Currently Google offers Web Elements for the following services.

• Calendar
• Conversation
• Custom Search
• Maps
• News
• Presentations
• Spreadsheets
• YouTube News

Check out Google Web Elements @ www.google.com/webelements (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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Google Web Elements: Embed Google Products To Your Site

• Yahoo! Media Player: Embedable MP3 Player
• Wufoo
• Wolfram Alpha Google: Adds Wolfram Alpha Search Results Next To Google’s
• Wigitize : Add RSS Feeds from Other Websites to your Blog
• Web2PDF: ‘Save as PDF’ Button for Your Blog

You have to be registered before you can buy or sell websites. While buying, searching and browsing website listings are open to everyone, fees apply to selling websites. Users may browse website listings by categories such as featured listings, latest auctions, latest private sales, ending soon and just sold.

Features:

• Online market for buying and selling sites.
• Browse listings by categories such as featured listings, latest auctions, latest private sales, ending soon and just sold.
• Buying and browsing site is free.
• Selling your site is not free, read more details here.
• Users need to be registered to buy and sell websites.

Check out Flippa @ www.flippa.com

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Flippa: Marketplace For Buying And Selling Webites

• Zilok: Rent Anything From Anyone
• xFruits: All In One RSS Feed Tools Website
• WireNode : Create your Own Mobile Startpages
• Wengo – Marketplace for Consulting Services
• WebValuer: Website Price Calculator

Works easy, simply enter your stylesheet URL and associated HTML pages, and click on the “Check” button. The application will scan that stylesheet and show you redundant CSS selectors that are not present on listed HTML pages. Since these selectors are not used anywhere, you can remove them without causing any problems.

Keep in mind that the app does not understand javascript and may therefore tell you that certain selectors are redundant simply because they don’t appear in your javascript manipulated HTML.

Features:

• Helps you clean and optimize css files.
• Check as many CSS files as you want.
• Does not work with javascript manipulated HTML.
• Free and no sign up.
• Also see 11 Useful Tools To Check, Clean & Optimize Your CSS File.

Check out CSS Redundancy Checker @ www.services.immike.net/css-checker

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CSS Redundancy Checker

• TextSnip: Easily Share Formatted Text or Code with Others
• StyleNeat: Organize CSS Code Online
• PatternCooler: Design Cool Background Patterns for your Site
• FriendPaste: Simple Text Sharing
• CornerShop: Make Rounded CSS Boxes

It doesn’t require you to write any code and takes less then a minute to set up, simply select one of many provided templates, pick a colors, enter the title and your launch page is ready. You can host your page at xxxx.comingsooon.com or just redirect to it from your domain.

Click on the image to view it in full screen version.

Features:

• Create cool coming soon page for your upcoming website.
• Choose a color and different templates.
• Post announcement on your page.
• Provide RSS feeds or email sign-ups.
• Traffic analysis for your launch also provided.

Check out LaunchSplash @ www.launchsplash.com (by Tehseen from Ijaar.com)

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LaunchSplash: Create Free Coming Soon Page

• xFruits: All In One RSS Feed Tools Website
• WireNode : Create your Own Mobile Startpages
• WebValuer: Website Price Calculator
• WebsiteSpeedTest – Measure the Loading Time of your Site
• WebsitesLog: Quick Website Analysis Tool

You can either view the full report or only the errors. All the tests performed are based on the algorithms suggested by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

Features :

• Online color contrast checker.
• Analyzes the colors of the website to find any inconsistency of contrast, brightness and colors.
• Checks if the site is pleasantly viewable by someone with color deficits.
• View the full report or only the errors.
• Tests performed are based on the algorithms suggested by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

Check out Check My Colours @ www.checkmycolours.com (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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CheckMyColours: Check Color Contrast Of Your Site

• WebGraficMaker : Create Backgrounds, Lines and Bulleted Points
• I Like Your Colors: Extract Colours From Webpages
• ViewLike.us: Test Website In Different Resolutions
• TheButtonEffect: Online Button Creation Tool
• TextureKing : Free High Quality Texture Photos

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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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
• PageReboot: Refresh Webpages Automatically

Works simple, all you have to do is go to Foozya, click “Webmasters” link and copy paste provided piece of code into your webpage.

Once the feedback button is added, visitors will be able to click on it and report bugs, request new features etc. All feedback data is stored on Foozya website.

Check it out in action at the right bottom corner of this page

Features:

• Add feedback button to your site and get feedback.
• Customize color and orientation of the tab.
• Users may sign in using their Gmail credentials.
• All comments, feedback and suggestions are organized and stored online.
• Free, simple and easy to use.

Check out Foozya @ www.foozya.com

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Foozya: Add Feedback Tab To Your Site

• TheButtonEffect: Online Button Creation Tool
• Buttonator: Web Buttons Maker
• xFruits: All In One RSS Feed Tools Website
• WireNode : Create your Own Mobile Startpages
• WebValuer: Website Price Calculator

The blacklist monitoring feature is completely free, however the site also provides premium malware attack monitoring option as well.

Features:

• Online blacklist monitor.
• Get alerts if your site is blacklisted.
• Monitor as many sites as you like.
• URLs are scanned against the Google, Firefox, Chrome and Norton Safe Web blacklists.
• Receive weekly blacklist monitoring reports.
• Similar tools: UnmaskParasites.

Check out WebAnti-Malware @ www.wam.dasient.com/wam

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WebAnti-Malware: Check If Your Site Is Blacklisted

• UnmaskParasites: Online Website Security Audit
• xFruits: All In One RSS Feed Tools Website
• WireNode : Create your Own Mobile Startpages
• WhoCallsMe: Identify Unknown Callers
• WebValuer: Website Price Calculator

To generate a badge, simply enter your Twitter ID, set preferred color and where do you want it to appear. Then click on ‘Update Code’ button to get the badge code. Finally, grab the provided code and paste it inside your template file, right before the “BODY” end tag (</body>). That’s it!

By the way, you can try it by clicking  MakeUseof  “Follow Us ” badge on top left corner

Check out TwitterFollowBadge @ www.go2web20.net/twitterFollowBadge/

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TwitterFollowBadge: Cool Twitter Follow Badge For Your Site

• TwitterButtons: Generate Follow Me Button for Twitter
• Yammer – A Twitter For Businesses and Enterprises
• Yahoo! Media Player: Embedable MP3 Player
• wwwitter: See Twitter Discussions For Any Webpage
• Wufoo

Simply enter the domain URL, IP address, advertising ID or statistics code into the provided field and click on the “Search” button. SpyOnWeb will then find all information related to the entry and present it on one page.

Features:

• Search for the websites that are likely to belong to the same owner.
• Search using domain URL, IP address, advertising  ID or statistics code.
• All data aggregated from publicly available resources.
• Free, no registration needed.
• Similar tools: WhoIsTheOwner and AbouThiSite.

Check Out SpyOnWeb @ www.spyonweb.com

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SpyOnWeb: See All Websites That Belong to the Same Owner

• Suggest.Name: The Web 2.0 Domain Name Generator
• ServerCheck: Free Website Server Check Tools
• QuarkBase: Get Almost Every Information About A Website
• LinkVoodoo: Quality Score & Backlink Analyzer Tool
• DomTXT: Check Domain Availability via Text Message

Webmasters who run Page Speed on their pages get a set of scores for each page, as well as helpful suggestions on how to improve its performance.

Features :

• Improve site speed.
• Enhance your web page’s performance.
• Reduce your bandwidth and hosting costs.
• Get a set of scores for each web page.

Check out Page Speed@ www.code.google.com/speed/page-speed (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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PageSpeed: Improve Website Performance & Speed

• Xinu : Link Popularity Analyzer
• WhoIsTheOwner : Who is the Owner of the Website ?
• WhoIsHostingThis: Find Out Who Hosts your Favorite Websites
• WebSnapr: Free Website Thumbnail Screenshots
• WebsiteGrader: SEO Report for Your Website

The total number of visitors from each country is also shown next to the flag. Clicking on the counter reveals additional information such as visitor disitrbution on a pie chart, flag map and total page views for each country.

Check out sample counter below

Features:

• Get flag counter widget for your website.
• Customize your counter: number of flags shown, flag columns, title, background color, text color and border color.
• Free and very easy to add.
• Similar counter tools: 99counters, Amung.us and FeedJit.

Check out FlagCounter @ www.flagcounter.com

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FlagCounter: Flag Counter Widget For Your Webpage

• Statbrain: Estimates Traffic Figures For Any Site
• 99counters: Stylish Web Counters for your Blogs and Profile Pages
• WebsitesLog: Quick Website Analysis Tool
• W3Counter: Traffic Reports For Your Website
• Speed.io : Elegant Broadband Speed Test

Feature overview :

• Site uptime meter which informs you when a site which is down and when it returns back online.
• No need to create an account.
• Uses email and Twitter to notify others when the site comes back up.
• Easy to use. Just enter the site url and your email and you’re done.
• Similar sites: AreMySitesUp, BasicState, Montastic, MrUptime and Pingability.

Check out NotifyMee@ www.notifymee.com (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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NotifyMee: Online Uptime Monitor

• AreMySitesUp: Website Uptime Tracker with SMS Alerts
• Site24×7 : Website Performance Tracker
• MrUptime: Free Uptime Monitoring Tool
• Montastic: Free Website Uptime Monitoring Tool
• BasicState : Monitor Uptime Status of Your Website

You can create as many buttons as you need and instantly download them to your computer in GIF image format. No sign up needed. If you sign up, you will have an option to host buttons on the Buttonator site and link to them from your website.

Features:

• Online web buttons generator.
• Instantly apply design effects.
• Download and save buttons to your computer as GIF image files.
• Create as many buttons as you need without signing up.
• Similar sites: TheButtonEffect, FeedIcon20 and CoolRGB.

Check out Buttonator @ www.buttonator.com

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Buttonator: Web Buttons Maker

• TheButtonEffect: Online Button Creation Tool
• WebGraficMaker : Create Backgrounds, Lines and Bulleted Points
• ViewLike.us: Test Website In Different Resolutions
• PatternCooler: Design Cool Background Patterns for your Site
• MySocialButtons: Free Social Media Graphics & Buttons

You can also also look up a physical location of a computer by its IP address, trace an email to its source and see visually on a map the path between two IP addresses using the Visual Traceroute.

Features:

• Instantly get your IP address.
• View your current physical location on a map.
• Look up the location of any computer by its IP address.
• Trace an email to its source by providing it’s full headers.
• See the path between two IP addresses on a map with Visual Traceroute.
• Similar websites: ServerCheck, You Get Signal and MyIPNeighbors.

Check out WhatIsMyIpAddress @ www.whatismyipaddress.com

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WhatIsMyIPAddress: Find Out Your IP Address

• WidExplorer: Navigate Multiple Websites Simultaneously
• WebMynd : Backup For Your Online Browsing
• Vanishd: Hide your Web Surfing from Prying Eyes of Co-workers
• SparkTooth: Monitor Web Pages For Specific Updates
• SocialMarker: Submit your Posts to Mutliple Social Bookmarking Sites

Below is a sample banner created using AnimationOnline.com

Features:

• Instant banner creator.
• Create as many ad banners as you like.
• Customize text and background color.
• Manage all your banners in one place online.
• Similar websites: BannerFans.

Check out AnimationOnline @www.animationonline.com

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AnimationOnline: Instant Ad Banner Generator

• BannerFans: Free Banner Making Tool
• Web2.0Badges: Web Badge Generator
• GIFmake : Online GIF Maker Program
• WhatsItsColor: Find the Average Color in any Image
• WebGraficMaker : Create Backgrounds, Lines and Bulleted Points

When your clients receive the message and click the link they will be presented with the page showing you payment related details, this page will then auto redirect them to PayPal where they can log in and pay the money.

Using this app you can avoid logging in to your PayPal account when you want to send a payment request. It’s also very convenient for your clients to pay you this way.

Features:

• Easy way to request payment via paypal.
• Request as many payments as you like.
• Free, no registration needed.
• Watch the demo video here.

Check out PayItLink @ www.payitlink.com

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PayItLink: Makes Paypal Payment Requests Easy

• Blogtastique : Get Free Blog Consulting from PROs
• Zapproved: Web based Decision Making Tool
• Yammer – A Twitter For Businesses and Enterprises
• xFruits: All In One RSS Feed Tools Website
• WireNode : Create your Own Mobile Startpages

Clicks links below to see player it in action :

First link
Second link
Third link

Features:

• Embeddable media player from Yahoo!
• Plays all your music links with a single button click.
• Adds audio to your site with one line of HTML code.
• Automatically finds all audio links on your page and turns them into a playlist.
• Picks up your images and adds them as cover art.
• The floating design makes player appear only when needed.
• Requires no download, install or maintenance.

Check out Yahoo!MediaPlayer @ www.mediaplayer.yahoo.com (by Srikanth AD from Techonaut)

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Yahoo! Media Player: Embedable MP3 Player

• SoundZit: Listen And Embed Music Online
• SongSeeK: Add Music Playlist to Myspace or Facebook Profile
• SplashCast: Create Your Own Online TV Channels
• ProfileGreeting: Add Audio Greetings to Your Webpage
• MySpaceMP3 : Myspace MP3 Downloader

The best way to avoid broken links is to check them on regular bases, obviously if you are going to do it manually it is very daunting task and almost impossible. This is where LinkChecker comes handy, it allows you quickly find broken links on your site.

Simply enter the URL of the page you want checked and click “Check”, LinkChecker will then scan a given page and generate a report.

You can also adjust LinkChecker with additional options such as request short summary instead of detailed report, request to hide redirects, request not to check referrer header… etc.

Features:

• Free web based broken link detector.
• Check as many web pages as you like.
• Additional options to customize link scan: request short summary, request to hide redirects, request not to check referer header and more.
• No registration needed.

Check out LinkChecker @ www.validator.w3.org/checklink

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LinkChecker: Find Broken Links On Your Site

• xFruits: All In One RSS Feed Tools Website
• WireNode : Create your Own Mobile Startpages
• WebValuer: Website Price Calculator
• WebsiteSpeedTest – Measure the Loading Time of your Site
• WebsitesLog: Quick Website Analysis Tool

Start creating your form immediately on the site by modifying the existing template or create a new form from scratch using step-by-step Form Wizard. When you are done, click to preview your form online and get the source code to include into your webpages.

Create simple forms to collect basic information (name, email, address ) or build more advanced forms that include payment information, captcha codes, birth date pickers, file uploads and more.

Register on the site to save and edit forms later and share them on the web,

Features:

• Easy to use web form builder.
• Lets you build simple and advanced forms online without registration.
• Create a form by modifying  the existing template or create form from scratch using step-by-step Form Wizard.
• Add different type of fields – textboxes, text areas, drop down menus, file uploads, radio buttons, check boxes and more.
• Edit properties for each field – label, size, description etc.
• Option to preview the form online.
• Forms are integrated to accept payments by PayPal, Google Checkout, 2Checkout and other payment systems.
• Register to save, edit and share forms on the web.
• Free account has a limit of 100 submission per month and 10 MB max file upload. Premium account with more options available.
• Similar website: Wufoo, phpForm and Doculicious.

Check out JotForm @ www.jotform.com

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JotForm: Easy Form Creation Tool

• Zoho : Feature-rich Web-based Office Software
• Doculicious: Create Embeddable Forms & Fillable Documents
• Zoomerang: Quickly Create Online Surveys using Templates
• Wufoo
• WebFormFactory : Generate Backend Code for your Web Forms

The application can generate customized rounded corner graphics and code (CSS and HTML) which you can add to your site for free. It lets you customize the background color, corner radius and transparency settings for that round cornered graphic.

To get started simply specify your preferences and click on “Create Graphics” button. In return you will get four images along with CSS and HTML codes that you will have to paste on your website.

Features:

• Create rounded corners online.
• Make as many corners as you like.
• Customize page and box background, corner radius and transparency.

For those of you who want to learn CSS and be able to make rounded CSS boxes on their own MakeUseOf published a cool roundup on best sites to learn CSS online.

Check out CornerShop @ www.wigflip.com/cornershop

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CornerShop: Make Rounded CSS Boxes

• PatternCooler: Design Cool Background Patterns for your Site
• CSS Redundancy Checker
• BgPatterns: Design Tiled Backgrounds for your Website
• WebGraficMaker : Create Backgrounds, Lines and Bulleted Points
• ViewLike.us: Test Website In Different Resolutions

From the site: “HostMonk is committed to bringing you a thorough index of the world of hosting services. We present the facts for you to make your decision. What you see is impartial, based on the cold hard facts with nothing added or removed.”

All listed hosted packages are nicely organized by categories. Users can pick the category that meets their needs and then refine packages by monthly price, platform, disk space, memory, bandwidth, CPU type and management.

Features:

• Easily compare hosting packages in one place.
• HostMonk aggregates data from over 2500 hosting companies.
• All listings are nicely categorized.
• Lets you refine hosting packages by monthly price, platform, disk space, memory, bandwidth, CPU type… etc.
• Clean and simple interface.
• Free, and no sign up.

Check out HostMonk @ www.hostmonk.com

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HostMonk: Comparing Hosting Providers Made Simple

• xFruits: All In One RSS Feed Tools Website
• WireNode : Create your Own Mobile Startpages
• WikiMatrix: Compare Wiki Platforms
• WhoIsHostingThis: Find Out Who Hosts your Favorite Websites
• WebValuer: Website Price Calculator

To get suggestions simply enter the site’s URL in the field and hit on “Generate Keyword Suggestions” button. Almost instantly it will generate a list of keywords for you to review. You can delete keywords which you don’t require and then choose to download the remaining list as text, CSV or Meta-Tag code.

Features:

• Get automatically generated descriptive keywords for websites.
• View the keyword listing as text, CSV or Meta-Tag code.
• Free. No registration required.

Check out Keywordle @ www.keywordle.com (by Srikanth AD from Techonaut)

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Keywordle: Auto-suggests Descriptive Keywords For Websites

• RapidsSiteMap: Free XML Sitemap Generator
• PageRankChecker: Comprehensive Pagerank Lookup Tool
• PageRankAlert: Track Your Site’s Page Rank Changes
• LinkVoodoo: Quality Score & Backlink Analyzer Tool
• HotWords: See What Others Are Searching For

You can customize the banner layout, size, colors, text, fonts, border and also play with different effects to get the perfect banner.

Features

• Online banner making tool.
• Create and download banners online.
• No registration required to start creating the banners.
• Multiple customization options available.
• HTML code for banner available.
• Similar site: Online Gradient Image Maker.

Check out BannerFans @ www.bannerfans.com (By Abhijeet from Appscrazy)

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BannerFans: Free Banner Making Tool

• AnimationOnline: Instant Ad Banner Generator
• Web2.0Badges: Web Badge Generator
• GIFmake : Online GIF Maker Program
• WhatsItsColor: Find the Average Color in any Image
• WebGraficMaker : Create Backgrounds, Lines and Bulleted Points

The process is straight forward, all you have to do is type website’s URL and click on “Go and contact webmaster” button. Ctowner will then find owner’s email address (if available) and take you to the form where you can type your message and send it over to the site’s owner.

Features:

• Contact the owner of a website.
• Find contacts and send as many messages as you like.
• Simple, easy to use, and no registration.
• Similar websites: WhoIsTheOwner.

Visist Ctowner @ www.ctowner.com

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Ctowner: A Simple Way To Contact Website Owner

• Suggest.Name: The Web 2.0 Domain Name Generator
• SpyOnWeb: See All Websites That Belong to the Same Owner
• ServerCheck: Free Website Server Check Tools
• QuarkBase: Get Almost Every Information About A Website
• LinkVoodoo: Quality Score & Backlink Analyzer Tool

Features:

• Searching code snippets on published programming books.
• Lets you search for almost any programming language codes you want.
• Free. No registration required.

Check out CodeFetch @ www.codefetch.com

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CodeFetch: Programming Code Searching Tool

• TextSnip: Easily Share Formatted Text or Code with Others
• FriendPaste: Simple Text Sharing
• TextFixer: Text to Capitals, Remove Line Breaks & Whitespaces etc.
• CSS Redundancy Checker
• YourDraft: Create and Share Drafts Online

Along with showing the details like domain age, site speed and site keywords, it also shows the different traffic ranks like Google Pagerank, Alexa rank and Yahoo directory listings for the site.

Features

• Check the power of your domain.
• A 360 degree analysis of domain using many variables.
• Get scored on indicators like name, popularity, SEO and coding.
• Get data on things like pagerank, alexa rank and other such listings.
• Similar sites:Dataopedia, AbouThiSite and QuarkBase.

Check out DomainMeter @ www.domainmeter.com ( by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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Domain Meter: Monitor The Strength Of Your Domain

• LinkVoodoo: Quality Score & Backlink Analyzer Tool
• Suggest.Name: The Web 2.0 Domain Name Generator
• SpyOnWeb: See All Websites That Belong to the Same Owner
• ServerCheck: Free Website Server Check Tools
• RapidsSiteMap: Free XML Sitemap Generator

1. Website Not Working?

Checks if a server is down. You just need to enter the URL to check if the website is currently online/up or not.

2. Domain IP Lookup

This utility can be used to find out the IP address for ny given domain. To find out the IP address of the server on which the site is hosted you only need to enter the domain name.

3. Reverse IP Lookup

When you enter a domain name or an IP address, this tool displays all the other domains / websites hosted on the same server. It’s a good way for website owners to check if your ISP is overselling or if there are high traffic sites on the same server as you.

Features:

• Quick and simple online server check tools
• Check out all the domains / websites hosted on the same server.
• Check if your website is not working or a server is down.
• Find out the IP address of the server on which a website is hosted.
• Free and easy to use. No registration required.
• Similar tools: You Get Signal and MyIPNeighbors.

Check out Server Check @ www.servercheck.me (by Srikanth AD from The Next Web )

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ServerCheck: Free Website Server Check Tools

• AbouThiSite: See WhoIS, Server Location, IP Neighbors for any Site
• Suggest.Name: The Web 2.0 Domain Name Generator
• SpyOnWeb: See All Websites That Belong to the Same Owner
• QuarkBase: Get Almost Every Information About A Website
• LinkVoodoo: Quality Score & Backlink Analyzer Tool

Features:

• Convert images into ASCII.
• Convert as many images as you like.
• Upload images from your computer or the web.
• Supported image formats: gif, jpeg and png
• Maximum size: 1.5Mb
• Display color or turn it off.
• Similar websites: Text-Image and ASCIIPoster

Check out the sample ASCII image below.

Check out PicASCII @ www.picascii.com

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PicASCII: Turn Images Into ASCII Text Pictures

• WetFloorMaker: Add Reflection To Image
• Tuxpi: Make Your Own Wanted Poster
• TiltShiftGenerator: Tilt Shift Photo Maker
• StretchYourFace: Make Comic Pictures
• Resizem: Basic Image Editor

Works really simple, all you have to do is routinely enter times when you went to bed and the time you woke up next morning along with how well you slept and few words. That is it!

There is also a social side to the website, users canshare their sleeping experiences with other YawnLog users.

Features:

• Track your sleep online.
• Add additional notes.
• Share your sleeping experiences with others or keep them private.
• Data presented with easy to understand graphs.

Check out YawnLog @ beta.yawnlog.com

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YawnLog: Online Sleep Tracker

• SugarStats: Track Blood Sugar Online
• SleepEducation: Guide to Sleeping Disorders & Treatments
• Qwitter : Helps you Quit Smoking
• Morale-O-Meter: Track your Day-to-Day Morale
• MiVitals : Store and Share Health Records Online

To make sure that the domain name shown is available, you need to double click it. You will instantly see the results about its availability along with the number of times it has been clicked. Darker the name, more time it has been clicked and hence more popular. It gives a facility to sort domain names according to date on which they were added, popularity, alphabetical order. It also gives the facility to narrow down your search and lets you find names that contain 5 characters only.

Features:

• Dot com domain name finder.
• Sort domains by date, popularity and alphabetical order.
• Follow DomainPigeon on Twitter to get info on latest domain names.
• Easy to use and free.
• For more similar tools check MakeUseOf domain section.

Check out DomainPigeon @ www.domainpigeon.com (by ROW from ReviewOfWeb )

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DomainPigeon: Domain Name Finder With A Difference

• Suggest.Name: The Web 2.0 Domain Name Generator
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• ServerCheck: Free Website Server Check Tools
• QuarkBase: Get Almost Every Information About A Website
• LinkVoodoo: Quality Score & Backlink Analyzer Tool

To find the quality of a website, click on Quality Rank Tool and enter the website address. Within a few minutes it will show you the trust score (in %) for that site along with the individual parameter from which the score was derived.

Moreover, LinkVoodoo also shows a total number of links pointing to a website. Other details include, the link anchor text (and number of times it is used), and the PageRank and Alexa stats of the websites that are back-linking to it.

Features:

• Quality ranking and backlink analyzer tool.
• Helps you in making informed decision before seeking a link from site.
• Easy to use and free.

Check out LinkVoodoo @ www.linkvoodoo.com (by ROW from reviewofweb.com )

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LinkVoodoo: Quality Score & Backlink Analyzer Tool

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• Suggest.Name: The Web 2.0 Domain Name Generator
• SpyOnWeb: See All Websites That Belong to the Same Owner
• ServerCheck: Free Website Server Check Tools
• RapidsSiteMap: Free XML Sitemap Generator

The site  provides two embeddable widgets, ‘2D Scroller’ and ‘3D Stack’ for sharing your pictures on other sites. You can also check out profiles of other users comment and add them to your following list. Creating an account and using  the site is really easy, all you need is a web cam.

Features:

• Documenting life by taking photo of self every day.
• Share your daily pictures with others.
• Embed your time lines on other sites.
• Check out profiles of others users and leave comments.
• Follow others and be followed.
• Free and easy to use.

For more info watch the demo video:

Check out DailyBooth @ www.dailybooth.com (by Srikanth from Diggitlive )

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DailyBooth: Documenting Your Life With Daily Pictures

• YouGotPhoto: Easily Add Online Images To Digital Photo Frames
• StockVault: Download Free Stock Photos
• RapidPik: Free Online Photo Resizer and Hoster
• ZYB : BackUp Your Mobile Online
• Zamzar

How it works:

1. Fill in the blanks
2. Press “Generate Sitemap”
3. Download generated XML file
4. Rename it to sitemap.xml and upload it to your root directory

If your site is small with few hundred pages, the process takes around 3-7 minutes. For larger sites with thousands of links, it takes more time to generate. The limit on sitemap file is 50,000 URLs and 10MB.

Features:

• Generate xml sitemap online.
• View generated sitemap online or Download.
• Processes around 100 pages in 5 minutes.
• Limit on file size: 50,000 URLs and 10 MB.
• Free

If you’re looking for an alternative XML sitemap generator then also check out a MakeUseOf article on How To Create A XML Sitemap by Wendy.

Check out RapidSitemap @ www.rapidsitemap.com

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RapidsSiteMap: Free XML Sitemap Generator

• PageRankChecker: Comprehensive Pagerank Lookup Tool
• PageRankAlert: Track Your Site’s Page Rank Changes
• LinkVoodoo: Quality Score & Backlink Analyzer Tool
• Keywordle: Auto-suggests Descriptive Keywords For Websites
• HotWords: See What Others Are Searching For

Favicon editor can be also easily used to tweak favicons created from images. Once you are done, you can save favicons onto your computer or share with others in the public gallery.

Features:

• Build favicon from an image file (JPG, GIF, PNG)
• Edit favicons or create new one from scratch using online editor
• Download or share it in the public gallery
• Bookmark to edit your favicon later
• Other favicon tools: Favicon.cc, Online Icon Maker, GenFavicon and FaviconTool.

Check out Favicon-Generator @ www.favicon-generator.org

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Favicon-Generator: Online Favicon Builder

• Online Icon Maker : Create and Edit Favicons Online
• GetFavicon: Grab Favicon From Any Website
• GenFavicon: Online Favicon Creator
• FaviconTool : Free Favicon Generator
• Favicon.cc : Online Favicon Maker

Make sure to check both www and non www versions of domain as values might be different. For example digg.com was priced at $201,635,520 and the www.digg.com version was only $32,020.618. To see the factors on which this value was derived, click on ‘View Report’ button.

Features:

• Find out how much is your website worth in $.
• View the factors using which this value was arrived.
• Quick and easy to use.
• Similar website value estimator: WebValuer

Check out $timator @ www.stimator.com (by Ankur Jain from www.LearnQTP.com)

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Stimator: Check Your Website’s Worth

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• WireNode : Create your Own Mobile Startpages
• WebValuer: Website Price Calculator
• WebsiteSpeedTest – Measure the Loading Time of your Site
• WebsitesLog: Quick Website Analysis Tool

With the help of this tool you can search for keywords rankings, keywords that are gaining or losing position over a period of time. Also it provides an option to view historical reports where you can view keywords rankings for past 3 years. I think this tools can be particularly useful for affiliate marketers searching for hot niche or for bloggers searching for a topic to write on. After all it makes perfect sense to write on a topic that world is searching for.

By default this tool is family safe. But if you wish to search for adult keywords you can always turn Adult Filter off by clicking on Adult Filter On/Off link given on top-right-side.

Other such tools are either paid or show limited data for one search engine only. Hotwords has partnered with major search engines and the trend is gathered on a huge sample of 6 million searches per day.

Features:

• Tells you what people are searching for.
• Find hot keywords across a period of time.
• Daily and Monthly keywords ranking.
• View keywords rankings for past 3 years.
• Free and no registration.

Check out Hotwords @ HotWords.com (Contributed by ROW from www.reviewofweb.com)

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HotWords: See What Others Are Searching For

• RapidsSiteMap: Free XML Sitemap Generator
• PageRankChecker: Comprehensive Pagerank Lookup Tool
• PageRankAlert: Track Your Site’s Page Rank Changes
• LinkVoodoo: Quality Score & Backlink Analyzer Tool
• Keywordle: Auto-suggests Descriptive Keywords For Websites

Application also provides you with additional tools:

Domain Hacks: Shows domain names’ availability as a Domain Hack. For example a word “tweeet”, can be registered as http://twee.et  (where .et is a TLD for Ethiopia).

Web 2.0 Name Generator: Automatically generates various funky web 2.0 domain names and shows their availability

Features:

• Instant domain lookup as you type.
• Check for availability of international domain names.
• Web 2.0 Name Generator
• Free no registration.
• For more domain tools see MakeUseOf’s domain section.

Check out DomainTyper @ www.domaintyper.com

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DomainTyper: Instant Domain Search Tool

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• ServerCheck: Free Website Server Check Tools
• QuarkBase: Get Almost Every Information About A Website
• LinkVoodoo: Quality Score & Backlink Analyzer Tool

Generally page rank checkers allows you to check page rank for a single URL. This tool gives you a host of options to choose from. You can check page rank for multiple URL’s, check page rank of an entire site using XML sitemap, or check page rank of all the links emanating from a particular URL.

To get started, enter the URL(s) and click on the ‘Check them’ button. The PageRankChecker will check the links and neatly show page rank data on the bottom of the page.

Features:

• Pagerank checker tool.
• Check PR for all outgoing links from a URL.
• Check PR of all URLs in an XML sitemap.
• Check PR of multiple URLs at one time.
• Check PR of a single URL.
• Easy to use and Free.
• Similar sites: PageRankAlert

Check out PagerankChecker @ pagerank.bthomson.com (via Labnol) (by ROW from reviewofweb.com)

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PageRankChecker: Comprehensive Pagerank Lookup Tool

• RapidsSiteMap: Free XML Sitemap Generator
• PageRankAlert: Track Your Site’s Page Rank Changes
• LinkVoodoo: Quality Score & Backlink Analyzer Tool
• Keywordle: Auto-suggests Descriptive Keywords For Websites
• HotWords: See What Others Are Searching For

Te site provides you with an online account interface from where you can easily view all of the pages in your watchlist. There is also an option to view pages that are losing or gaining value.

Features:

• Online page rank tracker.
• Track as many pages as you like.
• Alerts you via email when Pagerank value changes.
• Manage pages in your watchlist from an online account.
• Free and simple to use.

Check out PageRankAlert @ www.pagerankalert.com

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PageRankAlert: Track Your Site’s Page Rank Changes

• RapidsSiteMap: Free XML Sitemap Generator
• PageRankChecker: Comprehensive Pagerank Lookup Tool
• LinkVoodoo: Quality Score & Backlink Analyzer Tool
• Keywordle: Auto-suggests Descriptive Keywords For Websites
• HotWords: See What Others Are Searching For