ONLINE POLLING TOOLBOX: 40+ Online Polling Sites. FLICKR TOOLBOX: 100+ Tools For Flickr Addicts. Flickr is back in the news this week with reports that it will add video. But we're still loving the photo-sharing element: here's 100+ ways to get even more out of the popular photo site. Desktop Applications 1001 for Mac OS X - Allows batch uploading and can notify you of new photos uploaded by your friends. Background Switcher - Will auto-change your desktop background on a Windows machine at intervals of your choosing from a pool of photos you pick. Desktop Flickr Organizer for Gnome - Desktop organizer for Linux that allows online and offline work on your photos and tagging. Flickr and Webimager - Lets you capture your entire screen, or just a portion, and auto-upload it to your account.
Flickr Exporter for Aperture - Tag and upload your photos, store ID and URL for your photos in the Aperture program. Flickr Exporter for iPhoto -Edit photos, add tags, resize before loading and several other useful options. Flickr Finder - Mac OS X application for browsing your photos. Firefox Extensions. 40+ Free Blog Hosts. So it seems all we ever speak about is Wordpress, but don't forget that you have options when choosing a blog platform. Here are 40 free ways to get started.Danga Software Powered GreatestJournal.com - Based on the same software as LiveJournal, offers free voice posts, 1GB of photo hosting, and space for up to 2,000 user icons. InsaneJournal.com - Another site based on the Danga software that runs LiveJournal, offers free and paid accounts, paid benefits are only enhancements. JorunalFen.net - Runs on the Danga platform, very much directed towards various "fandoms" (i.e.
Harry Potter, various Television shows) and is meant for users 18 and older. LiveJournal.com - One of the most well known of the blogging hosts. Themed Blog Sites Blogabond.com - A site dedicated to travel blogs with map integration and more. BlogCheese.com - A video blogging website. BusyThumbs.com - A blog site specifically for your text messages and camera phone images. Trippert.com - Create and share blogs of your travels.
INSTANT MESSAGING TOOLBOX: 90+ IM Tools. Instant messaging is said to be one of the most popular forms of Internet communication for teens today, beating out email thanks to the lack of spam and instant feedback. With SweetIM adding support for AIM today, we thought we'd take a look at how the IM market is shaping up. And for those who think 90+ IM clients are too many for anyone to handle, we wholly agree: that's why a good number of these are actually tools to aggregate all your IM buddies in one place. Popular IM Clients Google Talk - use GTalk for your voice calls, voice messages, file transfer and Gmail notifications Skype - high quality calls to anyone, anywhere in the world Yahoo!
Messenger - an official messenger for Yahoo! AOL Instant Messenger - communicate with AOL registered users via text, voice, and video Windows Live Messenger - connect and share instantly on the world’s most popular IM network ICQ - the world's first instant messaging program mICQ - a free text-based ICQ client that runs on a wide variety of platforms. SOCIAL BOOKMARKING: 50+ Social Bookmarking Sites. With the acquisition this week of a shopping bookmarks service, and strong rumors of another bookmarking service being acquired, we thought it was time to reflect on how the social bookmarking space shapes up these days. Here are more than 50 of the top social bookmarking sites available. Social Bookmarking i89.us - Export to several formats, see popular & recent bookmarks, ability to shorten URLs.
AllMyFavorites.net - Create an organized page for your bookmarks that you can share with friends and family, access from any computer. Backflip.com - Check out the most popular links each day, set "The Daily Routine" as your homepage so you can visit your must stop sites each day with ease. BibSonomy.com - Public & private bookmarks, tag cloud, related tags, duplicate detection with the chance to merge their info. BlinkPro.com - Dynamic folders, bookmark all links of a page plus all the usual features. Bluedot.us - Tabbed user page showing a network of friends, bookmarks, and related tags. Yahoo! SHOPPING SPREE: 18 Sites for Social Shopping & Deals. Kaboodle was snapped up this week, but there are at least 17 other social shopping startups and sites worth checking out. Here's a quick roundup of the best places to share your shopping picks. 1. Crowdstorm Crowdstorm is an innovative social shopping service using product buzz in the blogosphere to help you find what to buy. 2.
Etsy is a very nicely implemented, well designed social marketplace for handmade items. 3. A simple site made for lists of what you already own, not what you want. 4. An interactive wish-list based shopping network with a recommendation system based on opinions from real people. 5. Share product recommendations with the community and discover new stuff from users with similar tastes and styles. 6.
Another wish-list creation service, Wists has the ability to create image bookmarks for anywhere on the web without uploading anything. 7. ShopWiki is another community based, very "web 2.0-ish" wiki, all about products. 8. Simple, shared wish-lists. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 30+ Tools to Turn Wordpress into a Personal Hub. ONLINE BUSINESS TOOLBOX: 230+ Tools for Running a Business Online. Forget useless desktop apps and piles of paperwork: there are now thousands of small and medium-sized businesses managing all their affairs with online applications.
After an exhaustive hunt this week, we've rounded up more than 230 of the leading online applications for super-productive companies. Accounting, Billing, Invoicing, Estimating & Contracts BillingOrchard - Online billing software that maintains hourly billing time as well as flat fee or recurring billing. Bill My Clients - A hassle-free way to create and print invoices (you can email them too) and send them via the USPS.
Blinksale - Create elegant invoices using professionally designed templates (or create your own) and send them to anyone with an email address. Cashboard - Estimating, invoicing and time tracking for you, your employees and subcontractors. DocuSign - Electronic signature services that allow you to get legally binding electronic signatures on your contracts. Sertifi - Electronic contract delivery and signing. Email. 30+ WordPress 2-Column Themes. Last time we looked at 3-column themes, and while they allow you to add a lot of sidebar accessories, some people prefer to keep it clean and simple. For those people, we offer up a list of 30+ 2-column themes for you to choose from.
One thing to keep in mind when choosing a theme is Fixed Width vs. Variable Width. Fixed Width themes are just that: a fixed set of dimensions and will show up the same in all browsers. This article is part of the Wordpress Tips series. Left Sidebar DarkT - Slick black design, extremely legible, very modern looking, fixed width and widget ready. Green Bug - Very pleasant looking fixed width and widget ready theme, great for a nature blog. HijauSegar - Very open with easily edited headers. Integral - Very uncluttered design, would make a great theme for a company blog, fixed width and widget ready.
Melod Art - Unique coloring, would make a great family blog. Notes - Why not make your personal website look like an actual personal journal? Right Sidebar. GMAIL TOOLBOX: 60+ Tools For Gmail. With Google announcing the ability to increase your Gmail storage capacity this week, we decided to delve into other ways to extend and enhance Google's popular webmail service. Presenting: 60+ tools and resources for Gmail. Desktop Applications GCount - An application for Mac OSX that alerts you to new mail. gDisk - An app for Mac OSX giving the ability to turn Gmail accounts into storage drives. gFeeder - A small ticker for your Gmail that will let you know at a glance what's coming in for you.
GetMail - Allows you to migrate your emails from Hotmail to your Gmail account. Gmail Drive - Another tool for turning your Gmail account in to a virtual storage drive, this one works directly from inside Windows Explorer. Gmail Loader - For Windows or Linux, aids you in loading your email to your Gmail account. GMailFS - Turns your Gmail space into a virtual drive that your Windows Explorer can see. GotMailG - A Mac widget to display the number of unread messages in your inbox.
Firefox Tools. ONLINE PRESENTATIONS: 30+ Presentation & Slideshow Services. Preezo launched last week, bringing another new player to the online presentations scene. Meanwhile, Google Presentations is set to launch by the end of August - possibly as early as this week. With so many services in this market, we've rounded up more than 30 tools to create, host and share online presentations. Adiós, Powerpoint!
—-Ajax13.com - AjaxPresents is an online presentation editor that enables you to edit Microsoft PowerPoint files (.ppt) as well as Open source presentation files (.odp). It requires Ajax13 and does not require installation of any software on computer. authorSTREAM.com - Users can present and share their PowerPoint presentations with others. BrinkPad.com - BrinkPad enables users to create presentations with text and images. Demofuse.com - Users can create interactive website tours in minutes with Demofuse. Dimdim - Display your presentations to anyone remotely with Dimdim, a challenger to Webex.
PreZentit.com - Display your online presentations to other users. COLLEGE TOOLBOX: 60+ Tools For Back To School. Summer is winding down and it's time to head back to school. This list comprises everything from financial aid to local guides, social networking, web-based applications and much more for the student with no time to waste in getting the most out of their education. Application Sites BeRecruited.com - For student athletes to fill out a form and be connected with college recruiters while getting information on scholarships. Cappex.com - Create a profile and let universities approach you, talk only to the schools that interest you. USphere.com - Fill out an online application showing your grades, test scores, college preferences, and more.
Zinch.com - Show potential schools you are more than ACT/SAT score by writing about yourself and creating a portfolio to sell yourself. Buy/Sell/Trade Sites ACollegeTrade.com - Buy or sell text books, CDs, DVDs, and more in an auction setting that charges no fees. BooksForSchool.ca - A Canadian-based site for buying & selling your textbooks. Informational. ITUNES TOOLBOX: 30+ Tools For iTunes. Apple launched iTunes widgets last week, allowing you to post your iTunes info to blogs and social networks.
We thought it would be a good opportunity to round up all the services that let you extend and customize iTunes, as well as sharing your music with your friends. Desktop Applications Aurora - A Mac OS X only application for making it so you can wake-up to your favorite playlist via your computer. Bandwagon - An automated backup service of your entire iTunes library to a remote server of your choosing. Currently Mac only. GimmeSomeTune - Built for Mac OS X, gives you a mini-controller with numerous hot keys, downloads album covers, support for iChat and much more. Goombah - Monitors your play history, compares it to other users and makes suggestions of tracks you may like, and suggests free downloads from their library.
IdleTunes - Aids in managing your iTunes library, cleaning out dead tracks, making a playlist for each album, exporting playlists, and more. Tangerine! Miscellaneous. Travel Toolbox: 75+ Online Travel Resources. If you're in the Northern Hemisphere, there's still time to enjoy a summer vacation. We've rounded up 75+ sites to help you on your way, including travel search, deal sites, travel social networks and user-generated reviews. Bon voyage. For more brevity, Travel Hacking: Essential Sites for Summer Travelers Fare Finders/ Search Engines FareCompare- An insightful fare comparison service, good for acquiring a base of information towards an educated buying decision. SideStep- One of the premier ways to find cheap flights and hotels. Kosmix Travel- Search and find flights, hotels, and cars. Trabber- Nicely implemented, multi-site, flight search engine.
FareChase- A powerful flight and hotel search engine, one of the best out there. boo.com- Travel search engine, price comparison, and review service. Tripbase- Personalized travel research "assistant". Kayak- Ranks among Farechase and SideStep as the best ways to find cheap flights and hotels. JustStepsAway- Vacation rental search engine. Other. GREEN LIVING TOOLBOX: 80+ Green Sites. Yahoo is currently holding a contest to find a green logo, while just last week a green living social network was acquired. In short: green is the new black. We've rounded up 80+ tools, social sites and resources to help you help the planet. Carbon Footprint Calculators, Other Calculators & Carbon Offsets Environmental Defense PaperCalculator - Calculate the environmental impact of the paper products you use.
The Carbon Diet - Track your carbon footprint every day and compare your footprint with those of your friends. NativeEnergy - Carbon offsets and a travel carbon calculator. The Nature Conservancy Carbon Calculator - Another carbon footprint calculator. BeGreen - A carbon calculator and information resource that also offers carbon offsets. zerofootprint - Helping individuals, organizations, and cities reduce their environmental impact (their goal is to get 1,000,000 people pledging to reduce their environmental footprint by 10% in one year). Yahoo! Search Engines, Directories & Guides Games. WORDPRESS GOD: 300+ Tools for Running Your WordPress Blog. As one of the leading open source blogging platforms, WordPress has inspired hundreds (if not thousands) of plugins and tools to customize your blog. In this article, we've compiled a list of more than 300 of our favorites. This information is compiled from previous Mashable articles.
If you enjoy this post, also see ONLINE MEDIA GOD and ONLINE PRODUCTIVITY GOD. For the blogger AjaxWP - Adds AJAX to all aspects of your WordPress site, which speeds up the load times. Alexa Rank - Display your Alexa rank with pride. Ajax Comment Preview - Allows readers to preview their comment before submitting. asTunes - Retrieves data from your Audioscrobbler/last.fm profile and posts it as a list on your blog.
Codebox - Creates a side scrolling box for displaying code snippets. Crossroads - Adds thumbnails and comments from your Flickr account. FireStats - Full featured statistics including referrers and popular pages. Google PageRank - Allows you to display your Google Page Rank on your blog. For your readers. DIGG TOOLBOX: 50+ Digg Tools and Resources. Developers have built a wide variety of tools to enhance the Digg experience for both readers of the social news site and authors hoping to get their content Dugg. With the launch of the Digg API earlier this year, applications have become increasingly useful; we've compiled a list of more than 50 of the best.
Official Digg Tools Digg Widget - Display the latest Digg news on your site with this widget. Allows for custom formatting and automatically updates on the fly. Digg This Button - Use the Digg This button to encourage your readers to submit your content to Digg.com. Digg The Blog - The official blog providing news, information, updates and everything else Digg related. Google IG Module - Personalize your iGoogle page with the latest updates from Digg.
Digg Top Stories - The hottest stories hitting the Digg database. Digg Buttons and Badges - Offers different styles of official Digg buttons and badges to display on your website or blog. Firefox Add-Ons Digg This! VOIP TOOLBOX: 30+ VoIP Services. FORUMS GUIDE: 70+ Resources for Creating a Forum. MORE THAN A BROWSER: 19 Alternative Ways to Use Firefox. MOBILE PRODUCTIVITY TOOLBOX: 45+ Mobile Productivity Resources. SKYPE TOOLBOX: 50+ Enhancements for Skype. 30+ Language Tools For Firefox. AMAZON TOOLBOX: 40+ Amazon Tools. WEB OS RUNDOWN: 45+ Web Operating Systems. 50+ Google Reader Extensions and Scripts For Firefox. 15 Ways To Create Website Screenshots.