiggo – If you were to plan a weekend trip, having all the itinerary sorted out before the trip begins would be a prudent thing to do. Doing it through email or Facebook Groups or Google+ might not be very convenient. Zwiggo lets people like you build a collaboration space for planning such group tasks. Read more: Zwiggo: Collaborate With Friends To Plan Group Activities
		Cloudability – Tracking all of your paid cloud accounts can be overwhelming. Fortunately, we have Cloudability. This tool lets you monitor your accounts from a single dashboard, helping you save money, keep track of payments, and avoid over usage while generating a graph report of your usage. Read more: Cloudability: Track All Your Cloud Services & Payments In One Place
		Tradyo – Finding great deals online will not do you much good if they are geographically too far to use. This is precisely why you should be searching for local deals to begin with. You need a tool that focuses on location-based trading and allows its users to easily trade locally. Tradyo is exactly that. Read more: Tradyo: Buy And Sell Locally Using Your iPhone [iOS]
		TwitDesktop – Would you like to share how your desktop looks with others? Normally this would mean taking a screenshot of your desktop and emailing it to your friends. But with a new web service called TwitDesktop, sharing a screenshot of your desktop has never been easier. The first step is to authorize it access to your Twitter account. Read more: TwitDesktop: Easily Share Screenshots On Twitter

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Patternizer – Do you want a new background for your design or maybe for an arts project? Well, if it’s a pattern you need, then you should give Patternizer a try. As the name suggests, is a website that allows users to create custom patterns according to their own requirements and needs. Using the service is pretty easy and fun. Read more: Patternizer: A Simple Tool To Create Custom Patterns Online

		ClickDummy – Do you have a sketch or a mockup plan you want to get feedback on or show your clients before finishing it? If yes, then you should check out Clickdummy, a website that turns your sketches and drawings into more interactive mockups. For example, turning your Photoshop template into a real-life mockup design. Read more: ClickDummy: Get Feedback On Live Mockups
		Deel.io – If you are hunting for group buying and daily deals, then you should check this out. Deel.io is a Google Maps mashup and search engine for daily deals in your city. Created by former Google engineers, this tool pushes the cutting edge of “deals search” by aggregating data from all deals websites applicable to major cities in the country. Read more: Deel.io: Find Daily Deals On Google Maps
		Tinkercad – Recently 3D printers have gained much popularity. These devices let you design 3D objects on your computer and then materialize them using 3D printers. But going to a 3D printing place to have your objects designs can be a time-consuming process. For the designing part you can use the excellent web service titled Tinkercad. Read more: Tinkercad: Design 3D Objects For 3D Printing
		Gridlover – Creating grids for webpage designs is not easy work. You have to code up your grid, preview any changes you make, and continue to do so till you get something you are satisfied with. A web service called Gridlover greatly simplifies the task by letting you create a grid and obtaining its CSS quickly. Read more: Gridlover: Quickly Create Grids & Obtain Their CSS Code

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2houses – After they have separated, the biggest problem couples face is managing their children. Sharing schedules of dates, expenses, and trips becomes very hectic at times. What is required is a tool that lets things proceed swimmingly and keeps things convenient for the separated parents. This is exactly what a website called 2houses offers. Read more: 2houses: A Web App For Separated Couples To Manage Their Children’s Schedules

		PriSpy – Many of the things we desire normally do not lie within our budget. But in case they do fall within your budget, you would want to know about it as soon as possible. Notifications of such an instance are what a tool called PriSpy provides. It helps you keep track on the dropped prices of your favorite items. Read more: PriSpy: Monitors Price Drops For Desired Products
		TruLy – While anonymity is a major advantage of using the Internet, it is also one of its biggest disadvantages. There are numerous situations in which you need to verify the identity of the person you are dealing with online e.g. while buying or selling something. To help accomplish this, a web service called TruLy was created. Read more: TruLy: An Online ID Verification Service
		Retweet – You might have many followers on Twitter, but how do you filter out the passive followers from ones that actually share your message with others? Obviously you need to find out which people on Twitter are retweeting your messages. While this can be an extremely tedious job to perform manually, it can be made much easier with an app called Retweet. Read more: Retweet: Find Out How Many People Retweeted Your Tweets
		TwitFlicks – Twitter is a place where people talk about nearly everything. Thus if you are wondering which movie to go and watch, Twitter would be a good place to find out which movies others are talking about. Here to help you find this out is a web service called TwitFlicks, that ranks movies based on their mentions on Twitter. Read more: TwitFlicks: Discover Which Movies Are Getting The Most Twitter Mentions

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Unofficial Google Image Search – We all know that Google now allows users to search the web usage images. Do you know that you can perform Google Image search by drawing as well? Yes, it’s possible thanks to Unofficial Google Image Search by Drawing. You can perform Google Image search by drawing anything in the area provided. Read more: Unofficial Google Image Search: Google Image Search By Drawing

		Announcify – After a night of intense studying or research, you simply do not have the stamina to go through another webpage. What you could really use is for somebody to read out the webpage to you. This immensely useful service is exactly what a tool called Announcify offers. Whenever you are on a webpage, you can simply click on this icon. Read more: Announcify: A Chrome Extension That Reads Webpages Out Loud
		Easy Email Extractor – If you have been emailed a file that includes numerous email addresses, filtering out each address can be very time-consuming. Just imagine the time it would take you to copy and save a hundred email addresses stored in different portions of a text file! Here to amazingly speed up things by automating the process is a tool called Easy Email Extractor. Read more: Easy Email Extractor: Extract Email Addresses From Files, Folders & Strings Of Text
		MakeBadge – A badge is a very useful thing to have at parties, at workplaces, and at various important events. But having badges made professionally can set you back a good deal of money. Here to help you create and print badges yourself is a web service called Make Badge, a free to use web app that lets you create badges online. Read more: MakeBadge: A Web App To Create Printable Badges For Free
		Perfect365 – Most magazines you buy include airbrushed photographs of models. Airbrushing normally works wonders for simple images and gives them that ‘perfect’ look you see in magazines. A new tool called Perfect365 helps regular people airbrush their photos with ease. Read more: Perfect365: Airbrush Your Photos With Inexplicable Ease

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Readershare – Google Reader was recently revamped with a new interface and new features, and a major development was the phasing out of direct sharing and the introduction of Google+ integration. A lot of people have voiced their grievances against this, and ReaderShare wants to help them. It is a Chrome extension that brings back those sharing options. Read more: ReaderShare: Get Back The Old Sharing Options In Google Reader [Chrome]

		Giftly – Gift cards are a huge industry in the US. Every year we purchase and send gift cards and it is about time that buying and using gift cards became more convenient. A web service called Giftly aims to do precisely this. Giftly is a web service that lets you buy, send, and use online gift cards. Read more: Giftly: Buy Gift Cards Online & Use Them With Your Smartphone
		TouchPal Dialer – Smartphones let you easily type the first few letters of your friend’s name and their number appears in your contacts. But usually you have to press the same key (number) multiple times to make your desired letter appear. Here to resolve this inconvenience is an excellent app called TouchPal Dialer. Read more: TouchPal Dialer: An App To Find Contacts Quicker [Android 1.5+]
		When I Work – Calling your employees or having them call you for shift notifications can be inconvenient. Businesses where employees work in various shifts need an automated solution that notifies employees of their shifts and makes it easier for the employer to manage the shifts. This is precisely what a web service called When I Work offers. Read more: When I Work: Easily Schedule Employee Shifts Online
		Reading Bear – is an educational project created by Wikipedia’s co-founder, Larry Sanger, that aims to teach beginner child readers about vocabulary and the concepts of English. At the same time, the child is introduced to the main phonetic patterns of written English. All of this is done with the help of creatively crafted media. Read more: Reading Bear: An Effective Way To Teach Your Kids English

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Alphabetimals – Are you looking for a fun yet effective way to teach your kids different alphabets? If yes, Alphabetimals is an amazing website to teach your kids about alphabets and animals at the same time – that’s where the word “alphabeti-mals” has been derived from. Read more: Alphabetimals: A Simple Way To Teach Your Kids Alphabet

		ShowMeTrend – Are you a Twitter addict who is always tweeting about the trending topics? Well, if so, then ShowMeTrend might be a great website for you. It also shows the user’s past trended topics, such as the trending topics of Dec 10th, 2010 or so. Using the website is very easy. Read more: ShowMeTrend: Find Daily Trending Topics On Twitter
		Phonetic Alphabet – In radio communication, sometimes your speech cannot be heard clearly because of the static. So to spell out words, a certain set of phonetic alphabets is used. Using a site called Phonetic Alphabet, you can easily convert entire sentences into phonetic alphabets. Read more: Phonetic Alphabet: Translate Words & Sentences Into Phonetic Alphabets
		Joukuu – There are numerous web services created to aggregate your social networking data. But what about the data that you store on file hosting websites? Surely managing those files on different websites is inconvenient. Joukuu is a web service that gives you a single dashboard from where you can control those files. Read more: Joukuu: Manage Files Stored Across Different Websites
		Gidsy – If you are in New York or Berlin and looking to organize an event or a group activity but worried that not enough of an audience will not turn up, then you should probably check out this new service called Gidsy. It is a marketplace for activities, meaning visitors can see a list of events being organised in the city. Read more: Gidsy: A Marketplace For Events & Activities

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Google Image Ripper – is a simple website that makes image searching much more fun. The minimalist layout displays images in thumbnails with a ready download link for each one available, so you do not have to leave the search page to download the image. It also implements a light box script. Read more: Google Image Ripper: Alternative Interface For Google Image Search

		AllMyBooks – If you love reading eBooks, then you must have a large collection of them stored on your computer. Finding a book from this collection can be problematic if you do not have your collection organized well. Here to help you properly organize things is a desktop app called All My Books. Read more: AllMyBooks: A Desktop App To Organize Your eBooks Library
		Pulse – If you’re looking for a pretty RSS reader or a news reading app in the ilk of Flipboard, then you’d be hard pressed to find anything better than Pulse. This app for iOS and Android is a newsreader on steroids that can transform any website or blog into a colorful, tiled tapestry. Read more: Pulse: News Reader App With Tiled Layout (iOS/Android)
		Can I Stream It – If you are a movie buff, then you already have accounts on web services like Hulu and Netflix. As soon as movies become available for online streaming, you go for them. Here to help you keep track of your favorite movies become streamable online is a web service called Can I Stream It. Read more: CanIStreamIt: Get Notified When Your Favorite Movies Become Streamable Online
		Blither – While Facebook chat continues to become a favorite amongst Facebook users, Twitter account holders have yet to be given a built-in chatting interface by the network. The result is third-party apps trying to provide this feature. One of these apps is a tool called Blither. Read more: Blither: Easily Have Chat Conversations With Your Twitter Friends

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iPadURL – If you are on a webpage that has a long URL, then sending that URL to your iPad can be a problem. One solution could be to shorten the URL and type the shortened version in your device’s browser. But shortened URLs remain active for a long time. Here to solve this problem effectively is a web service called iPad URL. Read more: iPadURL: An Excellent URL Shortening Tool To Create Quick Expiring URLs

		UnitedStyles – Have you ever wondered what it is like to be an A-star fashion designer? If yes, UnitedStyles might help you feel like a fashion designer, where you create your very own designs, share with friends and the best part – get the design shipped to your address. Read more: UnitedStyles: Create Your Own Fashion Designs & Order Them
		CostumeDB – Comicon and various other similar events have popularized the art of creating costumes for yourself. People from around the world generate unique costume ideas and then share them with others through the Internet. One source that lets you view and share costumes is Costume DB. Read more: CostumeDB: The Perfect Place To Share & View Costume Ideas
		Gomo – Not every website on the Internet is mobile compatible. One of them could be yours, and having a mobile compatible site gives you an edge over the millions who don’t have a compatible one. GoMo is a simple website, an initiative by Google, that allows users to see the importance of mobile websites. Read more: Gomo: Mobile Website Tester & Resource Finder
		PaceRecorder – Voice professionals have to always consider the pace of their speech. But normally they only have their judgment to rely on. What they need is an indicative tool that helps them monitor the pace at which they are speaking. PaceRecorder is precisely that tool. Read more: PaceRecorder: Easily Monitor Your Speaking Pace [Android 2.3.3+]

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Wenovo Pictures To Color – Is there a particular picture on your computer with an amazing color scheme? Would you like to incorporate a similar color scheme into your graphic designs? If yes, then you require the picture’s color palette: a list of all the colors used in the picture. Here to help you get that is a tool called Wenovo Pictures to Color. Read more: Wenovo Pictures To Color: Get The Color Palette Of Any Image On Your Computer

		24-Hour Countdown Clock – Many of us have extremely busy schedules and we need to get a lot done every day. But completing those tasks requires a level of motivation that not everybody has. If you are looking for a tool to help motivate you and quickly get the day’s work done, you should check out Eugene Baumstein’s 24-Hour Countdown Clock. Read more: 24-Hour Countdown Clock: Get A Timer To Remind You Of The Work Yet To Do
		MailQuatro – Businesses often employ IT companies to create a professional email setup for them. But even custom-made setups lack the efficiency and transparency that an employer wishes. Here to help provide such a professional email setup in just a few minutes is a web service called MailQuatro. Read more: MailQuatro: Get A Professional Email System Set Up In Minutes
		MarkdownPad – Have you ever had the need to write an article, and quickly convert it into HTML? Well, if so, then MarkdownPad is one of the best, freeware software out there for the job. MarkdownPad is a fully featured editor for Windows, which is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Read more: MarkdownPad: A Fully Featured Text To HTML Editor For Windows
		Coupon Yum – This is a free to use website where you can find as well as share coupons from any store. Browsing the site is simple. You can randomly browse the top coupons or search for them according to keyword. The coupons appear without any complicated information. You get to view what the offer is about along with how long it is valid for. Users can click on the PRINT link to print the coupon. Read more: Coupon Yum: Get All Types Of Latest Coupons That Can Be Printed & Used

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QR Hacker – Numerous online tools let you create QR codes. Most of these tools offer the same basic format, with the same basic QR code creation tools. But if you are looking for a QR generation tool that lets you create more colorful codes, then QR Hacker is the site to visit. Read more: QRHacker: Create Colored QR Codes

		PhotoTangler Collage Maker – The most difficult part about making photo collages are the image boundaries. While numerous apps let you create collages from photos, those image boundaries never really line up perfectly, giving your collage a very untidy look. Addressing this issue is an excellent iOS device application called PhotoTangler Collage Maker. Read more: PhotoTangler Collage Maker: Intelligently Create Photo Collages On Your iPad
		How Long Will My Coffee Last? – Are you worried about your coffee running out too quickly? If yes, then you need to evaluate how much coffee you are consuming and calculate how fast you will consume your coffee bottle. Here to help you find that out is a web service called “How Long Will My Coffee Last”. Read more: How Long Will My Coffee Last : Find Out How Long Your Coffee Will Last
		Bitehunter – is a handy web service which gathers daily deals, discounts on different restaurants, coupons and more. The website is integrated with Google Maps and displays daily deals on the map, so you can see whether any restaurant in your area is offering something special (e.g discounts, offers, etc) or not. Read more: Bitehunter: Find Daily Dining Deals & Discount Offers In Your Area
		Facebook Video Player – While playing a video on Facebook you have to keep the webpage’s position fixed – you need the video to stay within the visible webpage area. Because of this you cannot view Facebook videos and read Facebook posts at the same time. Here to change that is a Chrome browser extension called Facebook Video Player. Read more: Facebook Video Player: Watch Videos On Facebook & Scroll The Webpage Simultaneously [Chrome]

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ReaderShare – Google Reader was recently revamped with a new interface and new features, and a major development was the phasing out of direct sharing and the introduction of Google+ integration. A lot of people have voiced their grievances against this, and ReaderShare wants to help them. It is a Chrome extension that brings back those sharing options. Read more: ReaderShare: Get Back The Old Sharing Options In Google Reader [Chrome]

		ButtonParty – Numerous web services offer ways of sharing songs and audio online. But Button Party brings forward an entirely new concept to online sound sharing by letting you create shareable buttons that play audio from YouTube videos. These buttons correspond to various sounds, all linked to YouTube videos and are all created by users. Read more: ButtonParty: Create Shareable Sound Buttons
		Touchpad Dialer – Smartphones let you easily type the first few letters of your friend’s name and their number appears in your contacts. But usually you have to press the same key (number) multiple times to make your desired letter appear. Here to resolve this inconvenience is an excellent app called TouchPal Dialer. Read more: TouchPal Dialer: An App To Find Contacts Quicker [Android 1.5+]
		Decreased Productivity – Are you easily distracted by images, animations, etc, on any webpage? If the answer is yes, you should give the Decreased Productivity Chrome extension a try. It improves the browsing experience by allowing users to control the different elements on any webpage. Users can restrict images, animations, multimedia content and more. Read more: Decreased Productivity. Block Images, Animations & Multimedia Content Any Webpage [Chrome]
		Reading Bear – is an educational project created by Wikipedia’s co-founder, Larry Sanger, that aims to teach beginner child readers about vocabulary and the concepts of English. At the same time, the child is introduced to the main phonetic patterns of written English. All of this is done with the help of creatively crafted media. Read more: Reading Bear: An Effective Way To Teach Your Kids English

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