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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.
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The 'I want to' weblog - use this to keep up to date with new additions. The weblog arranges all entries into categories so it's easy to find things, and has an RSS feed so you don't need to keep coming back here for the new additions.The 5 most recent additions are also here.
Share with other people: photographs, webpages, bookmarks This page Set up an online calendar
Collaborate on documents, web pages, spreadsheets, searches Create networks of relationships with others
Communicate with other people; chat, email Do things with multimedia; podcasts, streaming
Manage my time and myself more effectively Do things with email; disposable addresses, mailing lists
Do things with webpages; watch pages, shorten URLs, annotate pages, create start pages Collect and store material that I find online
Discover music/authors/films that I'd like Do clever things with RSS and wikis
Have a bit of a laugh Miscellaneous
Email me suggestions of categories or appplications Email me with a sponsorship suggestion if you want me to include your application

This page last updated July 7th 2006