Incredibly Useful Websites You Wish You Knew Earlier - Webmasters
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There are some incredibly cool and useful sites which aren’t as well-known as they should be. Scroll down to find why these sites are bookmark worthy.
[url]Zamzar.com[/url]
This is your one-stop solution for converting one type of file to another, and that too without having to sign-up for a file sized up to 50 MB. The site supports over 1,200 type of files. You just need to upload your file, select the format and enter your email address -- the file will be sent to the specified email address after conversion.
[url]Bugmenot.com[/url]
Are you bugged constantly to sign up for websites, even though you do not wish to share your email? If yes, then BugMeNot is for you. Instead of creating new logins, BugMeNot has shared logins across thousands of websites which can be used.
[url]PrivNote.com[/url]
This site comes handy if you want to share private information with someone else like an ATM Pin or a bank password. PrivNote.com lets you send a text note to anyone else using email, MS or chat and you can set the note to be deleted as soon as it gets read. You can even choose to have the note destroy after a specific time.
[url]Printfriendly.com[/url]
Printing a webpage from a browser can get quite messy with multiple links, ads, images and other page fillers. Printfriendly.com will give you a modifiable, printable page in a few seconds. You just need to paste the url in the website.
They also offer free extensions for Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer and Safari.
[url]Softmurmur.com[/url]
There are a number of benefits of white noise generators: improved focus, blocking distraction and even as a sleep aid. Softmurmur.com gives you the option to choose from a list of various types of sounds (rain, waves, birds, ).
A similar site,Simplynoise, lets you select whitepinkbrown noise and gives you option for audio level oscillation along with a sleep timer option.
[url]Pdfunlock.com[/url]
Pdfunlock.com is super helpful if you want to make changes to a protected PDF. Once you enter the password, you will get an unprotected PDF to download. The service is free -if you find it useful, you can donate a little via PayPal.
The site offers other PDF-related services that do exactly what the same suggests: pdfmerge.com, splitpdf.com and pdfprotect.net.
[url]Newsmap.jp[/url]
Newsmap.jp gives you access to the latest and trending news headlines of the world on a single web page. You can switch off a particular category from appearing if you are not interested or drill down to country-specific news.
The size of the headline box of headline depicts how much the news is trending -- larger the box, the more the news is trending.
[url]Mailinator.com[/url]
This is probably the most helpful one in the list as almost every website you visit asks you to sign-up using an email address. Mailinator is a free service that gives you an email address that automatically gets destroyed after a few hours. You can use this email id to activate your account on any website and you don't have to worry about getting spammed ever in your life.
[url]Disposablewebpage.com[/url]
Like email addresses, you might sometimes need a temporary web page. Disposablewebpage.com lets you create a page without any coding. You are good to go after a simple sign-up. The webpage and all its content will be automatically deleted after 90 days.
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[url]AccountKiller.com[/url]
Deleting social media accounts is a tedious process with hoops of questions and steps. AccountKiller.com shows you all the social networks marked in colour blocks -- a white block means that removing account is easy, a grey block means it's difficult while a black block means it's almost impossible to delete that particular account.
Clicking on a website name opens up a page with details and direct links for deactivation and deletion as well handy tips regarding what to keep in mind while closing the account.
[url]scr.im[/url]
scr.im converts your email address into a short custom URLs, that can be shared on public websites. This prevents your email id from getting picked up by spam robots, and email harvesters who are on a constant lookout from your email id.
[url]10minutemail.com[/url]
For those times you need a throwaway email address. The email address will enable you to get confirmation then self destruct in 10 minutes.
[url]Fakenamegenerator.com[/url]
For when you need a new identity (lips sealed)
[url]Camelcamelcamel.com[/url]
Shows you the price history of anything on Amazon and alerts you when the price drops.
[url]Downforeveryoneorjustme.com[/url]
You don't need to be a rocket scientist to figure this out. Pretty self explanatory
[url]Timeanddate.com[/url]
Find out exactly how many days/months/years passed between two dates.
[url]Getnotify.com[/url]
This nifty little website tracks whether the emails sent by you were opened and read by the receiver. Moreover, it also provides the recipient’s IP Address, location, browser details, and more.
[url]Rasterbator.net[/url]
Make a printable poster out of any image.
[url]Zerodollarmovies.com[/url]
If you are on a constant lookout of free full length movies, then Zero Dollar movies provides a collection of over 15,000 movies in multiple languages that are available to watch for free on Youtube. It indexes only full length movies and no trailers, or partial uploads. In addition, it has a clean interface, contributing to a good movie watching experience.
[url]Memrise.com[/url]
Do you fancy learning new things in small byte sized packages? If yes, then Memrise is for you. The additive nature of gaming combined with memory improvement makes this an excellent resource.
