Dynamic DIY Planner Templates
If you're looking for some great, customizable DIY Planner Calendar templates, look no further than Dynamic Templates 2.0 - the Next Generation.
"Simply select your paper size, choose the calendar type, and tweak the settings to come up with your own printable set of calendars that perfectly fit your planner and your lifestyle."
Dynamic Templates v2.0: The Next Generation | D*I*Y Planner
gridr buildrrr: grid-based layout generator
If you like grid layouts, check out the probably poorly named but handy tool gridr buildrrr. Gridr buildrr is a quick tool for creating layout grids, with control over gutters and margins and drag-and-drop placeholders for advertising units.
HTML Ipsum
HTML Ipsum takes the regular Lorem Ipsum one step further, by adding in the HTML mark-up with the Ipsum to make a handy, dandy copy and paste tool for web development.
Choose from long, short or one sentence paragraphs, ordered and unordered lists or the "Kitchen Sink", which has a bit of everything, perfect for testing purposes.
A cool tool and a handy bookmark.
HTML Ipsum (www.html-ipsum.com)
2 Handy Tools
Nice Translator - The fast, easy to use online translator is worth bookmarking for quick and easy translating.
Remindr is a nice and simple tool for reminding us to do thing. Get reminders via Twitter, Jabber or GTalk, Email or on your Phone. Handy for when you just need to remember.
Create an iPhone Version of Your Site in Seconds
If you (like me) have been meaning to create an iPhone version of your site but have never quite got around to it, you might want to check out intersquash.com. Just point it to your RSS feed, create and upload an iPhone icon and then grab the url to your new iPhone compatible version of your site. I iphonized etc. You'll find the link to it on the sidebar or shown in the image above.
Intersquash.com - iPhoneize your website
Fresh Generator: Makes Rounded Corner Boxes for you!
Looking for a way to make rounded corner boxes, with custom gradients, borders and corners easily? Check out Fresh Generator.
Fresh Generator - Web 2.0 boxes made easy Pages
Two Cool Tools
Two handy tools that I came upon today ...
smush it! is an image optimization tool that "that goes beyond the limitations of Photoshop, Fireworks & Co. It uses image format specific non-lossy image optimization tools to squeeze the last bytes out of your images - without changing their look or visual quality. You'll get a report of how many bytes you can save by optimizing your images and all the changed images as a single zip for download."
To use, either upload pictures from your browser, provide a list of image urls or use their handy, dandy Firefox Extension to optimize images found on any web page.
Get straight to the point with Splicd, a tool that lets you grab a segment of any length from a YouTube video. Just type in the YouTube url and the time frame from the clip you want. Splicd
20 Free Page Analysis Tools
For those that like to know everything about their sites (or someone else's), Design Mag has a round-up of 20 tools to help analyze any site.
Construct Layout Generator
Construct Your CSS | Based on Blueprint & jQuery | By Christian Montoya
Construct is visual layout editor based on Blueprint & jQuery, that makes it fun and easy to visually layout new designs. See immediately how your site will look. Tweak it, then click "Construct It! to grab the html/css.
13+ Fantastic Tools for Knowing How They're Doing It
Site noupe.com has a nice round-up today of tools for checking out your competitors stats.
Sometimes, (if not most of the time) you want to know exactly what your competitors are doing and how do they excel in doing it right. Today we wanted to share with you a comprehensive list of more than 13 online tools that can help you figure out why some of your competitors are ranking better than you.
13 Fantastic Tools For Knowing How They’re Doing It
40 Excellent Web Based Tools to Help You Design from Anywhere
From Design Vitality, a round-up of web based tools to get the design job done when regular computer based tools are unavailable.
40 Excellent Web Based Tools to Help You Design from Anywhere.
2 Handy Tools
Need a rounded image quick? RoundPic will take any image and round them up for you. RoundPic - rounded corners for avatars and images [web 2.0 style]
Bradicon! is a handy tool to take any image and turn it into an icon.
IzzyMenu: CSS Menus Generator
IzzyMenu is a very nice tool for quickly and easily generating vertical or horizontal CSS menus. Chose from a wide selection of nice background images and set other variables to suit and grab your coded menu.
IzzyMenu - Create your professional CSS/DHTML Menu in a minute!
The Awesome Highlighter
Have you ever received an link from a friend but you weren't sure why?
The awesome highlighter allows you to highlight text in a webpage so that when you send a link you can be certain the recipient will know why.
The awesome highlighter will generate a highlighted version of any web page and the generated link can be used in an email, forum or blog.
the Awesome Highlighter - be nice, highlight
.htaccess Editor Generator
Most of the .htaccess editors and generators I've come across before now have been, well ... ugly. This version is nice on the eyes and will make it easy to build, edit and generate and .htaccess file.
Dummy Text Generator
Tired of the same old Lorem Ipsum? Looking for more than just text? Dummy Text Generator offers 10 styles of filler text, in any number of characters, words or paragraphs. It goes one step further though and allows the user to set font-family, weight, style, size and more css properties and then spits out the necessary CSS code for you. It can even put the p tags in your paragraphs for you! Nice tool, worth bookmarking.
Dummy Text Generator | Lorem ipsum for webdesigners
Loading Gif Generator
Loading gifs are really nice to have when featuring large photos on any page. It assures the user that something is happening, instead of leaving them looking at a big empty space.
Loadinfo.net is a handy tool for creating a loading gif customized for your site. Simply chose the style you like, click on it and you can customize the foreground and background colour and the size.
Once you have your new loading gif, here's a nice article that shows how use CSS to add a loading gif to your larger images.
Embiggen Tiny URLs
TinyURL is a great service "but who knows what's lurking on the other side of that URL."
Embiggen takes the mystery out of tiny urls, by offering up an Embiggen button, that website owners can put on their site if they use tiny urls (so users can click it and see the full url, if they wish) or, just grab the embiggen bookmarklet for your browser to expand urls with a click.
Human Calendar
Why be stuck with a boring calendar. The the human calendarｮ features pictures of ... humans to liven the whole date thing up.
Also available as a portable version, available for Google Homepage, MySpace or just about any website, blog or whatever. Soon to be available as a Mac Dashboard item (soon) and a Windows Vista Sidebar (less soon) as he's trying to "locate a 10 foot pole" (which is the funniest line I've read in a long time! ;)
PicMarkr: watermark your images online for free
PicMarkr is a free, online tool that will add watermarks to images from your computer or imported from your Flickr account. I have mixed feelings about watermarks. I guess I'm from the school that says if you don't want it stolen don't put it online. And it totally ruins the look of a nice photo. But, I do understand that are sometimes good reasons for watermarks and not everyone feels that same way I do, so for those times or people, it's certainly an easy and useful tool.
Add Custom Watermark to Images, Free. Protect Your Photos and Images - PicMarkr
Test Everything Website Tool
Test Everything is a handy website testing tool that can test any website against a bunch of tools all at once.
Simply enter the url of the site you want to test, and chose the tools you want to test it against - CSS and HTML validators, check accessibility and privacy issues, SEO tools, network tools, images tool and more.
Convert Direct
Online FLV Converter - Directly convert online flv youtube to 3gp/mp3/avi/wmv/mp4/mov - a handy conversion tool to convert YouTube FLV clips to a variety of other formats.
xhtml-css: check markup and style with one click
XHTML-CSS Validator is a new tool, just released in beta, that allows you to enter an url once and validate both your xhtml and css at the same time.
Features a handy, dandy Firefox extension, as well. A handy tool!
RoundPic: Online tool for making rounded corners for images
RoundPic is an online tool for making rounded corners for avatars and images, "web 2.0" style.
Simply browse for the image on your computer or grab it from the web by inputting the url and "round it".
Handy tool for quick and dirt styled images.
Create favicons from images with Favikon
favikon takes any JPEG, PNG or GIF image and makes a favicon from it.
Simply upload your image and then use the Favikon capture tool to specify the portion of the image to use as the favicon.
A handy tool for quick favicon generation from a logo or other image.
Generate Website Corner Ribbons with Quick Ribbon
Online Ribbon Generator Tool will generate a corner, website ribbon with your custom colors and text. It will even make the ribbon a hyperlink for you with a custom target.
Once you've set your variables, Quick Ribbon will deliver up the html code for you to paste in your site's code. The ribbons image code is hoted on the Quick Ribbon server so there are no images to upload.
Make an ugly web address nicer with DecentURL
DecentURL.com will take any ugly web address and make it much nicer. Just supply the ugly url and it will output a decent one for you to use.
URL redirection is far from a novel idea – there are at least 41 other services that do it. As far as I can tell, however, those sites all focus on making long addresses short. DecentURL can make URLs short too, but its primary goal is to make them decent. Teach ’em some manners.
A nice feature of DecentURL is that it will automatically grab the title of the page and use it to make the DecentURL (just leave the Decent title box blank and let DecentURL grab it for you).
Vector Magic
VectorMagic is an online tool for converting bitmap images in to vectors.
Simply upload your image and the site traces it and turns it in to "beautiful vector art" and outputs it as an EPS or SVG file.
CSS Builder
CSS Builder - Generate Styles on the Fly can easily generate styles for CSS selectors on the fly. Simply fill in the data below, click build, and copy the code into your stylesheets.
A great tool for those who need a little CSS assistance or just want to generate some CSS quickly.
CSS Sandbox
The CSS Sandbox is a tool for playing with CSS properties. Simply click on the properties listed at the bottom to see the top text sample change accordingly.
Toggling the "A" and "1." on the top right changes the text sample from paragraph to list.
pForm: Create HTML Forms in Seconds
pForm - Free HTML Form Builder - Create Web Form Template Online - generates stylish HTML forms in three steps - choose your colour scheme, design your form by adding fields and then download the HTML to paste in to your site. Nice!
More than 100 Web 2.0 Online Generators
For anyone looking for online generators for web 2.0-like effects, this list would be the mother lode - everything from Graphics and Image Generators to Domain Name Generators.
More than 100 Web 2.0 Online Generators
Grid Mark: webpage grid overlay bookmarklet
Grid Mark is a simple way of overlaying a grid on any website. Rather then installing a firefox-only extension, Grid Mark is cross-browser and is activated by simply loading a bookmark. Grid Mark can overlay a ruler, a layout grid, or any custom image you supply. At the heart, Grid Mark is nothing more then the background image of a div that is manipulated by JavaScript.
A nice tool, with lots of ability to customize for every type of project.
Tab and Image Reflection Generators
From the makes of the Stripe Generator, two new tools.Navigation Tab Menu Generator CSS - Tabs Generator - creates tab images for use in CSS navigation.
Reflection Maker takes and image from your computer or the web and generates that image with a reflection.
Both handy tools for anyone whose graphic skills are lacking.
rsizr: intelligent image resizing
rsizr - intelligent image resizing
resizr is a Flash application that lets you resize JPG, PNG, and GIF images on your computer. With rsizr, in addition to normal image rescaling and cropping, you can also resize images using a new image resizing algorithm called seam carving (a method of image retargeting) that tries to keep intact areas in your image that are richer in detail.
Seam carving is a brilliant image resizing technique that made quite a stir via a YouTube video a few weeks ago. It's a very cool technique to see in action so definitely worth playing with to see what this tool can do.
Automatically refresh any website with Page Reboot
PAGE REBOOT : automatically refresh any website
PAGE REBOOT allows you to continually refresh a website of your choice, which is great for watching the closing minutes of an eBay auction, making sure you don't miss the start of those ticket sales, and anything else you can think of.
Includes a handy, dandy bookmarklet as well.
flauntR: one click photo effects and photo editing
FlauntR has just launched as an alpha release, offering two photo tools - PhotostylR and PhotoeditR.
Built on the flex platform these two tools offer basic image editing online, as well as one-click effects throughPhotostylR.
You don't need to register to try out either tool. Simply try their demo and sample pictures. If you decide to register, you'll be able to import photos from your computer or from Flickr. You will be able to save your edited photo, email it, share it on your blog or on Flickr as well.
After taking it for a spin, I think it's a great tool for those that aren't interested in using a standalone program like Photoshop to edit photos. The photo editing tools in photoeditR offer slider controls to control the editing, but I missed having them in the photostylR program. I'd love a way to control the amount of effect, particularly on some of the color and light effects.
The interface of flauntR is nice and very intuitive, offering little to no "learning" required to use it. Looks like it will develop in to a great online tool for photo editing and styling and definitely worth checking out for anyone looking for an online photo editing tool.
flauntR- Free online photo editor with thousands of one click effects
Organize email, IM, SMS in one place with orgoo
Anyone who spends any time online struggles with trying to keep all their stuff organized. Enter orgoo, which is a new site offering to help you keep it all together.
Imagine your personal communications cockpit, where every tool you need to communicate and express yourself is organized and integrated together in one place online - all your email accounts, all your IM accounts, video chat, video mail, SMS and more, working together to give you one seamless experience.
orgoo is free, there's nothing to download and it works on the web or through mobile devices.
Orgoo - Your communication... integrated.
Wet Floor Effect Generator for Images
An etc. reader wrote looking for a free, wet floor effect generator and I just happen to know of a good one that does a great (and super easy) job of creating this trendy effect.
Wet Floor Effect Generator takes any image on your computer, allows you to set opacity and height of relection and generates your image with a wet floor effect. Simply right click on the generated image and Save Image to your computer.
Of course, this wet floor effect can be created in Photoshop (or other graphics programs) as well, if you prefer to do it yourself. Here is a round-up of some Wet Floor Effect Tutorials:
Shiny Floor Effect Tutorial
Web 2.0 Reflection Effect in Photoshop Video Tutorial
Web 2.0 Reflection Effect in Vector Format with Illustrator
How to Make a Web 2.0 Logo in Photoshop
Finally, to achieve a similar reflection effect with text, here are a couple of tools that will generate this logo effect:
Web 2.0 Logo Maker
Web 2.0 Stylr.
Palette Generator: generate a color palette from a photo
Palette Generator: Automagically create a harmonious color palette from a photograph - use your own photo, a photo on the web or on Flickr or Photobucket.
Stripemania: background stripe generator tool
Stripemania - Striped background generator - generator striped background images quickly and easily. You can customize your stripes many different styles and colors, download and use it for your designs.
Check out their Tutorials for information on how to implement your new background image, how to fade it or how to make your own in Photoshop.
WebSlides: Converting Bookmarks to Slideshow
WebSlides - Converting bookmarks to slideshows - "a new way of organizing, sharing and presenting web content". Useful for a guided tour for websites or just bundling any number of sites for presentation together.
HTML Playground
I ran across HTML Playground a while back but at the time, it wasn't working for me (I think it may have been a Firefox compatibility issue). I ran across it again this past weekend and now, it works perfectly and it is a nice little tool for playing with html and css.
HTML Playground, html, css reference by example
Popular Online Generators
Popular Online Generators - lists and links up 10 of the most popular online generators, such as the badge generator, background generator, stripe generator and more. Most of these are probably well known but it's handy to have them all in one place.
NoteSake: online note-taking tool
Welcome to NoteSake - Take notes online, stay organized - a good looking, simple tool for note-taking, which allows you to share them with friends, or collaborate on the same note. Built in note organizational tools keep notes for different classes or projects together.
Handy tool for students or on the job for notes from meetings or conferences.
Find Rhymes and more at RhymeZone
RhymeZone is a really handy site and definitely bookmark worthy. Type in any word and then chose what you want fro the drop-down list - it's definition, synonym, rhymes, related words, antonyms, search in Shakespeare or quotations for the word ... and more! Handy, one-stop word play.
FilesTube: Find Files Fast
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).
"With our unique approach to crawling you can find the files shared on uploading sites that the other crawlers miss. Also our search engine collects rich and relevant metadata for each page. As a result, when you search for files (video, music, software, documents etc) with FilesTube, you can always find high-quality, relevant search results."
My tests delivered some great results so it looks like a tool worth a try!
A couple of Handy Tools
thumbalizr - a website thumbnail creator - offers up an easy way to take screenshots, either the viewable portion of the screen or the entire page. Once snapped, you can chose from sizes from 320px through 1280 pixels in width to download and use.
Feedmarklet is an interesing new service - part RSS, part bookmarking. No registration is required. Simply give your feedmarklet a name and and webpage is created that will collect your feedmarks. Grab the provided bookmarklet to quickly add links to your feed. Then, view your collection on your page or subscribe to it in your reader.
It took a few minutes of playing with it to really see how this could be useful. In my case, it's a perfect solution for collecting links that I find during the day but won't be posting right away (rather than cluttering up my bookmarks folder). It would also be an excellent tool for collecting resources for research or short-term projects. Because you can make a number of feedmarklets, you can make several for different subject areas (favourite photos on Flickr or videos on YouTube etc.) Of course, this wouldn't replace something like del.icio.us as a permanent bookmarking solution but I think there are certainly uses for it.
Trendy Badge Generator
Fresh Badge Generator - Create Very Web 2.0 Badges - FREE! - if your Photoshop skills are lacking but you really need one of those trendy, web 2.0-like badges, this site is worth a bookmark for quick badge generation. The freshbadge generator allows you to customize all aspects of the badge to match with your site.
Easy Cropper: quick image cropping tool
EasyCropper - Simple and quick image cropping for the web. Simply select the image from your computer, upload and specify the height and width to crop to (in pixels) and presto - cropped.
Handy tool for quick and dirty image cropping or re-sizing.
Big List of Online Generators and Tools
CSS Juice offers up a big list of online generators and tools that's constantly updated, so it's a worthwhile bookmark for handy, future reference. Online Generators and Tools
Loripscream: Add some flavour to your Lorem Ipsum
Tired of the old Lorem Ipsum? Add a little flavour to your Ipsum with Loripscream. Available in a variety of flavours for a tastier Lorem Ipsum experience.
Flvix: Free online video converter
Flvix.com is a free online video converter that will convert videos from Youtube, Google Video to the formats AVI, MOV, MP4, 3GP, MP3.
A handy bookmark.
tempatr: css template generator
Web2.0 - templatr - Template Generator is a visual, easy css template generator for anyone who wants a css template in a jiffy.
Lots of layout options are available and you can add your own images. Each part of the template is customizable.
aideRSS: filter your reads
Read what matters - AideRSS is "the most efficient way to get the news and posts that matter".
aideRSS takes any web feed and analyzes all the posts by checking bookmarks on del.icio.us, technorati etc. and return the most popular posts, along with the ability to subscribe to only those (best) posts.
Interesting new twist of feed reading.
Xinu: quickly check your PageRank, backlinks and more
Xinu - Check quickly your PageRank, backlinks and much more - just punch in the url and quickly get back a lot of information about the site, including validation of css, html and rss, backlinks from a number of services, the number of pages indexed by Google, Yahoo and more.
A handy tool to check on page health and popularity.
feevy: dynamic blogroll widget for your website
Feevy is a javascript widget generator that will allow you to display content from other blogs at your website with just one simple html tag.
feevy is great for building a vertical portal, setting up a community of blogs, creating a dynamic blogroll, your latest del.icio.us links or twitter updates.
Fold Spy: find out what's above the fold in different browsers
FoldSpy is a new tool that shows you what is "above the fold" on your site in different browsers and screen sizes that your site users use. I think Fold Spy can explain it better. From their site -
What is FoldSpy?
Put simply, FoldSpy is a tool for finding out the actual dimensions of your visitor’s browser window. This data was surprisingly difficult to get your hands on, but not any more. Not only does FoldSpy give you access to this data but it presents it in completely new way, the data from FoldSpy is overlayed on your site.
Why do I need FoldSpy?
FoldSpy is most useful for people who need real data to make important layout decisions. It can answer questions like “where do I put this ad if I want 85% of my visitors to see it without scrolling?” Now, you can find the answer in seconds and because the FoldSpy data is displayed in-place, on your site, the answer can be viewed in a way that’s most useful.
FoldSpy is available in Free and Pro versions. The upgrade to Pro provides the ability to record stats from your site, to give you data on the unique profile of the visitors to your site.
Web 2.0 Badges Generator and Photoshop File
Web 2.0 Badges - Useful collection of stylish web 2.0 badges and badge generator. makes it easy to make the trendy, eye-catching web 2.0 type badges.
You can either use the Generator with your custom text and choice of several styles or grab a PSD file for use in Photoshop.
favicon.cc: easy favicon generator
favicon.ico Generator makes it dead easy to generate a favicon for your site.
Just pick a color and start filling in the squares. You can see how your favicon will look on a page with the live preview below. When you're happy with it download it and go.
50+ Ways to Track Website Traffic
analytics toolbox details over 50 ways to track website traffic, whether it's through a site or an RSS feed.
A good read for a comprehensive list of web stats alternatives.
Resize your images online
Resize your image online - It's easy, it's free! - a nice tool for online image resizing and cropping that's as easy as uploading your image and sliding the sizing arrows. The display at the top indicates the resulting pixel width and height. You can also rotate your image 90 degrees clockwise as well and zooming in and out.
A simple and efficient tool for online image resizing.
Web 2.0 Logo Creator
I'm sure I've linked to a Logo Creator before, but not this one. TheWeb2.0 - Logo Creatr offers up a logo generator that will output 5 different logo styles that are refelective of Web 2.0 styling.
Worth a look if for anyone who wants a quick and trendy logo.
wpzipper: custom WordPress installation files
I've posted about wpzipper before, but since I did, it's received an update and is handier than ever for WordPress users.
The idea is simple: choose your theme, chose your plugins and download it all together in one zip file. "The swiss army knife in your WordPress toolkit."
wpzipper.com: WordPress Themes, WordPress Plugins, Custom Installation
.htaccess generator for banning an ip, site or hotlinkers
.HTACCESS IP, Referrer, and Hotlink Banning Generator - just use their form to enter a users IP or site url to generate the appropriate .htaccess code. Also generate some .htaccess code that will prevent people from hotlinking your files or images.
A handy tool to make sure you get it right.
HTML Entity Character Lookup
"Using HTML entities is the right way to ensure all the characters on your page are validated. However, often finding the right entity code requires scanning through 250 rows of characters. This lookup allows you to quickly find the entity based on how it looks, e.g. like an < ."
Floorplanner
Need a floor plan? Whether you're "buying a new home, doing a room make-over, or moving into a new office? Then an easy way to map out your floor plan and your ideas might come in handy."
Floorplanner is easy to use and works just in your browser with no extra software or plugins that you need to install.
Demofuse: website tours generator
Demofuse.com - Create Interactive Website Tours And Demos is a very cool new tool. Create a tour of your website that will walk your visitors through it, while it highlights features of the site and tells them what they need to know to get the most out of your site.
No software to download and tours start with a click on a link or image.
Currently in closed beta but you can give it a try using invite code 731125.
diggReSS: the ultimate RSS feed for digg
DiggReSS offers a handy tool that aims to give the digg RSS reader exactly what he or she wants, "saving time and clicks". One of the nicest features is that the feed will contain a direct link to the article cited (instead of a link to the digg page).
The feed generator tools offers the ability to filter out categories, determine how many links to include, specifiy Popular or Upcoming and more.
Web 2.0 Button Generator: My cool button
Web 2.0 free buttons maker! makes it super easy to generate those bright, glossy web 2-ish buttons. Pick size and colour, add text or text and and icon (RSS, for example) and then generate your button.
crazedlist.org: search craiglist like a madman
crazedlist.org : search craigslist like a madman - a mega Craigslist search tool that I'm sure any Craiglist user will appreciate!
sputtr: search a bunch of sites quickly
Sputtr. is basically a one-stop-search destination, with a box to enter your search term and 35 choices for sites you want to search.
The usual suspects are there - all the Google sites, Yahoo, Microsoft, Ask Jeeves, del.icio.us, YouTube, Flickr, odeo, iMDb, last.fm and many, many more.
I like it and I think it's a worthy addition to anyone's bookmarks.
Grid Calculator
Grid Calculator - Change the settings (by dragging the sliders, clicking on the bars, or editing the values) to calculate the overall width of your grid.
Set your base font size, the number of columns, the column width and the gutter width and the total width is automatically calculated for you.
contactify: your personal contact form
Contactify: It's email. Without the address. - 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.
Find the average color of a photo
How can I Find the Average Color of a Photograph? Use this handy tool by uploading your own image or grabbing a flickr image. Now exactly why you want to do this is up to you to figure out ;)
Wordpress Theme Generator
Wordpress Theme Generator will allow anyone to create a unique Wordpress theme, without having any HTML, JS, PHP or CSS knowledge.
The generator will allow custome colors, settings and layout and features a live preview so you can see your template change as you go. When you're happy, just click "save" and download your new Wordpress theme.
Icon Finder: search more than 5000 icons
iconfinder - Search more than 5000 icons with this search engine tool dedicated to finding just the right icon.
18 Online Tools to edit, mix and enhance your videos
18 Online Tools to Edit, Mix and Enhance your Videos
"Whether you need basic tools that let you easily cut-off desired scenes, add background music, integrate animations, etc. or something more powerful, it's all here. While each service offers different editing features, functionality is the same everywhere, i.e. (1) upload your video either from your PC or grab it directly from the web (i.e Youtube, Metacafe etc.), (2) edit/mix/enhance it, and (3) share it with others."
Picupine: share photos temporarily and easily
Picupine allows anyone to upload photos to share, without having to register. Simply upload your photos, give your album a name, get a hidden link to share with friends or family. You link will stay active for one week and then disappear.
Seems like a great way to easily and privately share photos.
question form: create, publish and analyse online surveys
QuestionForm is a new service that makes it easy to create, publish (on your site) and analyse an online survey.
question form includes a free version (maximum of 2 surveys with 5 questions) and paid plans start at $10 per month, available on a month-to-month basis as may be needed.
dumpr: have some fun with your photos
dumpr - fun with your photos allows you to take any photo from your computer, the web or flickr and do fun things like turn them in to jigsaw puzzles, add a reflection, "museumize" them, turn them into sketches or into vintage photos and more. Lots of great photo fun!
ToonDoo: create and share your own cartoons
ToonDoo - The Cartoon Strip Creator - Create, Publish, Share, Discuss! - a way to get creative by creating your own cartoons, publishing them and then sharing them by emailing to friends, posting to your blog or website.
Cool tool for anyone who's always wanted to be a cartoonist or as a fun way to illustrate a point for a website or blog.
Stripe Generator: the ultimate tool for web 2.0 designers
Stripe Generator generates diagonal stripes background tiles, with a bunch of option settings to control just about every aspect of the stripe.
The resulting tile can be used as a background image in CSS or as a pattern in Photoshop.
iwantsandy: your free email assistant
Meet Sandy, your free email assistant at iwantsandy, a new service from the makers of stikkit.
"We're throwing out the well-worn assumptions about how applications are supposed to work, and are instead paying attention to the clever ways in which people have adapted software to fit their needs. These workarounds usually contain the seeds of a better solution."
In a nutshell, iwantsandy will work by adding a "Cc. to Sandy" to any emails you want to use as reminders or to track information or contacts and turns them in to actual to-do lists, an up-to-date address book or an appointment calendar.
iwantsandy is free and is now accepting sign-ups for an April roll-out.
schoolr: handy one-page research tool
Welcome to schoolr. The only resource you'll need.
schoolr features a variety of search options, like Google, Dictionary, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia and Thesaurus but also Urban Dictionary, Citation Builder, Text translator and Book Summary Search. And finally, a unit converter.
A handy bookmark for anyone.
Pulse: get your website stats via RSS
Why have to visit a special site and login when you can get your Website Statistics Via RSS with Pulse.
Track visitors, referrers, keywords and more right in your RSS reader.
craigsnumber: protect your Craigslist privacy by using a disposable phone number
Craigslist is a great service but posting your home phone number for the whole world to see is obviously less than ideal.
Craigsnumber:: Auto expiring. FREE anonymous phone numbers for online safety. can solve that problem by giving you a free, temporary, auto-expiring phone number that you can use in your listing. The temporary phone number will automatically forward to your home phone and once your listing is over, the temporary number is cancelled and your home phone number remains private throughout.
Media Converter: free, online file converter
mediaconverter.org - the free online file converter - converts files to and from popular formats. Free sign up or you can covert a file anonymously if you don't want an account.
dnScoop: an all in one domain check tool
dnScoop - Domain Name History Tool, Traffic Verification and Forums is an tool that will collect a variety of useful information and stats about any domain, all on one page. Simply enter any url and find out the domain age, popularity, Alexa ranking etc.
Tumblr: easily create a hosted Tumblelog
Tumblr Tumblelogs are like blogs with less fuss. A quick and dirty stream of consciousness, usually featuring mixed media of text, photos, links, videos.etc. The idea of a Tumblelog is that you share without much commentary. [Tumblelogs on Wikipedia]
Tumblr is a new, free tool for creating (hosted) tumblelogs. Just sign up, pick your tubmlr url and you'll be presented with an option page where you can pick what you want to post to your tumblelog - photo, quote, text post, link, conversation, video. Yes, it's that easy and with the addition of a bookmarklet, for quick posting, you'll soon be a tumbling.
If you think a tumblelog might be your thing, it doesn't get much easier than Tumblr. The interface is nice, simple and very pretty! And they promise to keep it reliable and free. If you'd like to explore what a tumblelog looks like, you can check out the "original" tumblelog, Projectionist or explore this tumblelog directory.
Frevvo: Forms made easy
frevvo - web form builder Home uses Ajax technologies to create rich, dynamic forms without writing a single line of code. Once forms are made with their form designer, they can easily be added to any webpage.
Currently in Beta and free.
Comeeko: create comic strips from your photos
Comeeko - Creating comic strips from your photos - choose your layout, upload your photos, add speech bubbles and effects and share with your friends and family.
IMified: instant to-do's, notes, reminders and more
IMified - Instant Productivity. Leverage your IM time, by adding access to other services and applications you use (such as Google Calendar, Remember the Milk, Backpack etc), all without having to open up your browser.
" Imified is an instant messenger buddy that works accross all major IM networks and offers access to a growing number of web applications, as well as productivity tools like notes, reminders, and todo's. Imified helps you get things done faster."
Works with the most popular IM programs (AIM, Yahoo, MSN and Google Talk) and is free. Also, if you use IM on your cellphone, this is a great way to easily access your applications and services as well. Simply send an IM to the IMified service to get started.
DiggTaggr: greasemonkey script to display related stories on Digg
Brian.Shaler.name | DiggTaggr - Delivering Relevance to Digg - "DiggTaggr is a Greasemonkey- powered 3rd party Digg tool that searches for and displays links to Digg stories that are relevant to the one being viewed."
I've only had this installed a short time but it seems to be a nice addition to Digg, which at this point doesn't have any sort of related stories links. The returned stories are not always completely relative to the subject, but it seems to work reasonably well to add to the story.
Favicon2dots: make your favicon dotty
favicon2dots turns any favicon into a dots image. Kind of a cool effect and something visually different.
Blidgets: the latest from widgetbox
Blidgets at Widgetbox. There's not much there yet to explain what a Blidget is, but simply put, it's a widget that will take your blog content and make it into a widget that can be used anywhere to display your sites content.
Simply enter your site's url, give your blidget some style with the layout, theme color and title etc and then publish your Blidget. If you aren't already registered with widgetbox, you'll be asked to register before your Blidget will be published. Once published, you can promote your blidget on your site with a button or just leave it at widgetbox for people to grab.
Here's a screencap of the Blidget for this site ...
picnik: online photo editing made fun
Picnik - edit photos the easy way, online in your browser - a new, flash-based online photo editor.
Grab a photo from your computer, the web, Flickr, web search or your webcam and use the editor's basic editing tools and/or have some fun with their creative tools.
More features from their site:
* One-click photo fixing or in-depth tweaking
* Crop, rotate, and resize in real-time
* Tons of special effects, from artsy to fun
* Amazingly fast
* Works directly with many photo sharing sites
* No download required, nothing to install!
* Works on Mac, Windows, even Linux
* Free
Looks like a great tool and while it may not be enough to satisfy those that revel in the raft of tools in Photoshop, it's certain to be a handy tool for many.
pic2color: extract color schemes from any image
pic2color™ is a handy tool to extract a color scheme from any image.
Use the tool on their website by supplying an url to the image you want to obtain a color scheme from or grab the code they supply to add pic2color™ to you website.
Quizlet: Custom quizes based on your data
Quizlet › The End of Flashcards. You enter a list of words of data and quizlet gives you a specialized learning mode, flashcards, randomly-generated tests. And then "you ace your test".
Quizlet keeps track of the things you know and only retests you on the ones you don't. Share you data set with classmates and friends, import data from files and discuss via instant discussion tools.
Obviously, this is best suited to students but would work nicely for anyone who is looking to learn and retain any type of information.
Polaroize: turn any photo on your computer into a polaroid
Polaroize - just upload any photo on your computer and turn it in to a polaroid-like image.
Video Downloader: download videos from Youtube etc.
Download videos from Youtube, Google, iFilm, Metacafe, DailyMotion, Music. - you supply the url and VideoDownloader will go and grab it for you. There is also a Firefox Extension that will add one-click downloading of any video you are watching.
Site Vista: Test your HTML emails in different email clients
SiteVista Email Testing allows you to see how your html emails will look in a variety of email clients, including Gmail, different versions of Outlook, and Hotmail. With the change in rendering engine to Word for Outlook 2007 this is a valuable resource.
.htaccess Tools
.htaccess Tools is a wealth of information and assistance for dealing with .htaccess files. What's more, they offer some very handy .htaccess generators, which will walk you through the information and offer explanation and advice along the way so that you can make good choices.
Invaluable tool for those who know little about .htaccess and a handy tool for those who know a little more but would just like to be sure they get it right.
woohoo: build a customized slideshow for your site
With woohoo you can chose from 6 different photo display options, add your own photos and then grab the embed code to publish on your site.
For the more adventurous, there is also the option to customize the display even further (such as custom background color for blending seamlessly with a site). You'll find these options on the Developers page.
Shrink Pictures: Online image resizer
I've posted about a number of online image resizers in the past and this is yet another.
Resize Images online does the usual resizing tasks, allowing for preset or custom resizing. One nice feature though, is the addition of the option to either greyscale or sepia-tone the image, as well.
Leafletter: create rich content for your site
Leafletter - "A Leaflet is a miniature web site that you create using only a web browser and easilly distribute to social networks, blogs and other web sites." Interesting tool to make some rich visual content for your site. Check out the demo to see what it does and how it works. It will produce the embed code for easily inserting your creation in to your site.
Cite Bite: Link to a specific section on any page
Cite Bite - Link directly to specific quotes in web pages Simply paste a chunk of text and the URL of the page containing the text and in return get a link that opens directly to your selection and highlights it.
Cite Bite features a handy bookmarklet or a Firefox Extension. (see top right)
Online icon/favicon editor
Online Icon Maker - create your 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.
LetterPop: Easily make a newsletter in minutes
Letterpop - is a new Newsletter generator, featuring a nice (ajax) interface and some good looking premade templates. And it's free. Great for family, group or even small business use.
Diggmarks: anywhere on digg from your bookmarks toolbar
mikevitoroulis.net ~ diggmarks - anywhere on digg, all from your bookmarks bar creates a nest of folders for each digg topic and subtopic, with bookmarks to both the popular stories and upcoming stories for each topic as well.
For Firefox, just go to Bookmarks > Organize Bookmarks > and select Import from the File menu.
Driver Collector: collect and backup your computer's drivers
"Driver Collector is a tool designed to find and collect installed windows drivers for the hardware you select on your PC. Once you tell it which type of drivers you want to collect, it will copy them to a specific folder. This can be very handy when preparing for a format and reinstall of Windows, especially when you or a client have since lost the computers driver disks."
Nice tool for anyone facing a computer reformatting!
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.
AJAX Image Map Creator WYSIWYG
HTML-Image map Creator WYSIWYG - uses AJAX - make any image an image map quickly and easily. Simply use your mouse to draw lines on your image to mark the sections and then the generator will spit out the code for you to use. Neato.
Feng GUI: heatmap generator for your site
Feng-GUI - Feng Shui for Graphic User Interfaces - Simulates human visual attention and creates areas of attention heatmap. Still in alpha, Feng GUI is a very basic tool presently, showing only the area seen with the screen capture (so if you have bottom navigation, you'll probably not learn much). The image above shows etc.'s heatmap, which seems to reflect where visitors probably look - the title, search box, about, entry images and rss feed icon. I'm a little stumped by all the people looking at the empty top left corner though!
RoundedCornr: the rounded corner generator
RoundedCornr: Rounded Corner and Gradient Generator - generates a whole lot of variations of rounded corners for you. Handy tool.
And speaking of rounded corners ... apparently Google does it too!.
Default password finder tool
Forgot the default password for you router? Big bertha says: default passwords to the rescue. Just punch in your manufacturer information and/or product and get the default passwords you need.
musikCube: free, open source media player for WIndows
musikCube. Don't be square. - MusikCube is a light, feature-rich, highly extensible Open Source Media Player for Windows, with a great interface, extremely fast database management, and superb playlist support.
Juice: the cross-platform podcast receiver
Juice, the cross-platform podcast receiver. - free, open source podcast manager that has a built-in directory with thousands of listed podcast feeds, auto clean-up and supports multiple media players. Available for Windows, OS X and Linux.
Quick Thumbnail: online image resizer
Quick Thumbnail: The fastest and most powerful way to resize images online
"The fastest way to resize your pictures and images. Choose an image file, select some resize options, and hit Resize it. Your image will be uploaded to the server, resized and then any or all of the resized images. Not only can you get simultaneous generation of different sizes but you can enlarge your images too."
I particularly like the number of resize options with this tool. Resize by percentage (reduction or enlargement), specific sizing or standard sizing.
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.
OttoBib: automatically generate a bibliography
OttoBib - Free Auto Bibliography Generator. Faster! MLA, APA, Chicago is a great tool for anyone who is in research mode!
ajax13: free, online, ajax office suite
ajax13 has been around for a bit, but their new site is terrific - clean and to the point. Chose the tool you need and get to work!
Tools include ajaxWrite, that handles .doc files, ajaxSketch is a web-based drawing tool that handles SVG format natively, ajaxXLS spreadsheet viewer and editor handles both Excel and Open Office spreadsheets. AjaxPresents lets you read, create and save MS PowerPoint and OpenOffice presentation files. And for a break from all that work, fire up ajaxTunes, their web-based music player or ajaxOS, their ajax-aware operating system which uses ajax software directly from Firefox.
And best of all, it works. Well. And your documents are available anywhere and everywhere. MS should be worried.
Try 10 different OS online at Free Live OS Zoo
Ever wanted to try Ubuntu or FreeBSD? Fedora? Free Live OS Zoo offers just that with just a couple of catches. First, be sure to read the backgrounder before using and then, be aware that only 15 sessions are permitted at any one time and you may have to wait a bit to try.
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.
I think during my work day I type the same phrase many times as I respond to emails or type letters. Once set up, this program could really save me a ton of keystrokes!
BoxCloud
BoxCloud: Dead-Simple File Sharing for Design and Media Professionals isn't yet another online storage service. BoxCloud is a downloadable p2p program that makes sharing files "a snap" through a small application you install of your desktop. "You decide what to share simply by dragging files from your desktop over your buddy list". Files are hosted directly from your computer without any uploading. Once shared, contacts can then access your files with a regular browser (they don't need to download or configure anything.)
Looks like a really nice tool for those who are regularly sharing files with clients.
MapLib: turn any image into a custom Google Map
MapLib.net - Hosting your maps Powered by Google Maps - "MapLib.net turns any image you uploaded as large as 6000*6000 into a custom Google Map in a really simple way. You can maintain markers for it, as well as embed it in your own web pages or blog."
Weebly: Website Creation Made Easy
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.
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.
Easily add chat to your site with Chat Creator
If you've ever thought about adding a chat box to your site but didn't want to mess around with scripts or didn't like the look of some of the pre-made ones, you might want to take a look at Chat Creator. You can give your chat box a title, control it's size, color and font-family and then add it to your website by simply adding a couple of lines of code.
Add chat to your own site | Chatcreator.com
Cornershop: online rounded corner graphics generator
Cornershop - Rounded Graphics for CSS Box Corners is an online tool that will create the rounded corner graphics for you.
Simply enter the box background color, the page background color and the corner radius and have your corner images generated for you. A real time saver for basic rounded corner boxes!
Zamzar: convert files online
Zamzar - Free online file conversion - 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.
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.
Get notified l8tr when an overloaded web page is available
Is that article you want to read suffering from the slashdot effect? Been dugg? Slow as molassas? l8tr.org (beta) will notify you when the site comes back to life, so you don't have to remember to go back.
You can use the site itself, just enter an url to monitor and your email address for the notification, but I think the Firefox extension is the way to go. Once installed, you just need to right-click on any link, select "Monitor with l8tr" and you're done.
Handy!
gabmail: free video email
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.
AnalogWhole converts WMA/WAV to mp3
AnalogWhole - from their site " AnalogWhole is a Windows application that allows you to consolidate all your music into iTunes as MP3 files. Any music file that is playable in Windows Media Player can be re-recorded as an MP3 file. Just tell AnalogWhole where your music library is, and it will automatically re-record the file as an MP3 file. In addition, it will add the converted song to iTunes for you."
Clock Screensavers
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. Clock Screensaver:
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.
Thumbq: image storage/sharing site
thumbq - Free image hosting - Stylish, trendy, flexible From their site - "Thumbq is a straight-forward image hosting solution that makes uploading and sharing images easy as never before. Thumbq has got Lovely galleries, beautiful eye catching slideshows, the most simple interface to upload and manage your images. Thumbq lets you host and link images, run stunning galleries and slideshows on your webpage with full freedom."
Thumbq allows upload of up to 10 image files at once, with a limit of no more than 5MB per image. There is no limit on the number/total size of store images.
CoMizo: Search Craigslist for Free Stuff
Comizo - Your number one freebie search engine! - searches Craigslist for stuff offered for free. Just type in what you're looking for. The Depth drop down determines how many of the local Craigslist sites are searched.
Social Bookmark Link Creator
Social Bookmark Link Creator : Wordpress MovableType Blogger : Furl Del.icio.us Digg & More - a nice tool because it is not only user friendly (just check the boxes for the bookmark services you want), but it offers a number of display options AND it will generate blog-specific code at the end of it all (and instructions for how to insert it).
So, it works nicely for Wordpress, Movable Type and Blogger blogs. Of course, it's pretty basic html and css, so it should work for just about any application with a tweak or two.
dead.licious: Mac (only) tool to clean out dead delicious links
(Mac OS X 10.4 ONLY) dead.licious is a tool for verifying delicious links are still valid and then providing the option to remove dead link.
Delicious Link Checker is a similar (Perl) tool.
WebSnapr: screen capture tool
Wow, there's a lot of web 2.0 stuff going on at WebSnapr - Website Thumbnails For Your Site. I won't hold it against them though ;)
WebSnapr 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).
del.icio.us to Google Bookmarks tool
If you ever want to migrate your links from del.icio.us to Google Bookmarks, here's a tool that can make the job a lot easier. del.icio.us to Google Bookmarks
ClockLink: clocks for your websites
ClockLink.com. 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."
CNET TV
CNET TV - get your text fix in short video segments at CNET TV.
Digg Ticker Toolbar
Another day, another app from App a Day. Today, it's Jedi Digg.
From the site, this is "a tool bar docked at the top of your screen which displays the digg front page stories in rotation. From this tool bar you can left click the sotry title to open an embedded browser viewing the referenced page, right click the story title to open the story from duggmirror, left click the "Open Digg Page" text to open the digg page with comments, and lastly, you can directly digg the story from this toolbar."
Cool tool for Digg enthusiasts.
Monitor.us: 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.
Jump2Mail: all your mail in one place and more
"Jump2Mail is a free web-based email retrieval application, check all your email-box from one central place - completely free, from any computer, anywhere in the world."
Jump2Mail also integrates other features, such as:
- Planning/Diary.
- Reminder.
- Task Manager.
- Filtering Anti-Spam.
- Personal rules.
- Contact management System.
- Bookmark manager (in Ajax).
- RSS Reader (in Ajax).
- RSS Feed of the new malls (in progress).
- Available in 7 different languages.
- 5 different graphic topics.
Jump2Mail was is itch-scratch ware, created by a group of web developers to meet a need and now released for free for others to use.
ajaxutils
With Ajax Utils you can check whois, domain availability, IP address to city/country, ping and do a dns lookup, all on one page with lots of ajax goodness at work.
polldaddy
Free polls for your blogs and websites with PollDaddy.com
"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.
The Markup Maker
Markup Maker - Takes a simple list of page ids that you enter and converts it to a valid XHTML document | Developer Tools | Accessify (and creates a barebones CSS stylesheet to go with it). A neat keystroke-saving tool.
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.
CamStudio Streaming Video Software
Have you ever tried to explain your mother how to install a Firefox extension over email? Why not send a video mini tutorial instead! CamStudio - Free Screen Recording Software is a program that will record all screen and audio activity on your computer as an avi file and can also convert that avi into a flash video. And more. And it's free, to boot! (If you do try CamStudio, note the known issue with regards to viewing the flash videos in Firefox and follow the quick work-around provided).
CamStudio is a Windows program. For Linux, try vnc2swf or Mac, Snapz Pro (not free, though).
Media Convert
Media Convert is a handy bookmark to quick and easy conversion of a whole pile of formats. No installation required. Note that it's limited to 50MB files, but again, the huge numbers of format conversion options is what makes it most useful.
Torpark Privacy Browser based on Firefox
Torpark is a small, portable, clean, open-source, free of spyware/adware, and free anonymous browsing solution.
"Download Torpark and put it on a USB Flash keychain. Plug it into any internet terminal whether at home, school, or public. Run Torpark.exe and it will launch a Tor circuit connection, which creates an encrypted tunnel from your computer indirectly to a Tor exit computer, allowing you to surf the internet anonymously."
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 ...
My tool of choice:
Windows XP Image Resizing Power Tool
Online Image Resizing Services:
Original Resizr
ResizR
Image Squash
pxn8
blibs
SnipShot
Use Photoshop an easier way:
Create a Photoshop Droplet to handle image resizing
Updated January 9, 2007: Some new online image resizing resources!
mypictr and shrink pictures, which offers an added feature of being able to greyscale or sepia tone resized images.
Hockneyizer: Create a collage from a single photo
Hockneyizer: Create a simulated collage from a single photograph - a couple of styles to chose from to create a unique photo presentation.
Zippy: A new way to search
Zippy - The webmaster's meta search engine - goes beyond just search results. Check SEO information, related searches, compare two urls etc.
Dark Room
-Dark Room is "a full screen, distraction free, writing environment. Unlike standard word processors that focus on features, Dark Room is just about you and your text." Simple, free tool for writers who need/want to focus on only the words, based on "WriteRoom" that is an OSX app, DarkRoom brings the same look and feed to Windows.
Requires .NET Framework 2.0.
Gadgets: Beautiful Phones and Sexy Cameras
Top 10 most beautiful cellphones - lots of pretty nice phones!
If you're in the market for a small, powerful camera, you could do much worse that the new Canon PowerShot SD40 ELPH! 7.1 Megapixels and a DIGIC III Processor. Comes in 4 colourfully named colours - Twilight Sepia, Olive Gray, Precious Rose, and Noble Blue.
ResizR: Quick image resizing
ResizR - Easy online image resize. ResizR can grab an image from your computer or from the web and quickly resizes it. Handy for screenshots or images for blog posts etc.
Foxit PDF Reader v2.0 Released
Foxit Software released v 2.0 of it's free PDF Reader, a great alternative to Adobe's Reader. (Link goes directly to download page).
Combine the free Foxit PDF Reader with the Firefox PDF Download Extension and Bob's your uncle.
Online Alarm Clock
Online Alarm Clock - onlineclock.net - 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.
Webshots for Screenshots
WebShotsPro.com : Free Website Screenshots - Website Thumbnail Service - The screenshot thumbnail here was generated by Webshots, a handy tool for grabbing and sharing screenshots. Grab the bookmarklet too, to make it even handier!
I always worry a little bit about hosting screenshot images on another service though. What if it disappears? I'd have a lot of holes in my pages. Perhaps saving to my own server would be a good idea.
3 Alternatives for a small, simple personal wiki
Linux.com | Personal wikis: Three small, simple alternatives - DoxWiki, TiddlyWiki and Wiki on a Stick suggested and reviewed.
Url Investigator
URL Investigator is a simple but useful tool. Simple enter any url, and Url Investigator will return Google Pagerank, Alexa rank, whois and link backs.
Free Receive-only email Dodgeit
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.
Palary (Secure) Browser
Palary Browser is another "browse privately and securely" solution, offering a browser within a browser solution, over a secure proxy.
Interesting note under the "Privacy" section "The above assumes that you have media disabled on webpages". How many people surf that way? It may be secure but it sure ain't pretty.
Black Box Search
BLACK BOX SEARCH... no IP, no tracking cookies, no logging - EVER! - an easy way to search the bit three search engines without tracking.
It would be great if they would offer a snippet to add itself to Firefox's search dropdown box.
Zapr
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. Hmmmm.
A couple of handy online tools
PDF Online : Create PDF. Simply upload the document you want to convert to PDF
ConvertIcon - easily convert a png to an icon file (ico) or vice versa.
scratch-list
scratch-list - "a "scratchpad" for bookmarks. It's simple - no accounts or passwords required. You get a unique bookmarklet to add to your browser's bookmarks toolbar. When you're visiting a web page you might like to save (but don't feel like committing to a bookmark), click the bookmarklet to add it to your scratch·list."
Ok. So bookmarking services are a dime a dozen these days. So what makes scratch-list worth noting? It offers something different, particularly for people who are prolific link collectors (like me!). It's like a staging area for links. Some will be linked for the a short time and then not needed (like some ebay auctions you want to follow, perhaps or a particular comment thread). Some links will be keepers and can be moved on to delicious or any number of other bookmarking services. Links can be tagged and automatically filtered into categories for easy retrieval.
Scratch-list doesn't require sign-up or a password. Just set up the bookmarklets and go.
DiggTools
A lot of Digg Tools, all on one nice and easy-to-read page -Digg Tools
Test your connection speed
Everyone wants to know how fast (or not) their internet connection is, so why not use a pretty tool to do it. Speedtest.net is much prettier than most. I haven't tested it enough to know how accurate it is but it seems like it's about right for my connection.
Speedtest will keep a record of speedtests that you've run on your computer so you can compare as well. You can also share (email) or link to your results if you want to brag (or rant ;)
Digg Filtr
DiggFiltr.com - Create a custom digg feed in seconds - select as many Digg categories and subcategories as you like and Digg Filtr will generate a custom RSS feed containing only the items you selected.
Nowsy Personal News and Information Dashboard
The latest entry in the personal portal arena, is Nowsy, which allows you to make your own personalized popurl-like page. With sharing, Firefox extensions, delicious integration and search capability, it's certainly feature-rich. Worth a closer look, I think.
Nowsy.com - your news and info dashboard »
Test your popup blocker
PopupTest - test your popup blocker software and download software
Using Firefox 1.5.0.4, Firefox blocked all except for the dropdown popup. Pretty good, I'd say! No need to download popup blocking software. Why isn't everyone using Firefox?
AjaxWrite
ajaxWrite - AJAX for Everyone - a web-based word processor, that works from within a Firefox browser (1.5+). Designed to look a lot like MS Word, so it has a familiar interface. And free! Free is always good.
SlimTimer
SlimTimer - timer, tracking, task organizer, task sharer online service designed for web contractors particularly. And free as far as I can see!
Online Screen Capture/Thumbnail Service
ThumbPress: Website Thumbnail Capture - will take a screen capture of any site, at screen size you specify and also generate a thumbnail for you. Very, very handy!
Digg View
So Digg expanded it's topics recently and now my tech news is mixed up with science news I don't understand. EnterDigg View - which takes Diggs results and sorts them out into categories so I can only see what I want to see.
Preloadr
Preloadr: Image processing - "Preloadr is a free service providing image manipulation functions linked with your Flickr account. It is designed to pre-process photos uploaded to Flickr."
Free and registration free, as well.
Kool IM
Kool IM - log in to many IM services at the same time through Kool IM.
Current Web User Stats from W3Counter
According to the W3Counter folks, 11% of visitors to the sites they track still use 800x600 display. Yikes. I'd hoped it was lower. The 20% Firefox usage is encouraging though! And only 3% Mac OS users?? There seems to be so many more. Anyway - interesting stats ...
ASCII -O-Matic
ASCII-O-Matic
- just because it's fun.
Quickmaps
quikmaps.com - maps for the masses - doodle up a google map. Ideal tool for drawing a map to your house or planning a route or just pointing out where something is/was/should be.
Reliable, low-priced online storage
JungleDisk - Reliable online storage powered by Amazon S3™ - online storage service that charges 15 cents per gig, with no set-up or monthly fees. I'm often not big on paying for things ;), but if I was going to use an online backup/storage system I'd want to pay something to be sure my stuff was safe and the service would be around for a while.
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