Cool Websites and Tools [October 26th 2012]

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Streaming Audio Recorder – Usually audio streaming websites deliberately make it difficult for the site visitor to download the audio they stream. This can be a problem if you need the audio to be available offline. Thankfully, there is a tool called Streaming Audio Recorder that solves this problem for you. Read more: Streaming Audio Recorder: Use Your PC To Stream Audio & Save It Locally (5 Free Licenses)

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Anamnesis – Managing clipboards is one of the underrated things that affect our computing productivity. If you spend a lot of time copying and pasting texts from one file to another, and have too many items on the clipboard, it can be very hard to keep track of them all. If you are a hacker yourself, or love to work with terminals, you can check out Anamnesis. Read more: Anamnesis: View & Search Your Clipboard History [Linux]

 

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misHaps – This is a smartphone application for Android devices that displays numbers to contact in case your phone is lost or there is an emergency. In addition to your phone being lost, a situation in which the password protected auto-lock feature is extremely disadvantageous is in the case of emergencies. Read more: misHaps: Provide Info To Your Lost Phone’s Finder To Help Him/Her To Return It [Android 2.2+]

 

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Binary Translator – Have you ever wanted to find out what a string of text would be in binary code? Whatever your reasons for wanting to translate text into binary, doing it manually can be a real hassle. Now, with Binary Translator, you can convert any string of text to binary with no effort on your part. Read more: Binary Translator: Translate Any Text Into Binary Quickly & Easily

 

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iScribbled – All the blogs today have a commenting system enabled on their pages. iScribbled is a powerful commenting tool for bloggers that goes even further and lets you enable commenting on specific parts of a webpage. You can enable commenting on any div, paragraph or span element on your webpage. Read more: iScribbled: Enable Commenting On Specific Parts Of A Webpage

 

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  • Lisa Santika Onggrid October 27, 2012
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    Binary Translator is interesting! I used to do it manually.
    By the way, didn’t you already feature Anamnesis a hile ago?

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    • Saikat Basu October 28, 2012
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      Yes, the mention above links to the earlier post.

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  • Mac Witty October 27, 2012
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    Binary Translator is bookmarked! Seems better than the one I find when googeling

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  • Efi Dreyshner October 27, 2012
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    Binary Translator is a great site.
    I have been using it for a while.
    Thanks for sharing (:

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  • Boni Oloff October 29, 2012
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    Streaming Audio Recorder sounds interesting, but the sounds quality maybe not as good as the original file..

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  • Adrian Rea October 31, 2012
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    Thank you for maintaining a cross platform view, I use Linux as much as Windows so love this Anamnesis suggestion

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