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There might be times when you are accessing your code snippets saved online from your friends PC or from a new workstation. Chances are less that you can get hold of WinMerge or any similar file comparison tool. But we have a simple dual file comparison tool online which gives us the comparison results on click of a button.

Features

• Ability to upload 2 versions of the files to be compared
• Code can even be pasted to the text boxes for comparison
• Automatic Wordwrap

Checkout Diffchecker

DiffChecker Info
App Name	DiffChecker
License	free
Type	online
App URL
More Info	link

WobZIP is a free online tool that allows you to uncompress your files online. It displays the list of files present in that zip file and it allows you to download only the needed files from the archive . If you get hold of any suspicious zip file, instead of downloading to your PC and extracting it to view the contents, you can enter the file URL in WobZip to ensure that its free from any executables. This also has an antivirus scanner which scans the files in the zip on the fly during decompression.

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ZeroDayScan is an online web application scanner which crawls through the app and discovers the vulnerabilities in the application. It attempts to find out the common web vulnerabilities like XSS, SQL Injection and all the way down to web app fingerprinting.

As per their FAQ it takes around half an hour to scan normal sized websites, but as soon as I initiated scan for my website, I got a notification mail saying that it takes around 72 hours to complete the scan but I got the results emailed in about 5 hours.

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RandomKeyGenerator site provides quickest way of securing our accounts – generates super strong passwords online. These passwords generated can be used for setting up the passwords from local system accounts to root admin accounts. Strong Passwords can help us to protect against any brute-force/dictionary attacks. Read more about how strong the passwords should be, here.

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Type of Keys Generated with Random Key Gen

• Strong Passwords for local and webhost accounts
• Ft. Knox Passwords for admin accounts
• CodeIgniter Encryption Keys – 256bit keys
• 160-bit WPA Keys
• 540-bit WPA Keys
• 64-bit WEP Keys
• 128-bit WEP Keys
• 152-bit WEP Keys
• 256-bit WEP Keys

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Odosketch is an online sketchpad and does not have too many things which clutters your work area. But you have enough to create a mindblowing work of art.

Using Odosketch cant be easier. Just select the crayon type and color you want and start sketching. Once done, it can be saved and shared with other odosketch artists. The saved sketch can be retrieved from our profile later on for further enhancement.

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Many of us register with some interesting sites by submitting a userid, password and our emailid for verification. We also choose different passwords for different sites so as to make sure that our credentials are never compromised. Remembering passwords for a huge of sites would be a Herculean task. We might use offline password managers like Keepass, but if you are a person like me who work with multiple PC’s; then syncing those passwords created, would be a problem. So the best option would be to store passwords online and safely retrieve them whenever required. And we have Password++ …

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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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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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