A while back I listed out over 30 online tools and resources I have used over the years to make my life easier and more profitable online.

Since it’s been awhile, I figured it was time to update my list with a few other resources I’ve been using.

Got your bookmarks fired up? Ok, let’s go.

Megaproxy

If you’re into toying around with your blog’s design or decide to slap up a maintenance page in which everyone but you are redirected to that page, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to navigate to your site as if your computer was located on a different IP address?

Ok, in another words, to check and see what your site looks like from another computer.

Megaproxy lets you do that.

You can try it free straight from their website. This tool has an additional use; it also provides for safer browsing while online because other websites which collect your computer’s IP address (sometimes gets you spam) will be recording the proxy’s IP address, not yours.

Shrink O’Matic

Shrink O’Matic lets you batch convert images to a specific file size (meaning you can convert a bunch of image files all at once to be the same size). This is nice if you have a bunch of images you need to upload to your blog or personal family website but all the images are of different sizes.

Saves lot’s of time doing them one-by-one.

TredoSoft

TredoSoft is a neat little website for those of you who design websites yourself and want to know what your site design looks like in different versions of Internet Explorer.

I’m a Firefox user myself, but I also have IE8 and Safari installed so I can see what my sites look like in other browsers. One day, however, I did notice in my statistics that a number of my site visitors were using older versions of Internet Explorer, like IE6.

Thanks to TredoSoft, I can see what my site looks like in older versions of Internet Explorer.

Hetemeel.com

Hetemeel.com let’s you add text to popular images. The one I linked to here leads to Einstein writing on a chalkboard. You can replace his writing with your own.

Pretty cool.

Cool Text

Cool Text is an online graphic generator. If you’re not good with Fireworks or Photoshop but need to add professional looking text (in image format) to your site, you gotta check this one out.

BigDump

Ok I know that just doesn’t sound right, but the program can be a life saver for some of you.

BigDump is a nifty little program which solves a huge problem for many WordPress bloggers in need of restoring their large database.

Basically, restoring your WordPress (or any) database requires you to first delete all the data in your online database and then uploading your backup. Sounds easy, right?

Well if your database is over about 15 to 20MB, you might find that you’re having a hard time uploading it. That’s because your web browser will only wait so long before it times out; meaning, if you hit the upload button and your web browser has to wait too long for the upload to complete, you’ll get a timeout error.

BigDump fixes this by staggering the upload into chunks.

If you ever need to use BigDump, check out our video channel and look for How to Restore Your WordPress Database Using Bigdump – For Larger Databases.

Now your turn.

What web tools can you add to the list?

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