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Don’t have the money to buy your favourite magazines. Now you can read them online. Mygazines brings you a wide range of popular magazines online. With their well built magazine reader, you can go through all your favorite magazines in one place. You can also upload magazines which you have bought and so give back something to the community. You can even upload catalogues and product brochures of the business you are handling.

It is an extremely useful web tool. Suppose your friend want to see some of the pictures which you took last day at the party. So you compress it with a zip software like winzip or winrar and send it to your friend. But unfortunately your friend does not have the software installed on his system. No need to worry. As him to go to wobzip website and point to the file (or url) in your system and wobzip will automatically uncompress the file for him. When I visited the site, it supported the following zip types. RAR , GZIP, 7z, ZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZHCHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS.

Cligs is a URL shortening service that provides you access to detailed traffic statistics of your short URLs. If you want to see how many people are visiting your URL, then you can use this service an create a shorter URL for your original long URL. For example here is the link to one of my article regarding 10 life changing websites. The actual link to the website is http://www.webupon.com/Web-Talk/10-Life-Changing-Websites-and-Best-RSS-Feeds.76310. Yes, it is a very long URL. But I went to cligs website and converted the above url to this http://cli.gs/YpL5Zu. Now, if you click this link, you will be redirected to the same site. There are lots of websites offering services to shorten the URLs but I haven’t seen many which will give you detailed statistics like cligs do. So, if you are a publisher, or if you want to see how many people are accessing your page from a particular media, then Cligs is the one you should use. Within an account, you can create an as many cligs as you like, with an unlimited number of cligs pointing to the same destination URL.

Yotify works by delivering specific information at a frequency the user sets forth beforehand and as per his convenience. It provides information similar to Google Alerts but its main advantage seems to be throwing in a social aspect into the mix so that users can deal everything online. In the same lines of Google alerts, Yotify has something which it call scout. Scouts are nothing but search parameters the user specify and the search results the user receives are based on the data he has provided. The user has the ability to share scouts or keep them as private.

FeedMyInbox is a very simple online service that bridge the gap between RSS XML OR ATOM feeds and email. According to a study only 3% of computer users are familiar with how feeds actually work, and are using feed readers like bloglines to get up-to-date information from their favorite sites. Feed my inbox makes the reading of feeds one step easier by redirecting them to your mails. So every day while checking your mails, you have the convenience of reading all new articles published in your favorite websites. It is again a free service.

Bukisa specializes in user generated content web projects. In Zulu language, the word Bukisa means display. It is a knowledge sharing site. Through this site you can find tones of information which interests you. If you want you can also contribute to this website and get paid in the process of doing so. They claim to be a platform for creators to share their work and knowledge. Knowledge can be any of form like articles, videos, podcasts, etc. Whenever someone views the creator’s content, they will get paid. It also acts as a chain of revenue wherein you can invite your friends to join and contribute to Bukisa and at the same time gain a commission from whatever they earn.

Knol is a Google project that aims to include articles submitted or created by users on a wide range of topics. Google define Knol as the unit of knowledge. You should have a google account for submitting articles in Knol. But for just viewing the articles, you don’t need an account. There is a provision to rate, comment on or suggest some edits which they might feel should be done on the submitted article. This way, the knowledge will be perfect and fine tuned. If you have a passion for writing articles which will help someone, then Knol is the place for you.

Text to mindmap is a wonderful tool which will convert your formatted text to a mind map. If you are new to mind maps, it is something which everyone should be aware of. It is a memory aiding tool which helps us to remember information for a longer period of time. This site is (as far as I know) the first of its kind. If you are a huge fan of mind maps, it will change the way you take notes. You copy the notes to the website tool and bingo, it will create a mind map for the text you have entered in a flash.

Ever wondered what it costs to drive somewhere? CostToDrive.com was created to help people quickly and easily discover how much it costs to drive anywhere in the US. It is a very useful website if you are planning for a long trip with your car. With the price of gas skyrocketing, the carefree days of jumping in the car with no regard to costs are long gone and that is where galculator comes in. You just need to enter the Start and end points of your travel and of course the car which you are using. The website provides you with a wide range of vehicles you can select from. There is 99% chance that you will find your car in the list they have provided. If you don’t, select the one which matches to your car’s performance. So, what are you waiting for, find out how much your travel will cost today.

Ajaxdaddy is a website which contains a huge collection of web 2.0 Demos. If you are new to the Web 2.0 technologies, then, this is the site which you should browse. It has got tones of sample codes and it has got lots of live demos where you can actually see how your code works in the website itself. It has got lots of sample templates for common website tasks such as auto complete, bouncer, calendar, forms, chat, ticker, tabs etc.