Showing posts with label useful. Show all posts
Showing posts with label useful. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Hindi Song | Find Spelling Mistakes on Web Pages with Spellist

spell-checkNothing looks more unprofessional than a couple of spelling mistakes on your site so here’s an online tool that will help you quickly spell check an entire web page though it wont’ fix these errors for you.

Called Spellist, this online spell checker for websites uses the Google API to search for spelling mistakes. You just type the URL and it will quickly point out the potential spelling mistakes that may be in the text or even the meta description of the page.

website-spellings
Spell check your website like a Word document

There are no advanced features like scheduled spell checks, RSS, alerts or support for adding new words to the dictionary but as a quick and simple tool, Spellist does the job. Thanks KillerStartups

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Sunday, October 5, 2008

Hindi Song | Optimize Image Sizes Online With Yahoo’s Smushit

optimize imagesYahoo recently introduced a web based tool called Smushit to help you optimize the size of web images without affecting visual quality.

Smushit reduces the file size of images by reducing the number of colors, strips off excess metadata, and also discards other non visual data.

There are three ways you can use Smushit:

  • Upload a bunch of pictures in your browser
  • Provide a list of image URLs
  • Firefox Extension to optimize the images found on any web page.

Interestingly, the Smushit site seems to hosted on Dreamhost, not on Yahoo servers as one would expect.

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Thursday, October 2, 2008

Hindi Song | Make a Site Map of your Website with WriteMaps

website sitemapWriteMaps is a web based tool that you helps you quickly draw a conceptual diagram of your website.

You may also use the tool to plan the layout of an upcoming site or for generating the sitemap of an existing website as in this example.

The tool has a very intuitive interface and the favorite feature is that you can share sitemaps online (each sitemap gets a unique URL) or you edit them with co-workers.

visual sitemap

Now unlike your WordPress plugins that create sitemaps exclusively for search engines, the sitemap written inside Writemap is fit both for human and search engine consumption.

The downside is that this tool may not be fit for large websites as you have to create pages (nodes) manually.

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Hindi Song | Schmap.me: Create a Web Page with your Contact Information

contact map Schmap is like your virtual business card – key in your contact address, website URL, phone number, email or any other details that you want to reveal in public and it creates a personal web page for you with all this information.

You can ever grab a personal URL for your contact page and it looks the same on desktop browsers as well as mobile phones.

Virtual Business Card
Your virtual business card with Google Map looks the same everywhere on web & mobile phones

Schmap uses Google Maps to display the location. If privacy is a concern, just enter your city or country in the address field or you may even leave any of the fields blank.

To get your contact page, visit schmap.me. Here are some dummy cards I created to test the service – they look pretty good even on the mobile phone.

The service doesn’t require any registration but if you need a provision to edit your contact details later, they provide a secret URL for that as well.

You may also want to read this review of Schmap Local that lets you interact with contact addresses and phone numbers available on web pages.

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Hindi Song | Monitor your Internet Speed and Bandwidth Usage in Real-Time with BitMeter

bandwidth chartYou got a broadband connection at home with a data transfer limit and the ISP charges extra money for every byte of data that you download / upload beyond the limit specified in the monthly plan.

If you can connect with the above situation, what you definitely need is BitMeter for keeping a track of your internet bandwidth usage.

In fact, Bitmeter is more than just a bandwidth usage meter. You can create custom desktop alerts (see screenshot) to know when your internet connection goes offline or if the net speed drops beyond a certain level.

isp data limit

Screenshot A: The ISP Restrictions screen allows you to configure BitMeter with details of your ISPs monthly usage allowance, so that it can warn you as you approach your limit.

Screenshot B: Alerts can be created to notify you when you have transferred a specified amount of data (a Volume Alert), or when your speed goes above or below a specified value (a Speed Alert).

There are other free apps for tracking bandwidth as well some of them have now been abandoned by their respective developers. I have been using BitMeter for about a week now (thanks CNET) and find it very useful especially for tracking the current ISP speed.

Hindi Song | Bought a New Computer? Now Remove all the Pre-Installed Trial Software

You buy a brand new computer thinking that you’ll keep it clean and fast by installing only the essential software programs but your hopes are dashed the moment your turn on the new PC as it shipped pre-loaded with tons of trial software that are of little or no use.

This may sound funny but it actually makes sense if you can spare some time cleaning the new PC of all these junk trial programs before installing anything new and useful.

No, you don’t have to jump to the Control Panel for removing programs as there’s a free tool called "PC Decrapifier" that can automatically detect and uninstall most of pre-installed software unattended. It will even reset your browser home page and default search engine.

remove software

Here’s a full list of programs that PC Decrapifier can remove. It works with most common trialware programs (and browser toolbars) that are developed by OEM partners including Norton, Yahoo, Dell, Roxio, Sonic, Corel, Google and Microsoft.

The software has been around for a while but the latest version (2.0) is a complete rewrite and therefore more stable than ever before.

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Thursday, September 25, 2008

Hindi Song | Translate & Subscribe to Blogs Feeds Written in Foreign Languages with Mloovi

blog languages growthA Technorati report suggested that only 36% of the blog posts are written in English while the rest are published in Japanese, Chinese, Italian and other languages.

While this data may be slightly old, it does hint at the multilingual nature of blogosphere and how we miss majority of the published content by limiting subscriptions only to RSS feeds that are written in English.

Now if you like to expand your daily information sources and read feeds published in foreign languages, Mloovi could be an ideal service for you.

1. Mloovi translates blog feeds from one language to another using Google Translate.

2. The translated version is available as a feed so people can directly subscribe to it in any news reader.

Founder Mike Robinson says that Mloovi is also available as a widget for blog publishers - this will help non-English speaking visitors to directly subscribe your blog in their own native language without using language translation.

For instance, here are links to this feed in Hindi, Russian, Korean, Chinese and Arabic. You only get partial summaries because of Google Translate API limitations but they should still be good enough for getting a basic idea about the full post.

Related: Google AJAX Language Translation Tutorial

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Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Hindi Song | Clean HTML Files Online with Word Off

clean word htmlIf you ever tried converting an Excel sheet or a Word document into an HTML web page, you know the amount of useless tags and styles that are added to the output making the HTML file bulky and complex.

Similar is the situation when your copy-paste rich text from an existing web page into another text editor. CSS formatting styles that become part of the copied text actually make no sense once that HTML snippet is used elsewhere.

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Word Off removed all the inline styles from the HTML table of Word doc. file

To keep your HTML clean and beautiful, Tom Dyson has created an online utility at WordOff.org that takes your dirty HTML and strips out all the junk while preserving the links and basic formatting.

Word Off will delete all HTML elements that are empty, removes every and

tag and reduces the number of line breaks.

Developers can integrate WordOff into their web application using the CURL API. The tool will also come handy for people who use WYSIWYG HTML editors like Dreamweaver as they too can sometimes generate bloated code.

If you are into web design, do check this set of tools to strip junk from CSS Stylesheets.

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