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MEET THEAUTHOR Amit Agarwal is a personal technology columnist and founder of Digital Inspiration, one of the most widely read tech and how-to blogs in the world.. read more

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As w e approach the daw n of a new year, here are my picks for the 101 most useful w ebsites of the year 2011. Update: A much expanded version of this list is now available as an eBook in Amazons Kindle Store. The Most Useful Websites [Amazon.com]

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The sites mentioned here, w ell most of them, solve at least one problem really w ell and they all have simple w eb addresses (URLs) that you can easily learn by heart thus saving you a trip to Google.

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01. screenr.com record movies of your desktop and send them straight to YouTube. 02. bounceapp.com for capturing full length screenshots of w eb pages. 03. goo.gl shorten long URLs and convert URLs into QR codes. 04. untiny.me find the original URLs that's hiding behind a short URLs. 05. qClock find the local time of a city using a Google Map. 06. copypastecharacter.com copy special characters that aren't on your keyboard. 07. postpost.com a better search engine for tw itter. 08. lovelycharts.com create flow charts, netw ork diagrams, sitemaps, etc. 09. iconfinder.com the best place to find icons of all sizes. 10. office.com dow nload templates, clipart and images for your Office documents. 11. follow upthen.com the easiest w ay to setup email reminders. 12. jotti.org scan any suspicious file or email attachment for viruses. 13. w olframalpha.com gets answ ers directly w ithout searching - see more w olfram tips. 14. printw hatyoulike.com print w eb pages w ithout the clutter. 15. joliprint.com reformats new s articles and blog content as a new spaper. 16. ctrql.org a search engine for RSS feeds. 17. e.ggtimer.com a simple online timer for your daily needs. 18. coralcdn.org if a site is dow n due to heavy traffic, try accessing it through coral CDN. 19. random.org pick random numbers, flip coins, and more. 20. pdfescape.com lets you can quickly edit PDFs in the brow ser itself. 21. view er.zoho.com Preview PDFs and Presentations directly in the brow ser. 22. tubemogul.com simultaneously upload videos to YouTube and other video sites. 23. dabbleboard.com your virtual w hiteboard. 24. scr.im share you email address online w ithout w orrying about spam. 25. spypig.com now get read receipts for your email. 26. sizeasy.com visualize and compare the size of any product. 27. myfonts.com/W hatTheFont quickly determine the font name from an image. 28. google.com/w ebfonts a good collection of open source fonts. 29. regex.info find data hidden in your photographs see more EXIF tools. 30. livestream.com broadcast events live over the w eb, including your desktop screen. 31. iw antmyname.com helps you search domains across all TLDs. 32. homestyler.com design from scratch or re-model your home in 3d. 33. join.me share you screen w ith anyone over the w eb. 34. onlineocr.net recognize text from scanned PDFs - see other OCR tools. 35. flightstats.com - Track flight status at airports w orldw ide. 36. w etransfer.com for sharing really big files online. 37. pastebin.com a temporary online clipboard for your text and code snippets. 38. polishmyw riting.com check your w riting for spelling or grammatical errors. 39. marker.to easily highlight the important parts of a w eb page for sharing. 40. typew ith.me w ork on the same document w ith multiple people. 41. w hichdatew orks.com planning an event? find a date that w orks for all. 42. everytimezone.com a less confusing view of the w orld time zones. 43. gtmetrix.com the perfect tool for measuring your site performance online. 44. noteflight.com print music sheets, w rite your ow n music online (review ).
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My new book - The Most Useful Websites - has a collection of 150 undiscovered and incredibly useful w ebsites that w ill enhance your productivity.

Changelog: The follow ing w ebsites w ere part of the original list that I published in December, 2010. Unfortunately, these sites are no longer available and hence have been removed or replaced w ith alternatives. 01. virustotal.com scan any suspicious file or email attachment for viruses. 02. isnsfw .com w hen you w ish to share a NSFW page but w ith a w arning. 03. truveo.com the best place for searching w eb videos. 04. tabbloid.com your favorite blogs delivered as PDFs. 05. w arrick.cs.odu.edu you'll need this w hen your bookmarked w eb pages are deleted. 06. tempalias.com generate temporary email aliases, better than disposable email. 07. w hisperbot.com send an email w ithout using your ow n account. 08. errorlevelanalysis.com find w hether a photo is real or a photoshopped one. 09. google.com/dictionary get w ord meanings, pronunciations and usage examples. 10. w obzip.org unzip your compressed files online. 11. namemytune.com w hen you need to find the name of a song. 12. snapask.com use email on your phone to find sports scores, read W ikipedia, etc.

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Pinal Dave Microsoft 678 subscribers Excellent list - need to work further to get listed here :)

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