Cool Websites and Tools (edition #198)

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(1) BareSite – If you have a slow internet connection then make sure to add BareSite.com to your bookmarks. This handy little website can strip all unnecessary attributes from websites and increase page loading speed by several times. Read more: BareSite – Browse Faster on Slow Internet Connection.

(2) FaceInHole – Add your face to popular photos and see how you would look like with a different haircut, on some famous movie poster or CD cover. Read more: FaceInHole – Put Your Face On Popular Photos.

(3) FreeRinger – Allows you to make free international calls to over 30 countries right from your browser. No need to download and install anything but simply register on the site and follow provided calling guide. Read more: FreeRinger – Make Free International Calls to Over 30 Countries.

(4) Happenr – Search engine for upcoming events in European cities. Happenr crawls thousands of tourism and cultural sites and collects upcoming events. Read more: Happenr – Find Upcoming Events in European Cities.

(5) HotPads – Search for houses and apartments to buy or rent. You can search by location or simply zoom in on the map of the area you’re interested in. Read more: HotPads – Search for Houses and Apartments to Buy or Rent.

(6) MusicMesh – Search for your favorite music albums and also discover related ones. Watch music videos for album tracks, add songs to favorites, check out reviews etc. Read more: MusicMesh – Watch Clips From Favorite Music Albums.

(7) OneMinuteLanguages – Free podcasts to learn basics phrases from a dozen of popular languages. You can learn words used for greetings, numbers and counting, how to say that you don’t understand something etc. Read more: OneMinuteLanguages – Quick Language Podcasts.

(8) Popacular – This website gives you a list of 25 most popular bookmarks on Del.icio.us in the last hour, 8 hours, 24 hours, week, and so on. Read more: Popacular – See Most Bookmarked Sites on Delicious.

(9) Suggest.Name – The web 2.0 domain name generator that can help you come up with web2.0ish domain names. Just type in a few suffixes and prefixes that you would like to have in the domain and see what it comes up with. Read more: Suggest.Name – The Web 2.0 Domain Name Generator.

(10) Ubiqq – Online video chat. Quickly create a private video chat room and invite your friend to join the session. No sign up necessary. Read more: Uniqq – Video Chat in Your Browser.

These are just half of the websites that we discovered in the last 3-4 days. If you want us to send you daily round-up of all cool websites we come across leave your email here. Or follow us via RSS feed.

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  • http://computersservicing.blogspot.com/ venkat

    Baresite is very useful fro slow internet connection users ,I thought it loads web pages faster by not showing images,but it is loading webpages fast with showing images also, very nice site.

  • GigiNYC

    On its own main page, BareSite.com promotes itself on first visit as a way to “view websites and RSS feeds faster and cheaper using your mobile device”. I assumed this meant that it would work and was primarily designed to work on a web-enabled mobile phone. However, while BareSite may be useful for computer users accessing the internet through a dial-up or other slow internet connection, it seems to be something of a disappointment when it comes to doing the job it claims to do and was apparently designed to do — for that, I would recommend Google Mobilizer (http://www.google.com/gwt/n). While BareSite loads on my mobile (a Motorola RAZR) well enough, entering a web address into the appropriate field and pressing “Go” has no effect whatsoever — and when I tried to open the preferences page, I was asked to log in but was not provided with any way to register for such. Even the Directory feature at the bottom of the page is somewhat unwieldy when you attempt to access the Top 100 Feeds.

  • http://ilovefunnypictures.blogspot.com/ Alina Simone

    Very interesting links. Thanks a lot. You can try http://www.funphotbox.com They have cool photo effects which you can combine with your photos. The result can be very funny and interesting.