Sharing a few of the excellent resources you may find useful. You may find them useful too. Periodically, I clean them up. If you find anything irrelevant do let me now.
Indian Language Digital Tools, Portals & Mobile Apps
Podcasts
Startup, Entrepreneurial Resources
Open Data
- Open Finance in India: Download Account Aggregator Apps, Account Aggregator Ecosystem Map
- Open Data Institute – The ODI was co-founded in 2012 by the inventor of the web Sir Tim Berners-Lee and AI expert Sir Nigel Shadbolt to address today’s global challenges using the web of data.
- Open Data Incubator Europe (ODINE) is a 6-month incubator for open data entrepreneurs across Europe. The program is funded with a €7.8m grant from the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme.
Entertainment
- TV guide across various streaming services (Netflix, Amazon Prime etc) & TV channels: JustWatch, ReelGood (Trak.tv gives good movie / TV recommendations)
Travel
- Budget Your Trip: Discover the cost of your upcoming holiday
- SplitWise: An easy way to split expenses with your co-travellers
- TimeShifter: An app that creates a personalized itinerary for beating jetlag
- TripIt: Forward all your tickets to TripIt to view your itinerary in an organized manner
- Visit A City: Helps you come up with an adjustable plan for your holiday based on the number of days you can spend in each city
Gardening
- WordPress – The most popular open source blogging platform.
- Bunny.net – the leading CDN for WordPress
- WordPress Plugins
- Broken Link Checker – This plugin will monitor your blog looking for broken links and let you know if any are found. Hogs a lot of memory.
- Post Type Switcher – Convert Page to Post, Post to Page, Page to Attachment, Post to Custom
- TablePress – a nice plugin to add professional tables to your posts and pages.
- Yoast SEO – The leading SEO plugin for WordPress
- WP-Optimize – cleans up the WordPress database.
- WP Super Cache – Very fast caching plugin for WordPress.
- WordPress Themes
- Studiopress – this blog uses Studiopress themes
- Awesome Screenshot – a great image grabber
- Evernote – a must for those who want to make quick notes, bookmark URLs
- Ghostery – protects your privacy
- QR Code Generator – This extension generates a QR Code from the current page, link or selected text through a quick and easy right-click menu.
- META SEO inspector – It shows page titles, meta descriptions, headers, links, and more.
- The Great Suspender – Auto-suspend inactive tabs to reduce memory usage of chrome
- unpayWall: Skip the paywall on millions of peer-reviewed journal articles. It’s fast, free, and legal
- WhatFont – a nice way to check which font is being used on a page
- Thunderbird email client
- Folder Pane View Switcher
- QuickFolders – easy way to search folders without having to scroll thru a big tree of folders
- Remove duplicates – at times when you import mail from a client like Eudora/Outlook to Thunderbird, there could be a chance of having duplicate emails/folders in Thunderbird. Get rid of those duplicates
- XPunge – This compacts and empties all your Trash folders. You can set a timer to do this task or do it manually.
- Mail Summaries – Adds a summary of mail accounts and folders to replace the account central pane and the empty folder preview
- Top Level Domains (TLDs) – get to know what are the other domain extensions other than .com, .in, .net
- Checking Availability of Domainname Availability
- iWantMyName – lets you check the availability of a domain name against most of the international domains from one place
- Domainname/DNS Tools
- ViewDNS – the DNS propagation tool is useful
- Domain Monitor Service – Monitor the daily status of any domain and receive daily email alerts when one or more of your domains changes its status.
- Free Images / Photos for your blog
- Online Image Editor
- PIXresizer – a neat Windows utility for resizing images.
- Photoshop Alternatives
- dlvr.it – Feed your blog’s or site’s RSS feed into a Twitter account
- Twitter Followers
- DoesFollow – You know whom you are following but do you know if a particular person is following you?
- Untweep – Unfollow those who don’t tweet often. Rather I would want to unfollow who tweet way too often
- Twitter Clients – helps you use Twitter as a Pro User
- BufferApp – takes care of sharing that content on a schedule your followers will love.
- Hootsuite – shortens URLs, can manage up to 5 profiles for free, talks to Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn
- Macaw – For iOS only. Curates the best tweets from your the handles you follow.
- Tweetdeck – one of the most popular Twitter clients, owned by Twitter
- Twitter Management Tools
- Audiense – The app lets you manage your lists, see your community on a map and browse your community conveniently based on their engagement. On top of this, the app allows you to bucket your followers according to time zones which is very useful to know when to best reach them.
- Twitter Reports / Analyzing Tools
- accountAnalysis – analyze Twitter profiles to quickly get an overview how a social media account is used and to drill deep into the data through cross-filtering
- Audiense – The app lets you manage your lists, see your community on a map and browse your community conveniently based on their engagement. On top of this, the app allows you to bucket your followers according to time zones which is very useful to know when to best reach them.
- Dewey – search your Twitter bookmarks
- TrendsMap – is a real-time mapping of Twitter trends across the world.
- FollowerWonk – Grade your Twitter account
Social Media: Whatsapp
- Cooby: Modernize your WhatsApp Web inbox with tabs, tool integration, social profile, reminders, and more vital features for work!
Video Conferencing
- Fireflies.ai – Log meeting notes, transcripts, and recordings in Google Meet, Zoom etc
- tl;dv – Record any call in Google Meet or Zoom with our simple Chrome Extension. Access the recording immediately after finishing the call.
