Online tools and web services – not to be confused with desktop based software.
Like the YouTube video player, iPaper is a document player that lets you embed PDF, Microsoft Office documents, spreadsheets and presentation in web pages. You also get to monetize documents via Google AdSense.
PDFMeNot converts PDF to SWF Flash on the fly – no need to download PDF files locally as you can view them in the browser as Flash movies without Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Want to download free MP3 ringtones for your cell phone ? Or get creative and create your own MP3 ringtones and original music loops with MyBytes from Microsoft.
With PDFMeNot, you can view any online PDF file in the browser without having to download that file locally. The service is also handy if you do not have Adobe Reader on the computer – just upload your PDF to PDFMeNot and read it in the browser.
The best online research tools for saving web clipping, images, text and other content from web pages to the hard drive or to your online account so you have access to your clipped information everywhere. We look at Onfolio, EverNote, OneNote, Google Notebook and Iterasi.
With Kindo, you can build your own family tree for free, share it with the rest of your family, and learn more about who you are.
Learn how to hide any web image with some CSS code. When people open a web page containing an hidden image, all they see is some plain text – the actual picture is revealed only when they select the entire text with a mouse.
Learn how to measure distance between any two or more locations on earth using the Distance Measurement Tool of Google Maps.
While Scribd and Slideshare also support PDF files, Issuu allows you to upload large PDF files (upto 100 MB) and their inline PDF player looks absolutely amazing. You even get to decide the colors and the PDF player dimensions.
With so many different options in place, have you ever wondered what Twitter tools are really popular among the Twitter community ? While there no official statistics available, the thousands of public Twitter profiles indexed by Google paint a fairly accurate picture.
Google Language Translation service could be used as a free proxy server to access blocked websites but now Google has officially stopped supporting translations that have the same from and to language.
Find and monitor Google PageRank of one or more websites from various Google data centers using this free Windows utility. PageRank is one of the methods Google uses to determine how relevant and important a page is.
The animals on the covers of OReilly books are a hallmark of the brand, making them instantly recognizable on bookshelves throughout the world.
MindMeister, a web based tool for creating mind maps online, provides some very unique options for capturing and inserting ideas into an existing mind map without having to load the map.
You pick a country and then select whether you need the photo for a visa, passport or applying for a citizenship. Then upload the digital photo, crop and you immediately get a printable strip of 6-8 photographs for free.
One of the major complaints about Facebook is the Application Request Queue that keeps getting longer and longer unless your religiously hit the "Ignore" button each time there’s a request from a friend to add a new Facebook application.
Convert text from email, websites, word documents or PDF files into MP3 files. You can save the MP3 recording or listen to the narration online with Vozme, a free web based text to Mp3 converter.
Convert HTML web pages to an image withn Kwuot – a free service that lets you capture screenshots of websites in a click.
Create Magazine Covers Online – Put your digital photographs on CNN News or the cover page of most popular magazines including Wired, Time, PlayBoy, National Geographic, Sports Illustrated, etc.
Facebook Banned in your office or school ? No worries as you can use email to access blocked Facebook website without any proxies.
