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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Picnicking is yet another way to satisfy your Football fever. With an Online photo editing tool called Picnik, you can easily put Soccer-themed effects to your photos and can share with your friends, just to show your craziness about the Football. It provides you with many new Soccer fever effects like digital face paint, Soccer-themed stickers and Team flag Overlays.

To get started to satisfy your fan fever, just head over to Picnik’s Soccer fever section and ‘Upload your photo’. You can also select the photo from your Picasa profile. Now you can select your favorite team from the drop down list found at the left side bar. To paint your face Click on “Face Paint” option and select the first color. You can choose the brush size, and also erase if something goes out of line.

You can also select and apply country flag, add text and Football stickers from the left side bar. This tool allows you to easily edit and retouch your photos. After you are done with all the photo effects you wanted to be in your photo then you can easily save your photo in your Picasa album and finally you can share your Football craziness with the entire world.

Check out World Cup Soccer Fever Effects: Click here

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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.

Coded Preview

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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While browsing the web whenever you visit any site and if you liked the person or the site and wish to follow them on twitter then we are redirected on the twitter where we could easily hit the follow button. There is an easier alternative in this regard which is brought up by a recently launched web-app. The idea on which this web-app is based on is awesome and revolutionary.

Twiup.com is a web-app that lets you find and discover relevant people who have similar interests as of yours by just browsing a directory at Twiup.com. You can easily discover people you really want to follow.

To get started with Twiup, all you need to do is just login in your twitter account using Oauth method and allow access to the application. Moreover, to find people of your likes you just need enter few tags or keywords that suits to your interest the best and rest is done by twiup, it will perform the time consuming search for you and then allow you to take actions and select people you would like to follow. This web-app also allows you to find the most influential people in the respective field you are looking for on the basis of what people have voted.

As everything has its pros and cons so this web-app also has. I have already pointed out the pros. The cons are that, this web-service is not free and according to me $8 per month is bit high for this service. The directory it filters out as per your tags is not up to the mark as it doesn’t shows the most influential people, at least for now, obviously it may show up when the all the people will join it.

However, the idea behind the service is good and can do better in future, if implemented in a planned way.

What do you think about this web-app? Try discovering relevant people on your topic with this app and check whether you end it right or not?

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Conclusion

There’s a lot of desktop software that will allow you to cut an mp3 down to a single short clip, or trim the beginning and end of a recording, but there may be times when such software doesn’t work for you. Maybe you’re on someone else’s computer. Maybe you don’t need all of the features that a versatile app like Audacity has to offer. That’s where CutMp3.net comes in. It is a simple, Web-based way to trim an mp3 without uploading or re-encoding it. Without doubt, it is an excellent alternative for those who want a ringtone for their mobile, remixing songs or simply no sound cut spaces before and after each topic.

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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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Lets have a look pf major products of Adobe CS5 one by one with their top new innovative features that would provide its user and great ease and help.

Dreamweaver CS5

Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 is most common tool one can found any designer/developer with and indeed it allows designers and developers to design visually or directly in code.

From CS5 onwards one can develop pages with content management systems(CMS), and accurately test browser compatibility thanks to integration with Adobe BrowserLab. The latest version enables you to develop with PHP-based content management systems such as WordPress, Joomla!, or Drupal and design with powerful CSS inspection tools nearly like to that of Firebug in Firefox.

What’s new?

1. Integrated CMS support
2. Site-specific code hinting
3. Integration with Business Catalyst
4. PHP custom class code hinting

Other Interesting

• Integration with Adobe BrowserLab that lets one preview dynamic web pages and local content with multiple viewing, diagnostic, and comparison tools.
• Integration with Adobe Business Catalyst service (available separately) to build and host everything from amazing websites to powerful online stores and lead generating mini-sites.

Photoshop CS5 Entended

Photoshop is ultimate tool for image editing, creating, re-touching and used by web or print media professionals or even a web junkies who just wants to get naughty with their pictures.

Performance enhanced new Photoshop CS5 now offers editing, compositing, and painting capabilities in industry-standard tools that let you create and edit 3D images and motion-based content. It redefines digital imaging with a strong focus on photography along with breakthrough capabilities for superior image selections, image retouching, and realistic painting.

One of its new feature called – Content-Aware Fill magically fills in the space left behind when you remove any image detail or object from within image, this new technology matches lighting, tone, and noise so it looks as if the removed content never existed.

What’s New

1. Extraordinary painting effects
2. Puppet Warp
3. Superior HDR imaging
4. State-of-the-art raw image processing
5. Content-Aware Fill
6. Complex selections made easy

Flash CS5

Adobe Flash Professional CS5 software is the industry standard for interactive authoring and delivery of immersive experiences that present consistently across personal computers, mobile devices, and screens of virtually any size and resolution. The latest version combines expressive design features like a new multilingual text engine and more realistic inverse kinematics effects with timesaving development features like extensible code snippets and enhanced ActionScript authoring options.

Adobe Flash Professional CS5 also include a Packager for iPhone that enables publishing ActionScript 3 projects to run as native applications for iPhone and these applications can be delivered to iPhone users through the Apple App Store.

What’s New

1. Code Snippets panel
2. ActionScript editor enhanced
3. XML-based FLA source files
4. Deco drawing tools
5. Video improvements

AFTER EFFECTS CS5

Whether you’re working in broadcast and film or delivering work online and to mobile devices, Adobe After Effects CS5 software enables you to create groundbreaking motion graphics and blockbuster visual effects. Adobe After Effects CS5 delivers more of the creative control you crave, while making it faster to work on high-resolution projects..

What’s New ?

1. Native 64-bit OS support
2. Roto Brush
3. AVC-Intra and enhanced RED support
4. Color Finesse
5. Auto-Keyframe mode

ADOBE SOUNDBOOTH CS5

Adobe Soundbooth CS5 software makes it easy to create and edit audio for all your productions. Task-based features and tight integration with other Adobe applications let you edit sound and accomplish audio tasks with complete creative control.

What’s new?

1. Improved multitrack editing
2. More royalty-free sound effects and Soundbooth Scores
3. Task-based audio editing

CONTRIBUTE CS5

Adobe Contribute CS5 software is a powerful web publishing and website management tool that integrates authoring, reviewing, and publishing in an easy-to-use WYSIWYG HTML editor. Increase web publishing productivity collaboratively while simplifying oversight and approval tasks.

What’s new

1. Predefined content types new
2. Cross-browser preview new
3. XML editing new

This and more is included in all new Adobe Creative Suit 5 with bunch of 14 products such as Adobe OnLocation CS5- a software, part of Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 that enables direct-to-disk recording, logging, and monitoring solution to play with professionally or as a creative geek.

One can find all the new features and enhancements at CS5 Launch website or if you want to give it a try you may download the trials of each of these ultimate creative softwares here

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Web2PDFconvert comes loaded with various other features that you look in a PDF Convertor. You can change the page size and orientation (portrait and landscape) and reduce the pixel intensity of the images by making use of compression tools. The flexibility of adding margins to the PDF is also there. Moreover, you can tag the PDF with dates and URL`s.

If you visit the site, you will see the Word press plug-in for Web2PDFconvert.com. You can use this to put “Convert to PDF” button on your own site.

To use this service, you just have to go to www.Web2PDFconvert.com and enter the URL in the blank specified. Within a split few seconds, you will find your PDF ready. There is no hassle of signing in and making an account. There are various other sites like Verypdf, which does the same task. However, I find Web2PDF convert much faster.

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Adobe is all set with launch event across the globe including India, on 13th April in Mumbai demonstrating the new features and advanced enhancement in new creative suit. New features includes content-aware fill that makes adding, removing, moving or repairing items faster and more seamless, another feature called PatchMatch which is a randomized correspondence algorithm for structural image editing quickly finding approximate nearest neighbor matches between image patches. See videos below:

Adobe, which produce most number of products for the creative people than any other brand in this world right from photoshop to flash or Dreamwaever to  CorelDraw the products are most likely to be found among tools & apps of any designer, creative art pro or even developers/ programmers.

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Google sidewiki is new way to tell all internet users visiting any site page that they are important and there vision is appreciated. A browser sidebar that enalbles users to contribute and read helpful information alongside any web page they are visiting. Google sidewiki is with us since 22nd of September 2009 but I am not sure how many of us are really making the most out of it.

Google has always valued its users with tools and information that is most relevant and usefult for the user. That is what has made google the search engine king.

The very step to enable users to contribute for the any site page gives confidence to user not to only have the information what the site owners wants to tell rather its like giving all page ownership to the users also who can come and add or contribute information and things that will help others and making the page more informative and as its a public opinion so its well social too.

Google has given it to contribute and share. Hats off to the great brains working with sheer brilliance. Out of the box thinking and giving all powers to its users. You can share it on facebook, tweet it email it or just share the link.

Happy sidewiking people… the powers is in your hands…

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