Web Talk

If you are a webmaster you know only too well how dangerous to put your email address on your website is. In fact, if you don’t use any protection to trick spam bots, in a matter of  a few hours or even less, your inbox could be pestered with hundreds of emails having the most different and dreadful topics. So, what solution do we have to prevent all this? A nice trick is to create an image of your email address so that malevolent bots won’t be able to read it. Another solution is to protect your email by converting it into an encrypted JavaScript code in order to hide it from spam bots, but at the same time make it  fully readable to human beings. The Enkoder Form does exactly this: hide your email address to email harvester aka spam. Once you have typed your email address in its form you will get a code which you will have to copy-and-past directly on your website without other worries such as: understand how it works, modify it etc. It doesn’t matter how tricky the code is, just put it wherever you want and you are done. Guaranteed!

If you are an English learner, if you want to improve your English or if you are just looking for some fun while studying, then you have got to try this nice website called Listen-and-write.com. Listen and Write lets you learn English thanks to a lot of online dictations to exercise yourself with. The main page, apart from being very simple and with no eye candy stuff, contains a tidy list of dictations to play. If you click on one of them you will be taken to a page divided into two sections. The first one containing the whole audio file. The second one containing a space where you will have to write down all the words you will be able to recognize during the dictation. Usually every dictation is divided into chapters. You can select either which chapter to play first or the whole story. You can even choose your own level and start with something as simple as listening to separate words. A very useful website which is not just for students but for all of those people who desire to improve their English knowledge in a different way.

If you are a webmaster and you are always concerned about your blog popularity, then this nice website is for you. As a matter of fact just by writing your blog’s web address in its form you will be able to check your blog popularity thanks to a list of results coming from the most important and authoritative websites specialised in judging blogs namely: Google PageRank, Alexa rank, Quantcast rank, Technorati Rank. Furthermore it will also give you the following results: Google Index, Yahoo Index, Google BackLinks, Google BackLinks, Google BackLinks etc. Try it now!

This simple website called Convertico.com does a very important task, which usually is found on expensive software, namely it converts .png files into .ico files and vice versa, for free. It is just sufficient to upload an image or enter its URL, hit the “convert” button and in a matter of seconds you will get your file converted into one of the two most important extensions, usually used for blogs and websites! The website is fully Vista compatible and it supports all the major web browsers. Try it now!

Have you ever wished to get some business cards to show to your friends or people you come in contact with at work? No, I am not talking about real business cards but electronic cards which, apart from being for free, let you show who you are and other important infos. Retaggr.com lets you have your own private business cards with a few easy steps. The service Retaggr.com offers you goes beyond the simple creation of cards. As a matter of fact, once registered to the website, you will be able to leave your profile card whenever you leave a comment on the internet, show your recent twitter messages, display your online activity, link to your card from anywhere on the web etc. If you are a webmaster instead you can have your personal widget to stick on your Wordpress website, specify content from your site to be shown within Profile Cards, make your content more useful while keeping readers on your site etc. The service is totally  free and it just requires a quick registration.

If you are an icon-freak always looking for new icons to use and download on your computer, or if you are just looking for a nice icon to put on your blog or among the pages of your latest document, then you have got to try this nice website called ICONlook.com. Basically, it is a search engine letting you search for any kind of icon just by typing the keyword of what you want. The icons are available in different format namely 12×12, 16×16, 22×22, 32×32, 48×48, 64×64 and 128×128 and come in .ico and .png format. The icons are “clean” meaning that they don’t contain any watermark or writing of any sort. This lets you use them without any issue or restriction. Anyway, for some of them, there is a kind of copyright which is fully readable on the page you want to download the icon from.

There are a lot of ways to look for things on the Internet. Anyway, a lot of them might be simply too tricky and difficult to use because they involve the use of complicated pieces of code. If simplicity is the thing you are looking for when searching in the web, then you have to got to try Boolify.org. As a matter of fact, by using its boolean terms you can refine your search and exclude a lot of useless results, just to focalize your search on the things that really matters to you. But what does Boolean searh mean? They are instructions (AND, OR, NOT) which tell Google what and how to search, including and/or excluding infos you are or you are not interested in. Of course you don’t have to learn anything about boolean codes because Boolify.org, thanks to its simple interface, makes the use of these instructions extremely easy. Here is a brief explanation of how this website works.

Mutapic is an interesting web utility letting you create, mutate and manipulate pictures online. Reading from the web site: “Mutapic is an online picture generator. It is a free tool you can use to rapidly create original art. Click on the green button to start.” So this online application is not a photo editor, but a wonderful tool almost specifically made for artists who want to create fancy artworks. It can also be used to create logos, icons, patterns, illustrations, and such just for fun. But how does it work? Basically, the main idea behind Mutapic is to blend two different pictures to create a set of new artistic images. Mutapic generates an infinite number of original images and icons using randomness, rules, recipes and elements that are shown as features on its complete palette. Some of its effects include: brightness, contrast, invert, translate, rotate, scale, shadow, gradient noise etc. If you are curious to see some artworks posted by people who have used it, click here. To start mutate your pictures, click here.