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you do know what i’m talking about with ‘preflop’ gold, right? it’s a poker expression - as in, “that ace and jack suited that i was holding looked great until the flop came out.” in the world of internet tools, it’s more like, “that site looked awesome - i registered right away! then i realized that it completely sucks ass” …so yeah, this is some stuff i’ve been screwing around with…some of it is solid, but some of it may feel like preflop gold to you…

Wakerupper! - okay, yeah, i wrote about this before and i’m writing about it again because it is fucking awesome! seriously, no joke, i use this for everything now…get recurring calls to remind me to pick up my younger son (poor kid, he used to stand in the rain for hours) - even set it to interrupt me on dates in case things ain’t going so great (they rarely are, because i’m a bit of an asshole)

your list - email alerts and reminders - if you can’t get into the wakerupper beta, and don’t want to configure google calendar to send you sms alerts for events, then consider just doing it by email like every other tom, dick and shanikwa…this site does just that..what? huh? exactly. with a slogan like “just use it,” how could you go wrong?

Registrant Search - ever wanna know all of the domains that some dude owns (or some company)? this is where you should be going…coolest feature: live ajax numbers as you type so you can refine your search terms if the number looks too big…

boardtracker - search all of the forums - this is an awesome business research tool…hey pharma researchers, no more hanging out on cafepharma all day long! you can search all of this shit in one place now…enjoy.

SMS web alerts to monitor page changes - okay, so you know all about tools to tell you when a page changes, right? this one does it by phone, for free…useful if you want to get alerts for small companies or personal pages without rss, particularly if you’re under the gun…

Mint 4 hour disposable email - so i’ve written before about disposable email addresses, in fact - i wrote about it twice…but this one’s different, it’s so easy to use, creates a URL that you simply bookmark to check email..duh.

Pingie - RSS to SMS - and it’s pretty much idiot proof! and aw shucks, what a cute name…put in your email address, your phone number and the rss feed, that’s it. you get an sms with the rss…cool now that i’m on unlimited sms…

Qipit - got a camera phone? …super cool service to capture notes, whiteboards, documents and so on by just snapping a pic with your camera phone and sending it to yourself…it can also be a fax!

scanR - like qipit, but also does business cards - this is super useful for getting business cards…you just snap with a camera phone, send it and you can download as a vcard…genius…

SpyPig - find out if your email has been read…attaches a little picture of a pig…there are better alternatives, i’ll try to write about them soon…oh, and i’ve written quite a bit about blocking these things too…

Verify email addresses - i’ve used a lot of these, this one’s the most accurate of the lot (for web based tools)…simple, self-explanatory…

mezzoman - meet in the middle for food - simple idea: you’re coming from providence, i’m coming from boston, we want to meet somewhere in the middle for food…enter the two addresses, select your preferred food and voila, up pops a maps mashup with restaurants on the left hand side that are roughly half way from both of us…

…too many others to list right now, i’ll be back…oh, if you’re going to BCLA next month let me know ’cause i’m gonna be speaking! my presentation is about the underground market for librarian sex workers ;)

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