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5 Online Tools For Designers To Help Recognize Unknown Fonts

If you are designer you undoubtedly view websites critically. You judge their flow and overall design. An important part of a site’s design is the font used on it. If you like a font style, you would definitely want to incorporate it into one of your latest site designs. But in order to do that you first need to know what font style is actually used. Because of the sheer number of fonts available on the web and the number of new fonts being created, it is hard to recognize fonts simply by looking them.

This is why I thought I should create a list of 5 online font recognizers. These tools are must-haves for every website designers. Give each of them a read and decide which one will suit your usage best.

By DB

FindEXIF Lets You View Detailed EXIF Data of Any Image Online

When you take pictures through a digital camera, a lot of detailed information is attached to it. Among other things, these details include which camera the picture was taken from, what are its dimensions, its exposure time, and color space. All this attached information is called EXIF data and can be accessed by right clicking your photo on your computer and entering the details field its properties (in Windows).

By DB

DoYouBuzz Can Help You Easily Create Customizable Resume and Spread It Across Social Networks

People whose work involves computers need to have an online version of their resumes a.k.a. curricula vita. If you plan on uploading an online CV furnished in Microsoft Word, you will not stand out from the crowd. You need a resume that is brilliant and eye catching. DoYouBuzz can help with that.

DoYouBuzz is a wonderful website that helps you create an online resume within minutes. The site features free and paid accounts. While you can take full advantage of the site’s services only through the paid account, the free version will be a good place to start.

By DB

Digital Product Delivery: Selling Products Online Is Not That Hard, As We Assume!

Selling digital products on the Internet can look like an overwhelming and expensive endeavor. However, with the right tools, knowledge, and experience, it is very feasible to make a remarkably viable online marketplace in a matter of a few clicks of the mouse. Significantly helping to streamline and simplify the process for online marketers while still offering a wealth of features and options is DPD. Standing for Digital Product Delivery, it is a comprehensive e-commerce utility for people who want to sell digital products on the web.

By Chris Peterson

6rounds: A New Way To Experience Video Chat With Unique & Fun Concept

6rounds is a free to use website that lets you find new friends in a much better way than Chatourlette. The site lets you sign up and enter “rounds.” A round is a connection between two people; this connection is video and text chat based.

By DB

7 Tools And Applications To Help You Save Electrical Power

Leaving our appliances on while we are not using them is a terrible waste of electrical power. There are parts of the world that do not have electricity at all; we should do our part to respect the resources we have and save them whenever / wherever we can.

Below you will find a list of 7 tools to prevent wasting electrical power. I believe that each entry in the list serves a useful purpose; read about each one and choose the one (or more than one) that suits you best.

By DB

StickyBits: Attach Unlimited Content to Barcodes On Any Product (iPhone + Android)

Computer users share content in multiple ways. In addition to emails, file hosting sites, and social networking websites, there are other innovative ways being created to share stuff with your friends. One such new innovative sharing technique makes use of barcodes on products.

By DB

9 Cool Websites You Need To Bookmark To Manipulate Your Photos

The most fun way to use image manipulation technology is by using it on our own photographs. Morphing our photos can produce some very amusing results which will surely entertain us. Many websites offer image manipulation services. For you all I have gathered a list of 9 such entertaining website that let us have fun with our images. Check out each entry in the list and you will definitely find something that will manipulate photos to achieve amusing results.

By DB

Supercharge Your Google Reader & Read Your Feeds In Style With FeedSquares (Chrome Extension)

To read updates on the Blogger pages I am following, I use Google Reader. If you are unfamiliar with Reader, it is Google’s service that lets us read any Atom and RSS feed online or offline. Every since its main release in September 2007, it has been tried out many Google users and is now quite popular.

Although I am happy with the convenience that Reader provides (the ability to read all our Atom plus RSS reads on a single dashboard) I feel that Reader’s interface could be revamped and made more visually appealing. One tool that achieves this is FeedSquares.

By DB

HP Gloe Helps You Tag And Find Web Content Relevant To Any Location

Nowadays search engines are focusing on content that is relevant to a user’s location. But one cannot rely completely on results generated by any search engine. The results can be biased as search engine optimization techniques can be used by any site owner or blogger.

HP is one company that has realized the unreliability of location-related search results on search engines. What they have produced as a result is their own geotagging (sort of) service, called Gloe.

By DB

MicroMobs: Easily Create Real Time Collaborative Chat Groups

Online social networks are a great way to stay in touch with our friends and family. But these networks cannot always be satisfactory. Take Facebook for instance. When we share content on Facebook we do not have full control over who gets to see the content. And with Facebook’s ever changing privacy settings, we cannot get a grip on how the system works.

By DB

11 Websites To Help You Find iPhone App Reviews And Recommendations Easily

Apple has three major devices out that are in popular demand: iPod Touch, iPhone, and now the iPad. In addition to their hardware, what their owners love about them is the availibility of countless applications. From little tasks to big ones, applications for these devices can make jobs easier. Other applications are made for pure entertainment and make owning an iDevice all the more worthwhile.

By DB

Streamd.in, A Browser Based Twitter Client With Google Maps Integration

Twitter has become a huge sharing source online. Accountholder on the social networking giant keep their followers posted of each and every thing that they experience. It cannot be argued that Twitter is a great way to know what people are talking about, what the trending topics are, and what is concerning Twitter users the most. This information keeps people well informed of their surroundings and the people in them.

By DB

Aggregating and Sharing Web Links Made Easy With BagTheWeb

We can find content online on any subject; the internet has everything we are looking for. The information is usually distributed over a number of sources.

Suppose we want to view all of Coldplay’s videos; there is no single URL that will have all the videos; we will need to visit multiple URLs. To share the videos, we will need to share all those URLs. The same can be applied to any other thing we are looking for – we will need to visit multiple URLs.

By DB

MashPedia The Real-time Encyclopedia Searches Many Online Sources In One Go

The sources in most online encyclopedias are static. Take Wikipedia for example. User submitted articles on Wikipedia have fixed sources for their articles. A change in the source therefore can present a problem for that particular article.

Suppose there was an encyclopedia with the latest sources accompanying its article on a subject. Not only will that be a great help to the encyclopedia’s user, but it would make the article more reliable as well.

By DB

3 Chrome Extensions To Enhance Your Grooveshark Music Listening Experience

Streaming music online lets us listen to any song without having anything stored on our computer. Moreover since the procedure takes place in our browser, it does not depend on our operating system so any OS user can stream music online.

One wonderful online music streaming website is Grooveshark. Visitors can quickly create an account (although an account is not necessary to start streaming music), then go on and create their playlist. Playlists are played within the built-in player of Grooveshark.

By DB

HeadMagnet Helps Remembering & Memorizing Names, Faces, Dates, Quotes and More

Our memory always loses some stuff that we do not use regularly. This is something all of us know. This is why some of us do not know fractions anymore and cannot explain them to our children; this is also why we cannot sometimes remember the names of certain celebrities or places.

What we need is something that helps us revise everything we do not want to forget. What we need is Headmagnet.

By DB

Learn New Things And Get Your Questions Answered With BlurtIt

Are you wondering whether Robbie Williams like the color blue? Are you trying to find out how many molecules make up 2 grams of salt? For questions like these, the internet does not have direct sources that can provide us with clear answers. For example the Wikipedia page on Robbie Williams or Salt will not be helpful in finding the answer to the above mentioned questions.

BlurtIt is a free website that lets users sign up and post their question online, on the BlurtIt forum. Unlike other forums, It is dedicated solely to answering people’s questions on any subject.

By DB

Highlight & Annotate Any Web Page Before Sharing With Webklipper

Suppose you just finished reading a hilarious comic strip online. To share this strip with your friends, you can deploy the URL of the comic on your social networking account. Adding any comments with the ‘share’ will only indicate what you felt about the strip as a whole. If you want to specify which part of the strip you liked you cannot do so without going into great details.

What we need is a commenting tool that lets us add comments to webpages themselves. Our comments can be placed right next to the webpage area the comment is referring to. That way our contacts can read a part of the webpage and find out immediately what we thought about it. It can also be a way to highlight the most funny / interesting part of a webpage which our contacts can skip to.

By DB