What’s in a name? Possibly your online identity. If you are forming a social media strategy, one of the items on your checklist is choosing a name. Rather than log into several dozen sites to see if your super-cute handle has been used, try NameChk.com.

NameChk scans all the popular social media platforms for you and tells you if a given name has been used. Granted, the name used might be yours (they don’t know that), but at least you can see which platforms still have room for your clever pseudonym.

Ok, so we all know that we should shop around for items that we want in order to get a good deal. But who has the time? Even researching products on the internet can be a major time suck — especially if you fall victim to “shiny object syndrome” like I do. The next thing you know, two hours have gone by and all you wanted to do was look at the price of office chairs (but it is wonderful to know that those celebreties are getting back together, at least for a few weeks).

Price Protectr [sic] to the rescue! Find a product you like from a vendor you trust and paste the link into this tool along with your email address. When the price changes, they will send you an email alert, showing you the new price. Simple! Now you can get back to your internet, uh, research.

If you’re still collecting spam to put in your grand-children’s time campsule, you can skip this one. As for me, I’ve had enough.

Situation: You want to publish your email address to provide good customer service.

Problem: Robots chew up your website hourly and harvest your email for the offshore porn and pharmaceutical spammers.

Solution: Use a site like MailToEncoder to create a link that the robots will choke on. Humans can use it just fine, but the spam bots don’t recognize it as an email address.

The site is simple to use. One click gives you code to copy and paste into your site. No registration required.