Daily Discoveries: Automatic Text Replacement, Pocket Wikipedia, Picjuice, Cocoalicious, MakeMeBabies.com, Worry About You, Locate32, CrystalDiskInfo, StumbleUpon, Better Lifehacker, WPanorama, Bookmark Previews, del.icio.us to Firefox

It’s a big one today, folks. On with the show!

Text replacement programs save time if you type certain words repeatedly. Cybernet has a great article listing its three favorite programs to help you. Lifehacker’s Texter, PhraseExpress, and Mac-only RapidoWrite. My fingers could use the rest. Read it here.

Ever been away from a an internet connected computer only to get into an argument that can easily be resolved by using Wikipedia? Well, those days are over. Pocket Wikipedia takes a lot of Wikipedia’s articles and trims them for offline use. It’s available for Windows, Linux, and PocketPC. Read Lifehacker's review over here.

Picjuice is yet another online image editing webapp. However, Picjuice’s gimmick relies on simplicity and ease of use. Read Download Squad’s take on Picjuice over here. For my money, nothing can replace Picnik.

Cocoalicious is a Mac-only, Apple Mail like del.icio.us browser that helps with the organization of your del.icio.us saved bookmarks. While this is great for Mac folks, the point of del.icio.us is the ability to access your bookmarks regardless of who’s computer your on or what OS your using. Hope to see this go cross-platform. Read Download Squad’s review here or Lifehacker’s review here.

MakeMeBabies.com is a fun “What if so-and-so and I had a kid?" webapp. You can put a picture of you and a celebrity together to see the results, or you and a friend. Not only is this, uh, ...service compatible with MySpace and Facebook, it also has apps for them both. Find out more fuss at Download Squad's review.

Worry About You is a search engine for music. While this is nothing new, it claims to have 15 million songs in its index. I haven't been able to test out this site thanks to traffic overload (as of this writing) but I'm looking forward to it. Another thing to note is that the songs are downloadable. Whether this is legal or not (probably not) I can't say. Download Squad reviews Worry About You here.

Locate32 is a lightweight Windows desktop search app designed to help you find files faster. From Lifehacker's review: "Locate32 uses Unix-style databases and locate commands to find files by name, size, creation dates, or any other system criteria. While it can't search the insides of files like Google Desktop, Vista's Search 4.0 Preview, or other full-featured tools, it runs fast, simple, and seriously light on system resources." It's also USB portable, too.

 CrystalDiskInfo is a hard drive monitor program. While there are plenty of these about, CrystalDiskInfo can give you a guess on how long your hard drive will function. Lifehacker's Jason Fitzpatrick writes: "Free utility CrystalDiskInfo keeps tabs on your hard drive health, including temperature, S.M.A.R.T. disk reporting, and the number of power cycles and run time on each disk. Although there is no silver bullet that can predict hard drive failure, if you're paranoid about your data you might factor in how many hours a disk has been running to determine it's replacement schedule." Read the rest here.

StumbleUpon is a great service that suggests sites via you and other users' input. While StumbleUpon has had a toolbar/Add-On for Firefox (and Internet Explorer) before, there's a new version that integrates your "likes" with Firefox 3's "Awesome Bar". Lifehacker explains: "A new option in the latest version of the previously highlighted StumbleUpon add-on lets you download all the sites you've rated with a thumbs up/"I like it!" into your bookmarks, giving you as-you-type access to that last cool link you saw but can't quite remember." Heavily suggested by yours truly. See the review here.

The Better Lifehacker Extension is a Firefox Add-On that gives you more control over your Lifehacker surfing experience. From the site: "Live on the East Coast and want to see Lifehacker's post timestamps on Eastern time? Sick of having to check the "preview comment" box every time you write a comment? In the tradition of the Better Gmail Firefox extension, today we present the Better Lifehacker extension, which adds useful functionality to Lifehacker and its sibling sites, including io9, Gizmodo, and Jezebel." Get it here.

Have you made or put together any panoramic photos? Would you like to show them off? WPanorama takes your cool panoramic photos and takes them further. Cybernet writes: "WPanorama is a panoramic photo viewer that can animate your images to make it seem like you’re standing in one spot looking around. It can then transform this animation into an AVI video or even a screensaver that will play on your computer. The screensaver can also be configured to rotate through dozens of different panoramic images if you’d like." Its home site even has panoramic images for download, in case you don't have any. Cybernet and Lifehacker both have reviews up.

Don't you wish that you could go through your Firefox bookmarks and remember what they were. Would a visual clue help? Firefox Add-On Bookmark Previews shows thumbnailed images of your bookmarks at a glance. Not only that, it will impress you with its iTunes Cover Flow type view. Lifehacker says: "Apart from the impressive eye candy, Bookmark Previews could be an especially handy tool for organizing and cleaning out your bookmarks, since rather than inspecting each link to determine what it's pointing to, you can just check the thumbnail to determine whether or not you need it." Lovely! Read Lifehacker's version of it over here.

The del.icio.us bookmarking service is something of a lifesaver as far as keeping your bookmarks in one centralized location. While there are Add-Ons that sync your browsers with your del.icio.us account, very few offer good browser integration. del.icio.us to Firefox merges your del.icio.us bookmarks with your browser bookmarks - tags and all - so that they can be taken advantage of by Firefox 3's tagging system and Awesome Bar. Lifehacker gives it to ya like this: "After providing this web site with your backed up del.icio.us and Firefox bookmarks, it merges the two so that sites you've already bookmarked will also be tagged, and you can start searching for bookmarks by tag from the comfort of Firefox 3's AwesomeBar. Once you've made this change, if you're syncing your bookmarks with an extension like previously mentioned Foxmarks, you may not even need del.icio.us anymore (unless you're into the social aspect)." I just did it myself, and I have to say It’s awesome to be able to type in a tag and get a list of sites to choose from – very highly recommended!