Thursday 5 July 2012

Helpful Online Tools

These tools are useful to me. Maybe you will appreciate them too.

Pastehtml.com died shortly after posting this but I found a great replacement http://bo.lt and then Pastehtml came back. Pastehtml may or may not be currently be working; if it is working it has one minor advantage over bo.lt because it allows you to do anonymous pastes.

Online html editing. With pastehtml you can paste a permanent copy of your html (permanent as anything is on the ever-changing web): http://pastehtml.com/

Bo.lt does almost everything pastehtml does or did. With bo.lt you can upload html files and you can make a copy of any page from anywhere on the web. I had heard about bo.lt, but as a replacement it did not immediately come to mind, thankfully this page http://www.labnol.org/internet/archive-web-pages/20192/ alerted me to bo.lt.

Here's a bolt of the page responsible for my discovery: how_i_discovered_bolt. If you are experimenting with html this page is also useful: http://www.onlinehtmleditor.net/

Freeze a copy of a web-page: http://freze.it/

Image creation, photo editing: http://www.sumo.fm/#create http://www.sumo.fm/. Note also the free software GIMP.

Simple note pad: http://www.editpad.org/

Useful dictionary not usually displayed in search results: http://www.collinsdictionary.com/

Quickly choose colour codes: http://www.colorpicker.com/

Stopwatch timer: http://www.online-stopwatch.com/countdown-clock/full-screen/

World time-zones, current times: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

Virtual keyboard: http://gate2home.com/English-Keyboard

If you need to discover the true location of a URL then use URL X-Ray: http://urlxray.com/

Geometric shapes (includes html hex codes): Geometric_Shapes_Unicode_block

Remove line breaks from text: http://www.textfixer.com/tools/remove-line-breaks.php/

w3schools.com web tutorials: http://www.w3schools.com/


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