Send secure and encrypted text via email online
Posted on November 19, 2008 - Filed Under Cool Websites | Leave a Comment
Previously, I wrote about a web service called LockBin, which was a free way to send encrypted email messages for free. However, the service has been having issues and doesn’t seem to work anymore for some reason.
LockBin basically worked by encrypting the text message using some kind of hash function like MD5 or SHA1. If you really want to send an encrypted email, why not just encrypt the text yourself! You can setup Outlook for encryption, but it’s very technical and requires lots of other services in order to work correctly.
How to get customer feedback on your product or service
Posted on November 16, 2008 - Filed Under Cool Websites | Leave a Comment
Do you have a company blog or webpage about your product or service and you want to start getting feedback from your customers/users/readers? I was very excited when Dell started their IdeaStorm website meant to get direct customer feedback from customers.
That’s one of the main reasons they released a new line of consumer Linux PCs and Linux servers. So if you are looking a way to get feedback on your products, services, or even your blog, then check out UserVoice.
How to convert any printable file into PDF
Posted on November 14, 2008 - Filed Under Cool Websites | 2 Comments
PDF is a great portable format. With a free software from www.primopdf.com called PrimoPDF, the task of converting any file to PDF format has never been easier. The installer from the download section is about 10.8MB as of this writing. After you installed it you can see it as one of the existing printers available on your list of printers:
This means any document, text, file or picture is printable to PrimoPDF. It will not print a hard copy of your chosen document but rather a soft PDF version. Once you try to print to this “printer” it will prompt with you with this window:
Convert long text into a short URL using TinyPaste
Posted on November 14, 2008 - Filed Under Cool Websites | 1 Comment
If you use Twitter a lot, you also probably use a URL shortening service like TinyURL quite a bit also. Since Twitter only allows you to send 140 characters in a single message, TinyURL converts really long URLs into short ones.
This is quite a handy service not only for Twitter, but also for Instant Messaging programs and even sending links via email. Anyway, I just prefer clean and short URLs to long and ugly ones.
Give a photo rounded corners without Photoshop or CSS
Posted on November 13, 2008 - Filed Under Cool Websites | Leave a Comment
Trying to give an image rounded corners in Photoshop or by using CSS was one of the hardest things for me to do when I used to have my own web design business. I actually hated trying to create those curved corners because they never came out exactly right!
And even if they did, the background color would change and I would have to edit the images over and over. I was always hoping someone would create a script or program that would automatically create rounded corners for me!
How to add Polariod-style pictures into your blog posts
Posted on November 12, 2008 - Filed Under Cool Websites | Leave a Comment
Windows Live Writer is an excellent blogging tool with a lot of possible choices of extensions to enhance your blogs. With a plug-in to enhance your ordinary pictures, you can achieve Polaroid-style pictures with tilts and captions. This plugin gives pictures a more dramatic or nostalgic effect. See some of the examples I got using this plugin:
If you don’t have Windows Live Writer yet you will need to get it from Windows Live website.
