The tool provides a bookmarklet which you drag and drop onto your browser toolbar. Whenever you come across a suspicious short link, click on the bookmarklet to view the URL it points to. You may even preview links directly on the site.

Features:

• Preview URLs behind shortened links.
• Preview links without going to the website they point to.
• Browser bookmarklet provided.
• Quick and simple to use.
• Similar tools: Real-URL, Untiny, PrevURL and LongURL.

Check out Unhid @ www.unhid.co.cc

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• Real-URL: View Real URL Behind Short URL
• SHUURL: Make “Safe” Short URLs
• TinyPaste : Quickly Get Shareable URL for any Text
• Shortless : Shorten Long Links

Unlinker is a Firefox add-on which adds a “Convert in page” option to your right click which when clicked converts those links into images right there on that page. Even high resolution images are resized and displayed accordingly. You could also add it to the Firefox toolbar and use it from there.

As you can see in the above screenshot, it adds a convert in page option along with the other options to the right click. When I click on it, I get the following photos displayed right on that page.

Check out Unlinker@ www.unlinker.com [via ghacks] (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• OpenItOnline: Open Files Online
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• Identify: Get Information About Anyone on Social Sites

Adobe PDF – pdf, ps.
Microsoft Word Document – doc, docx.
Microsoft ExcelSpreadsheet – xls, xlxs.
Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation – ppt, pptx, pps.
Open Office- odt, odp, sxw, sxi.

Works easy, simply go to the site, select the document you want to open and click on the “View Document”. Your document will be uploaded and opened online. You can also share your documents with others by forwarding a URL or embedding on your website or personal page.

See ViewDocsOnline in action:

Features:

• View documents online without having to install any software.
• Supported document formats: pdf, ps, doc, docx, xls, xlxs, ppt, pptx, pps, odt, odp, sxw, sxi.
• Open documents from your computer or the web.
• Share documents in many different ways (email, social networks, forums, etc.).
• Embedding supported.
• Convert your documents into PDF format.
• Similar tools: OpenItOnline and Samurajdata.se.

Check out ViewDocsOnline @ www.viewdocsonline.com

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• Peepel: Online Word and Spreadsheet
• PDF Generator: Convert Word, Excel and PowerPoint docs to PDF

View files from your computer or from the web. You can navigate through pages one-by-one, rotate them left or right and zoom in/out with one click.

Click to view the larger or smaller sizes

Features:

• Online PDF, Word and PostScript viewer.
• No need for additional software or plugins.
• Preview PDF and PostScript files as browsable images.
• Preview Word documents as webpages.
• Upload files from your computer or fetch from another URL.
• Free and lightweight.
• Similar websites: OpenItOnline.

Check out Samurajdata @ http://view.samurajdata.se

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• ViewDocsOnline: Open Documents Online
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• DocStoc: Free Online Document Templates
• ConvertPdfToWord: PDF to Word Doc Converter

The documents open as an overlay on top of the site, the user can search, page through and print it. Currently SmartLook works only for link poiting to presentation slideshows, PDFs and simple text documents.

To have this type document viewing on your site you just have to sign up and get a piece of code that can be easily inserted  onto your site.

Screenshot of document viewer:

Features:

• Turn all the document-download links on your site into browser viewable documents.
• The document viewer have clean interface with the required navigation controls.
• Works with PDF, Power Point slides and .doc format.
• Can be easily inserted to your site.
• Streamlined document service right inside your website.
• All the contents of the documents are searchable.
• Currently only one website per account allowed.

For more info watch demo video below:

Check out SmartLook @ www.issuu.com/smartlook (Contributed by Venkatesh Varalu).

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LifeHacker: “Cooliris changes the way you interact with the Web, and for the better.”

Cooliris Preview features

• Preview links, images or videos without clicking or leaving the page.
• Preview search results on major search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc.) and websites (ex. eBay)
• Instantly share or email favorite pages to friends.
• Option to Bookmark pages temporally.
• Cooliris addon does not contain any adware or spyware.
• Supported Browsers: Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari and Flock.

Piclens features

• Browse webpage photos in full-screen and slideshow-style.
• Browse images search results as a slideshow (Google, Yahoo).
• Currently supported websites: Flickr, Facebook, Google Images, Yahoo Images, Friendster, and Picasa Web Albums.
• Integrate Piclens functionality to your website.
• Supported Browsers: Firefox and Safari (more to come).

Coolris Preview video demo

Piclens video demo

Check out Cooliris @ [http://www.cooliris.com]

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