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How fond are you of web icons? If you love them, you must have downloaded web icons time and again that look more or less appealing to you. X Icon Editor is a free HTML5 web application that lets you design web icons in a jiffy.
If you are an avid LinkedIn user, you must have added your basic information with data on educational qualification, workplace etc. With tools like Newsweek’s career tree maker or LinkedIn’s Resume Builder, you can generate your basic profile info quickly and easily.
A background with color gradients looks more appealing than just a plain single color background at times. Gradient backgrounds for websites are usually created with Photoshop’s gradient tools. But gradients can also be used on website via CSS codes. ColorZilla has a web based color gradient toolkit called “The Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator” that makes it easy to play around with color gradients right from the browser and then generates the CSS code for it.
There are Twitterers who post really useful stuff and you’re tempted to follow them even if they don’t follow you back. But in case of your friends, you generally follow each other mutually. This makes sending direct messages easy and you won’t have to head over to your email account just to send a one liner to your friend. This habit of yours must have accumulated lots of Direct Messages or DMs on your Twitter Inbox. Cleaning up your Twitter inbox can take a lot of time if done manually. Thanks to InboxCleaner that makes cleaning up the Twitter inbox snappy.
Twitter has somewhat become a very integral part of daily internet users. Many of you must have joined Twitter from the days when Twitter was just born. But you don’t know for sure the exact time for which you have been sending tweets. Twuration is a simple online utility for Twitter with the help of which you can know the duration for which you have been on Twitter.
These days, the online presence of websites on social communities tremendously affect the traffic and visibility of a website. So, how do you think would you calculate the rank of a certain website on social sites like Twitter? Twitter Rank is a tool that helps determine the rank of a website and even compare it with another.
Since HTML5 came into play, people have tried out lots of interesting stuff using HTML5. HTML5 adds a flash like interactivity to a webpage and there are a great many things made with HTML5 already such as games and other fun applications. Farbzauber is a very cool HTML5 based application that you can use to turn your image into a coloring sketch or black and white picture.
When the file size that we need to attach in an email exceeds the attachment limit, we look for online file sharing services using which we can upload and share files on the fly. There are sites like box.it, rapidshare that allow quick uploading and sharing of files. GETT is another such utility that lets you share even large files and share them in an instant.
There are people you need to deal with via email without having any information about them. Well wouldn’t you want to have rough information about the person you’re exchanging emails with? Or even if you are exchanging emails with a friend, Rapportive would prove fruitful as you can instantly see what your friend is sharing on his social networks. Rapportive is a Gmail plugin that takes a step towards letting you see the background info on a person sending you emails.
There are times when one needs to share more than one URL with his friends and in such cases, he needs to add all those URLs as well. In microblogging sites like Twitter where the character limit is not more than 140 characters, sharing multiple URLs with individual links takes up the space that you could otherwise use for writing about the link. You can shorten all of the URLs in a go and share them with a single short URL. Here are some online tools that let you shorten and share multiple links with a single Short URL.
Have you ever wanted to have a collage of your Twitter friends? If you have thousands of friends, having a collage with a picture of all of them wouldn’t be possible practically. But here are a few tools that let you create a collage of you twitter friends within seconds.
The overall appearance of a site plays a great role in luring a reader into spending more time on the site. One of the components is the font. The font face and size differ variously and some sites that use really tiny, barely legible fonts distract you a lot. Readability can be a good solution in such cases.
Most of the users on Facebook have no idea about FBML. If you want to create custom Facebook tabs without having to learn and write a single line of FBML code, Fabooco can be a wonderful choice.
As you type any query on Google, a list of the suggestions for the term shows up. This makes it easier and faster to search for anything. Besides you also get an idea of the related search queries. Google suggest has been integrated with Google Chrome and Firefox as well. Besides Google Suggest, Yahoo and Bing also show you the suggestions by simply populating the related and most searched terms. But if you want something more, here are some handy tools.
Most entrepreneurs and sales people are busy fighting fires and finding new clients and many of them don’t have the habit of writing. They just don’t have time to sit down and handwrite thank you notes. Enter ThankThank Notes.
OpenCal is an online application that adds online scheduling to small businesses that take appointments; basically, it’s for anyone that sells their time. Opencal lets you easily handle appointments via its clean interface and easy-to-use tools.
Scrabb.ly is a multiplayer crossword game website that is similar to a popular board game. The beauty of this thing is that, everyone playing the game would be playing it at the same time on a single large Board. Everyone sees the tiles from others in real time as they play.
You might have some friends who update their status in a language alien to you. So, you just skip them. You wouldn’t generally bother to copy it and head over to Google Translator for translation. Wouldn’t it be great to get them translated on the fly? Facebook Translate Addon for Mozilla Firefox can help you do that.
Every webmaster strives to drive more traffic to their blogs. Have you ever wondered how much traffic any blog or website gets everyday? There are many places on the web like Statcounter, Sitemeter etc. where you can have such information. VisualizeTraffict is also lets you have a rough data on the traffic for a site.
Are you creating a website and looking for a matching set of fonts? It could be difficult for you to decide as there are thousands of fonts and now with CSS3 you can even use the fonts that aren’t on the visitor’s computer. Awesome Fontstacks can create bundles of matching and beautiful fonts and also generate the CSS code for it on the fly.