AtTheBigRiver is a convenient way to link to your favorite content at Amazon. It allows you to create intuitive, functional, and humane URLs on the fly, without interrupting the flow of your writing to stop and find the “correct” URL. This web site’s intelligent technology always sends your users to a sensible location. And does painless affiliate links too. You’re welcome.

Want to link to something at Amazon? Don’t want to go hunting for the URL? Just take the name of what you want to link to, change the spaces to hyphens and add “.atthebigriver.com”. that’s it and you are done. The new URL is equivalent to the original one and you need not find the correct URL any more.

The rules for constructing URLs are simple. Simply take the name of the artist, author, book or other item you want to link to, change spaces to hyphens, and append “.atthebigriver.com” to it. The website’s intelligent redirection technology is very forgiving. Underscores are automatically converted to hyphens, and non-alphanumeric characters are stripped out. So these URLs are both equivalent and functional: j.k._rowling.atthebigriver.com and jk-rowling.atthebigriver.com . So now you see how simple your work is made by this web site.

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User voice is a web site that provides the easiest way to turn customer feedback into action: share ideas, vote up the best and respond immediately and repeat. Your customers have great ideas. Are you ready to listen? User Voice adds structure to feedback and reduces the overhead of an honest dialog with your users — It creates a market around good ideas so you get more quality than quantity.

User Voice is Software as a Service (SaaS) so they host and manage the software on their own servers. This service uses Industry standard Secure Socket Layer (SSL) 256-bit encryption to create secure user environment. Also this service provides the special facility of private forums. They have three ways to create private forums:

1. Invitations: Create an invitation only forum, so only those that you send an invite have access to your forum.
2. By Email Domain: Allow only those users that have signed up and confirmed emails on set of domains that you define.
3. Single Sign-On: Use Single Sign On to allow only users already using your website or service to have access to the forum.

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Gifninja is a free online .gif making tool. You can use these tools to convert your video or images. Also check out other peoples animations by rank or by most recently made. Or head on over to the .gif splitter tool and dissect your .gifs into separate images and mix them up. An animated gif is an animation created by combining multiple GIF images in one file. The result is multiple images, displayed one after another, that give the appearance of movement.

Just click the “Browse” button and browse to the animated gif you would like to split into still images. Now click “Split My Gif” and sit tight while we work on your file. When the images appear on the screen you can either download the zip or right click on the specific images you want and select “Save as”.

Using Windows Movie Maker you can easily convert your videos to WMV. They currently only support WMV and ASF formats. If they get enough requests for alternate formats, they will add support. Websites like My Space only allow your profile pictures to be 600 Kb in size. So try to keep your animated gifs around 4 seconds long.

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Listen from Google Labs brings pod casts and web audio to your Android-powered device. It lets you search, subscribe, download and stream. By subscribing to programs and search terms it will create a personalized audio-magazine loaded with fresh shows and news stories whenever you listen. In this release Listen is indexing thousands of popular English-only audio sources.

Listen from Google Labs is part of Google Labs, a playground for Google engineers and adventurous Google users. Google staffers with wild and crazy ideas post their prototypes on Google Labs and solicit feedback on how the technology could be used or improved.

Use the Search bar from the home screen (or “Menu -> Search” from other screens) to search for audio programs. If you know the name of a specific podcast, you can search for that, or you can search for a topic such as “Google”. Once you find search results you like, press on a result to start listening right away or press and hold (long-press) to see more options.
Subscriptions allow you to keep up to date with specific programs or specific search terms. After you press on any search result you’ll see a check box in the upper right; just select it to subscribe to that program. Listen will then always show you the latest episode on the Programs tab of the My Subscriptions screen.

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PHPanywhere is a web based free Integrated Development Environment or IDE for the PHP language, in other words it is an application that gives developers all the code editing capabilities they need to develop PHP applications online. It includes a real-time syntax code editor with support for all web formats and a powerful FTP editor.

Because it works in a browser, you can start coding right away, no need for installing anything. Best of all you can work from anywhere, all you need is an Internet connection and a web browser and you’re ready to go. Develop and maintain multiple projects with ease using this service, because as soon as you log in all your projects (FTP servers) are immediately accessible. This service even remembers what files you were working on and reopens them as well.

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Typedia is a community website to classify typefaces and educate people about them. Think of it like a mix between IMDb and Wikipedia, but just for type. Anyone can join, add, and edit pages for typefaces or for the people behind the type. They love type, and have a burning desire to learn as much as possible about typefaces: where they come from, who made them, and why they look the way they do.

They want everyone to be able to share in that rich knowledge and enjoy the art and artists of type design. Over time, they think Typedia could grow into a great educational resource for people to learn about their favorite typefaces and discover new ones.

This service was created by Jason Santa Maria, Mark Simonson, Liz Danzico, Dan Mall, Mark Huot, Brian Warren, Ethan Marcotte, Stephen Coles, Ryan Masuga, Aaron Gustafson, Garrett Murray, and John Langdon. With assistance from: Khoi Vinh, Shaun Inman, Kristin Dooley, Grant Hutchinson, Ryan Irelan, and Dan Cederholm.

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