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1. DropMocks I’m sure you have faced situations when you quickly want to share a photo (or a bunch of photos) with a friend and can’t figure out the best ways to do it. Emailing it, uploading on Facebook or Picasa and many options are available but they are not necessarily quick. DropMocks is a neat web service that fills that gap. Just drag and drop a photo onto the box at the middle of their homepage and you are done (no need to sign up with them).

It’ll upload the photo and create a link that you can quickly share. If you put more than one photo there, it’ll create a nice album that’ll show a slideshow of the photos to your friend or whoever you are sharing them with.

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2. Bounce Bounce is a web app that lets you share webpages, but with a lot more added to it. You can add notes, annotate the pages, mark specific areas and comment on them before sharing the page. It is a quick and easy way to show someone what you find interesting about a site or a webpage. If you are a student, you can use it like a research tool. If you are a designer, you can use it to show website mock-ups to clients and get their feedback.

There could be many more ways to use this tool. For how to use it, check out our article - Use Bounce to Quickly Add Notes to Webpages & Share them.

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3. JayCut If you are looking to edit a video and don’t want to download or use a software for that, then JayCut – which is completely web based – should be sufficient. It’s a feature-rich online video editing tool to edit and spice up your videos.

We talked about it and some other video editing tools in our popular post 8 Excellent Video Editing Software & Online Tools That Are Free.

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4. Crocodoc Crocodoc is a brilliant online document viewer and editor that can help you quickly view and share PDFs, Microsoft Office docs, images and more.

You can edit files (even a PDF document), add comments, highlights and markups, and quickly share them online. The best part – it uses HTML5 and hence doesn’t require Flash like most of other such services. That makes it less buggy and more efficient.

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5. WeTransfer So you created a video of your new born baby and now you want to share it with your mother who lives thousands of miles away. The Internet makes it possible but the only problem is that the video file is likely to be very large, so sharing it via email and most of the other mediums isn’t feasible. A tool like WeTransfer can come in handy in situations like this.

You can send files up to 2GB in size with it. It’s free, doesn’t require you to register and works quite well. I have used it many times to send huge files and so far it has never disappointed me.

Here’s a roundup of its features - Transfer Large Files Over Internet Easily With WeTransfer.

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6. Diagramly Need to create a quick flowchart or a diagram? Don’t want to mess with Word or PowerPoint for that? Well, here’s Diagramly to the rescue. It’s an amazingly simple and useful tool to quickly create a diagram without the hassles of an advanced charting tool. It lets you save your work in various image formats and also lets you take a printout directly from its interface.

Nice and easy!

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7. YTPlaylist YTPlaylist is a cool YouTube playlist creator. You can start searching for your favourite music videos on YouTube and keep adding them to the playlist. The tool will automatically play them in the order you specify, and also keep buffering the queued videos so that there is no time lag and the music is played continuously. You can drag and drop the videos in the list to alter their order of playing.

If you want to check out more such tools to create music playlists, here’s a nice article - 5 Superb Sites To Create a Party Music Playlist Quickly.

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8. Backupify Imagine if Facebook were to shut down your account tomorrow, or Flickr losing your pictures. Seems highly unlikely? A simple Google search would show you that this has happened with many people. The main problem in such situations is the loss of data...the pictures, messages and what not.

Hence a web service like Backupify which can backup a number of popular services is something each one of us should consider using. It has a decent free plan as well as paid plans. Read more about how it works here Backupify Helps You Backup Your Online Accounts.

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9. ProtectYourVision Heard about Computer Vision Syndrome? Well, in simple words, it means vision problems, headaches, eyestrains etc caused due to staring at the computer screen for long hours. And I’m sure a huge number of you out there stay glued to a computer screen for a majority of the 24 hours in a day. ProtectYourVision is a nice site that reminds you that you need to take a break by blacking out your screen at specific intervals. You can set the modes, and accordingly it will help you take your eyes off the computer now and then. Check out their about page to know how it works.

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10. eReaderIQ You’ve heard about Amazon Kindle, right? May be you own one too. What you might not know is that the Kindle library has a ton of free ebooks. And what you also might not know is that you can read them using one of Kindle’s free software (like Kindle For PC) even if you don’t own the Kindle device. So what’s eReaderIQ? Well, it’s a website that helps you easily find the free ebooks I was talking about, which are otherwise difficult to locate. It’s a neat tool and does its job quite well.

Read more about the tool here - Use eReaderIQ to Find the Best Free Kindle Ebooks and Get Price Drop Alerts.

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11. Down For Everyone or Just Me There could be many reasons behind why a particular website is not loading on your browser. It could be a problem at your end or may be the site itself is experiencing issues. To quickly check if the problem is with the site’s server, you can visit Down For Everyone or Just Me, enter the site’s address and hit the link that says “or just me?” It’ll instantly let you know if the site is running fine for everyone else, and then you can investigate the issue accordingly if required.

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12. Gazzump Gazzump is an online tool that lets you download YouTube videos in various formats. You can download it as FLV, AVI, WMV, WAV, MOV, MP4, 3GP and, for those who only want to extract the audio from the video, the MP3 format is there too. You just need to enter the YouTube video URL to proceed. Oh, and while we are talking about YouTube, let me also share this supercomprehensive YouTube guide we published on our site last year - YouTube Guide: Best YouTube Tips, Hacks & Resources.

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13. Year Book Yourself Wanna have some fun with your photos? How about giving them that retro vintage look? Year Book Yourself is a neat tool that can turn your photos into ones that look like they were taken in 1960s.

We have talked about this, and various other cool tools that add funny and interesting effects to your pictures, in this post - 10 Superb Online Tools For Fun Photo Effects.

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14. ShowMeWhatsWrong Have you ever had a friend or a family member telephoning you and pleading you desperately to resolve a problem with his computer? In such situations, it is important to understand exactly what’s the problem the person on the other end is facing. The best way to speed things up is to quickly have a recording of what’s going on on the troubled computer screen, and that’s where this tool called ShowMeWhatsWrong comes in handy.

Read more about it here - ShowMeWhatsWrong Lets You Share Screen & Resolve Errors Easily.

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15. OCRonline OCRonline, as the name suggests, is a web based Optical Character Recognition tool that can extract text from scanned documents as well as photos. It supports digital image formats like JPG, PNG, GIF, and also supports the PDF file format. That means you can extract text from a PDF document as well online image files using this app.

Read more about it here - OCROnline: Extract Text From Scanned Documents and Images.

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16. NowDoThis There are many to-do list apps available but not a lot of them are effective enough to push you to get a task completed first and then move on to another.

NowDoThis aims to do that, and is probably the simplest of all the to-do list tools you have come across. It wants you to focus on the task at hand, and then move to the next one. You may edit the list anytime to change the tasks or the order of the items.

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17. WobZip If you’ve got a .zip file that you need to uncompress and do not have a software like WinZip or WinRAR installed then you can make use of this free online tool called WobZip. Files of size up to 100 MB can be uploaded and uncompressed. It supports a number of compressed file formats like 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, RAR and many more.

Read more about it here - Wobzip: Online Tool To Extract Compressed Files.

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18. Tinychat Tinychat offers a hassle-free way to start quick group video chats. Just create a room, sign in with Twitter or Facebook (or just a nickname), make it public or private, and then start broadcasting. You can then invite friends and have them join in with their cameras on. No need to install a software or anything; it all happens from within the browser.

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19. Sendshots If you want to send a private video message to someone, like a video greeting card or just a simple “hi� on video, then Sendshots is a nice option. It allows you to quickly record a video through your webcam and then email it to whoever you want it emailed to.

Read more - Record & Share Private Video Messages Using SendShots.

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20. TheRadio.com TheRadio is a cool online radio station that you can use to listen to all kinds of music from around the world. Enter an artist or the music genre to begin with, or click through the Channels tab at the top to check out the radio channels available. There’s something for every music lover in there.

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21. InstaCalc Last but by no means the least, we’ve got absolutely amazing online calculator and converter called InstaCalc that shows results in real-time as you type. The homepage has a few examples (as shown in the image below) that’ll give you an idea about how to type the units to get instant results. Bookmark this site and use it whenever you need to get a quick (but tough) calculation or conversion done.

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