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It's almost Mother's Day! Be sure to do something special to either honor your own mother, or a special mother in your life! Uh oh, did you forget? If so, it's not too late, and the Internet can help! Here are some great last minute Mother's Day gift ideas that you can order online, and they'll still get there on time! Starbucks recently rolled out the next phase in their ongoing plan for world coffee domination, over at My Starbucks Idea. The Starbucks My Idea is like a Starbucks blog, hopped up on both Web 2.0 and caffeine, and fuelled by customer suggestions of how to improve Starbucks, on which the community at large can comment and vote. Disaboom is a social networking website created especially for the disabled - and for those living with people with disabilities and handicaps. Created by Dr. J Glen House, himself living with the disability of quadriplegia, Disaboom offers both medical expertise, and the insight of community members, who share their personal stories and experiences, and the result is a powerful resource for the handicapped where none before existed. It's pretty cool to be able to read comics online for free - but it's very cool to be able to make online comics for free, and that's just what you get to do with the Bitstrips free online comics maker! It's especially cool when the free online comics feature you! The next time your friends read online comics, won't they be surprised! And it's really easy to make online comics with the Bitstrips interface! Read on! Hulu.com is a video-on-demand service offering 250 TV series, from old classics to contemporary favorites, and clips from a further 150 series; 100 full-length movies; sports highlights from the NBA and the NHL; and Web-based programs - all free! Firefly fans will be thrilled to find 14 episodes there, alongside Dragnet and, yes, Nanny and the Professor. One of our surprisingly (or perhaps not) more popular articles is our article about the x ray vision camera lens that lets you see through clothes (has anyone here actually tried the xray vision lens?) So we knew that you would all be interested in this announcement from ThruVision about their T5000 T-Ray Security Imaging System which, they claim, allows security personnel to see contraband (such as explosives, liquids, weapons, and such) hidden under clothing. We have a colleague by the name of Jeff Walker. Jeff is one of those amazing people - a genuinely nice guy - who also happens to know how to ethically make a lot of money on the Internet. I mean, a lot of money. What is unique about Jeff, also, is that he helps others to make a lot of money on the Internet. Again, I mean, a lot of money. Now you can watch as Jeff helps a guy go from food stamps to six figures, using the Internet! Here's why you should be using AllTop: Imagine a site where you can instantly find all of the top stories on just about any subject - collected from all of the top 50 sites that cover that subject - all collected for you in one easy-to-find and read location. That's the power of AllTop. If you are among the legion of annoyed laptop toters who felt that the price to use T-mobile wi-fi at Starbucks was outrageous - particularly when there are so many coffee shops offering free w-ifi (and better coffee) these days - well, apparently Starbucks agrees with you. Because Starbucks and AT&T have just announced that Starbucks has jumped ship from Tmobile, and is now going to be offering AT&T wifi in its 7000 locations. And just one drink a month at Starbucks turns it into free wi-fi! Who doesn't love to receive a Valentines gift basket? Valentines gift baskets are a wonderful way to say "thinking of you" for anybody to send to anybody! You can give or send Valentine gift baskets not only to your spouse or mate, but to children, parents, friends, bosses, clients, customers and more! There are St Valentines day gift baskets out there to suit every person, and every need! Here are a few of our favorite great Valentines gift baskets - all of which can be delivered overnight - or sometimes even the same day - making them great last minute Valentines gifts, too! You can order all of these Valentines gifts right from your computer, and even pay for them with Paypal! (Want Valentines gifts you can pay for with Paypal? Click here!) Stymied as to what to get your Valentines for Valentines day gifts? Need some affordable Valentines ideas? Here are some great Valentines day gift ideas for Valentines gifts you can order online, right now - even as last minute Valentine gifts - and be assured that they will arrive for Valentine's Day (or have them sent directly to you so that you can deliver them in person!) Whatever your budget, whomever it is for, you'll find some great Valentines day gifts and Valentines day ideas here! We've assembled a list - complete with links to just click and buy - of some of the best Valentines day gift ideas out there, including some rather unique ideas for Valentines day - Valentine gifts that we would love to receive ourselves - and made it extremely easy for you to satisfy every Valentines day gift giving need you have! If you are determined to exercise your right to vote (as you should be!), and want to vote smart, but aren't sure who to vote for among the 2008 candidates, then this online presidential candidate calculator is just the ticket! Just answer a few questions about the top issues, and this candidate calculator will tell you which of the 2008 presidential candidates - both the Republican presidential candidates and the Democratic presidential candidates - offer you enough reasons to vote for them! And yes, your votes do count! If your teen is racking up bills instant messaging on a cell phone, has taken over your computer to instant message their friends, or is pestering you because they "need" a cell phone or some other device to instant message their friends, and if you really would like to let them message their friends, but aren't ready to give them that cell phone, then the Zip-It Wireless Messenger may be just the ticket! If you are a Twitter member who is using Twitter to post Tweets to let your fellow Twitter users know what you're up to, then you're going to love this! Now you can easily post a Tweet to Twitter anytime - from anywhere - by making a telephone call! Jott is an awesome, free service which allows you to make a telephone call, and leave yourself a message, and the message will be emailed to you as text! You can also set it up to email the message to someone else! The Amazon Kindle wireless reading device is Amazon's entry in the wireless ebook reader market. Other ebook readers include the Sony ebook reader, and various software readers such as Microsoft reader. With Kindle Amazon hopes to be a contender, with its combination of the Kindle ebook reader, always-available-from-anywhere free Kindle network, and instant download of thousands of books from the Kindle Amazon ebook catalogue, along with newspapers, magazine, and blogs. If you are looking to increase web site traffic (and what site owner isn't looking for more web site traffic?), here is a way that you can increase website traffic for free! By signing up for BlogRush, you can increase on-line traffic and get legitimate free traffic hits! We have seen more online traffic - in fact have increased online traffic significantly - as a result of our own tests with BlogRush - and you don't need to have a blog, just so long as your website has an RSS feed! If you've been thinking of getting a new sidekick - waiting for the T mobile Sidekick 4 - wait no longer! The Tmobile Sidekick 4, actually known as the T-mobile Sidekick LX, was launched this week, and it was definitely worth waiting for! This Sidekick cell phone is a beauty! And with its amazing new screen - plus new features to take advantage of it such as screenshots and choice of font size - we say don't bother waiting for the Sidekick LX's little brother, the smaller Sidekick Slide. One of the toughest things in band management is getting that first recording contract. Whether you are looking at independent record producers or a big name record producer, it's just not easy. But now there is hope for the up-and-coming band who wants to produce an album: SellaBand, the website! By the way, if you're still looking for a good band name, you can check out this band name generator, or this band name generator, or even this band name generator (no typing required on the last one!) A new online free sex offender search tool allows you to search a list of "sex offenders in my area." The free sex offender search cross-references a list for registered sex offenders with an online mapping system, so that you can find any registered sex offender on the sex offenders list anywhere within a 1 to 20 mile radius of any location (such as your home, your child's school, etc.). Rumor has it that legend Guy Kawaski has launched his own rumor site, and guess what! The rumors are true! The Fujitsu ScanSnap scanner (not to be confused with the SnapScan scanner by Agfa or any model of Fuji scanner - we're talking about the Fujitsu ScanSnap USB scanner here) is a wonder to behold. With both a Mac version (Fujitsu ScanSnap S500M) and a PC version (Fujitsu ScanSnap S500), double-sided black and white or color scanning of paper sizes up to 8 1/2 wide - at up to 20 pages a minute - the Fujitsu ScanSnap makes it easy to turn all of your paper documents into searchable computer files! And it's one of the easiest ways, bar none, to get a document into a file to email or put on a website. We all knew it was heading in this direction, but we didn't think it would come from a relative unknown. Zonbu announces the first computer that has everything - except - storage. You store all of your data - all of it - online, on the Zonbu servers. The Pure Digital PSV-352 60 Minute and Pure Digital PSV-351 30-min Point & Shoot Camcorder are really catching on. But the software, while simple to use, is crippled, and worse, it emails your videos through Grouper.com, where Grouper grabs not only your video, but harvests the email addresses and creates an account for you, all without letting you know at the time! This website gives you cash for old cellphones! That's right, they will buy used cell phones, and give you cash for them! And they make it so easy, they even send you a free, postage-paid box to send your old cell phones back to them! An article this week by the Wall Street Journal blares out that "Hackers Can Now Deliver Viruses via Web Ads". It's not like the WSJ to go the sensationalist route, so we can only assume that the reporter doesn't usually cover the Internet security beat. Regardless, this type of fear mongering is irresponsible at best, unforgivable at worst. Forget plain old mobile phone tracking. FlexiSpy is a cell phone tapping and spying software that, once slipped on to your cell phone, sends all of the data from your cell phone to the person spying on you. It also allows them to turn on your cell phone's microphone so that they can remotely listen in on what you are doing, and on your calls! It currently works with all Nokia 60, Blackberry, and Windows Mobile phones, and, according to FlexiSpy, more phones are being added all the time. A company called WabiSabiLabi (Wabi Sabi Labi - pronounced 'wobby sobby lobby' or 'wobi sobi lobi') has announced that they have created an auction marketplace where security researchers and companies can buy and sell security vulnerabilities and hacks. Here's what that means (we mean what "buying and selling security vulnerabilities means", not what "Wabi Sabi Labi" means - although roughly speaking the Japanese 'wabi sabi' means respecting things which are authentic - from nature - by acknowledging their authentic beauty with the recognition that nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect). Here is the hands-on Apple iPhone review (sometimes called the Cingular iPhone or the AT&T iPhone - there is no Verizon iPhone Verizon users, for you - so sorry!) they don't want you to see and you won't see in any of the other Apple iPhone reviews: it's the 7 bad things about the Apple iPhone that they don't want you to know. Thanks to our exclusive interview with Shawn King, of the Your Mac Life Show, who spent time up close and personal with the Apple iPhone / Cingular iPhone / AT&T iPhone a week before its release, and to some digging on our part, we bring you the 7 things about the iPhone that you'll never see in an Apple ad, because they don't want you to know about it. You know you should have a data backup solution to ensure that you have a harddrive backup - and in fact you may already have one or more backup solutions in place. But what about portable backup solutions - what about if you are on a trip, and your hard drive fails (as mine did last week?) Consider an iPod video for your portable backup data storage! This has to be the ultimate in free call forwarding services. Grand Central, as part of their beta, is offering all of their "one number to ring them all" service completely free. Need to do a computer backup? If you are looking for a remote backup program to provide secure offsite backup services - and if it offered free online backup services that would be even better - look no further! Here is the perfect offsite data backup solution - a free online data backup service that lets you do an automated offsite backup for free! That's right, you can do a full computer backup online, using this automatic offsite backup service, and it's absolutely free! How many times have you wished that you had remote access to your computer, say remote access to your PC or Mac desktop, over the Internet, while you were away? Well, with this free remote access software and remote access service, now you can wish no more! Instead you can access your PC or Mac - in fact you can access as many computers as you want - across the Internet, all for free! The trio that brought us Blue Security and their Blue Frog, the DOSing service that planned to DOS spammers, and that went belly up after a spammer instead DOSed them (well, duh), has apparently decided that spamming is more lucrative (again, well, duh), and founded a new company called Collative to do just that. Looking for ancestors who may have been military personnel or want to do a military family history search? Now you can perform a free ancestor search through the largest online collection of US military records, courtesy of Ancestry.com! Did you know that Google,com offers more than 600 cool Google gadgets and Google widgets for your use, for free? And you don't even need to put them on a Google desktop or your Google home page! You can put them on your own website (or put them on a Google homepage and your own website! And it doesn't take a Google scholar to go to Google and get these cool Google gadgets from Google. com! It's easy! (By the way, gmodules.com is the Google gadgets domain.) Google Adsense Referrals is a new program with the potential for top paying Google Adsense payouts. The Google Referrals program allows Adsense publishers to hand-pick the Adsense ads that they want to appear on their site, and get paid per action (i.e. sale or sign-up) rather than per click. Setting up your Adsense Referral ads is not hard, but the site is not as straightforward as it could be, so we're here to help you figure it out. We are often asked to recommend some really good Father's day presents - unique Father's day gifts or unusual Father's Day presents - and here are our top picks! Dog gadgets abound, including dog GPS, and an automatic feeder with a built-in webcam. You can also get dog sunglasses, a special doorbell door chime for your dog, an electronic dog day planner, and, I kid you not, a dog treadmill. Oh, and let's not forget the dog pedometer to go with that treadmill. What's better than absolutely free cell phones? How about this? Amazon will pay you to get the very same fabulous cell phone that we ourselves use! Now that is truly one of the best cell phone deals ever! Hot off the presses: Sticker Giant has just created 9-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0 bumper stickers! And you can even get it as a car magnet! The cell phone stun gun is a stun gun that is made to look like a cell phone, only deliver a powerful, stunning charge instead of a telephone call. But just how safe is it to carry these things? Stupid drivers got you down? Bad drivers cutting you off, failing to indicate before nearly pulling into you and then braking in front of you make you see red? Now ease your road rage and tell them how you feel with the push of a button! The Drivemocion car sign makes it easy - and fun! The Drivemotion is a sign that you hang in the window of your car, and you can change the message with a remote control! For my birthday this year I received the Garmin Nuvi GPS, and I have to tell you that this portable GPS is the ultimate in mobile GPS systems! This small handheld GPS navigation unit can fit in your pocket or attach to a beanbag based stand (which molds to fit any place in your car or wherever else you want to put it), has the clearest screen of any I've seen, fantastic maps (3d or flat view), will instantly show you a list of all of the restaurants, gas stations, and such in the area wherever you are. But the best part about the Garmin Nuvi GPS is that it's spoken directions make sense! Now I understand why all the GPS reviews give this Garmin portable GPS system such high praise! April Fool's jokes abound on the Internet. Here is a collection of Internet themed or related April Fools jokes. Got any good ones? The Site for the Cure is a site which allows anyone participating in any charity event such as a walk, race, run or ride for charity to talk about what they are doing and why they are doing it, to talk about the event, and to link to their own sponsor page in order to raise sponsorship funds. Want to control your car over the Internet? It's possible now, thanks to the Internet-controlled car control system called the "Keplar Security System" just introduced by Inilex! Lock and unlock your car doors, start your car up (great for those cold winter mornings!), disable the engine, and even track your car, all over the Internet! The Penguin Club, properly known as "Club Penguin" is like a Second Life or MySpace for kids, and has opened its online doors for business. Or, rather, it's hatch. Because as you might expect at the penguin club, Club Penguin is populated by penguins, and they live in igloos. The Penguin Club is actually more like Second Life for kids than MySpace. For a true MySpace for kids experience, check out Imbee.com. A third kiddyworld, Tweenland, seems to have gone under as suddenly as it sprang up (its cached Awstats statistics reveal that something dire happened to Tweenland.com between February 23rd and February 24th of this year). Right now, using the free Skype download of either their Skype for PCs or Skype for Mac, you can use your computer to make unlimited calls to any phone in the U.S. or Canada, using the Skype phone service (the Skype Internet phone system), for only $29.95 a year. Unlimited! So if you have been wondering "what is Skype", this is the perfect time to find out, because this is the most fantastic of Skype deals! Consumer Reports has released their recommendations for the best anti spam software, the best anti spyware remover, and the best anti virus software. Want to trade gift cards? This website lets you do a gift card exchange! Exchange your Home Depot gift card for a Best Buy gift card. Swap gift cards such as Target gift cards for Toys R Us gift cards! You can even sell your gift cards back, including that prepaid Visa gift card, American Express gift card, or Mastercard gift card! FunDraw is a great new website that lets you create cool drawings and graphics online no matter what your skill level! Whether you are a three year old, thirty year old, or ninety-three year old, you'll enjoy and appreciate the easy interface and powerful capabilities over at FunDraw! A company called Accenture has developed a system for a "virtual family dinner". The concept is simple enough. With people scattered across the United States, and around the globe, it's increasingly rare that a family sits down to dinner together around a table. So, goes Accenture's corpthink, let's have their loved ones sit down with them - wherever they may be. The virtual family meal system is aimed primarily at the elderly, whom are often shut in, or may have special dietary needs which could be monitored by family members on the grid of the system. It is with both pride and gratitude that we present to you our Christmas gift to you - a free weekly podcast, with no strings attached, and by which we hope that you will be entertained and informed. The new podcast is called "Three Things You Should Know", and each week it will be broadcast, free, brimming with information about three things that you'll find useful and informative, entertaining and interesting. Ho hum. It looks like yet another company has decided to try to make the "sender pays to get into your inbox" model work. Last time it was Affini, this time it's Boxbe, and there have probably been countless others in between. But it all boils down to one thing: It ain't gonna work. Our new email newsletter publishing service is the perfect way to send out Christmas newsletters for the holidays, and email newsletters all year round! Whether you are an individual, a small or non-profit organization, or a big corporation, our pre-accredited email newsletter service provides you with premium services at a budget price! Perfect whether you want to send family newsletters or corporate email newsletters, or try your hand at ezine publishing! And with our unique automatic "blog-to-newsletter" service you can publish an article on your blog and have it automatically sent as a newsletter at the same time! The new Nintendo Wii may have a funny and hard to remember name (is it the Nintendo Wii? Nintendo Wie? Nintendo Wee? Whee? Oui?), but it has managed to do what no other gamebox has done before - revolutionize game box gaming by incorporating genuine real-gesture remote control. It's also got built in Internet wi-fi access, and Bluetooth. Here is our list of great holiday websites for the holiday season! There are fun websites, kids websites, and just plain cool websites! Find the perfect gift, print free gift tags, recipes cards and coloring pages, and have some fun building an online snowman, playing holiday arcade games, and reading about Christmas lore. Or spend some time with Bad Santa and watching videos about other peoples' hellish holidays, and give thanks that your own holidays probably aren't so bad! Our newest site on the web shows you "how to" with a collection of how-to videos! LearnHowTo.TV offers visitors a wde range of how-to videos, on a broad range of topics, all for free! The Zeon portable DVD player with integrated iPod video dock from iLuv is one hot new device, and they make fantastic Christmas gifts! This portable DVD player with integrated video iPod dock (also misleadingly called the "jWin iLuv Portable Tablet Video System for Apple iPod Video") is the easiest way on the planet to watch all those video podcasts and television shows you've downloaded from the Internet to your video iPod (while traveling, or even at home or work), without developing a permasquint! And with a 7" video screen, built-in speakers, viewing stand, and remote, it's also a full on portable DVD player, all in one compact 10" x 6" package! Yes, you really can take it with you! Not sure what to give that person on your gift list for Christmas? Consider these unique Christmas gift ideas! USB microscopes that magnify things as much as 600x and throw the image on your computer screen! Take a screenshot and post your best magnifications to the Internet! The new Sony Reader is an eBook reader introduced by Sony that is about the size of a paperback, but weighing just 9 ounces. The Sony Reader works with the Connect service, which is like iTunes for books. With 64mb of memory on board, and an expandable memory card slot, the Sony Reader is capable of carrying dozens of ebooks at once. A new line of Bluetooth enabled watches from both Fossil and Sony Ericsson are hitting the stores within the next few weeks. Both the Sony Ericsson Vanguard MBW-100 and the Fossil Caller ID FX6001 are able to detect and display data from your cell phone, alerting you to an incoming call via vibration, displaying the caller i.d. of the call, and allowing you to reject or accept the call. Shades of Dick Tracy! VaporStream is a new product that offers recordless email that disappears after being read. And, it can't be forwarded, can't be printed, and can't be stored. But here's what I want to know: if you have to go through the trouble of logging in to someone else's server - and paying to do it - in order to not send a regular email, why wouldn't you just pick up the phone? eFax today announced that they are raising their already gouging rates from $12.95 a month to $16.95 a month. But there are alternatives, and there is a way to cancel your eFax service, even though they hide it very well. A new free service on the web allows you to easily create ebooks to take along on your iPod! You can take pretty much any text, upload it or provide a link to it, press a button, and voila! You get an ebook which can be read on your iPod! Now this is a fabulous theft and loss insurance for your phone, PDA or laptop! It's called StuffBak (because it helps you get your stuff back, get it?) and it's kind of like those microchipping i.d. services for pets, only it's for your portable electronic devices, such as your laptop, your PDA, and your cell phone! It's basically loss and theft insurance for your portables! And through a partnership with The Internet Patrol and StuffBak, you can get a 10% discount off their already incredibly reasonable pricing! We think that you can't go wrong with the Sidekick hand held Internet email device. For our money, it's the best handheld Internet email device on the market today. Hollaback (Holla Back - holler back - get it?) is a blogspot website where women who feel victimized by men complimenting them on the street (and, to be fair, also doing more than complimenting) can post pictures of the men who are complimenting or harrassing them. Here's the thing: one woman's harrassment is another woman's compliment. And the same goes for the harrassment or compliment givers. The UX-B800SE BroadBandFax machine by Sharp is the first truly Internet-ready fax machine. It's a true, full-fledged fax machine, but the BroadBand Fax Machine also has an ethernet (network) port. Meaning you can connect it to the Internet. Voila! An Internet fax machine! A Sidekick 3 by any other name (Danger Sidekick, Sidekick Phone, T-Mobile Sidekick - just not Sidekick III, please!) is the hottest new device to hit the streets. Complete with its own Sidekick 3 backgrounds (wallpaper) and its own Sidekick 3 bluetooth, here is a side by side comparison and review of the T Mobile Sidekick 3 (not the "T-Mobile Sidekick III" because they did away with the Roman numerals). RssToolbar from Electronic Technologies, Inc. checks all of your favourite blogs, news, and other websites for any newly published articles, and then displays any new headlines in an unobtrusive bar along the top of your browser. BugMeNot is a service which provides free passwords to sites which require registration to view their free content. If you feel that "it's a pain in the neck to have to register just to read a story, and who are they, anyways, to demand your email address and demographic information?", then you are going to love BugMeNot. Free online fax services are still around, you just have to know where to look for it! You can send faxes over the Internet, to regular fax machines, for free, using the Free FaxZero site! A new Black Frog anti-spam model, based more than loosely on the defunct Blue Frog service, is being set up over at Okopipi. Will this one succeed? And will it be more ethical? We think that the answer to both is "no". |