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Its very important to ensure that all the pages you have linked in your site are reachable. But its impossible to manually crawl each page and check the status of the links and update accordingly.

In this post I’m listing down 3 types of broken link checkers and its features, a portable one, as a wordpress plugin and an online app. Read this article, choose your link checker and do mention in the comments.

1. Portable Tool – Xenu’s Link Sleuth

Xenu’s Link Sleuth is a free tool which can be used to verify the status of the links in your site. This tool is a must have for any web master/blogger who uses a good amount of external/internal links in their sites.

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Dropbox allows users to store, share and sync their files across multiple computers via multiple sources. The sync is transparent and continuous. The best part is the process runs in the background and it consumes very less amount of RAM.

Dropbox download is available for Windows, Mac and Linux.

Setting up Dropbox is very easy. We need to install dropbox, then

1. Create a Dropbox account.
2. Specify the Dropbox location in your PC (All the files and folders are sync’d with your online dropbox)

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FileReplicator is a handy tool for developers who keep multiple copies of the files in different folders, updates a single file and want to update all of them in a single stroke. This can help in updating a particular folder with the new set of files without having to search the older ones manually. This simple tool can be very much helpful and save pretty amount of time if you frequently update the files and want to maintain consistency all over.

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Comparer is a tool which compares properties of the two files and displays the results. The advantage of this tool is we can choose the properties used for comparing the files. It uses Total Commanders content plugins like image size, digicam exif, crypto hash calc, etc. as parameter which displaying the comparison results. This tool can help people who keep multiple versions of the edited files at different folder locations and with the same name. Read the rest of this entry »

Play the best of Independent music from India. You can choose the radio channels from a set of genres available and enjoy music online.
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We can carry our favorite portable apps in USB sticks and external harddisks which can be used anywhere without even leaving a trace in the guest PC. There are few sites which allow us to download those for free. But their repository is limited and that might not include the apps we wanted in portable version.

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Want to display thumbnails/previews of any website in your website? There are many online thumbnail generators which offers that service for free. Which means, you don’t have to use your favorite image editor re-size the screenshot of the webpage and upload it in the web. This can also help you in making sure that the thumbnails are also updated with any change in the target site.

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If you need the color code corresponding to any color you don’t need to have any color picking software installed in your PC. You can use online color pickers to get the color codes in HEX and other formats so that it can be used in our templates/CSS, HTML and anywhere the color code equivalent is required to be entered.
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