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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

WTF??? These are hysterical!! The Palin doll is up to $9600.00….what a rib!

The full price of the dolls goes to Toys For Tots so it’s for a great fund raiser at least.
Sara Palin Cabbage Patch Doll

Scroll to the bottom of that auction to see the Joe Biden, Barack Obama and John McCain Cabbage Patch Dolls.

I just got this in my email from PCMall. With mail in rebates this software will only cost you $1.99. That’s a sweet deal!! SmithMicro Art Rage Deluxe 2.5 This is not a sponsored entry I just know there are a lot of people out there who might find this useful and it’s dirt cheap to try!

All the artists’ tools you need to draw and paint on your computer!

Easy-to-use Painting Tools
ArtRage Deluxe gives you realistic art tools in a simple and stylish environment. You can start creating your own works of art right away – just pick up the mouse and start painting! Have a photo or picture you want to use as reference? Simply load it into ArtRage Deluxe and use the tracing paper function to get started immediately.

Each tool is designed to work like its real world counterpart. Thick paint smears and blends, pencils and chalks smudge, and markers work just like they do in the real world. Many of the tools can be adjusted to give different effects. You can paint with thinned oils, use wet or dry markers, soften your pencil and control the hardness of the crayon, and much more.

Everything You Need to Get Started Today

* Create with oils, pencils, chalk, glitter and more
* Metallics to blend and mix with other media
* Stencils and rulers for precise shapes and lines
* Tracing paper function to get you drawing immediately from a photo or sketch
* Create layers or import layers and effects from Photoshop
* Choose and create custom colors
* Adjust canvas grain, color and metallic options
* Scale, rotate, move and crop
* Load and save custom color sets and color pickers

Tools of the Trade
Paint and draw with oils, brushes, pencils, rollers, pens and more. Blend and smear paint on the canvas, and use the bristle texture of your stroke to add depth to the image. You can even paint and blend with metallic colors that shine just like the real thing!

The Metallic Paint option gives you spreadable, blendable gold and silver oil paints, sparkling glitter, silver leaf sprays and more. Any tool can be switched to Metallic mode for a wide range of incredible effects. Metallic paint still blends with normal paint and smears and smudges as well! Thin metal coatings can be applied to any texture using the airbrush, or you can build up thick metal lumps using the Tube tool and Oil Brush to add more depth.

Precise Shapes and Lines
Stencils and rulers let you make precise shapes and lines while still painting freehand. Place down as many stencils as you like, then paint over them and the paint will only touch the canvas through the holes. Lay down rulers and create straight lines or smooth curves.

Tutorials and More
ArtRage Deluxe includes tutorials and videos to learn from, reference images for tracing and stencils for painting precise shapes. You’ll have the artwork and guidance you need to create amazing art!

I have no words… just:: WHAT THE FUCK???

Switched.Com article

A week ago Matt emailed White Castle to see where to get the ringtone from the Crave is Calling ads. They said they are working on it. So you can sit around and WAIT for them to do OR you can download this one I made!! It’s MP3 format and it’s 10 seconds long, sounds great. I dunno if I am the FIRST to have it but I have to be damn close

Don’t be an asshole and put this up on your own site as if it were your own. The least you can do is link to me.

http://foreverpurple.com/blogimages/cravecalling.mp3

Rick has put together a detailed list of the current fees being charged by airlines. Check it pre flight to make sure you are prepared. Rick will be keeping the list up to date and always current. SWEET!

Rick Seaney’s Airline Fee Chart

The airlines are getting in on the fleecing of Americans by charging you to check a bag. For now it’s American Airlines but the others will be following suit. Rick at Fare Compare offers some tips for avoiding this charge.

I found this thanks to Ideal Bite, it’s a very cool website with a ton of yoga poses. They are organized so it’s easy to find what you want. there is also a video feature that is the pose of the day. It also covers yoga meditation which I don’t know anything about.

anyhow www.yogajournal.com

I’m Hooked!

This is a great definition of what I want, my ideal life would be a life less ordinary. To sometimes take the risk and to sometimes do what others are afraid to do, to sometimes live on the edge. Not to have an amazing, jet setting, non stop excitement lifestyle where there is never a dull moment.

Tay Zonday is a life less ordinary. Michelle turned me on to him this morning and I’m fascinated by this guy.