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Ever wanted to send yourself a reminder or note a  brilliant idea? Just pick up the phone and call Jott, a cool new voice to text transcription service. Just call Jott to send yourself notes, which are automatically transcribed with amazing accuracy. You also have the option to record to and execute commands on a variety of other webapps like Twitter and Facebook. Better than pecking out letters on a type screen, eh?

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With cell phone and credit card bills, chances are you’d like to, uh, save? BillShrink lets you calculate exactly how much money you could be saving. All of their data is constantly updated, and this is a brilliantly useful service nobody should be without.

What is the rate of survival for the average person in 50 degree water for 50 minutes? How can you predict weather based on the patterns of ant movement? All of these rules of thumb can be found at, shocker, RulesofThumb. You can figure out the rule for just about anything, so the next time you are designing a city street, make sure the height of the buildings and the width of the street are the same.

As we’ve said before, search engines really haven’t undergone the drastic change that other types of websites have, but TinEye changes this, with a fresh new way of searching for images. Instead of typing words to find what you want, TinEye allows you to upload an image to search based on, and it will analyze its index of images based on visual similarity. It’s a great new way of discovering images. Hit up the link to see a short demonstration video.

If you’ve got a pile of old electronics sitting around in your house, and pretty much everyone does these days, why throw it away and generate more ewaste when you could trade it in for cash? gazelle is a fantastic service that does just that. Just trade in your old gadgets, and get cash in return. The rates are great, and they’ve even got a fantastic referral program.

Ever visit a site where you just had to register to do anything? It’s irritating, and in general a bad move on the part of the webmaster. Bugmenot takes the hassle out of setting up an account just to visit a site. It provides a huge list of user submitted logins so you can skip registration. Plus Bugmenot also has a Firefox addon, so you don’t even need to visit the site.

As of January 2010, Jot.ly has faded into the history books.

Jot.ly combines micro blogging and Twitter, allowing for the power of blogging without the usual distractions. jot.ly was voted Best Appearance in the Rails Rumble 2008, and was coded in only 48 hours! Merry Christmas to all!