Cool Websites and Tools [November 15th 2012]

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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iAnnotate PDF – There are numerous tablet apps that let you view the contents of digital documents. However these apps wrap the text or use other techniques to accommodate the documents on the device which, in turn, modifies how you view the documents. Furthermore, you still have to transfer the document to a desktop application in case you want to comment on parts of the file or annotate it. But these problems associated with viewing digital documents on your on tablet devices are now removed by a very useful app called iAnnotate PDF. Read more: iAnnotate PDF: Save, Read & Annotate PDF Documents [ iOS & Android Tablets] (5 Free Licences)

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PhoneTrans – offers an alternative to iTunes for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users by letting them transfer music files to and from their computers to their Apple devices. What makes it convenient to use is that in the entire music transferring process, it does not need to make use of iTunes. Read more: PhoneTrans: Transfer Music Files Between Your Computer & Apple Device Without iTunes [iPhone / iPad / iPod Touch]

 

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Friday – People maintain diaries and journals to later read them and see what happened on which day. But remembering everything that happened during the day and then noting it down is not something many people are enthusiastic about. Here to help is a phone application called Friday. You can use the application to record events from your phone and social networks. Read more: Friday: A Phone App To Record Your Phone & Networking Activity [Android 2.2+]

 

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Go4Convert – File conversion software has largely moved from the desktop to the cloud for good reason. Conversion software requires constant updates and the CPU power that only a cloud approach can provide. Go4Convert is a do-it-all app that can convert most files to .doc, .pdf, and .epub files. It only takes a few seconds to convert small files. Read more: Go4Convert: Online File Conversion To PDF & EPUB

 

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Yandex Disk – Yandex, known as the Russian Google, has tipped its hat to cloud computing with Yandex.Disk – a new service to rival Dropbox and Skydrive. While this app will be a hit for Yandex users, its more-than-compelling 10GB of free cloud storage could make it appealing to other markets. Read more: Yandex.Disk: Cloud Syncing & Storage From Yandex

 

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  • Nikhil Chandak November 16, 2012
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    Phone trans is a good one for transfering music !!

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  • DB November 16, 2012
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    checking out go4convert in 87…86..85…84..83..82..81…80…79…78…OK, well you get the idea…its a countdown…77…76…

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  • Denis November 16, 2012
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    Be carefully with Yandex Disk. Please, read Privacy rules!

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    • Aibek Esengulov November 16, 2012
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      anything specific we should highlight here?

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    • Lisa Santika Onggrid November 16, 2012
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      Can you elaborate? What we might be aware of?
      It’s such a shame. I thought it’s pretty interesting.

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  • Mark Alsisto November 16, 2012
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    Friday… hhhhmmmm what’s up with the name? it’s something like a journal/diary. but why name “friday”?

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  • Boni Oloff November 16, 2012
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    I ever hear about Yandex, and i know it is from Russia, but never know it is a big company there.
    That’s great they also offer something like DropBox, many big company in Internet consider to make free storage as its service now.

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    • Aibek Esengulov November 29, 2012
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      Yandex is one of the biggest tech companies in Russia. Pretty well known in that part of the world.

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  • Terafall November 17, 2012
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    Yandex Disk sounds great

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