10 must-visit websites you may not know about

1) These days, almost every website you visit asks you to sign-up using an email address.

There's no telling if your email ID will get shared with (or sold to) other parties, resulting in you getting bombarded with spam email.

Mailinator is a free service that gives you an email address that automatically gets destroyed after a few hours.

Sign-up on any website and use this temporary email address to activate your account.

You can do this as many times as you need and stop worrying about spam.

The good thing is that there is no limit on how many addresses you can create.

Note that you can only receive email using Mailinator and not send. mailinator.com

 

2) Sometimes, you want to share private information with someone else -could be an ATM Pin, bank password, email password and so on.

But you also don't want to leave a record of it anywhere. Using email, chat or SMS will leave a record of the information sent on both devices -instead, you can use PrivNote.

It lets you send a text note to anyone else using email, MS or chat and you can set the note to be deleted as soon as it gets read. You can even encrypt the note with a password for added security as well as have the website send you an email when the note is destroyed.

You can even choose to have the note destroy after a specific time (1 hour, 24 hours, 7 days or 30 days). privnote.com

 

3) Like email addresses, you might sometimes need a temporary web page. disposablewebpage.com

It could be for an upcoming event announcement (birthday invite, reunion) or maybe you just want to share photos or videos of your vacation with family and friends.

Here, just do a simple sign-up and you can create a web page in minutes. There is no coding required -the page creator is iconbased: you can add text, photos, videos, location and it even lets you add comments or a count-down timer on the page.

Once finished, you can just share the page link with your friends and family.

The webpage (and all associated content) will automatically be deleted after 90 days.

  

4) There are a number of benefits of white noise generators: improved focus, blocking distraction and even as a sleep aid.

asoftmurmur.com is website that give you access to various ambient sounds for free.

Simplynoise lets you select whitepinkbrown noise and gives you option for audio level oscillation along with a sleep timer option (ideal if you just want to use it as a sleep aid).

On the other hand, asoftmurmur gives you the option to choose from a list of various types of sounds (rain, waves, birds, coffee shop).

Both websites also offer smartphone apps for Android and iOS (SimplyNoise only).

  

5) Most social network websites make closing your account a tedious process.

They will suggest that you put your account on hold or make you jump through hoops.

However, if you are serious about deleting your social media accounts, head over to this website.

It shows you all the social networks marked in colour blocks -- a white block means that removing account is easy, a grey block means it's difficult while a black block means it's almost impossible to delete that particular account.

Clicking on a website name opens up a page with details and direct links for deactivation and deletion as well handy tips regarding what to keep in mind while closing the account. accountkiller.com

  6) For people who are constantly worried about their health and want to keep an eye on their calorie intake, TwoFoods is highly recommended.

The website has a single page interface where it shows you a sideby-side comparison of different foods.

Input the name of any dish and the site then shows how many calories, carbs, fats and protein content each dish includes -- this makes it easy to quickly compare the two food items.

For most Indian dishes, it gives the option of dishes with similar contents so that you can get an approximate idea. twofoods.com

7) This is your one-stop solution for converting one type of file to another (and that too without having to sign-up for an account).

They claim to support over 1,200 type of files (video, audio, image and documents) and in case you have a file format that is not supported you can just email them and they will try to get it done.

You simply need to upload your file, select the format and enter your email address -- the file will be sent to the specified email address after conversion.

The only issue is that the site only lets you upload file up to 50MB in size for the free version.

If you want to convert a larger size file, you will need to sign-up for a paid account. zamzar.com

8)  A password protected PDF is not the same as a protected PDF.

You won't be able to make changes to a protected file, even if you have the password to open it. To remove the protection, use PDFunlock -note that you will need to enter the password on the website and it will give you an unprotected PDF to download.

The service is free -if you find it useful, you can donate a little via PayPal.The developers have a few other PDF-related services that do exactly what the same suggests: pdfmerge.com, splitpdf.com and pdfprotect.net.

 9) We all work on multiple devices -but sharing simple text between those two devices is not very straightforward.

You'll find that you're sending yourself emails of using a USB drive to transfer small files over. This is a novel approach -it gives you a common clipboard and a common space to store files.

Head to savr.com and paste your text. Make sure your second device is on the same WiFi network and open the website again -your pasted text will be waiting for you.

And yes, it works across platforms, including from PC to mobile and back. You're allowed to upload an unlimited number of files up to 25MB in size.

 10) You'd be surprised at how much more information you can pack into your day by just reading faster.

But it won't happen on its own -- you need to train your brain to be able to read faster and the easiest way to do this is one word at a time.

On Spreeder.com, you can paste a block of text and it will serve it up to you, one word at a time. You can change the size of the text box, number of words you see at a time, font background colour and measure you speed (in words per minute).

You can also use keyboard shortcuts to playpause, restart and so on.