Friday, May 25th, 2007
Music
- Deezer - This one is my favorite. Deezer lets you listen to music on demand. Search for artist, title or album and listen to it instantly for free. If you register for free you can add each track to a playlist. You can create an unlimited number of playlists. They don’t have everything, but they do have a very very big database and it’s fast. Finally a competitor for Last.FM and Pandora.
- ShareMiner - Searches for files in Rapidshare, Megaupload, Rapidsharing and more.
- WuZAM - A very fast mp3 search engine which lets you listen and download to tracks.
- SkreemR Mp3 Search Engine - You can listen to tracks and download them.
- Online MP3 Music Search Engine - Just like SkreemR you can listen to the tracks instantly and also download them..
- AlbumWash - Download 61.000+ albums instantly. Registration is free.
- MediaMaster - Upload an unlimited amount of music (mp3, m4a, etc.) and listen to it. You can listen to your whole collection as an internet radio station. Another feature is to put a Flash widget on your page (blog, website, etc.) and everyone can start listening to your collection.
- Last.fm - A free service that tracks your musical taste, finds similar users, and provides musical recommendations and free personalised radio.
Software
- musikCube - A easy and lightweight music player with an interface very similar to iTunes.
- VLC Player - An allround cross-platform multimedia player which also can be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast
Video
General
- Best Online Documentaries
- Random live webcams from the Net - These webcams were found automatically through a variety of clever search techniques. Their owners might or might not have intended for them to be public. But they obviously are. Many of them are security cameras in companies or semi-public places.
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Thursday, May 24th, 2007
BitTorrent Client
I recomment uTorrent. A very small, fast and userfriendly bittorrent client. Download the standalone version which is the smallest. Around 170 Kb.
Search in multiple Torrent Search Engines
I have created a Rollyo Search Engine for all the Torrent Search Engines mentioned above. With Rollyo you can create a custom search engine using the sources that you recommend.
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Monday, March 26th, 2007
Daily Reading
Web Design Explained
CSS
Photoshop
- 60 Advanced Photoshop Tutorials
- PhotoshopSupport.com - Photoshop news & tutorials
- Photoshop User TV - Watch each week as “The Photoshop Guys” (Dave Cross, Matt Kloskowski, and Scott Kelby) share the hottest Adobe Photoshop tutorials, the latest insider tricks, and the coolest timesaving, job-saving shortcuts to make your time in Photoshop more productive, more efficient, and more fun.
Colors
JavaScript
Web Tools & Services
- Montastic: free website monitoring - You can monitor a maximum of 100 servers.
- Browsershots - Test your web design in different browsers, operating systems, screen sizes, color depth and the option to enable/disable java, javascript and flash.
- MediaWiki - Watch this screencast “Explaining Wikis“. A Wiki has a lot of uses. Here is a list and here a more detailed list.
- Convert characters to Unicode
- Media Convert - Free online file conversion of video, sound, images, ringtones, vector documents, text documents, presentation and data. The format support is huge. For example, convert a WMV to FLV, a PDF to SWF and so on. Maximum file size is 150 Mb. Zamzar is another online file conversion service.
- Widgetbox - Directory of web widgets
- Add This! Social Bookmark and Feed Button - Saves the current page into your favorite bookmarking service. Also includes statistics.
- Travlang’s Translating Dictionaries - Translate a word in more than 30 languages
- What Search Engine Spiders See
- HTML Email Validator - Checks for compatibility with HTML email
- HTML Tidy
Online File Storage
- MegaUpload - Upload files up to 500 MB. No registration required. At the homepage you can browse for your file, enter a description, activate option “i accept” and press “send”. After 21 days your file will be deleted. If you register for free, then your file stays for 90 days online. Download speeds are fast.
- DivShare - Upload files up to 200MB. No registration required.
- MediaMax - 25 GBs of free online storage. Free registration required.
eCommerce
- Magento - Open source ecommerce platform with complete design flexibility, modular architecture, and rich functionality.
- eCommerce Optimization - Offers a variety of helpful eBusiness resources including free articles, step-by-step guides, eCommerce industry news, paid consulting services and other useful tips and tricks to help online merchants improve store visibility and sales.
Web Analytics
PHP
Web Security
Hacking
Ebooks
- eBookSpyder - Download and search ebooks instantly
- Scribd - View, download and search ebooks online
Regular Expressions
(Open Source) CMS
Forums
Anonymity & Privacy
- Will Self-Destruct - Create secure anonymous emails will self destruct in a period of time that you can edit. You can set it to be viewed one time only for a number of seconds, a number of times or a number of days. The email message will contain a link to the secured message online.
- Hide My Ass! - An anonymous proxy which hides your IP address and bypasses web filters.
Anonymity & Privacy > Disposable email addresses
Disposable email addresses can be used to spare your real email address from spammers, when signing up for newsletters, forums and when you want to keep your identity private.
- TempInbox - Pick any @tempinbox.com address you would like to use. For example: test@tempinbox.com. You can also add RSS feeds from a custom email address you choose. View email for example from test@testinbox.com and click on the xml file at the top. Copy the url, go in Firefox to Bookmarks > Manage Bookmarks > File > New Live Bookmark and paste the url in the field “feed location”. Now you can track all the messages that will be send to test@tempinbox.com.
- shortMail.net - Pick any @shortmail.net address you would like to use. For example: test@shortmail.net. Forwarding mail is also possible. You can for example forward mail from test@shortmail.net to your own specified email address and tell it when to expire.
- Wuzupmail - Pick any @wuzup.net address you would like to use. For example: test@wuzup.net
Software > Security /Anti-virus / Anti-spyware / Anti-rootkit
Software > General
- PC Decrapifier - Removes all the crap that comes by installed by default on a new computer or laptop.
- JW MP3 Player - Supports a wide range of flashvars (settings) for tweaking both behavior and appearance and an extensive, documented javascript/actionscript API.
- Unlocker - Unlocker deletes files/directories that can’t be deleted because they’re locked.
- CrossLoop - Simple secure screen sharing.
- Sandboxie - Applications which are run and installed in Sandboxie are in a secured environment. Nothing is installed or copied to your hard drive. Great for testing and installing unknown applications or for secure browsing.
- SourceForge - The world’s largest open source software development website
- PC Repair System (USB) - File recovery, anti-virus, anti-spyware, system info & system maintenance
- Easy Flash Drive Data Recovery with PhotoRec
- PortableApps.com - Portable software for USB drives
- FileZilla - Fast and reliable FTP client
- uTorrent - Fast and small bitTorrent client (170 kB)
- Standalone versions of Internet Explorer
- 7-Zip - The alternative for WinZip and WinRAR.
- Putty - A client for SSH, Telnet and Rlogin protocols.
- PDFCreator - Create PDFs from any application
- InfraRecorder - A versatile open source burner application.
Software > Viewers
- Jeroen Wijering’ Flash Video Player - Embed Flash video in your website with this comprehensive player
- Zoomifyer EZ - Makes high-quality images zoom-and-pan for fast, interactive viewing
- AirTight SimpleViewer - Customizable Flash gallery. No programming or database is required.
- XnView - Very customizable, quick and user friendly image viewer. Choose the minimal version for speed benefits. Opens over 300 file formats. A cool feature is the possibility to use Adobe Plugins. To view PDF, install AFPL Ghostscript.
Software > Editors
- Aptana - Cross-platform, JavaScript-focused development environment for building Ajax applications
- InType - A fast extensible and customizable code editor
- PSPad - Another editor
Software > Emulators
- Daemon Tools - Mounts images as virtual drives (CD/DVD).
- VMPlayer - Run any virtual machine on a Windows or Linux PC
Miscellaneous
- Cheat Sheet Round-Up - The most comprehensive list of cheat sheets that every web designer and developer needs.
- Google Guide - Interactive online Google tutorial and referencese for Novices and Experts.
- Free Online Graph Paper/Grid Paper PDFs - Generate paper as a PDF with a large variety of configurations: story boards, dots, squares, lines and more.
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