Picnik.com: Great online photo editor

I tried a few things on Picnik and it works GREAT. Not slow when you consider that its online and has lots of features, without much complication.


I reached here, thanks to StumbleUpon and this great post 

10 Free Web-based Alternatives to Photoshop

Enjoy..

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CleanAfterMe: Good tool to go invisible

Copied from techraja

CleanAfterMe is a small tool which helps you in deleting all types of traces and logs from the computer.

The features of CleanAfterMe :

• Deletes files and Registry entries that are automatically
  created by the Windows.
• Cleans Cookies, History, Cache, Passwords of Internet Explorer.
• 'Recent' folder, the Registry entries that record the last opened files.
• Temporary folder of Windows, the event logs, the Recycle Bin, and more.

Now, the Best thing about CleanAfterMe : CleanAfterMe is a  portable application.
Hence, You can carry it with your USB drive and run it without any installation and without leaving any trace in the
Registry.





So, carry it with your pendrive and use it when you have to work on a shared or public computer. It deletes all your logs and traces and keeps your activities and data private.

• CleanAfterMe

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Odiogo.com: Text to Speech RSS.. real time

I was reading a marketing related blog and found a link

Thought looks interesting and landed up on odiogo.com...

Still to explore it fully but looks cool and this is something that i was looking for, for a while.

I use NaturalVoiceReader for almost 3 years as i am too lazy to read myself and generally can make more sense of documents if someone read it for me and i just keep an eye over the text..

Hope i will use this more often and will come back with a complete review.

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Google in 2001

Google has brought back the index from January 2001
to show how many things have changed in almost 8 years. At that time,
Google's index included 1,326,920,000 web pages and it was the most
comprehensive index of a search engine.

Google explains that the
index from January 2001 is the earliest available. "Well, for various
technical reasons that are too boring to go into, earlier versions of
our index aren't readily accessible. But we did still want to offer
users a chance to search an older index as a way of looking back at web
history, and the January 2001 index is the best we can do."

It is extremely interesting exercise... do click on the "View old version in the internet Archive' link for a few results to see the web pages as of 2001 itself.

You will not believe how much world has changed in last 8 years.

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FREE HI-Q Recorder: It Rocks

In the quest of ultimate sound recorder... this is certainly the best one and simplest one i have found... Download Free

There are so many good sites where you can play great Hindustani Classical Music (like esnip, musicindiaonline etc.) but you cannot download it.. so Hi-Q Recorder does the job for you.

Hi-Q Recorder is certainly a high-quality one and does not trouble you with pop-ups, registration or anything else for that matter.

It also has a paid sibling.. but i really don't care for all those fuzzy features... this one just works perfect for me..

Happy Recording.

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Youtube to MP3 conversion

I managed to stumble upon this nice utility on vixy.net.

It has an online youtube converter to other formats. There are many sites and tools that allow the flv download and mp4 conversion but this is one of the few that allows direct download into .mp3, which is what i care for...

It also gives you a desktop utility (for both Windows and Mac)..
Download Installer for Windows (Xp, Vista)

Download App for MacOSX (10.4, 10.5)
Intel /
PPC

Simple but useful... no major UI stuff or user preferences.... just paste the url, select the output format and boom..

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Hit Me Later: email reminder on demand!!

Found this on techcrunch simple but wonderful concept... planning to use it often... lets see how it goes. :D

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Twhirl: another twitter tool

I installed twhirl today.. its looking quite impressive... currently i use TwitterFox(firefox extension), which serves most of the purposes but does not have very good search capabilities.




Twhirl, which is based on Adobe Air is pretty good.. will experiment more and update again.

Interestingly it can connect to multiple tols similar to twitter identi.ca, Friendfeed and seesmic.

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Dapper: Ongoing Challenges in DPChallenge

Add to your site powered by Dapper

Yet Another one... to track Ongoing challenges on DPChallenge

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ScribeFire 2.3: Power-up your blogging

I have been using ScribeFire for more than 6 months now to post things to my blog.
I am not a person who likes to write a lot and use my blog as a personal reference of good things i like on web and things which may be useful to my friends... so content-drag-drop is just what i need and that's exactly what i get from ScribeFire.

Overall, i just love this firefox extension, and believe me, without this my blog updates would have reduced to 10-15%... its too much of a pain to go to blogger, sign-in, click new post, then create the content :( Also there is no pane-view available to easily reference links / content / images!! just love it.

The latest feature "Live-Preview" is very cool.. I keep changing the color schemes of my blog so its pretty useful to check before i publish!!

One thing i am still to resolve is to setup the image upload settings for blogger, hopefully i will crack it soon :P

Happy Blogging....

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FixYa: Free Tech Support for your devices

Today i was looking how to resolve the issue of broken ear-hook of jabra bt-125.. i googled it and reached this site called FixYa... I saw that there were many who got replacement of the ear-hooks..

http://www.fixya.com/support/t210320-jabra_ear_piece

This increased my interest in what this site is all about and realized that it has lot of things to help us, right from fixing computers, TVs and even Cars.

For many products it also has pdf user guides, numbers and emails for company support, tips and tricks and many more things... certainly good place to go before you start asking your friends frantically..


Another interesting freature is the Warranty Manager where you can add all your products and warranty information for future access... also has added services like extended warranty.. (BTW it requires log-in... limited usability for me as i am in India... shound be much usable for people in US / Eurpoe)

What is FixYa?
Fixya provides Free tech support and technical help for gadgets, electronic equipment and consumer products. Fixya's technical experts advise on fixing problems and provide instructions on proper usage of products either by chat or message posting. Fixya stores manuals and troubleshooting guides for over half a million products. Fixya's tech support community will provide a quick solution for your "how to" problem. Sphere: Related Content

Freeware Collection (Gatzed.com)

Freeware Collection

Looks to be a good site... still to see what all it supports!! lets see.

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LinkBunch.. cool concept: club multiple URLs into single one.

This is another interesting find...you can put multiple URLs and it gives back single URL which you can use in blog, twitter, ims etc.. nice concept.

Would love to see a few tools developed on this to allow people to do this without coming to LinkBunch.com at all.

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GetSatisfaction.com great concept to service users of free services

I never thought something of this sort will be existing... initially looked like a typical support forum... but believe me, its much better. came here as i was searching for things on twittering in india... (http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter)need to check what all it has.. will update back.

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Convert Powerpoint to Flash... for free... ispring free

Easy, Fast, Accurate... & Free

Free PowerPoint to Flash converter creates web friendly Flash movies from your
PowerPoint content keeping its visual parameters and animation effects.
Generated Flash presentation will look as if it has always been a Flash movie.

Download iSpring Free (7.0 Mb)

http://news.swzone.it/link.php?action=h&id=21815

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Safarp: Great alternative for Add-Remove Programs

This is really cool and sleek way to remove your programs.... very efficient, light weight and fast.

I never liked the interface and speed (or lack of it) with the existing version.

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Print Screen Alternative: Gadwin Print Screen

Just downloaded it and used it... just amazing what windows could not achieve with this simple day to day thing... another MUST HAVE for anyone who has to take frequent screen-shots.

I have tried quite a few applications till date and this one beats all of them "hands down"

http://www.gadwin.com/download/

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Duplicate Files Cleaner

I used this tool today and feeling very good about it... it has dozens of options to identify and select for removal (or even hard linking or moving to another place)


Duplicate cleaner
is a tool to assist anyone in cleaning up the
contents of their personal hard drive or corporate network. You'd be
surprised just how many redundant or duplicate files you could find
forgotten in an obscure documents folder. Photos, music, Word
documents, PowerPoint presentations, videos - you name it, if it
appears twice on your computer then Duplicate Cleaner will find it.

http://www.digitalvolcano.co.uk/dupe.html

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IZARC: The ultimate compression solution... and its free!!

IZArc is the ultimate freeware
archive
utility supporting many archive
formats like: 7-ZIP, A, ACE,
ARC, ARJ, B64, BH,

BIN, BZ2, BZA, C2D, CAB, CDI, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ, GZA,
HA, IMG, ISO, JAR, LHA, LIB, LZH, MDF, MBF,






MIM, NRG, PAK, PDI, PK3, RAR, RPM,
TAR, TAZ, TBZ, TGZ, TZ, UUE, WAR, XXE, YZ1, Z, ZIP, ZOO.
With a modern easy-to-use interface, IZArc provides support for most compressed and encoded files, as
well as access






to many powerful features and tools. It allows you to drag and drop files from and to Windows
Explorer, create and extract






archives directly in Windows Explorer, create
multiple archives spanning disks, creating self-extracting archives, repair







damaged zip archives, converting from one
archive type to another, view and
write comments and many more.






IZArc has also
build-in multilanguage support.

Here is the features page

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Find font in the image (logo)

http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/

Another cracker of a web-tool. Upload the logo and know what is the font... as simple as that

This is certainly another cool service after i the TinEye which can recognize image content and search for it.

The UI for this is also pretty good... it automatically splits image into multiple alphabets and you have chance to combine things like i or j where on char is split into multiple... Alas it does not allow splitting the image when if fails to split the characters properly.

I also found another "paid" tool that does all this far too quickly and easily... plus 1000+ other options.
http://www.imagaro.com/

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