Jake of the Web

http://www.zimm-co.com/PressTheSpaceBar/pressthespacebar2000.html

'Press the Spacebar 2000'

See how many times you can press the spacebar in a given length of time. Truly the greater timewaster ever.

http://www.bookswim.com/

Netflix for people who read!

http://www.hetemeel.com/einsteinform.php

Takes a well-known picture of Einstein writing on a chalk board and lets you put your own words in his mouth/chalk.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5740
For Richie. This is to make up for all of the blasphemous stuff in recent weeks. This is an LDS Firefox extension. RSS feeds for LDS related news, direct links to LDS.org resources in a convenient menu. Great for Sunday-school teachers and the like.

http://www.youtube.com/profile_video_blog?user=blamesocietyfilms&page=2

or

http://www.blamesociety.net/index.php

Recommended by Atropos.

Chad Vader: Day Shift Manager. Darth Vader's less talented younger brother, day manager for a grocery store. Mostly about his battles with his nemesis, Clint, who manages the night shift. Also about the checker Clarissa who Chad has a crush on.

http://www.elfyourself.com/
Sponsored by an Office Supply company, but you can upload photos of your friend's faces and paste them on to the bodies of dancing elves. It's particularly amusing dancing out of character for your friend or family member.

http://threadless.com/
Recommended by the 'Boise Friend of the Program'. Threadless is a community based around T-Shirt designs that members submit, and other members buy. If your design is chosen, Threadless pays you money!

Good designs, though – regardless. It's a good place to try your hand at T-Shirt design, since everybody has the idea of starting a T-Shirt company; see how well your design does.

Divorce Statistics, Crimes, and best of all, Salaries of all State employees! It's your right to know!

Utah's Right to Know

Recommended by Taryn.

http://www.adultswim.com/games/biblefight/index.html
or search for Bible Fight

Wow. Street Fighter meets Deuteronomy (that's a book in the Bible)
Jesus, Eve, Mary, Moses, Noah, and Satan are all playable characters
Noah looks like the guy on the fish sticks boss if he had spent time in prison.
Moses has special moves like 'Stone Tablets of Fury' 'Burning Bush' and 'Rain of Frogs'
Eve can summon Adam out of the mud to punch you
One of Mary's special move is 'Immaculate Deception'

http://www.channel101.com/shows/show.php?show_id=121
or Search 'House of Cosbys'

This contains strong language throughout, and the so-called 5th episode is in particularly bad taste. However, the ridiculousness of it all is really quite funny.

A series of videos about a Bill Cosby fan who wanted a Cosby of his very own, so after a Bill Cosby standup show, he found a Bill Cosby hair, then worked to create a cloning machine. Needless to say, he was successful in his endeavor, and began cloning his own Cosby's. Think Multiplicity, only starring Bill Cosby, and with a Superhero twist.

http://www.coverpop.com/
A collage of album covers, cult favorite movies, books, vintage magazines, musical instruments, youtube videos and other things found online. You can narrow down what types of items you are looking at: ie, indy CD covers or books about UFOs, and so on. As you mouse over the covers, it magnifies the cover and allows you to read more about it. If you're interested, it is clickable and will take you to a full-size version of the image or to Amazon where it is for sale. If not interested, move on.

http://www.extratasty.com/
Recommended by 'Boise Friend of the Program'. This was submitted with Kerry in mind; Extra Tasty.com is an online community of people who enjoy drinks and sharing drink recipes.

You can have a drink recipe sent to your phone, or download it to your iPod.

They also have a great feature where you specify what you have in your bar, and they will narrow down the list of what recipes are available using only those recipes.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1593
Or search 'G Space'

G Space; Firefox Addon

It turns your gmail account into a virtual drive.

Gmail currently has over 5 gigs of space (and counting) that most people can't fill with regular email. You can have multiple gmail accounts set up through this, so I have one for pictures, one for music.

This works well because you can play music that you have uploaded to your gmail account through G Space! You can view individual pictures as well.

http://www.getridofthings.com/
How to get rid of everything from Credit Card Debt to Bleach Stains to Chlamydia to Man Boobs.

http://www.japander.com/
Hollywood stars who do commercials in Japan while they think no one is looking. My personal favorites are Arnold Schwarzenegger, Wallace and Gromit and The Simpsons, and you've got to check out Michael Jackson's ad.

http://www.cockeyed.com/
The Blog of a madman (the good kind). This guy is always throwing parties for his little scientific experiments: 'How much is Inside?' is a favorite recurring experiment:

He tested how much is inside a Sharpie pen by seeing how many CDs he could write labels for. After 2 months and almost 1000 CDs, he finally ran out of ink. It is this same exhaustive effort you will find in 'How Much Is Inside':

A bottle of mustard
A Keg of beer
Dust off
Print cartridges
Batteries
Lipstick
And more!

http://loltheist.com/
Extending the lolcat theme to religious iconography.

http://www.venganza.org/games/index_large.htm
Flying spaghetti monster: the game!

The Flying Spaghetti Monster was an invention from a letter to the Kansas Board of education before a decision was made whether to teach 'Intelligent Design' in schools. After he posted a copy of the letter to his website, people somehow stumbled across it and it gained traction from there.

People who belong to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster are called Pastafarians, and it is your job in the game is, as the 'FSM', to 'Touch them with your noodly appendage' and convert the masses to Pastafarianism!

http://bfads.net

http://www.blackfriday.info/

All of the 'Black Friday' (first shopping day after Thanksgiving, where retailers have crazy sales to try to get you into their store) ads in one place. Lets you plan out where you want to go shopping and/or have fistfights.

A virtual recording studio with free instrument loops. Pick a key (the default is G to make it simple for you) and the site provides the right chords to use. Because they provide the chords and you simply choose their order, it's easy to make it sound good. Guitar, drums, bass, electric guitar and piano, with dozens of loops for each instrument.

A great site for people who want to write or record music, but don't play an instrument or can't keep a band together. You could also closely approximate a song you like by instructing the site to play the proper chords. A fun site to play around with or to use for something real.

Jam Studio

http://icanhascheezburger.com/

http://lolcats.com

or do a search for "lolcat"

A lolcat is the halfway point between dentist office posters and Linux geeks. Pictures of animals (usually cats) doing funny, cute or silly things with captions over the top either describing a possible scenario for the cat or providing words purported to be spoken by the cat. As cats are new at speaking English, it would stand to reason that their spelling and grammar is also terrible. This mishmash of unlikely bedfellows makes for some good laughs.

Funny video of the week:

The Skeletor Show

http://flyingsquidstudios.com/?page_id=5

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=everyonesvoice&p=r

Or do a video search for 'The Skeletor Show'.

The 'Trailer' has strong language, but others are pretty family friendly. An overdub of the old He-Man cartoons, the Skeletor Show all but ignores the existence of He-Man, and focuses on the imagined doings of Skeletor and his minions, manipulating the raw footage and recording new audio to create completely unique storylines.

http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/browsersync/
Made by Google, BrowserSync synchronizes your browser settings –
including bookmarks, history, cookies, and saved passwords – across
your computers. It also allows you to restore open tabs and windows
across different machines and browser sessions.
You do need a Google account in order to use this – because the data
is stored on Google's servers.
It's independent of OS – that is, you can synch browsers on a Mac and
a PC and on a machine running Linux, as long as you are using Firefox
1.5 or greater on all three.

How to write (or speak) Klingon:
http://www.kli.org/ (scroll down a little to find 'writing klingon')
http://www.kli.org/tlh/pIqaD.html
http://www.kli.org/pdf/Orthography.pdf

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/klingon.htm

http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/
Recommended by Trish Duffin
Hilarious collection of submitted and found pictures of angry notes
left by people who want to 'get at' someone without actually being
there.

My favorites include someone who put cat hair into the mailbox of a
cat owner who habitually threw the hair out of her apartment window
while cleaning.

And anybody who has ever shared an apartment can relate to the many
notes left between roommates who no longer speak except in angry
missives left on bedroom doors.

Probably the best, just because of what it represents, is the café
employees who all quit at the same time, locked the place up, and left
the owner a note telling him what a terrible boss he was.


Aired 11-13-07

http://www.wqad.com/Global/link.asp?L=259460
or search 'select a candidate 2008'
Sent to me by Richie T!
For people who are a bit torn about whom they like amongst the
Presidential Candidates, this survey asks you questions on 11 key
points – Iraq, stem cell research, abortion, gay marriage, the
economy, etc. – and how strongly you feel about that issue. You click
submit, and it then places the candidates in order of which platform
most closely agrees with your own opinions, and it shows you the
points upon which you agree and disagree.
Although this should not be the place to make your choice for a
presidential nominee, it's a good place to start.


Next week I'll talk about a website that turns your voicemails into
emails and text messages, as well as how to keep people who are using
your computer from going to specific web sites.

PermaTabs sets any web site of your choice as a permanent tab so you will not close it by accident, with the tab launching automatically when you start Firefox. A
simple key command (Alt+P) toggles the tab as 'PermaTab' or not.

PermaTabs

http://www.starchamber.com/paracelsus/elvish/elvish-in-ten-minutes.html
or search 'ten minute elvish'
Write your name in Elvish! Just in case someone you know who does
calligraphy but isn't big enough of a nerd.
Also: check out people who actually got tattoos in Elvish:
http://www.starchamber.com/paracelsus/elvish/tattoos.html

http://www.gdiapers.com/
An Australian company that provides flushable/degradable diaper liners
that snap into a cloth diaper. Velcro fasteners connect slightly in
back to keep kids from reaching them and opening their diapers. The
diaper will break down in 50-150 days (instead of 500 years like
regular disposable diapers). You can even compost the wet ones!?!?

http://www.allsp.com/
Recommended by Manny, has all episodes of South Park.

http://www.thingsthatmakeyougoaahh.com/
http://cuteoverload.com/
http://www.thecuteproject.com/
For those who need a little something to make them smile and/or realize
there is good in the world. Some of this stuff is pre-conceived staged
saccharine, but some of it is the right amount of cute.

http://www.freerice.com/
Recommended by Asa Reynolds
This site, through funding provided by advertisers (small ads at the bottom
of the page) donate rice to the UN World Food Program. The place where we
get involved is we go to the site and answer questions to help strengthen
our vocabulary. Each correct answer buys 10 grains of rice. This has the
two-fold intention to educate us and feed the hungry.

This site began on October 10th of this year, and it is very cool to see the
total grains of rice and how the daily totals are growing
exponentially:
830 Grains on October 7th
42,153,550 Grains on the 28th

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/solar.htm
Critique of solar power and solar power enthusiasts. This was actually
written in the late 70s before Solar Power had really gained any manner of a
foothold in the market. The claims are even funnier and more outrageous
today. (Don't tell anyone, but this is satire.
It's funnier if people think it's real).

Do-It-Yourself toys that you print out from PDF files and "cut 'n'
paste" together.
I brought 'PAL 9000', 'Do-deca-heathen' and a Geisha. Collect all 22!

http://readymech.com/

http://www.jott.com/
Allows you to have your speech converted into text and sent via text message
or email to yourself, friends, or groups.
After setting up your account, you can call their toll-free number, say who
you want to contact, and dictate any needed message. These messages are
actually dictated by real people - the same people who dictate medical
dictations.
You can also add posts to your Blogger blog, add appointments to an online
calendar called 30 boxes, or work with a handful of other sites and
applications.
They also have a downloadable desktop tool called 'Jott Express' or an
online Google widget for your Google home page.

What is RSS about?

RSS, in its most simple terms, stands for 'Really Simple Syndication' and is a way for you to view updates to all of your favorite/important sites in one location. News sites, blogs, podcasts and more and more other sites are using RSS, as it also gets their content out to people in a more effective way.

To view RSS feeds, you need an aggregator, which can be a web based app or a downloaded application. Google has 'Google Reader', Yahoo has an aggregator on 'My Yahoo'. Outlook 2007 will also have an RSS reader/aggregator built in. There are Firefox extensions for RSS Feeds, including;

Sage:

http://sage.mozdev.org/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/77

Wizz RSS:

http://www.wizzrss.com/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/424



KlipFolio is a free downloadable RSS aggregator

http://www.download.com/KlipFolio/3000-9227_4-10653710.html

(Atropos note: You can subscribe to the blog's RSS with http://radiofromhell.livejournal.com/data/rss)

http://www.colawp.com/colas/400/cola467_recipe.html

http://sparror.cubecinema.com/cube/cola/

Open-source cola recipe.

NOTE:

"Caffeine can kill people in relatively small doses. The median lethal dose for an adult human is around 10 grams, or approximately one third of an ounce."

So don't overdo it with the Caffeine. You've been warned.

Bill asked last week about synchronizing bookmarks or favorites between multiple computers using firefox.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2410

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5525

Bookmark-synchronization add-ons for Firefox. The first, Foxmarks, is one of the most popular of all Firefox add-ons and is the de-facto standard for synchronizing favorites between two machines. Any addition or deletion you make on one computer will be automatically done on the other computer. You can also log in online and make changes while not on one of your usual machines.

Box.net has similar features, and may work for any out there who don't find they like Foxmarks.

www.everyvideogame.com

Recommended by Damon Liddiard, this site is similar to virtualnes.com, except it has games other than Nintendo games and it also allows you to save your games and come back to finish them later!

http://www.brandonbird.com/walken_letters.html

'Children' writing letters to Christopher Walken as though he were Santa Claus.

"Dear Chris, My Daddy says I'm too old to believe in Santa. Please come to our house on Christmas Eve and put the fear of God into him."

Search 'Walken Letters' or 'Letters to Walken'

http://zoomquilt2.madmindworx.com/zoomquilt2.swf

Freaky series of pictures that are continually zoomed in upon. As you zoom in closer to the center of the first picture, you begin to see the next. Although technically it is 88 pictures strung together, the experience is like zooming in to microscopic level of a picture, seeing everything with frightening clarity along the way.

There is a fader bar to the left with which you can control the speed and direction of the zoom.

If you want your coworkers to think you are completely insane, you can use the animation as a screensaver: http://zoomquilt2.madmindworx.com/

http://www.uneetee.com/

A T-shirt company who, rather than sticking with puns or 50's illustrations with ironic captions, makes artistic and visually appealing images. It's not so much a t-shirt as it is pop art that happens to be wearable.

http://www.earthalbum.com/

A map of the world – wherever you click on the map, a row of images from that location that are found on flickr will appear at the top. Click on the images for more detail. Moves very smoothly and quickly.

http://www.pidgin.im/

http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/

Both Trillian and Pidgin (formerly GAIM) are free multi-protocol IM applications. You can use one application to access AIM, ICQ, Yahoo and MSN messengers. The free version of Pidgin and the Pro version of Trillian also allow you to use it for Google Talk and Novell Instant Messenger, which is why I have recently switched from Trillian to Pidgin.

http://www.krazydad.com/colrpickr/

A color wheel that will find the pictures on Flickr that most closely match any color you wish. There are sub-categories you can choose from as well, including: Color fields, Flowers, Squared Circle, Graffiti, Doors and Windows, Textures, Urban Decay, and others.

http://wikiwax.com/

A different way to search Wikipedia. As you type in a word, real-time matches begin to populate below the search field. It also returns related items quicker than Wikipedia's ordinary search. Another different Wikipedia search is at http://wikiseek.com/

The Cloak

By Jason Steele

http://www.filmcow.com/

or just do a web video search for 'the cloak'.

Jason Steele has made quite a number of popular 'viral' videos. One of my favorites is 'The Cloak', about a Communism-fighting private eye who happens to be a talking, floating cloak. His sidekick is the disembodied head of 'film noir legend' Robert Mitchum.

http://www.blockposters.com/
Will take any image under 1 Mb and blow it up to poster size for you, with the poster consisting of 8 1/2 X 11 sized 'blocks'. It generates a PDF file with as many pages as necessary, which you can then print them out on your own and tape together. You can save it in digital format and print it out as many times as you like. You can click on the 'gallery' link at the top to see what people have used the site for. One kid used it to make his own cardboard cutout of a stormtrooper.

http://www.rottenneighbor.com/
Intended to help warn people about bad neighbors and places to avoid buying a house in. This is a new site, and there are not very many entries for Utah on it. I want people to log on and say something mean about their neighbors.

It does require an email address in order to post, but you can use the next web site to get around that.

http://www.guerrillamail.com/

http://www.temporaryinbox.com/

http://www.pookmail.com/

Much like what numbr.com & privatephone.com do for phone numbers, these sites will create a temporary email address. Guerrillamail, for example, lasts only 15 minutes, but will tell you if you receive any emails at that address during that time. These sites are intended as a tool against spam caused by obligatory registration when buying online or registering for some free web sites. Now you don't even need to have the 'spam email account', you can simply create a new temporary email address when needed, and then walk away.

http://www.google.com/goog411/

1-800-GOOG-411

You can call 1-800-GOOG-411 anytime for free, give them your zip code or city, then say the business name or category of what you're looking for. It can then audibly tell you the address over the phone, can send you a text message with the info (address phone number, etc.) or can send you a map if you have an internet-enabled phone. It can also then forward your phone call to the company in question.

http://www.tenthdimension.com/medialinks.php

This site is completely geeky. If it sounds boring, then don't go to it – you'll find it boring. If it sounds interesting, then check it out.

Through simple but clean animation along with a narrator, the intent is to help us envision what the tenth dimension is like.

Fans of 'A Wrinkle In Time' will recognize some of the concepts presented here.

http://www.moanmyip.com/
There's lots of sites that will tell you your ip address. This one moans it to you in orgasmic tones. It's actually pretty ridiculous, but it makes me laugh.

http://adblockplus.org/

Adblock plus allows you to block all flash-based web ads. By and large, you won't even notice that the ads are even missing - quite seamless.

http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/

http://www.overheardatthebeach.com/

http://www.overheardintheoffice.com

Sometimes hilarious, sometimes frightening things said by real people and dutifully reported by bystanders.

Some of the best are overheard cell phone conversations, people with their kids, or people on the subway. Or whimsical combinations of all three.

There's the woman who is loudly complaining on the subway to a friend about all the meds she has to take for her STD, while her mortified daughter standing nearby has to remind her that the meds are for SVT, a heart condition, and not for a sexually transmitted disease.

Or when a girl tells a younger boy that he's going to be a real lady killer when he grown up, and he answers: "Oh, I'll kill men, too. I don't care."

The Mom who tells her little boy: "You do not pee on somebody unless they ask you to!"

Or the boy standing in the ocean who yells, reminiscent of little Bill: "I CHALLENGE YOU, POSEIDON!"

http://encyclopodia.sourceforge.net/

The entire text contents of Wikipedia, downloadable and viewable on your iPod.
1.7 Gigs, currently updated every 6 months.

http://www.dialahuman.com/

A collection of the fastest way to make it through a phone tree to reach real person for almost every company imaginable.

http://vconvert.net/

Recommended by Jamie Winters

http://converttube.com/

Both sites are virtually identical. They allow you to save a copy of any online video. Can save it to Windows, Mac, Flash or iPod/PSP formats, as well as an audio only portion.

Dave Motta asked about animation software for his son to use in a school project:

The one I liked the most was Dog Waffle:

http://www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/free/

It had excellent tutorial videos - http://www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/tuts/DanCDtutes/index.html

A great application for animating scanned images created on paper is MonkeyJam:

http://www.giantscreamingrobotmonkeys.com/monkeyjam/

Another very good application is 'Beneton Movie GIF' - http://software.benetonfilms.com/Beneton_Movie_GIF/

Although you have undoubtedly seen a photomosaic before, you may not know what one is. A photomosaic is a picture made up of many smaller images. One of the movie posters for The Truman Show is a prime example of this:



There is software out there that enables you to create your own Photomosaic:

Photomosaic maker – Perhaps the easiest to use by virtue of gathering other people's images for you, 'Photomosaic Maker' collects pictures from Flickr.com and forms them into a mosaic of any image you upload.
Photomosaic Maker

A more intense (but therefore with more customizable results) is the downloadable photomosaic maker 'Andreamosaic'. Andreamosaic allows you to use your own pictures (select a folder or folders on your hard drive) to create the tiles of the mosaic.
Andreamosaic allows a lot more customization of the end result (number of tiles, what pictures to use, how often a picture can be reused, etc) but is relatively processor-intensive and can take some time.
Andrea Mosaic

http://babelfish.yahoo.com/

http://www.google.com/language_tools

Language translators. Translate (more or less) any web page, sets of words or single words.

This site generates an 'ASCII' (letters and punctuation) drawing or picture based on any 60x50 pixel image you give it. It works best if you use pictures that are close-ups of faces, which are a little easier for the human eye to recognize if the image is a bit blurry. Because it requires such a small image, you may need to manipulate existing photos using something like Photoshop – GIMP (www.gimp.org) is a free alternative and should be more than sufficient. You can create color or black & white images, and use either ASCII characters or simple squares to create your image.

I created ASCII images of all of our favorite Radio from Hell personalities.

Ascii-o-matic

www.virtualnes.com
Recommended by Matt Marcek

This site has a massive library of original Nintendo games. All of the Nintendo games I can remember and I ton that I don't – Wrestlemania games, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, all 3 Mario Games, and Spy Hunter and a million more.

www.onemorelevel.com/games3/double-wires.swf
or just search for 'double wires'

A ridiculous game where a rag doll person with spider-like webslinging abilities fights the good fight against gravity. Picture if Steven Hawking were spider man. Ugly but fun.

litsum.com

wikisummaries.org

www.cliffsnotes.com

www.antistudy.com

Free cliff notes, summaries of books, characters, bios of authors and more cool stuff to make studying and homework a lot easier.

Jarrod asked about modding Sidekick IIIs.

Although not 'modding' per se in the same way as with other phones, I found a few sites dedicated to personalizing your Sidekick:

www.hiptop.com

sidekick3.blogspot.com

www.sidekickwallpapers.com

Another friend of the program asked about sending text messages to someone's cell phone anonymously:

Anontxt.com
textforfree.net

Also has an option to embed a window into your myspace page or other blog. This is obviously best for sites with a security restriction on 'friends only'.


Also, you can send text to people from the web page of their service provider. A few major ones are:

Verizon: https://text.vzw.com/customer_site/jsp/messaging_lo.jsp

Sprint: http://messaging.sprintpcs.com/textmessaging/compose

T Mobile: https://wmg.tmomail.net/customer_site/jsp/messaging_lo.jsp

AT&T allows you to send from the web, but you must have an account and log in in order to do so.


Now, just because they don't see your name on the text message doesn't mean they can't find out who you are – especially if you are harassing or threatening, so be good.

www.chorewars.com
Online text-based role playing game that allows you to create a character and then build that character up by doing chores in real life. This would be especially good, I would imagine, for families with 2 or more kids, where chores could become a game and a bit of competition to make chores more interesting. I suppose kids fighting over who gets to clean the bathroom is not such a bad thing.

Firefox Add-on of the week:

http://tools.google.com/firefox/sendtophone/index.html
Google's 'send to phone' addon places a small icon on your Firefox toolbar. From here, you can type or copy/paste any text into the window and send data or any other info to your phone (or any other phone, provided you know the number and carrier of the person you are trying to reach)

icopy.sourceforge.net

If you have a separate scanner and printer, this software can combine the separate functions into a photocopier.

www.gmap-pedometer.com

Recommended by Chris in Kansas

Allows you to trace out your route on google maps, see how far it is and approximately how many calories it would burn. As Chris pointed out in his email to me, this would be great for use in tandem with mapmyride.com.

You can enable a timeline-type view of the changes in elevation you will be going over.

You can save the results to the web, print them, or download them to a GPS unit.

www.ii.uib.no/~arntzen/kalender/

Generates a printable PDF that you can cut and fold into a 12-sided dodecahedron or rhombic dodecahedron. Can be created using any of about 20 languages, can select if Sunday or Monday begins the week.

Search for '12 sided calendar' in any search engine.

www.zamzar.com

File conversion site. Convert documents, images, videos, or music files from one format to another. They then send the file to your email address you enter. The file to convert can either be located on your hard drive or online.

Can convert documents, audio files, videos, and images from one format to another.

modmymoto.com

www.modmyiphone.com

Recommended by Sebastian

These sites both provide instruction and software to help you personalize your cell phone – whether in its appearance, the ring tones, the software available on it, to the power settings and other aspects of the phone.

Some modding may affect the warranty of the phones, so mod at your own risk, but there are forums to ask questions, step-by-step instructions from people who have done it before, and many levels of modding – beginner on up.

www.in2tv.com

Owned by AOL, navigation is slow, but lotsa free content. Currently featured on the site: 'The Song Remains The Same' Led Zeppelin concert footage; Wonder Woman; The Ben Stiller Show; The Smurfs; Thundercats; Batman, The Animated Series; and tons and tons more. They also have 'AOL Music Sessions' with exclusive live performances and interviews from lotsa cool bands – Red Hot Chili Peppers, Weezer, All American Rejects, Daughtry, Good Charlotte, Jay-Z, Eric Clapton - hundreds of others.

www.joost.com

Created by the guys who made Kazaa (early follower of Napster) and Skype (awesome free internet phone software). Allows you to view TV when and where you want via the internet.

Still in beta, but this is going to be huge. You can request an account directly from Joost or anybody who is already a member.

Have agreements with CBS, Viacom (who owns MTV, Comedy Central, Paramount pictures, etc.), the NHL and more.

Their approach is actually a Peer-to-peer distribution approach (like Napster and others of its kind) , taking a lot of strain off of centralized servers, but distributing the content legally.

www.diettelevision.com
An attractively designed, very thorough weight-loss site with three main sections:

-Learn It
Diet Finder
Gives you fader bars to select the priority of various aspects of dieting:
How often you want to eat certain types of foods - meat, veggies, dairy, etc.
How important it is to you to lose weight quickly, want to feel better and healthier
How important it is to you to have frequent meals
How often you want to be able to dine out
Affordability

Based on the choices you set, it ranks the top 20 diet types for you over on the side.

Exercise finder
Enter your current weight and weight goal, then what types of exercises sound fun to you.
How long you want your workout to be, how many times a week you think you can work out, and how many calories you want to cut out of your diet per week.
Based on that, it will give you an approximate length of time before you reach your weight goal.
It then gives you examples of some simple exercises based on what you entered

-Lose It
It then gives you tools to track your progress, including weight lost/gained, how much water you drink daily, how much sleep you get, and your mood from day to day.
You can track what meals you have had, and even enter your daily meal from your cell phone.

-Link up
Also has a social networking portion, where you can meet other people, see what works for them, get inspired and inspire other people.
You can use as few or as many of these aspects as you want.

www.energyfiend.com
All-around caffeine-obsessed site.
Has a sortable list of about 300 caffeinated drinks, the size of the drink and how many milligrams of caffeine in each.
Can tally how much caffeine you have consumed during the day by hitting the plus sign next to the various drinks.
A calculator that will tell you how many of a certain beverage it would take to cause your untimely death.
Also shows sugar in drinks.

www.meebo.com
Instant messaging site that allows you to access yahoo, msn, aim and google talk all at the same time through a website – no need to download software.
This is great for people who travel or use computers that they are unable to install software on.
There is a feature that allows you to embed a meebo chat window into any webpage you create – I think that's perfect for a myspace page or other social networking page (that is restricted to friends only).

http://www.mailboxmap.com/
Shows the location, pickup times and can give directions to the nearest mailboxes in any area from any address you give it.

http://www.exphone.org

Site with all sorts of info on what to do with an old cell phone other than just throw it away, which contain silver and gold, which are
precious and can be put to good use, but also Cadmium, Lead, and Beryllium to name a few, are all toxic and can and go get released
while in a landfill.

This site gives info on where you can drop off or even mail a phone to be recycled or donated to worthy causes for free.

http://www.simplifymedia.com

Application that allows you to access your iTunes library on your home computer from work through the internet. Also will allow
you to invite up to 30 friends - whose iTunes libraries you can also access from work.

You do have to download the application on each computer you use in order for them to connect the music files.

As Steve Jobs wears a black turtleneck and jeans in virtually all public appearances, the folks at joy of tech thought it would be
fun to mix up his wardrobe. There are numerous sets of costumes to try on, including a pirate, an astronaut, a punk, a hippie, or a pimp,
to name a few. It is worth checking out for at least a few minutes.


Insanely Cool Steve Jobs Paper Dolls

http://www.mapmyride.com

A community site where people share bike trail routes they enjoy. Also has sections for dog walks, hikes, horse rides, kayaking,
running, skating, swimming, etc.

People are then able to rate the rides with 1-5 stars. This would be especially helpful for people out of town or planning on
being out of town who would like to spend time doing any of these various activities. it would be great to look up nearby hiking,
biking or other routes.

Best part is that if you have google earth installed, you can download a route and run through it beforehand in 3D.

Well, I guess I have to start this somehow: it may as well be in an embarrassingly boring way.

My name is Jake, and I do a segment called, appropriately, 'Jake of the Web' every Tuesday on x96's Radio From Hell show . It's a great show (and was for years before I ever came along) and I only hope I can add something positive to it.

On the show, I mostly focus on 'Time-Wasters For Work' but there is definitely a lot more out there on the web that's worth talking about.

I plan to do that on this site.

My initial thought is this site will be dedicated to helping average people become more proficient on their computers and on the web, as well as helping people be more effective in their lives using the web and other marvelous modern technology. We'll see if that makes me money, though, and go from there.

inumbr.com creates a temporary phone number (SLC 801 area code available, along with about 25 other cities) that you can give out if you're selling something online, or meeting people at clubs, etc.

Number can be set to expire after an hour, a day, a week, or a month

The basic portion requires nothing but your phone number - no logins or accounts

Can set up a second phone number that they will send calls to if the first number is unavailable.

The provided number does have an extension and the caller has to leave a short clip announcing who they are.

Does have a private time you can set – 9pm to 8 am with 4 time zones to choose from.

i numbr

http://www.topleftpixel.com/(daily dose of imagery)

A photoblogger from Toronto

Interesting pictures of life around Toronto, other parts of Canada, or wherever he happens to go. Words really do not do it justice.

Go to the site, look at a few weeks worth of pictures and you'll be hooked.

http://www.wikimindmap.org

Really cool visual representation of wikipedia:

The central topic of your choice is the central bubble, branching out to various related topics

a fun/interesting way to refer to Wikipedia

Aired 7-26-07