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As Carlito Brigante nearly said, some time before his untimely death at the hands of Benny Blanco from the Bronx, “When you a-see how good these tools are, you gonna change yo Religion!” Hoo ha! Enjoy.
1) Quikmaps
If you want an interactive map with your own labels, highlighted routes and so forth, you could go messing around with Google Earth or a client application and rattle one off. Which is fine. Or you could just build one online with Quikmaps, which is also great, exceptionally easy and super-fast. Another time-saver: you don't have to sign up to get your map. Go to Quikmaps and get building straight away.
The three step process involves picking where you want to build your map, entering markers, waypoints, text labels etc., and finally previewing and copying the generated code.
An additional bonus — you can have the map delivered as a widget direct to Netvibes, PageFlakes, iGoogle, Blogger, Typepad, and others via Widgetbox.
The Blogger's Walk of Saturday Night Shame
2) Utility Poster
So you've been neglecting your blog, and you really need to put something out today. But time is short. A good linkbait post is what's required, but who has the time to go find some good links? Fret no more, Jack Humphrey's Utility Poster will ride to the rescue.
According to Jack, “In 10 minutes you can have a quick yet hyper-optimized and relevant “speedlinking” post your readers will appreciate”. Have a look at the video and you'll see what he means. You can pull up the most recent blogosphere posts on a given topic, readily linked, teasered and optimized for a news aggregator-type post.
One commenter on Jack's blog [link above] reckons that this tool makes Blogging so easy that even a caveman could do it. Insults to cavemen aside, the system works with any blogging platform or Web CMS, because it's drag'n'drop to any text box. There is a more upmarket (i.e. more expensive) version called TrackBoost that pings the sites you link to, but this will only work with blogging systems that support the MetaWebLog API. The good news is that WordPress, Movable Type, Expression Engine and a bundle more do.
3) Word HTML Cleaner
Ever spent hours working on an elaborate table in MS Word… and then tried to somehow fit it into your blog entry or into a page via your Content Management platform? This can be a real nightmare. If you save it as a web page and try to embed the HTML into your Rich Text Editor, everything tends to go Pete Tong. If you cop out and get a screen capture, you're losing some nice keywordage. Which is why Word HTML Cleaner is going to save your life.
Cleaner strips Microsoft's 'proprietary tags and other superfluous noise' from Word-generated documents and gives you the rest in a more friendly format.
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