Facto is a free to use website that lets you share facts about yourself with friends. All you do is create an account with the site and start sharing. All your shared facts can be seen in your dashboard. Links to each individual fact can be obtained and shared on any social network you use.

When your friends visit the link to the fact, they read the fact and then vote on it using the following buttons: Knew That, Didn’t Know That, Me Too!, Awesome, Whoa, Weird!, Boring, and No Way.

You can log into your Facto account anytime to see how many votes each fact received.

Features:

• A user friendly web service.
• Lets you share random facts about yourself with friends.
• Provides individual shareable URLs for each fact.
• Friends can provide their reactions via clicking on buttons available on each fact page.
• You can check the votes for each of your shared facts.
• Similar tools: BeenAsked and ToAnswer.
• Also read related article: 6 Twitter Web Apps to Ask Questions From a Twitter Crowd.

Check out Facto @ www.facto.me (via Mashable) (by MOin from ThumbPress)

As you can see in the screenshots above, you can fill in the details, select the videos you want to include and then share it via email (or via social sites). The resulting email is neatly organized, no matter how many videos you choose.

Features

• Tech support for dummies.
• Send how-to videos to your parents to help them understand computers.
• No registration needed.
• Select from over 50 videos in different categories.

Check out Teach Parents Tech @ www.teachparentstech.org (by Abhijeet from GT Cool Stuff)

You can also SMS Foodpickle at U.S. 803-380-FOOD (3663) ““ handy if you do not have  internet access around.

You can also view other food Q&A’s on the website. Read each question and the various answers to each questions or click another tab to view unanswered questions. It helps if you know some answers so you can help other people out. You will quickly find out that the questions are very interesting for the average at-home-cook.

Features:

• Real time cooking q&a site.
• Signup not required; just tweet to get answers.
• View recent and unanswered questions.
• Ask through the website or via SMS and Tweet.
• Similar Tools: Cooklet, FoodOnTable, and Plummelo.

Check out FoodPickle @ www.food52.com/foodpickle

To start using Excel-Formulas, just type in your Excel question on the homepage. Your question could be as short or as detailed as possible. Then choose an expert type that you feel will best answer your question. The fields include Accounting, Human Resource, Inventory, Business,  and Loans.

You can also select a General Expert if you don’t know who should handle your query – then enter your e-mail to submit the question. Response time depends on the volume of questions at a given time.

Excel-Formulas is a free service for small questions (if you don’t mind waiting), and you are only asked to pay for the complicated ones if you are satisfied with their answer. You can pay up to $50 if you need serious help. All your questions are archived in your account ““ and if you really need a quick answer, you can also ask within Excel using the Excel Formulas Expert Add-in.

This website is a great solution for those who can’t finish their work because of simple Excel problems they can’t solve. Instead of wasting time looking for answers online, a quick chat with real Excel experts will save you a lot of time ““ definitely a worthy service for people who deal with spreadsheets at work.

Features

• Provide quick answers to any Excel question.
• Choose your expert to best answer your question.
• Look back at all your questions in the account dashboard.
• Free for simple questions.
• Pay only when you are satisfied with their answer.
• Plugin allows you to ask question within Excel.

Check out Excel-Formulas @ www.excel-formulas.com

The site offers a unique reference point on identifying, preventing, and eliminating pests. On No More Pests you will find detailed articles written particularly for the website. From these articles you can learn about different pesticides and their effectiveness; different types of indoor and outdoor pests and what are they attracted to; pests that attack your plants; tips on getting ridding of pests; and tips on how to choose a pest controlling company and what to expect from it.

The site also has a monthly newsletter that you can subscribe to. This will help you stay updated on any new techniques to get rid of pests.

Features:

• Website where you can find how to get rid of pests.
• Contains a lot of information about pests.
• Helps you learn what causes pests and what can get rid of them.
• Provides tips and advice on going with a pest control company.
• Similar sites: GetRidOfThings, DayTipper and HowToCleanStuff.

Check out  NoMorePests @ www.nomorepests.co.uk

This eliminates the need to jump from one site to another in the hope of finding information and lets you search everything at one. Simply enter the question you are seeking the answer to and BeenAsked will search the archive compiled of multiple different websites for your answer.

Once the question is displayed, you can view the answer on the external website, see how recent the question is, view the source where the question was originally asked and even add your own comments if you know the answer.

You can also browse through some recently asked questions and browse information using recent tags or popular tags. BeenAsked crawls these resources pretty frequently so you can also find questions that have been asked just a few minutes ago. You can also view related questions for any topic and sort comments by popularity or time. You do not need to register to use the service.

Features:

• Search multiple Questions/Answers sites from a single platform.
• Browse recently added questions.
• Browse by recent or popular tags.
• View related questions and post comments.
• View the complete archive of questions.
• No registration required.

Visit BeenAsked @ www.beenasked.com

It’s a pretty neat site with video tutorials as well as instructions with illustrations on how to tie various kinds of tie knots. There’s the Pratt Knot, Windsor Knot, Bow Tie Knot and more.

The site has also extra goodies like tips and tricks, tie length calculator, necktie accessories, tips on dressing up for a job interview and also has a link to let you buy neckties online.

Features

• Tie tying instructions and tutorials.
• Different kinds of tie knot tutorials available.
• Both videos and step by step instructions available.
• Also find tie tips and tricks, tie length calculator.
• Similar tool: 2TieaTie.

Check out Tie-a-Tie @ www.tie-a-tie.net (By Abhijeet from Guiding Tech)

IKEA Fans, as its name suggests, is a website for fans of IKEA’s furniture. On the site’s homepage you will find various news links related to IKEA. The site’s forums are a very useful tool for all IKEA furniture owners.

In the “Making It Work” forum, you can find instructions for many models of IKEA furniture. All models are arranged alphabetically that make it easier to look for them. Instructions for each model are shown as a thread with the first post containing a PDF instructions file and the subsequent posts containing any problems people were having assembling the furniture.

To get the instructions, all you need to do is register for an account on the site after which you can download the PDF file.

Features:

• A user friendly website for fans of IKEA.
• Get instructions for ikea products
• Lets IKEA fans stay updated with what is going on with the company.
• Has a forum that displays assembling instructions for numerous IKEA products.
• Registered users can post their IKEA product problems and get help from other forum users.

Check out IKEA Fans @ http://www.ikeafans.com and its forums @ http://www.ikeafans.com/forums/ikea-instructions

You can search for a topic or browse by categories. Organizations can also create and submit their own animations related to their industry or simply sponsor an animation. The collection is pretty small but the quality and selection of videos makes AnimatedExplanations a very useful resource compared to the traditional methods of learning.

Features:

• How to animation videos to help you understand various topics.
• Covers topics related to technology and health.
• Search for topics or browse using categories.
• No registration required.
• Also check our article “12 Great Free Video Tutorial Sites To Brush Up Your Tech Skills“.

Visit AnimatedExplanations @ www.animatedexplanations.com [Via Techie-Buzz]

Quizy.me is a social quiz questions and answers service providing the type of empty-blank questions.

Quizy.me is a free to use website that lets users ask their contacts fill-in-the-blank questions. For example a user whose anniversary is coming up can ask his contacts “The perfect anniversary gift is ______.” The responses will help him better decide on what gift he wants to buy.

Another user could ask her contacts “I should cut my hair at _____ because _______.“ Questions of this type are surely going to get some humorous responses.

Quizy.me users select the questions and the position of the blanks. They can either sign up using a new account or use their Facebook account to link and login. Our created questions can then be shared on Facebook and Twitter.

Features:

• Sign in with Facebook account.
• Lets us create our own questions and the blank positions.
• Post your score to Facebook and Twitter.
• Depending on the way used, can give us serious responses and can result in a lot of fun.
• Related articles: How To Have Fun With Online Personality Quizzes and Add Quizzes To Your Facebook Profile Page & Other Places.
• Similar tools: QuizMaker, QToro and MyStuidiyo.

Check out Quizy.me @ www.quizy.me (via KillerStartups)