Expressivo is a free online text to speech service that allows you to enter a text of 200 english characters and be read out in four different voices (1 male and 3 females) speaking in 3 languages viz English, Romanian and Polish. Once the text is read out you can post a short link to the spoken text in an email, IM or publish it on a blog or forum. You can also enter the text directly in the web browser address bar without entering it in the text box. But this works only for short texts. Another feature  of the site is it lets you download the generated speech (in mp3 format) to your PC for reference.

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Online ribbon generators lets you create  your own very ribbon and display it in your website in a matter of minutes !

QuickRibbon is a wweb 2.0 free online ribbon generator which lets you create a custom ribbon with an url, and place it in the top right corner of your website. The whole process takes less than 5 minutes and especially comes with a trendy web 2.0 style. QuickRibbons can let webmasters to attract a vistors attention to new features, product launches, announcements etc.

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Dadx is an online video search engine which search for Videos from about 20 online video sites such as YouTube, Google Videos, metacafe etc.

Dadx – Online Video Search Engine

Step-by-Step Methods to convert image to PDF

Image2PDF is a utility software that can be used to convert one or more image files into a single PDF or to multiple PDFs. The software currently supports image formats such as TIF, JPG, BMP, PNG, WMF and EMF. Another advantage of this software is the converted PDFs can be secured by giving permissions and encrypting them if needed. I downloaded and tested this applicationd and it’s quite good.

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For those who are looking for an online FLV convertor, here is a good news. ConvertYouTube.com is a website which does online FLV conversions for FREE to various formats such as .wmv for Windows, .mov for Mac, .mp4 for iPod/PSP/iPhone, .3gp for Mobile, .mp3 (Audio), .flv for Flash files. After converting to these formats the site allows you to download the converted files for use. The site is pretty easy to use and quite handy for those on the move.

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I hope many of you must have found very interesting pictures on the web that catches your eye while browsing and you wanted it to save somewhere so that you can look at it again and again. Well the only solution available till now was to save it to the hard disk. Well, not anymore !

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Picasion is an online website where you can create animated GIF files for FREE. You can either upload your pictures, get it from image repositories like Flickr or Picasa Web or use the gallery provided to make funny animations.

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Have you come across the situation where you have searched for a domain to buy and find that it is registered by someone else, but the domain is expiring soon?
 
If so, there is a great chance for you to snatch this domain from the original owner in case he fails to renew the domain on time. When a domain expires it first goes into a 40 day grace period during which
the original owner can renew it at the regular price. It then goes into a 30 day redemption period during which the original owner can renew it by paying a penalty (can be upto $200). Then it goes into a 5
day ‘pending delete’ periof and then drops whereby it is available for anyone to register. Mike Davidson has this interesting article on How to catch an expiring domain