My Digital Notebook

In a bid to save you all time and fuss, here is a list of 22 tools to help you to successfully tinker with the Internet.

Images & Design

The Multicolour Lab. Search for creative commons license photos by colour.

A colour palettes for designers from Colourlovers.

Has your image/photo been copied? Try Tineye.

Use of language

How easy is it to understand your website, or is it full of gobbledygook?

Has your content been copied? Try Copyscape.

SEO

Website Grader. A good, overall SEO analysis of your site.

This site is great for testing website speeds and download times.

To find out who is backlinking into your site? Try this.

Domains

Do you want to find out who owns a domain? Nominet.

123. To check domain availability and to buy your own.

Reverse IP – View all domain names hosted on an IP address from domain tools.

Translating websites

For a quick translation use Google’s translator tool.

For a proper translation, it’s best to stick with the Institute of Translators and Interpreters.

Search

Here’s one of the better Yahoo Pipes.

Google’s News Time Line. Useful as a backwards time-machine, helping you to construct the arc of a story.

For the latest search trend, best try Google Trends.

Downtime

When an Internet site isn’t working, look at this.

Analytics

Crazy Egg. For heatmaps and click data.

Get a quick screenshot on Firefox.

Twitter

Use this site to decode the latest Twitter hashtag.

Word On Tweet. To find out what the world is talking about.

Odds and ends

Fatfingers is good for misspellings on eBay.

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A long list. I hope some of you find it useful. And yes. I realise that this post is a cliché.

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image credit: Emily Barney.