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  • Editable HTML Invoice Tool

    Posted on Friday December 25th, 2009 at 09:39 in online tools

    Chris Coyier of css-tricks.com has created an editable/printable HTML invoice tool similar to FreshBooks concept. You can basically click on any part of the page and change the text and values. You can also upload your own logo and insert terms and c...

  • BigCommerce - Making Selling Online Incredibly Easy

    Posted on Thursday September 3rd, 2009 at 14:00 in sponsors, online tools

    BigCommerce offers easy to use e-commerce platform for selling things online. If you were thinking of having online store with your own domain name, you should really consider BigCommerce. Since my last post, I have been playing around with my store ...

  • Change Detection in Websites

    Posted on Thursday August 20th, 2009 at 14:38 in online tools

    ChangeDetection is a great tool that I have been using lately. As the name suggests it’s a free service for website (or page) change monitoring, whenever the change occurs it will notify you via email. You can specify the type of changes in th...

  • SitePal’s Talking Widget

    Posted on Wednesday August 12th, 2009 at 14:11 in online tools, advice to businesses

    SitePal, a website that offers animated speaking avatars has came up with a new free widget now. The talking character widget can be integrated into your blog or used as a messaging tool to send voice mails to your friends. See the demo below… ...

  • Free Online Store Service

    Posted on Thursday August 6th, 2009 at 18:18 in online tools

    If you want to sell online but do not want to install oscommerce or similar ecommerce scripts yourself, here is a great service that provides everything you need for your ecommerce needs. Free option allows you to sell 20 products, which is quite goo...

  • GCube: Free Online Leave Application System

    Posted on Thursday May 7th, 2009 at 15:07 in online tools

    GCube is a newly developed free online leave application and management system for SMEs. If the company that you work for is still using paper and making you run here and there to get your leave approved, then ask your boss to check this application ...

  • All your twitter followers on one page

    Posted on Wednesday April 15th, 2009 at 12:46 in social networking, online tools

    Want to make a collage of all your twitter followers? Use this tool to create one, you just need to enter your twitter username only. It creates a code that you can enter in your blog. Source: AdesBlog.com | Add to del.icio.us, Digg It!...

  • Tynt.com - see what texts and images are being copied from your blog

    Posted on Saturday April 4th, 2009 at 13:22 in online tools, trackers

    Following two screenshots are self-explanatory for what Tynt does: Other than that, Tynt will also show which texts or images are being copied from your posts in the blog. All these will be reported in detail when you login to your account at Tynt...

  • How to get your questions answered from big companies

    Posted on Tuesday March 10th, 2009 at 14:30 in business, online tools

    GetSatisfaction like FixYa is a place for you to get answers to your questions. But in GetSatisfaction your questions will be answered by the company representatives themselves and not by the crowd. Moreover, in GS you can do more than just posting ...

  • Twibs - Twitter Business Directory

    Posted on Thursday March 5th, 2009 at 13:23 in social networking, online tools

    Want to find if your favorite “brand” (company) is on twitter? Go to twibs.com - it’s a directory of businesses who are on twitter. So far over 5000 businesses have joined twitter. Note: follow me on twitter twitter.com/ades ...

  • BackupUrl.com - capture a snapshot of any website

    Posted on Thursday February 26th, 2009 at 12:59 in online tools

    BackupUrl.com is a website that allows you to capture a snapshot of any website (URL) and store it for you to access anytime in the future. What is it useful for? I guess you could use it store different versions of your website, or you can also use...

  • Online Tool: Free Docx to PDF Converter

    Posted on Sunday February 15th, 2009 at 16:04 in online tools

    There are many “free” online conversion tools on the net, but they make your life difficult. While they are free, most of them will force you to wait before you get your converted file. And that spoils the whole “free concept”...

  • WebLoadTester.com - Web Stress Testing

    Posted on Friday February 6th, 2009 at 04:37 in links, online tools

    Launching a new project that will be the next facebook or twitter? Then make sure you stress-test your website and servers. The following I received from mon.itor.us in my email, I thought the offer was pretty good. WebLoadTester allows instantly ch...

  • FeedBlitz.com - better RSS via Email service

    Posted on Wednesday January 14th, 2009 at 15:36 in online tools, xml

    I had been subscribed to many blogs through “RSS via Email” feature (that is usually offered by FeedBurner). However, I found myself unsubscribing from these blogs after few weeks. Besides the content (blog posts), one of the other reason...

  • Twtvite - Event management through twitter

    Posted on Monday January 12th, 2009 at 17:51 in online tools

    Twtvite is simple event management tool for twitter. It allows you to create an event and invite your twitter-friends to confirm their participation by their ‘twitter’ username. Great tool for the start, I think it needs more features...

  • Adjix Later - Timestamp feature for Twitter

    Posted on Wednesday January 7th, 2009 at 13:56 in social networking, online tools, seo & promotion

    Remember Adjix that I blogged about here? For those who don’t know adjix, in short, it’s a URL shortening, money making, twitter-on-firefox plugin. Now it has a new feature called “Send Later” (see screenshot below) Basically...

  • CubeStat - check how much is your blog worth

    Posted on Tuesday December 9th, 2008 at 12:05 in online tools

    CubeStat is one of those sites that estimate the potential value of your blog based on Alexa, QuantCast, Compete, PageRank…etc Anyone wants to buy my blog for $30K? ;) URL: www.cubestat.com No comment | Permalink | Add t...

  • Adjix - posting URLs to Twitter made easy

    Posted on Sunday November 30th, 2008 at 17:59 in online tools

    Do you tweet a lot? If you do, you probably copy/paste a lot of URLs and have difficulty shortening it? Maybe you use services like tinyURL.com to shorten it. But the problem with services like TinyURL is that you have to open it every time you wan...

  • xoopit - gathers all your gmail attachments in one place

    Posted on Tuesday November 18th, 2008 at 16:35 in online tools

    Have you used Xoopit? If not you should give it a try. It’s a web application that collects all the images, videos and attachments from your gmail account, and allows you browse them in a photo gallery like manner. It also has a firefox plug...

  • 29Travels - Color Any Country on Google Maps

    Posted on Sunday November 16th, 2008 at 14:34 in online tools

    Travel Map Generator is a tool that allows you to color (highlight) any country in Google Maps. It generates a code as well, in case you want to use it on your website. I think it is especially useful for travel sites, i.e for highlighting the destin...

  • Amazon launches its own Zoomii

    Posted on Tuesday October 28th, 2008 at 16:56 in online tools

    Previously I posted about an interesting real-life like Amazon bookstore called Zoomii here. Now, Amazon has launched its own similar shop called Amazon Window Shop. The concept is the same - you search Amazon visually rather than by “keyword...