NukeoMeter is a simple awareness tool based on data from The Guardian. It can tell you how many nuclear weapons are within range of any given city.

Just enter the city and country name and it will give you quick overview with total number of nuclear warheads by country and delivery.

Visit NukeoMeter @ www.nukeometer.com

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NukeoMeter: Find out How Many Nuclear Weapons are in Range of Your City

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SupaLogo is a simple and quick logo maker that enables you to create nice logos in few clicks. You can easily customize logos in terms of color, outline, size, font and gradient.

The process is usual, just enter desired text into provided field and then use options to customize new logo the way you want. Once satisfied download it as png file.

Features:

• Free online logo maker.
• Create as many logos as you like.
• Customize your logo in terms of color, outline, size, font and gradient.
• Clean and user friendly design.
• Download logo on to your computer as png file.
• No sign up and free.
• Similar tools: LogoFactory, Cool Text, Creatr, LogoBuilder1 and CoolRGB.

Check out SupaLogo @ www.supalogo.com

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SupaLogo: Quick Logo Maker

• WhatsItsColor: Find the Average Color in any Image
• Web2.0Write: Converts Text To Image Using Popular Web Icons
• Web2.0Badges: Web Badge Generator
• VectorMagic: Convert Pixel-based Image to Vectorized
• RoundPic: Rounded Corners for Any Image

ZamaBook is a web based appointment scheduling software which lets individuals and business owners schedule appointments with clients anytime and anywhere. It eliminates the need of phone tag, voice mail and emails to book appointments by putting the complete appointment book online. Other features include client and services database, quick scheduler, business dashboard, staff availability calendar and much more.

The application provides free and paid accounts, free account includes most of the features except that you can’t have any additional personal, and ads will be shown.

Features

• Online appointment scheduler.
• Appointments can be booked anytime and from any computer having internet.
• Enables your clients  to schedule appointments with you.
• Keep a track of clients with client database.
• Quick scheduler, business dashboard and more.
• Similar tool: AcuityScheduling.

Check out Zamabook @ www.zamabook.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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Zamabook: Web Based Appointment Scheduling Service

• AcuityScheduling : Online Appointment Scheduling Software
• ZocDoc: Dentist Search + Appointments
• WoldTimeEngine: Find out What Time is it in XXXXX Right Now
• WhoAreIn: Easily Organize Meetings Online
• WhichWeekend : Weekend Planner

If you have lost the manual for your cellphone, DVD player or any other consumer product, now you can find it and download with one click from ManualsOnline.com. It contains over 300,000 free downloadable manuals for different product categories including cellphones, cameras, laptops, household appliances and others.

You can browse manuals by product type, by brand or search with keywords. Simply enter the manufacturer/product name and model  (ex: Apple iPhone 3G S) into the search field, click “Search” and download the relevant manual with one click without registration.

Sign up for an account to store and organize manuals online, upload your own manuals to the site and get help from site members with manual search and your product problems

Features:

• Search for manuals.
• Over 300,000 user manuals for different products including cellphones, cameras, laptops, appliances and others.
• Browse manuals by brands, product type or search using keywords.
• Find and download manuals without registration.
• Sign up for an account to store and organize manuals online, upload your own manuals and get help from site members.
• Similar sites: The Manuals and  SafeManuals.

Check out Manuals Online @ www.manualsonline.com

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ManualsOnline: Lists Over 300,000 Free Downloadable Manuals

• The-Manuals: Free Manuals Search Engine
• SafeManuals : User Manuals for any Gadget
• Find A Grave: Search 27 Million Cemetery Records
• ArchiveSearch: Search News Archives
• Acronym Finder : Lookup Acronym Definitions

SlideServe lets you upload PowerPoint presentations and then easily share or embed them on the web. Once you upload the presentation, it is converted into a Flash video and all the text from slides is extracted into a separate transcript which displayed on the same page below the video.

You can also check out presentations shared by other users, search and browse them by popularity,  rate and leave comments.

Features:

• Upload and share powerpoint presentations online.
• Share your presentations on the web or embed into your web pages.
• Browse presentations shared by other users sorted by popularity, tags and categories.
• Download the software plug-in to upload presentations directly from PowerPoint.
• Sign up to upload and comment on presentations.
• Similar websites: SlideSix

Check out SlideServe @ www.slideserve.com

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SlideServe: Upload And Share PowerPoint Presentations

• ZohoShow
• Zoho : Feature-rich Web-based Office Software
• Web2PDF: ‘Save as PDF’ Button for Your Blog
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• ThumbStacks

If you come across a symbol or a sign and don’t know what it means, head straight to Symbols.com. It is a web resource where you can easily look up symbols and read their meanings. The site currently lists around 2500 western (modern and ancient) symbols organized in 54 categories.

There are four ways you can search for symbols:

1. Simple keyword search.
2. Use graphic index tool that searches symbols based on symmetry, shape and crossing lines.
3. Use word index to find a symbol with a certain meaning.
4. Check out a random sign.

You can also buy a book, which features everything you can find at Symbols.com plus an additional 100 pages of in-depth articles about symbols and ideograms.

Features:

• Check out symbols and meanings.
• Search and browse symbols randomly.
• Contains  more than 1,600 articles about 2,500 western signs.
• The Book version of website can be also purchased.
• The site is free and no sign up.

Check out Symbols @ www.symbols.com

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Symbols: Look Up Symbol Meanings

• Pick-A-Prof: Choose Your Professor Wisely
• Medpedia: Online Encyclopedia Of Medicine
• BehindtheName: Find Out What Any Name Stands For

Milo is a shopping site which focuses on offering real-time product availability information from local retailers including Wal-Mart, Target and BestBuy in 30,000 towns across the United States. Consumers can check the availability of desired products at local stores, filter the results by stores, brand or prices and compare them to find the cheapest and the best item for themselves. Hence they would know beforehand which store they need to visit to buy that product and hence save time.

Features

• Find real time inventory information at local stores
• Filter results by stores, brand and prices
• Instantly find what’s available and cheap
• Buy from the retailer’s site directly from this site

Check out Milo@ www.milo.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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Milo: Check Real Time Product Availability At Local Stores

• ZingSale: Get Email Alerts When Products Go On Sale
• Yakaz: Search Classified Ads on Over 7000 Sites at Once
• Woot: One Deal a Day
• TypoBuddy: Find Misspelled Items on Ebay & Craigslist
• TrueCar: Find Out Real Prices Paid For New Cars

GrungeTextures is a web resource that lists free collection of high quality background textures focused mainly on weathered and worn surfaces. Anyone can download and use them without restrictions.

The site lest you search images, browse them by categories and also view popular and latest additions. Each image includes additional info such as size, user rating, number of views and related tags. There are currently around 1400 high resolution images.

Features:

• Download quality background textures.
• Currently lists around 1400 high resolution images.
• Search and browse by categories .
• View popular, latest and random images.
• Free and no sign up.
• Similar site: TextureKing.

Check out GrungeTextures @ www.grungetextures.com

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GrungeTextures: Lists High Quality Background Textures

• TextureKing : Free High Quality Texture Photos
• TypoGenerator: Generate Random Nonsense Posters
• WhatsItsColor: Find the Average Color in any Image
• WebGraficMaker : Create Backgrounds, Lines and Bulleted Points
• ViewAt: Create Panoramic Images

Bookmaplet is a handy browser bookmarlet which lets you quickly view a map of any address you see online without having to leave the page you are on.

Works simple, just drag provided bookmarklet onto your browser and you are set. Now, whenever you see an address on a webpage highlight it with your mouse and click the Bookmaplet, small pop-up frame will appear in the top right corner displaying the location of the address on a map.

Features:

• Maps addresses without leaving the page you are on.
• Free, no instillation and no registration.

Check Out Bookmaplet @ www.bookmaplet.com (via lifehacker)

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Bookmaplet: Handy Address Mapping Bookmarklet

• UMapper: Create and Share Route Maps with Friends
• The Route Planner: Get Route Map & Directions Online
• SitOrSquat : Find Closest Public Toilets
• Sailwx: Real Time Ship Tracking
• RouteBlast: Calculating Mileage Between Cities Made Easy

SugarStats is a free web service that allows anyone with diabetes to manage, share and track blood sugar levels online. It has a simple interface to enter and access data from anywhere. Users can keep a record of foods, medications and activities, create graphs and trends to better understand diabetes development, view and add entries from cellphone, and exchange messages with family and diabetic support squad.

Even though SugarStats encourages members to share their data and get additional support, they can always change their privacy settings and choose whom to share their information with.

Main Features:

• Tracking blood sugar levels made simple.
• Record and manage your medication, food and activity.
• Visualize your development through graphs and trends.
• Share your stats with your family, friends or medical doctor.
• Input data through, web, email or even Twitter.
• Free and easy to use.

Visit SugarStats @ www.sugarstats.com (By Tehseen from Ijaar.com)

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SugarStats: Track Blood Sugar Online

• YawnLog: Online Sleep Tracker
• Qwitter : Helps you Quit Smoking
• Morale-O-Meter: Track your Day-to-Day Morale
• MiVitals : Store and Share Health Records Online
• MapMyRun : Plan and Map your Running Routes

Nowadays, more and more politicians are embracing the Internet as a way to communicate with their voters and the rest of the world. Legistalker lets you track the latest online activity of US legislators (congressmen, senators) in one place.

You can view what they voted on (motions, amendments, resolutions etc.), browse news mentions in online media sources (newspapers, blogs, magazines, YouTube videos) and follow their Twitter updates. Browse representatives for different US states and add them to a Watch list to track their latest online activity in one place. No registration needed.

Features:

• Track online activity (news mentions, twitter updates, videos etc.) of US congressmen and senators in one place.
• Search for a legislator from a search bar or browse representative from each state on a map.
• Add politicians to your Watch List.

Check out Legistalker @ www.legistalker.org

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Legistalker: Track Online Activity of US Congressmen & Senators

• ZapTXT: Get Website Updates to your email, SMS, IM or RSS
• Yotify.com: Stay Notified About Content You Are Interested In
• YawnLog: Online Sleep Tracker
• Xpenser: Mobile Expense Tracker
• Wridea: Keep Track of Ideas

This is free online midi to mp3 wav converter provided at HamieNET.com, it lets you convert MIDI files to MP3/WAV audio files, which you can then burn onto a CD, import into a flash movie and for other uses where MIDI files are restricted. No need to sign up or a special software.

Just upload a MIDI file (*.mid) from your computer, adjust the conversion options (sample width, sound system, MP3 bit rate etc) and click “Convert File”. Wait around 10 seconds while the conversion takes place and then download the converted file in MP3 or WAV format onto your computer.

Features:

• Convert MIDI files to MP3/WAV online.
• Adjust the conversion options (sample width, sound system, MP3 bit rate etc) and click “Convert File”
• No need for sign up or a special software

Check out midi2mp3 @ www.hamienet.com/midi2mp3

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midi2mp3: Free Online MIDI to MP3/WAV Converter

• Sawgi: Audio Version of YouTube
• ListenToYouTube: Convert YouTube Videos Into Audio Files
• FLVto : Online FLV to MP3 Converter
• Yahoo! Media Player: Embedable MP3 Player
• WuZAM : MP3 Search Engine

Here is another nice Craigslist and Google Maps mashup that lets you search and find places for rent and sale in major US cities. The application pulls Craigslist’s (housing) listings and presents them on clean map interface.

You can browse listings by city name or simply use map to zoom in into particular location. Options to filter listings by keywords, price, number of rooms, dogs, cats… etc, are also available.  Each listing is marked as colored icon clicking which will show the images and price details.

Features:

• Find places for rent and sale in over 35 US cities (more cities will be added).
• Browse by city name or zoom in.
• Filter listings by keywords, price, number of rooms, dogs, cats… etc.
• Each listing is marked as colored icon clicking which will show images and price details.
• Free and no registration.
• Similar websites: RentBits, PadMapper, ApartmentMap and also see our related post “Top 5 U.S. Apartment Search Engines“.

Check out HousingMaps @ www.housingmaps.com

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HousingMaps: Find Places For Rent & Sale In US

• PadMapper: Easy Way To Search Craigslist For Rental Property
• MyApartmentMap: Find Affordable Places to Rent in US
• RentBits: Rental Property Search Engine
• iStopOver: Affordable Short Term Rentals From Owners
• Roomorama: Marketplace For Short-Term Rentals

Talon is a new online screen capture tool form Aviary. Using it you can instantly capture screenshots of almost any web page you want. It is simple to use and has a bunch of cool additional features.

There are three ways you can use Talon:

1. Go directly to the site and enter the URL of the page you want to capture.
2. Install Firefox plug in or browser bookmarklet and click it to capture pages.
3. Add aviary.com/ to the beginning of the URL  Eg: aviary.com/http://makeuseof.com.

You can customize resolution, quality and the region of the screenshots. Once screenshot is taken it can be saved to your clipboard, desktop or even online. Furthermore you can edit, crop, resize, rotate, add effects and generate color pallets of your screenshots.

Features:

• Online screen capture application.
• Capture as many screenshots as you like.
• Firefox add-on and browser bookmarklet supported.
• Save screenshots to your clipboard, desktop or online.
• Additional features:  Edit, crop, resize, rotate, add effects and generate color pallets.
• Free and no registration.
• Similar tools : SnapCasa, SuperScreenshots, Clip2Net, Kwout , WebSnapr and Thumbalizr.

Check out Talon @ www.aviary.com/launch/talon

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Talon: Online Screen Capture Tool

• YearbookYourself: Give your Photos 1950s, 60s, 70s …. look
• WriteOnIt: Create Fake Photos, Captions and Magazines
• Wiredness
• WetFloorMaker: Add Reflection To Image
• WebSnapr: Free Website Thumbnail Screenshots

If you ever need a meeting cost meter to calculate exact cost of your meetings, check out Meeting-Ticker. It works just like a taxi meter, you simply enter the hourly salary, set the time and the meter will start as you push the “Start” button.

Meeting-Ticker can be used to calculate costs of individual meetings or if you are employer you can use it to calculate cost of employee meetings while they take place.

Features:

• Online meeting cost meter.
• Lets you calculate costs of group and individual meetings.
• Simple and no sign up.

Visit Meeting-Ticker @ www.tobytripp.github.com/meeting-ticker

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Meeting-Ticker: Meeting Cost Meter

• IRS Withholding Calculator: Calculte Your Income Taxes
• CostOfLiving: Salary & Cost Of Living Comparison Tool
• xThink Calc: Online Calculator for your Drawing Pad
• Where’s George
• Web2.0cal: Web2.0 Styled Cool Online Calculator

ColorSchemeDesigner is cool online color scheme picker for your website or any other design project. You could choose colors using the rotatory interface on the left and preview the scheme on the right. You could even check the light and dark versions of the scheme on a web page format.

The best thing about this tool is that it gives you a huge number of options both while choosing the color scheme and while previewing it. Ranging from options like mono, complement, triad etc, adjusting the scheme for brightness and contrast and previewing it in different formats, there are many options to choose from.

Features:

• Multi-utility tool for creating website color schemes.
• Choose the colors and preview the scheme right-away.
• Various preview options available.
• Set the scheme to mono, complement, triad and many more.
• Refine the scheme using the adjust scheme option.
• Similar sites:  Color Palette Generator

Check out Color Scheme Designer@ www.colorschemedesigner.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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ColorSchemeDesigner: Cool Online Color Scheme Picker

• Pictaculous: Image Color Extraction App
• YourFonts: Creating Fonts Online From You Own Handwriting
• Wordpress Theme Generator: Create WordPress Themes
• WordOff: CleanUp HTML Code With a Single Click
• WhatTheFont: Recognize the Font from any Image

Previously we have covered search engine comparison tools that allowed you to compare Google with Yahoo, Google with Bing and Google with Wolfram-Alpha. Today I came across one cool Firefox add-on that can easily replace them all. The application unifies popular search engines such as Bing, Wolfram, Wikipedia, Delicious and Stumbleupon in one place and lets you compare side-by-side with Google.

The application is simple and easy to use, once installed go to Google and search, when results are presented you will also see a toolbar displaying different search engines, clicking one will open results from that engine along Google results. You can easily switch between engines with a single click

Features:

• Compare  search results from popular sites with Google.
• Supported sites are Bing, Wolfram, Wikipedia, Delicious and Stumbleupon.
• Switch between engines with a single click.
• Simple and easy to use.
• Currently works only with Firefox.
• Free and no sign up.

Check out UnifiedSearch @ www.addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12546

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UnifiedSearch: Unified Search Engine Comparison Tool

• Google Squared: Organize Search Results Like Never Before
• RoosterFly: Compare Event Ticket Prices
• BlindSearch: The Best ‘Which Search Engine is Better’ Test
• Wolfram Alpha Google: Adds Wolfram Alpha Search Results Next To Google’s
• WikiMatrix: Compare Wiki Platforms

The Photo Stream is a nice website which delivers buzz and newsworthy content to the users through a rich, eye-opening photo interface. If you are done reading news as a bunch of text then you will find this site’s visual interface to be appealing.

The home page of the site shows images of different sizes displayed together. When you hover the mouse on an image, you can see the news content on the footer of the page. Clicking on an image takes you to the original page within a photostream frame. Publishers can easily add content to this stream using RSS feeds or individual urls.

Features

• Read news in a rich visual interface.
• Click on images to go to the original stories.
• Add comments and submit stories easily.
• Get the stream delivered to your feed reader by adding the rss feed of the page.

Check out ThePhotoStrean @ www.thephotostream.com (via ReadWriteWeb) (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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ThePhotoStream: Get News In A Rich Photo Interface

• YouGotPhoto: Easily Add Online Images To Digital Photo Frames
• Yotify.com: Stay Notified About Content You Are Interested In
• Yahoo Go: Yahoo Apps on Your Mobile
• WriteOnIt: Create Fake Photos, Captions and Magazines
• WebbAlert : Your Daily Tech RoundUp

TrackMyPeople is a free online time tracker that allows you to easily track your time, as well as your employees’ time if you manage a team. The multi user functionality is what separates this from other such free tools (Toggl, TimeTracker, MyHours… etc. ) . It also offers cool features like integrated calendar, extensive graphical reports, desktop widgets and a comprehensive online time sheet for you and your employees.

Features

• Free web based multi-user time tracker.
• Integrated calendar and graphical reports.
• Desktop Widgets for Windows, Mac and Linux available.
• Quality support available for users.
• You can also check our article listing free desktop apps “6 Useful Desktop Time Tracking Software“.

Check out TrackMyPeople @ www.trackmypeople.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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TrackMyPeople: Online Multi-User Time Tracker

• MyHours: Free Web Based Time Tracking & Management
• Xobni : Excellent Contact Manager for Microsoft Outlook
• Write or Die: Get Back To Writing!
• WorkTrek: Productivity Tracking Tool
• Workspace: Managing Software Development Projects Online

CoboCards (short for “Collaboration Cards”), lets you create flash cards online for easy studying. These flash cards are interactive and allow to include media like pictures and graphs to make them more visual and easy to comprehend. Once created, you can share these flash cards with your friends and even print them out for offline studying.

You can edit your flash cards as many times as you want and go back to the previous versions. CoboCards also provides features like posting comments on the cards, setting deadlines, tracking your progress, collaborating with fellow students and sorting your card deck by dragging & dropping cards.
Features:

• Create your own flashcards online free.
• Include pictures and graphs on your card.
• Get RSS updates when a team member edits the cards.
• Link cards to each other electronically.
• Keyboard Shortcuts for easy editing.
• More flashcard related sites: Cramberry, Popling, FlashCardFlash and FlashCardDB.

Visit CoboCards @ www.cobocards.com (By Tehseen from Ijaar.com)

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CoboCards: Create Interactive Flash Cards Online

• Popling: Learn Languages Online The Easy Way
• FlashCardFlash: Search 6 Best Flashcard Websites At Once
• FlashCardDB – Online Flash Card Maker
• Cramberry: Cool Online Flashcard Generator
• ZAPReader : Practise Speed Reading Online

FitDay is a popular online diet and weight tracking journal used by over 2.2 million members. It lets you track and achieve your long-term fitness goals based on your daily foods and exercises. It analyzes all this information and shows your daily calorie intake (fats, proteins, carbs), weight loss from each activity, long-term diet analysis and more, viewable on easy-to-understand graphs and charts.

Sign up and use it online or from your computer by downloading the desktop version, which is more convenient, faster, works offline and lets you view more advanced reports

Note:  After you sign up, you can skip the sponsor page and sign in from the homepage.

Features:

• Track your diet and weight loss for free online.
• Used by over 2.2 million members.
• Enter your daily foods and exercises and view detailed reports on calorie counts, weight loss from each activity and long term diet analysis.
• Contains nutritional information for 1000’s of food items.
• Use it online or from your computer by downloading the desktop version, which is more convenient, works offline, faster and lets you view more advanced reports.
• Free, sign up online.

Check out FitDay @ www.fitday.com

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FitDay: Free Online Diet & Weight Loss Journal

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RoosterFly is a price comparison engine for tickets of entertainment events like sports events, concerts and theater. It aggregates information from secondary ticketing websites and displays them in a simple, user-friendly interface helping the customers to compare event ticket prices and find the best deals. Enter either the venue, team, artist or the city and it will show a list of tickets available for different events from various brokers.

You can also look for events on a specific date and/or location.

Features :

• Price comparison  engine for entertainment tickets.
• Compare ticket prices for sports events like NBA or NHL, music concerts and plays.
• User friendly interface.
• Provides a list of tickets available for events from different brokers.
• Similar sites: Seathound, Tickex,  TicketStumbler and FanSnap.

Check out Roosterfly @ www.roosterfly.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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RoosterFly: Compare Event Ticket Prices

• TicketsFTW: Comparing Ticket Prices Made Simple
• TicketPredator: Online Ticket Price Comparison For US Events
• UnifiedSearch: Unified Search Engine Comparison Tool
• Tickex : Ticket Search Engine
• TicketStumbler: Find, Compare And Buy Sports Tickets

If you have kids, or simply spend time with children you would probably know what it is like to be bombarded with questions at any given time and subject matters. Answering these questions can be tricky sometime, not that they are hard but because you need to give child-appropriate answer.
This is where Whyzz can help, it is a new website that lets you quickly find appropriate answers to many questions from kids. You can search site by typing the exact question or browse by categories.

Answers are written by Whyzz staff writers, psychologists, experts, and site members. Each answer comes with additional information such as tips, and important talking points.

The site is free and there is no registration needed to search and browse site. Registering on the site enables you to bookmark answers you like, add comments, and view all the content you’ve contributed.
Features:

• Find answers to tough questions from children.
• Search site and browse by categories.
• Answers are added by staff writers, psychologists, experts, and site member.
• Additional information, tips, and important talking points are also included.
• Bookmark answers you like, add comments to entries, and view all the content you’ve contributed (registration needed).
• The mobile-friendly version is also supported.

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Whyzz: Get Answers To Tough Questions From Kids

• What A Lovely Name: Baby Name Finder
• TheColor: Easy Online Coloring Pages For Kids
• PlaySpaceFinder: Playground Locator
• PiggyBank Inc. : Get your Kid a Virtual Bank Account
• KidsMealDeals: Find Restaurants With Kids Specials

Like to experiment and looking for some stuff to do on your weekend? If  yes, head to DangerouslyFun.com. It is a website that lists dozen of projects for creating various physical devices, many of which are dangerous. You can learn how to make burning bubbles, pigpong pistol, vinegar grenade and more. Each projects includes intro, step by step instruction and lots of user comments.

The site currently lists 12 projects and a new ones are added periodically.

Note:  These projects and created devices are dangerous and should never be used irresponsibly. You should never attempt to replicate any of these devices without a thorough understanding of how they work and confidence in your construction abilities.

Check out DangerouslyFun @ www.dangerouslyfun.com

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DangerouslyFun: Learn How to Make Burning Bubbles, Pigpong Pistol, Fire Wire and more …

• ZentaoGuitarLessons: Free Electric Guitar Lessons For Newbies
• ShowMeNow: Step By Step How-Tos With Illustrations
• Easy2DIY: Home Repair Tutorials & Tips
• Yedda : Ask Questions. Get Answers.
• Yahoo Answers: Biggest Q&A Community on The Web

If you plan to assemble your own computer from separate components, you will need a power supply powerful enough to run your computer depending on the configuration. This tool is a computer power supply calculator provided by Newegg, which lets you calculate the amount of watts your computer will maximally consume based on the configuration details of the components (CPU, Motherboards, Memory etc).

Just select your components and press “Calculate”.

Calculator does not take into account external devices, PCI Cards, USB and Firewire devices, Cooling fans. Use it as a general measure when buying a power supply for the computer.

Features:

• Calculate how much power (watts) your future computer will consume based on its configurations.
• Select components (CPU, Memory, Motherbards, Hard Drive etc) and press “Calculate”.
• Use the calculated amount as a general measure when buying a power supply.
• No sign up.

Check out Power Supply Calculator @ wwww.educations.newegg.com/tool/psucalc

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Computer Power Supply Calculator

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• SafeManuals : User Manuals for any Gadget
• OwnerIQ: Download Free User Manuals for Products
• ZentaoGuitarLessons: Free Electric Guitar Lessons For Newbies
• Yedda : Ask Questions. Get Answers.

Facebomb is an image editing site which focuses on spicing up the picture you would be using on your various social network profiles by applying variety of effects. You can add custom text and all kinds of symbols, pictures based on themes like love, toys, animals, angels and many more.

To pimp up your profile image, simply upload a picture, select the area, apply effects on the selected area and then download it in JPEG format.

Features

• Spice up your profile picture by adding various effects.
• You can select a specific area of the picture to customize.
• Add text and picture based effects.
• Download final picture in JPEG format.

Check out Facebomb @ www.facebomb.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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Facebomb: Pimp Up Your Profile Picture

• WetFloorMaker: Add Reflection To Image
• Tuxpi: Make Your Own Wanted Poster
• Tutzor: Top Notch Photoshop Tutorials Collection
• TiltShiftGenerator: Tilt Shift Photo Maker
• StretchYourFace: Make Comic Pictures

Mon.itor.us is a comprehensive online site monitoring and tracking service which not only warns you when your website is down but also provides statistics of your website’s uptime, downtime, visitor traffic and more. It provides a lot of information about your site and web server that helps you maintain a high uptime.

Mon.itor.us monitors your website from multiple locations and sends downtime alerts via email, text message and RSS. Besides these, it has internal monitoring features like keeping an eye on computer/server memory, CPU, etc. with an installable agent. It also features real-time visitor monitoring.

Features :

• Online website monitoring and tracking service.
• Monitors your website and sends downtime alerts via email, text message and RSS.
• Provides information helpful in maintaining high uptime of the site.
• Internal monitoring features.
• Also features visitor tracking capabilities.
• Similar site: Site24×7.

Check out Mon.itor.us @ mon.itor.us (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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Mon.itor.us: Multi-Purpose Online Site Monitor & Analytics Tool

• Pingability: Receive Alerts when your Website goes Down
• Zoho : Feature-rich Web-based Office Software
• ZapTXT: Get Website Updates to your email, SMS, IM or RSS
• Yotify.com: Stay Notified About Content You Are Interested In
• YawnLog: Online Sleep Tracker

Fed up with Twitter spam, and want to be sure that you are not following any more Twitter spammers ? TwitCheck can help you with that. The application lets you to run a quick check on any Twitter user and find out if he/she is a potential spammer. It will assess activity, followers and postings of that user and give detailed feedback explaining why you should or should not follow him/her.

Features:

• Identify Twitter Spammers.
• Provides you list of reasons why you should or should not follow.
• Quick and simple.

Check out TwitChuck @ www.twitchuck.com

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TwitChuck: Identify Twitter Spammers

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• WebAnti-Malware: Check If Your Site Is Blacklisted

Task.fm is an innovative reminder application which lets you set up reminders using natural language commands. Create a free account, log in and simply enter your reminder text into the reminder box. It could be anything like ” writing an article tomorrow at 3 pm “. Just make sure you include a date and time as part of your reminder. Task.fm will automatically extract the event date and time and remind you promptly on that day.

The email reminders are free but the there is a fee of $9.99 per 100 messages for SMS reminders. You can even send an email to reminder@task.fm to set up a reminder.

Features

• Create reminders using natural language.
• Reminders can be sent out via email, sms, voice calls or all three.
• Easily create reminders for individual tasks.
• Send an email to reminder@task.fm to set up reminders.
• For more reminder apps go to MakeUseOf  “reminder” section.

Check out Task.fm@ www.task.fm (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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Task.fm: Set Up Natural Language Reminders

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If you are looking for a website which would give you multiple options to create online signatures then MyLiveSignature is the one. It’s really simple and easy to use, and you don’t even require to register to get started. You may choose one of the 3 methods to create your signature – using the signature creation wizard, drawing a signature using the mouse or using a scanned image. Once you are done you can download it to your computer.

Although sign up isn’t required, registered users do get some extra benefits like ability to create & store multiple signatures and access to some nice downloads and plugins for free.

Features

• Quickly create online signatures.
• No registration required to get started.
• Use the creation wizard, draw the signature or scan your original signature.
• Get extra benefits by signing up for free.
• Similar tool: Hyplet.

Check out My Live Signature @ www.mylivesignature.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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MyLiveSignature: Create Your Online Signature

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• Hyplet: Create Personal Signatures, ID’s & Web Flyers
• E-Mail Icon Generator: Email Address to Image Converter

MyStudiyo lets you create fun and interactive multimedia quizzes in minutes. You can insert pictures, videos, html text, customize quiz introduction and endings, monitor user feedback and scores and promote your quizzes by embedding them on your website or blog.

Sign up to create your own free quiz.

Each quiz contains its own scoreboard, discussions page and other quizzes from the same publisher. Users can take quizzes without signing in, however, to save and improve their scores on the scoreboard they have to sign up for an account.

You can create as many quizzes as you want for free with MyStudiyo branding and ads. If you want to insert your own custom branding and no ads, you have to sign for one of their premium account.

Features:

• Create fun and interactive multimedia quizzes online in minutes
• Insert pictures, videos, html text and customize quiz introduction and endings
• Monitors quiz statistics and reports
• Embed quizzes on your website or a blog
• Create as many quizzes as you want for free, with MyStudiyo branding and ads
• View quizzes created by site members. Search by keywords, browse by ratings and by tags
• Premium accounts with more  options available.
• Sign up to get started.
• Similar tools: ClassMarker and QToro.

Check out MyStudiyo @ www.mystudiyo.com

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MyStuidiyo: Create Multimedia Quizzes in Minutes

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• Wufoo
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• Web2PDF: ‘Save as PDF’ Button for Your Blog
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Ever wanted to escape a date or meeting but you just couldn’t find an excuse? Well now you can with a help from Getmooh. It is an automated call back service, intended to aid you in dodging an assortment of circumstances by calling you mechanically on your phone at a scheduled time and playing you a recording which will either guide you on exactly how to evade your persecutor, or which will merely give a credible sense of you being on an important call.

The next time you have to take your irksome cousin out for a stroll or take your grandma grocery shopping, visit Getmooh.com – enter your cellphone number and the site will ring you out of the situation instantaneously! The best feature of this site is that you can choose between extensive varieties of voices (my personal favorite being Alec Baldwin’s rant).

Main Features:

• Automated call back service.
• Available Worldwide.
• Choose from a variety of humorous voices.
• Submit your own funny recording.

Visit GetMooh @ www.getmooh.com (Contributed by Tehseen from Ijaar.com)

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GetMooh: Escape Unwanted Dates & Meetings

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There are countless online URL shortening services nowadays (bit.ly, tr.im and others ) that turn long URLs into short ones, so that you can share them on Twitter, due to 160-character limit. However, some of these URL shorteners are blocked in a number of countries while the original URls are not.

Untiny is useful service that lets you view the original URL behind the short URL, so even if the short URL might be blocked you can still access the original URL it points to.

You can extract original URL by visiting the website or installing  Firefox add-on onto your browser. Bookmarklet, browser search add-on, Google Talk Bot and  Mac client are also provided.

Alternatively you can extract the original URL directly from the browser’s address bar simply typing “http://untiny.me?url=” in front of the short URL (Ex: http://untiny.me?url=http://tinyurl.com/cfoep8)

Features:

• Extract original long URLs behind short URLs.
• Supports over 108 most popular URL shortening services.
• Extract the original URL from the website or directly from the browser’s address bar.
• Firefox add-on, GreaseMonkeyScript, Untiny Bookmarklet, Firefox Search add-on, Google Talk Bot and  Mac client are  provided.
• Similar sites : PrevURL and LongURL.

Check out Untiny @ www.untiny.me

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Untiny: Extract the Original URL Behind The Short URL

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• BurnURL: Url Shortening Combined With Social Sharing

Previously we have reviewed number of services that let you find images online, some allowed you to search images by color, other by similarities or even by face. Today I came across another image search tool Kalooga which instead of searching single images specializes in finding web image galleries. Since gallery pages are usually maintained by someone who is an expert or an enthusiast on the subject matter, the images tend to be  highly relevant.

You can search Kalooga by keywords and additionally perform specific search for topics such as Travel, Football, Celebrities and American Football.
Features:

• Searches only online image galleries.
• Results tend be highly relevant.
• Vote on each result.
• Free and no registration.
• Watch demo video here.

Check out Kalooga @ www.kalooga.com

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Kalooga: Find Images By Searching Web Image Galleries

• TagBulp: Quick Tag Search Engine For Images & Videos
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• Pixolu: Search for Similar Images Using an Image
• PicFog: Search For Images Shared On Twitter
• PicFindr: Stock Photography Search Engine

Remember when you were in school and you had to spend hours while trying to come up with complex graphs for those weird sin and cos equations ? Well, with the internet at your service you no longer need to do that. E-tutor’s Graphing Calculator is a complex graph creator which would create those graphs for you in one click and you just need to copy them in your notebooks. They also provide some detailed instructions on solving a system of equations by graphing.

Since I was pretty good at maths and physics, I tried out certain equations to check the accuracy of the tool. I have to say that I wasn’t disappointed. It comes up with fairly accurate graphs.

You can also drag points on the graph or locate specific coordinates. You could zoom in too if you need to take a better look. It’s certainly a useful tool for school and college students.

Check out Graphing Calculator@ www.e-tutor.com/et2/graphing (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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Graphing Calculator: Create Complex Graphs Online

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If you are looking to follow someone on all his social profiles then Folowen can help you. Folowen quick social profile search engine that aggregates the social media profiles of a person from 20 different social sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter… etc and presents the results on one single page. Hence you can easily click through the links and follow the person.

Folowen uses Google AJAX Search API to find user profiles in 20 social media sites.

Features

• Quickly aggregate all social profiles of a person on one page.
• Top social sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, Youtube, Twitter… etc are searched.
• Google AJAX search API used to find user profiles in 20 social sites.
• Simple and easy to use.
• More social sites inclusion coming soon.

You might also want to check Identify a Firefox plug that lets you get information about anyone on social sites.

Check out Folowen@ www.folowen.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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Folowen: Quick Social Profile Search

• TurnYourNameIntoaFace: Online Avatar Creator
• Snitch.Name: Search Social Network Sites For People
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• Yahoo! Media Player: Embedable MP3 Player

MadRingtones is neat web service that enables you to make ringtones from YouTube videos and mp3 files. Creating ringtones is quick and easy, simply navigate to the site, enter the URL of the video or MP3 file and click ‘Load’. Once file is uploaded you will be able to determine tone’s start/end points and then download it onto your computer as mp3,  amr, ogg or m4r  file.

Additionally you can browse more than 300,000 user created ringtones and download the ones you like for free.

Features:

• Create ringtones from YouTube videos and mp3 files.
• Create as many ringtones as you like.
• Download created ringtone in mp3, amr, ogg or m4r format.
• Easy to use ringtone editor with an option to fade the tone towards the end.
• Browse and download more than 300,000 user created ringtones.
• Check out top 50 and most recent ringtones.
• Share and embed created ringtones on your website or blog.
• Free and no registration.
• Similar sites: SmartMP3Splitter, MakeOwnRingtone and Audiko.

Check out MadRingtones @ www.madringtones.org

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MadRingtones: Make Ringtones From YouTube Videos & MP3

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ViewLike.us is an online application that lets you quickly test website in different resolutions. You simply need to enter website URL into provided field and click on the “Submit” button. Once the page loads, you can click different resolution tabs to view how the site looks.

Currently the app allows to preview te websites in almost all popular resolutions: 320×396, 800x 600, 1024×768, 1152×864, 1400×900, 1600×1200 and 1900×1200.

Features:

• Test different resolutions on your site.
• Most popular resolution formats are supported: 320×396, 800x 600, 1024×768, 1152×864, 1400×900, 1600×1200, 1900×1200.
• Free and no registration.
• You might also want to try other tests that we reviewed:
  WebAnti-malware – Test if your site is blacklisted.
  UnmaskParasites – Test if your site is being hacked and exploited by hackers.
  BrowserShots – Test your site in different browsers.

Check out ViewLike.us @ www.viewlike.us

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ViewLike.us: Test Website In Different Resolutions

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• IconFinder: Great Resource For Finding Icons

MyNoteit is an online note organizer developed especially for school and college students. It offers many features which can help to keep track of notes and assignments. Students can upload files, manage tasks with a to-do list, make use of the built-in advanced calendar and create and join various class groups. The best part – students can easily share notes and also get access to shared notes of classmates.

Features

• Web note organizer for taking notes and tracking assignments.
• Tools like to-do lists and calendar are also included.
• Option to set and get alerts for upcoming assignments available.
• Notes can be shared
• Users can create or join class groups.
• Similar tools: Notefish, Luminotes and Helipad.

Check out MyNoteit @ www.mynoteit.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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MyNoteit: Online Note Organizer For Students

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• Notefish: Simple And Effective Online Note Taking App

If you decided to move to a different city due to a job change or better life, you should know that cost of living prices change from city to city within the US. Housing prices in coastal areas like California and Florida can be up to 70% more than in the Midwest.

CostOfLiving is a useful online cost of living comparison tool provided by the CNNMoney magazine, which lets you compare living costs of your current location with any other city in the US. Simply select your current location (city/state) from the list, enter your current salary and press on “Get Result”.

Living costs include groceries, housing, utilities, transportation and healthcare costs and also lets you see a comparable salary in a different city.

Below is a comparison of living costs between Conway, Arizona and Miami, Florida.

Features:

• Salary and cost of living comparison between cities.
• Living costs include groceries, housing, utilities, transportation and healthcare costs.
• View a comparable salary to your current salary in a different city.
• Data is generated from an average of the past four quarters ending March 2009.
• Free, no registration needed.

Check out Cost Of Living Calculator @ http://cgi.money.cnn.com/tools/costofliving/costofliving.html

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CostOfLiving: Salary & Cost Of Living Comparison Tool

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