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Pixlr Editor
 , an excellent set of tools that rival many image editors, including drawing, retouching, cropping, resizing, warping, adding text, basic and advanced lighting and color adjustments, numerous filters and layers with blending. Better still, use Pixlr Express for a quick fix or one-click effects. (Review)
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Sumo Paint, a powerful tool for creating and editing images with more painting tools than other paint-oriented online image editing programs, supports for layers, blending modes, special filter effects, opacity levels, handy adjustment tools, etc. (Review)
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FotoFlexer creates dazzling photo effects in a simple interface with optional fullscreen editing. Supported features include one-click auto fix, red eye removal, resizing and cropping, rotating and flipping, 20 over filtering effects, decorations, animations, layers and more.
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Pixlr-o-matic, adding special effects to your photos is as easy as you count one, two, three—snap a photo from your webcam or select one from your computer, then choose a color filter, a lighting effect and a good frame from the many choices included, and save or share your cool-looking photo with friends.
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PicMonkey
 allows you to crop, rotate, resize or sharpen photos, or adjust their exposures and colors, apply effects, do some touch-ups, add text and symbols, and complete photos with frames and textures. A great photo editor with impressive tools and features.
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AnyMaking Photo Editor helps you edit an image easily in a few seconds with a set of tools for you to choose: crop or resize image, flip or rotate, add frame, filters, drop shadow, reflection and round corners.
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PhotoFunia, select a template from more than 100 fun effects such as billboards, magazines or stamps, upload your photo and click "Go" to create your masterpiece with auto face recognition technology. You can then save it to your computer or share with your friends and family.
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FunPhotoBox generates funny pictures from your photos with useful tools, either photo effects, animations, cards, magazine covers or face in hole, choose one then upload your photo, see the result and save it.
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3DPackage, a 3d-box graphic creator—just find some photos on your PC to use for the front and sides of the box shot, upload them and in a couple of seconds you'll have your box ready for download in JPG, GIF or PNG format. (Review)
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Says-It.com, create your own funny photos and graphics in seals, badges, posters, tickets and other various signs—simply choose a design, type in some text, change colors or outlines, insert your own image, then click Go to get one.
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Cool Text, an easy way to generate cool and impressive text logos or buttons without a lot of design work—choose a style, fill up the form with text and adjust the settings, then click the Render button.
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Barcoding allows you to create an optical machine-readable barcode image by giving barcode data, encoding type and output file format. This is an example of Gizmo's Freeware encoded in Code 128.
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ZXing QR Code Generator creates a Quick Response code in various sizes for your contact info, URL, SMS, geo location or other text data. For instance, the QR Code of this page's URL is this, readable by a scanner such as ZXing BarcodeScanner on a mobile device, or using ZXing Decoder Online.
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FixPicture converts all popular picture file formats and camera raw formats to jpg, png, gif, tiff, bmp or pdf formats, and resizes them by a percentage or a specific pixel value with optional rotation and effects.
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CutMyPic, 3 simple steps that allow you to quickly upload a picture, cut and customize it, and mail it to a friend or save it to your computer. Image customizing includes rounding corners and adding a shadow with thickness of your choice.
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Dermandar offers an easy way to stitch a series of your scenic photographs into one picture—just browse for pictures from your folder, then save an equirectangular image of your panorama, or upload and share your 360-degree or wide-angle interactive picture in the gallery.
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Kwout, grab a web page and crop an area, post it anywhere or right-click the cropped image to save into your computer. You can resize, add a border or shadow to the image, work easily with a bookmarklet on any browsers with no need to install anything.
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Thumbalizr, capture a top screen or full scrolling webpage in seconds—just enter an URL, click thumb it, and download the image in width of your choice. Free sign up for even better quality.
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Cacoo, a user-friendly drawing tool to create a variety of diagrams, save or export your file in PNG format. A useful stencil is available for easily creating basic shapes, office layout, equipment, network, flowchart and more.
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JGraph's Diagram.ly allows you to easily draw diagrams with a range of drag-and-drop stencils, load, save or export them in JPG, PNG or SVG format, and share editing with other users in real time.
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Google Image Chart Editor, select the type of charts, enter chart title, data and other specifications, dynamically the chart image is created for you to right click and save to your PC in png format. An image link is provided for you to share, or import for editing.
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Dabbleboard, write down ideas or draw diagrams freehand like using any traditional whiteboard, or allow the system to turn them into correct shapes. Easy to collaborate but protection is limited to a paid-for account. (Review)
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Flickr a popular web service for users to upload their photos, edit and organize their collections and share them with groups and privacy controls. Uploading video is an added feature.
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Dropico, an exciting service that allows you to manage and organize your photo collection across social networks, including Facebook, Flickr, Twitter and more, or edit a photo with Pixlr or other editors, all in one place. (Review)
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Minus, one of the easiest photo-sharing sites—just drag some photos to the Minus workspace in your browser to upload and you're ready to share your pictures with family, friends and colleagues. It gives you 10 GB of online storage free and allows large files up to 2 GB each. (Review)
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Photovisi, a useful tool to create photo collages, quick and easy—just select a template, add photos, then click save and download.
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Picasion creates an animated GIF image file comprises up to 10 frames with optional size and speed adjustments. In just a few minutes, you can then post it to the website or save it to your computer. (Review)
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Block Posters, create a large-size poster from a small-size image for printing in three simple steps: upload an image, slice it and download the pdf file. You can then print and assemble the pages into a big poster. (Review)
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TinEye, submit an image to discover the source of the image, where it is being used and check out its modified or higher resolution versions if they exist on the web.
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RGBStock.com, a good place to search for high quality and royalty-free photos and choose the ones you like to download. Type a keyword to search for the photos or check out what are the most downloaded photos.
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Findicons, browse through a large collection of over 300,000 free icons, search them easily by keywords, and choose one in the size and format you want to download to your computer. You can also convert your icons online or upload an icon pack for sharing.
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Open Clip Art Library contains more than 30,000 images of clip art that can be used for free for any use. You can check out the most popular clipart of the week, newly added, top 10 downloads and search by category, or even create and upload yours for sharing. See also more choices in this Review.
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I've just discovered WeatherSpark. Looks neat, and there are tons of weather info there actually.
However, the question is, how accurate are the forecasts for my region?
Your Best Free Online Download Manager - KeepVid - does not seem to be really free. I visited the site today hoping to download it when I noticed it says that one will need to purchase a licence before one can start using it; only the downloading seems to be free.
You're spot on Rajendra Rai. The program for Windows is not free, but it's totally free when you use its online download service without needing to install the program.
This article focuses on the online applications and services. With them, you don't need to download and install anything into your computer for using them—you just need to open up a browser and access them online.
http://www.yourdictionary.com/
This is the best online dictionary for me. It's uncluttered, clean and most importantly provide meanings that can be understood by any layman.
After trying typingstudy (in the speedtest department) I have found that some of the material don't work.
With some searching I've found that typeonline.co.uk is a fairly good ONLINE typing tutor. It simulates word processing in a more "natural" manner, allowing you to back-track and make corrections in your typing. Most other typing tutors don't allow you to do that once you hit the spacebar after typing a word.
One other thing I like about typeonline.co.uk is that I don't have to worry about cookies (I use Sandboxie FREE anyway) - something I try to minimise as much as possible. [This is why I haven't tried typingweb after reading their policy.]
Users in the USA will have to put up with the UK spelling of some words though - a small fee I think.
All in all, the most comprehensive typing tutor IMHO is Kiran's Typing Tutor. It's only drawback is it's not "online" meaning you have to sacrafice a bit of hard drive space.
Hello!
File Encryptor from Best Free Online File Encryption Utility is no longer availible.
Your feedback is appreciated Ivan. File Encryptor is now removed from the list and replaced with another online service Encryptur. Give it a try if that works for you.
Hi!
Notice: in "Home and Office / Best Free Online PDF Tools" category PDF Hammer is no longer available. Now Nitro PDF Professional is suggested at PDF Hammer's website.
Thanks for your feedback Arcedo. It's now removed from the list.
free image resizer is free and totally free and supports lots of formats. works not just on xp but also vista and win 7
freeimageresizer.net
This is not an online app or service, or is it?
I would like to suggest http://www.textslave.com/ . Thank You
I would like to suggest two sites for GPS mapping batchgeo.com and gpsvisualizer.com/
for your home office section.
In Home and Office, you should mention http://reminderguru.com which provides free reminders by email, sms or phone call -
There a a few more music streamers that need to be looked at and evaluated. I have attached the links. I'm biased on Sockso because of it's customization abilities. I have used all three in the past but I still currently use Sockso.
Sockso
http://sockso.pu-gh.com/
Vibe Streamer
http://www.vibestreamer.com/
Subsonic
http://www.subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp
Thanks Pbouthil for the suggestions but the software products do not fit into this category of online apps and services as defined in the Introduction section.
Sorry. I thought I was under the right category.
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Best Free Online Music Streaming
I also like http://www.unziponline.net this is a nice application to zip and unzip online!
Very nice tools you share!
JayCut go bye bye... any other ideas for free online video editing?
thanks ,its very useful
Typo: Klokoo waits you up... should be wakes.
Useful article. Thanks.
You're spot on and thanks for pointing out. The typo is now fixed.
Very informative post.
Please add http://www.syscloudsoft.com//Free_Archive_Export_Google_App_Service.aspx
Its a free Google Apps archiving tool to archive and export all your Google Apps data including Gmail, GDoc, contacts, calendar and sites to your local PC.
I use to be a Gizmo member years ago until you partnered up with another organization. I loved your newsletters and so did miss them. I could not believe my luck when I came across your website. And from what I have seen so far you appear to be holding to your high standards. A true admirier of your dedication.
Here is a free pasting tool http://www.pasteit.in for debugging the code, similar to any other pastebin website but has support for all major languages syntax. The diff tool lets the programmer/debugger see what changes other user has made in the original code.
This may sound pretty self-centered of me, but have you guys tried Bob? It will fit perfectly under the education section of this site. It is a new site where students can go and ask for help or provide help to other students. But because it is new (less then a month old), there isn't much content on it yet.Stating that, it has had a promising start in my school. It's URL is [edited out]
The site has no content at all, and therefore won't be considered for inclusion here. Sorry.
Okay, I understand. I would just like you guys to keep it in mind, for when it has content. It is just a start up project. Thanks anyways.
Regarding the best PC Games catagory, I'd like to suggest you check out Kongregate,com. Ad-free, hundreds of games with badges and points awarded on many games. It's the best I've seen yet!
Wow!! What an awesome list. Thanks so much for all your time and hard work in putting this together. Much appreciated.
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