Too good to forget!
Ultimate Webmaster Resources Collection. Great list of stuff for webmasters and developers. A bookmark, I think.
Call The Future. Set the free service up to call you or anyone else at some time and date in the future. Why? Perhaps as a reminder, or to prank someone, or to have an excuse to leave that boring party. Sounds kind of useful, in a worrying kind of way. This tool dials a phone number and a computer voice reads off the text. The receiving phone number shows up as the CallerID field. You can set the time to any point in the future,…
WebFTP. Well lookee here, WebFTP is back. One of the most useful little web tools around disappeared a few years back, but now has returned with a new face and hopefully a new business model. Unfortunately there’s a filesize limit, which is a shame, but it should still be useful in an emergency. With web2ftp.com, you can access any FTP account through a Web interface – no matter whether there is a firewall or not. You can use webftp for…
Scribble. If you *really* really want to waste a huge chunk of your life you’ll lock the doors, turn down the lights and play this free MiniClip Flash game immediately (you might want to turn off the music if you’re in the office). It’s an utterly utterly addictive cross between Lemmings and Line Rider, and you may never find time to eat again. I apologise for introducing this to you all, honestly.
The Essay Generator. Type your topic into the blue box and press Go. Don’t try this for your PhD folks. Simply type your topic into the blue box and press GO. Makes an essay on anything. Different every time! e.g. ‘investment banking’, ‘Michael Jackson’s moth collection’…
Make your own Signbot Scrolling LED Sign. Hey, it’s fun and it’s December, so lighten up. Write some text and click Generate Sign to make your own animated scrolling text LED sign to use on MySpace, as your forum sig or avatar, or anywhere else.
The Google Podcasts. A 10 part series called The Lost Google Tapes will feature interviews with Larry Page and Sergey Brin conducted in January 2000. All proceeds of advertising go to a new social charter charity. As it turned out, Page came down with the flu, so I first interviewed Sergey Brin alone for over an hour, then came down two weeks later to interview Larry Page. In the interim I was set up for interviews with Google board members…
Weird. I do believe that this new Web 2.0 Logo Maker is for real. Yep, not a spoof. An actual application. Sad, isn’t it? Ten points to the reader who finds the first real life logo created with this. Well, this tool started out as a bit of a joke amongst friends. But, Digg is now bringing in tons of Sytlr’s. So, first off, sorry for the crappy design. I never thought it’d get so popular. Maybe now I should actually dedicate some…
Nokia Music Mixer. Sign up, log in, create your own funky ringtones. Download and enjoy. * Start by choosing the loop set of your choice * Move clips with drag and drop to create your own unique mix * Add new new clips to a track with the four buttons located below the instrument selector * Use the add clip buttons to preview available clips. The preview is enabled when the song is not playing * Use the instrument…
Flicker Time. A nifty online clock made up of Flickr images. Amazing what you can do with over 300 million photos, eh? Psst…hover over the image bottom right of the screen. It’s worth it. Cool stuff.
Podmailer is a new free P2P file transfer service which promises to let you transmit files of any size using just your email program. For example sending the full quality video footage of your recent wedding to your ex. That kind of thing. It’s not a totally new idea, although what makes this one different is that it’s based on Amazon’s new S3 service, so it should scale nicely with demand. Just download the Mac or PC client and off you go. Apparently….
Streamick.com. Online television streaming finally gets the service it deserves. Isn’t it amazing that it’s taken this long to get a simple, clear, and fast interface. Select your favourite program as your default, or simply browse through the extensive listing. Sure, there’s lots more they can do (stored channel presets per user for instance) but this is a great start. Oh and it’s user moderated in terms of content and video quality. Not sure how they’re handling the legal bits,…
Radeo is a free and very comprehensive online media player-portal. The site boasts of 10,000 stations, and half a million episodes of stuff, including webcasts, podcasts video and audio. The interface is a little scrappy (for example it’s hard to browse all US stations or all alternative etc), but it’s a nice effort nevertheless and definitely worth a look.
10 Minute Email. The ultimate disposable email service. Click a link, get an email address with messages delivered to an online page for exactly 10 minutes. After that, poof, no more. Spamtastically useful, eh? By clicking on the link below, you will be given a temporary e-mail address. Any e-mails sent to that address will show up automatically on the web page. You can read them, click on links, and even reply to them. The e-mail address will expire after 10 minutes….
The Web Speedometer. Find out how fast your Internet connection is. That’s it really. Now you can find out how fast or slow your Internet connection. You could be using your network connection at work, or at home using a dial-up modem, ISDN connection, a cable modem, or a digital subscriber line (DSL). Whatever the device or technology you’re using to surf the Web, we’ll tell you the speed of your Internet connection.
