Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Cool Websites and Tools [February 1]

Cool Websites and Tools [February 1]: "

Check out some of the latest MakeUseOf discoveries. All listed websites are FREE (or come with a decent free account option). No trials or buy-to-use craplets. For more cool websites and web app reviews subscribe to MakeUseOf Directory.


Submit Your Web App










VidiNotes – VidiNotes lets you capture up to 30 different images from any FLV video, add notes to them and generate printable PDFs. You can upload any video up to 25MB in size and once it is uploaded, just play the video and start capturing screens. Next to each captured screen is the option to add notes and a title. You can pause the video anytime or even go forwards and backwards by dragging the bar. Read more: VidiNotes: Create Printable Notes From A Video.


































BenderConverter – Online video is great, but it comes with one key limitation: it’s online. If you want to watch your favorites away from wifi hotspots, you’re going to need to download them directly to your computer. The FLV Converter from Bender looks to make the process easy. It not only allows you to download your favorites in one click – it also converts them to the format of your choice. Read more: BenderConverter: Quickly Convert and Download Videos Online.




RefreshThis – Whether you’re keeping tabs on sports scores, waiting for your favorite web comic to update or trying to keep up with the news, sometimes it’s handy for a website to automatically refresh itself. Some websites offer this on their own, some don’t, but you can make any site refresh itself using RefreshThis.com. Read more: RefreshThis: Auto Reload Websites Periodically Without A Plugins.




CouponMaps – If you love to find discounts and freebies online, then you will find CouponMap very useful. This website is a mashup that allows you to find coupons on local map from various business establishments. You can easily print them out and use to get discount. Read more: CouponMaps: Find Local Coupons on Google Maps.




Hourly Rate Calculator – If you’ve no idea what you should be charging while acting as a freelancer, FreelanceSwitch.com’s Hourly Rate Calculator can help determine hourly rate. This program takes into account all your expeneses, your personal costs and the number of hours you can bill and based on your preference of total profit. Read more: Hourly Rate Calculator: Easily Determine Hourly Rate Online.


Submit Your Web App


These are just half of the websites that we discovered in the last couple of days. If you want us to send you daily round-ups of all cool websites we come across, leave your email here. Or follow us via RSS feed.

Did you like the post? Please do share your thoughts in the comments section!


New on Twitter ? Now you can follow MakeUseOf on Twitter too.



Related posts






"

No comments: