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Free Website Tools

In the early days of Twitter you could simply follow most of your own followers for interesting and relevant tweets. But the number of people who will follow anyone just to get their name out and hope for a follow back has grown immensely. An easier way to find people to follow is by using FollowFinder. You’ll find out who tweets on similar topics and who has similar followers. You can follow right from the interface, without having to open another tab. This is a simple and efficient Twitter app.

If you’re a professional, run a small business or you’re simply looking for free accounting software, you might want to give GnuCash a try.

GnuCash is personal and small-business financial-accounting software, freely licensed under the GNU GPL and available for GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. Download GnuCash here.

The interface is simple, but the software offers everything you’d expect from financial accounting software, like the ability to track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses. The site itself has in-depth tutorials and also glossaries for software and financial terms.

Features include:

* QIF/OFX/HBCI Import, Transaction Matching
* Reports, Graphs
* Scheduled Transactions
* Financial Calculations

* Double-Entry Accounting
* Stock/Bond/Mutual Fund Accounts
* Small-Business Accounting
* Customers, Vendors, Jobs,
Invoices, A/P, A/R

If you want to learn HTML5, or are already using it, having a cheat sheet like the one on WoorkUp.com will be very useful. It’s designed as a grid with HTML tags and their related attributes supported by HTML 5. You can print it or download through Scribd.

HTML5 Visual Cheat Sheet (Reloaded)

If it’s time to once again upgrade your latest word processor, spreadsheet or other office software, and you’re reluctant to spend hefty fees to do so, you may want to consider OpenOffice, the free and open office productivity suite. If you’re already using another office software package, OpenOffice will most likely be able to read these files. OpenOffice can be downloaded and used entirely free of any licence fees. It is released under the LGPL licence which means you may use it for any purpose – domestic, commercial, educational, public administration and install it on as many computers as you like.

For a comprehensive explanation and reference of HTML5, visit W3′s site. The page is very detailed and in depth, but it also has a getting started section that will help you create a sample document.

For comprehensive Twitter influence and engagement analytics like Clout, Generosity, Referenced, Retweet Ratio and more, try Twitalyzer. If you’re running a business and you’re wondering about what impact or influence your social media activity really has, you can measure how your scores are changing – and hopefully improving – between measurements, view graphs and use them to drill down to daily activity and which and how many unique users retweet your tweets. Twitalyzer’s subscription service for business owners adds automatic processing, multiple accounts and alerts.

Make sure your sound is on for instantsfun’s collection of sounds. Click on each button for the sound and on each title to get to the sound’s individual page and corresponding sound source. Choose from Benny Hill, Crickets, DrumRoll, Emergency Yodel and the Muppets and others. Yes, we want ‘moar’ instants!

Reflection gives image a unique flair. You can add reflections with your graphic design program, or you can use NeonDragon’s Reflection.js. This tiny script (less than 5KB) works with all popular browsers and lets you add reflections to any image on your website, like photos, logos, or any other graphic. The site also sports a “reflect-o-matic” so you can try it on your own pictures.

Create free Twitter backgrounds at twitbacks.com. The site will let you choose from over 80 background designs, add links to your social networking accounts to your background and brand it with your own photo, bio or logo. Choose from photos, nature designs, cars, artistic, or custom backgrounds.

AutoComplete is a very handy feature for text boxes and other input fields. If you use MooTools, try AJAX Daddy’s MooTools Autocompleter widget. This widget creates a suggestion box for input fields. You can get your suggestions from variable data sources, such as a local object or via XHR from a JSON or an XHTML source.