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Life & fun · May 11, 2012

A directory of single-page sites and useful apps

Explore a curated collection of the best free time-saving online tools, widgets & web utilities for developers, designers, and creators.

A directory of single-page sites and useful apps launched on May 11, 2012 with 164 votes, #8 of 435 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 14 years on.

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The Toolbox is a curated directory of free online tools and utilities designed for developers, designers, and creators. It collects single-page web applications and widgets that help save time on common tasks, including CSS utilities, text generators, code editors, performance analyzers, and design tools. The directory focuses on practical resources for streamlining creative and development work.

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Apparently, CSS has a color named “YellowGreen”. As well as 146 others. An advanced placeholder text generator that fills in names and cities. A powerful online editor supporting HAML, SASS, Coffeescript, and more. Another tool that will explain why your site is painfully slow. This tool lets you combine multiple effects to create complex pure CSS objects. This creatively named site lets you build animated gifs from separate images. A collection of free, coded HTML5/CSS user interface snippets. Convert a color to HSL, RGB, etc. and get more info about it. Pick among various pictograms sets to create your own icon font. View a site in multiple sizes, even including a mobile UI…from thetoolbox.cc

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