Webpages nowadays update very quickly and it can be very laborious to go through all the clutter just to find the content that you are interested in. Femtoo is a web app that saves you time by monitoring changes on a specific part of a webpage. Femtoo tracks changes on a website and notifies you [...]
The Internet is addictive. There are no two ways about it. And with Internet access becoming ubiquitous on all kinds of devices, addiction to the Internet is only going to become a bigger problem. These days, most people I know start their day not by checking their email, but by checking their facebook updates or [...]
How many hours are you spending in front of your computer and how productive have you been? If you’re not happy with your answer, then you should try this web app. StayFocusd is a Google Chrome extension that helps you focus when you work and block time wasting websites. It sets a timer for addictive [...]
Ever ordered something from, say, eBay and then patiently refreshed the courier company’s website every few hours to figure out the current location of your package? Is logging into your three email accounts the first thing that you do after switching on your computer? Are you tired of entering the usernames and passwords each time? [...]
A search engine is probably the most used tool on the web. A full time webworker probably runs at least a hundred search queries every day. SearchOpener is a quick and simple tool that helps increase your work productivity by allowing you to do multiple searches simultaneously. To use SearchOpener, enter a keyword phrase per [...]
Walk2Web is an online app that provides a fun and unique way of exploring websites on the internet through webwalking. It lets you discover new websites by illustrating a network of web pages which you can navigate with manual web crawling. To use this app, enter a URL of the website. Then you will see [...]
Whenever you work online, do you occasionally find the need to copy-paste multiple links and open each one in your browser? This can really be time-consuming since you have to open windows and tabs all the time. URLOpener is a web application that solves this problem by letting you open multiple URL’s with just a [...]
If you’re anything like me you usually have Gmail, Google Voice, Google Documents and a couple other Google applications open at any given moment during your workflow. This works beautifully if you’re the only person using the computer, but can be a disaster if someone asks “can I check my email for a second?” Gmail [...]
ReloadEvery is a web page auto refresh add-for Firefox which helps you refresh web pages on a schedule. The default reload options start from every 5 seconds and go on upto every 15 mins. However, you can customize the time after which the pages are refreshed automatically. When you install the add-on, it adds options [...]
DetectMobileBrowser is a downloadable script for web developers that detects visitors’ mobile browsers and if needed auto redirects them to mobile version of the website. Actually, you can pretty much redirect your visitors to any webpage depending on whether they are using a mobile browser or not. This lightweight script is available in different programming languages [...]
WebPrivacyCheck is a web tool that allows you to check what security related data is exposed by your browser when you surf the web. You can use this site to measure the effectiveness of proxy or any other privacy solution in keeping your identity hidden. Works easy, simply visit the website though your privacy solution [...]
FindMebyIP is a simple web app that tells you what your IP address is and what your browser can and can’t do. The tool also gives your geo-specific details based on your IP. FindmeByIP supports Modernizer, a javascript library that detects if your browser is compatible the latest CSS and HTML 5 features. This website [...]
WhatBlocked is a simple web page where you can quickly find out which popular websites are blocked in China. It presents sites on a dashboard organized in different categories such as News & Information, Social & Communication, Photos & Videos and Tools & Sharing. The status of each site showed in one of following colors: Red – [...]
HerdictWeb tracks inaccessible sites in real time. It collects data on websites from users in different countries. Here is how it works: First you visit the homepage and enter the website URL that you can’t access. Then hit “Enter” to view current reports. If the site was reported as accessible, then it’s likely that the [...]
If you come across lots of interesting web pages during the workday that are unrelated to actual work, but would love to check them some other time, PaperSpan can help you out. It is web application that offers a browser bookmarklet that allows to save webpages online to read them later. To begin, register on [...]
PageSlider is a web tool that can combine websites of your choice on a single webpage. It creates a bookmarklet for quickly accessing those pages whenever you want. The websites are presented on clean interface and can be easily browsed by scrolling vertically. It looks just like one long page with selected websites listed one [...]
ThePrintliminator is a browser bookmarklet that lets you print only what you want. It allows you to easily remove unnecessary items from webpages (ads, text and graphics) before printing, making printed pages look nice and clean. Not only it makes printed pages prettier but also saves you the ink at the same time. To start [...]
If you read blogs on a daily basis you know that it’s very common for articles to have several links in the article text (both internal and external). Since in most cases internal and external links are colored in a similar way it’s hard to distinguish between them. External Link & Phishing Highlighter is a [...]
There are so many websites on the Internet on any topic, which makes it quite hard to find the most relevant and useful site for a specific purpose on your own. Spring is an online service that makes it easy to find the most useful and consulted sites in any category and ranks them based on [...]
Xmarks is a bookmark powered site directory which lets you assess how popular site is, what is it about, read user reviews and discover similar sites based on bookmarks from its user base. Similar sites are ranked based on the number of times they were bookmarked by Internet users. Due to its widespread user base, [...]