Every so often, to keep you going while I am writing a longer, more informative article, I will clean out my bookmark folders and show you some websites or software programs that I have found on my travels around the web. With dozens of websites being bookmarked daily and a backlog of 3000+ bookmarks, there'll be no shortage of sites to show you.

All the links to do with software or internet tools are free services or they have a free option. I have tried to test as many as possible but time constraints means that some have not been tested. I am not endorsing any of these sites in any way so I am not liable for any problems you have with them!


Disposable Webpage - you already have disposable email addresses. Now you can have disposable webpages that eventually self-destruct. Choose a time-frame from 3 days to 90 days. At the end of the time frame, watch the page disappear! Good for temporary promotional campaigns or practical jokes.

Keyword Selector Tool - if you use Google Adwords or an equivalent program, this free online tool can instantly generate lots of suggested keywords for you, based on the number of online searches for that term in the last month. Good if you don't know what keywords to insert into your Adwords campaign and also good if you want to know what people are currently searching for in your area of expertise.

OnlyWire - use one bookmarklet to post links to multiple online bookmarking sites. A great time-saver if you use a lot of bookmarking services.

360desktop - Grab all of your favorite web apps and content — web widgets, RSS feeds, AJAX start pages, or any part of any web page — and make them available any time, in an expanded photo-panoramic desktop.

MP3 Tag - Mp3tag is a powerful and yet easy-to-use tool to edit metadata (ID3, Vorbis Comments and APE) of common audio formats. It can rename files based on the tag information, replace characters or words from tags and filenames, import/export tag information, create playlists and more.

ObjectDock - ObjectDock is a program that enables users to organize their shortcuts, programs and running tasks into an attractive and fun animated Dock.

Office Online File Converters and Viewers - with the help of converters and viewers from Office Online, you can share your Microsoft Office files with people who have different versions of Office programs, or even with people who don't have Office installed. NOTE - you will need to access this page with Internet Explorer. It doesn't seem to like Mozilla Firefox.

Windows XP Resource Center - A site to fix common problems seen in Windows XP.

Know When People Submit Your Stories to Digg - a very simple method to know right away when someone diggs a story from your website.

Selectively Delete a Message from a Gmail Conversation Thread - a Gmail tip that I didn't know about yet!

Windows XP Hidden Applications - a list of "hidden" XP applications along with the Run command to start that particular program.

Avoid Windows XP Re-Activation - a tip to supposedly avoid having to re-activate your copy of Windows XP if you have to re-install the operating system. I would be interested to hear from anyone if this would work or not. At the moment I am rather sceptical.

WHOIS Search - enter a domain name and get the contact details for the owner, how long the domain is registered for and place a backorder so you can get the domain when it expires with its current owner. You can also search to see if a domain name is still available. If you are a website owner, this is good for seeing what personal information is out there on your domain. It's also good if you get ripped off by a website or if you are spammed by a website. WHOIS can give you the contact details of the webmaster and / or the web hosting company so you can report them to the authorities.

Process Library - ever opened up the Windows Task Manager and wondered what a particular running process was? Process Library has indexed every possible running process, both Windows and non-Windows so you can see what program it belongs to and if it is safe to close that process down.

Process Explorer - along the same lines as Process Library, this free Microsoft tool is supposed to complement the standard Windows Task Manager by giving you more information on what processes are running in your computer along with the option to enable or disable processes. It is also particularly good for identifying which programs are running the CPU-guzzling "svchost.exe" processes so you can zap them if need be. This is a standalone executable program which doesn't have to be installed first so it can be run from a USB stick for example.

Fmail - access, read, write and send your Gmail email in your Facebook account. This may be useful for diehard Facebook addicts but I for one would not want to reveal my Google account password to anyone. But I have to admit that the application does look well designed and aesthetically pleasing. Now if we could access our Facebook account inside Gmail....well that would be different!!

eText Reader - have you been looking for a good way to read those Project Gutenberg e-books? eTextReader is a nifty little book interface where you can read text files. You can also change the font size and type, and put a bookmark on a page when you need to stop reading. A really amazing piece of freeware software!

jZip - described as a "free alternative to WinZip". Although I personally prefer Winzip.

How to tap into online riches - a very interesting British newspaper article on the potential to make money on the internet.