Utilities

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QR Code Generator - create QR Codes online

Nice interface

  | Jan 4, 2012

An rsync backup script in Linux

Lots of information and an example script for backing up using rsync.

  | Dec 23, 2011

TeamViewer WebConnector

Log in to remote computers that have the TeamViewer software installed.

  | Nov 13, 2011

USPS - Web Tools Registration Web Page

For calculating shipping rates from a shopping cart

  | Jun 5, 2011

USPS - Web Tools Technical Guides

All of the various technical guides in PDF format

  | Jun 5, 2011

URL Linter - Facebook Developers

Enter a URL and Facebook will validate your Facebook code.

  | Jun 1, 2011

Senuti '" Recover music from your iPod, iPhone or iPad to your Mac

  | Sep 16, 2010

Copyscape Plagiarism Checker - Duplicate Content Detection Software

  | Aug 31, 2010

MX Lookup Tool - Check your DNS MX Records online - MxToolbox

Blacklists, diagnostics, headers, SPF records

  | Aug 2, 2010

Search Engine Spider Simulator

Simple but effective

  | Jul 20, 2010

test images for printing and lens resolution

  | Jul 8, 2010

Rogue Amoeba | Airfoil for Mac: Wireless Audio Around Your House

Lets you use Airtunes with other audio sources, $25

  | Jun 7, 2010

Carbon Copy Cloner - Home

Spinning for years at 75MPH, your hard drive's catastrophic crash could really hinder your productivity. Use CCC to make a bootable backup of your digital life today!

  | Jun 4, 2010

SysExporter: Grab data from list-view, tree-view, combo box, WebBrowser control,

FREE Windows utility that lets you copy or print results from explorer windows, search results, etc. Why isn't this feature built into Windows?

  | May 25, 2010

IP Reverse DNS

Add the IP address to the end of the URL!

  | May 15, 2010

Design215 Toolbox - Pangram Creator

Beta

  | May 15, 2010

Canon Digital SLR Camera & Lens Comparisons

Nice lens comparison tool lets you select two different Canon lenses and rollover an image to see the difference between the two.

  | Apr 1, 2010

iShowU - for OSX 10.4 (Tiger)

Screen capture utility that creates real time movies with sound.
$29.95

  | Jan 4, 2010

InstantShot! DigitalWaters.net Projects

Awesome Mac screen capture utility with a timer function for making time lapse desktop movies. FREE!

  | Jan 4, 2010

Perian - The swiss-army knife of QuickTime® components

Awesome! Allows Quicktime to play and decode newer .flv files. Also lets Visual Hub convert newer .flv files by selecting "Force Quicktime Decoding" in the advanced settings. Oh, and its FREE.

  | Nov 7, 2009

Broadband Speed Test

Speedtest.net

  | Oct 17, 2009

Net Monitor Software

A cool little app that only costs $10

  | Sep 15, 2009

Anchor Pages - Your Guide to Everything Fun on the Water

Fishing, sailing, boating, diving, yachting, cruising, kite boarding, windsurfing, kayaking, paddle boarding, surfing, wakeboarding, water skiing, waterfront dining, water parks and swimming pools are all mapped here.

  | Jun 25, 2009

Newly Registered Domain Name Lists

This site lists all domains registered on a given day.

  | Jun 23, 2009

ISBN check digit calculator

Also converts ISBN-10 to ISBN-13

  | Dec 1, 2008

Free Online Barcode Generator

Generates EPS, BMP, JPG, PNG, TIFF

  | Nov 30, 2008

Free Online Barcode Generator

DPI and pixels options, download image on the page.

  | Nov 30, 2008

Seagate Technology - DiscWizard

Drive mirroring and backup utilty for Windows

  | Nov 22, 2008

Draw Here: Virtual Street Art - Graffiti for the Web

This is really cool! You can draw graffiti on any web site!!

  | Nov 13, 2008

Dynamic Drive- FavIcon Generator

Works with transparent .png files

  | Sep 7, 2008

DownThemAll! :: Firefox Add-ons

Lets you download all files from a public web directory

  | Jul 26, 2008

Drop.io: Simple Private Sharing

  | Jul 18, 2008

Reverse IP Lookup

View all domain names hosted on an IP address

  | May 10, 2008

XE.com - Currency and Foreign Exchange Site

convert currency

  | Apr 20, 2008

GeoMapLookup - IP or Host

Geolocate Any Host Name or IP Address on a Map

  | Mar 21, 2008

How to encode a movie in FLV Flash Video format for your website

Using ffmpegx for Mac

  | Sep 16, 2007

ASCII Art Generator - Make your picture into text

web based ascii art generator

  | Sep 1, 2007

Media Convert - convert MP3 WMV 3GP AMR FLV SWF AMV MOV AVI MPG...

Media-Convert is 100% free. No software is needed, and you don't have to register. You only need your favorite Internet browser. Your files are ready 24/7.

  | Jun 15, 2007

Jash: JavaScript Shell

Jash is a DHTML-based window that gives you command-line JavaScript access to the current browser window. With this console you can quickly debug scripts, manipulate the DOM, view the current page's objects, functions, and variables, trace the execution s

  | May 30, 2007

Phone Number Comments - 800notes.com

Has someone from an 800 number called you and hung up? Search for the number here and read comments from other users.
800-540-1533 called me today, and they look like a big scam!!

  | May 28, 2007

poestories.com (rank 137,996) - Web Site Audience Profiles from Quantcast

interesting ranking data

  | Mar 5, 2007

Cdcovers.cc / World's Largest CD Covers and DVD Covers Archive

Download and print all your favorite DVD covers

  | Jan 11, 2007

testmy.net - Download Speed Test

A good site for testing your internet connection speed.

  | Jan 2, 2007

imagination3.com

Very cool online sketch pad built using Flash

  | Dec 22, 2006

VLocate service for web sites

Free service. Shows a map of where all the visitors to your web site come from. Uses the Google Maps API.

  | Dec 21, 2006

Simply Google

A page with links to all of the different Google searches, along with other relevant links.

  | Dec 12, 2006

Bugmenot.com

login with these free web passwords to bypass compulsory registration like at NYtimes.com

  | Dec 6, 2006

Lulu.com - Self Publishing - Free

Photobooks: paperback, perfect bound, 9x7 or 8.5x11

  | Nov 29, 2006

Pingdom - Web site monitoring for 100% uptime. Measure your downtime.

An interesting service, although its $9.95/month.

  | Nov 14, 2006

colr.org

Very cool web 2.0 color picker

  | Nov 14, 2006

md5lookup.com

To generate and store MD5 hashes, alongside their text counterparts, in a database, and to grant a public, anonymous, and extremely quick means of finding a text counterpart to almost any given MD5 hash.

  | Nov 6, 2006

USNO Astronomical Applications Department

find data for sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset, eclipses, etc.

  | Nov 6, 2006

ModMyProfile.com MySpace Icons, MySpace Tweaks, MySpace Counter

An example of "My World Visitor Map" which uses the Google Maps API to show the location of visitors to your myspace page. Pretty cool.

  | Oct 6, 2006

SocketShield | Exploit Prevention Labs: LinkScanner

Enter the URL of the site or web page you want to visit and LinkScanner service will visit the URL in a controlled environment to see if it contains any trojans or scams.

  | Jul 31, 2006

Rob's Stopwatch Demo v1.3

A working javascript stopwatch I built in 1999. No Flash, No fancy DHTML layers, No plugins. I'd do it a bit differently today but when I built this thing, it had to work in Netscape 4 and IE5 Mac. =)

  | Jul 27, 2006

Home | The Scrutinizer

Has a large number of links to other sites that give you validation and other information about a URL.

  | Jun 9, 2006

IP Address to Country City Region Latitude Longitude etc

If you scroll down near the bottom of the page, there are some good free downloads.

  | Jun 8, 2006

Feed Validator for Atom and RSS

  | Jun 8, 2006

Snugtech.com | SafariTest | Mac Screenshot Compatibility Test

Creates a JPG or PNG of how your web site looks in the Safari browser. Really cool! Now you can test your site on the Mac using a PC. =)

  | May 20, 2006

AboutURL.com - Information about any link

A suite of tools for checking any web site or page. Includes load time, browser compatibility, search engine optimization, and more. Each tool is located on another site.

  | May 20, 2006

Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus

Pretty cool Java app

  | May 12, 2006

StikiPad : Find your Inspiration

The task list looks interesting

  | May 12, 2006

Design215 Toolbox - Online Spellchecker with Slang Option

  | May 10, 2006

CSS Quick Reference - Cascading Style Sheet Terms and Syntax

  | May 10, 2006

ASP Translator - Convert ASP to PHP

Free online utility to convert ASP (VBScript) to PHP

  | May 8, 2006

FavIcon from Pics -- how to create a favicon.ico for your website

Great online tool from the makers of HTML-kit

  | May 5, 2006

Concrete.com Calculators - Unit Conversion

  | May 5, 2006

www.DNSstuff.com - Traceroute, IP Whois, etc

  | May 4, 2006

Compare files and directories with this software - Beyond Compare

  | May 4, 2006

UTF Converter

  | May 4, 2006

mezzoblue  §  Web Server Backup

  | May 4, 2006

Internet Archive: Wayback Machine

  | May 4, 2006

Rex Swain's HTTP Viewer

  | May 4, 2006

CNET Bandwidth Meter Speed Test - Bandwidth Test

  | May 3, 2006

YourSpeed v3.6

  | May 3, 2006

www.DNSupdate.org

  | May 3, 2006

Skype - The whole world can talk for free.

  | May 3, 2006

Linkatopia - All Your Bookmarks and Favorites in One Place

Linkatopia is the latest of several free, web-based bookmark managers. While it shares many popular features with the others, Linkatopia focuses on security and the individual user. Each link or tag can be set public, private, or "friends only".

  | Apr 29, 2006

Domain Tools: Whois Lookup and Domain Suggestions

Formerly whois.sc

  | Apr 27, 2006

SamSpade.org - IP Lookups and other utilities

  | Apr 27, 2006

Namedroppers.com - Domain name search engine

  | Apr 27, 2006

Website Thumbnails - www.artviper.ch

Site is in some other language and its a bit slow but there is a form at the bottom of the page where you can enter a URL and get a thumbnail.

  | Apr 25, 2006

Alexa Website Thumbnail Generator

Generates 2 different size thumbnails if the image has been created by Alexa. Thumbnails are 111 x 82 and 201 x 147.

  | Apr 25, 2006

Design215 Word Finder

Find and Unscramble Words and Anagrams

  | Feb 1, 2006

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