20 Useful Websites for the Regular Internet User

Sun, Sep 28, 2008, by valli

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Did you know there is a site that delivers post if you just give the address and message? Here is a collection of such useful websites.

Pando


Pando is a free P2P website. With this you can send large attachments and folders very easily. It also helps to publish your downloadable videos to web in an easy manner.

Whatsonwhen


Whatsonwhen.com helps to know the events, attractions and exhibitions from around the world by simply entering a location and dates in this site.

Gazelle


You can sell your old electronic gadgets like iPod, cell phone, MP3 players etc. regardless of its condition.

160by2


This website offers free SMS to your desired number in India.

Pdfhammer

PDF Hammer is a free online PDF Editor that helps you to merge, edit and rearrange PDF documents online without installing anything.

Cellswapper


This website helps you transfer your current mobile contract to someone else or get a free plan with only a short term contract.

Ohdontforget


This website enables you fix scheduled message reminders to any phone. It reminds you about an en event at a specific day and time. You can remind things to your friends too by simply entering their number, date and event.

Rondee


Rondee is like teleconferencing among many people like friends, relatives and business people. This offers easy, fast and free phone conference calls with as many people as you want.

Spokentext

You can record PDF, Word, plain text, PowerPoint files, RSS news feeds, emails and web pages, and convert them to speech automatically.

Worldtaximeter

World Taximeter is an international taxi fare calculator accessible both from the web and the mobile phone. It gives you an estimate of the cost of a taxi ride around the globe in cities like Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Chicago, Dublin, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, New York, Paris, Prague, Rome, San Francisco, Sydney and Toronto.

Bookinmyphone


You can download and read books on your mobile phone.

Dailylit


It helps to read your favourite book by email. It currently offers over 1000 classic and contemporary books for free or on a pay-per-read basis.

Kiva


The main mission of Kiva is to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty. It lets you to lend small sums like $25 to a business project. This website keeps track of your investment and repays your loans as the business grows.

Retailmenot


You can find fresh online discount coupons for more than 20,000 stores here.

Esnailer


You can send free postal mail letters to anywhere in the US from your desktop by simply filling the address in the envelope and writing your message. This is free of charge.

Maxroam


Maxroam helps you to get the best deal while roaming by offering as much as 80% lower than roaming with your traditional mobile carrier. For this all you need is an unlocked GSM phone.

Yapta


This website tracks prices before you buy. If the price drops after you buy, they help you get refund travel credits from the airlines.

Podiobooks


This website enables you search, subscribe and browse through a variety of totally free audio books. These are 100 % legal.

Priceprotectr


It tracks the price of items you bought online. It also notifies and gets your money back in case of price-drops.

Switchplanet


SwitchPlanet helps its members to sell their used DVDs, CDs, video games and books for its internal currency switchbucs. Switchbucs can be used to buy things they want from other members. In another way it promotes exchange of things from one another like barter system.

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18 Comments For This Post

  1. MC caluya Says:

    nice one..

  2. eileenprince Says:

    really useful article, Thanks

  3. Pat Phelan Says:

    Many thanks for your mention of MAXroam
    Pat Phelan
    CEO

  4. BC Doan Says:

    Many useful websites that I didn’t know, valli.

  5. Anne Lyken-Garner Says:

    Great sites! I’ve never heard of any of them before.

  6. nobert soloria bermosa Says:

    interesting sites,not familiar to me though

  7. Judy Sheldon Says:

    I’d only heard of one of these. Valli, this is very interesting. Thanks.

  8. valli Says:

    Thanks everyone for the comments.

  9. louie jerome Says:

    Some very useful sites. PDF Hammer is something I have needed for a while.

  10. satya4u Says:

    Your articles are always informative.

  11. valli Says:

    Thanks for reading and commenting Louie and Satya.

  12. Ben Says:

    Here is another site I just found that is useful for sending large files that are too big to attach to emails. http://www.2large2email.com

  13. CHAN LEE PENG Says:

    This is both useful and interesting. Thanks, and take care Valli!

  14. Alexa Gates Says:

    very useful!

  15. Darlene McFarlane Says:

    Some of these sites look very interesting. I think I will check out PDFHammer.com.

    Thanks for the info.

  16. valli Says:

    Thanks for the info Ben and thanks for the nice feedback Chan, Alexa and Darlene.

  17. Fornis Says:

    This is a great article with rich collection of many useful websites. I will look into some of them.

    Thanks for sharing this.

  18. Trevor Daniel Says:

    Here is an interesting site. It’s an online Taxi Fare Calculator for the UK. Why not have a look. http://www.taxiroute.co.uk

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