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\nWhat this site is<\/span>\n<\/div>\n

Cool Tools is a curated collection of the best tools recommended by its readers. Each weekday since the spring of 2003, Cool Tools has published a user-submitted review of a cool tool. So far that is nearly two thousand rave reviews. Cool Tools posts only positive reviews of superior things and ignores the rest. If something is not the best\/cheapest\/all-around greatest, it is not reviewed. Cool Tools reviews are written by folks (well-known and ordinary) who have personal experience with the product and its competitors. Reviewers are makers, tinkerers and doers of all stripes: writers and artists, pilots and firefighters, neuroscientists and bike messengers, contractors and gardeners, geeks and parents. Also the editors review their favorite tools. The user-submitted reviews are then selected, verified, and edited by Cool Tools editors. Reviews span a vast spectrum of handy items, including books, software, videos, hardware, raw materials, websites and more — essentially anything that is useful. Items can be new or old, but all are tried and true.<\/p>\n

\nStats<\/span>\n<\/div>\n

Cool Tools has a large and influential audience. It receives an average of more than 500,000 page views per month and more than 7,000 unique visitors everyday. Over 43% of visitors are repeat or frequent users. Cool Tools receives about 20-40 new comments each day, most with constructive user experiences.<\/p>\n

More than 200,000 readers subscribed to Cool Tools via RSS, and more than 3,000 subscribe to its weekly email version.<\/p>\n

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On Amazon’s Kindle, Cool Tools is the fourth best-selling blog subscription in the Gadgets, PCs & Consumer Electronics category.<\/p>\n

Cool Tools is a member of the premier advertising network Federated Media Publishing which includes other top publishers like The New York Times, Boing Boing, MetaFilter, and Make.<\/p>\n

U.S. Alexa Traffic Rank: 9,059
\nTechnorati authority ranking: 587<\/p>\n

\nBest of Lists that include Cool Tools<\/span>\n<\/div>\n

Forbes Best of the Web Directory<\/a>
\nAlltop – Gadgets<\/a>
\nNew York Times Blogs 101 – Technology Toys & Cool Things<\/a>
\nand often at popurls<\/a><\/p>\n

\nPress about Cool Tools<\/span>\n<\/div>\n

These are a few of my favorite sites<\/a>
\nPeter Glaskowsky
\nCNET, July 6, 2007<\/p>\n

Inspector Gadget: A New Guide Gives You the Lowdown on Must-Have Items<\/a>
\nArticle by Lisa Sweetingham?
\nTime Out New York<\/em>, January 29, 2004<\/p>\n

Relevant and Useful, In a Catalog Redux<\/a>
\nArticle by John Markoff?
\nNew York Times<\/em>, December 8, 2003<\/p>\n

Kelly’s Catalog of the Cool<\/a>
\n?Interview with Leander Kahney?
\nWired News<\/em>, December 1, 2003<\/p>\n

\nMore information<\/span>\n<\/div>\n

Profiles of the editors, designers, and publisher are available here<\/a>, and a brief history of Cool Tools is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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