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ColorSuckr.com – Extract Colors From WebPages

Girish — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:00:11 +0000

ColorSuckr is a website that offers you to extract colors from any webpage or image and you can use it to create your designs and artworks. The site is an innovative concept involving the artistic features. The site would be a great asset for all the people who are artistic in nature and who love to create new forms of artworks and designs. It basically offers the user a color palette from which he can choose the colors he like and can further use them to create his piece of art. The site has many other distinct features, some of the major ones being :

Features :

The site is extremely user friendly and has a lot to offer.
The site is absolutely free of cost and does not require a member login account.
The user can also enter the URL of any webpage and can then click on the get colors tab and the site provides you with the colors from that particular webpage.
The user can also drag and drop the color results.
You can directly search for colors from images sponsored by flickr.
The site also offers a Mozilla Firefox add-on which can be included in your browser for easy access.
You can also choose the style from between dark and light.

Steps of procedure to use this website :

All you have to do is visit the website colorsuckr.com.
You can then enter a URL and can extract colors from it.
You can use an image to extract colors also.
Thus, you get to create your own palette which you can use to master your art forms.

Editor’s view :

The site is a really good piece of innovation. It offers you an online palette for all the artistic people thus making it very simple to use colors. The beauty of the site is that it allows you to use every color you have seen somewhere or the other on the internet in your art forms. The site can however work on selecting more colors from the image, giving its users more variety. Nevertheless a very well made site.

Our rating : 3.5/5 | Visit http://colorsuckr.com/

Vidoop.com – Prevent Spam On Website In Fun Way

Girish — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:15:34 +0000

Vidoop is a website that allows you to make your webpage more secure and that too in a very fun and easy way. All of you must have encountered the situation where in you have to enter a verification code generally consisting of a combination of letters and numbers. This process is technically known as CAPTCHA – completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart. And this is used to prevent spam and malicious bots to attack your webpage. The above site is based on the same principle but is more fun and easy as it incorporates the use of images for verification. Thus it helps in preventing attacks such as comment spam, registration spam, scrapers from stealing email address, securing online polls, servers getting bogged down by SPAM and malicious scripts. The site has many other good features such as:

Features :

It is easier and less confusing. The text based CAPTCHA’s suffer from issues such as distortion of characters, unfamiliar content, and varied presentation which makes it difficult for the users (humans).
The site is absolutely free to use and does not cost you a penny.
It is highly effective and very easy to use.
You can configure it according to your need and set the security level as per your requirement.
It is quite easy to integrate and the code and plugins required are available on the site itself.
The site provides the CAPTCHA feature in an image based mode which makes your site unique and more fun to work on. thus, giving your users a better experience.

Steps of procedure to use this website :

All you have to do is visit the website vidoop.com/captcha/.
Click on the download tab from the main tabs displayed in the top right corner.
Select the code for your website.
After that create an account on the site.
You can then add your site.
After that you can apply your API credentials.

Editor’s view :

The site is a very promising site which offers its users a whole lot of very good features. The site basically targets the site developers who for a long time have been using text based CAPTCHA for verification and provides them with an option to switch to the image based CAPTCHA. A very well developed site. A must for all the site developers.

Our rating : 4/5 | Visit http://vidoop.com/captcha/

Smart.Apnoti.com – Be A Smart Shopper

Girish — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:15:32 +0000

Smart.Apnoti.com is a website that allows you to search for the products and compare their prices from different shops in real-time. It is basically a price search engine and is mainly dedicated to find out the price of a product in real time. You get access to the most up to date price of a product. The greatest problem that many of us faces with this kind of shopping is that we become unaware of the price fluctuations but this site takes care of this problem and you get the most updated price of an item and that too from a wide range of shops. The site has many other dedicated features , some of them are:

Features :

The site is very user friendly and is easy to work on.
The site is absolutely free of cost.
The site offers you relevant searches from a wide range of products covering almost every aspect of the daily life.
The site also provides detailed information about the product and offers an extremely simple, flexible and quick search function for all the products.
The prices get updated whenever a vendor updates its price. Thus offering you the exact price at any point of time.
The site has a product base of over 65 million products amongst more than 10,000 affiliated shops.
The site is very much secure and reliable to use.

Steps of procedure to use this website :

All you have to do is visit the website smart.apnoti.com.
You can then put in your query for the product in the search pace provided.
After that you can select product from different vendors and choose the most profitable deal for you.
The best of the site comes during the festive season where the prices fluctuate a lot.

Editor’s view :

The site is based on a very unique concept and is very well thought of and executed. The USP of the site is its ability to track the prices of the products in real time. A very good concept and very well done.

Our rating : 4/5 | visit http://smart.apnoti.com/

History Tree View For Mozilla Firefox

Girish — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:00:58 +0000

History-Tree is an add onn that gives you the link to download this new add-on for Mozilla Firefox. This new add-on is really fun and at the same time very useful. It allows you to find and view any webpage that you have viewed recently. This add-on lists these recently viewed WebPages as branches of a tree and also shows the thumbnail screenshots of the WebPages. The add-on is very useful to trace a recently used webpage and founds great application especially when the webpage you visited was the link to a search result. The site has many other features, major ones being:

Features :

The add-on is very user friendly and easy to work on.
You can add this add-on for free.
It shows four different tree based session history views.
It also shows the screenshot of every webpage that you visited.
You can also search for any webpage that you visited earlier.
It also shows the history of he past tabs, therefore allowing you to reopen them.
You can also view the history page screenshot in a grid layout.

Steps of procedure to use this website :

All you have to do is visit the webpage addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13316/
You can then click on the download now tab.
After downloading you can simply install the add-on by following simple steps.
Above all ,enjoy the experience and a new and easy way of browsing.

Editor’s view :

The site offers an add-on which is of great help for all the Mozilla Firefox users. The add-on has dedicated task and is very good it. The USP of the add-on is that the history of the WebPages can be searched for and the webpage of your requirement can be easily traced. The add-on also becomes useful in case the parents would like to keep a guard on their young kids to check the kind of websites being viewed by them. Overall a very good add-on. A must try.

Our rating : 4/5 | visit https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13316/

Storylineonline.net – Stories Read Aloud For Your Children

Girish — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:54:33 +0000

StoryLineOnline is a website that is basiclly dedicated and is a fun source for young children which features famous people reading short stories for the children in their own voice. The site is the result of the efforts of the screen actors guild foundation and is running for free at the moment. The site offers online streaming videos read by the members of the screen actors guild association. The book also includes the related activities with itself, thus making it more interactive for the juvenile children. The site has many other features the major ones being :

Features :

The site is very user friendly and is easy to work on even by small kids.
The site is at present free of cost and does not require a member login. You can however donate if you wish to.
The site has a fairly good number of stories read by different members and you can select from among them. Thus giving you a good choice.
The site also has related activities along with a particular story which makes the whole session more attractive as well as interactive for the young children.
You can also subscribe to the newsletter of the site.
You can also view the FAQ’s section which offers the most common problems faced by people while operating the site.
You can also view the comments about a story and can also post your own feedback.

Steps of procedure to use this website :

All you have to do is visit the website www.storylineonline.net.
You can then browse from the different stories available and select one for you.
After selecting you can play its video and can also go to the related activities and more activities tab.
You can read and view comments about a story.

Editor’s view :

The site is a very well made site targeting mainly the young kids and their parents and teachers. It is a fun way to learn for all the kids but will be a great asset for some special people who find it difficult to understand and children suffering from dyslexia. A very well developed site.

Our rating : 4/5 | visit http://www.storylineonline.net/

PictureResizer.org – Change Picture Size Without Installing Any Software

Girish — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:48:51 +0000

PictureResizer.org is a website that offers you features to extract information associated with any of your image. EXIF stands for exchangeable image file format and is basically a specification for the image used by the digital cameras. EXIF is not maintained by any company standards but it is more or less universally used by camera manufacturers. The site also allows you to resize your picture into any size that suits you. The site has many other features which makes it distinguished from others, the major ones being :

Features :

The EXIF standards cover a wide variety of information such as :

Date and time information: the current date and time is saved by the digital camera.
Camera settings: the settings include basically the static information like the camera model and the changing information like the orientation, aperture, metering mode and ISO speed information.
Thumbnail feature to view the picture on camera’s LCS screen.
Copyright information and other descriptions.

The site also allows you to resize any of your image according to your convenience and add extra information to the image such as any text or color conversion or realignment etc.
You also get to access the EXIF format specifications.
The site is very user friendly and is easy to work on.
The site is absolutely free of cost and does not require any member login.
The site is available in two languages.

Steps of procedure to use this website :

All you have to do is visit the website www.pictureresizer.org/Get-exif-info.aspx
You can then click on the “get EXIF info” tab. You can then choose an image from your system and click on get EXIF info from file to get the EXIF information from your image.
You can also click on the “resize your picture” tab. You can then choose a picture and can resize as well as add other features to it.

Editor’s view :

The site is a very well developed site and has many good features. The site basically targets people who need information associated with the images. The option to resize the image makes the site even more better. Overall a good site to try on.

Our rating : 3.5/5 | Visit | http://www.pictureresizer.org

Recapthelaw.org – Get Easy Access To Past Records Of Cases

Girish — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:27:44 +0000

It is a website that is basically a provider for a Firefox extension with a whole lot of features. The site is designed under a project of Princeton university that halos in increasing government transparency. It helps in improving your PACER experience. PACER stands for public access to court electronic records. It is used for viewing the past records of the judicial cases by the general public. PACER is difficult to use for the general public and also charges heavy amount for downloading any document. The RECAP extension makes it easy for the public to navigate through the documents and also gives free access to download documents which are in its repository. REACP users automatically donate the documents when the download them form PACER. Below are some other features :

Features :

This extension helps you to easily navigate through PACER documents.
It also helps you in getting a free access to download the documents form its repository.
You have to be PACER user to use this extension.
It also helps you in donating documents to this public library.
It is very user friendly once you understand its working by watching the video posted on the site.
This extension also renames the file in a more appropriate way, making it easy for you to view and open it.
The site helps you save a lot of money and making your PACER experience better.

Steps of procedure to use this website :

You have to be a registered user of PACER to use this extension.
If you are a PACER user you can the simply visit the site www.recapthelaw.org from your Mozilla Firefox browser.
After that you can simply click on the install tab to install this add-on on the Firefox browser.
The site has video depicting the use of this extension which makes it easy for you to understand the working of it.

Editor’s view :

This is a really good innovation on the part of the developers, thus making access to the legal documents by the general public actually possible and at the same time saving them a lot of money. It would be of great help to all the PACER users specially the law students. Overall a really good piece of work.

Our rating : 4/5 | Visit https://www.recapthelaw.org/

Graffitigeo.com – Geo Tag Your Favorite Places

Girish — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:01:27 +0000

It is a website that enables you to tag your favorite places on the map and at the same time you can post your reviews and comments of a particular place for everyone else to have a look at. This is promising website and mainly targets people who are interested in trying out new places such as new restaurants, new cafes, or a new theatre. It helps you in making a better judgment so that you can utilize your time and precious money wisely. Below are some of the other major features :

Features :

The site is very user friendly and easy to use.
The site is absolutely free of cost.
The site enables you to tag your favorite places on the map so that others can have a good look at its location.
You can also post comments about a particular place for others to view them as well as you can view the comments posted by other people.
The site has a search engine that allows you to easily locate the best places in your town.
The site has a fun element to it in the form of uber fun where you can earn various badges ( 70+) and play it like a game by moving up the ladder of badges.
You can use this feature on your i-phone.
You can also easily search for places which are famous for a particular thing such as by typing pizza you get to know about the various pizza outlets and their reviews.

Steps of procedure to use this website :

All you have to do is visit the website www.graffitigeo.com.
You can use the above mentioned features as such.
You can also create an account and start tagging as well as posting comments.
Manage your free time and your meetings in a place you consider suitable by reading the reviews and comments.
Be a player and earn badges based on the points earned by the comments posted by you.

Editor’s view :

The site is a very well made site and has the unique feature of tagging your favorite hanging out place which is undoubtedly the site’s USP. Some more features can be added though to make it more interesting. Nevertheless a good site to try.

Our rating : 3.5/5 visit http://www.graffitigeo.com/

Pinplot.net – Search Items Based On Your Location

Girish — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:02:51 +0000

It is a website that allows you to search anything in a rather unconventional but more interesting and productive way , i.e. based on location of the item. You can also do it the other way round by posting item instead of searching them. It covers a wide range of items such as jobs, sales and housing etc. The browsing experience in itself is real fun as if you are browsing through the world looking for your items. The site has a map which makes it easy for you to locate a place for your search. The site has many other features some of which are :

Features :

The site is one of its kind.
The site is absolutely free to use.
The site is very user friendly and easy to work on.
The site gives you a fun experience while searching for your item.
You can search as well as post an item.
The site possesses a map which makes it easier for you to locate a place of your interest.
You can also view a place on the map by typing its name in the search tab.

Steps of procedure to use this website :

All you have to do is visit the website www.pinplot.net.
You can then go to the search tab and post your query by selecting a place of your interest.
You can also post an item along with its details on the left hand side of the homepage , making it a platform for the advertisement of your item.
You can also view the satellite and hybrid images using the given tabs.
Enjoy the fun and free experience of searching like never before.

Editor’s view :

The site is a really good innovation in the field of searching and advertising platforms by giving it a different touch altogether. The USP of the site is the presence of a map through which you can browse to your place of interest and search items accordingly. A very well made site and looks very promising.

Our rating : 4/5 | Visit http://www.pinplot.net/.

Twitscoop.com – Get Extra Features On Twitter Like Multi Tab Search, Twitpic Images, Track Bit.ly All For Free

Girish — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 07:00:57 +0000

It is a website providing additional features for your twitter account. The site offers some really good and interesting features which makes your twitter experience more fun and with less effort. The site’s features are really commendable and helps all the twitter users a great deal. The USP of the site are its features so let us just discuss them without talking about other things. The major features offered are :

Features :

The site allows you to receive and send tweets ; find new friends without reloading your page. This is the most important feature as there is no need to refresh the page and still you can get all the updates.
You can also search and follow what is being most discussed on twitter in real time.
Multi tab search and graphs : the site allows you to go for multiple tabs and also schedule a search in the background while enjoying the live refresh.
Twitpic images on the fly : this feature allows you to view the twitpic images directly from twitscoop.
Track bit.ly stats : you can track the bit.ly stats in real time .
Follow stocks : you can also follow the latest developments in the stock markets with the help of the real time charts.
The site is absolutely free and very user friendly to work on.

Steps of procedure to use this website :

All you have to do is visit the website www.twitscoop.com.
You can then sign into your twitter account by clicking on the sign into twitter tab.
You now get access to the various features just mentioned above.
Simply enjoy using them and make your twitter experience more fun.

Editor’s view :

The site is based on enhancing the twitter experience for the users and hence targets the twitter users. The features offered are really good and actually helps in providing a more fun experience. The site developers can however work on making these features available to users of other social networking websites. But overall a good site to try on.

Our rating : 3.5/5 | visit http://www.twitscoop.com/.