If you are a new or an experienced programmer, looking and understanding the source code of others will always help you out in many situations. Source Code search engines help you a lot when you are looking for some specific code. Here I am going to list my 5 favorite source code search engines.
1) Google Code Search

When it comes to search engines, the first name that comes to your mind is Google and they do have a search engine for source codes. You can search public repositories like GitHub and …

StatBrain is a nice Web Service which lets you check the amount of visits a Website/Blog gets in a day. It gives you a rough estimation based on the Alexa Rank, No of Backlinks of a website. The information may or may not be accurate but you get a fair idea about the website or blog.

With so many services now available online, you would want to maintain the same username on all the sites. But sometimes that is not possible as someone might have used it on some site. Usernamecheck is a Web Service that enables you to check the availability of your user name across 45 popular sites.

Weblin plans to take social networking to a new level as it makes the experience of surfing websites more social. Or it can make sites such as Facebook , MySpace etc more social by letting you discover new people. By using Weblin, users can create an avatar that travels with them everywhere as they move from site to site. If there are other Weblin users on a website that you are visiting, you will be able to see them and strike up a conversation.

There are a lot of online services for file storage such as SugarSync, Dropbox etc. FreeDrive is another such service but it is a bit different due to its social networking nature. It is especially for people who use sites such as Myspace and Facebook.

Few months ago, I wrote about Top 3 online image resize service. If I can include one more web service to that list, that would be Dr Pic. Dr Pic is an all AJAX image editor using which you can perform simple image operations on your image.

As a student or a researcher, you always rely on the help of Google or other search engines to search for content related to your project, assignments or any specific topic. KnowledgeThy is an online search engine powered by Google Custom Search that provides the best results possible to students related to there studies or research. It filters the search results so that the result which matters to you as a student is visible to you.

If there is any grammatical, spelling etc mistake in the blog post which you have written, you will receive suggestions from your friends or readers through email or IM. Then you can edit the post and correct them. GooseGrade aims to take this to a new level by letting your blog readers correct them instead of mailing you about it.

Social Bookmark Link Creator is nice web service which allows you to create code for social bookmarks such as Digg, SU, Spurl etc which you can add to your Blog/Website.

If you want to make a presentation and don’t want to spend huge bucks for Microsoft office, then take a look here. SlideRocket is a web service which is a very good alternative to Powerpoint. You can use it to create beautiful feature rich presentation.