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Useful things we think you’ll like.
Tools by Mija Media:
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YourSpace 1.0 Beta
See when your friends last logged in! -
AllOfMe (under development)
Connect all your online accounts for selective sharing. -
TexeT
TEXt Editing Tools -
Good
Show others what you think is good on teh Internets. -
Terra
Times, tides, sunrise, sunset, everything about this planet! -
SwatchIt
Everything about Internet Time, a.k.a. Swatch Time
View, convert, and calculate Swatch Beats around the world.
Tools by other developers:
- http://pastebin.com/
A place for you to paste source code for sharing and discussion. - http://tadalist.com/
A to–do list from 37Signals (the RubyOnRails guys). - http://corz.org/machine/source/php/tag-tools.php
Convert HTML to PHP and PHP to HTML. - http://www.paulschou.com/tools/xlate/
Translate to and from text, binary, hex, base64, and decimal/char in these convenient forms. - http://www.rot13.com/
Encode and decode plain text with ROT13, rotating each character by 13 places in the English alphabet. - http://ipinfo.info | http://browsershots.org/
See what your website looks like in all the different browsers. - http://whois.net/
Look up whether or not a domain is registered and, if so, to whom. - http://validator.w3.org/
Validate your HTML and XHTML to make sure it will behave as expected. - http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
Validate your CSS to make sure it will display as expected. - http://www.ocawa.com/en/
Validate your site’s accessibility compliance. - http://validifier.com/
Convert your markup for Flash into valid code! - http://www.meebo.com/
Sign in to your AIM, Y!M, GTalk, MSN, ICQ, and Jabber chat accounts from right within your browser. - http://mibbit.com/
Log in to IRC chat from directly within your browser. - http://a.viary.com/ |
http://rsizr.com/
Create, edit, and share pictures and art from within your browser. - http://www.pdfmenot.com/
Read PDFs online in your browser. - http://www.whitepages.com/
Look up people and business, do reverse phone searches, etc. - http://www.speedtest.net/
See how fast your Internet connection is with this quick, free testing site. - http://www.hostip.info/
An open Geolocation service, mapping IP addresses to physical locations. - http://web-sniffer.net/
View the headers that pass between you and your requested sites. - http://whatismyipaddress.com/ | http://wimi.com/
See what your current IP address is, and try the various informative tools available. - http://tr.im/ |
http://tinyurl.com/ |
http://snurl.com/
Shorten those long URLs. - http://www.petitiononline.com/
Organize a grassroots petition online. - https://www.dyndns.com/ |
http://www.no-ip.com/ |
http://www.zoneedit.com/ |
http://www.dnsexit.com/
Get a URL for your dynamic (changing) IP address; run a web server and more from your home PC or Mac! - http://www.opendns.com/
Run your website requests through a fast, secure service at OpenDNS. - http://www.everydns.com/
Point your domain name to the right IP, for free! - http://spampoison.com/
Do something about spam: fight back! - http://www.userplane.com/
Get chat widgets and other goodies for your pages.
All of the tools listed above run within your browser online. If you are looking for tools
that you install on your computer (software), check out David’s blog on free software:
http://slackertools.blogspot.com/
As a sort of hybrid between software you download and tools you use online, you may also be interested in these browsers and browser plugins:
- CoolIris — View web content as a 3D wall of images and videos.