90+ Useful Websites, Tools & Apps

Here's a list of interesting and useful websites, apps and tools that's been floating around the web for years. This list has been scrubbed to make sure the sites are still active. And I've categorized them.  Enjoy!

Category	The Most Useful Websites and Web Apps
Communication-Audio	www.mixlr.com – broadcast live audio over the web.
Communication-Chat	www.imo.im – chat with your buddies on Skype, Facebook, Google Talk, etc. from one place.
Communication-Editing	www.notes.io – the easiest way to write short text notes in the browser.
Communication-Editing	www.privnote.com – create text notes that will self-destruct after being read.
Communication-Editing	www.typewith.me – work on the same document with multiple people.
Communication-Email	www.alertful.com – quickly setup email reminders for important events.
Communication-Email	www.ctrlq.org/html-mail – send rich-text mails to anyone, anonymously.
Communication-Email	www.followupthen.com – the easiest way to setup email reminders.
Communication-Email	www.scr.im – share you email address online without worrying about spam.
Communication-Misc	www.faxzero.com – send an online fax for free – see more fax services.
Communication-Misc	www.talltweets.com – Send tweets longer than 140 characters.
Communication-Misc	www.wordle.net – quick summarize long pieces of text with tag clouds.
Communication-Sharing	www.join.me – share you screen with anyone over the web.
Communication-Sharing	www.livestream.com  – broadcast events live over the web, including your desktop screen.
Communication-Tools	www.lovelycharts.com – create flowcharts, network diagrams, sitemaps, etc.
Communication-Tools	www.polishmywriting.com – check your writing for spelling or grammatical errors.
Communication-Video	www.mailvu.com – send video emails to anyone using your web cam.
Communication-Video	www.tinychat.com – setup a private video chat room in micro-seconds.
Communication-Web Pages	www.marker.to – easily highlight the important parts of a web page for sharing.
Conversion	www.copypastecharacter.com – copy special characters that aren’t on your keyboard.
Conversion	www.dictation.io – online voice recognition in the browser itself.
Conversion	www.goo.gl – shorten long URLs and convert URLs into QR codes.
Conversion	www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont – quickly determine the font name from an image.
Conversion	www.onlineocr.net – recognize text from scanned PDFs – see other OCR tools.
Conversion	www.pdfescape.com – lets you can quickly edit PDFs in the browser itself.
Conversion	www.printwhatyoulike.com – print web pages without the clutter.
Conversion	www.regex.info – find data hidden in your photographs – see more EXIF tools.
Conversion	www.unfurlr.com e – find the original URL that’s hiding behind a short URL.
Editing	www.minutes.io  – quickly capture effective notes during meetings.
Editing	www.pastebin.com – Store text and graphics and call them up on demand
Editing	www.tagmydoc.com – add QR codes to your documents and presentations (review).
Editing	www.teuxdeux.com – a beautiful to-do app that looks like your paper dairy.
Education	www.codeacademy.com – the best place to learn coding online.
Education	www.labnol.org – software tutorials and how-to guides.
Education	www.typingweb.com  – master touch-typing with these practice sessions.
Entertainment	http://zerodollarmovies.com – find full-length movies on YouTube.
Entertainment	www.noteflight.com – print music sheets, write your own music online (review).
File Management	www.ge.tt – quickly send a file to someone, they can even preview it before downloading.
File Management	www.jotti.org – scan any suspicious file or email attachment for viruses.
File Management	www.otixo.com – easily manage your online files on Dropbox, Google Docs, etc.
File Management	www.pipebytes.com – transfer files of any size without uploading to a third-party server.
File Management	www.virustotal.com – scan any suspicious file or email attachment for viruses.
File Management	www.wetransfer.com – for sharing really big files online.
Financial	www.chipin.com – helps you raise funds online for an event or a cause (closed).
Graphics	color.adobe.com – get color ideas, also extract colors from photographs.
Graphics	www.bing.com/images – automatically find perfectly-sized wallpapers for mobiles.
Graphics	www.bounceapp.com – replace this with a version that works on mobile.
Graphics	www.google.com/webfonts  – a good collection of open source fonts.
Graphics	www.iconfinder.com – find icons of all sizes.
Graphics	www.office.com – download templates, clipart and images for your Office documents.
Graphics	www.unsplash.com   – download images absolutely free.
Graphics-Tools	www.bubbl.us – create mind-maps, brainstorm ideas in the browser.
Graphics-Tools	www.ctrlq.org/screenshots – for capturing screenshots of web pages on mobile and desktops.
Graphics-Tools	www.draw.io – create diagrams and flowcharts in the browser, export your drawings to Google Drive and Dropbox.
Graphics-Tools	www.kleki.com – create paintings and sketches with a wide variety of brushes.
Graphics-Tools	www.picmonkey.com – Picnik is offline but PicMonkey is an even better image editor.
Graphics-Tools	www.sumopaint.com – an excellent layer-based online image editor.
Graphics-Tools	www.timerime.com – create timelines with audio, video and images.
Graphics-Video	www.screenr.com – record movies of your desktop and send them straight to YouTube.
Graphics-Video	www.stupeflix.com – make a movie out of your images, audio and video clips.
Lookup	http://ctrlq.org/rss/ – a search engine for RSS feeds.
Lookup	http://web.archive.org/ - Look at web sites at a specific point in time. The Wayback Machine
Lookup	www.builtwith.com – find the technology stack to know everything about a website.
Lookup	www.feedmyinbox.com – get RSS feeds as an email newsletter.
Lookup	www.formspring.me – you can ask or answer personal questions here.
Lookup	www.google.com/history – see your past searches, also among most important Google URLs
Lookup	www.iwantmyname.com – helps you search domains across all TLDs.
Lookup	www.lmgtfy.com – when your friends are too lazy to use Google on their own.
Lookup	www.midomi.com – when you need to find the name of a song.
Lookup	www.namemytune.com – when you need to find the name of a song.
Lookup	www.similarsites.com – discover new sites that are similar to what you like already.
Lookup	www.snapask.com – use email on your phone to find sports scores, read Wikipedia, etc.
Lookup	www.truveo.com – the best place for searching web videos.
Mapping	www.scribblemaps.com – create custom Google Maps easily.
Reference	www.boxoh.com – track the status of any shipment on Google Maps – alternative.
Reference	www.homestyler.com – design from scratch or re-model your home in 3d.
Reference	www.hundredzeros.com – the site lets you download free Kindle books.
Reference	www.random.org – pick random numbers, flip coins, and more.
Reference	www.urbandictionary.com – find definitions of slangs and informal words.
Reference	www.wolframalpha.com – gets answers directly without searching
Reference-Travel	www.flightstats.com – Track flight status at airports worldwide.
Reference-Travel	www.seatguru.com – consult this site before choosing a seat for your next flight.
Services	www.fiverr.com – hire people to do little things for $5.
Time-Date	e.ggtimer.com  – a simple online timer for your daily needs.
Time-Date	www.everytimezone.com – a less confusing view of the world time zones.
Time-Date	www.qClock.com  – find the local time of a city using Google Maps.
Time-Date	www.whichdateworks.com – planning an event? Find a date that works for all.
Verification	www.woorank.com – research a website from the SEO perspective.
Verification	www.snopes.com – find if that email offer you received is real or just another scam.
Web Site Tools	safeweb.norton.com  – check the trust level of any website.
Web Site Tools	www.coralcdn.org  – if a site is down due to heavy traffic, try accessing it through coral CDN.
Web Site Tools	www.disposablewebpage.com – create a temporary web page that self-destruct.
Web Site Tools	www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com – find if your favorite website is offline or not?
Web Site Tools	www.ewhois.com – find the other websites of a person with reverse Analytics lookup.
Web Site Tools	www.gtmetrix.com – the perfect tool for measuring your site performance online.
Web Site Tools	www.pancake.io – create a free and simple website using your Dropbox account.
Web Site Tools	www.whoishostingthis.com  – find the web host of any website.
Workflow	www.ifttt.com – create a connection between all your online accounts.