Erli Bird is a website system designed to allow people to be among the first to ‘adopt’ or start using new sites and programs. They provide news, as well as opportunities every week to get in on ‘startups’ that are companies or products and services that are just getting launched. When I first checked out →
Get a military grade, secure password vault on your desktop or device with Ever Password
Ever Password is a great tool that will manage your passwords for various websites, as well as other private information such as credit card and bank account information. It uses a 256 bit encryption to keep your data secure, can sync data across more than one device or platform, and it’s free for anyone to →
Enable and disable Chrome extensions according to the site being visited, with Extension Automation
It’s easy to install too many extensions in Chrome. Wouldn’t be better if you could customize active extensions according to the site being visited? For example, you could activate the Gmail related extensions only when you’re actually on Gmail, the video-related extensions when you are on YouTube and other video sites, etc. Extension Automation is →
Two FREE tools to grab images in batch from any website: OWIDIG and ‘Image Collector Extension’ for Chrome
Ever wanted to download multiple images images from a page all at once? There are a number of good utilities out there for this purpose, and this post will present two of them:(1) OWIDIG (Online Webpage Image Downloader and Image Grabber) is a free online service that will process any URL that you throw at →
Publish your very own image surveys on Facebook, Twitter, or your own website with Survey Legend Free
Survey Legend is a fun online service that will let you create your own image-basedsurveys. You can share them on your website, on your Facebook page, or share a link to your survey on Twitter when you’re done, and view the results in real time when people answer them. The Internet is offering cookie cutter →
Manage your time with Morphine: a better web blocker for Chrome:
No we’re not talking about medicine for pain, here. Morphine is a web blocker that gives you more options to view blocked pages. It works as a Chrome extension, and while it works in some of the same ways as a standard web blocker, it has some twisty differences that make it worth a look. →
Take a snapshot of any part of your screen, and send it instantly to friends or social sites with Kwout
Kwout is a free bookmarklet and Chrome or Firefox extension that allows you to ‘quote’ any part of your browser screen, and upload it to any of a number of social sites. It is super easy to install and use, and makes your social quips and posts more interesting, and quite possibly more understandable. Many →
Display and share your memories on a virtual timeline with Memolane
Memolane is a nifty free website that allows you to create and edit your own walks down “memory lane” with images and text. Designed to work with Facebook and many other social media and networking sites, and totally free to use, it can expand your internet social presence and provide a great way to photo/scrap →
Know who unfriended you on Facebook with Unfriend Finder
Have you ever looked at your friends list only to be horrified at some of the people (distant acquaintances, old coworkers that you never liked in the first place, or even people who you outright do not know) — that get to see your updates? Well, that’s precisely what the ‘unfriend’ function in Facebook is →
Send short voice messages on Twitter, Facebook, or email with Lalo.li
With all the text messages glutting up the internet, why not ‘make yourself heard’ by sending a short voice message instead. You can do this with Lalo.li, a free text-to-speech tool that can encode your message into the URL, such that all you need to do is share or send it (or a shortened version →
CheckThis: a personal publishing service that supports polls, payments, and embedded media
What if you wanted to publish something; say, a gallery of images, a ‘for sale’ sign, a community service announcement, a poll, an electoral or political appeal, etc., or any message that is temporary or transient in nature, and you didn’t to publish it on your blog (because you don’t have one or because it →
How to enable or disable many hidden experimental features in Chrome
Chrome has many different options built in that could make your internet life easier, or at least more interesting. Examples of these include side tabs, preventing duplicate tabs from opening and re-focusing on the existing tab instead, different Google/Gmail profiles associated with different tabs, page pre-rendering for faster browsing, just to name a few. Enabling →
