Category: Online Tools

Build websites for free with ucoz

December 14, 2011

Build websites for free with ucoz

These days almost every business from small to big has their website. Having a website is vital for all businesses. With the rise of powerful and open source content management systems, it has become easier to build websites these days when compared to the olden days. But still, it may not be the cup of coffee for all individuals, let alone the ones who have slim knowledge of computers and internet. If you are not much of a computer geek but still want to build a cool looking website with minimal efforts, ucoz can come handy.

Free Online Tools for Personal Finance that You Should Try

December 11, 2011

Free Online Tools for Personal Finance that You Should Try

Most people the world over pray to master financial management – and who can blame them? With the economy as tough as it is nowadays, it is becoming harder and harder to deal with finances the right way. The good news is, though, that it isn’t impossible nor expensive to establish a strong financial plan anymore. In fact, there are many different kinds of tools on the World Wide Web today that are completely free of charge yet can help you manage your finances much better.

Why Does A Small Business Need Online Collaboration Tools For Customer Help Desk

December 3, 2011

Why Does A Small Business Need Online Collaboration Tools For Customer Help Desk

For many small businesses it can be hard to track how an employee is doing. However, if the company wants to have the proper customer service, then they may need to use an online service to help out. With this the business will see they can track how long the employees are logged in, the company can update the projects, and the company can allow all of the employees access to the project to ensure it will be completed in a timely manner.

Embed SWFs easily using Embed-SWF

November 3, 2011

Embed SWFs easily using Embed-SWF

How often do you need to embed a Flash file to a webpage that you’re creating? If you have experience embedding flash files, you must be familiar with the parameters that you have to deal with while embedding them. You need to mention everything from ground up, including width and height, quality or the Flash version required to play it. If you want to make embedding Flash SWF a breeze, you can give Embed-SWF a try.

Quickest way to know your IP Address

October 30, 2011

Quickest way to know your IP Address

Your IP address generally varies depending on your internet service provider. Some ISPs(Internet Service Providers) give you a fixed IP that doesn’t change while some others may provide you with IP address that changes...

Get rid of CSS prefixes with PrefixFree

October 29, 2011

Get rid of CSS prefixes with PrefixFree

CSS3 is becoming increasingly popular among web designers as the browser support for it grows. But the vendor prefixes like -moz-border-radius, -webkit-animation etc. can be annoying at times. Many experts have been ranting about dropping these prefixes or to collapse all such vendor specific prefixes to a single prefix. Its evident that designers don’t feel like writing these prefixes to accomplish things, big or small. But the usage of prefixes is a very vital part of CSS. So, the best option would be to find a solution where one would be able to write functional CSS codes without using vendor specific prefixes. Therefore, Prefixfree tool can be a good solution.

Download your data from Google using Google Takeaway

October 26, 2011

Download your data from Google using Google Takeaway

We all are thankful to Google for the hordes of services they provide ranging from Google Search itself to Gmail, Picasa, Buzz and more. Google offers Google Takeaway, a service that lets you download your data scattered across various services from Google.

Keyboard heatmap

October 14, 2011

Keyboard heatmap

Do you ever wonder which letters you type the most on your keyboard or simply put, what keys you hit on your keyboard the most? This largely depends on your language and the type of text. Generally, the most number of strokes are concentrated towards the center of the keyboard. Would you want to visualize the keyboard heatmap while you type a certain piece of text? Well here is a cool keyboard visualization tool.

Tired of Lorem Ipsum? Try Hipster Ipsum

September 2, 2011

Tired of Lorem Ipsum? Try Hipster Ipsum

The Lorem Ipsum dummy text is used as a placeholder text or say a filler text in designs. Lorem Ipsum has been used since long. But it has so ubiquitous that you see the Lorem Ipsum dummy text in most of the design samples. If you are tired of the Lorem ipsum dummy text, you can try out Hipster Ipsum that is similar to Lorem Ipsum dummy text.

Inject CSS rules directly into a live webpage using CSS Terminal

August 28, 2011

Inject CSS rules directly into a live webpage using CSS Terminal

Designers need to try out different CSS rules on webpages before finally obtaining a beautiful design. For example, if a text with a font size of 14px looks a bit bulkier on the page, testing with a lesser font size for example 12px and seeing the changes on the fly would be very handy. If you are looking for such a tool, CSS Terminal tool can be of great help.

Identify web fonts with bookmarklet

August 20, 2011

Identify web fonts with bookmarklet

Web fonts are being used exclusively these days. Web fonts really bring more elegance and vibrancy to your website design. Sometimes you may come across websites using cool web fonts and may want to know what that font is. Fount is a bookmarklet that tells you the name of any web font on a webpage with a single click.

Online Htaccess tester

August 13, 2011

Online Htaccess tester

If you are a PHP programmer or a user of some PHP based CMS, you might be well familiar with the .htaccess file. .Htaccess file is a configuration file that is supported by various web servers and it allows the management of web server configuration. There are several rules that can be specified in the htaccess file. If you want to test your .htaccess file, here is a nifty htaccess tool for it.

August 7, 2011

Keep updated on the browser stats and popularity

Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari are the most popular browsers for internet usage for computers. A couple of years ago, Internet Explorer was reining the browser market with about 80% dominance. But now the usage of internet explorer has slumped and other browsers like Firefox, Chrome etc. have risen up. If you want to keep yourself updated on the internet browser usage statistics, you can rely on browser stats page from w3schools.

Unminify CSS to make them more legible

August 1, 2011

Unminify CSS to make them more legible

If you are a web designer, you must be using CSS minifying tools that remove the extra whitespaces and unnecessary line breaks in your CSS codes. But if you need to work on the same CSS file later on, you will find it very difficult to edit them. A legible and formatted version of the CSS file would be great for later edits. The CSS Minifier tool by MrColes may come in handy at such times.

July 31, 2011

Your Facebook Network around the world

Have you ever wondered how many friends you have living in each different country? You must have had friends scattered all across the globe but you cannot tell outright which friends reside where. But thanks to a very cool app by Western Union World that lets you quickly visualize your Facebook friends on a map.

Easiest way to stop all animations on a page

July 16, 2011

Easiest way to stop all animations on a page

There are webpages that automatically play animations or videos even before the page has loaded fully. This is annoying to most of us, internet users. Stop Animations can be a boon for Google Chrome users, if they want to get rid of the annoying animations on websites.

July 14, 2011

Bookmarklet to see how a page would look like without a font

Testing fonts and their combinations on websites is a real hassle for designers. Its not just about aesthetics of a website; web designers also have to carefully select the fonts so that they are readily available in user’s computers. There are various tools for testing font combinations but how about using a simple bookmarklet for it?

July 13, 2011

Quickly know the fonts used on a webpage

With the onset of web fonts, many web designers have started using an assortment of beautiful fonts on websites. Besides the popular and the most widely used fonts, it is really difficult to correctly tell the name of a font. But with Whatfont bookmarklet, you can easily find out what fonts a website is using, including the font size, font weight etc.