Lifehack Your Way to a Better Life with these Web Apps

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I’ve been advocating for use of software in most areas of our life, since I started benefitting out of it. Think about how life would be different if we had access to all the software that we’ve today, because of the influx of Web apps. We live in a world in which customer expectations continue to increase, so software companies have to bring out new features and functions and make sure they’re making it better over time. So, we’re going to learn and iterate as we go through this, but I’m excited about the fact that using these you’ll be changing your life for good.

Note taking meant writing on paper, study groups meant face-to-face meetings, and if you were struggling through Shakespeare, your best bet was to turn to the library, not the Internet.

Well, okay, it was a just a few years ago, but just in this decade, and especially in the last few years, a handful of tools to make life easier have appeared. What follows is the set of web tools I would put in my tech stack to live a more efficient and effective life.

Office Replacements

There are a large number of impressive web apps that can handle your needs. The cream of the crop are below.

1. Google Docs & Spreadsheets – One of the more developed online office tools, Google offers a word processor, spreadsheet and presentation.
2. Zoho Office Suite – Zoho is one of the most complete online office suites, offering more tools than you’ll even find in Microsoft Office’s student and teacher version.
3. gOFFICE – No frills gOFFICE has a very familiar look and feel.
4. ThinkFree – ThinkFree can replace Word, Excel, and Powerpoint with its suite of online apps, and they offer downloadable versions of their software as well.
5. EditGrid – EditGrid only does spreadsheets, but does them very well.

Writing

Hemingway Editor (Web, macOS, Windows): It points out opportunities to sharpen your writing, inspired by Ernest Hemingway’s concise writing style. This editor highlights passive voice, complex sentences, and adverbs that make your work harder to understand and provides a readability score to estimate how accessible your writing is.

Power Thesaurus (Web, Chrome, iOS, Android): Power Thesaurus shows synonyms, antonyms, definitions, and other forms of word assistance wherever you like to write.

OneLook Reverse Dictionary and Thesaurus (Web): OneLook offers all the synonyms you could find from a regular thesaurus, but it stands out in its reverse dictionary capabilities. Enter a phrase—or a full sentence—to get words that match that meaning. Is handy when you want to write more concisely.

Expresso (Web): It helps you switch up your words and sentence length by breaking your writing down into metrics based on word usage and sentence length, such as frequently repeated words and average sentence word count.

Wordtune (Web, Chrome, iOS): When you can’t get phrasing right in your writing, It helps by offering suggestions to reword, expand, and shorten your content using AI.

Grammarly (Web, Windows, Android, iOS, Chrome, Firefox): Checks for spelling, missing dashes, incorrect prepositions and grammar mistakes everywhere you write with Grammarly.

Notetaking

More and more people using laptops. The proliferation of portable computers means that note taking doesn’t have to happen with a pad and pen. The following web apps will help you take and organize your notes.

1. NoteMesh
2. ShortText
3. Yahoo! Notepad
4. YourDraft
5. Stickies
6. NoteTango
7. JotCloud
8. NoteCentric
9. Mohiomap

Mohiomap Turns Evernote, Google Drive and Dropbox Into Mind Maps

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I use Evernote as an everything bucket. An Everything Bucket, is what I call applications that encourage the user to throw anything and everything into them. Despite my best efforts to keep things organized with multiple notebooks and tags, my evernote has become almost as unwieldy as an overstuffed filing cabinet, with stacks of web clippings, outlines and notes going back years.

That’s why I was intrigued by Mohiomap, a web app that turns your Evernote into mind maps. An app that helps me connect my ideas/notes from Evernote and Google Drive into mindmaps(that I love making), what more I could ask for.

Being a visual person by nature, am always looking into visual software, and trying to find how they can help me read, digest and analyze information better. This can help solve the problem of information overload and to get a visual overview of what’s in there, to comprehend all this information and knowledge stored in the platform, and make it more accessible and to me it seems to be fitting the bill.

You can utilize Mohiomap as a visual alternative to the search tools in Evernote, Google Drive, and Dropbox; rediscovering and organizing older files and documents; or simply getting a grasp on all the information you have stored in each platform.

Mind Mapping

Now you have your notes, you need to put them together. Mind mapping is a great way to record the wild flights of fancy that brains can often follow in a storm. Put another way, if you’re looking to trace and record the kind of free association that’s central to the brainstorming process, a mind map is an invaluable brainstorming tool. The following mind mapping/flow charting tools will help you get your thoughts in order so you can go from raw notes to polished dissertation.

1. MindMeister
2. Gliffy
3. Bubbl.us
4. Mindomo
5. Flowchart.com
6. Comapping
7. Mind42
8. Coggle: Coggle can provide you with a digital record of your ideas in motion, giving you customizable mapping templates that respond to keyboard shortcuts, so you can get your freshest ideas to the page without delay. With Coggle, you can manage up to three private mind maps for free, giving you plenty of real estate to capture your thought processes. Whether you’re generating concepts for your next marketing campaign, troubleshooting a stalled product rollout, or looking to jumpstart a new project, a mind mapping app can play a key role.
9. Miro: For capturing your ideas—good, bad, and otherwise—there’s no beating your online whiteboard. An online brainstorming tool like Miro, for example, provides you with templates that will take you from ideas to implementation. Zoom and scroll. Add shapes, text, and sticky notes. Keep your teams literally on the same page, or board, even if you can’t all be in the same room at the same time.

Studying

So you’ve got your notes, and you have them all mapped out and organized, but you still need to fill in some blanks. There are a number of online study aids that exist to help you find the answers you need.

1. Anki is a program, so you’ll need to download it to your device before you can use the web version, but it is worth it if you use your flashcards for more serious studying. Anki allows you to use spaced repetition, an evidence-based learning method that serves up difficult concepts and easier ones at different times, helping you retain them. The open-source program supports audio, video, and images, as well as LaTeX scientific markup.
2. Brainscape gives you the option to make your own flashcards, but also to search for decks made by other learners. The free-account option allows you to use text, while the paid version lets you add images and sounds, do more advanced editing, study an unlimited amount, import materials, copy other users’ flashcards into your files, and see learning stats.
3. SparkNotes – SparkNotes are (mostly) free, online CliffsNotes for a large number of books. They also do test prep, mathematics, science and a number of other subjects. Of course they can’t really substitute for actually reading a book, but they can help you if you’re having trouble figuring out Emily Bronte. (And it turns out that many CliffsNotes are now online for free as well!)
4. Quizlet: Flashcards on repeat. With seven different study modes, students can pick which mode works best for their learning. Allows you to create flashcards (with pictures!), browse other people’s flashcards, and take practice quizzes. Quizlet tracks their progress and provides instant feedback on where to focus.
5. Wisdolia is a free browser extension that automatically generates digital flash cards in multiple languages in Google Chrome. The cards divide content into bite-sized chunks in a question-answer format, making it easier to understand and remember the information presented. The next time you find yourself getting stuck while trying to glean the important information from a long YouTube video, a dense PDF, or a bunch of articles, use Wisdolia to quickly turn any of them into flash cards, and make learning easier. It also integrates with Anki, a platform specializing in flash card learning. You can save all of Wisdolia’s flash cards to Anki using the steps described here. Anki has apps for all major platforms, including smartphones, and you can use this integration to synchronize your learning across devices.
6. Cram is the simplest flashcard deck, with cards that have a front and back and can be used for quizzing and it’s free. You get plain, white cards that the site displays either as traditional flashcards, a matching game with drop-down menus, or classic computer games that pull your flashcard information into them. There are no unnecessary frills here. Enter the information onto the cards and study.
7. Citationsy is a tool that will create a citation for any book after you scan the barcode with your camera. It can produce citations in Chicago, MLA, or other formats you’re being asked to use, and it offers a fast, simple alternative to other citation makers—especially when you’re referencing physical books, which are laborious to manually input into other generators.

Bookmarking/Screen Capture

With all that online studying you need a way to keep track of what you’ve read. Online bookmarking tools are a great way to do just that.

1. del.icio.us – There are a large number of social bookmarking apps, but del.icio.us is king among them. If you don’t like it, try Furl, Ma.gnolia, or Blinklist.
2. Clipmarks – Save just a selection of a site. Don’t like Clipmarks? Try Web-Chops.
3. Wizlite – Highlight text in online documents the way you would in a text book. Don’t like Wizlite? Try i-Lighter.
4. Scribe: Walking an intern through company software, or explaining Google Docs to your tech-challenged friends and family a visual guide works best. If you know the steps already, all you need is a tool like Scribe, it watches you complete a task on your computer, then automatically builds a visual, step-by-step guide to that task you can share with others. Its Chrome extension works similarly to a video recorder, but the result features text prompts, screenshots, and even annotations indicating where someone needs to click. Scribe free plan is very generous, you can record, edit, and share any guide on the web quite freely.

Collaboration

1. Notion – All your notes, lists, tables, documents and ideas in one shared space. A collaborative wiki that you can use to keep track of notes on a project. Keep in touch with classmates or colleagues or family members or friends, share and discuss notes, and create study groups.

If you’re confused between Evernote and Notion, Evernote and Notion have different objectives: Evernote is built for note-taking and organizing those notes, whereas Notion is an all-in-one workspace tool meant to organize knowledge, manage tasks, and enable collaboration.

Calendars

Juggling your job or class schedule, extra curricular activities, study time, and social life can be a challenge. For better and for worse, calendars run our lives. To make sure you have time to get important work done, it can be helpful to block time in your calendar for working on specific tasks, not just for meetings. Today Calendar represents a parcel of time that is no longer ours. Real life is whatever we can squeeze in between the blocks. If you like to block time on your calendar to tackle tasks, how about a Calendar that cared not just about the stuff you’ve to do but also the stuff you want to do?

If your answer is yes. Google Calendar is just that.

1. Google Calendar: Google Calendar can manage real life for you.
2. Yahoo! Calendar

The goal is to have a calendar that accommodates not only concrete future events but also long-term goals and random tasks you want to accomplish.

Data Visualization:

• Geckoboard: Easily create shareable dashboards that make key business data, metrics and KPIs clear and easy-to-understand.

Calculations:

What college arsenal would be complete with out a calculator?

1. Calcoolate
2. Calcr
3. E-Trutor Graphing Calculator
4. CalcResult

World Clocks/ Time Zone converters:

World Time Buddy packs a lot of information on time zone calculations in little space. On a single table, you get to see the current time at all your locations, office hours, the date, time zone names, time differences, whether locals use 24 hours or AM/PM and your Google calendar.

Selecting a time range instantly creates an event, which you can export to Google Calendar, Outlook or emails in Gmail. You can also set up a World Time Buddy page for the event, which will automatically display the time of the viewer—perfect to share with additional attendees. It also lets you select a time range for a meeting, order and group locations, mark the home location, etc. It supports 20,000+ cities and daylight savings time (DST.)

Search for locations and time zones works just as you would expect, and you can sort your table quickly by time zone offset or manually. Speaking of manually, World Time Buddy lets you rename locations and will remember your choices.

World Time Buddy is a versatile tool that offers a timezone converter as well as a world clock and a meeting scheduler. It has an intuitive design that lets you compare times at different parts of the world. It helps you in tracking business hours in different countries and also when you’re traveling.

World Time Buddy works in desktop browsers and offers apps both for iOS and for Android.

Timezone: Keep track where and when your team is. Move the slide of the top-left corner of the page forward or backward to check the corresponding times of your colleagues. By clicking on the Now button, you can return the current local time instantly.

Time Zone Ninja: Scheduling meetings around the world just got easy

Dateful: Automatically shows the updated time for the second city as you change the time of any city. Choose a time format between 24-hour clock and 12-hour clock.

Time.is Time Here&There: Time.is has the time zone and current time for it. If you have two places, Time.is time here&there has their time zones and difference, a graphical display and a table of times to boot.

Throw more places at Time.is, and it dutifully adds them to the display and table. To share the table and display and times, you just send the page. Time.is works in desktop and mobile browsers

Every Time Zone: A comprehensive web application that helps you visualize all the prominent time zones of the world at a glance. It detects your local time and shows through a slider.

You can move the slider to a past or future date and time to find out the corresponding time of any location.

Savvy Time: Tables: Seeing a day’s hours for different locations side by side is most efficient manner of checking time differences and finding a time that works for everybody.

The tabular overview is Savvy Time Converter‘s best part, but it is not all, you also get to see a specific date and time converted and lots of time zone minutia for each location.

Speaking of those places, Savvy Time Converter returns countries, cities and time zones quickly with a preview of the current time.

Savvy Time Converter works in browser, Chrome extension, Android and iOS.

24timezones: Know what’s the current time in any given city of the world, check out 24timeszones. It lets you hover over any prominent city on a colorful interactive world map and displays the current time.

Clicking on a city will display additional information such as time zone, time difference, location, airports, etc. This app also uses bright and dark shadows to distinguish global areas having day and night-time.

Time Zone Converter by TheTimeNow: Time Zone Converter helps you find the difference in the time between two cities around the world. Daylight savings will be taken into account for conversion and you can convert past and future dates and times as well.

Currency Converter:

• Wise currency converter: Compare exchange rates from other providers. Quick and easy currency conversion.
• Xe Currency Converter: Updated live every minute. Currency charts & trends, historic rates, rate email alerts. Available on Web, Android and iOS.
• Valuta ex: Available on Web, Android and iOS.

QR code generator: Choose from URL, vCard, Plain Text, Email, SMS, Twitter, and WiFi.

Photos:

Google Photos: Bring your moments to life. With Google Photos, store unlimited, high-quality photos and videos, for free.

Google is solving one of the biggest problems in modern photography

We’ve become a society of documenters, holding our phones up at every available moment, shooting at anything that moves, or anything that holds still. People take so, so many photographs and yet they actually do very little with them. The things we do share are often just snapshots. One picture. Maybe two. A chosen few are posted to Instagram. But not experiences. Most sit in vast wastelands of thumbnails on phones never to be seen after the moment of their creation. Our lives get lost in the ever-scrolling streams of social media. We’re a society of documenters that produces surprisingly little documentary.

Google recognizes that the worst part of modern photography is figuring out what to do with all the pictures we take and photography is far more than just capturing the picture. So Googlers wanted to create software that would have rhythm and flow like “actual human storytelling.”

Stories automatically transforms bundles of photos into compelling narratives. They’re not only useful for trips, but also are great for everyday activities. Stories make sharing your adventures a snap. Your best photos and videos from a trip are combined with the places you visited to create a beautiful, interactive travelogue. Stories are new ways to share your memories, trips and adventures. Stories automatically feature your best photos and videos in a timeline, showing the highlights of your trip or event. 

Google thinks of photos as moments.

Movies are a highlight reel of your best photos and videos, expertly combined and set to music.  

Google is taking your past, putting it together into a narrative, and rescuing it from the tyranny of file folders.

Go get your heart strings pulled. Memories are an important part of our lives.

People around the world are capturing their memories through photos and videos. But the more moments we capture, the more challenging it becomes to relive those memories. Out-of-control photo collections have become one of the biggest first-world problems. Photos and videos become littered across mobile devices, old computers, hard drives and online services. It’s almost impossible to find that one photo right at the moment you need it.

In fact today, we take more photos every 2 minutes than everyone, everywhere took in the 1800s.

Organize and bring your moments to life:

Google Photos automatically organizes your memories by the people, places, and things that matter. You don’t have to tag or label any of them, and you don’t need to laboriously create albums. When you want to find a particular shot, with a simple search you can instantly find any photo—whether it’s your dog, your birthday party, or your favorite beach.

Sharing: Share your photos and videos however you want across any service you choose, from Hangouts to Twitter. Take any set of photos and videos, or any album, and simply create a link to share hundreds of photos at once. The recipient can see what you shared without a special app or login, then immediately save the high-quality images to their own library with a single tap.

What problem does Google Photos solve?

We have a proliferation of devices and storage and bandwidth, to the point where every single moment of our life can be saved and recorded. But you don’t get a second life with which to curate, review, and appreciate the first life. You almost need a second vacation to go through the pictures of the beach on your first vacation. That’s the problem they’re trying to fix — to automate the process so that users can be in the moment. They want to bring all of the power of computer vision and machine learning to improve those photos, create derivative works, to make suggestions…to really be your assistant.

ClipDrop: A ultimate collection of resources for all types of creators. Remove objects, people, text, and defects from your pictures automatically. Upscales your images by 2x or 4x in seconds.

Photo Resizer: Online Photo, Signature and document Resizer, compressor, size reduce (kb, mb) and converter for all online form on your mobile and pc easily and quickly.

Pika: Give your boring screenshots a great uplife using Pika.

Audio/Video Editing:

Descript: It automatically transcribes all your uploaded audio, then you edit your recordings by simply highlighting and deleting (or moving) any words or passages in a text editor. Descript really excels at bringing all the power found in professional audio and video editing apps to anyone that can use a word processor.

VoicePen AI: An AI tool that converts audio content into blog posts, making it easier for businesses and individuals to generate written content from recorded conversations and lectures.

Krisp: An AI tool that removes background voices, noises, and echoes from calls, allowing users to conduct clear, professional audio conversations from any location.

Beatoven: An AI tool that creates custom royalty-free music, enabling businesses and individuals to add unique, original music to their projects without the hassle of licensing.

Cleanvoice: An AI tool that automatically edits podcast episodes, making it easier for podcasters to create high-quality, professional-sounding content.

oTranscribe: oTranscribe simplifies the manual transcription process by placing your audio controls and a word processor on the same screen. Has keyboard controls and speed adjustment, so you can seamlessly transition between your audio and transcript.

Podcastle: An AI tool for studio-quality recording from your computer, providing users with an easy-to-use, high-quality recording solution for podcasts, webinars, and other audio content.

AudioMass: is a free audio editor that works to record audio using your device microphone, edit uploaded audio files from your computer, or point it at a URL to open a file from the internet. This single-track waveform editor uses a simple UI on top of being able to trim, cut, move and duplicate audio, AudioMass includes a range of effects that you can apply, including noise reduction for voice recordings, several equalizer effects, a compressor and normalizer, delays, reverbs, and distortion. There are even frequency and spectrum visualizers that pop up in a new window.

One of the best things about AudioMass, is that there are no barriers to entry. Access the web page, and the editor is right there. You don’t need to register or log in before you can get going. You can even store an offline version of the editor using the Help > Store Offline Version option in the menu.

Vidyo: An AI tool for making short-form videos from long-form content, allowing businesses and individuals to share their message in a more engaging and visual way.

Maverick: An AI tool for generating personalized videos at scale, making it easier for businesses to create and distribute video content that is relevant and engaging to their target audience.

Soundraw: An AI tool for creating original music, providing businesses and individuals with a simple, intuitive way to create and publish their own music.

Otter: transcribes audio in real time, enabling you to record lectures and create notes simultaneously. Once you give a speaker a name, it recognizes them and includes their name every time you record them. Also useful AI tool for capturing and sharing insights from meetings/lectures, making it easier for teams to stay on top of important discussions and decisions.

Glasp: YouTube Summary with Glasp It generate text summaries of any YouTube video

Design AI Tools:

Flair (https://flair.ai/): An AI tool for designing branded content, allowing businesses and individuals to create professional-looking graphics and design elements easily.

Illustroke (https://illustroke.com/): An AI tool for creating vector images from text prompts, making it easier for designers to create custom graphics and images for their projects.

Patterned (https://www.patterned.ai/): An AI tool for generating patterns for design, allowing businesses and individuals to add unique, eye-catching patterns to their projects without the hassle of creating them from scratch.

Stockimg (https://stockimg.ai/): An AI tool for generating the perfect stock photo, making it easier for businesses and individuals to find and use high-quality stock images in their projects.

Looka (https://looka.com/): An AI tool for designing your brand, providing businesses and individuals with a simple, intuitive way to create a professional-looking brand identity.

Copy and Content AI Tools:

Copy.ai: AI tool for generating copy that increases conversions. With its advanced AI algorithms, it can write sales pages, blog posts, ads, and more in minutes. https://www.copy.ai/

CopyMonkey: AI tool for creating Amazon listings in seconds. It offers a suite of tools to automate your Amazon business, from keyword research to copywriting.

Ocoya: AI tool for creating and scheduling social media content. It helps you plan and publish your social media posts effortlessly, so you can focus on what really matters: engaging with your audience.

Unbounce Smart Copy: AI tool for writing high-performing cold emails at scale. It helps you write emails that get opened, clicked and replied to, so you can focus on closing deals. https://unbounce.com/

Puzzle: AI tool for building a knowledge base for your team and customers. It offers an all-in-one platform to create, manage, and share information and knowledge, so you can enhance collaboration, reduce support requests and improve customer experience. https://www.puzzlelabs.ai/

Image and Content Cleanup AI Tools:

Civitai: Civitai is a hub for AI art generation. It’s where artists, engineers, and data scientists can share and explore models, tutorials, and resources to take AI art to the next level. https://civitai.com

Cleanup: AI tool for removing objects, defects, people, or text from pictures. It offers a simple yet powerful solution for photo editors, photographers, and marketers, who want to save time and effort when cleaning up their images. https://cleanup.pictures/

Inkforall: AI tool for content generation, optimization, and performance. It offers a suite of tools that help you write high-quality content faster, optimize your content for search engines and measure its performance so that you can make data-driven decisions. https://inkforall.com/

Thundercontent: AI tool for generating content. Using its advanced language model and machine learning algorithms, it provides a platform for generating high-quality content, from blog posts to articles, in minutes. https://thundercontent.com

Time Tracking/logging:

RescueTime: Fully Automated time tracking software that automatically does time logging for apps you use, which files you open, and what websites you visit. It logs how much time you spend in each of them and helps you identify where you’re spending your time.

Pomofocus: Pomofocus is by far the best free online pomodoro timer with a built-in to-do list. It is simple to use, intuitive, and accessible to anyone with internet without needing a certain device or an account to use it.

Plus, there’s a built-in task list for you to keep track of whatever you have to do during a work session. The timer is completely customizable, if the default 5-, 15-, and 25-minute intervals don’t work for you. Also Pomofocus displays the countdown right next to the favicon, so you can see how much time you have left, at a glance.

Pomofocus also offers an app that you can download on Windows or Mac computer.

Tomodoro: An open source pomodoro web app with features like offline support, Tasks, Statistics and PIP mode.

Other Tools

1. EasyBib – A tool to take the pain out creating a bibliography.
2. OttoBib – Enter the ISBN of a book, and automatically have your bibliography entry created in MLA, APA, Chicago, BibTeX, or Wikipedia style.
3. Zotero – A Firefox extension that lets you “collect, manage, and cite your research sources” from within your web browser.
4. Flowchart software Lucidchart: A whiteboard is great for capturing any idea that might have a chance of sticking to a wall. Need a more orderly approach to planning. For those of you that are more linear in your thinking, a flowchart or diagramming platform is a fantastic option for a brainstorming app. Lucidchart provides you with a ton of planning functionality, even at the free tier. Choose from specific templates, like API workflows or algorithms, and then chart your processes with a variety of shapes and styles, even Venn diagrams. Manage a host of file types and collaborate in real time to provide your teams with a synchronous interface. 

Students today have a host of web apps at their finger tips that can truly facilitate a better learning environment.

This list comprises everything from financial aid to local guides, social networking, web-based applications and much more for the student with no time to waste in getting the most out of their education.

Homework Reference & Work Sites

Bartelby.com – Contains full texts of public domain works, perfect for that paper on Shakespeare and other passed on authors.

BookALesson.com – Aims to streamline the communication process between student and their teachers.

BuddySchool.com – Find online tutoring in pretty much any subject you need.

Literature.org – Full and unabridged texts of classic English Literature.

NoodleTools.com – Assists you in writing a bibliography and making note cards to go along with it.

Pebblelearning.co.uk – A site to to put your work in to an eportfolio to allow peer groups to work, teachers to give feedback, record progress and more.

Scriptovia.com – A collaborative site for students to receive feedback on their academic work.

TalkBean.com – A global network of tutors waiting to work with students.

TutorLinker.com – Lets you search your local area for tutors in the fields you need.

Tutorz.com – Helps you locate a tutor in virtually any subject or level.

Informational

Alumwire.com – Helps college students and young alumni with building a career network.

AnswerU.com – Ask about any question you can imagine about your school and receive answers from your fellow students.

CampusExplorer.com – Explore information on over 6,000 colleges in the USA to find the one just right for you.

CollegeWikis.com – Browse wiki sites specific to your university or learn some things about schools you may want to attend.

LocalSchools.com – Enter the program you are interested in, where you live, and a radius of how many miles to search, and this site will help you locate a school meeting your needs.

RateMyProfessors.com – For the college and grad school set, check out your professors before you sign up for their classes. Add your own thoughts.

RateMyTeachers.com – For K – 12 classes, check out what your teachers are like before the first day and add your own reviews.

Yelp.com – Moving away to school can be scary as you don’t know all the good places to go. This site attempts to help with visitor-written reviews and tips.

Online Storage:

Use them to send big files, or backup your documentations. Some services can be accessed from your web browser, others may have a client program for you to auto-backup your hard drive.

Box.net – about to relaunch with free accounts, private beta ongoing now, more at http://live.box.net

carbonite – How come http://www.carbonite.com is not on the list?

JungleDisk – Backup service using Amazon’s S3 service. Fast and cheap.

ushareit – File Size Limit: 50MB Download Limit: Unknown File Life: Unknown

DropSend –

TrasferBigFiles – 1GB. Five days or 20 downloads.

XtraFile – File Size Limit: 250MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 15 Days (Deleted only if there is no download activity in 15 days)

RapidSharing – File Size Limit: 50MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 60 Days (Deleted only if there is no download activity in 60 days)

Megaupload – Temporary upload, fast and easy, and free.

RapidUpload – File Size Limit: 300MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 30 Days (Deleted only if there is no download activity in 30 days)

RapidShare – File Size Limit: 100MB Download Limit: Unlimited File Life: 30 Days (Deleted only if there is no download activity in 30 days)

Omnidrive –

XDrive: