Cool Websites and Tools (edition #164)

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) Blippr – New way to discover and discuss media like books, games, movies and music with friends. It allows you to give a 160 character review to books, movies and games and then share it with friends. You can also search and find short reviews submitted by others. Read more: Blippr – Discuss & Discover Cool Books, Games, Music and Movies.

(2) GooSync – Tiny mobile client that syncs your Google Calendar with your mobile device. Free account allows you to synchronize calendar events bi-directionally and up to 30 days in advance. Read more: GooSync – Sync Google Calendar with Mobile, Blackberry or iPhone.

(3) HearWho – Online text to MP3 converter that takes text and converts it to an audio file that can be played on an iPod or any other mp3 player. Read more: HearWho – Text to MP3 Converter.

(4) PriceCheckah – Compare product prices across major online retailers including Amazon, Overstock, eBay, Buy.com, and Wallmart from any web-enabled mobile phone. Read more: PriceCheckah – Check Prices Across Web Retailers While You’re Out.

(5) Scribbls – Fun collective drawing website that lets you take two random drawings by Scribbls members and put them together in intriguing ways. Read more: Scribbls – Draw Fun Picture Strips Collectively.

(6) iPhone Ruler – Handy iPhone app that adds a ruler to your iPhone display making it easy to measure the length and width of small things. Read more: Ruler – Turn iPhone into a Ruler.

(7) SoundSnap – Lots of high quality sound effects, music loops and samples. The sounds are nicely categorized into different categories (animals, humans, nature, movies etc.) and sub-categories making it easy to find exactly what you’re looking for. Read more: SoundSnap – Search, Save and Share Sound Effects.

(8) Speechable – Lets you add speech bubbles to your favorite photos and then easily share them with others. Read more: Speechable – Easily Add Speech Bubbles to Photos.

(9) Text Fixer – Here is a nice little app to work with text and html code. Run some basic operations on text i.e convert text to capitals, remove or convert line breaks to <p> or <br /> tags, remove line tabs and whitespaces, make all leters lowercase, sort text list in alphabetical order etc. Read more: TextFixer – Text to Capitals, Remove Line Breaks & Whitespaces etc.

(10) YourDraft – Online WYSIWYG editor to write, edit and share draft pages online. The drafs can be shared with others on read/write (view and edit) or read-only (view) basis. Read more: YourDraft – Create and Share Drafts Online.

These are just half of the applications that were added to our directory in the last 3-4 days. To keep up-to-date on all directory additions subscribe to MakeUseOf Directory here. To subscribe via email click here.