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Amazing tool for every webmaster to analyze the performance of his website/blog. Rich functionality and tips on improvement are provided.

Bloghints.com is is well maintained directory of blogs. It is human moderated which ensures the quality of the blogs being featured in it. The design is clean and the directory is easy to navigate.The directory is running on PHPLD Script and has a Unique Template made by Syed. Recommended!

A favicon (short for 'favorites icon'), are litle icons associated with a particular website or webpage, shown next to the site's name in the URL bar of most browsers. genfavicon.com is an excellent free service that generates favicons for your blog or site. Recommended!

shrinktheweb.com allows you to capture screen shots of the interface of entire sites allowing to choose several different size of the generated thumbnails.

I found Qapacity by accident while looking for a coupon for Google add words and Facebook Advertisement. It turned out that the company offered EUR 50 for both services, and after I took advantage of the offers I went ahead to browse the site. It turned out to be asocial media friendly website builder which is easy to use and come with many advance features for newbies or businesses who wants something simple but good looking to represent them online.

At first I like the idea and the services of blogrankings.com. However when I embedded the code they send me some Google ad sense began showing up. While I have nothing against Ad sense, I won`t want people putting things on my site without asking for permission.

the-cloak.com is a web site that offers free anonymous browsing via HTTP and HTTPS proxy. You can use it to protect your privacy and freedom of expression. It works quite well even if there are some quotes enforced. You won`t have problem with these if you don`t visit adult sites with the service. Bear in mind that nothing is truly anonymous on the Internet and while the site may give you an extra level of security one is always responsible for his actions as states in their terms of service.

I like the site as it allows you to watch the full episodes of the South Park series. A great way to spend some time in front of the PC watching the creative episodes.

I discovered Zooomr few years ago while looking for a good free alternative of Flickr which will allow me to upload unlimited amount of photos and be able to see them all instead of the most recent 200. They advertised themselves as "unlimited, universal photo sharing site in the world" and for a while I was quite satisfied with their services. And they are pretty good in proving the service their promise. Yet I switched to a pro account at Flickr as I found the flickr community more open for communication and comments, reviews... etc. I kept my Zoomer account as a private back up. To summarize if you are looking for a good photo host for your images - give them a try.

I discovered this movie blog only few days ago and while I explored some of its posts I found a lot of interesting articles and commentaries. The authors are polite and respond to comments which is a clear indicator that they care for their readers which nowadays is equally important for big and small medias.

retailmenot.com managed to keep its reputation of one of the best sites for discounts coupons once can find on the net. There is an active community and people can vote if a coupon is active or not. A real money saver!

JustVoip is one of the many sites operated by Betamax. I have been using them for about a year and had no problems with call quality or payments. However recently they changed their rates to the countries I mostly called to - thus making the once free VOIP which I was getting for 10 Euro per 3 months paid calls. I felt cheated when that happened, because I still had credit in the system and there was not warning of any kind that they are going to change their rates.

ICQ was the pioneer of the chat systems along with mIRC. Yet it turned out that the conversations via ICQ are easy logged and with the rise of Skype many people switched over hoping that the P2P protocol of Skype will allow for more privacy. While I consider that a myth nowadays I rarely stumble on people who are still using their ICQ accounts.

After a friend recommended this news site to me I have been a frequent visitor there. Alex Jones is quite knowledgeable and brave journalist and discuses issues which most of his US colleagues do not dare. The streaming radio and podcast on the site are interesting to listen to as well.

filemirrors.info is a decent search engine for the files that are hosted on the one click networks such as hotfile, rapidshare, megaupload... etc. The design is OK and there are no annoying adverts.

I dislike facebook due to its many privacy issues and vague terms of services. Pretty much they own everything that is uploaded there and have the right to modify and redistribute it. I would much rather join a niche social network with strict rules and privacy policies that a network as facebook.

ilix.in is one of the most frequently used services to cloak and protect URL. The source code is encrypted which adds another layer to security. Once can protect a link or a collection of links with a password and share them safely in online communication lowering the odd that the traffic will be intercepted. Useful for sharing of demo pages, company docs, private photos... etc. They will show adds to the person who receive the links as that`s is their way to monetize the site.

The best site with personality evaluation tests which are not jokes but are based on serious physiological theories and research. If you are honest when you answer the questions in the test you will be surprised by the accurateness of the results obtained.

Probably the best way to quickly upload and share a photo or two. No sign ups are required and they support free hot-linking.

Lovely freeware software. Its extremely useful when you want to explain something to a friend, fix a problem on a remote computer... etc. Its beats most of the commercial products out there and has portable version as well.