Tiny bytes of tech
Have you ever had the need for converting an Excel or Word file to PDF, or vice versa, in short order? You may already have a PDF printer setup on your Windows or Apple computer, but changing data within a PDF to a document can be tricky. Let the free document conversion service at freepdfconvert.com take care of this for you. In a matter of a few minutes, you have your new files available via email or direct download.
Looking for a job? Need to create a professional-looking resume quickly? CeeVee is a cool service that lets you create a resume by choosing from their many themes and lets you share it across your social network. You can make your resume public or private and save it as a PDF.
Looking for free icons that you can use for your desktop? ICONES.PRO is a search engine for icons only. It has more than 20,000 icons indexed, so you can pretty much find anything you might need. An even though the site is not in English, you can still search for icons using regular English since the names of the icons are mostly English.
Want to see which brands/companies are mentioned on Twitter the most? TweetBrands in an interesting site that lists out the top 50 brands mentioned today on Twitter. It also includes a link so that you can read through the actual tweets. Good for brand managers!
TubeRadio is a cool free web service that basically blends together YouTube, iTunes, and Spotify into one app. You can use it to search through all the millions of songs on YouTube and create playlists, watch music videos, and share your playlists with others. It’s got a sleek interface and lots of public playlists.
Ever find a really cool video on YouTube, but not on another video sharing site? Or maybe DailyMotion has some cool videos, not on YouTube or Break.com, or Blip.tv? Yubby is a service that lets you collect videos from over 30 video sharing sites, put them into one channel and share it with whoever you like. Nice!
I love stock photography sites because I usually need professional looking images for my various websites. However, it’s always a pain to search 10 different sites just to find one picture.
Cyclo.ps is a new website that lets you search many stock photo sites at once and see the results in one view! The list includes Shutterstock, stock.xchng, Fotolia, stockvalut and more!
If you have one of those really high-end LCD monitors, it’s probably pretty hard to find high-quality wallpapers with a resolution of 2560×1600! That’s just madness.
Simple Desktops aims to give you free wallpapers at this resolution that are also high quality. They don’t have a bunch on there now, but it’s just started, so hopefully they’ll be a lot more later!
Earlier last week, I wrote a post called How to create a list in Twitter. Lists are a new way to organize people who tweet about a similar topic into one group.
Listorious is a new way to find great Twitter lists created by other people that you can follow! Want to follow a bunch of New York Times writers? Follow Staff! Want to follow people who only posts links to cool stuff on the web? Follow Linkers. Fun stuff!
Google Sidewiki is a new feature in the Google Toolbar that lets anyone add information to any web page on the Internet. When you annotate a page, it will be visible to anyone else who visits that page with the Google Toolbar and Sidewiki installed. An algorithm is used to present the most useful information first.