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Below are the links to various references, tools, tutorials or topics i found interesting. Most of the links will be related to Web Design or Web Development to either test your site, many are free things you can add to your site. Yes, some of the links are just for fun.
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Bartending Tricks & Entertainment (5)Blog & WordPress Related (8)Buy or SELL Photography (4)FireFox Web Browser (13)Free Image Editors (7)Google Android Information & Resources (10)Highly Suggest Use (10)Image Editing & Fun (5)Legal Terms & Information (1)Online & Mobile Games (3)Online Image Storage (1)Personal Interest & Entertainment (2)Photoshop Tutorials (2)Responsible & Smart Living (2)Search Engine & Site Optimization (8)Social Media Solutions (27)Web Design Tools & Resources (9)Web Dev Tools & Resources (13)
Bartending Tricks & Entertainment
- BARTENDER MAGIC!
:: Some really simple and basic tricks that really help entertain and increase your tips.
- Bright Hub
:: Bright Hub is an online community of experts and life-long enthusiasts who help brighthub.com visitors make better decisions, easily solve problems, and learn more about their interests with wide-ranging and highly informative articles, blogs and forums.
- Cigarette Telekinesis
:: Using only your "mind powers" -- you cause a cigarette to roll across the table away and then back towards you.
- Good Bar Tricks
:: A collection of useful ones that way back when i waited tables and tended bar were useful.
- Shot Glass Smoke
:: The magician pours smoke from one glass to another and pretends to drink it. Note: if you are not a smoker, this trick probably isn't for you.
- Copyscape
:: Search for copies of your page on the web.
- Free weather for your site or blog.
:: One of many solutions to enhance your site or blog with accurate weather from The Weather Channel® for any location worldwide. It’s fast, easy & free!
- MyBlogLog
:: As you visit MyBlogLog-enabled sites, your photo shows up on the widget - a virtual calling card.
- Open ID
:: Open ID is a single sign-on solution that is supported by many of the most popular web-apps and networking sites.
- Site Improvement Guide
:: A good guide but dont think that is all. A great site with some wonderful free SEO tools and information.
- Site Meter Visit Tracking
:: Offers a free service to track your site stats. Back in the day before Google Analytics it was quite a solution.
- StumbleUpon Website Buttons
:: These StumbleUpon buttons make it very easy for visitors to stumble your articles.
- The Twitter 101 Guide Book - Mashable
:: Mashable assembled The Twitter Guide Book, a complete collection of resources for mastering Twitter.
Buy or SELL Photography
- Crestock Corporation
:: Make money with your creative imagery At Crestock, you can earn up to a 30% royalty on every photo or illustration we sell for you.
- Dreamstime
:: Sell your stock images and get 30-60% from each sale you make. Join our powerful photo community and reach new stock photography markets.
- Pictopia
:: This is just one of many services that BUY and sell photography.
- Tradebit Inc.
:: Tradebit offers state-of-the-art marketing tools for publishers to enhance the reach of their files. From affiliate marketing to a search engine friendly management of files to sell.
FireFox Web Browser
- Affilorama SEO Toolbar
:: The Affilorama Firefox SEO Toolbar provides you with useful information and data to make the analysis of domains and pages super easy.
- All social media, all one place.
:: All your social networks and instant messaging in one easy to use app - it's the #1 downloaded social networking add-on for Firefox. Get all your updates, update your status and share across Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube & more - all at once!
- Download Statusbar
:: View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar - without the download window getting in the way of your web browsing.
- Feedly
:: Organizes your favorite sources in a magazine-like start page. Provides seamless integration with Google Reader, Twitter, Delicious, YouTube and Amazon.
- FireFox Related Resources
:: Were to go to get all the FireFox cool stuff.
- Foxy SEO Tool
:: Foxy SEO Tool offers tools for search engine optimization (SEO), web traffic and page analysis for webmasters and web professionals.
- KGen (Keyword Generator)
:: allows you to see what keywords are strong on visited web pages for search engines.
- MeasureIt
:: Draw out a ruler to get the pixel width and height of any elements on a web page. Perfect for fixing spacing problems or deciding image dimensions. .
- SearchTweaker - Super Google
:: The Ultimate Google Enhancer! Easily add many tweaks to Google Search, Google Images, and iGoogle including: Classic Google (no sidebar), Wikipedia Results, Keyboard Shortcuts, Styles, iGoogle Layout Options, and more. A must have for Google users.
- SEO Workers Web Page SEO Analysis Tool
:: SEO Workers Analysis Tool extension allows you to perform a basic analysis of the page in your browser with a single click.
- SEOpen
:: Provides quick access to some web-based tools to help with search engine optimization.
- SimilarWeb - Discovery Tool
:: Instant access to the best sites related to the one you are browsing! Vote if sites are similar or not and personalize your results.
- Web Developer extension
:: The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.
Free Image Editors
- GIMP
:: GIMP is, without a doubt a very capable image editing software with many of the same features as Photoshop.
- Paint.NET
:: Paint.NET is a program rich in features, tutorials and with a supportive community to help most new users through their learning curve and issues.
- Phixr Online Photo Editor
:: The online photo editor
- PhotoScape
:: PhotoScape is built to be user-friendly, with an intuitive choice of projects to select from, which vary from image editing and GIF creation to a wizard to combine pictures together or take screenshots.
- Picnik – an online option
:: Picnik is a simple but helpful online photo editor which can help you with either basic adjustments such as sharpening and red eye or more advanced filters under the “create button”, which opens options for features such as text and color effects and many
- Pixenate
:: Pixenate is the photo editor of choice for photo printing and photo sharing businesses.
- VCW VicMan’s Photo Editor
:: VCW comes bundled with optional web album software, but even without it, the VCW can be a very handy tool for image editing.
Google Android Information & Resources
- Android and Me
:: Android and Me offers interesting blog posts, news, Android App Reviews and resources for Android users and developers.
- Android App Review Source
:: Android App Review Source is a competitor website offering Android App Reviews. Their model is “K.I.S.S.”, quick and short reviews.
- Android Market
:: This is a showcase for some of the featured and top ranked applications and games available on Android Market. For a comprehensive, up-to-date list of the tens of thousands of titles available, check out Android Market on your handset.
- AndroidCentral
:: AndroidCentral a subsidiary of fine mobile network related blogs apart of Smart Phone Experts offers Android news and insights.
- AndroidTapp.com
:: AndroidTapp.com has become the #1 best resource for Android App Reviews.
- Bright Hub
:: Bright Hub is an online community of experts and life-long enthusiasts who help brighthub.com visitors make better decisions, easily solve problems, and learn more about their interests with wide-ranging and highly informative articles, blogs and forums.
- Google Android Partners Information
:: Access to the entire platform source and information on how to contribute.
- Google Mobile Blog
:: Google Mobile Blog is Google’s official blog for mobile applications.
- Official Android Developers Site
:: Tools and documentation on how to create Android applications.
- The Android Fan Site
:: Android news, information, tutorials, links to resources and even job openings.
Highly Suggest Use
- Bright Hub
:: Bright Hub is an online community of experts and life-long enthusiasts who help brighthub.com visitors make better decisions, easily solve problems, and learn more about their interests with wide-ranging and highly informative articles, blogs and forums.
- CoTweet
:: Outstanding for company use as you can assign tweets. CoTweet is a business front-end for Twitter, enabling companies to engage in proactive marketing and response-oriented customer service activities.
- FourSquare
:: Find people, places of mutual interest and keep up with what is popular in town. Prefect for traveling and checking out new towns.
- Hootsuite
:: If it is social media, you can manage it with HootSuite.
- LinkedIn
:: It’s a great place to both discover and research potential job candidates or find a new job with a reported 75% of hiring managers using it
- Open ID
:: Open ID is a single sign-on solution that is supported by many of the most popular web-apps and networking sites.
- Seesmic
:: It’s a great tool for multiple Twitter account users and keeping you on top of multiple Twitter lists.
- Spokeo Search
:: Social media search that makes it easy to find information from 41 different networks.
- Twellow
:: Twellow.com is able to assist you in finding real people by mutual interest. Basically it is a directory of real people on Twitter.
- Twitterfeed
:: Feed your blog to twitter, facebook and more...
Image Editing & Fun
- Create a 3D face from photos
:: 3D human faces from 1 or 2 photographs or at random.
- Phixr Online Photo Editor
:: The online photo editor
- Picture2Life
:: Picture2Life allows you to easily Edit, Collage, Animate and then Share your pictures online with the entire world.
- Pixenate
:: Pixenate is the photo editor of choice for photo printing and photo sharing businesses.
- Rasterbator
:: The Rasterbator creates huge, rasterized images from any picture. Upload an image, print the resulting multi-page pdf file and assemble the pages into extremely cool looking poster up to 20 meters in size.
Legal Terms & Information
- Popular Image Licenses You Need To Be Familiar With Before Using Someone’s Photos
:: MakeUseOf.com Says it best - You can’t just use any image you find online on your blog, and doing so can lead to a legal mess.
Online & Mobile Games
- Free games for your site, blog, facebook or just go and play.
:: More games to quickly add to your site than you can imagine. You name it and they have it.
- Google Gadgets For Your Webpage
:: All kinds of things to add to your site from all the Google services and yes... even some games.
- Moblyng
:: One of a million places you can go and kill time or clear your mind. Odds are you have already played some of their games on your phone.
Online Image Storage
- Flickr
:: One of many online image storage services. MAKE SURE TO SET YOUR COPYRIGHT.
Personal Interest & Entertainment
- All Clean Energy News & Information
:: Information on different forms of energy in abundance around us and news on progress of freeing ourselves fro the hold oil has on us.
- The Android Fan Site
:: Android news, information, tutorials, links to resources and even job openings.
Photoshop Tutorials
- Make a Realistic Star Field
:: This tutorial will help you get started down the road to creating realistic and awe-inspiring star fields.
- Truly Useful Photoshop Tutorials For Amazing Photo Effects
:: VERY useful photoshop image editing tutorials for editing photographs.
Responsible & Smart Living
- All Clean Energy News & Information
:: Information on different forms of energy in abundance around us and news on progress of freeing ourselves fro the hold oil has on us.
- Community Environmental Council
:: Simply stated.... positive change for generations.
Search Engine & Site Optimization
- Affilorama SEO Toolbar
:: The Affilorama Firefox SEO Toolbar provides you with useful information and data to make the analysis of domains and pages super easy.
- Bright Hub
:: Bright Hub is an online community of experts and life-long enthusiasts who help brighthub.com visitors make better decisions, easily solve problems, and learn more about their interests with wide-ranging and highly informative articles, blogs and forums.
- Foxy SEO Tool
:: Foxy SEO Tool offers tools for search engine optimization (SEO), web traffic and page analysis for webmasters and web professionals.
- Keyword Box
:: Keyword Box provides capabilities similar to Firefox's bookmark keywords.
- KGen (Keyword Generator)
:: allows you to see what keywords are strong on visited web pages for search engines.
- SEO Workers Web Page SEO Analysis Tool
:: SEO Workers Analysis Tool extension allows you to perform a basic analysis of the page in your browser with a single click.
- SEOpen
:: Provides quick access to some web-based tools to help with search engine optimization.
- SimilarWeb - Discovery Tool
:: Instant access to the best sites related to the one you are browsing! Vote if sites are similar or not and personalize your results.
- All social media, all one place.
:: All your social networks and instant messaging in one easy to use app - it's the #1 downloaded social networking add-on for Firefox. Get all your updates, update your status and share across Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube & more - all at once!
- Basecamp
:: keep on top of your projects and open loops, not just internally but with your clients, partners, and customers as well. That’s where a good project management tool comes in.
- Bright Hub
:: Bright Hub is an online community of experts and life-long enthusiasts who help brighthub.com visitors make better decisions, easily solve problems, and learn more about their interests with wide-ranging and highly informative articles, blogs and forums.
- CoTweet
:: Outstanding for company use as you can assign tweets. CoTweet is a business front-end for Twitter, enabling companies to engage in proactive marketing and response-oriented customer service activities.
- Digg Toolbar
:: A quick an easy toolbar that integrates with Firefox and provides most of the common Digg functions.
- Flock Browser
:: It integrates with dozens of services and helps make it easier for you to stay connected.
- FourSquare
:: Find people, places of mutual interest and keep up with what is popular in town. Prefect for traveling and checking out new towns.
- FriendFeed
:: FriendFeed help’s combine all of your different social networks into a single feed.
- Hootsuite
:: If it is social media, you can manage it with HootSuite.
- Just Tweet It
:: Just Tweet It was created to make it easier for people using the popular micro-blogging service Twitter to find other “Tweeters” with similar interests.
- LinkedIn
:: It’s a great place to both discover and research potential job candidates or find a new job with a reported 75% of hiring managers using it
- Monitter
:: a service that monitors Twitter mentions in real-time in a multi-column interface reminiscent of TweetDeck.
- Ping.fm
:: Ping.fm makes it easier to update your social networks by connecting the most popular networks into one service.
- Second Brain
:: Organize all of your content in one place, including bookmarks, files, etc…
- Seesmic
:: It’s a great tool for multiple Twitter account users and keeping you on top of multiple Twitter lists.
- Sendible
:: Sendible is the leading social media marketing platform used by agencies, brands and businesses of all sizes.
- SocialOomph.com
:: the trusted and preferred productivity solution for more than 252,660 Twitter accounts.
- Spokeo Search
:: Social media search that makes it easy to find information from 41 different networks.
- StumbleUpon Website Buttons
:: These StumbleUpon buttons make it very easy for visitors to stumble your articles.
- Technorati
:: Technorati tracks and link to the top blogs, posts, and tags, the unique content written by hundreds of bloggers will complement what the rest of the world is saying. Read more: http://technorati.com/blogging/article/welcome-to-the-new-technorati/#ixzz0t
- The Twitter 101 Guide Book - Mashable
:: Mashable assembled The Twitter Guide Book, a complete collection of resources for mastering Twitter.
- Tweetdeck
:: hassle-free for updating Twitter, Facebook, and LInkedin simultaneously
- TweetDeck
:: TweetDeck is an Adobe Air application that helps organize and make sense of your twitters.
- Twellow
:: Twellow.com is able to assist you in finding real people by mutual interest. Basically it is a directory of real people on Twitter.
- Twhirl
:: another desktop Twitter client. It adds the ability to cross-post tweets to other sites, post images to TwitPic, and search tweets.
- Twitterfeed
:: Feed your blog to twitter, facebook and more...
- UserVoice
:: From bug reports to feature requests, UserVoice can help track and manage the feedback of your users and customers.
Web Design Tools & Resources
- Bright Hub
:: Bright Hub is an online community of experts and life-long enthusiasts who help brighthub.com visitors make better decisions, easily solve problems, and learn more about their interests with wide-ranging and highly informative articles, blogs and forums.
- Firebug
:: Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page...
- Free weather for your site or blog.
:: One of many solutions to enhance your site or blog with accurate weather from The Weather Channel® for any location worldwide. It’s fast, easy & free!
- Google Gadgets For Your Webpage
:: All kinds of things to add to your site from all the Google services and yes... even some games.
- MeasureIt
:: Draw out a ruler to get the pixel width and height of any elements on a web page. Perfect for fixing spacing problems or deciding image dimensions. .
- MyBlogLog
:: As you visit MyBlogLog-enabled sites, your photo shows up on the widget - a virtual calling card.
- Site Improvement Guide
:: A good guide but dont think that is all. A great site with some wonderful free SEO tools and information.
- Site Meter Visit Tracking
:: Offers a free service to track your site stats. Back in the day before Google Analytics it was quite a solution.
- Web Developer extension
:: The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.
Web Dev Tools & Resources
- Bright Hub
:: Bright Hub is an online community of experts and life-long enthusiasts who help brighthub.com visitors make better decisions, easily solve problems, and learn more about their interests with wide-ranging and highly informative articles, blogs and forums.
- Facebook Developers site
:: The place to go to get all the official stuff to work Facebook with your site.
- Firebug
:: Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page...
- FireFox Related Resources
:: Were to go to get all the FireFox cool stuff.
- Free weather for your site or blog.
:: One of many solutions to enhance your site or blog with accurate weather from The Weather Channel® for any location worldwide. It’s fast, easy & free!
- Google Gadgets For Your Webpage
:: All kinds of things to add to your site from all the Google services and yes... even some games.
- HackBar
:: Simple security audit / Penetration test tool.
- MyBlogLog
:: As you visit MyBlogLog-enabled sites, your photo shows up on the widget - a virtual calling card.
- PHP Developer Toolbar
:: Stop searching at PHP.net to simply remember some function signature. With this addon you can search functions quickly for the official function description directly into your browser without a new tab.
- Site Improvement Guide
:: A good guide but dont think that is all. A great site with some wonderful free SEO tools and information.
- Site Meter Visit Tracking
:: Offers a free service to track your site stats. Back in the day before Google Analytics it was quite a solution.
- ToolsGeek :: Text Tools
:: Text editor that is very useful for many different things from cleaning up Word html, all uppercase or all lowercase, line numbers and html to text.
- Web Developer extension
:: The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.