Cool Websites and Tips (makeuseof extra #58)

Cool Software and Websites: (All free unless stated otherwise)

• CashBoard - online service to help you efficiently track your business projects: create projects and assign tasks to others, log time spent on tasks, auto-send invoices and payment reminders, etc.
• EasyPost (Canada) - send regular paper letter mail to any mailbox in Canada for free.
• Interclue - handy browser addons that lets you preview link contents by placing your mouse cursor over it. Opens a mid-sized pop-up window that holds page screenshot, short summary, and some other info about the page. For similar alternatives see Link Preview Tools.
• Koolwire - in case you need free, no-hassle way to convert some document to PDF format, then this is for you. Simply send the document to ‘PDF@koolwire.com’ and shortly after receive it back in PDF format. For more comprehensive conversion solutions see All-In-One File Converters.
• Musicmesh - one more service for free Music Videos. Musicmesh has a nice-looking visual guide helping easily discover related albums.
• NowNow - “Send us an email with a question in the subject. … We will quickly email you up to 3 answers back.” (e.g. What is the top hit drama series on TV these days?, What is the best family activity to do in Seattle this weekend?, etc.).
• Stockvault - hosts over 7000 royalty free, high resolution images.
• Tweetr (Win, Mac) - desktop client for Twitter with lots of cool features. Must-see tool for all Twitter fans. [requires the Adobe Apollo Runtime]
• Yapta - did you know that you can get a refund (or credit) from the airlines on a purchased ticket if the price drops. That’s exactly what Yapta helps you with, see list of supported airlines here

Cool Articles and Tips

• Death By Lawyer: 10 Cool websites we miss [mashable.com]
• 20 Things I learned from The Internet [kludgespot.blogspot.com]
• Cool things you can do with Google [lifehack.org]
• The Essential Guide to piracy [crunchgear.com] - excellent writeup on web piracy
• HowTo: Automatically upload a folder’s photos to Fickr [lifehacker.com]

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