Thursday, December 02, 2004
More Useful Tools
Last time I introduced a number of web tools that I thought were useful enough to have a permanent space on your browser's toolbar. This time I will continue with some more tools, including a few that some of you suggested to me.
Have you ever wondered what a particular website looked like many years ago? Have you ever searched for something with a search engine and clicked on it and the page is no longer there? Wouldn't it be neat to go back in time to see those pages?
Well it turns out that you can go back in time by using the Wayback Machine. Type in the link of a website that you know (or perhaps the one you couldn't access when you searched) and the Wayback Machine will show you what the website looked like long ago.
I was able to use the Wayback Machine on a client project where they were getting many hits for pages that no longer existed. The Wayback Machine allowed me to figure out a mapping between my client's old website and their new pages and thus convert failing page hits to relevant ones.
Speaking of the web, do you want to replicate the Pantone colors of your 4-color marketing brochure on your website? Then you might be delighted to learn about the Pantone color to web color conversion charts. Here you can search for the Pantone color by number and see the equivalent RGB (Red-Green-Blue) for use on your web page.
If you travel or have the opportunity to live for an extended time in another country, you might find metric-conversions.org useful. How many cups in a liter? How many hectares in an acre? Metric-conversions.org has many different metric calculators for weight, length, temperature, volume, and more.
And if you are traveling, you might also find www.xe.com helpful. It's a currency rate and conversion tool with up-to-the-minute exchange rates. How far will $100 US Dollars go in Europe? Enter $100 and press convert to find out right now.
Curious about flags? Check out http://www.fotw.net/flags/iso3166.html for the flags of the world listed alphabetically. You will find the current flag for every nation and a little bit of history behind it too.
Well there you have it! I know that you find these tools helpful and I recommend that you bookmark them so that they will be just one click away when you need them. Please let me know if you have your own recommendations for useful web tools.
Enjoy,
Thomas "Tech Coach Tom" Beutel
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