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Time.is

How accurate is your computers clock? Try Time.is which will tell you the exact time, and then how far in advance or behind your computer clock is. Turns out that mine was 2.5 seconds in advance. Fun little tool.

Play & create video trivia games

blubbr is a free to use web service that lets you create interactive quizzes out of YouTube videos. You start creating your interactive video quiz, called Trivs by the site, by typing in its title. Next you search for videos on YouTube through Blubbr’s interface. For each video you select, you select a portion of the video and you enter a question and four options because people who are taking the quiz will have multiple choices for each question, with only one being the right one.

Todo.ly Simple Todo List

via todo.ly

Simple and easy to do list tool. Smart filters, drag and drop, to do hiearchy, due dates, lots of good stuff. Free, web based.

Currency Converter Calculator and Foreign Money Exchange Rates

GoCurrency is a nice little tool - mainly for the fact that you can get an historical overview of one currency against another, back to 1990.

Easily manage all your social network settings

Following on from my previous post regarding permissions, my colleague David Bradley (no relation) kindly pointed out BlissControl to me. It has two boxes... what do you want to do on the left, and the social networks on the right.

This includes things like changing/recovering passwords, changing user names, biographies, permissions and so on. Social networks include Twitter, Facebook, Flickr - 13 in all. Once you've decided what you want to do where, just click the Go button and you'll be taken to the appropriate page if you're already logged into that service, or you can then log on and go there.

Excellent tool!

Find out who gained access to your personal info.

Well, it's not quite as hysterical as the title suggests, but just how much of your personal information have you given away to various different applications out there? MyPermissions is a very helpful site that simply takes you to the appropriate page on social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, G+, LinkedIn and so on in order for you to see what you have allowed access to. You can then decide if you want to continue to allow them access.

I tried this with Facebook for example, and I had allowed 143 resources access to my account. I'm not particularly surprised by this since I'm always trying out new stuff and have to get access via Facebook, but I still think it's a lot. I simply then went through and deleted anything that had last been used more than 6 months ago or that I didn't recognise/remember. If I ever need it again, it'll simply ask for access, so there's no harm done.

You might make the valid point that if the app has had access to my stuff for x number of months and hasn't done anything it shouldn't, where's the worry? The point is that these tools do get sold on, and you've actually got no way of knowing how they may be made use of in the future, and how your personal data may be made use of. However, it's your call and your milage may vary as they say.

Free Printable 2012 Calendars

This is about as simple as it gets - a straight forward calendar that you can print, month by month. So if you need to print a calendar, this will do it for you.

CouchSurfing

Participate in Creating a Better World, One Couch At A Time The idea of sharing out your home to other people, either for free or a cost isn't new, but this is the first time that I've actually come across CouchSurfing. They say: "When you join CouchSurfing, you tap into our network of welcoming people worldwide. You can share your hospitality and experience your city through new eyes by offering travelers a place to stay on their journey. You can bypass the typical hotel experience by staying at the home of a local and learning about their culture. You can meet open-minded people in your home city by attending events. And you can meet up with new people, whether at home or while traveling, for inspiring experiences and new friendships."

Choose the place you want to go, check out the people who live close by and work something out. I don't think money changes hands, but I haven't joined in order to find out.

 

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Where In the World Have You Been All Your Life?

Where In the World Have You Been All Your Life?. Map of the world. Click on the places that you've been. They get coloured in. You then save it. Boast to the world how much of it you've seen.

Facto; random facts about yourself

There are some resources that I see on the net which I simply don't get, and Facto.me is one of them. You're probably familiar with Formspring.me which allows you to create an account and lets people ask you questions. I tried it for a while but found I was doing most of the asking and not much of the answering, so I gave up on it. Facto is designed so that you can write facts about yourself that other people wouldn't know. You can then let them see them. If you're desperate to see some odd facts about me you're welcome to look at my account. You can then rate the facts by ticking boxes such as 'boring', 'awesome', 'me too!' and so on.

Alternatively you can look at random facts about random people and rate those. In God's name why? Do you really care that John Doe in Oregon likes eating peas covered in horseradish? What possible difference will that make to your life? And from the other side, what difference is it going to make to the pea eating horseradish addicted Mr Doe that some random person he doesn't know and will never know thinks that's an awesome fact?

It's very popular at the moment however - since having an account for less than 12 hours I've had over 20 responses to my random facts. Do I care? Not in the slightest. However, - it's there if you want it.