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DaFont www.dafont.com More than 7,500 free fonts (for Mac and PC), so you can at last stop using Copperplate for your party invitations. -Erik Curtis |
Photoshop User TV www.photoshopusertv.com Weekly podcast by Scott Kelby,Dave Cross and Matt Kloskowski. Watch each week as “The Photoshop Guys” from the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) share the hottest Adobe Photoshop tutorials, the latest insider tricks, and the coolest timesaving, job-saving shortcuts to make your time in Photoshop more productive, more efficient, and more fun. |
Sustainable Dave
www.sustainabledave.org One mans attempt to not throw anything away for one year. Also check out his 365 Days of Trash blog. He tracks how much of his waste is recycled and gives tips on how to start. |
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Catalog Choice catalogchoice.org If you are like me, you get catalogs sent to you for things you would never order or ordered once. These folks wive you a one stop shop place to send out cease and desist notices to all of them. |
Freecycle Network www.uncyclopedia.org The Freecycle Network™ is made up of 4,318 groups with 4,780,000 members across the globe. It's a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It's all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills. Each local group is moderated by a local volunteer (them's good people). Membership is free. To sign up, find your community by entering it into the search box above or by clicking on “Browse Groups” above the search box. Have fun! |
ReCellular Inc www.recellular.com ReCellular Inc. a collector, reseller and recycler of used cell phones and accessories. They provide solutions for the collection, reuse and recycling of used mobile phones and personal electronics that generate financial return for our partners, quality products for our customers, funding for charity organizations, and protection of the environment. |
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Wink www.wink.com Wink is a people-search engine that culls results from social-networking sites (MySpace, Linkedln, Bebo, and more), followed by results from other sites where users keep public profiles, followed by results from the Web at large. You can craft your own Wink profile if you want to shape what others see when they do a search on your name, or you can just hunt for long- lost friends.-KM |
Cork'd www.corkd.com If you have trouble keeping track of whether that Château Lafite in your cellar is a 1787 or a 1788, this site can help you get your corks in a row. If your taste tends more to the Two-Buck Chuck varietals, this site also offers user-generated reviews and recommendations for wines you might like based upon your tastes.-WR |
Fake Plastic Fish www.fakeplasticfish.com Rethinking the use of plastic(s). Beth Terry is the author of this blog on living plastic free or at least reducing the amount of plastic. She lists the worst forms of plastic, Polyvinyl Chloride (#3 PVC) and Polystyrene (#6 PS). |
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Lumosity www.lumosity.com It's not the first "brain-training" site we've ever encountered, but it may be the most scientific. On this site you can play games that have been lab-tested and shown to improve memory, attention, processing speed, and even cognitive control. If you decide you want the complete brain-train-ing treatment, you'll have to spend $9.95 a month or $79.95 a year.-Carol Mangis |
Menupages www.menupages.com The days of having to keep a messy stack of takeout menus or not knowing if a restaurant has a vegetarian option before you make the reservations are over. Menupages offers menus and reviews for thousands of restaurants in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Washington, and South Florida,-WR |
Top Secret Recipes www.topsecretrecipes.com Bring the recipes of your favorite restaurants into your kitchen with Todd Wilbur's Top Secret Recipes. Wilbur clones the secret recipes of popular restaurants, letting you work up your favorite menu items in the comfort of your own home. Also, check out "The Sleuth" for secrets and lore about food.-VBJ |
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Greendimes www.Greendimes.com Greendimesreduces the credit card offers, insurance offers, sweepstakes offers, coupon mailers, charitable solicitations and retail catalogs that your household receives. The service costs $20 a year, but for that price they automatically remove you from several lists, plant 10 trees, and continually monitor your account. I did this thinking the trees alone made it worth it, but the junk mail actually fell off from just that pretty quickly. In addition, when stuff does get through, you just go on the site, plug in the info, and they do the rest. I've heard pluses and minuses about them, but I'm a believer. |
The World's Healthiest Foods
www.whfoods.com This is the site for anyone who's read a quick blurb in a magazine or seen a health segment on the news and thought "cherries fight XYZ disease? Really?" The site provides info on how foods affect our health and can boost energy. You also get daily menus laying out three smart, nutrient-rich meals.-CI |
Dethroner www.dethroner.com Dethroner is the classy men's magazine of the Web world. With themed content based on topics like beer, meat, and danger, and features such as "Testosterone Television," a guide to the manliest sights on TV, this site has everything the modern man needs (or the modern woman, provided her interests are beer, meat, and danger).-WR |
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EXPN www.expn.com EXPN is like ESPN but with an X for eXtreme-you know, for the kids. It cov¬ers the dangerous stuff in sports, such as skating, surfing, motocross, and the X Games. EXPN has great photos and videos of death-defying stunts, along with the typical (and safer) sports columns, feature stories, and podcasts.-KM |
FirstShowing.net www.firstshowing.net Many of us have no idea what goes into making a film and what takes place behind the scenes. For those interested in peeking behind the curtain, this movie blog will keep you up to date on the hot gossip. (It's also a great place to find new teasers, trailers, and production stills.)-CI |
Going.com www.going.com Tired of your lame friends wanting to go to the same restaurant, watch the same movies, and play the same video games night after night? Going.com is just the ticket. Search hundreds of local events by location, popularity, and time. Then search for other Going.com members (currently over 123,000 active) who are headed to the same place. Going also hosts monthly parties for its members.-CI |
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I Can Has Cheezburger?
www.icanhascheezburger.com Cats are comical. You either get that or you don't. If you do, this site will make you very, very happy. The site collects and posts pictures of kitties that are cap-tioned using ungrammatical "lolspeak," to (mostly) hilarious effect. Vote on the captioned pictures, awarding them 1 to 5 cheezburgers; leave comments; and vote on the comments, too.-CM |
iminlikewithyou www.iminlikewithyou.com This dating site twists the old formula of online meet-and-greet. You can't just strike up a conversation. Rather, you must "bid" on a particular user. Users who are bid on get to choose someone from the top five bidders to interact with, and that's how you collect friends. If you're miserly, you'll make no friends ... but if you bid too generously you'll run out of points to bid with. Earn more points by answering questions about yourself.-KM |
I Watch Stuff www.iwatchstuff.com Staffed by (gasp) trained journalists, I Watch Stuff has an air of actual credibility spliced into its snark-filled posts about film news, trailers, and clips. That's not to say they're above sniffing out gay subtext in celebrity interviews or mocking Paula Abdul's reality show-but that's why we keep going back.-CI |