Tuesday 24 April 2012

Cool Websites and Tools [April 23rd 2012]

Check out some of the latest MakeUseOf discoveries. Most of the listed websites are FREE or come with a decent free account option. If you want to have similar cool website round-ups delivered to your daily email, subscribe here . Add Your Website Here!   Streamified – If you own a smartphone, you probably use separate applications to keep in touch with your Facebook and Twitter accounts. In case you are using an application that lets you view updates from both, you are not able to control the precise features of each account you view. Here to change that is an iOS app called Streamified. Read more: Streamified: Get A Customized Stream Of Your Social Networks [iOS]   Citelighter – Research papers are a major pain. Writing them is no problem, but gathering all the information you need is an incredible headache. You need to go to the source and write down all the bibliographical information to make sure you properly cite quotes or paraphrases. Thankfully, Citelighter exists to make this process easier. Read more: Citelighter: Makes Gathering Information For A Research Paper Easy     SelfRestraint – People who use their computers to get work done often procrastinate by wasting time on distracting websites. What you could use is an application that blocks such websites for the duration you are working. Here to offer that service is a tool called SelfRestraint, a Python-based free to use open-source desktop application. Read more: SelfRestraint: Block Distracting Sites For A Fixed Period Of Time     Code Cogs Equation Editor – is great for parents of home-schooled children who need to set up problems for their kids to solve. Using this handy editor you can create mathematical equations of all kinds with little or no coding skill required. Most of the equations are created by simply clicking on an image and filling in the numerals needed. Read more: Code Cogs Equation Editor: Create Equations With Latex & Save Them For Later     PhotoCal – If you use your iPhone or Android phone as the primary camera and take a load of photographs with it, then try out PhotoCal, which organizes images according to their date, making them much easier to find and sort. The application allows users to sort their photos by date, month and more. Read more: PhotoCal: Sort & Organize Photos By Date Taken [iPhone & Android]   Add Your Website Here! These are just half of the websites that we discovered in the last couple of days. If you want us to send you daily round-ups of all cool websites we come across, leave your email here . Or follow us via RSS feed .




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