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Calculate your website’s value

By Chris on February 20, 2009

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$timator is a website that evaluates your website value based on different criteria like: structural value, pages indexed in Search Engines, presence in Social Bookmarking systems, web recognition, backlinks, internal links, domain influence, directory inclusion and many others

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This is only sort of a game, don’t try selling your website for this price. [or you may try]

 

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If you are a programmer, you will love this little web application. As the description says, Snipt is a place when you can save all your code snippets.

 

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Bugs and some small stuff I don’t quite like about it [+ some ideas]:

  • I can only delete a snippet by clicking on “edit” first.
  • I would really love to have the ability to delete multiple snippets or add a tag to multiple snippets.
  • [BUG] when adding a new code snippet if I don’t add a tag it gives me a warning, but if I forgot to add the short description [or simply don’t want to add it] the snippet is not added to the database and no warning / info appears.
  • When viewing the snippets, it will be excellent to choose between to view-modes: full snippet view & snippet title view – in this way the

Bespin is a Mozilla Labs experiment that proposes an open, extensible web-based framework for code editing that aims to increase developer productivity, enable compelling user experiences, and promote the use of open standards.

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To learn more about Bespin, here it is a video tour-guide made by the developers of Bespin:


Introducing Bespin from Dion Almaer on Vimeo.

I played with it a little bit and I really liked the concept.

I can’t wait to see new features ;) [btw – some color schemes will be nice]. What I liked the most is the fact that will allow collaborations to the same file. Maybe a SVN-like system in the future? Who knows…

Go ahead – make an account and give it a try.

5 Online Ringtone Makers

By Chris on February 17, 2009

1. Cellsea Free Online Ringtone Maker

Cellsea it’s a website that has all kind of stuff for your mobile phone – one of these being a free online ringtone creator. I give it a try and it worked great. The ringtone sounds excellent [it’s on my phone already] and the UI it’s simple, clean and easy to use. You just need to let it load 100%.

IMPORTANT: to save the ringtone you must have an account. It’s free ;)

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Formats supported: MP3, midi, wav, aiff, m4a, aac, mp4, wma, flv

2. The Unlocker Online Ringtone Creator

The Unlocker offers an online ringtone creator for free and you don’t need an account to save the ringtone to your mobile/pc.

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3. Make Own Ringtone

Make Own Ringtone it’s a website specialized in ringtones. It doesn’t have anything else. Just a ringtone creator and a lot of options to use [by choosing the advanced mode]:

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With it I encountered some errors, but I think the server was kind of busy when I test it.

4. ToneBee Online ringtone maker

ToneBee allows you to create and save ringtones, but, just like CellSea, you need to have an account.

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If you load your MP3 file, make your selection and when you want to save you see an error like this don’t panic:

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Here are the steps for creating a ringtone from your MP3.

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Now you can click on Save ;)

5. MyMusicRings

MyMusicRings has the classic MP3 upload function, and, an YouTube video to ringtone converter.

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I didn’t like the User Interface, but… the YouTube feature it’s a really cool one.

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That’s all – enjoy and… make great ringtones !!!