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One thing anyone who earns their living online or for anyone who spends a lot of time online will learn is that there are always some things you would like to automate. Automation is the key to creating processes which reduce errors and improve productivity.
RSS readers still are loved by many even though a lot have ditched them for Twitter, Facebook and other social media tools. It would be really handy if you could subscribe to the updates from a Google Plus user using your RSS feed reader. If you want to subscribe to Google+ RSS feeds of a user, you can do it using this tool.
Twitter after its new redesign lets you see shared videos or photos from Youtube, Vimeo, Flickr, Yfrog, Twitpic etc. without leaving the site. Wouldn’t you want a similar functionality on Google+ where you can view a site shared on Google+ without having to leave the page? Quick View for Google Plus is a Chrome Extension that lets you view content shared on Google+ without leaving the website.
Unless you live under some kind of rock, you have at least heard of twitter. The real problem is that those who have heard of and try to use twitter don’t always know how to properly integrate it into their social media strategy. Here are some of the most critical twitter tools and explain how each fits into your overall social media strategy.
Google is on the endeavor to make improvements to their products all the time. For this, they have added a Feedback button to most of their products whose latest versions have just been introduced. Have you tried out the Feedback button in Google plus or the Cosmic Panda in Youtube? You’ll be amazed after looking at it.
Computers and Internet / Online Tools / Tips, Tricks and Hacks
by jsmi200695 · Published July 8, 2011 · Last modified July 2, 2013
Have you ever wanted to know how much traffic your favorite website was getting? Or how many RSS subscribers a site had? SiteTrail is a website analysis tool that provides you with data consisting of over 100 different metrics for any given website. All you need to do is simply enter the domain name of the website you want to analyze into a text box and viola!
Google+ profiles as of now have a very long and difficult to remember URLs. Google has plans for launching vanity URLs very soon but many of you may not be very patient about that. If you want to have a vanity URL for your Google+ profile for now, you can get one from Gplus.to.
Friend Circles on Google+ let you manage your friends and filter them into different groups. A week hasn’t passed by after the launch of Google+ and the guys at Facebook have already come up with a similar tool for Facebook. Circlehack is a tool created by some engineers at Facebook which is pretty much like the Circles in Google+. Circlehack is the circles for Facebook.
Using jsmad, MP3 players or decoders can be integrated without using Flash. Jsmad is a MP3 powered decoder with which browsers can play and decode MP3 files for you without Flash player installed on your computer.
CSS forms the main aspect of a website when it comes to visual appeal. CSS codes can be written in many ways to obtain similar results. But your CSS code may not be free or errors and other coding issues. With CSS Lint, you can quickly find the errors and issues in any CSS code.
iPhone and iPad are great devices for sharing and showing off your photos. If you are an art fanatic, you might as well show off arts and sketches via the devices. At Poogla, you can find tons of artwork created by talented artists, designers and illustrators. Poogla offers artwork images in sizes compatible for iPhone and iPad.
There are lots of disposable email services available on the internet. Every disposable email service has their own list of features. The main purpose of such services is to read emails without supplying your real email address and to protect your anonymity in social media sites, forums, blogs etc. Mailnesia is one such disposable email service that has a lot of features like HTML support, RSS feed for mailbox and more.
Humans.txt files tell who is behind a website. Humans.txt is a text file stored at the root of your site that contains information on who are behind a website or say who have contributed to the development of a website. As Humans.txt is meant for humans rather than machines, you can write it in almost any format you like. But if you want to do this in an easier way, the humans.txt generator tool can be of use.
While working on a website, it is wise to test it first on a local server before uploading. So what if you want to show your localhost to the world? Using Localtunnel, you can share localhost on the internet.
A lot of third party applications have been developed for Dropbox with which you can have more benefit from the service. JotForm ‘s Dropbox Forms allows anybody to create an upload form which uploads to your Dropbox folder.
Managing bookmarks and migrating them to another device can be a real pain sometimes. With people using Internet on computers, mobiles and tablets, they want their bookmarks to be accessible from any place on the earth. With Boonote, you can save and manage your bookmarks online and sync them through various devices.
You can now have urban traffic statistics like average peak travel time, daily rush hour etc. using Wolfram|Alpha. It lets you compare traffic and get statistics of urban transportation in more than 100 urban cities in USA. Wolfram Alhpa utilizes the data from Texas Transportation Institute’s Urban Mobility Report.
Unicodinator is a tool that helps you visually navigate through the Unicode blocks and codepoints as well in the range 0000 through DFFF. You can use the tool to identify a particular Unicode character and Unicode blocks easily.
CSS and JS used on a site considerably increase its size. For sites with very flashy graphics, the CSS and JS files are obviously large sized and therefore may significantly spike up their loading time. Zbugs is an online utility with which you can merge, minify and Gzip compress JS and CSS files.
When you search on Google, you get the results that Google thinks is the most relevant one. Wouldn’t it be great to quickly see the number of Facebook likes next to each search result on Google? With the Google +Like extension, you can have this benefit.