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Continuing with our series of free web tools, I thought it would be nice to share a Google Gadget I’ve created a few months ago but never published. This time, I have created a Google Gadget that allows you to add round corners to images, with selectable background colors and optional image resizing. All this, within a simple-to-use Google Gadget.

The Gadget is pretty simple, with a color picker to select the background color to use for the corners, a slider bar control to select the corner size and 2 boxes for entering the final image size. You can also choose which corners should be drawn (so that you can draw only the ones you want).

To get your round-corner images, you simply select an image (up to 800×600 pixels), choose which corners you want on the image, pick corner size and color and you’re on your way! Enjoy the tool and leave your comments.

Search Engine Optimization is a big part of today’s Website Development. Almost every web directory has tools to show you this but… wouldn’t it be nice if you had a simple tool that did that for you, without the hassle of entering many sites?

Well, this is the tool for you, then. Add this Google Gadget to your iGoogle Page or your Google Desktop, enter an URL and within seconds, get your site’s Google PageRank and Alexa Ranking, and the number of backlinks to your site, as reported by Google, Yahoo!, MSN, Altavista and AllTheWeb.

Finding how popular your site is has never been easier. Just enter the URL and voila!

Being informed when buying is very important. You can always run a Google search to find whether a product is reliable but the problem remains, as you can’t really know whether, for instance, online backup services are worth it because you don’t know if the source is reliable or is simply making a sales pitch.

That’s how I came aroing Gadget Advisor, a new website that’s quickly earning its reputation as a reliable source of information. The site has a lot of information on the latests gadgets, such as network media player and runs comparisons betwen different brands of universal remote control so that you can make an informed decision and not regret it later.