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Have you ever found yourself wondering if that awesome name you came up with is taken?
Enter UserBuddy.
This simple tool lets you check the availability of your favorite username almost instantly across 50+ social media platforms.
QR codes came up in our Facebook Group yesterday. The general consensus was that folks still use ’em.
Today’s tool is for all of our QR peeps. It’s called Chrome QR.
It’s the fastest way to generate a QR code from any website. Seriously.
Just click the extension icon and you’ll get a QR code for the website you’re currently on.
Try it out for yourself!
Sometimes, we finish writing the Daily Carnage late night. And when it’s late, it’s easy to forget a link or two.
Enter LinkChecker by GMass. All you have to do is copy and paste your html in a dialog box and voila.
LinkChecker displays screenshots of each URL to make sure you didn’t make a mistake. It’s free and awesome.

Good news: winter is over (for most of us).
Great news: winter is coming this Sunday for Game of Thrones™ fans.
In honor of Season 8 releasing on April 14th, our friends at What Do You Meme are hooking it up. We also have some big-time Game of Thrones™ fans in the office, so we couldn’t pass this one up.
(If you’re not into GOT at all, stay with us. They’re hooking you all up too.)
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Today’s tool is like ‘Notes’ but for Instagram. It’s called ‘Caption Writer for Instagram‘ and it allows you to easily copy and paste properly formatted text into Instagram.
Forget about adding all the dashes and dots. Let Caption Writer do it for ya.

So, you’re ready to ask your customers what they think of your brand, right?
Here’s the tool to do it.
Typeform.
This nifty surveying tool takes the less is more approach. It’s super simple to use and the integrations are plentiful.
The (basic) free version should be enough to get you up and running. You’ll get 100 responses for free and up to 10 questions.
Survey on!

Social Snap lets you download images and videos from social media websites.
It’s a newer tool, so options are limited to Reddit, Instagram, YouTube and Twitch.
We’re excited to see this built out a little more, but it’s definitely a cool, free tool to play around with.

Think Instagram shopping tags, but anywhere!
Tag allows you to add product tags on any image and share them on your shop, blog or social media. This is a newer SaaS product, so you may encounter a bug or two. We gave it a whirl and are digging it so far.
You get 1 collection for free. Give it a go below.
We know a lot of you use Mailchimp (as do we), so we wanted to keep you in the loop with some recent changes to your lists in Mailchimp.
Basically, Mailchimp is making it easier to extract data and insights from your lists (now called Audiences).
Here’s what’s changing:
Here’s what’s new:
Dive in deeper below.

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