MeeTimer – check out this firefox extension to help you keep track of your slack-surfing-time. A complete review on LifeHacker. I think I’ll find I need more time slack-surfing!! 
Archive for August, 2007
Reduce your online procrastination
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007Audio tours of various cities
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007“OGGtours are opensource audio guides to the world’s most interesting and offbeat destinations. Anyone can contribute to the development of an OGGtour by adding text or audio comments from right within the OGGtours blog.An OGGtour can then be downloaded and loaded onto an iPod
What your car color means about you
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
See what your car color means about you. Here’s mine:
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Red
A red car indicates that you are a passionate person. You are a “take charge” kind of individual and you are at least a little wild. If you are thinking of buying a red car keep in mind that red cars still have the highest rate of theft and the highest insurance rates than any other color vehicle. Bright red paint also subconsciously sends the message that the owner is in a higher income bracket.
Although, my car isn’t bright red, more of a faded red with some dents and scratches.
Rate your job!
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007JobJabber: Whether you love your job or hate it, this site is for you. Rant, rave , discuss or browse other job rants. Pretty interesting to see what jobs were graded higher than others. McDonalds isn’t doing so well!!
Sphere: Related ContentFree games that don’t suck
Monday, August 20th, 2007Really, that’s the name on the site: Free games that don’t suck. Hours worth of games available.
Monday motivation game
Monday, August 20th, 2007If you’re feeling unmotivated today, check out this game called Amberial. You use your arrow keys to bounce a ball around to beat various levels. Pretty plain and simple and will definitely take your mind off of it being Monday! The other cool thing is that it saves your progress – so you can come back next Monday and pick up where you left off.
Write some lyrics and this website will sing it back to you
Sunday, August 19th, 2007Let them sing it for you: Write lyrics and send your friend a song. Pretty cool.
Vacation links
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007Since I’m on vacation I have limited wi-fi access. I used my trusty wi-fi detector to find some wi-fi (disregarding the big “WE HAVE WI-FI” sign), and actually, there are several unsecured hook-ups around here, so the detector works pretty well. I’m completely over staying my visit at this restaurant, so I’ll make this pretty quick. Here are some links I found this morning while surfing my tech sites.
Atari 2600 Label Maker: For those of you old enough to remember the ol’ 2600, you might get a kick out of this. Make your own game label.
SMS reminders: PingMe will remind you via-text message of anything you need reminding of..
People search: Google works just as well I suppose, but this is kind of fun.
Monocycle on Ebay – too cool, but wow the price..
The Idea Generator: Hmm. I didn’t get any ideas from it.. but I suppose I’ll keep on spinning.
Follow your cursor: A ladies face that follows your cursor around. Doesn’t do much else – actually kind of creepy!
Built With: Ever wonder what technology a website was built with? Try out BuiltWith.com. I was really impressed, it broke down the various technologies used to make up the MonroeNews.com website.
Born Today: Check out this website to see who was born the month/day you were born.
Rubix Cube Generator: That’s right, upload an image from your computer and make a rubix cube image. Loads of fun, but you can’t actually use it. Bummer.
And finally, if you’re really bored – check out the video I edited down of fellow blogger Sarah from “The Place Where We Live” and her husband Kevin brewing a batch of beer.
Sphere: Related ContentRead a book via-RSS or email
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
DailyLit.com - this is an amazing concept for the “book-reader-challenged” like myself. Browse through the titles that DailyLit has to offer. Once you find you, you can set how often you would like parts of the book delivered to you via RSS. The book I’m looking at now is “My Life and Work” by Henry Ford. This book has 102 installments, which I can break up and have sent to me every day, or every weekday at various times. I can also choose to have the installments emailed to me.
So – if you’re a geek like me, and spend more time in front of a computer, than with the old fashioned paper items, check out DailyLit.
Sphere: Related ContentMy new pen – video
Thursday, August 9th, 2007My wife and I have been watching a show on HGTV called “I want that!” It’s a show about new innovations and technologies that are available, just not yet heard of. The video below shows one of them we were able to afford.