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Very few people have absolute pitch (or "Perfect Pitch"), the ability to identify or recreate a musical note without a reference tone. Most of us, however, can improve our musical ability through practice. The free web service "Toned Ear" can help us with a range of auditory tests.
A seasoned Photoshop user can remove the background from an image in a few minutes. For a beginner, however, Photoshop is expensive and complicated. Now, a free online service allows us to remove the background quickly, with just a couple of clicks, even if we now nothing about image processing.
Almost every email service and app forwards email inline. Sometimes, though, we need to forward email as an attachment, for example if we want to report spam mail to a service such as SpamCop. Let's see how to forward email as an attachment, in popular webmails and apps.
From the early days of IRC to Facebook, chat has become increasingly popular. However, in a world with NSA surveillance, how sure can we be that our chats aren't monitored? Now, the free online chat service Hack.Chat gives us a private, secure chat option, which doesn't require identification.
Anonymous browsing on the Internet is not only for those who have something to hide. Everyone has a right to online privacy, and a VPN is the recommended solution for hiding our IP address. CyberGhost is one of the best and easiest to use Free VPN services to browse anonymously.
Chrome and Firefox have excellent English spell checkers, but they do nothing about grammar. That's one reason we end up with so many people confusing "you're" and "your", or "their", "there", and "they're". Grammarly is a browser extension that can help improve grammar and spelling in any web writing.
Did you know that emojis are treated by the computer as letters from a non-western language, like Chinese or Japanese? That means that emojis can be used anywhere text is used, including URLs. Now, the free service linkmoji is offering emoji link shortening on their website, ??.ws.
One of the biggest gifts of technology is automation. Why should we have to do a mundane task when we can set it up to happen automatically? IFTTT allows us to auto post to Facebook and most social media, and that barely scratches the surface of the service's capabilities.
Spammers are an insistent bunch. We might have tens or hundreds of spam emails daily, but some particular senders are repeat offenders, bothering us with their "offers" day after day. Let's see a simple trick to delete spam permanently from a particular sender in Gmail and Outlook.com.
Bookmarks are a great way to keep track of interesting websites and specific pages. But it is easy to overdo it and end up with too many of them. Papaly is an online service that helps us organize bookmarks in Chrome and Firefox in an entirely different fashion.