Cool Websites and Tools (edition #154)

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 even more app reviews subscribe to makeuseof directory. Want to submit your application to MakeUseOf directory ? See how here.

(1) 99counters - Fancy real-time traffic counters for your blog or social networking profiles (Orkut, Friendster, Hi5, Bebo, Myspace etc.) Read more …

(2) Alerts.com - Useful service that sends you alerts for stuff you want to be notified about. Get alerts on the cheapest gas prices in the area, news alerts, weather reports, traffic reports, birthday reminders, hotel price drop notifications, latest baseball scores and so on. Read more …

(3) BgPatterns - Great collection of easily repeatable patterns for website backgrounds. Create unique tiled backgrounds for your website using different patterns, colors, textures and transparency options. Plenty of possibilities. Read more: BgPatterns - Design Tiled Backgrounds for your Website.

(4) Feed Source - Easily embed any RSS feed on your blog or website. It can be a wordpress blog or any other website, it works everywhere. Read more: Feed Source - Add external RSS Feeds to your Blog.

(5) Google Ride Finder - Looking for a ride to an airport, movie theater, your favorite bar, shopping mall or any other place? Need a limo service as soon as possible? Using Google’s Ride Finder service you can search for available taxis, shuttles and limousines in your locality. Read more: Google Ride Finder - Find Taxi, Limousine or Shuttle in the Area.

(6) Instinctiv - Free iPhone / iPod Touch app that shuffles your music playlist to make sure that you always hear what you like. It achieves this by analyzing your listening habits, skipping behavior, how often and when certain tunes are played and so on. Read more (incl. video demo): Instinctiv - Better Music Shuffle Feature for your iPhone.

(7) Mikogo - Screen sharing app that lets you host live presentations and share whatever you see on the screen - in its true color quality - with upto 10 people at the same time. Read more (incl. video demo): Mikogo - Screen Sharing App for Skype and Windows.

(8) Pluribo - Quickly analyze Amazon product reviews and produce a concise natural language summary for any product. Read more: Pluribo - Summarize Gadget and Electronics Reviews on Amazon.

(9) PrimoSpot - Here is a nice little web app for New Yorkers. PrimoSpot helps you find free parking spots and garages in busy areas of NYC. At the moment it covers parking spots in Manhattan and Brooklyn areas. Queens, Philadelphia and Boston areas are coming soon. Read more: PrimoSpot - Find a Parking Spot in New York City (NYC).

(10) TinyPaste - Temporary paste bin for sharing text notes. Simply copy and paste some text and get a short TinyPaste link pointing to the shared text. Post this link on Twitter, add it to emails, chat messages… anywhere. Read more: TinyPaste - Quickly Get Shareable URL for any Text.

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