Online Photo Editors

Photos are everywhere on the web. From sharing with friends, to editing, printing, buying, selling, searching, remixing and free hosting, we’ve lined up a plethora of resources for photo fiends.

OnlinePhotoTool – Edit pictures taken from your hard drive as well as images that are already on the Internet.

MyImager – Upload images from your computer and from anywhere on the web and edit them freely with the dozens of tools and filters available.

SnipShot – Edit photos from your hard-drive, your Webshots account, or your Flickr account in one place, and then save them back to any of those locations.

Pixenate – Online photo editor with many special effects. You can also integrate Pixenate on your website and allow visitors to edit images.

Phixr – Edit your pictures and directly upload them to Flickr, Fotopic, Livejournal, Photobucket, Fotolog.com, Buzznet and Dropshots.

Pixer.us – Edit your photos online within your browser, add special effects and save them in the most popular formats.

Picture2Life – Edit pictures available on the Internet or taken from your hard disk. You can also import images from popular photo sharing sites.

Preloadr – Photo editor with good image manipulation functions that is connected with your Flickr account.

Picnik – Photo editor with many interesting features which is directly connected to many photo sharing sites.

Pixelmator – Pixelmator is a photo editing service for Mac users. The design is superb and intuitive. There are selection tools, paintbrushes of various size and shape, retouching tools, layering and much more. You can enhance photos, analyze colors, add text, create stylized scenes with halftones and image blurring.

Free Photo Sharing Hosts

Photos are everywhere on the web. From sharing with friends, to editing, printing, buying, selling, searching, remixing and free hosting, we’ve lined up a plethora of resources for photo fiends.

Zorpia – Zorpia is like Myspace (MySpace) with some more photo features, you can upload you photos and share them on your profile.

Clickfriends - Document your life with your own digital photo essay, then share it with friends and family through ClickFriends.com. Now you can have the same site take care of your online photo albums and your Facebook (Facebook) or MySpace photo albums. Just upload your photos to the ClickFriends site, and then have them exported to your profile on your preferred social networking site. It´s free and easy to sign up.

Snappages – Snappages.com provides space for you to save and organize your photos, your online friends from virtual communities, and your events in one well-designed web page. It combines various web concepts, including online storage, file sharing, and Facebook-style friend communication.

Photorgy – Photorgy is photo uploading/sharing tool which works with AIM (aim). Photo albums can be shared and owned by any number of friends, family members, and colleagues.

SlideShare – SlideShare is a content sharing site where you can host and display presentations. Maybe you would use it to show your professional work, or just for personal photo sharing, power point presentations about your latest entrepreneurial idea, or graphics you designed.

Zoomandgo – Contribute your travel photos, videos, or general advice to the Zoom and Go site, and they will reward you with cash. The site has a system of points which can be awarded to the content you submit according to what kind of content it is (written reviews receive less then photos, and videos receive the most).

Zooomr – Store, share, sort, sell, and search all your photos and those of other users at Zooomr. Users can post comments on individual pictures, therefore, gaining feedback on the photo, as well as gaining insight into the other photographers who use the site. Photos can be shared for free, or can be sold through the site.

BurstCast – Burstcast offers space for you to upload pics from your camera phone either by MMS or by e-mail, right from the phone. On the site, you can choose for your photos to be made public and shown on the home page (but it´s either all or nothing; you can´t have some photos be public and some private).

Mostrips – The photo sharing site is designed to let you create albums to be easily shared on mobile phones. It´s a useful way to send work if you are a photographer, or a head shot if you are a model or actor. Or it can just be a fun way to share photos from your vacations among friends and family.

DPhoto – DPhoto is a photo sharing service which offers well-designed graphics and a professional appearance. With DPhoto you can share your photos with friends and family in an ad-free, secure site.

Invitr – Invitr is a Flickr related application which simply extends your sharing capabilities. With Invitr you can share your Flickr photos with non-Flickr members; so photos that have been categorized as private can now be sent and shared with anyone you choose.

DigitalRailroad – Digital Railroad is aimed at aiding professional photographers connect with more fans and even help them connect to content providers and media companies who are looking to buy their work.

ContakMe – Contakme is a new site where you can upload an unlimited number of photos, create albums, and rate other people´s photos.

Flickr – The most popular photo sharing site. Upload photos, create sets and join one of the greatest communities of professional and unprofessional photographers.

Picasa – Google’s (Google) answer to photo sharing. The main application is a download, but there are also web albums.

Photobucket – one of the most popular image hosting services around, favorite amongst MySpace users. Makes it very easy to post your images to social networking sites; gives you 25 GB of monthly traffic and 1 GB of storage with images themselves being up to 1 MB in size.

ImageShack – The most popular image hosting service. Upload images up to 1.5 MB and embed them in any web page.

AllYouCanUpload- There is no limit to the image size you can upload. You can also upload up to three images in the same time.

ImageHosting – Upload multiple pictures at one time. The maximum filesize you can upload depends on what account you registered.

TinyPic – Upload pictures and videos and embed them anywhere. The direct link for your picture or video will be tiny (e.g. http://tinypic.com/1)

TheImageHosting – Upload multiple images at once and zipped image files. Maximum file size allowed is 1 MB.

BayImg – Free uncensored image hosting provided by the Pirate Bay. The max file upload size is 100MB and you can can upload about 140 different formats.

XS.to – Upload your images and embed them anywhere. You can also delete images you previously uploaded. Max file size allowed is 2.5 MB.

ImgPlace – Upload up to five images at one time. Maximum file size allowed is 1.5 MB

FreeImageHosting.net – Register to host your images for free. Maximum file size is 3,000 KB.

FileHigh – The free “Economy” account lets you upload up to three images simultaneously and the maximum size for each file is 512 KB.

VillagePhotos – Upload pictures straight from your browser and host them online. 1 GB monthly data transfer.

ImageVenue – You can upload up to five images in the same moment. The maximum file size allowed is 1.5 MB.

ImageCross – Free MySpace image hosting. You can upload images up to 2 MB in size.

SmugMug – SmugMug is a photo uploader, editor, and community portal all in one. You can upload and share your photos, then store the photos with up to four backup copies of each photo in three varying states.

Web's Biggest Advertising

With AdWords the most dominant player in paid search, Google is looking to take the same system of aligning buyers and sellers to other forms of advertising, including web banner ads, radio, print, and mobile. Through acquisitions and several homegrown initiatives, the company is now lined up against dozens of other companies competing for ad dollars both online and off.

Contextual Advertising

Google Adsense - Thousands of companies have built a business around Google’s contextual advertising platform that matches text ads to web site content. While AdSense dominates this market, all of the big players have competing offerings, as well as a few specialty outfits. In its most recent quarter, AdSense accounted for $1.35 billion in revenue for Google.

Yahoo Publisher Network – YPN still claims to be in Beta, but offers a very similar product to AdSense. Publishers create an account and cut and paste code to their site, and Yahoo serves up ads relating to the content of the page.

MSN AdCenter – Microsoft offers its AdCenter platform to advertisers looking for exposure in Microsoft Live searches and on other MSN Properties. Currently Microsoft does not provide an open system for other web sites to serve AdCenter ads, although the company does sell advertising for Facebook. Meanwhile, Google powers the search and contextual advertising on MySpace.

Ask.com Sponsored Listings – Ask.com recently launched an AdSense competitor, going after one of Google’s perceived weaknesses – a lack of transparency in terms of telling publishers what their cut of revenue is.

MIVA – Formerly known as FindWhat.com, a popular search engine in the first Internet boom, MIVA focuses on a variety of advertising options for publishers, including contextual product MIVA MC.

Kanoodle – Kanoodle offers a solution for publishers that want to run ads next to their own search results. It’s a subsidiary of Seavast, an online marketing conglomerate.

AdBrite – Offering a marketplace of sorts, AdBrite allows publishers to place text ads on their site and have advertisers buy them directly at a fixed price. They also allow you to set a floor price and run ads from a competing network (such as AdSense) when that price can’t be beaten.

Online Display Advertising

Right Media – Acquired by Yahoo for $680 million, Right Media offers web publishers both a web-based ad management system and a marketplace called RMX Direct where advertisers can compete for publisher inventory.

aQuantive – The biggest acquisition in the history of Microsoft, aQuantive is the parent company of several online advertising outfits, including Razorfish, Atlas, and Drive. The company offers both technology for managing advertising and services for aligning buyers with web publishers.

Advertising.com – AOL was actually one of the first big players to move in on display ad networks, acquiring Advertising.com in 2004 for $435 million, a steal given the price tags of recent online advertising deals. Advertising.com claims their network of publishers reaches more than 85% of online users.

Valueclick – The biggest remaining independent ad network, Valueclick owns a wide variety of online ad properties, including Fastclick (banner ads), Commission Junction (affiliate advertising), and PriceRunner (comparison shopping). Wall Street currently values the company at $3 billion.

Tribal Fusion – Tribal Fusion is an ad network serving an estimated 19 billion monthly impressions. They provide advertisers with a variety of topical channels on which to target their ads.

24/7 Real Media – A provider of both technology and one of the Web’s largest banner advertising networks, 24/7 Real Media was acquired by global advertising agency WPP Group in May for $649 million. The company was founded all the way back in 1994.

Other Ad Formats – Broadcast, Print, In-Game

In print, Google has extended its AdWords platform to allow you to bid on ads in major newspapers. In broadcast, Google acquired dMarc, a company that aligns radio advertisers and stations. For in-game advertising, the company acquired AdScape, a small startup. Competitors abound in all three segments, primarily in the form of the status quo of buying ads directly from the newspapers and radio stations with whom you want to advertise. Meanwhile, here is how a few key players are attacking these markets:

Microsoft – In May, Microsoft acquired Massive Incorporated, which has deals with major gaming companies like Electronic Arts to provide in-game ads.

IGA Worldwide – The largest independent in-game ad network, IGA places ads in popular titles like Counter Strike and works with major advertisers like T-Mobile and Intel.

Linden Labs – As the operator of virtual world Second Life, Linden Labs has attracted major brands like Pontiac, Dell, and Coca Cola to its “game” with mixed results, including several incidents of virtual vandalism.

Bid4Spots – An online auction of sorts for last minute buying of radio advertising across the US.

SWMX Radio – Provides tools that allow radio stations to manage their advertising inventory, while offering a marketplace for advertisers to buy air time.

Newspaper National Network – Jointly owned by 24 of the nation’s largest newspapers and the Newspaper Association of America, Newspaper National Network connects advertisers directly with some of the largest newspapers in the US. The company also helps sell inventory for newspaper’s online versions.

Nationwide Newspapers – An ad agency specializing in placement of both display and classified ads in newspapers across the US, including mailers like the Penny Saver and college newspapers. Nationwide Newspapers claims a circulation of up to 60 million papers weekly.

Web's Biggest Search Engine

Google - Became the Internet’s biggest company by dominating what has become the web’s biggest market segment – online search and paid text links. Google claims a dominating 56% market share in search (Nielsen/NetRatings, May 2007) , but that hasn’t stopped dozens (probably hundreds) of companies from trying to grab a piece of the action. Most of the major search engines also come with their own advertising system, while a few startups actually rely on Google to serve up paid text ads.

Yahoo – Once the web’s biggest search engine, Yahoo still handles a reported 21.5% of searches worldwide. The company’s much anticipated but delayed Panama system for text ads has finally gone live, with early results pointing to better click through rates.

MSN – While rumors of Microsoft acquiring Yahoo have persisted (and been discredited in the same breath), the company’s Live Search product remains number three.

Ask.com – As the crown jewel of the IAC network of sites, Ask.com has received rave reviews, including Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal declaring, “Google deserves credit for universal search, which I’m sure will get better. But Ask’s new design is much more compelling and well worth a try.” Nonetheless, Ask.com is a distant fourth in the race for search dominance.

Eurekster – Social search engine Eurekester is built around users tagging and promoting the best results. The company also markets the “Swicki” platform allowing online communities to create their own vertical search engines for users.

Rollyo – This search engine allows you to create a personalized search engine. With Rollyo, you set up a “search roll” which searches only from sites you specify, in the hope of providing you with only content you trust. Additionally, you can opt to share your search rolls with others.

Quintura – Visual search engine Quintura lets you search visually, presenting you with tag clouds relating to your search terms. As we noted in “Google Labs: A Look Under the Hood”, Google is experimenting with contextual search that shows related searches side-by-side with your original query.

Mahalo – Recently launched Mahalo is a commercialized Wikipedia (Wikipedia) of sorts, paying people to create pages on thousands of topics and continually update the results. Each content creator also gets their own profile pages where you can see the pages to which they have contributed.

Powerset – Much hyped Powerset hasn’t launched yet, but intends to build a natural language search engine that could change the way people find things online. The company has raised significant venture capital that has already valued PowerSet at more than $40 million.

Wikiasari – As part of his for-profit company, Wikia, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales looks to create the world’s largest human-powered search engine. The project is still in development, but with Wikipedia now one of the world’s largest web sites, it has an opportunity to grab a piece of the market.

Image Search – In addition to text queries, Google faces a variety of competitors in image search, including all of the usual suspects plus upstarts like Pixsy, Picsearch, and Yotophoto.

PDF Resources: Rip, Mix and Burn PDF

The desktop and web tools that went before aren’t so simple, and not all of them are free. But while Adobe Acrobat still reigns supreme, there are plenty of other ways to rip, mix and burn your PDFs.

RIP PDFs ONLINE

Adobe's - Create PDF Online takes your file in a number of formats (MS Office, RTF, AutoCAD) or will take a whack at OCR (optical character recognition) of your scanned docs. Pick your shots with this super-service, you only get five before they start asking for money.

PDF Online - BCL Technology’s PDF Online takes almost anything you’ll feed it and emails it back as a PDF.

PDF-o-matic - ESP’s PDF-o-matic takes web pages and turns them into PDFs, handy for offline viewing or integrating into papers or presentations.

Neevia online converter - Neevia’s online PDF masher offers fine control of settings like image resolution and PDF version compatibility.

PDF4U - PDF4U is unlimited in quantity but limited in size. As in, 35K. So don’t attempt to send them your 5,000 page illustrated history of the avocado.

Sanface - Sanface offers Text2PDF, which takes text pasted into a window and PDFs it right there.

DrawLoop - Then there’s DrawLoop’s Loop Service that swallows your Word docs, Excel, PDFs and the rest and spits out a single PDF.

Zamzar - Zamzar will convert any document to just about any other format–including PDF.

DESKTOP RIPPING

Ghostscript is the venerable old-skool PDF hack. It’s been around for years, and it’s free. Caveat: Not for the faint-hearted, this is a classic engineer’s dream that will seem as user-friendly as DOS to some people.

doPDF - Softland’s doPDF is a free printer driver that hooks into Windows and makes PDFs from any app that has a print command.

PDF995 - PDF995’s been around for years, powering its decent—for free, at least—tools by sticking ads in them. Lots of users means lots of stability, for what it’s worth.

Google Docs - Google Docs has a save-as-PDF function, too, and offers simple routes to sharing.

2007 Microsoft Office Add-in - This download allows you to export and save to the PDF and XPS formats in eight 2007 Microsoft Office programs. It also allows you to send as e-mail attachment in the PDF and XPS formats in a subset of these programs.

PrimoPDF - ActivePDF’s PrimoPDF is pretty great for a free PDF toaster.

CutePDF - Writer is just that–and free, too.

PDF Creator - Ditto the free part with SourceForge’s PDF Creator.

Jaws PDF Creator - Global Graphics Jaws PDF Creator probably has the most street cred of the Acrobat alternative apps.

Nitro PDF - Australian software developers Arts PDF is an up-and-coming competitor to Jaws.

OpenOffice - Don’t forget good old OpenOffice, which can toast documents into PDF.

Nuance’s PDF Converter - Does cost some bread, but it opens up a lot of cool features you never knew you couldn’t live without (gives your right-clicking ring finger more PDF power than you thought was possible).

e-PDF Converter - Document Converter which can convert PDF, PS, DOC, RTF, PPT, XLS, etc. documents to PDF, Postscript, TIFF, BMP, JPEG, PNG, etc. documents.

Smart PDF Converter - Convert your files from PDF to DOC or another file format. The program works on all Windows systems.

DocuDesk’s deskPDF - Claims to work with 300 different apps, including some pretty heavy graphics tools.

Bluebeam PDF Revu - Costs more than most desktop apps not named Acrobat, but its hooks into Office save time and clicks.

Foxit Reader - At one point, Larry Page lobbied for putting the thinner Foxit Reader in the Google Pack mobile utilities download, but the team convinced him that Adobe Reader was a better fit. For a lot of people, this company’s PDF tools are where price meets performance. The company’s Text Viewer utility extracts text into editable files.

MIX YOUR PDFs

CT’s free PDF Text Reader - Extracts text from PDF files for editing and reuse in your blogs or wherever else.

ABBYY PDF Transformer - Opens a PDF and allows the unthinkable: editing!

Apago - Claim to fame is PDF Shrink and PDF Optimizer, which throw out all the junk in a PDF file to make it thin-as-possible for uploading to the Web—but they’ve recently expanded their line of widgets to do more.

Arts PDF - PDF Linker plugs in to Acrobat and checks links and bookmarks, a painful manual process for long or short-complicated PDFs.

PDF2Text - Converts PDF to text or XML files.

Advanced PDF Tools - Lets you tweak many settings in a document, from page orientation to how it opens and metadata (i.e. you can stash “Paris Hilton nude” in this hidden data field and amp up your document’s download numbers).

PDF-Tools Batch Stamp - Protect your PDF content by stamping your logo–or anything else–on every page with PDF-Tools Batch Stamp Tool.

Adobe Accessibility - If anyone who is blind or otherwise visually impared will read your document, read Adobe’s accessibility tutorials for good advice on design and formatting that makes it easier for that audience to consume your content whether or not you’re using Acrobat to toast your PDFs.

BURN PDFs

Scribd - Wants to be the YouTube (YouTube) of document sharing. PDF insiders also know that the site is a good hack for making quality files for free because it offers one-document-at-a-time access to Cadillac Adobe server software.

4Shared - Offers free space and PDF document-sharing access.

DriveHQ - Offers sharing as one of its many services, including online backup.

My Docs Online - A subscription service with no maximum file-upload restriction.

Download Everything

Every day we all run across content we would like to save a copy of. Sometimes, it’s even legal to do so. This toolbox gives you Firefox add-ons to save just about anything from a webpage you could ever want. Obviously you shouldn’t install these all at once.

File & Page Saving

Bazzacuda Image Saver – Will cycle through your open tabs, if any tab has an image and nothing else, the image will be saved and you can have the tab close automatically.

Downloads in Tab – Moves the download manager to a tab.

Download Manager Tweaker – Open the standard download manager as a separate window, a new tab, or the sidebar.

Download Statusbar – Rid yourself of the pop-up download window and manage everything from your status bar.

Download Sort – Automatically save downloads to different directories when using “Save Link As” or “Save Image As”.

DownThemAll! – Download one link or multiples, has a built-in accelerator.

Facebook Photo Album Downloader – Download complete Facebook photo albums.

FlashGot – Download one link, selected link, or all the links on a page.

Image Download – Download all the pictures and filter by width, height, type, create sub folders and more.

Image Toolbar – Provides one click to image actions such as downloading.

Launchy – Enables you to open links and mailtos with the external applications of your choice.

OpenDownload – Adds functions similar to IE’s ‘Open’ and ‘Run’.

PDF Download – Checks every link to see if it is a PDF, if it is, it gives you the option to open it inside or out Firefox, download it to a folder or view it as HTML.

Pterodactl – Saves the largest image on the page, in all tabs, and renames files to keep from having conflicts.

Save Complete – Aids you in saving complete webpages.

Save Image In Folder – Save images to special folders on your hard drive.

Save Images – Saves images from the current tab’s cache to a specified location.

Save Link In Folder – Save links to special folders on your hard drive.

Screengrab! – Saves the entire web page as an image.

Sourceforge Direct Download – If you frequently download from Sourceforge, this will help you skip the mirror selection step.

ScrapBook – Helps you save portions or entire webpages and then organize them.

TiX Now! – Improves downloading speed from Rapidshare (Rapidshare) and MegaUpload amongst others.

Video Downloading

Amazing Media Browser – Scans a page for embedded media and helps you download the source files.

Download Embedded – Provides the ability to download several forms of media.

Download Helper – Will extract content from many different sites.

PimpFish Basic Toolbar – Capture video files from numerous sites.

UnPlug – Scans a web page for media players and tells you where the media files are stored so you can download them.

Online Freelance Resources

While writing about 100+ ways to make money online, we received lots of requests for more freelance resources. So in a break from our regularly scheduled programming, we bring you resources for freelance photographers, writers, and programmers, many of them decidedly web 1.0.

For Freelance Photographers

iStockPhoto – the leading stock photos site.

Fotolia – a “web 2.0″ version of iStockPhoto.

PhotoStock Plus – Sell your photos worldwide to a large variety of clients.

eXpress Digital – Set up your own online store front for selling your photography.

SmugMug – Take pictures, set your prices and earn a profit selling from your own virtual gallery.

ImageKind – Setup a free online gallery and sell your art online as framed prints.

Shutterstock – Submit your photos and get paid a commission every time they are downloaded.

For Freelance Writers

Blue Mountain Arts – Pays you up to $300 dollars for accepting and publishing your poetry in their greeting cards.

WritingCareer.com – Hundreds of freelance writing jobs plus articles and career advice for freelance writers.

PoeWar.com – Small directory of freelance writing jobs and resources for freelancers.

Recycled Paper Greetings – Greeting card manufacturer that hires freelance writers and artists to create their cards.

Online Writing Jobs – Fairly extensive, well maintained job directory for freelance writers.

WritersWeekly – Popular freelance writing ezine. Great for finding jobs, news and resources in the freelance market.

For Freelance Programmers

RentACoder – Locate and bid on open ticket coding jobs and get paid when you fulfill their request.

DesignQuote – Free job search for freelance programmers and web designers.

ScriptLance – Hundreds of new programmer projects listed daily. Place your bids on open projects and pick up some side work.

iFreelance – Many available opportunities for programmers, web designers and graphic artists.

Heritage Web Solutions – Hosting company that hires freelance designers and programmers to build their customers sites. Must submit your portfolio for consideration.

Freelance Auction – Freelance web designers can place bids on proposals. Requires you pay them a commission from your earnings if you get the job.

Misc. Freelance Job Resources

Elance – Freelance job search database covering positions in writing, website development, graphics art and more.

Go Freelance – An extensive database of freelance positions. This is a paid service.

Guru.com – Very large free online marketplace for freelancers. Many freelance job types available.

GetAFreelancer – Huge selection of freelance jobs for programmers, web designers, graphic artists, writers, photographers and many more.

Craigslist – The internet classified giant has listings for freelancers too.

Freelance Portfolios – Free service that allows you to create a virtual portfolio highlighting your expertise as a freelancer.

SoloGig – Nice directory with everything listed from senior software developers to at home wine tasters. Worth taking a look.

FreelanceJobs.org – Freelance directory for web designers, adminstrative, sales, writing, translations and more.

Project4Hire – Ton of different job categories for freelancers. Bid on proposals and make some money.

Cross-Platform Download Managers

cURL – A command-line app that supports (S)(T)FTP(S), HTTP(S), SCP, Telnet, DICT, FILE, and LDAP and includes tons of features. Windows, Macintosh, and Linux. Free software.

curl::gui – A simple GUI for cURL. Windows and Linux. Free software.

DownThemAll – Fast and powerful Firefox extension that includes a nice spidering tool. Windows, Macintosh, and Linux. Free software.

FlashGot – Not actually a download manager, the FlashGot Firefox extension will use an existing download manager to grab every type of link you tell it to. Windows, Macintosh, and Linux. Freeware.

Getleft – Batch downloads files using cURL. Windows, Macintosh, and Linux. Free software.

iGetter – Powerful tool with a site explorer, queues, scheduling, and much more. Integrates into Firefox, Mozilla, Safari, and Camino. Windows and Macintosh. $25.

Retriever – Java tool with a scheduler, BitTorrent support, proxy support, mirroring, and an option to execute programs on download. Windows, Macintosh, and Linux. Freeware.

Super Downloader – Fast Java downloader. Windows, Macintosh, and Linux. Freeware.

Urlgfe – Front-end to cURL and Wget. Windows and Linux. Free software.

Wget – Another powerful command-line tool with support for HTTP(S) and FTP, site downloading, proxy support, site spidering, bandwidth limiting, and a whole lot more. Windows, Macintosh, and Linux. Free software.

wget:gui – A nice interface to Wget. Windows and Linux. Free software.

wxDownload Fast – Download splitting, scheduling, organizing, HTTP, FTP, Metalink, and file:///, and MD5 and SHA-1 checksums are all available in this great cross-platform tool. Windows, Macintosh (partial support), and Linux. Free software.

Macintosh Download Managers

CocoaWget – Simple Cocoa front-end to Wget (see below). Free software.

cURL GUI – Basic AppleScript front-end for cURL (see below). Free software.

Interarchy - Powerful manager that supports (S)FTP, HTTP(S), WebDAV(S), iDisk, and Amazon S3 and includes Growl support, file encoding, Dashboard, Safari integration, and much more. $59.95 ($29.95 upgrade).

Simple cURL – AppleScript GUI for cURL (see below). Free software.

Speed Download – Smart folders, iDisk support, auto add to iTunes, Safari integration, filters, file sharing, and much more are packed inside this power user tool. $25


Linux Download Managers

Gwget – A Wget (see below) front-end for Gnome with integration with Firefox and Epiphany. Free software.

KGet – Minimalistic manager, but works well with KDE and the Konqueror browser. Free software.

High Speed Download Managers

You know the story: although your ISP claims that your connection is lightning fast, those huge video files you just grabbed off Google Video and YouTube are taking forever to download. Most people figure that slow download speeds are normal. If you use the built-in download manager in your browser, it is normal. Fortunately, you can change that by simply getting a new download manager.

Here are a few to get you started; Some are ugly, some are decidedly 1.0, and some even cost money (gasp!), but they all do the job.

AltarSoft Download Manager – Wonderful basic download manager with up to 10 simultaneous downloads. $14.95.

BlackWidow – Great app that scans the site and lists all the links. It will then download them for you. $39.95.

Chrysanth Download Manager – Powerful batch downloader that integrates with Internet Explorer. $29.95.

ConnectFusion – Fast (some sources claim speeds 50% faster than built-in download managers) and easy to use download manager. Free software.

DC-Sakura Boyish-Downloader – Simple manager with a scheduler, file sorter, an option to shutdown after downloading, and Internet Explorer integration. $19.98.

Download Accelerator Manager – Includes proxy support, a scheduler, an ability to follow redirects, a free space management gauge, an auto shutdown feature, and integration with Internet Explorer, Firefox (Firefox), Opera (Opera), Netscape, Mozilla, Avant, and Maxthon. Freeware.

Download Accelerator Plus – Powerful app with advanced tools you won’t find anywhere else, like a file shredder and a cookie/history/temp cleaner. Also integrates with Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Netscape, and Mozilla. Freeware (ad-supported).

Download Boost – Basic manager with acceleration up to 400% faster than built-in download managers and some nice features like scheduling and integration with Internet Explorer and Netscape. $19.00.

Download Commander – Nice multithreaded manager with Internet Explorer integration. Freeware.

Download Express – For people with limited computer resources, a small (~680 KB) app that integrates nicely into Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape, SeaMonkey, and Flock (Flock). Free for non-commercial use.

DownloadStudio – Download entire websites, streaming audio/video clips, search engine results, and more with this power tool. Integrates into Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Netscape, Mozilla, Maxthon, NetCaptor, and Avant. $39.95.

File Rain – Basic download manager that claims speeds up to 800% faster than built-in managers. $19.95.

FlashGet – Powerful manager with support for sequences of files, multiple locations, and site spidering. Also supports the MMS and RTSP media protocols and the BitTorrent and eDonkey P2P protocols. Integrates into Firefox, Opera, Mozilla, SeaMonkey, Netscape, Avant, and Maxthon. Freeware.

Free Download Accelerator – Basic program with speeds up to 800% faster than built-in download managers. Freeware (ad-supported).

Fresh Download – A scheduler, clipboard monitor, antivirus scanning, proxy support, ZIP extractor, and integration into Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Netscape, Avant, Maxthon, and Slim Browser are just a few of the features packed into this manager. Freeware.

GetGo – Claims speeds of up to 300% faster than built-in download managers, and includes virus detection and a scheduler. Integrates into Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape, and Flock. $30.00.

GetRight – Includes a scheduler, built-in MD5 and SHA-1 checksums, and BitTorrent, Metalink, and podcasting support. Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, and Netscape integration is provided. $16.95/yr.

Gigaget – Auto data integrity validation and correction, MMS, RTSP, and Flash support, Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Maxthon integration, and more are included in this great app. Freeware (ad-supported).

Internet Download Accelerator – Proxy support, plugins, an FTP browser, archive previewing, integration with Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Netscape, Mozilla, Maxthon, and NetCaptor, and much more are built into IDA. $29.95.

Internet Download Manager – Supports proxies, redirects, firewalls, and more. Includes both a command-line version and a GUI version. Works with Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Netscape, Mozilla, MSN Explorer, Avant, Maxthon, and AOL. $29.95.

LeechGet – LeechGet is one of the easiest to use programs in this list. Don’t let that fool you: it packs in a ton of features, such as automatic downloading, resume of broken downloads, a download timer, automatic hang-up and shutdown, and integration with Internet Explorer, Mozilla, and Opera. Free for personal use.

Mass Downloader – Great batch downloader with support for streaming media and integration with Firefox, Netscape, Mozilla, and Flock. $19.95.

Net Transport – Not only does it support the standard HTTP(S) and (S)FTP protocols, it supports the MMS, RTSP, and PNM streaming media protocols and the eDonkey and BitTorrent P2P protocols. Plus, it integrates with Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Opera. Freeware.

Orbit Downloader – Social site downloading is the main appeal of this program. It supports HTTP(S), FTP, Metalink, RTSP, PNM, MMS, NSS, RTMP, embedded video from sites like YouTube, music from sites like Pandora, and files from sites like Rapidshare. It works with Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Netscape, and Maxthon. Freeware.

ReGet – Has basic, advanced, and expert versions, so there’s something in it for everyone. Integrates into Internet Explorer, Opera, Netscape, Mozilla, NetCaptor, NeoPlanet, and MSN Explorer. $9.95-$29.95.

SimpleDownload – A simple manager with support for features such as file sorting. Freeware.

Star Downloader – Includes categorization, automatic installation of installation programs, automatic extracting of archives, proxy support, and virus scanning. Integrates into Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Opera. $19.95 (includes a basic free version as well).

TrueDownloader – HTTP/FTP support, proxy support, and ZIP previewing are available with this great app. Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Mozilla integration provided. Free software.

WackGet – A minimalistic app that does a great job. Integrates with Internet Explorer. Free software.

Web Excavator – Powerful tool to download entire websites or files from websites. $14.95.

wGetGUI – Simple Wget (see below) front-end. Free software.

WinGet – Claims speeds up to 300% faster than built-in download managers. Integrates with Firefox and Opera. $19.00.

YADA – Fast manager with drag ‘n’ drop, multithreading, batch downloading, and much more. Freeware.

Online Polling Sites

Create your own polls and use them on websites, blogs or even share by e-mail. Here are more than 40 ways to assess readers’ opinions on everything from politics to your fashion sense.

Buzzdash – Start polls on topics including news, sports, politics to relationships, philosophy and religion. Participate in the existing ones too.

Doodle.ch – Users can create and publish polls that can be sent to friends and families.

Toluna – Create as well as vote on polls for free.

FeeFo – Tool for getting feedback from customers, ratings, opinions, and reports.

FreePollKit – Lets you insert HTML snippet polls into your existing site.

Freepolls – Create free polls or pay to make them advertising-free.

FreeWebsitePolls – Polls for websites or blogs with up to 20 choices.

iMediaLearn – Lets you dynamically create online polls with control over the look-and-feel.

iPolls – A special poll site allowing iPhone users to create polls.

Micropoll – Create and customize a poll and put it on your website.

MobiOde – A site for creating mobile surveys and collecting user’s mobile data.

Nexo – Nexo allows users to share pictures, videos, tasks, polls and comment.

PollDaddy – Allows users to create polls and use them on their websites, blogs or even share by e-mail.

PollGenius – Create your own polls or search already existing ones.

PolloO – PolloO is an site where people can express opinions and feelings through polls for free.

PollPub – Ajaxy polls for MySpace, blogs and social networks.

Pollsb – A platform for the discussion of topics with friends or complete strangers.

PulsePoll – Lets you create a poll with and grab some script to paste in your site.

Quibblo – Allows users to create and collaborate with others via polls, surveys and content around various topics.

RankThese – A single integrated destination for online rankings, polls, and surveys.

RateItAll – Users can rate and share opinions on everything.

Snappoll – Choose your own colors and layout, prevents multiple votes.

Sonarhq – Collect data and information and involve your community with online polls.

Sportspoll.co.uk – Sports polling site for a number of sports.

SurveyPopups – Embed on your site and see what your visitors are thinking.

Tappity – A website driven by users allowing submission, rating and discovery of mobile-friendly web pages for display in phones and other mobile devices.

Tezaa – User driven community where members can create, modify and participate in a poll.

Twiigs – Twiigs allows you to create polls that interest you or vote in ones created by other users.

Vizu – Allows you to create free polls for your blog or engage in targeted marketing research.

Vovici – From personal sites to enterprise level solutions for polling.

Webpasties – Webpasties allows users to add a poll, an RSS ticker or a slideshow on any website.

Zoho Polls – Part of the larger Zoho collaborative site that allows you to create free polls.

Free Blog Hosts

Free Blog Hosts. Here are free ways to get started.

Blogger.com – A great starting site to get a taste of blogging, very easy to use.

WordPress.com – Not only can you install WordPress on your own sites, you can use the same software on their site and save yourself all of the technical work.

InsaneJournal.com – Another site based on the Danga software that runs LiveJournal, offers free and paid accounts, paid benefits are only enhancements.

JorunalFen.net – Runs on the Danga platform, very much directed towards various “fandoms” (i.e. Harry Potter (harry potter), various Television shows) and is meant for users 18 and older.

LiveJournal.com – One of the most well known of the blogging hosts. Offers multiple account types such as ad-supported and paid. The center of a few controversies recently.

Blogabond.com – A site dedicated to travel blogs with map integration and more.

BusyThumbs.com – A blog site specifically for your text messages and camera phone images.

Freevlog.org – Designed for video blogging and completely free.

Trippert.com – Create and share blogs of your travels.

WordCountJournal.com – A new blogging format that is also part challenge. Write one word on the first day, two words on the second day and so on, at the end of the year you’ll have written 66,795 words.

Blogetery.com – Offers multiple templates, anti-spam, free sub-domain and more.

Blogsome.com – Based out of Ireland, this site uses the WordPress MU platform, large choice of themes.

Edublogs.org – WordPress powered blogging for educators.

Blog.com – Offers free blog hosting with unlimited bandwidth for their free package, more benefits for paid members.

Blogr.com – Allows you to blog, host photos & videos, and podcasts.

BlogSpirit.com – European based blogging site, offers 30-day trial and subscription thereafter, but offers quite a bit of storage.

Blogster.com – Offers free image hosting in addition to free blogs.

Bravenet.com – Free blog hosting with RSS feeds and more.

Multiply.com – Mixes blogging and social networking, with photo galleries and more.

Netcipia.com – Free blog and wiki for private or public display with 2GB of storage.

OpenDiary.com – Offers unlimited storage and posts, low cost subscription rates for advanced features.

SoulCast.com – Have something you want to talk about, but want to say it anonymously? This may be the blogging site for you.

Squarespace.com – Lets you build your blog with numerous themes, also allows you to add other site features.

Terapad.com – Offers blogs as well as features such as an integrated store.

Tumblr.com – A blog platform with a focus on allowing media-rich posts.

Weebly.com – Allows you to create a site and blog, free hosting and change designs on the fly.

Windows Live Spaces – Free blogging with your MSN account, only drawback is readers have to have an account also.

Vox.com – Part of the SixApart family of blogging sites, very much geared towards the personal journal types of blogs.

Xanga.com – Part social network, part blogging, all free.

Zoomshare.com – Free blog hosting with 250MB of free storage.

Torrent Legal Website

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BitTorrent – From the makers of the original software, they now offer a mixture of free and pay-for content.

Bt.etree.org – Band videos of “trade friendly” musicians.

Ibiblo.org – Torrent distribution site of ibiblo content.

Legaltorrents.com – A completely legal torrent site and a great place to experiment and get a feeling for how it works.

LegitTorrents.info – Includes free videos, games and Linux distributions.

LinuxTracker.org – A centralized location for Linux related software, all delivered by torrent.

PublicDomainTorrents.com – Hundreds of torrent media files that reside in the public domain such as movies, TV shows, serials and more. (WARNING:Occasional rotating questionable ad).

Revision3.com – Mixture of torrent-delivered media and direct downloads of vidcasts.

Star Trek:New Voyages – Fan-produced Star Trek episodes, some with original cast members, all distributed with torrents.

Tlm-project.org – The Linux Mirror Project, helping spread the alternative operating system.

SXSW – Free torrents from the organizers of the SXSW music festival.

Vuze.com – From the makers of the Azureus client, hosts a mixture of free and pay-for content, all delivered via torrents.

Free Website Plugins and Tools

Yahoo! Site Explorer - Site explorer allows you to inspect certain aspects of a URL. The "Inlinks" feature shows you details about web pages that link back to the particular URL you are exploring. Site Explorer gives you some insights on how popular a website is based on how many web pages are linking to it.

Compete - Compete is a web-based analytics tools that allows you to compare the traffic statistics and trends of up to three websites. It gives you an estimate of how many unique visitors and page impressions a website gets and how fast a website is growing in popularity (called Growth Velocity).

Alexa - Started in 1996, Alexa is the most popular traffic ranking service today. It tracks traffic statistics of websites and provides a numerical rank based on the data that they collect. You can find a website’s Page Views and Reach (the % of internet users that have visited the website).

Feed Compare - An effective way to determine a website’s popularity is by tracking its RSS feed subscriber trends. If a website uses FeedBurner – the leading provider of RSS feeds services – you can use Feed Compare to see trends in subscribership from websites and compare growth/decline of subscribers for up to 4 feeds at one time.

Quantcast - Quantcast is another popular site traffic measuring tool. Quantcast allows publishers to "Quantify" their website – a process in which you place a script in your web pages so that they can measure your traffic statistics directly. With that said – sites that aren’t quantified may not have accurate/complete data and many people aren’t comfortable about placing third-party scripts on their websites.

Popuri.us - Popuri.us is a tool that can help determine how popular a URL is based on web services and statistics such as Alexa, Technorati, Delicious bookmarks, number of subscribers, and more. It’s a one page tool that gives you a quick overview of how popular a website is. popuri.us even gives you the option to post a widget on your site to display your popularity.

Socialmeter - Socialmeter is a web tool that scans how popular a web page is throughout major social websites such as Digg, Stumbleupon, and Delicious. It gives you a "socialmeter score" which is currently just a summation of the results found (useful for comparing social media website popularity of different websites).

TweetVolume - Another way of monitoring a website’s popularity is to see if people on Twitter are talking about it. TweetVolume allows you to search key words and phrases (i.e. – a website’s name, URL, author name, etc.) to see how many tweets have mentioned your search terms.

Quarkbase - Quarkbase is a comprehensive web tool that presents a myriad of information about a website. Quarkbase has a "Social Popularity" tab that shows you information about a website’s popularity among social media sites like Digg, Stumbleupon, and Delicious.

BlogPulse Profiles - If you’re interested in finding data about a specific blog or blogger, The BlogPulse Profiles tool is a simple web application that provides a blog’s rank, how often it’s cited in other blogs, and other information such as how many posts are published each month and blogs that are similar to it.

Technorati Blogging Central - Technorati is the leading blog search engine. Technorati’s Blogger Central allows you to see the ranks of a particular blog to gauge its popularity among the 128 million+ blogs in the world. You can find the Top 100 blogs in Blogger Central. Technorati determines a blog’s rank by the number of reactions (links that go to the blog) it has.

Statbrain.com - Statbrain.com is a simple tool that tells you how many visitors a website receives per day.

Cubestat - Cubestat is another simple web tool that provides you with a host of information about a website’s popularity daily page views. What’s unique about Cubestat is that it estimates a website’s monetary value (in U.S. dollars) – the more expensive the website is, the more popular it is.

dnScoop - dnScoop attempts to estimate the value of a website based on factors such as links pointing to the domain, popularity of the domain, page rank, traffic, and more.

WebsiteOutlook - WebsiteOutlook allows you to determine a website’s popularity based on its estimated value, daily page views, and revenue.

Website Goodies - Free website tools from Website Goodies. OnMouseOver generator, guestbooks, website speed test, geoip and more.

Hypergurl - Over 50 website tools and javascript generators to help you create menus, buttons, mouseover images, forms, css, color scrollbars, popup windows and many more.

Seabreezecomputers - Free Website Making Tools.

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One student

One student fell into a cycle of classes, studying, working and sleeping.

Didn't realize how long he had neglected writing home until he received the following note:

"Dear Son, Your mother and I enjoyed your last letter. Of course, we were much younger then, and more impressionable. Love, Dad."

Cool Teenage

Cool Teenage Martian: I was at a party on Mercury last night.

His Friend: Was it any good?

Cool Teenage Martian: No! It was really boring.

His Friend: How come?

Cool Teenage Martian: There was no atmosphere.

A policeman

A policeman was patrolling a local parking spot overlooking a golf course. He drove by a car and saw a couple inside with the dome light on. There was a young man in the driver's seat reading a computer magazine and a young lady in the back seat knitting. He stopped to investigate. He walked up to the driver's window and knocked. The young man looked up, cranked the window down, and said, "Yes Officer?"

"What are you doing?" the policeman asked. "What does it look like?" answered the young man. "I'm reading this magazine." Pointing towards the young lady in the back seat, the officer then asked, "And what is she doing?" The young man looked over his shoulder and replied, "What does it look like? She's knitting."

"And how old are you?" the officer then asked the young man. "I'm nineteen," he replied. "And how old is she?" asked the officer. The young man looked at his watch and said, "Well, in about twelve minutes she'll be sixteen."

A man

A man placed some flowers on the grave of his dearly departed mother and started back toward his car when his attention was diverted to another man kneeling at a grave. The man seemed to be praying with profound intensity and kept repeating, “Why did you have to die? Why did you have to die?” The first man approached him and said, “Sir, I don’t wish to interfere with your private grief, but this demonstration of pain is more than I’ve ever seen before. For whom do you mourn so deeply? A child? A parent?” The mourner took a moment to collect himself, then replied, “My wife’s first husband.”