Rapidshare is one the best file hosting services available. If you download a lot from Rapidshare, then you must have noticed that many Rapidshare links that you find are either dead or not working. Searching for working links can sometimes take a lot of time. Rapidstack is a real-time Rapidshare search engine. One of its best feature is that it scans the links before they are displayed as results and only working links are displayed.

The popularity of Twitter has seen several services come up that let you express yourself in more than 140 characters. Sometimes, it is better to chat with your friends on chat rooms. TinyChat is a web service that lets you create simple chat rooms instantly. You don’t have to sign up for anything and you get a simple chat room with a simple URL that you can use to promote it on Twitter or other sites.

Most of use torrents for downloading a lot of stuff. But Torrents also contain a lot of spam these days. Many of the torrents turn out to be fake and some may even contain spywares or other malwares. Most of the time, we are not sure what are we downloading. Vertor, which is short for ‘Verified Torrents’ is a web service that is designed to help us from such situations.

Earlier I told you about How to surf Websites in Office. This time i have another cool trick. Many a times when you use the Internet in Office or college, you will be behind a proxy and sometime you won’t be allowed to access some specific file extensions. Download At Work is a nice web service which will help you in downloading the file.

You must have seen many people using an upside down text as there status message on Instant Messengers or own social networking sites such as Orkut, Twitter etc. Now you too can write or I say flip a text easily using FlipTitle. It is a free web based tool which easily flips what ever you write in the text box.

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.