Fliptext can come in useful when you need to create strong passwords, encrypt download links or post messages online so that only few people can read it. Similarly, you can “unflip” any text written upside down using this tool.

Features:

• Flip your text upside down and backwards.
• Free, no registration needed to flip the text.
• Similar online tools: FlipMyText and FlipTitle.

Check out Fliptext.org @ www.fliptext.org

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• Write Like An Egyptian
• WordCountTool: Tool For Counting Words in Text
• FlipTitle: Flip Text Upside Down
• FlipMyText: Flip Text Upside Down
• CountOnIt: Count Words in PDF, Text, HTML, XML & CSV Files

Features:

• Remove restrictions and limits from PDFs online.
• Unlock as many files as you like.
• Free and no sign up.
• Also check out a PDF Crack another online PDF unlocker.

Check out PDF Pirate @ www.pdfpirate.net

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• WebMarkers : Print Documents To Web
• Vuzit : Online PDF Document Viewer
• ViewDocsOnline: Open Documents Online
• Verbosus: Web Based LaTex Editor
• SplitMergePDF : Online PDF Splitting and Merging Tool

How it works:

1. Pick a master password for all your websites.
2. Click “Generate my Password” to generate a unique password for each different website you use.
3. Use the generated passwords for the corresponding websites.

And if you lose your generated password, simply come to SimlePassword, enter your master password and it will generate the same password for that respective website. Generated passwords are strong and contain both small and capital letters and numbers.

Features:

• Generates strong unique password for each website you use using a a single master password.
• Generated passwords are strong and contain both small and capital letters and numbers.
• Free, no registration needed.
• Similar tools: SafePasswd, PasswordSuggest, PassPub and others.

Check out SimplePassword @ www.simplepassword.com (via SingleFunction)

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• SafePasswd: Online Tool For Generating Strong Passwords
• PasswordSuggest: Generate Secure Passwords
• iForgotMyPassword: Online Locker For Text
• XLSCrack: Unlock Excel Spreadsheet Without A Password
• Whspr: Hide Your Email Address Behind Contact Form

To unlock, simply upload the Excel file from your computer, click “Submit” and save the unlocked version to your computer.

Features:

• Unlock password-protected unlock Excel spreadsheet online.
• Unlock as many files as you like.
• Free, no registration.

Check out XLS Crack @ www.ensode.net/ensode/xls-crack

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• ViewDocsOnline: Open Documents Online
• ThinkFree: Web Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
• SmartSheet: Powerful Web Spreadsheet Editor for Groups
• Sheetster : Online Spreadsheet Editor
• Peepel: Online Word and Spreadsheet

To test the strength of your password try out online password Strength Test. Just enter your password into provided box and the test will evaluate it’s strength as you type, clearly telling if it is easy to hack.

In case the password strength test found that your password is weak then password generators like PassPub, Password Chart and SafePasswd can help you to come up with something stronger.

Features:

• Check the password strength online.
• Displays strength of the password as you type.
• No signup needed.
• Other password strength checkers: Brute Force Calculator and Password Meter.

Check out StrengthTest @ www.rumkin.com/tools/password/passchk

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• Strong Password Generator
• SimplePassword: Generate Unique Passwords
• SafePasswd: Online Tool For Generating Strong Passwords

The interface of the site is clean and intuitive, adding passwords and managing them is simple as it can be. You can add, store and manage as many passwords as necessary. The site also lets you filter, edit, delete and easily backup all your passwords.

Features:

• Store passwords online.
• Store and manage as many passwords as you like.
• All password are securely encrypted.
• Sign in using your Google account.
• Filter, edit, delete any of your entries and easily backup all your passwords.
• Clean and intuitive interface.
• Similar websites: MashedLife and iForgotMyPassword.

Check out Password++ @ paswd.appspot.com

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• Sxipper: Automatic Form Filler
• Strong Password Generator
• Strength Test: Test The Strength Of Your Password
• SimplePassword: Generate Unique Passwords

Features:

• Strong and safe password generator.
• Generate as many passwords as you like.
• Customizable strength and and length of password.
• Free and easy to use.
• Similar sites: PassPub, PasswordBird and Password Chart.

You might be also interested in Damien’s excellent article on how to create strong passwords. Not only it gives you tips on how to make passwords safe but also few techniques on how to make them easy to remember.

Check out SafePasswd @ www.safepasswd.com

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• PasswordSuggest: Generate Secure Passwords
• iForgotMyPassword: Online Locker For Text
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• Whspr: Hide Your Email Address Behind Contact Form

Features:

• Find default password for your router.
• Free. No registration needed.
• Similar websites: CIRT.net

Check out Router Passwords @ www.routerpasswords.com

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• CIRT.net: Lookup Default Passwords for Electronic Devices
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• WarrantyElephant: Track Warranty Information for Your Gadgets

Features:

• Flip text upside down.
• No sign up needed.
• Other sites weher you can flip text: TextTop.us (with more options).

Check out FlipTitle @ www.fliptitle.com

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• Text2PDF: Create Adobe PDF Files From Text
• NewOCR: Recognizes Text From Images
• Free-ORC: Extract Text From Image Files

How does it work?

1. Register and add logins for sites you have accounts with (Facebook, MySpace, Digg… etc).
2. Get a “Bookmark Login” bookmark and add it to your browser toolbar.
3. When you want to login to the site simply click on that bookmark from step 2 and it will log you in.

Features:

• Securely store your passwords in online vault.
• Works with any website.
• No download or installation needed.
• All data stored online and securely encrypted.
• See demo tour.
• Similar tools: PageOnce, Clipperz and PassPack.

See MashedLife’s Bookmark Login feature in action action:

Check out MashedLife @ www.mashedlife.com

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• Clipperz: Online Password Manager
• SocialMarker: Submit your Posts to Mutliple Social Bookmarking Sites
• ReadBag : Save Links to Read them Later
• PassPack : Free Password Manager
• PaperSpan: Save Webpages To Read Later

This is in particular useful for office folks where your personal bookmarks are potentially exposed to others.

One really cool thing about HideLinks is it’s Firefox addon which makes the whole process of creating a password protected bookmark really fast. Simply, click the HideLink It! button on your toolbar and you’re almost done.

Features:

• Keep your bookmarked URLs private by shortening and password protecting them.
• Firefox addon avaialble: adds “HideLink It!” button to Firefox toolbar.
• No sign up needed.

Check out Hidelinks @ www.hidelinks.com

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• Shortless : Shorten Long Links
• PassPack : Free Password Manager
• MashedLife: Securely Store Your Passwords Online
• Linkli.st: Create List Of Links & Easily Share Them
• Clipperz: Online Password Manager

See example calculation for simple 9 letter long password below:

Your password is 9 characters long and has 2,088,270,645,760 combinations. It takes 7.60 hours or 0.32 days to crack your password on computer that tries 137,438,953,472 passwords per hour. This is based on a typical PC processor in 2008 and that the processor is under 10% load.

Features:

• Calculate how long your password will last under sustained brute force attack.
• No email or signup needed.

You might be also interested in another password strength meter tool called Password Meter. And if you find your that your password is too week try using StrongPasswordGenerator to generate stronger passwords.

Check out BruteForceCalculator @ www.hackosis.com/projects/bfcalc/bfcalc.php

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• Strong Password Generator
• Strength Test: Test The Strength Of Your Password
• SimplePassword: Generate Unique Passwords

While it might not be the best site for keeping important details such as user info to your email or bank account there are plently of not so important stuff that can be kept online. You may also use it to store only the passwords and keep places they belong to discreet. But even then I wouldn’t risk putting stuff like the pass to your email account there, unless you of course come up with a way to change it a bit (like typing it backwards and adding couple of letters to back and front).

Features:

• Store text data online and access it from any other PC.
• Store as much stuff as you like.
• Includes online password generator.
• Other password managers: Keepass, LockCrypt, Clipperz and PassPack.

Check out iForgotMyPassword @ www.iforgotmypassword.org

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• PasswordSuggest: Generate Secure Passwords
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If you ever need a default password for a system or software try searching for it on CIRT. It can be a username and password for your linksys or netgear router, mobile phone, PC or laptop BIOS, printer etc.

The site lists over 1700 passwords for products from nearly 400 manufacturers. If you can’t find the password here I’d recommend calling the tech support.

Check out Default Password List @ www.cirt.net/passwords

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• Venjuvo: Get Cash for Your Old Electronics and Gadgets
• The-Manuals: Free Manuals Search Engine
• TestFreaks: The only Gadget Review Website you’ll Ever Need

Features:

• Create secure and easy-to-remember passwords and usernames.
• No registration needed.
• For more password related web apps and software go were

Check out PasswordSuggest @ password.10try.com

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• iForgotMyPassword: Online Locker For Text
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Here is how it works:

(1) First generate the password chart using some random keyword (mypasswords, logins, makeuseof, email etc.). Make sure that you can easily remember the keyword later as you will need it to access your password chart.

(2) Once the chart is ready you can start creating strong passwords. Say you want to create a password for your Gmail account in that case just type in the gmail and let the Password Chart generate the password. Done.

(3) If you need to lookup your password later or create a new one then simply go to your password chart.

You might also want to print out and save your chart somewhere on your PC. This is just a safety precaution to make sure that you are able to access your online accounts even if the Password Chart website is offline.

Password Chart is definitely not the only website to help you with passwords. We have already profiled a bunch of cool password generators earlier. These are PassPub, PasswordBird, Keepass and Secure Password Generator. The latter one is a Firefox extension.

Go to PasswordChart @ www.passwordchart.com

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• Strong Password Generator
• PasswordBird: Create Strong Passwords that are Easy to Remember
• Password Meter : Check Passwords for Strength
• PassPack : Free Password Manager
• Clipperz: Online Password Manager

What’s particularly impressive about PageOnce is the number of services it supports. Track your bank accounts, credit cards, investment portfolio, mobile phone bills, mobile usage, emails accounts, facebook notifications, flight miles from Airlines, Paypal payments, …. lots of stuff.

If you are frustrated with navigating multiple websites and managing too many passwords? Then PageOnce is for you. Apart from pulling relevant information from each account, PageOnce also provides one-click login option in case you want to log on to some service. So it’s also a web-based password manager.

There is no word on how many services PageOnce can access, but there are definitely lots of them. Service categories include:

• Finance (Americal Express, Discover, Paypal, …)
• Shopping (eBay, Costco, Starbucks Card)
• Utilities (AT&T Wireless, verless Wireless, Sprint, T-Mobile, …)
• Social (Digg, Facebook, LinkedIn, Del.icio.us, …)
• Travel (United Aitlines, American Airlines, Continental Airlines …)
• Email (Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail).

If you have some security and privacy concerns see what PageOnce has to say about it here and here

[Video] PageOnce Offers Dashboard for Personal Internet Accounts

PageOnce is still in beta and doesn’t offer instant account sign-up yet. However being a MakeUseOf reader you can you grab yorself a beta account from here.

Visit PageOnce @ www.pageonce.com

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• YomYam: Keep Links to Your Favorite Sites on One Page

Features:

• Create easy to remember passwords using some name, word and date you’re well familiar with.
• Create as many passwords as you like. No registration needed.

Check out PasswordBird @ www.passwordbird.com

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• Strong Password Generator
• Password Meter : Check Passwords for Strength
• Password Chart : Secure Password Creator
• PassPack : Free Password Manager
• Clipperz: Online Password Manager

Features

• Generate strong passwords.
• Weighing algorithm: Calculates the strength of your password based on a number of factors.
• Detailed table showing password guidelines and strength affecting factors.
• No registration or email required

Check out PasswordMeter @ [ www.passwordmeter.com ]

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• Strong Password Generator
• PasswordBird: Create Strong Passwords that are Easy to Remember
• Password Chart : Secure Password Creator
• PassPack : Free Password Manager
• Clipperz: Online Password Manager

In addition to passwords, Passpub can also generate wireless WEP keys, using random hexadecimal characters (64 / 128 / 256 – bit). So if you’re looking for a random WEP key for your wireless network, it can come in handy as well.

Check out PassPub @ www.passpub.com

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• Strong Password Generator
• Strength Test: Test The Strength Of Your Password
• SimplePassword: Generate Unique Passwords

Chicago Tribune: “… I’m planning to play around with three, each of which would require me to remember only one password to access all my others. The most attractive is PassPack, because it resides online.”

Feature Overview

• Store and Manage up to 100 passwords online.
• ‘PassPack It’ Bookmarklet: One click auto-login to any of your saved accounts.
• Find Passwords: Using tags / Search as you type / browse alphabetically.
• Password Generator: Let PassPack generate a secure password for you.
• Password Tester: Quickly check how strong your passwords are.
• Print, Import (ex. from Roboform), Export, Backup and Restore your passwords and other saved data.
• Print passwords.
• Disposable Logins: Access your PassPack account using one time passwords. Useful when connected from insecure locations.
• Offline version: Keep a copy of your PassPack account offline.
• Option to cancel your account at any time.
• Still wondering how you can make use of of PassPack ? See some examples here.

Not so long ago we also wrote about Clipperz, a similar password manager application. Below you can see a quick feature comparison for both of the services.

Check out PassPack @ www.passpack.com

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Feature Overview

• Create ‘direct login’ links for any of your online accounts (Gmail, Amazon, eBay, etc.)
• Portable: Keep an offline copy of your Clipperz data. Put it on a USB stick and access it from anywhere.
• Anonymous: To open a Clipperz account no personal details or email is requested.
• Browser Addon: For even quicker access get Clipperz password manager on Firefox sidebar. Also works with Opera.
• Concerned about security? Read more on Clipperz FAQ page.

Video Introduction

Check out Clipperz @ www.clipperz.com

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• Bcheck : Test your Browser for Security Threats
• Sxipper: Automatic Form Filler
• PassPack : Free Password Manager
• MashedLife: Securely Store Your Passwords Online
• Cooliris: Preview Links Without Opening Them

Billeo Features

• Organize and pay bills right from the browser toolbar (Firefox, Internet Explorer).
• Schedule reminders for upcoming bills.
• View reports and visualize your spending habits (graphs).
• Compare your utility (or other) bills with others in your area.
• Store a copy of all receipts and payment confirmations.
• Billeo Password Assistant: Secure password manager and form auto-filler.
• Billeo Shopping Assistant: Auto-fill billing, name, and address details. Store and Manage online payment receipts.
• Want to learn more? Check out Billeo FAQ page OR go to demo tour section.

Note from CNET Billeo Review: Though the information is stored on your computer with AES 128-bit encryption, some personal information is transferred to the publisher of this application. Novices to advanced users looking for an autofilling tool with all-in-one bill-pay reminders may find this freeware useful.

Check out Billeo @ [www.billeo.com]

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Sxipper Features:

• Automatically pops-up when you need it (for ex; on registration pages, sign-up forms, login pages, etc.)
• Once installed, it can automatically gather your personal details (if available) from your browser and address book.
• Offers single-click login to most of the websites.
• Very accurate and automatic form filling.
• Option to keep multiple login IDs for one service (ex. Gmail).
• All personal data are encrypted and stored only on your PC (Sxipper.com only stores your Sxipper username and email address)

Sxipper in action (Screencast)

Check out Sxipper @ (www.sxipper.com)

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Excerpt: “Select the password length, uncheck the checkbox if you do not want symbols in your password, and then use the button to generate a strong, random password.”

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