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| Create invoices | Simplybill Not quite shopping, but this allows you to create your own invoices online in moments. |
| Do currency conversions | XE The universal currency converter. All the main currencies - I use it all the time |
| How much? Find out how much yesterday's money (1270 - 1970) is worth today. | |
| Google also does this; try 1 USD in sterling to see it in action. | |
| What is this file and what can I do with it? | Onlinetrid Identifies file types and provides a bunch of information on it |
| Translate text into other languages | Babelfish The first and in my view the best of the translation services |
| Ultralingua French, English, Spanish, German, Portugese and more | |
| Google Language_tools also offers a translation service | |
| Convert anything into anything else | Online conversion Weights, measures, lengths, cooking, dates, times, energy... it's all here! |
| See what events are on when | Whatsonwhen Global resource. |
| Do stuff with wishes and wishlists | Anonymous online wishing My favourite 'I wish someone would invent health food that tastes delicious'. |
| Metawishlist Gather all your wishlists in one place, hope Santa calls early. | |
| Greedyme Create wishlists, share with friends, wait for them to get you stuff! | |
| How do I glue this to that? | This to that Plug in what you want to glue to another thing you want to glue, it tells you what to use. |
| Create your own social applications | Ning Classifieds, reviews, events, bookmarks - anything you want! |
| Search for good shopping deals | Wazima Coupons clipped by robots |
| Secondspin Used CDs and DVDs | |
| Bricklink Buy, sell, trade lego bricks | |
| Esnipe Snipe a bid on eBay | |
| Fatwallet coupons, bargain shopping, price comparisons (US) | |
| Pricewatch Compare prices (US) | |
| Orbitz Cheap airfares | |
| Surprise.com Lists types of people and appropriate presents | |
| Ringfo Check book and CD prices on Amazon via your mobile phone (US) | |
| Create a website easily | Editme is an online service that empowers non-technical to quickly and easily build and host irresistibly editable web sites. Commercial |
| See how much of the world I've visited | My World Click on the countries you visited and create your own map. Very cool. |
| Catalogue my books/CDs online | Library Thing Free for the first 200 books $10 after that for a year, $25 for life |
| Musicbrainz a community music metadatabase | |
| Design my own badges | Badgeplanet Design, have them made and sent to you. Commercial. |
| Find a new cool thing every day | Fresharrival One amazing new thing every day |
| Stocks and shares | Finance.yahoo shows you historical stock data |
| Bankrate see money market accounts with the highest APY | |
| Openportfolios track your stocks and show off your portfolio | |
| Stockcharts see which stocks met my technical indicators today | |
| Surf the web on a PDA | Pocketpcmag Lots of useful information |
| Mobilelinks/ Lots of links for the PDA | |
| GoodSitesForSmallScreens does what it says on the tin | |
| Make Firefox portable | Portable_firefox Put it onto an ipod or USB device |
| Find out what a font is | WhatTheFont Upload an image of a font, and it will tell you. |
| Find a domain name | Namewidget Start typing, it tells you what is taken/available |
| Use your handwriting as a font | Fontifier Download a template, write on it, scan it, send it back, create your own handwriting font. Commercial; costs $9. |
| Swop/share books | Mybookyourbook Register, list books, swop with others. |
| DIY bookmarks for real books | Diy-paper-bookmarks print out the pdf, cut them out, use. |
| Spell check stuff via the browser | Jacuba It is an online spell checker that you can apply to any text area. Currently available for Firefox and IE. |
| Add more fonts to Windows | Webpagepublicity Some 6,500 of them in fact! |
| http://www.typenow.net/themed.htm Over 300 different fonts taken from TV programmes, films, bands and so on. | |
| Make a moving picture | Picturecloud This is very cool. Take about 24 photographs of something and they'll create a free moving image around it for you. |
| Create a book | Blurb.comCreate your own book with their free software. |
| Remember my passwords | Agatra Keeps your passwords safe and secure on their site, so you can get access to them from any machine. |
| Find out how much my (UK) house is worth | Ourproperty Type in a postcode and find out. |