If you own a Web server or a VPS and would like to see how quick it is at delivering your website pages and how efficient is it’s response time then you can try the following cUrl command from any other Linux Box and test your results, while this test will give you response time of your own website , you can still compare it with response time of popular websites like nytimes.com and lifehacker.com to get an idea of how much you lag behind them ( You can be quicker in response time too , if you have a mighty server !! )
Need to type in Hindi on any website that does’nt allows transliteration ( the way you write in orkut and gmail and Blogger ie. “kaise ho” turns to कैसे हो ) , well then you can also act smart and write your message in blogger/orkut/gmail and then copy paste it to website where you want transliteration
Friends, you must have tried numerous ways to download videos / mp3 by using various plugins for firefox or other softwares or websites that did this for you , but now I am going to tell you a method that looks techie but is really easy and can help you download anything, YES you heard me right, just Anything off the internet so may it be any Video, audio , mp3 or any other streaming stuff from any website I’m not just talking about youtube or dailymotion or any other video sharing site but rather for any site , even if they are using their custom player and stuff .
Bid Swish is a visual way to search ebay for auctions, and you get a collage or a grid of thumbnail images of ebay auctions relating to the keyword you searched and you can then go from here to actual ebay page by double clicking on a particular item .
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eople create strange but sometimes useful apps and web apps, now this one is similar to Google but for sounds .
Actually , FindSounds is a new and revolutionary sound search website that allows you to search for various types of sounds , examples of the various types are listed below .
You can easily make yourself look like a fool or some weird creature from an alien species if you have ever tried stretching your face image using some advanced photoshop/ image editing softwares, but this service at StretchYourFace allows you to achieve the same funny effect online, so no need to use image editing software just launch this website upload your photo and have fun, better try this with your friend’s photo and once you are done you can save it or even email it to your friend ( A good way to tease someone ! )
See how this Mr. Doggy was stretched to perfection .
It feels frustrated when after lot of searching you find what you were looking for, but when you go there the Website is unavailable or temporarily down or under maintenance. In this situation you have two ways to see that we page or website
1. Search for it on Google and then just locate the cached result ( highlighted in yellow),click on it and you will find a cached copy of Website from Google cache even if the website is down
I just saw this Web service known as QuarkBase even though it has been in existence for long, so what it actually does is that it provides all the available information about a website from various other websites so basically it is a web mashup and it proves very useful for any webmaster,SEO expert or anyone who’s just interested about any website/Blog and wishes to know about it’s stats,ranking,links etc.
