UpTimeRobot: Free Website Uptime Monitoring Tool
Managing several websites can be very tricky – you need to check the security of servers, double-check your source codes, study web analytics, and monitor their uptime. If you have several websites, something is bound to go wrong. Fortunately, Uptime Robot is a free app that alerts you if your website goes down. This allows [...]
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UpTimeRobot: Free Website Uptime Monitoring Tool
Voice Based Drawing Tool
There are a lot of ways to create your own drawings online. You can use a Wacom table with a stylus or use traditional digital brushes. Voice-based Drawing Toy is a different kind of art tool that lets you draw using just your voice.
To use this tool, just speak into your microphone and watch the [...]
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Voice Based Drawing Tool
Bnwmovies: Watch Classic Old Movies Online
If you are a fan of the classic black and white movies, then you should check out Black And White Movies. This website has a large collection classic old movies from the 1920’s up to the 1970’s. Movies are categorized into different genres such as Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Horror, War, and more. You can [...]
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Bnwmovies: Watch Classic Old Movies Online
eBird: Explore Interesting Information On Birds
It doesn’t matter if you are a casual bird enthusiast or a professional ornithologist, you are bound to like eBird. It is a great resource with tons of information on birds such as their frequency, arrivals and departures, high counts and much more.
You can view this data as charts, histograms, tables or maps. The data [...]
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eBird: Explore Interesting Information On Birds
MeetWithMe: Makes it easy for others to schedule meetings with you
Setting up a meeting with someone who is always busy can be very tedious, especially if you are busy yourself. You have to sync schedules which means going through each other’s calendar to find a common time to meet. Fortunately, MeetWithMe is a cool web app that makes it easy for others to see your [...]
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MeetWithMe: Makes it easy for others to schedule meetings with you
VariablySFW: Peek NSFW Websites Before Opening Them
You never know when you come across a website that is Not Safe For Work (NSFW). It could just be a seemingly innocent link sent by a friend, but if it turns out to be a NFSW page, that can get you into trouble. VariableSFW is a web app that lets you preview a questionable [...]
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VariablySFW: Peek NSFW Websites Before Opening Them
LyricsTraining: Learn Language Through Music & Lyrics
Learning a new language is not easy and the traditional courses that make you memorize vocabulary and grammar are too boring. LyricsTraining is a new website that makes learning a new language easy by listening to music and lyrics. You can use it to learn English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Dutch.
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LyricsTraining: Learn Language Through Music & Lyrics
MeasureIt: A Simple Ruler Extension For Firefox
MeasureIt is one of those simple, effective tools that can help newbies and experts measure screen elements in pixels – on the fly. For graphic layout and online work, keeping track of size has not always been easy until now.
Once MeasureIt is installed it is easy to draw a ruler across any webpage to check [...]
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MeasureIt: A Simple Ruler Extension For Firefox
CarWallpapers: Decorate Desktop With Cool & Exotic Car Wallpapers
If you like cars, and are looking for a cool and exotic car wallpaper for your computer desktop, CarWallpapers was made for you. This site is a collection of car-related pictures you can use for your computer. The pictures are sorted by manufacturer and color, meaning you can either find a car that matches your [...]
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CarWallpapers: Decorate Desktop With Cool & Exotic Car Wallpapers
WeQuit: Take a Shot to Quit Smoking With the Help From Friends
Giving up smoking isn’t easy, but it’s almost impossible without the support of friends and family. Having people encourage you to reach your goal, and hold you accountable when you don’t, is essential to any good quitting strategy.
WeQuit aims to bring such accountability to the digital realm, allowing you to make commitments and share them [...]
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WeQuit: Take a Shot to Quit Smoking With the Help From Friends
BookRenter: Save Money by Renting College Books Online
BookRenter stops high quality used textbooks from ending up in landfill by providing a budget-conscious solution for environmentally smart students. With 3 million textbooks to choose from, BookRenter saves time. No need to hunt down used copies, or work out ways to sell your books when you are done with them. Simply rent your textbooks [...]
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BookRenter: Save Money by Renting College Books Online
ManageTwitter: Easy Twitter Follower Management Tool
Managing your Twitter contacts is a necessary evil for all active Twitter users, especially if you follow a lot of people. Of course, you don’t want to clutter up your stream with tweets from people that you believe are not worthy of following. Enter ManageTwitter, it is a new twitter follower management tool that lets [...]
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ManageTwitter: Easy Twitter Follower Management Tool
PiCurious: Spell Words With Flickr Images
Words can be too boring when written in plain text. How about displaying them instead using Flickr Photos?
PiCurious is a dead simple and fun tool that lets you spell words with Flickr. Just enter any word and PiCurious will fetch Flickr photos displaying each alphabet of the word. If you don’t like a particular alphabet, just [...]
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PiCurious: Spell Words With Flickr Images
SubtitleSync: Find, Synchronize, Merge & Split Subtitles Online
Unlike other subtitle websites that merely let you download subtitles, SubtitleSync is a complete application for subtitles. In addition to subtitles in multiple languages and over 20 different formats, you can also synchronize, merge and split subtitles online.
To synchronize a subtitle file, just select/upload the file and specify the time by which you would want [...]
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SubtitleSync: Find, Synchronize, Merge & Split Subtitles Online
Rapportive: Replace Ads in Gmail with Social Media Profiles
The marriage of e-mail and social networking with Google Buzz blurred the line between private e-mails for business and personal social media. Most social networking sites are not limited to personal use anymore. They can now be used to know more and engage your business contacts.
Rapportive is a Chrome and Firefox extension that lets you [...]
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Rapportive: Replace Ads in Gmail with Social Media Profiles
RaphaelColorPicker: Simple Color Picker Online
An HTML color code chart is a must-have for any web designer. However, most available charts on the net are very static, meaning that you have to find your way on a given set of colors. ColorPicker is a simple color picker web app that lets you find the hex code of the color that [...]
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RaphaelColorPicker: Simple Color Picker Online
Start3D: Browse & Create Cool 3D Pictures
Viewing something in 3 dimensions can remarkably change its outlook. Creating 3D photos is usually supposed to be quite a time consuming and complicated task. However, Start3D is a web tool that makes creating cool 3d pictures very easy.
Using your regular digital camera, just take two photos that are 3 inches apart and upload them [...]
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Start3D: Browse & Create Cool 3D Pictures
SeeMyDesign: Free Interior Design Software Online
Thinking of giving your walls a coat of paint and buying some new furniture? You’ll find the process is much easier if you can visualize how things are going to look when you’re done. Web based and free interior design software SeeMyDesign gives you the opportunity to do just that. Using this tool you can see [...]
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SeeMyDesign: Free Interior Design Software Online
PopSciArchives: Browse Complete Archives Of Popular Science Magazine Online
Popular Science is an American magazine that has been published every month since 1872 featuring news about scientific developments and new technologies. If you are a fan of Popular Science or of history for that matter, you’ll love this web resource. It contains complete archives of the popular science magazine online going back to 1872.
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PopSciArchives: Browse Complete Archives Of Popular Science Magazine Online
Media.io: Easy Audio to MP3, WAV, OGG, WMA, M4A, MP4 and AAC Converter
Music is stored in a variety of formats: MP3, OGG, WAV, ACC and MP4, just to name a few. This can be annoying if you have music in one format and a digital audio player that can only play another. If you’re looking to convert audio to MP3, WAV, OGG, WMA, M4A, MP4 and AAC, [...]
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Media.io: Easy Audio to MP3, WAV, OGG, WMA, M4A, MP4 and AAC Converter
FlightRadar24: Watch Live Air Traffic In Europe
Ever wondered how many planes come into or fly out of an airport at any given time? Now you can see it live with FlightRadar. It is a cool tool based on Google Maps that shows live air traffic in Europe. Each flight is indicated by a small plane icon and airports are indicated with [...]
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FlightRadar24: Watch Live Air Traffic In Europe
Spreaker: Broadcast Your Own Online Radio Show
It’s simple: what Justin.tv and uStream are to television, Spreaker is to radio. If you want to broadcastyour own online radio show, you can do so in only a few clicks and if you want to browse radio streams from around the country, it’s as simple as pressing “play.” There’s a wide variety of user-created [...]
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Spreaker: Broadcast Your Own Online Radio Show
CertificateStreet: Get Free Printable Award Sertificates
Certificates and awards are symbols of achievement and are often needed to encourage students and participants. Traditionally, one would hire a graphic designer to create and print a certificate but now you can do it yourself with CertificateStreet.
CertificateStreet has hundreds of certificate templates for different categories ranging from sports and school to business and relationships. [...]
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CertificateStreet: Get Free Printable Award Sertificates
Psizey: Search & Find Products on Amazon By Size
Amazon.com has a great search feature with plenty of filters to narrow down results, but size is not one of them. Say you want to search for a TV that would be the right size for your shelf or cabinet, Amazon Search can’t help you much there but Psizey can.
Psizey lets you search Amazon products [...]
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Psizey: Search & Find Products on Amazon By Size
FreeTideTables: Provides Free Ocean Tide Charts & Tables
For people who are interested in keeping an eye on the tides around their area, here is an excellent resource. FreeTideTables provides detailed ocean tide chart and tables, broken down by days for various states of the US.
Start by choosing your state and then select a tide station in your state; you also have the [...]
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FreeTideTables: Provides Free Ocean Tide Charts & Tables
Tlink: Strip clutter & view only links on any Twitter stream
There are a lot of interesting links shared in Twitter accounts that you miss out on because of all the clutter, especially if you are following a lot of people. Going through all the tweets to find those links can be tedious. Links in Twitter is a Twitter mashup that allows you to view the [...]
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Tlink: Strip clutter & view only links on any Twitter stream
Stickr: Leave Notes On Web Pages
Stickr is an online tool that lets you leave notes on web pages for other users to read. This nifty app opens a whole new level of possibilities in navigating the web as it can provide new channels of discussion while at the same time being a personal note-taking tool when browsing websites.
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Stickr: Leave Notes On Web Pages
HaveYourFriendsBeenThere: Remotely check any browser history for naughty sites
Do you want to know which of your friends have been looking at naughty websites? Or perhaps you want to know who among your coworkers have been visiting NSFW websites while at work? Then you should check out HaveYourFriendsBeenThere? It is a web tool that enables you remotely snoop into someones browser history and check [...]
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HaveYourFriendsBeenThere: Remotely check any browser history for naughty sites
ClickMeter: Free URL Shortening & Link Tracking Tool
Web analytics is important to keep track of your websites. However, standard analytics tools only do a great job in describing activities within the website without dealing too much with your links outside your website. ClickMeter is a link tracking tool that focuses on tracking links for your website so that you can monitor relevant [...]
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ClickMeter: Free URL Shortening & Link Tracking Tool
FreeSamples: Get free product samples & Giveaways
FreeSamples is a website that lists free product samples & giveaways for a lot of products without any scam, spam or gimmicks. It lists sample promotion and coupon information for some popular brands that can be browsed using categories or searched using the brand name.
The website actually does not offer any samples itself, but aggregates [...]
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FreeSamples: Get free product samples & Giveaways
CashierLive: Web-Based Point Of Sales System
Setting up a retail store can be complicated without the right tools. You need to track inventory, set up payment systems, and keep track of your sales. All of these can be managed by using Point of Sale (POS) machines. However, these machines are costly and inflexible for the things you want to do. What [...]
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CashierLive: Web-Based Point Of Sales System
FlavorsMe: Gather Your Social Networking Profiles On One Page
An average internet user has profiles on many social networking services such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and so on. FlavorsMe is a way to gather social networking profiles and create a personal or professional startpage. Once you create a free account, you can choose which services to add from a long list including Facebook, Twitter, [...]
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FlavorsMe: Gather Your Social Networking Profiles On One Page
EasyDefine: See Definition and Synonyms For A List Of Words
There are plenty of dictionaries online but they all work on the principle of one word at a time. If you have a whole list of words that you want to see their definition and synonyms, it can be a real hassle. For situations like these, use EasyDefine. It is a slick new app that [...]
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EasyDefine: See Definition and Synonyms For A List Of Words
BuzzAware: Google Buzz Tools Directory
Google Buzz, the new Twitter rival Google recently built into Gmail, is less than a month old and there is already an application database: BuzzAware. Here you’ll find tools for use with Google Buzz, from ones that can show you stats related to your Buzz activity to search engines for checking out what’s active on [...]
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BuzzAware: Google Buzz Tools Directory
Preceden: Make A Timeline Online & Share
Timelines are a very useful way to represent the overlapping of events over time. If you’re looking to make a timeline of your own, check out Preceden. This web tool does all it can to make creating timelines as simple as possible. Just enter your events along with their start and end dates, and you’ve [...]
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Preceden: Make A Timeline Online & Share
Vpleer: Old-School Napster Like Site To Listen & Download Music
In the early days of the modern Internet, people knew exactly where to find the latest single: Napster. The early P2P platform of choice was simply the place to grab a single.
It’s impossible to use Russian music search engine Vpller.ru without being reminded of early Napster. Like Napster you can search for any song you’re [...]
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Vpleer: Old-School Napster Like Site To Listen & Download Music
SnakeOil: Health Supplements Information Graph Online
If you are a health buff or conscious about what you eat or take in, you will find this web app useful. Snake Oil is a health supplements information graph that shows the human health benefits of different substances. It shows the most popular and promising food supplements plotted in a graph so that you [...]
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SnakeOil: Health Supplements Information Graph Online
EasyStereogramBuilder: Generate Magic Eye Stereograms Online
Do you remember the nineties when Magic Eye was the craze and people were literally cross-eyed trying to find a 3D image within an image? Here is a website to bring the fun of the nineties back. EasyStereogramBuilder is a simple app that lets you generate magic eye images online.
Creating your own 3D image is [...]
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EasyStereogramBuilder: Generate Magic Eye Stereograms Online
IbisReader: Cool eBook Reader For Your Portable Device
With the introduction of the iPad, tablet devices, and e-book readers, it is only natural to have web apps that do online e-book reading well. Ibis Reader is a cool ebook reader that lets you read ePub books anywhere. This app works best for smartphones and tablets, but you can also read online with just [...]
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IbisReader: Cool eBook Reader For Your Portable Device
Border-Radius: Generate Custom CSS Curved Borders
Composing CSS is pretty easy if you have the experience. But sometimes we can make use of tools that make coding easier. Border Radius is one such app. This website lets you easily generate CSS curved borders online.
To use the app, just fill in the numerical values to change the radius of your borders. You can [...]
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Border-Radius: Generate Custom CSS Curved Borders