Cool Websites and Tools (edition #120)

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(1) ChartAll - Want to turn some data into a fancy chart? Enter ChartAll, a free online chart creator where you can create highly customizable charts and privately share them with others. Read more: ChartAll - Online Chart Creator.

(2) CoolText - This simple no registration logo builder lets you create custom logos and website buttons with only a few mouse clicks. Read more: Cool Text - Create Customized Logos and Buttons.

(3) Confabio - Quickly create one-time private video conference rooms and invite others to join. It doesn’t require anyone to register and takes about 5 seconds to set up: just come up with some name for a conference room and Confabilo will instantly give you a private access link to it. Read more: Confabio - Instant Web Video Conference Rooms.

(4) InstaCalc - Fancy online calculator that shows the answer as you type. You can also use it to generate equation charts, perform metric unit and currency conversions and collaborate on calculations with others. Read more: InstaCalc - The Coolest Online Calculator so far.

(5) MP3shki - Simple, free, user-friendly, comprehensive and extremely fast online music player. If you are looking for all-in-one online solution to your music needs this is it. Read more: MP3shki - Online Music Player (from Russia with Love).

(6) PDFescape - PDFescape lets you upload PDF files to web, make necessary edits and download them back. Please note it’s not a web-based PDF editor for working with text but more of a tool to add to your documents (fill-in PDF forms, edit forms, add / remove text paragraphs, add graphics, etc.) Read more: PDFescape - Online PDF Editor and Form Filler.

(7) PicAnswers - Interesting service where you can upload a picture of something you want know more about and ask community to help you out. Read more: PicAnswers - Post a Picture and Get Answers.

(8) Swaggle - Send free group text messages. Messages can be send both from the website or directly from mobile phone. To get started, all you need to do is login to your account area and create different contact groups (friends, family, team etc.). Read more: Swaggle - Simple Group Text Messaging.

(9) Wapipedia - Fast Wikipedia search tool for your mobile phone. Apart from the obvious search functionality Wapipedia also offers ‘Random’ button for jumping from one random article to another. Quite handy when you’re on the road and want to kill some time. Read more: Wapipedia : Browse Wikipedia from Mobile Phone.

(10) Wigitize - Turns RSS feeds to embeddable blog widgets. If you ever need to add some RSS feed to your website, Widgitize offers a quick and simple way to do that. Read more : Wigitize - Add RSS Feeds from Other Websites to your Blog.

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  • 2 Comments » Leave One...

    Comment by Nathan Ketsdever
    2008-02-21 02:28:42

    • Pandora is great online music. Slacker is likewise a very cool personalized player.

    • Jott and Utterz are great mobile applications for blogging and podcasting.

    • For other mobile applications, this is a great post:

    technotheory.com/2008/01/the-12-mobile-sites-that-i-use-from-practical-to-funand-then-a-bunch-of-others/

    Keep the great posts coming. Awesome.

     
    Comment by Renee
    2008-02-21 12:56:44

    Yeah Pandora is pretty good…as is last fm. But my all time favorite is anywhere.fm. I believe Make Use Of wrote out it back in August.

     
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