Hidden Gems – The Top 10 Most Useful Websites
Today I am about share with you the top 10 most useful websites that can be used in your daily life.
They aren’t very known & many of you have probably not known them.
I find them useful and I hope you will too!
Screencast-O-Matic
Record movies of your desktop, web pages, etc. & send them to YouTube directly
Screencast-O-Matic let’s to record everything that happens on your desktop. This can be very advantageous if you want to record any short tutorial. Another amazing thing is you can send your recording direct to YouTube. To use Screencast-O-Matic you haven’t to download any software. It’s a free service which you can run on Windows or Mac or even on smart phones.
You make come across some errors while launching recorder. Don’t worry too much about it, just update your Java version & run the application again. That’s it. You can do many things with Screencast-O-Matic like reveal tricks which you know in a creative way, and check the pro & cons of various products & more.
Bounce
Take screenshot of any webpage, add notes & share with your friends or enemies
What will you do here if you have to send a screenshot of any website with notes on it? Usually this could be a lengthy procedure involving taking a screen shot, edit it & so on. But I here am a better suggestion for this task. You can use Bounceapp. It’s a free app and it is very easy & simple to be used. You dont have to download it either because it is a simple online web application.
taking screenshots with not just enter the URL of the website & click on Grab Screenshot button now it will be redirected to the entered URL page, select the part of the page by simply drag & add a note if you want & save it. A short URL appeared in the top right side corner which you can be willing to share with your friends. You have also option to upload your image from the desktop also.
Goo.Gel
One of the best URL shortener available in internet world
If you are a blogger, then you may know about this one. If you don’t already, then I recommend it to use if you need in order to shorten your URL. Countless people don’t like long URL’s, and may be you are also one of them. There are multiple benefits of using good.Gel. First one is short URL’s is user friendly. If you have any social page of your website, then avoid sharing lengthy URL’s.
This website allows you to detect how much clicks you have generated with a shortened URL. Every single click is counted which is very handy when you want to know how much traffic is coming from the shortened URL’s.
Mutiny
Helps you to reveal the real URL behind the shorten URL
With Goo.Gel you can shorten URL & obviously you know the real URL but what will you do when you want to know the shortened URL without visiting the site. Well Untiny helps you to detect the shortened URL’s real path. I think this website is made just for fun because if any user wants to know the shortened URL then he will simply click on URL go to the website & get the actual URL. This website can be expected to be very handy in case you have lots of shortened URL’s & little time for visiting pages.
Time Now
Gives you more than a TIME
Well doesn’t be mistaken because of the name of the website. This is a website which not only gives you a local time but it gives you even more. Here you don’t have to enter any city, country etc. Just go to the website & it will automatically give you local time, city, time of EST, CST, PST, GMT, UTC, temperature & many other things.
There are plenty of things to discover on this website which I can’t describe here. There’s too much to list. Just go to the website & to explore yourself.
Copy Paste Character
Special characters out of your keyboard
Want to include some special characters in your HTML or WordPress website? If yes then this website allows you to add lots of special characters on your website. Special characters give your website a new look which could be beneficial for the user engagement.
It is very straightforward to use. Just go to the website, select your symbol & paste the special character wherever you want to paste it. If your website doesn’t support the direct special character then switch the option & change it to as HTML & paste the code to your website.
Keyhole
Search engine for Twitter
When we need to find something, then we google it but what will you do when you want a search result from a Twitter like social networking platform? Well it is easy if it could be the latest sweet but again if the tweet is too old or something it easy to find for you? Thanks to Keyhole, which is a search engine for Twitter, you can now search this social platform. Just type your query or search term & it will come forward with results.
This will not show you just result. You can explore things in every possible manner such as searching specific tweets if it is embedded with videos, photos, links & more.
Feb.Me/AppStore
IOS apps outside iTunes
If you have an iOS device then you are limited to iTunes. If you are getting bored with this & looking for a new way to discover apps, then this app will help you out. You can download iOS apps without launching iTunes. Give it a try now. Click on link & explore the apps. Hope this will give you a different experience.
Icon Finder
Thousands of icons in all sizes
This could be the better place for you if you want some unique icons. Here you can explore over more than 450,000 icons. This website comes with a minimal interface which reminds me of Google. Just type icon type you want & explore. You can choose from free to a paid version. If you want lots of icon sets then I recommend that sign in & subscribe for unlimited plan so you haven’t to pay for extra. In this plan, you can download unlimited icons in $29.
Office
Online Microsoft Office
May be you neglect the wired version of Microsoft Office because you are using an offline version. I recommend that use the online version if you are working on an important topic because all data are saved on the drive so if you forget your laptop you can still access your data from anywhere. Many people use Google Drive but I think it has fewer features. You can check yourself & compare the both.