Tiny bytes of tech
Are you someone who takes notes on pieces of paper or in other random places? Or maybe a full-featured note-taking application like Evernote is not for you. If you want to cut out all the bloat and keep really simple notes and to-do lists online, check out SimpleText.ws.
It’s free, uses your Google account for logging in, and lets you sync your notes between your home, work, and mobile devices like the iPhone. Nice!
Need to lose some weight? Or want to build up some muscles? First you need a good workout plan so that you know which exercises to perform on which days.
WorkoutBox is a free website that has professionally-designed workouts and step-by-step video demonstrations from a set of fitness experts. Definitely worth checking out before you start a new workout or fitness plan.
Do you have an eBay business? If so, you might be interested in an online tool called Auctomatic. It allows you to manage your eBay business by tracking your inventory, creating auction templates, and optimizing your listing strategy. You also get auction statistics to see which items are popular and free unlimited picture uploads and storage!
Do you like to draw? If you can want to try your hand at drawing and also share your art with your friends and family easily, check out Sketchfu. It’s a simple online drawing canvas that makes it really easy to share your final works. If you have a tablet, you can really create some cool art too!
Looking for a website where you can watch movies online for free? Depending on whether you want to watch Classics, International films, documentaries, etc, you might have to go to different sites.
OpenCulture has written up a great article on over 20 places that you can go to watch movies online for free. Check it out!
Of course, you already know that if you want to delete all traces of your internet browsing, you have to clear the History, delete the cookies and use one of the stealth modes in the new browsers.
So that’s pretty much it right? No one can see what sites you visited if you did this. WRONG! The Geek explains how there are other tricky aspects of Windows that record what you are doing and if you really want to get rid of all traces you have to clear the DNSCache and all Flash cookies. Say what!?
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.
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!
I recently had to transfer the domain name for a website of mine from one registrar to another, i.e. Domain.com, etc. It’s much easier to keep track of things if you have all of your domain names registered with one company. However, it requires a few steps to properly do a domain transfer. Here is a quick guide to walk you through the whole process.