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privnote – Send private notes that will self destruct after being read

privnote is a simple web service where you can type some text and have a URL generated for it where it can be read. You can then send this link to anyone via IM or e-mail address.

Before sending the note, you can also tick a check box to be notified when the recipient reads it.

privnote

 

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Locationbar² add-on – Breadcrumbs for Firefox address bar

Locationbar² is a handy add-on for Firefox that does two things:

  1. It highlights the main domain name so you are 100% sure that you are surfing your bank website or PayPal and not some spoofed site designed to capture your keystrokes.
     Domain Highlight
    You can also format the appearance of domain name and other parts of the address using custom styles.
  2. Linkifies every segment of the URL in the address bar. Just hold Ctrl (to open in a new tab) or Shift (to open in a new window) or Alt (uses the current tab) and hover over the segment you want to go to and click.
     Linkification

 

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Feed2JS - Display RSS Feeds easily in Web Pages

Say you have two blogs and you want to display the headlines of posts from your first blog in the second. There are widgets available for this purpose. But if you want more control on the formatting and style of the displayed feed including its headline, date, the length of characters of the feed item, Feed2JS is the right tool for you.

Start by entering the URL of the RSS feed, set the number of items to be displayed, whether or not HTML should be allowed, and whether or not posting date should be displayed etc.

Note: The value you enter in Show/Hide item descriptions? How much? box will only work if HTML in item display is disabled.

As an example, with the settings as in the screenshot (click to enlarge) below,

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this is the screenshot of the output:

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Sumopaint – Yet another online image editor

As the lines between installed software and web applications become blurrier, online image editors continue to come up. The latest one to join the free image editing web applications is Sumopaint.

Sumopaint

The toolbars, palettes and menus are laid out to resemble the popular Photoshop application. But it doesn’t have the ease of use of say, Picnik for the most common tasks like red eye removal, image rotation, cropping and resizing. Also the import and export range of Picnik is better.

A good-to-have feature for Sumopaint would be the ability to accept images pasted from windows clipboard.

Background Pattern Generator

BgPatterns lets you apply pre-created patterns to that site’s background and download the image once you are happy with your selection.

Features:

  • Background color can be changed
    Background color
  • 5 canvas designs
    Canvas 

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