Cool Websites and Tools [August 7, 2009]

cool websites Check out some of the latest MakeUseOf discoveries. All listed websites are FREE (or come with a decent free account option). No trials or buy-to-use craplets. For more cool websites and web app reviews subscribe to MakeUseOf Directory.

(1) Card.ly – Nifty web service which can create a cool online business card for you in minutes. You could enter a lot of information in the card including links to all your social networking accounts. Read more: Card.ly: Quickly Create Cool Online Business Cards

(2) Hid.im – Innovative web based tool which can hide .torrent files inside PNG images. It is a novel idea because torrent users would no longer need an indexing site to host their torrent file. If their .torrent file does not exceed 250KB then they can upload it to this service and convert it into a PNG image. Read more: Hid.im: Hide Torrents Inside PNG Images

(3) LiveTechDocs – If you are a technical writer then you would know that collaborating on technical documents and reviewing them isn’t always easy. Different writers might use different document formats (like HTML, PDF) to write code and hence it becomes cumbersome for the reviewer to deal with such different formats. LiveTechDocs is an online document collaboration service based on XML which aims to solve this problem. Read more: LiveTechDocs: Technical document review & collaboration tool

(4) Markadee – Web based goal tracking and accomplishment calendar which aims to help you achieve your goals. It does so by making it easy for you to keep a track of what you are doing everyday towards achieving your goals. Read more: Markadee: Achieve Goals By Tracking Your Steps Daily

(5) Okawix – This is a Wikipedia download tool which lets you download the entire content of the most popular online encyclopedia onto your computer. Along with the text, images are downloaded too. Read more: Okawix: Wikipedia Download Tool

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