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1. Alexa.com – The web information company provides commercial web traffic data for everyone.

2. SpeedTest.net – Easy way to test your broadband speed.

3. Iconfinder – Free Icon search engine.

4. Archive.org – The wayback machine to see how the website looks in the past.

5. FlightStats.com – Global Flight Tracker and Travel Planning.

6. Imgur.com – Worlds greatest image hosting and sharing service.

7. Askboth.com – One search and get results from Google, Bing and Twitter

8. Wolframalpha.com – Computation knowledge engine.

9. StatsCrop.com – Free Website Analyzer

10. RankSignals.com – Free Backlink checker, can easily categorize nofollow, dofollow, hot links for your website.

11. GTMetrix.com – Check your websites speed.

12. Sleepytyi.me – The Bedtime calculator.

13. Snapito.com – Take full-length website screenshots.

14. WordCounterTool.com – Accurate word counter and also can use to test your typing speed.

15. SmallSEOTools.com – Prefect plagiarism checker.

16. Xmarks.com – A powerful tool to Bookmark, Sync and Search.

17. TwitterFeed.com – Create feeds and connect with your Twitter account, Facebook profile or pages and LinkedIn profile.

18. ManageFlitter.com – Advanced Twitter profile management tool.

19. Paper.li – News curation platform. Become a news publisher with paper.li and Twitter.

20. Ustream.tv – Worlds best and easiest way to stream live video.

21. Zamzar.com – Online file conversion site that works for hundreds of formats.

22. Google Translate – Translate texts just typing or as a document.

23. Vocaroo.com – Simple online voice recorder and you can download in different formats.

24. Cutmp3.net – Easily cut MP3 files online.

25. Similarsites.com – Find similar websites that you liked.

26. PaperRater.com – Free online grammar and spelling check.

27. Keybr.com – How fast you are typing? Check your speed with Keybr.

28. Pastebin.com – Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time.

29. IsitDownRightNow.com – Check your favorite websites whether they are down or not.

30. PeekYou.com – Free people search engine. To find your friends other Social Network profiles by username, first name or last name.

31. MyIPAddress.com – Figure out your I.P. address.

32. MailStrom.co – Widely used tool to clean Email Inboxes. Mailstrom works with Gmail, Google Apps Email, Outlook, Apple, AOL, Exchange IMAP and any other email service that supports IMAP.

33. ProxySite.com – Access any website on the Internet quickly and without giving up your privacy.

34. Google Drive – Save photos, stories, designs, drawings, recordings, videos starts you with 15 GB of freeGoogle online storage.

35. WooRank – One of the most popular Website Review and SEO Tool. You can an create an advanced review to track and optimize your website.

36. PDFmyURL.com – Convert any URL or Webpage to PDF online.

37. TrueCaller.com – Truecaller will completely transform your mobile phonebook experience with a smarter set of features that will improve your daily life.

38. XE.com – You can calculate live currency and foreign exchange rates with this free currency converter.

39. Mint.com – With Mint you can see all your balances and transactions together. Mint automatically pulls all your financial information into one place, so you can finally get the entire picture.

40. OldVersion.com – OldVersion.com has been supplying the online community with old versions of various programs.

41. Squirt.io – Speed read the web one word at a time.

42. Duckduckgo.com – The search engine that doesn’t track you.

43. Goo.gl – Url shortener from Google. Allows you to track, in real-time, the clicks and referrers. You can see your existing links and avoid duplication. (Closing in 2019)

44. StumbleUpon – Website discovery engine. A collection of best pages on the Internet.

45. About.me – A complete professional page about you.

46. Evernote – Save your notes for lifetime.

47. ResizeYourImage.com – Resize your image, it's free and easy.

48. GoogleWebDesigner – A free and easy tool to create animated, 3 HTML5 Ads in minutes.

49. MyFonts.com – Fonts for prints, products and screens. Determine the font name from an image.

50. QRStuff.com – Free Online QR code generator.

51. OnlineConcersion.com – Convert anything to anything.

52. Plaxo.com – Plaxo helps you to organize, manage, and access your contacts in one place.

53. MiiCard.com – Your online internet identity.

54. WeTransfer.com – Share big files for free and secure. Can send up to 2GB in a single time.

55. PrivNote.com – Send notes that will self-destruct after being read.

56. Join.me – Free screen sharing with anyone on the web.

57. IMDb.com – Especially for movie lovers. To find who has been in which film and what the name of that actor is.

58. TypingWeb.com – Learn to type. Free typing tutor and lessons.

59. TwitLonger.com – Send tweets longer than 140 characters.

60. TwitterSpirit.com – Set an expiration date or time to your Twitter tweets.

61. HootSuite.com – Manage multiple social networks from a single dashboard.

62. Quora.com – Source for knowledge. Question and Answer Website.

63. LeanDomainSearch.com – Domain searching tool that helps users to find their favorite domains related domains easily with one click. Lean Domain Search shows thousands of related domains that are available to register.

64. PayPal – Worlds faster and secure online money transferring system. Pay and get paid.

65. Who.is – Find information on any domain name or website.

66. Safeweb.norton.com – Is your website? Look up a site and get the rating.

67. Unfurlr.com – Find the original link behind the short link.

68. PushBullet.com – Connect your Personal computer, Tablet or Smartphone and share, images, texts, files etc.

69. RandomCodeGenerator.com – This tool can generate up to 100.000 unique random codes at a time.

70. DMCA.com – Protect your content.

71. Cnet.com – Tech News, Product Reviews, secure software downloads etc.

72. OnlineChartTool.com – On Onlinecharttool.com you can design and share your own charts online and for free.

73. WpThemeDetector – WordPress Theme Detector is the perfect free online tool to find out WordPress theme or plugins is that awesome site using.

74. HTML.am – You can find all things HTML – from HTML codes, HTML editors, HTML generators and more.

75. Pixabay.com – You can use any Pixabay image without attribution in digital and printed form, even for commercial purposes.

76. Klout.com – Check your social media score. (Will shut down after May 25th 2018).

77. IGLOMovies.com – Watch free movies. You can find the latest most popular movie titles on the site.

78. BugMeNot.com – Enter a website to see if the bugmenot community has shared any logins for it.

79. Scr.im – Convert your email address into a short, safe link you can share on the web,

80. GetNotify.com – Free email tracking service to check whether or not your sent email gets read by the recipient.

81. TinEye.com – Best reverse image search engine.

82. Noteflight.com – Print music sheets and write your own music online.

83. FaxZero.com – Send faxes to US and Canada for free.

84. StickK.com – StickK offers you the opportunity, through ‘Commitment Contracts’, to show to yourself and others the value you put on achieving your goals.

85. Boxoh.com – Boxoh can track your USPS, UPS, FedEx, or DHL/Airborne packages.

86. PicMonkey.com – Simple free online image editor.

87. Yammer.com – Private social network that helps employees collaborate across departments, locations, and business apps.

88. Sync.in – Sync.in is a web based word processor for people to collaborate in real-time.

89. ScribbleMaps.com – ScribbleMaps allows you to create custom maps, widgets, and images.

90. Fiverr.com – Hire people to complete small tasks for $5.

91. Tripit.com – TripIt organizes your travel plans in one place. Finds alternative flights. Sends real-time alerts.

92. FitDay.com – Track and analyze your nutrition, weight loss, diet and fitness over the web. Its free and private.

93. WunderList.com – you’re planning a holiday, sharing a shopping list with a partner or managing multiple work projects, Wunderlist will help you.

94. Fuelly.com – Understanding your fuel consumption and vehicle’s actual costs can help you save big money.

95. Kiva.org – Kiva is a non-profit organization with a mission to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty.

96. Mixlr.com – Mixlr is a simple way to share live audio online.

97. ShoeBoxApp.com – Free unlimited photo storage, so you can rediscover your photos anywhere. Available for iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac and PC.

98. Mathway.com – Free math problem solver answers your algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, and statistics homework.

99. CalorieKing.com – CalorieKing has the weight control tools most recommended by health professionals.

100. CamelCamelCamel.com – Amazon price tracker monitors millions of products and alerts you when prices drop, helping you decide when to buy.

[This post first appeared on Social Positives.com]

What challenges do I face as a transcriptionist?

I love being a transcriptionist and the challenges of keeping up with who is speaking and typing what is being spoken. I always aim to give as accurate a transcript as possible when listening to people or someone to speaking. I dislike using inaudible’s and a time-stamp to indicate where I just couldn’t hear what the person said, or there was unexpected sudden background noise.

When I agree to transcribe an audio I try to get a listen first but at the same time I have to keep in mind the client wants a quick decision and try to gather as much information and make a quick decision as quick as possible. This involves downloading the files, transferring the file to my transcription software player to use in conjunction with my foot pedal, headset and ergonomic keyboard. This is time-consuming and not really covered in the overall amount that I would probably earn.

If there is interference in the background then my software player does have processes that can help minimise this and enhance the speech. Nearly always this helps to clear the audio to enable a more accurate transcript to be delivered back to you.

So for me, the challenge is better when the audio is clear and good speech clarity because I enjoy the audio’s much more.

Video’s where I can add the captions to them to enhance Search Engine Optimisation for a relatively small fee compared to large organisations that wish to take a whole lot more for pretty much the same job regarding SEO and using transcripts as a better, more efficient organic way of getting higher results in searches nearly always have good audio and much quicker to transcribe.

The client may also require research into the topic around the recording subject matter and it is always helpful to know if this is the case in advance. I can then account for the extra time when giving a delivery date as I really do not like missing a deadline for an audio and not having the full information may result in this. Give as much information including the nature of the audio, interview, video, as possible it does help.

So the audio quality and as much information as possible are just two of the challenges I face. If the processes on my software player do not work I have to try and figure out another way to clear up the audio and I go to great lengths to do this first before I ever turn down an audio. All again in my own time before I decide if I can give you a good quality accurate transcript for your hard earned cash!

If I can clear up the audio I’m on a buzz before I start as I know then that it will be as accurate is it possibly can be by anybody that hears the same audio, trying at all times to make it as perfect as possible. A challenge overcome and feeling good to get that transcript delivered back to you on or before the agreed time.

Time-stamping may not seem time-consuming but it can add extra time to your transcript but a service that is available. Every 15 minutes or so is not too bad but every 2 minutes or five minutes does not enable an even flow of transcription to begin because the transcriptionist is watching the time clock of the audio to see when to place the next time stamp. It is just something that because we have to stop and start continually no rhythm is gained and why an extra cost is sometimes involved and time added to the delivery date.

Please do not hesitate to leave me your experiences or challenges as a transcriptionist or typist at the bottom of this post, or if you are interested in my service, would like to see the templates I use for transcripts, please do email me at transcription.service.vts@gmail.com and I will be in touch right away.

If you are thinking of learning touch-typing or a typist already but may wish to try diversifying into transcription again please get in touch either at transcription.service.vts@gmail.com and I will send you links and give you all the help I can to assist you in starting your new career.

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