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Sunday, July 1, 2012

Great websites to check out

  • www.LastPass.com: You can access your passwords wherever you are by just remembering one master password, and they can help you strengthen all your passwords (since you no longer need to remember them).  Your passwords are extremely safe and encrypted, and if you'd also like to save your web bookmarks, they have a sister product called www.xmarks.com.
  • www.ifttt.com: When you do something on the web that should always be mirrored to another site or two, If This Then That can help.  Perhaps when you upload photos to facebook you also want them to upload to Flickr, or when you change your fb profile pic you also want your twitter profile pic updated, then this is the cloud-app for you.
  • www.PrintFriendly.com: Turns any URL into a print-friendly webpage.  If it doesn't remove an ad or picture you wanted removed, you can make the edit yourself, piece of cake.
  • www.zamzar.com: An online file converter.
  • www.FaxZero.com: Fax documents from your computer for free.
  • www.TripIt.com: Converts your trip details into a mobile friendly itinerary layout with maps, phone #s, and other useful tips in the chronological order of your trip.  Simply forward your email confirmations for hotel, car, plane, restaurant, or other reservations to plans@tripit.com and within a minute or two your trip is ready.  You can also edit anything and add your own stops you'd like to include.
  • www.RunPee.com: Tells you when it's safe to leave the theater for a restroom break and tells you just what you missed.
  • www.howjsay.com: Type in a word or phrase and English language instructor Tim Bowyer pronounces it with impeccable diction.
  • www.VectorMagic.com: Converts pictures into infinitely scalable vector graphics, allowing you to make your pictures larger without pixelating.
  • www.AcademicEarth.org: Sit in on video lectures and review ivy-league courses from all over the globe for free.
  • KhanAcademy.org: Countless mathematical equations are explained in illustrated in clear detail on a virtual blackboard along with practical exercises to relate the concepts to real life.
  • www.easybib.com: Search the vast database of reference sources and it will create an MLA-formatted bibliography of the works you cited.
  • www.CodeAcademy.com: Learn how to code step by step and earn achievements that encourage you to keep with it.
  • www.StackOverflow.com: When you run into a coding conundrum, ask this community and you'll get help from experts worldwide in minutes.
  • www.ghostery.com: If you want to know who's tracking a particular site, here's how you find out and you can selectively block certain trackers from monitoring your activity.

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