Screedbot: Animated Scrolling Typewriter Text Generator

Screedbot lets you generate an animated GIF file with your own scrolling typewriter text. Just write some text into the field and press “Create Screed”. Modify image width, text colour, text font size and the background colour. When you are done, save it to your computer or share it on ImageShack or Flickr with one click.

Features:

• Scrolling text generator that lets you create GIF image file with your own scrolling typewriter text.
• Modify image width, text font size, text and background colours
• Save it to your computer or share it on ImageShack or Flickr with one click.

Check out Screedbot @ www.wigflip.com/screedbot

CookThink: Find Easy Prep Meal Recipes

CookThink is nice food recipe search tool that lets you find recipes according to your food cravings. You can search for recipes by ingredients, dish types, cuisines and moods. All listed recipes are easy prep meals and dishes, ideal for quick home cooking. Each recipe is tested in-house or by site’s contributing recipe partners such as top food bloggers, chefs and cook book authors.

There is no registration for searching recipes, however if registered you can keep track of your favorite recipes, leave comments and build your own meals from several food recipes using the Meal Builder.

Additionally you can read useful food reference articles, see most popular recipe searches, subscribe to site’s Root Source weekly newsletter to learn in detail about a single ingredient: best ways to buy it, how to store it, prepare it and cook with it.

Features:

• Food recipe ideas search tool.
• Search for recipes by ingredients, dish types, cuisines and moods.
• Each recipe is tested by the site or by site’s partner food experts.
• Read useful food reference articles, see most popular recipes and food searches.
• Subscribe to weekly Root Source newsletter to learn in detail about a single ingredient: how to buy it, store and cook with it.
• Register to keep track of your favorite recipes, comment on recipes and build your own meals from different recipes.
• Other food recipe websites: Foodista, Cookstr and some more.

Check out CookThink @ www.cookthink.com

Gazaro: Hot Deal Comparison Site

Gazaro is a deal comparison site that helps you get the best deals on products you want. The site crawls deal offers across online retailers, sorts them by price histories and reviews allocating an individual score to each item from 1 to 10, with 10 being the hottest score. It also displays the product price history over recent months and tells you if its good time to buy or wait. Deal scores are updated every day against its own price and similar products.

When you submit items you want to buy, Gazaro will track them and If there is a really good new sale or deal, alert you via email, RSS, and Twitter. Currently, its mainly focused on Electronics deals, more product options are coming soon.

Features:

• Get the best deals on selected products from online retailers.
• Subscribe to get updates on email, RSS or Twitter.
• Price trending: tells you if its a good time to buy or wait
• Products are sorted by the Deal Score, from hottest (10) to coldest (1)
• LImit results by selecting your preferred brands, tech specs and online stores.
• Easy to use. Instant.
• See Gazaro’s Hot Pics to see best current deals on Electronics products.
• More sites to find deals: Combyo and BeatThat.

Check out Gazaro @ www.gazaro.com

| MakeUseOf.com

Why is YouTube so cool? Well, because you can watch what you want, when you want, and the variety of material you can choose from is just amazing.

Although you can not yet (legally) watch a whole lot of classic TV episodes on YouTube like Star Trek episodes, which would be very convenient, there are tons of entertaining, informative and exciting channels that fit into any schedule and are not interrupted by annoying commercials. And that’s what makes YouTube so cool.

So I have put together a list of 10 channels I find unique, here it goes…

1. communitychannel

This girl is hilarious! Basically, she’s ranting and nagging about stuff, in a way that’s very entertaining. You definitely have to check it out.

2. AmazingPhil

AmazingPhil is the male pendant to communitychannel. A guy from the UK ranting and doing weird things and being even more crazy than the girl from down under.

3. Underground Wellness

Let’s be a bit more serious for a moment. Underground Wellness covers alternative nutrition and exercise information. Instead of imposing procedures on you like most doctors do, here is an effort to share with you the essential information that will help you understand your health-related issues and why this or that action may improve your condition. The guy behind Underground Wellness is a diet and lifestyle coach and a certified personal trainer.

4. ScienCentral

Even more serious, ScienCentral features short, comprehensive clips about scientific topics that are of interest to the general public.

Recent topics included the cuddle hormone, food flavor, corn ethanol and global warming. These clips are also shown at the local TV affiliate stations of the US TV channel ABC.

5. Break A Leg TV

Here we have an internet sitcom that aired its final episode in October 2008. In 17 episodes we follow the writer David Penn through his life which is bound to conclude “in a storage room, with a gun to his head and the sounds of a fake laugh track in his ears.”

If you haven’t seen it yet, at least you won’t have to wait for episodes to be completed, but can watch it right through to the end. And maybe the Break a Leg team will come up with a new project (or a second season) soon.

6. PCWizKid’s Tech Talk

Very comprehensive and well-commented screencasts, featuring tips, tweaks, hardware and software reviews for Windows Vista, Windows XP and Ubuntu. These tutorials are suitable for both the novice and the slightly more experienced user.

7. Gingeronymous

This channel features videos of the 94 year old WW2 veteran Les Loken, telling his life story to his daughter, who caught it on video to share it with the world. The man passed away in 2007. He certainly lived an interesting life and had some interesting stories to tell.

8. GidovGent

This is a channel that collects short documentary clips concerned with the mysterious, such as the Loch Ness monster, aliens, crop circles and the like. The videos are from different credible sources, like National Geographic, the BBC or the Discovery channel. Make up your own mind.

9. okiedokie969

This channel here mainly appears to collect videos of UFO sightings, but also covers material dealing with other mysteries, conspiracies and the like. Consume these clips with caution! It’s not true just because you draw the wrong conclusions from what you believe to witness. Although it may be.

10. MyDocumentaries

Here we have the most serious channel, dealing with highly political and controversial topics. The screenshot above shows a very small selection. You have to sign into YouTube to be able to watch those since some of the material is R-rated and not suitable for all audiences. So be prepared.

So what do you think? Worth your time? What are the things you watch on YouTube? Please share your coolest links with us!

| TechCityInc

I currently use Real Time HTML Editor to edit my content online but I’ve confronted a similar website today known as “CopyTaste”. It is a free web based service that allows you to publish text online. Unlike some other editors it features a multifunctional WYSIWYG text editor. It also gives you the option to add your images and videos.

It also offers a Firefox extension that lets you post any selected content on CopyPaste.  There is no registration required in order for you to edit your content online. But it makes it easy to share content and let others comment on it if you sign up for a free account.

Check out CopyTaste

CodeFetch: Programming Code Searching Tool

CodeFetch is an online tool for code searching that can be quiet helpful for starting programmers. The application searches published programming books and brings code snippets matching your query. Using this tool you would quickly find out where to look for code and avoid the need of flipping through indexes of books. To search for code snippets, simply select programming language you want, enter keyword and click “Fetch”.

Features:

• Searching code snippets on published programming books.
• Lets you search for almost any programming language codes you want.
• Free. No registration required.

Check out CodeFetch @ www.codefetch.com

Upit.to: Unlimited File Storage & Sharing Online

Upit.to is one click upload file hosting service that provides you with unlimited file storage and sharing. The service is absolutely free and you can upload files upto 5GB in size. Uploaded files can be downloaded as often and by as many people as you like.

There is no obligatory registration, however registering will provide you with additional features such as access to all your uploaded files in one place, managing and organizing them in folders, adding passwords and so on.

Features:

• One click upload online file hosting.
• Unlimited storage and bandwidth.
• Upload files upto 5 GB in size.
• No registration necessary, registering will provide you with additional features:
  - Manage your all your files in one place.
  - Organize your uploads in neat & easy folders.
  - Define standard passwords for your uploads.
  - Automatically add Prefix and Postfix for all your files.
  - Create your own siteheader for your download pages
  - Slightly increased download speed (250kb/s).
• Files with 0 views and 0 downloads will be deleted after 30 days.
• The basic account is free, premium account with more options also supported.
• For more similar services check MakeUseOf  “file storage” section.

Check out Upit.to @ www.upit.to