14 posts tagged “links”

Check what is Smart and what is Stupid on WordDisplay today.

This is pretty neat. There are a lot of words that don't have images uploaded to it yet, like blog for example. And friends and family. I'm uploading the Vox cake for the word "cake." It's free for 24 hours, or you can pay x dollars for x hours. I think that if a word is already taken, you can take it over if you bid higher or something. The pictures you upload can link to any url you specify.

My favorite presents are ones that are personal, that had a lot of thought put into it. This is neat, it's something I'd love to receive, and something I'd give as well.

VoiceQuilt is a service that allows you to "create music boxes that play memories". The way it works is you phone in memories, and those become recordings that play when you open the music box lid.

This would be great for someone's birthday. A few years ago, we made surprise birthday pages where we'd collect webcam pictures from the birthday person's friends holding a happy birthday signs, and other graphical virtual gifts that could be displayed on a birthday page. While that idea was nice, I think this music box thing is even more special. Someone's friends could wish them happy birthday and have it all saved in a special keepsake box.

Or a get well, feel better box would be nice for someone to have to remind them of how much they're loved when they're feeling down. There are so many different occasions this could be used for.

J and I always laughed at the eHarmony commercials when they come on tv. Ever notice how their "perfect matches" never feature any interracial couples, though they do show couples of different ethnic races; they're just paired with each other. And all heterosexual. A friend of ours signed up, and the site told her she that she was incompatible, that no one could be matched up with her. I don't know what she put in her profile; maybe she was so picky that she couldn't be matched up, but the idea that the site that's supposed to be the best at matching people based on compatibility just flat out told her no was pretty funny.

So I stumbled upon lifeknot, which seems like a better dating site than any of the more known ones. Or I think the idea would work better anyway. With lifeknot, you're looking for people who share the same hobbies that you do, you're looking for "activity partners" (members have activity profiles and personality profiles) .

Their philosophy is "live your life and let love follow" which sounds like it would work. If you're big on hiking, you look for someone else who's also into it, go hiking with them and see if you click. Even if you don't end up falling head over heels for each other, you've found a new friend and hiking partner. I also think that this takes off most of the pressure and anxiety associated with dating sites (not that I know, I've never used a dating site and haven't been dating in years [for those of you who don't know, I'm in a long-term relationship with J]).

I know a couple of people who are using eHarmony and/or emode currently. I am going to suggest lifeknot to them, and to any of you reading this who are using dating sites.

The Internet has certainly changed in the past few years. You really don't have to have your own website and hosting space anymore for a lot of things. There are image hosting sites, video hosting, hosted blogging and journaling sites, and hosted message boards/forums. And now hosted wikis.

Maybe this has been available for a while, but I didn't know about it till now. Need a wiki but don't have a website or don't know how to install it onto your webspace? Visit BluWiki.org and find out how to create a free wiki for whatever you want or need a wiki for.

Since I've been actively using LJ a lot more again, and now Vox, I really haven't been surfing random blogs as much as I used to since there's already so much to read from within these two communities. Occasionally, I do venture outside though. This is one of the ones I find pretty interesting (and will add as a feed to read from my LJ friends page) – Aviva Triva Blog.

I watch the History Channel and Discovery Channel on tv sometimes, because those are the two that are still interesting. This blog is interesting in sorta the same way, with facts and trivia about everyday things you see and notice, but never really think too much about. Things like the history of the milkshake, or jukebox facts. Did you know that "juke" is a term for southern dancing? I didn't.

If nothing else, read the entry titled Weird Jobs. Some of these job titles and descriptions are bound to make you laugh (chicken sexer, odor judger, hair boiler).

Listen to this. I think it is by the guy who came up with the idea of viral marketing. He wrote TheRiskmaster, after winning an auction where the prize was a song produced by Scott Cargo (The Eagles) using your original lyrics.

I really like the phrase "mattress money" from the first line :). I wonder how many people have hid their money under their mattress as a kid?

This one is for sellers (whereas the other one was more for buyers)

List'd Express is a new AJAXY eBay listing tool that makes listing items a lot easier and less complicated. Why go through multiple pages when everything can be entered on one page/one screen?

They also have a partnership with Photobucket so you can store your images there if you don't have your own webspace and not have to pay extra picture fees on eBay. List'd also has templates that pretty up your auctions and makes it more visually appealing to viewers. When I'm browsing through all the different auctions for the same item, the ones that look nicer usually grab my attention because it just looks better, and because I know someone put effort into doing so.

If you're looking for a specific product on eBay, you'd use the search feature of the site right? Well, what if the sellers misspelled the item(s) they want to sell and you want to buy? It's not going to show up in the search results if you typed in the whole word and they didn't spell it correctly. But if you find it, your chances of winning the auction would be higher because it's likely that less people are finding this specific auction (therefore less people bidding and less people outbidding you, so chances are you will get what you want, and get it for cheaper).

That's where this site comes in handy - Ebay misspelling search. You type into their search what you'd type into the ebay search, and they'll turn up results even if they're misspelled.

plus I think their site's layout looks prettier than ebay's ;)

I got my zip hoodie made last week because CafePress was having a 20% special for shop owners. That basically meant shipping was paid for. I knew I could probably get another discount if I looked though, and I did. I saved another 5 bucks thanks to the great people who like to collect coupon codes and post them online and make them easily searchable.

If I'm searching for a code when I'm buying something online, I usually just Google it. But if I'm not buying and just browsing to see if there's anything on sale or any good deals at any particular store, I'll go to Coupon Chief and browse through their categories, or by store, depending on which I'm looking for. If it's computers, I can search through the Computers & Sofware category, or I can search for BestBuy since that's the closest computer store and likely where I'd be going.

Coupons can save you a bundle (even if it's only $5, it's still $5 you'll still have for later), and it's really not that hard to find something, especially when you can search by category or by store. Highly recommended.