Cool Websites and Tools [February 20th 2013]

Check out some of the latest MakeUseOf discoveries. Most of the listed websites are FREE or come with a decent free account option. If you want to have similar cool website round-ups delivered to your daily email, subscribe here.

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Should I Sleep – Have you ever been reading something long on your MacBook only to have the monitor dim because you are not touching the mouse or keyboard? With Should I Sleep, that won’t be a problem anymore. It uses the available detection devices in your MacBook to find out if you are still at the computer. If you are, it tells the MacBook not to dim the screen. Read more: Should I Sleep: Make Your MacBook See & Hear You To Prevent Sleeping

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SocialHubSite – Are you looking to create a website for your business that is more than a simple blog? Maybe you are looking for a way to make a social network for you and a group of others to connect over the web without turning to Facebook or Twitter. Do you have a podcast that you want to publish quickly and easily, on your own professional website? Social HubSite is a fantastic tool that allows you to create any of these kinds of websites and more, with little or no coding skill. Read more:
SocialHubSite: Create Your Own Social Network And Other Websites (20 Free Premium Accounts)

 

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Spread – With the amount of information we receive every day, there is simply too much stuff for one person to be able to consume in a single day. One way to absorb more information in a shorter time is to speed read. Now there is an extension for Chrome called Spread that makes speed reading even easier. Read more: Spread: A Speed Reading Extension For Chrome

 

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SmartDeblur – One of the most difficult photography problems to solve is a blurry image. Usually, when you go back and look at a photo that’s blurry, you simply delete it and move on with your other photos. It’s generally an image not worth saving. Well, that could all change with SmartDeblur, which is capable of fixing blurry images with ease. Read more: SmartDeblur: Remove Blur From Images In A Way You Never Thought Possible

 

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Flowformer – If you have a hard time focusing on doing important task(s) during the day, check out Flowformer. It is a simple web app that lets you focus on doing or not doing a single task during a 24 hour frame. You simply go to their homepage, give yourself a task and click “Agree”. After you agree, you will see a timer count down displaying your written task. Read more: Flowformer: Forces You To Focus On a Single Task For The Next 24 Hours

 

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  • Chris Anderson0 February 21, 2013
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    Thanks for the list. I’m checking Spread out right now, and it looks pretty cool.

  • Daniel Dawson February 21, 2013
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    should i sleep nice article. is there one for windows and linux?

    • Aibek Esengulov February 28, 2013
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      I am not aware of such apps for Windows or Linux but pretty sure there should be some. I recommend you ask this on MakeUseOf Answers, http://www.makeuseof.com/answers/

  • Mark B February 21, 2013
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    Excellent, definitely going to check out SocialHubSite for our business. It might be the thing we are looking for.

  • Robert Owens February 22, 2013
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    Quite a good batch of sites in today’s list! Although I’m not a Chrome user, “Spread” might get me to switch!

    Smartdeblur and Flowformer also appear to be quite interesting also.Thanks for the cool websites!