A few months ago, I wrote a post about Usernames being taken. I did forget to mention Knowem? Which is really an amazing user name check, they check over 350 sites.  So Instead of added it to the old post, I decided to create a small review.

The first thing you see when you visit the site is the incredible easy and simple design that makes searching for your usernames a snap.  They have over ten categories for checking your username, such as: microblogging, blogging, bookmarking, music, photos, etc.  This is really awesome for checking to see if your username is taken from any of these websites. 

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Link Sleuth is an excellent program that finds broken links on your website(s).  Link verification is done on "normal" links, images, frames, plug-ins, backgrounds, local image maps, style sheets, scripts and java applets. It displays a continuously updated list of URLs which you can sort by different criteria. A report can be produced at any time.

Additional features:

• Simple, no-frills user-interface
• Can re-check broken links (useful for temporary network errors)
• Simple report format, can also be e-mailed
• Executable file smaller than 1MB
• Supports SSL websites ("https:// ")
• Partial testing of ftp and gopher sites
• Detects and reports redirected URLs
• Site Map

If your creating/maintain your websites, this is a really handy program to have installed.   I even fixed a few links are my site that I didn’t know that were broken. So why don’t you go download it?

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