Getting started is easy, simply add provided bookmarket onto your browser and click it to activate useKit. It will then open a toolbar at the left bottom of your browser with each of the mentioned tools presented as icons. Just click the tool you need and use.

The application is completely free and no registration is necessary.  Registering however, has its own advantages such as storing and managing all your missions (notes, translations, tweets… etc) in one place online.

Features:

• Enhances your browsing with additional features.
• Add notes to web pages.
• Quickly map addresses you come across while browsing.
• Translate and tweet any highlighted text.
• Bookmark pages to Delicious.
• Supports bookmarklet and Firefox addon.
• Free and no sign up necessary.
• Registering lets you store and manage your notes, translations and tweets in one place.

Check out useKit @ www.usekit.com

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• RoohIt: Instant Online Web Page Highlighter
• Woxikon: Online Dictionary And Translation
• What Language is This: Online Language Identifier
• WebNotes: Easy Web Markup & Annotation Tool
• Viddler : Enhance and Share your Videos

To begin, register on the site first. This should take about 2 seconds as you only need to input a username and a password. Next, drag the ‘Read it Later’ bookmarklet link onto your browser toolbar, or if you have Internet Explorer, “right click the ‘Read Later’ link and choose ‘Add to Favorites.

Once the bookmarklet is added, browse the web as usual and save pages you wish to view later by clicking it. To check those saved pages, simply go to PaperSpan.com and log in with your credentials.

The pages can be easily deleted from your read it later list with a single click.

Features:

• Save web pages for reading later.
• Easy to register, no email verification needed.
• Save and delete pages with a single click.
• Quick and easy to use.
• Similar tools: ReadBag and more in 4 Awesome Tools To Save Pages For Reading Later.

Check out PaperSpan @ www.paperspan.com/ (by Alex Ainsberg)

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• ReadBag : Save Links to Read them Later
• INeedToReadThis: Save Webpages For Later Viewing
• PageSlider: Put Your Favorite Sites on a Single Page
• InstaPaper: Simple Way to Bookmark ‘Must Read’ Stories for Later
• Google Shared Stuff : Share and Discover Links

Getting started is easy, register on the site first, then drag & drop provided bookmarklet onto your browser toolbar and you are ready to go. Whenever you come across a webpage you want to include in your list just click on the bookmarket.

Although the app can be used without the sign up, you won’t be able to use the bookmarklet then. Registered users can also edit and keep track of click stats on shared links.

Features:

• Easy way to create lists of links online.
• Create and share as many lists of links as you like.
• Organize and manage lists in one place.
• Easily update, edit and delete lists or individual links.
• Share you lists with others by embedding or forwarding a URL.
• Browse publicly shared lists and contribute by adding links if possible.
• Free and easy to use.

Check out Linkli.st @ www.linkli.st

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• Shortless : Shorten Long Links
• HideLinks : Password Protect Your Bookmarks
• BurnURL: Url Shortening Combined With Social Sharing
• Bmlet: Lots of Cool Bookmarklets
• AwesomeHighlighter : Highlight and Share Webpages

There is also an overview function for having all pages at one sight.

The application is useful for quickly skimming through your favorite sources for daily news. It can be also used as alternative to the “Open all in tabs” function in Firefox which can dramatically slow down your browser. PageSlider only loads the current page and other pages are loaded on demand as you scroll down the page.

PageSlider doesn’t require any sign up, simply add the websites you want have on one page. You can add sites one by one or import them from browser (Firefox) or Delicious bookmarks.

In the next step generate a bookmarklet and drag it onto your browser toolbar.

Features:

• Load all your favorites sites on a single page.
• Add as many site as you want.
• Add sites manually or import them from your browser or Delicious account.
• Includes an overview function for having all pages at one sight.
• Free, no sign up needed.

Check out PageSlider @ www.matthiasschuetz.com/pageslider/en

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• ReadBag : Save Links to Read them Later
• PaperSpan: Save Webpages To Read Later
• InstaPaper: Simple Way to Bookmark ‘Must Read’ Stories for Later
• INeedToReadThis: Save Webpages For Later Viewing
• Google Shared Stuff : Share and Discover Links

You can get personalized real time information from blogs, news and multimedia sites and social sites like Twitter. Also organize the pages by interest and share them on Twitter, Facebook or via email.

There are two ways to use YourVersion – you can either visit the site online or install provided toolbar on to your browser. In both cases registration is required.

Features

• Personalized content recommendation engine that tells you about cool stuff on the web.
• Get real time recommendations in accordance with your interests.
• Bookmark and share recommended links stuff easily.
• Content is sourced from all over the internet including blogs, news sites, social sites… etc.
• Browser toolbar available.
• Watch demo video here.
• Free, registration required.

Check out YourVersion @ www.yourversion.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• DailyPerfect: Get Personalized Content & News In a Snap
• BookSeer: Tells You What Book To Read Next
• Zinepal: Online Ebook Creator
• ZAPReader : Practise Speed Reading Online
• Xmarks: Discover Popular Sites Based on Users’ Bookmarks

Basically, this tool is targeted at those who analyze and share the web such as researchers, power- web users, PR firms and big businesses.

After downloading the toolbar and completing the very helpful tutorial on the website you’ll be able to highlight portions of the webpage, add sticky notes to it and then save it to your profile. It also allows you to convert the webpage along with all of your notes into PDF format so you can e-mail it to people to see your thoughts about the page.

It’s really easy to set-up and use. Within ten minutes I had a PDF webpage saved and was familiar with the toolbar. It will work on multiple browsers including IE, Firefox and Chrome; all of which have their own tutorial to meet the needs of the user.

To learn more watch demo below:

WebNotes is not the only app for annotating web pages, other such tools that we profiled on MakeUseOf include RoohIt, iCyte, Ibrii, Markkit, AwesomeHightlighter and some more.

Check out WebNote @ www.webnotes.net (by Dean Sherwin)

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• MiddleSpot: Visualize, Group, Annotate and Share Searches
• iCyte: Highlight Text On A Webpage & Save It Online
• RoohIt: Instant Online Web Page Highlighter
• Markkit: Highlighting Text in Pages Made Simple
• AwesomeHighlighter : Highlight and Share Webpages

The addon is really simple to use, simply hold the right click button and drag the cursor across the hyperlinks. the highlighted area will be in dotted green and hyperlinks will be boxed in red. The links will open in tabs or bookmarked upon the release of a right click button.

There are additional features like keyboard shortcuts and options to customize color scheme of the selection box and selected links.

Check out MultiLinks @ addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13494

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• Unlinker: Quickly See Full Images Behind Links or Thumbnails
• SocialMarker: Submit your Posts to Mutliple Social Bookmarking Sites
• SiteLauncher: Launch Favorite Websites with Simple Shortcuts
• Sharein: Quick Link Sharing With Advanced Tracking
• SearchBastard: Firefox Advanced Search Add-on

Sharein also has a delicious like page where you can see the public shares neatly organized under categories and tags. Check the popular and the newest bookmarks and share them easily.

If you liked this app you can also check other similar services: DropVine and MinMu.

Check out Sharein @ www.sharein.com (via Go2Web20) (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• DropVine: Share Cool Links with Friends
• PageZipper: View Multi-Page Articles Without Clicking Next
• MultiLinks: Multiple Link Opener & Bookmarker
• iWeavr: Cool Browsing Companion For A News Junkie
• Bmlet: Lots of Cool Bookmarklets

You can bookmark the properties you come across on the web, organize them with tags and share them with family and friends which includes the ability to post to Facebook and Twitter. You can also track price changes and valuations using some of the cool tools it provides.

Features:

• Social bookmarking for homes and properties.
• Organize bookmarks with tags.
• Share properties easily with friends and on Facebook and twitter.
• Track price, photo and off-market changes with cool tools feature.

Check out Dwellicious @ www.dwellicious.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• PadMapper: Easy Way To Search Craigslist For Rental Property
• MyApartmentMap: Find Affordable Places to Rent in US
• ForSaleByTXT: Inquire On Selling Homes Via SMS
• DoorFly: Find The Best Realtor
• CityMelt: Ultimate Tool To Compare US Cities

You may even create channels to separate different type of changes into different emails.

To get started all you need to do is sign up for an account and start adding pages you want to monitor.

Features:

• Monitor web pages for changes online.
• Receive updates (daily or weekly) by email or check for changes from your online account.
• Get changes summary in one email or receive them in different emails.
• Get alerted on all changes or only those matching specified keywords.
• Browser add-on that lets you add pages for monitoring with a single click.
• Free, sign up online
• Similar sites: FollowThatPage, PageTiki and SparkTooth.

Check out WatchThatPage @ www.watchthatpage.com

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• FollowThatPage: Online Program To Monitor Web Pages For Changes
• SparkTooth: Monitor Web Pages For Specific Updates
• Yotify.com: Stay Notified About Content You Are Interested In
• Trackle: Personalized Web Alert & Online Content Tracking Tool
• Pingability: Receive Alerts when your Website goes Down

As you can see in the above screenshots, when you select text on a webpage it presents you with two separate boxes which include a huge number of options like adding tags, description, sharing and emailing the selected text.

When you are done and go back to the main site, you can see your saved text and other information in a new interface, which is shown in the screenshot below.

If you liked this tool you can also check iCyte, Ibrii, Markkit and AwesomeHightlighter.

Check out RoohIt @ www.roohit.com (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• WebNotes: Easy Web Markup & Annotation Tool
• useKit: Makes Web Browsing More Efficient
• MiddleSpot: Visualize, Group, Annotate and Share Searches
• Markkit: Highlighting Text in Pages Made Simple
• iCyte: Highlight Text On A Webpage & Save It Online

The site does look kinda ugly but is definitely useful for Delicious fans. One nice feature is that you can quickly save a link by clicking on save for later and then access it through ‘My Saved Links’ on the top right corner of the page.

Features

• Real-time tracking tool for watching newly added bookmarks on Del.icio.us.
• Save on Del.icio.us or share on Digg or Reddit directly from the site.
• Filter bookmarks by tags.
• Quickly save a link and access it through ‘My Saved Links’.
• See more Del.icio.us tools under MakeUseOf delicious section.

Check out Delicious Spy @ www.ajaxonomy.com/deliciousspy/ (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• Wantz.it: Online Wish List Builder
• Popacular: See Most Bookmarked Sites on Delicious
• Del.izzy: Better Search for your Del.icio.us Bookmarks
• AddToAny: Save & Share Your Favorites (Bookmarks) on The Web
• YomYam: Keep Links to Your Favorite Sites on One Page

Additionally, there is an option to apply filters and track only a certain block of a webpage or only the lines that contain choosen keywords.

Features:

• Monitor webpages for changes and receive alerts by email when they change.
• Track multiple webpages.
• Check each page up to 100 times per day.
• Receive alerts only on additions and removals.
• Watch the whole page or only certain paragraphs or lines with particular keywords.
• Free, sign up to start tracking pages.
• Similar websites: PageTiki and SparkTooth.

Check out FollowThatPage @ www.followthatpage.com

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• WatchThatPage: Monitor Web Page Changes & Get Alerts
• SparkTooth: Monitor Web Pages For Specific Updates
• Yotify.com: Stay Notified About Content You Are Interested In
• Trackle: Personalized Web Alert & Online Content Tracking Tool
• Pingability: Receive Alerts when your Website goes Down

Enter iCyte. It is an add-on for your browser that lets you highlight text on a web page and save only the highlighted portion, annotate it, add relevant tags and save it online. You may also organize these bookmarks into separate projects and share them with others.

To get started, install the browser plugin and get yourself an account. When you are at a webpage that has something you need for later, you may highlight a specific part or the whole webpage and click on iCyte button in your browser toolbar. Next you have to add the bookmark to an existing project or assign it to a new one. Then enter tags, optionally add notes and hit Save button.

You can then access all your bookmarks from your online account, organized by projects and by tags. All the bookmarked pages are archived on site’s servers, so you won’t have a problem of broken links.

Features:

• Web page highlighter for highlighting and saving text from any webpage.
• Annotate and add tags to your bookmarks.
• Access bookmarked pages online in your account.
• Organize bookmarks into separate projects.
• Share bookmarks and collaborate with other people.
• Browser add-on available for Firefox and Internet Explorer 6/7.
• Sign up for an account and install the browser add-on.
• Fore more info watch demo video.
• Similar tools: Ibrii, Markkit and AwesomeHightlighter.

Check out iCyte @ www.icyte.com

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• WebNotes: Easy Web Markup & Annotation Tool
• MiddleSpot: Visualize, Group, Annotate and Share Searches
• RoohIt: Instant Online Web Page Highlighter
• Markkit: Highlighting Text in Pages Made Simple
• AwesomeHighlighter : Highlight and Share Webpages

Ambiently displays unexpected and useful websites and helps in finding more information about anything easily.

Features :

• Find a list of related content in one click.
• Simple and easy to use.
• Bookmarklet available for major browsers.
• Helpful in gathering more information.
• SimilarSites is another website that helps to find similar websites.

Check out Ambiently @ ambiently.com (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• Springo: Finds Most Useful Sites For Any Purpose
• SimilarWeb: Discover Similar Web Pages When Browsing Web
• SimilarSites: Quickly Find Similar Sites
• Sharein: Quick Link Sharing With Advanced Tracking
• PageZipper: View Multi-Page Articles Without Clicking Next

To use it, simply drag-and-drop the “Share/Save” bookmarklet onto your browser toolbar. When you are on the webpage your want to save, simply click on the bookmarklet and select a service from the list. With so many services available on the list, you may use the handy search tool to instantly find your favorite service by typing its name in the search bar.

Features:

• Save and share your favorites on all the popular social networks, bookmarking services, blogging platforms and email providers.
• Supports over 120 popular services.
• Drag-and-drop the bookmarklet onto your browser toolbar to start saving and sharing stories.
• Similar tool: ShareThis

Check out AddToAny @ www.addtoany.com/users/bookmarklet

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• Linkli.st: Create List Of Links & Easily Share Them
• Delicious Spy: Real Time Tool For Delicious Users
• Bmlet: Lots of Cool Bookmarklets
• YomYam: Keep Links to Your Favorite Sites on One Page
• WebNotes: Easy Web Markup & Annotation Tool

How it works:

As you can see in the above screenshot, when you join ibrii, you get a bookmarklet called ” create note.” When you need to cut and save something from a site, select it, click on the bookmarklet and drag the selected item to the sidebar that appears and save it. Later on you can view it in your ibrii account.

See Ibrii in action:

Features:

• Create your personal notes by clipping web content.
• Clip videos, pictures and text.
• Saved item can be directly viewed on ibrii without going to the original site.
• Content can be shared with others using Facebook, Twitter, IMs and email.
• Sharing of content can be done even if the other person is not using ibrii.
• Saves time as you need not write down notes or download anything.
• You can publish your notes as RSS feed.
• Similar sites: Snipd, Thumbtack, and Clipmarks.

Check out Ibrii @ www.ibrii.com (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• Thumbtack: Online Bookmarking Tool By Microsoft
• Snipd: Quickest Way To Clip Information from The Web
• Zoho : Feature-rich Web-based Office Software
• YomYam: Keep Links to Your Favorite Sites on One Page
• Yanobs : Web-based Notepad

Sign up online for an account and access your bookmarks from any computer.

Features:

• Web based visual bookmark manager.
• Save your favorite bookmarks and access them from one page.
• Bookmarks are presented as visual tabs on the homepage.
• Drag-and-drop the tabs on the page and give each tab its own color.
• Free, sign up for an account to access your bookmarks from any computer.
• Similar web tools:  SpeedTile, Tizmos and Only2Clicks.

Check out Transferr @ www.transferr.com

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• YomYam: Keep Links to Your Favorite Sites on One Page
• Tizmos: Thumbnails of Your Favorite Sites on One Page
• SpeedTile: Multi-tab Startpage with Visual Bookmarks
• Only2Clicks: Favorite Websites on One Page
• MyClusta: One Page For Your Favorite Websites

Bmlet is an online bookmarklet directory which lists various cool bookmarklets under different categories. You could easily search for a desired bookmarklet by entering the related tag in the search box.

You could either drag your favorite bookmarklet to the bookmarks toolbar (in Firefox) or right click it and add it to your favorites in Internet Explorer. You don’t need to register with the site to use a bookmarklet, however, if you intend to give feedback regarding a particular bookmarklet then you need to sign up with them.

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• ReadBag : Save Links to Read them Later
• PaperSpan: Save Webpages To Read Later
• PageSlider: Put Your Favorite Sites on a Single Page
• InstaPaper: Simple Way to Bookmark ‘Must Read’ Stories for Later
• INeedToReadThis: Save Webpages For Later Viewing

It gets kind of tedious to go to them one by one. You can of course bookmark these sites or use an online feedreader or a startpage but the SpeedTile offer somethig slightly different.

SpeedTile is a web service that allows you to create visual bookmarks. Each bookmark is called a tile since it is in the shape of a tile and it allows you to view an updated snapshot of the URL you have bookmarked. It is simple to use, just click on an empty tile and enter the URL of the page you want to bookmark.

The best thing about SpeedTile are the Tabs that can be used to organize different bookmarks into multiple pages. Pretty neat.

Some of the main features are:

• Visual bookmarking app to save and organize your favorite URLs for easy browsing.
• Updated snapshots for each bookmark.
• Create tabs to categorize your bookmarks.
• Arrange them alphabetically or by creation date.
• A firefox plugin for one-click bookmarking.
• Share your bookmarks by creating a public URL.
• Similar websites: Tizmos and Only2Clicks.

Check out SpeedTile @ www.SpeedTile.net

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• YomYam: Keep Links to Your Favorite Sites on One Page
• Transferr: Visual Bookmark Organizer
• Tizmos: Thumbnails of Your Favorite Sites on One Page
• Only2Clicks: Favorite Websites on One Page
• MyClusta: One Page For Your Favorite Websites

Read stories are stroked through so that you know which stories you’ve already read. Hoover with your mouse over a story to view its source and the website thumbnail.

Features:

• Most popular stories from Digg, Reddit, Delicious, Yahoo! Buzz and Hacker News on one page
• The more popular the story the bigger it appears on the homepage
• Hoover with your mouse over  a story to view its  source and website thumbnail

Check out OurSignal @ www.oursignal.com

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• KnowYourMeme: Internet Meme Archive
• Guzzle.it: Online Personalized News StartPage
• Google News Timeline: Browse News In A Chronological Order
• FanFeedr: Personalized Sports News Aggregator
• Everyblock: Local News Aggregator

You get a browser bookmarklet which lets you share any cool link on the web in just one click. And your friends don’t need to sign up with DropVine first in order to receive links. Their DropVine inbox gets created automatically and they get email notification of the links you’ve shared with them.

Features

• Share cool web links you come across in few seconds.
• No toolbar installation required, just a simple bookmarklet.
• Your friends don’t need to sign up first to get the links.
• Commenting on the shared links is allowed.

Check out Dropvine @ www.dropvine.com (By Abhijeet from Appscrazy)

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• Sharein: Quick Link Sharing With Advanced Tracking
• PageZipper: View Multi-Page Articles Without Clicking Next
• MultiLinks: Multiple Link Opener & Bookmarker
• iWeavr: Cool Browsing Companion For A News Junkie
• Bmlet: Lots of Cool Bookmarklets

To start using, sign up for an account and drag the provided bookmarklet to your browser toolbar. When you are viewing a page that you want to read/check late simply click on the bookmarklet to add it to your “INeedToReadThis” list.

To remove a story from the list, just mark it as read. You can access your list from your account online or via RSS at http://ineedtoreadthis.com/u/username/feed

The app also has an extra bookmarklet called “Read an Article” that opens the oldest unread story from your to-read list.

Features:

• Save pages for reading later.
• Access the oldest unread story with one click.
• Supports IE and Firefox browsers.
• Access your stories in your account online or by RSS.
• Free, get account and start using.
• Similar web apps: ReadBag, LaterLoop, InstaPaper and toRead.

Check out INeedToReadThis @ www.ineedtoreadthis.com

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• ReadBag : Save Links to Read them Later
• PaperSpan: Save Webpages To Read Later
• PageSlider: Put Your Favorite Sites on a Single Page
• InstaPaper: Simple Way to Bookmark ‘Must Read’ Stories for Later
• Google Shared Stuff : Share and Discover Links

The shortened url when clicked takes you to the original page and also displays a toolbar on the top which has the options to share it on sites like Twitter, Facebook, Digg and other such social sites. You could also rate the site and see the number of hits the shortened url has received.

As you can see in the screenshot below, it generates a direct link, HTML code and the web code for forums when you shorten the url.

The social sharing toolbar which I mentioned can be seen in the screenshot below.

It also offers a bookmarklet to help you quickly shorten, or as they say, ” burn the url “. Overall, this certainly could be very useful to those who love to spread content easily around the web.

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• Untiny: Extract the Original URL Behind The Short URL
• Unhid: Reveal URLs Behind Short Links
• SHUURL: Make “Safe” Short URLs
• Shortless : Shorten Long Links
• Real-URL: View Real URL Behind Short URL

All highlighted pages have their own markkit URLs, so you can bookmark them and share with other. You can also view your recent highlights simply by clicking on “marrkit” button that appears to right within the web page. To unmark the highlighted text simply point your cursor and then click “unmark”.

Features:

• Highlight text on a web page.
• No download or installation.
• When you want to highlight a text, click on the Markkit bookmarklet.
• View your recently highlighted text excerpts by clicking on Marrkit logo on the page.
• Works with Firefox, Safari and Google Chrome browsers.
• Free, easy to use and no registration.
• Similar sites: AwesomeHighlighter

Check out Markkit @ www.markkit.net

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• WebNotes: Easy Web Markup & Annotation Tool
• RoohIt: Instant Online Web Page Highlighter
• MultiLinks: Multiple Link Opener & Bookmarker
• MiddleSpot: Visualize, Group, Annotate and Share Searches
• iCyte: Highlight Text On A Webpage & Save It Online

Features:

• Tool for storing notes and bookmarks online.
• Mark notes with multiple tags.
• Information stored is secure as its encrypted.
• Sort notes by note name, tag or date modified.
• The application is free, premium accounts with more advanced option is coming.
• Similar sites: JottIt, iLocker and TextSave.

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• Yanobs : Web-based Notepad
• WebNote : Quick and Easy Note Taking
• Txtb.in: Save & Share Short Text Notes Online
• TextSave: Quickly Save & Share Text Online
• SimpleText: Take Notes & Store Them Online

How does it work ?

1. Type any 5 random numbers and enter the title for your page.
2. Paste all your links in to provided field and press “Generate MinMu!”.
3. Once URL is generated you can share it via email, IM and Twitter.
4. Recipient clicks the URL and views all liks as thumbnails on a single web page.

Features:

• Share many links within a single page
• Page accessible through a short convenient link (ex:http://minmu.net/link125).
• Define the title of the short URL.
• Update or remove your page later.
• Free, no registration.
• Similar sites: ShareTabs, UrlBunch and Shrink2One.

Check out MinMu @ www.minmu.net

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• MultiURL: Condense Multiple URLs Into One
• VapURL: Create Self-Terminating Temporary URLs
• Untiny: Extract the Original URL Behind The Short URL
• Unhid: Reveal URLs Behind Short Links
• SHUURL: Make “Safe” Short URLs

To take a snapshot of a page simply paste URL into provided field and click on backup button. BackupURL then copies the snapshot onto its server and give you the shortened URL pointing to it.

Features:

• Take web page snapshots and store online.
• Take as many snapshots as you like.
• Access page via shortened url.
• Free and no registration.
• Similar websites: FreezePage and Iterasi.

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SHUURL will come in quite handy for checking suspicious short links.

Features:

• Quick and easy service for making short urls.
• Shows where shortened URL is pointing to.
• Safety guide key to tell you whether the URL you are about to visit is safe or not.
• No sign-up or registration needed.
• Similar websites: LongURL and PrevURL.

Check out SHUURL @ www.shuurl.com ( by Srikanth AD from The Next Web )

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• Untiny: Extract the Original URL Behind The Short URL
• Unhid: Reveal URLs Behind Short Links
• Real-URL: View Real URL Behind Short URL
• MultiURL: Condense Multiple URLs Into One
• MinMu: Makes Multiple Link Sharing Easy

There is no limit on number of lists you can create. You can add as many items as you like, organize your lists by products and categories, edit or remove items from your lists. The process of registration is fairly quick and only take few minutes to get started.

This is how my wish list containing two items looks like. ( See http://www.wishlr.com/row ). Using “invite friends option” you can share wish lists with your friends.

Features:

• Create, manage and share wish lists.
• Facility to create multiple wish lists.
• Each wish list has its own unique URL.
• Share wish lists direct from the Wishl’r using “invite friends” option.
• Intuitive and easy to use.
• Similar sites: GiftGen, Giftbox, Wantz.it and WebGiftr.

Check out WishL’r @ www.wishlr.com (Contributed by ROW from reviewofweb.com)

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The application also has additional handy features:

• Created link will be automatically copied to your clipboard.
• Add password to protect your links.
• Created URL will have an option to open all links at once.
• Keep track of all created URL’s in one place (registered users only).
• Simple and clean interface.
• Similar sites: Krunchd, LinkBunch, UrlBunch, Shrink2One and ShareTabs.

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• Unhid: Reveal URLs Behind Short Links

You just need to add your search keyword after http://Gog.is/ and the URL will take you to the required Google search query page. Multiple keywords can be separated by a comma (,) or a plus sign (+). For example: http://Gog.is/make,use,of will redirect you to the longer query http://www.google.com/search?q=make+use+of+

Features:

• Shorten long Google links for easy sharing on IM, Twitter and Email.
• Simple and very easy to use.
• No sign up required. Free

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Using dwarfURL is simple, just go to the site and paste that long URL into provided field,  then click on the “Dwarf it Baby” button and it’ll give you a nice short URL.

Features:

• Online URL shortener with analytics.
• Ability to create a password so you can check the stats of your URL afterward.
• A full history of all the links you have shortened.
• Firefox add-on so you can shorten any URL with just a single click without going to the site.
• Option to add your link to public archive so others can view it too.
• Simple interface and easy-to-use .

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Here is how it works:

Step 1: Sign Up at Wantz.it and provide your delicious username

Step 2: Bookmark you desired gift in delicious and tag it “dowant”

Step 3: It is updated automatically in your wantz.it wishlist. Check it and spread it.

Features:

• Online wishlist maker
• Works with your delicious account.
• Share you list by forwarding your link to others.
• Embed your list on to your blog or personal webpage.
• Free, simple and easy to use.
• Similar Services: GiftGen, Giftbox and WebGiftr.

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It’s easy to save a site to your iterasi account the site provides you  with a simple to use bookmarklet and browser extension.

Feature overview:

• Save web pages and websites permanently.
• Feature rich browser extension and bookmarklet available.
• Works even with sites that requires authentication.
• Check out public archives and search.
• Option to import bookmarks from IE and Firefox.
• Easy to use scheduler to auto save highly dynamic websites like blogs, retail sites etc.
• Make your saved webpages  public or keep them private.
• Pages can be easily shared with friends via mail, rss or by embed code.

For more info watch demo video below:

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Features

• Send messages to Twitter from any page
• No registration required
• Include special unicode characters
• Choose a 140 or 240 character limit
• Shorten URLs without leaving the current Web page
• Capture and automatically insert highlighted text, title and link

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When you first visit bit.ly, there is a field to enter the URL to be shortened. You can also provide an optional custom name for the shortened URL, which makes it easy for humans to remember. If you’ve signed up for a bit.ly account and have associated it with your Twitter name, you can Tweet your shortened URL as well.

When you shorten a URL, you are provided with a link to copy the URL to your clipboard. There is also another link to a page with all kinds of statistics about the shortened URL:

• Referring sites and clicks for your unique bit.ly URL
• Referring sites and clicks for all bit.ly users that shortened the same target URL
• Time-based runchart for clicks
• Pie chart showing clicks by country
• Twitter conversations w/ the target URL
• A list of bit.ly users that also shortened the URL

For the demonstration in this article, I shortened www.google.com. You can see the shortened url is http://bit.ly/w17g (nothing terribly exciting, just takes you to Google) and the statistics page is located at http://bit.ly/info/w17g.

There are also a few nifty bit.ly tools at your disposal, including a couple of bookmarklets. One of the bookmarklets will open a new window with the URL already shortened. The other provides quick access to some of the traffic statistics displayed on the URL info page. The info is loaded right into the page without having to open a new window.

There is even an API for bit.ly that advanced users and developers can use. bit.ly does a superb job of integrating URL shortening with Twitter, as well as providing users with a variety of web analytics on shortened URLs. What do you think of bit.ly?

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Features

• Online Bookmarking site to clip partial text and webpages.
• Use the bookmarklet to easily save webpages.
• Copy and paste content from the web.
• Nice user interface.
• Organize and search your bookmarks.
• Use Windows Live ID to login.
• Similar websites: MiddleSpot, Clipmarks, Tizmos.

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How does it work?

1. Paste links into provided field and click on “Tabify’em!” button.
2. Wait for ShareTabs to generate a tabbed page for those links.
3. Grab the page URL and forward it to anyone you want.

Features

• Put multiple links into a single URL.
• No signup or email registration required.
• All links are tabbed for convenient viewing.
• Also generates thumbnail preview page that shows thumbnails for each included link.
• Similar websites: LinkBunch, UrlBunch and Shrink2One.

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Features:

• Save and share short text notes online.
• No restrictions on the number of text characters.
• No registration  needed.
• For more similar websites see MakeUseOf clipboard section.

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