Cool Websites and Tools [July 6]

Jul. 6th, 2009 By Aibek

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 more cool websites and web app reviews subscribe to MakeUseOf Directory.

(1) Google City Tours - New online tour planner by the Google Labs team. It helps you identify points of interest and plan multi-day trips to most major cities with the help of Google Maps. You just need to specify the location of your hotel and the length of your trip and City Tours will map out an itinerary for you. It is like a minute-by-minute travel schedule for you to follow. Read more: Google City Tours: Online Tour Planner

(2) GoodSearch - Most of us have a cause we care about – saving the environment, protecting the endangered animals, supporting orphans etc., but can’t find the time to get to it and devote more of ourselves. Now, you can support your favorite charity by doing what you do almost every day – searching the web, the only difference is that you will have to use GoodSearch’s search engine that supports charities. Read more: GoodSearch: Search Engine That Supports Charities

(3) Pictaculous – Online image color extraction tool that lets you extract a palette of colors from any image. It gives you a set of colors extracted from the image along with a hexadecimal code of each color. Download the generated colors as an Adobe Swatch file (.aco) onto your computer or click to send results to your email. Read more: Pictaculous: Image Color Extraction App

(4) SoundTrackInfo – Great site for finding movie soundtrack information. The site lets you search its database by movie title, song title, composer’s name, performer’s name or browse movies alphabetically. Read more: SoundTrackInfo: Movie Soundtrack Information Database

(5) Text Utilities – Multipurpose webpage where you can customize and manipulate your text. It lets you quickly encode, decode, case convert, Javascript and regexp any submitted text. Read more: Text Utilities: Manipulate Your Text Online

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