ONLINE POLLING TOOLBOX: 40+ Online Polling Sites. There's an election next year, and already blogs and websites are taking polls to see exactly how the candidates stack up.
It's good news for polling startups, with the launch of another one, SubmitYourVote, last week. Here are more than 40 ways to assess readers' opinions on everything from politics to your fashion sense. Buzzdash - Start polls on topics including news, sports, politics to relationships, philosophy and religion. 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. 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. 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!
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. 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. 30+ Tools to Turn Wordpress into a Personal Hub. With more of our lives being lived online, it's nice to centralize our media as much as possible.
New aggregated social networks are springing up, but did you know you can do much of this already from your blog? These 30+ Wordpress tools will help you display and run more of your digital life from Wordpress itself. This post is part of the Wordpress Tips series. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.
DIGG TOOLBOX: 50+ Digg Tools and Resources. VOIP TOOLBOX: 30+ VoIP Services. You can't have failed to notice that Skype suffered major downtime this week. However, there many more VoIP service providers that enable users to make free or cheap international calls through computers, landlines or cellphones. Many of them offer social networking features plus easy embedding options in blogs and social networking sites. FORUMS GUIDE: 70+ Resources for Creating a Forum. Among the frenzy of MySpace clones, let's not forget good old forum software. MORE THAN A BROWSER: 19 Alternative Ways to Use Firefox. Browsing? MOBILE PRODUCTIVITY TOOLBOX: 45+ Mobile Productivity Resources. In the fast paced world, we're constantly trying to improve our productivity, but it can get hard when you're on the move. We've compiled a list of mobile productivity tools that are accessible through WAP enabled sites, mobile download applications, voice, and SMS integration.
Some of them use web applications while others are standalone, but they all help you stay productive while on the go. SKYPE TOOLBOX: 50+ Enhancements for Skype. As the VoIP service of choice for tens of millions of people, Skype has spawned a robust developer community, with programmers and entrepreneurs building hundreds of applications that look to piggy back on the service’s enormous success. 30+ Language Tools For Firefox. The web is a a global phenomenon, so it's a shame that so many of us are stuck within our own little English-language corner of it - especially with so many exciting new startups in foreign languages. Here we present 30+ tools to help you transition between various languages, and maybe even learn something in the process.
Translation Bork Bork Bork! - Ever wondered how a webpage would like if it was written like The Swedish Chef from The Muppet Show wrote it? AMAZON TOOLBOX: 40+ Amazon Tools. WEB OS RUNDOWN: 45+ Web Operating Systems. Facebook wants to be the operating system for the web, it says, and this week's changes to its email system are a tiny part of that puzzle. 50+ Google Reader Extensions and Scripts For Firefox. 15 Ways To Create Website Screenshots.