Foreverpurple

Every so often I post a list of interesting stuff I find in magazines. This time it’s from Laptop magazine. They listed the 50 best web apps of 2008. I pulled the ones I found interesting and here they are:

www.atmokeep.com - A site to help you manage all those online profiles.
www.fluther.com - Got questions? The collective knowledge of these users is sure to have an answer. Lots of this type of thing out there but this one is getting the nod from the magazine.
www.fixya.com - Technical Support, Instructions & Repair Service
www.howcast.com - Kinda like a Wiki How or E-How but ALL video
www.hulu.com - Free tv shows like The Office, The Simpsons, Family Guy - Good stuff!
www.ileonardo.com - Social network for Research
www.jajah.com - Supposed to be even better than Skype
www.joggle.com - Compiles all your personal media out on the web and aggregates it in one place for social sharing
www.knol.google.com/k - Wiki with real authors
www.linkedin.com - Social network for adults with jobs
www.netvibes.com - a personalized page that is supposed to be better than iGoogle
www.oovoo.com - Free video chat and conferencing. Supports 6 way video conferences!!
www.posterous.com - Don’t want to be hassled with setting up a blog? Blog by email, including setting up your blog. Sure they all look the same but you don’t care about that if you are interested in something so simple to begin with.
www.slacker.com - Touted as better than Pandora and a BB app is coming soon
www.spreednews.com - Your news delivered in a ticker style blurb
www.sugarsync.com - Online data storage with syncing and web availability
www.trulia.com - Find a home easier than ever before
www.ustream.tv - Live feeds, no pretaped content
www.vyew.com - Free anytime collaboration and conferencing
www.wakerupper.com - web’s easiest telephone reminder tool

www.laptopmag.com

I’ve been severely slacking in the exercise department and it’s starting to bite me in the ass. I keep finding it hard to juggle all the things I need/want to do in the few hours I have before bed. Exercise is the easiest to ignore because I feel like there are other things I can do. If I use my laptop while on the treadmill the time FLIES by and I am able to catch up on my feed reading. So I’ve been trying to come up with a clever solution so that my Poppy can build me a laptop tray for the treadmill. Tonight I realized the solution to this dilemna is something I’ve been planning for my Xmas list.

I’ve been dreaming about the new mini laptops. Picturing myself with my laptop stowed in my purse at all times, allowing me to get online and goof…er work or blog whether I am in the doctors office, the airport or while traveling. Most of the time I don’t need my when I’m out and about but I often find myself wishing I had it to jot notes or work on blog entries, site articles. So a mini laptop would be SWEET because it would also fit better on the treadmill tray and I wouldn’t need the custom tray built.

So here it is…

Dear Santa,
HP Mini Note PC