Website administrators use several different tools to monitor the load time of their website, but a tool which lets you compare the average load times of two websites side by side is rare.

WhichLoadsFaster is an interesting web service that does the same as its name suggests. Yes! It is the page load analysis tool that compares the loading time of any two webpage side by side. To get started just head over to the website home page and enter the URL’s of the two website you wish to compare in the textbox available in each halves of the webpage as shown below.

Now, hit the “Go” button and you will see both the websites getting loaded side by side in the two halves. As soon as both the websites have finished loading, you will be served with the percentage comparison and the average load times of the two websites.

The “Repeat feature” allow you to repeat the match up specified number of times. The “Race feature” enables you to compare the series of URL’s. This feature is mainly applicable when you want a set of pages to load automatically just after one has finished loading. To try out the “Race” feature just click on the “Race” link and check which side is the fastest.

Overall, this is a nice web service to compare the loading time of two web sites and it serves you the comparative side by side analysis of the page load times. It also allows you to share the test by providing you with a link to share with others.

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However, after the image is being uploaded, it goes down in the twitter database and it is very difficult to search for that image after a longer duration.

Twtimage is a newly introduced web service which lets you search images from Twitter by fetching images from twitpic.com, tweetphoto.com, img.ly and yfrog.com. Once you come to Twtimage homepage, you will see a textbox at the top right corner. You have to enter the keyword for the images to be searched. A list of 25 images will be displayed in one go. If you want to see further, you will have to click on the “load more” link.

In the picture below, you can see the list of images displayed under the keyword iphone that were uploaded on the Twitter. The images on the front page may change according to recent uploads.

In addition, Twtimage homepage also has the list of most popular tags. If you want you can click on these tags. On clicking, it will redirect you to the original source of image. You can then download the images effortlessly. Another positive aspect about the site is that you do not have to sign in. Hence, it is completely free.

As a result of Twtimage, Searching images on Twitter can no longer be difficult and tiresome. It is indeed an effective internet tool for searching images on Twitter.

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CyberKidz Games is a website developed with concept of education and entertainment, which they termed as “edutainment” i.e. learning by playing. They provide sufficient number of games to develop children skills. The games provided by them for all considered age groups focuses on 4 major areas of interest. These areas are math, literacy, geography and art&music.

These games offer your kids learning spelling, math, and everything from school level geography including identifying places on map to basic music and art in a very easy and fun way. The interface of the website is uncluttered and expressible, hence easily accessible even by the kids of lower age groups.

Although, the games provided by the website are not that cool but they are still good enough for the ages they are targeting. However, most prominently these games are able to fulfill the relevant purpose of learning by playing.

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Mloovi RSS Translator – Mloovi is new tool which translate RSS feeds into 24 languages including Hindi using Google Translator. In short period the tool has gain appreciation among its users.

SlidehShare Ribbon – A Powerpoint Plug-in from Slideshare that lets you search SlideShare, download powerpoint presentations and upload your own presentation without opening a web browser.

ReadSpeaker WebReader – ReadSpeaker is a widget service that one can add to web page or blogs posts and let the visitors listen to it. It is a kinda button that when clicked will read the entire page or a pre-defined part of the content chosen by website/ blogs owners.

Dropbox – Its a file syncing tool and acts like a online network drive. Its ergonomic ability to drop files into a folder and have that same folder show up on every other computer you own. Just add a folder to your desktop and copy files. You can also share complete folders so that anyone with access to the folder sees and is able to use the shared, synced files.

Carbonite – Its an online back-up utility that sits in system tray and watches important files/ folders and automatically archive them to a secure website as you work. There is no storage space limit, but on a per day basis (in GBs).

Glync – Glync is a Firefox extension which adds historical graphs to the External Links page in Google Webmaster Tools. This means that you can track your link growth over time. The professional version also tracks your Yahoo Site Explorer links, the links for all of your sub-pages, and the PageRank of all your sub-pages and links pointing to those sub-pages. (See Demo Video)

Notipal – This essential tool that not only notifies you of broken links and error pages on your website but also give the option to your visitors to enter their email address to be notified when your site is fixed.

Just for Bloggers

Tynt Copy-Paste Leveraging – Tynt provide a way as – whenever anyone copies the content from your blog/site it automatically place your link in addition to your copied content when its being pasted on other site. This brings traffic and morover Tynt also provides the monitoring/ analytics of copied content from your website/blog.

ShowYourself Widget/ Links – For bloggers who love to flaunt their online Identities on multiple platofrms such as Twitter, Facebook, Linked, MySpace, Yahoo Upcoming and many more its a perfect tool to create pretty huge links of same in a widgetised manner.

Anonymous Linking – At times when you do not want through your links to reveal your website information on other analytics software, use this tool. This tool stop referrer information from going through your links.

WikiPad – Its an open source Wiki-like notebook for bloggers/ writers for storing thoughts, ideas, todo lists, contacts, or anything else you can think of to write down. Its different to other editors as you can cross-link your information within it and it also named as “IDE for your thoughts”.

Images & Pictures

ResizR – Its is a free nifty and useful tools that allows to resize an image and optionally rotate as well from your local computer or the web.

ScrnShots – A nice set of tools to Search, Upload and take screen shots of anything on web or even your desktop.

PicMarkr – PicMarkr free tool that lets you to add custom watermark (image or text) to your images on your website or blog.  It is useful when you want to protect your copyrights of images and pictures published on your website or blog.

Browsershots – Check & Test your website in almost all different web browsers present these days right from chrome to firefox, flock or IE (all version) in different OS (Linux, Windows, Mac OS and BSD).

BrowserSize – A nifty online tool for setting your browser size while doing Web design and find out your browser’s current size plus more.

kissa.be – This tool is comes handy though its URL shortner but here you can shorten URL along with email, text and Image as well.

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IE7 JS Script – IE7 is a JavaScript library to make Microsoft Internet Explorer behave like a standards-compliant browser. It fixes many HTML and CSS issues and makes transparent PNG work correctly under IE5 and IE6.

Mikogo Skype Plugin – It’s as a Skpe Extra (i.e. plug-ins for Skype) where users can have free screen sharing and phone calls together for no cost. With Mikogo Skype Extra one can invite up to 10 participants to any Mikogo screen sharing session directly from your Skype installed in your systems.

Test Everything – Test everything of your website from CSS/ HTML validations, SEO tools to Social services, Web proxies, Network tools, Text tools, Image tools and more.

Web Analytics & Traffic Monitoring

AreMySitesUp Via SMS – It is a simple service to help you keep an eye on your sites and warn you if they go down, moreover it send notifications via email or SMS text message to your cell phone. Site checks are performed 25 times per day and for up to 20 sites for a free account and 60 sites for paid ones.

SWIX – SWIX is like Google Analytics for social media it tracks where your traffic comes from like blogs, twitter feeds, facebook, YouTube Channel etc. As its free during its beta life you can try it without any cost.

Piwik – Its an open source web analytics with as flexible as any developer can make it. It provides you with detailed reports on your website visitors: the search engines and keywords they used, the language they speak, your popular pages and more.

Scrutinizer – Its a pack full of 283 website monitoring and other useful tools at one place.

WBOSS – WBOSS (Web Based Open Source Spell Checker) is designed to work with any text input form on any web page and its script allows users to paste text into the website and find any spelling errors so they can be fixed before publishing it. Via – Joshua Cantara.

Webmaster/ Developer Resource – A huge list in itself and all-in-one page linking to resource, tools, utilities, reference materials and all that stuff that have something to do with webmasters and website builders.

User behavior & User Experience

Loop¹¹ – Loop11 is a web-based user-experience testing tool, allowing companies to conduct online, unmoderated user testing on any kind of digital interface. Loop11 is not a survey or web analytics tool, but a user experience tool… helping you to understand user behaviour.

Clixspy – Clixpy tracks everything your site’s users do such as mouse movement, clicks, scrolling, form inputs. You can watch and examine videos showing your users’ actions.

Clickdensity – Clickdensity allows to analyze the user experience and identify usability and information architecture issues and generate reports and heat map showing the relative popularity of components on web pages.

Colorblind web-page filter – Its a a testing tool to analyze how a web page will look like to people having colorblindness and generate similar web pages with those colors only.

HTML, CSS & Forms

WordPress Theme Generator – This unique tool is for WordPress self-hosted blog owners. It generates and creates your own custom unique WordPress Theme be it 2column, 3-column along with all AJAX features with YUI and that too without any need for HTML, JS, PHP, or CSS knowledge.

Wufoo – HTML form builder to create contact forms, online surveys, and invitations so you can collect the data, registrations and online payments you need without writing a single line of code.

PHP Form Generator – Create your own running PHP form and download the HTML in just three simple steps no programming required.

ColT (Link to HTML) – Its a Firefox extension that adds two menu items to the browser’s context menu when you right click a hyperlink, it shows options as – “Copy Link Text and Location As” to the menu enabling users to copy the text and its link in either HTML, plain text, BB Code, FuseTalk, or Wikipedia formats.

FireScope – Its a quite handy Firefox add-on that integrates with Firebug and provide HTML and CSS reference information with Firefox browser.

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However, Nurph is available currently only in beta version and the service may change any time and there may be short one or two bugs as well.

Your Nurph URLs can be used by anybody and posted anywhere. It requires no installation and is completely lag-free, well suited for slow internet connections. Not only Twitter, you can even join your friends in a conversation via Facebook or email. Your joined friends will be listed on the right side as participants.

Moreover, Nurph does not disclose your posts on your Twitter account. Nurph has something for the bloggers as well. There is a button that can be added to the blog posts to receive user’s attraction.

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However, there is one short constraint while using Toolwerk for image merging. You are provided with 30 minutes of time to download the image. In case you do not perform any action, the image gets deleted by its own. Nice for site, as it does not have to keep a database of uploaded images.

Apart from merging the images, Toolwerk offers various other free online web tools and utilities like multi pagerank checker, image resizer, calculator, multi ping tool, converters, ip lookup, word counter and source code viewer.

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Widgets are making space for themselves in your site pages. They are easy to create and customize small web tools providing informations on stock news, weather reports, top products price, financial and travel information ,mapping and many more. You just need to know what you need to display in the special section of your blogs, sites, articles and they are there. There are many social community, business widgets, personal interest widgets present on the web.

Widgets just are not informative rather they bring business to your sites too. The most famous revenue generating widgets are ads links tools like google adsense, textLinks, amazon widgets and many more are present. The big players have already been hitting money with widgets potential.Open any site and you will surely be finding widgets in there. Sometimes providing information, sometimes promoting products. You can see them in terms of word clouds, banners or even some images/flash/adsense on the page. The web technology has taken a leap by providing the control of the widgets to its actual user. You can create and customize it according to your need and they don’t require you to be technical pro to use the web tool. They are most handy and are in ready to embed parts let it be a script or as an iframe.

You can send greetings, embed video you like and want to share, you want to show the world your site visitors and many more. The flight is undefined and we can not just fathom how vast impact it can bring.

Happy widgeting…

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“We’re working with the regulators and our bank processing partners in India to get this resolved as quickly as we can. We realize that this is causing considerable inconvenience to our customers and I want to reassure you that this is a top priority for the leadership at PayPal”

The Indian regulators such as RBI (Reserve Bank of India) has recently revised licensing rules in India for online money transfers. Thus online money transfer has been suspended with online applications such as Paypal until they fully resolve the issues with regulatory bodies in India.

The main updates over  Paypal services situation in India are;

1. Personal payments to and from India will be suspended for at least a few months until we fully resolve the questions from the Indian regulators.
2. Customers should be able to withdraw their funds to a local bank within the next few days.
3. Restoration of money into the PayPal accounts of any customers in India who have initiated a recent withdrawal, so the money is safe in their accounts.
4. For payment for a purchase of goods or services, one should contact the sender and request to resend the payment.

Although this is temporarily suspension of Paypal money transfers to and from India, but the impact over the Indian consumers are high as most of the freelancers in India that constitutes major portion of outsourced work to India has been affected.

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1. The Environmental Atlas of Europe – A digital platform for educating citizens about climate change, along with nine case studies illustrating the consequences of climate change in different environments, such as the shrinking ice cover in the Baltic.
2. Bend the Trend – An online global program that helps people make pledges to reduce their carbon emissions.
3. Eye on Earth – Windows Azure-powered portal that lets users track and give feedback about their environmental data such as air and water quality. The data is being provided by different individuals across the globe, through Bing maps, historical environment data and via environment monitoring stations.
4. Project 2 Degrees – A Web-based Emissions Tracker software tool for cities around the world to measure and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by calculating the carbon footprint and also to plan meaningful actions that save energy and money and thus making an impact in fight against climate change.

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EcoDrive – An innovative computer application that will help you improve how efficiently you drive. Analysis your driving style and helps you to use less fuel reducing CO2 emissions and saving money also.

Google -

1. Google Earth – If you have Google earth in your computer download the tours of climate predictions from the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and can also view climate change scenarios, narrated tours, investigate deforestation, and oceans floors on Google earth.
2. Google COP15 and related Videos – Watch the nice illustrated videos of climate change on planet Earth and learn about solutions for adaptation and mitigation, in the context of COP15.

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