Tools

Screen Capture Only the Relevant Portions of a Web Page with Kwout

17 nov 2008

Kwout, the online screenshot service, has released an interesting feature – Context Sensitive Kwout – that automatically detects the relevant parts of a web-page and skips the rest in the final screenshot image.

Simple World Map Generator

16 nov 2008

Simple Map Generator is a simple tool to create world maps using the Google Chart API. For example, here is a map of all cricket playing nations. Unlike the Google Chart API URL based maps, that can be intimidating to the casual user, Simple Map Generator has a simple UI which makes creating maps trivial.

Preview Short URLs with PrevURL

13 nov 2008

Most URL Shortening services suffer from being fairly opaque, often resulting in embarrasing situations for the unsuspecting viewer. PrevURL hopes to change that with its URL un-shortening service. As a bonus, it also adds a thumbnail in case the URL alone doesn’t carry enough information.

Quick Online Virus Scanner

09 nov 2008

NoVirusThanks is a simple online virus scanner which can quickly check suspicious files for viruses, worms, trojans or spyware. To start, you simply upload the suspicious file to NoVirusThanks. No installation of any kind required.

Check the Current Location of Indian Trains Online

06 nov 2008

IndiaRail Info is an interesting Google Maps mashup that helps you visualize the current geographical location of any train in India. Just type train name or train number and check its exact location on the map.

Measure the Number of Page Views on any Site

06 nov 2008

Statbrain is a online web stats tools that helps you guess the number of page views on any site using a combination of Alexa rank, backlink counts from Google, Yahoo and some other unknown factors.

Your State of Mind in One Word

04 nov 2008

This tool displays the current state of mind of all NYTimes’ readers in just one word. Since this screenshot was taken on US Election day, the words “excited”, “anxious”, “nervous” and “hopeful” seem to be the most popular.

Get Blogs Delivered to your Email Inbox as a PDF Newsletter

03 nov 2008

Tabbloid is an interesting web service from Hewlett-Packard that delivers your daily dose of blogs as a print-ready PDF file. Other than email delivery, there’s also an option to generate PDF files from RSS feeds in real-time.

Create Quick Polls through Email, SMS or IM Clients with Notifu

31 oct 2008

Notifu lets you create polls or surveys online and users can cast their votes via email messages, SMS, voice mail or IM clients including Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live and AOL.

How Long Does it take for an Home Computer to Break your Password

30 oct 2008

Password cracking programs typically use the dictionary attack or the brute force method to break your strong passwords. And they don’t really need a super-computer for guessing passwords, just enough time depending on how strong or weak your original password is.

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