Social Shopping Networks - Forget malls, shop with friends online
Posted on January 26, 2008 - Filed Under Cool Websites | 5 Comments
Don’t know what to buy for your loved ones this coming Valentine’s? Are you having a hard time thinking of what to give to your friends’ kids on their upcoming birthdays? Worry no more, because a new kind of social network has evolved for your shopping comfort. Let’s traverse the newly-built road known as “social shopping networks.”
First, here are some social websites where people can help you with your online shopping needs, even if you don’t know them!
1. Kaboodle
How to extract icons from EXE, DLL, OCX, and CPL files
Posted on January 25, 2008 - Filed Under Free Software Downloads | 3 Comments
Wish you could extract all of icons stored on your computer? If I were to ask you how many icons you have stored on your computer, would you be able to tell me? Probably not! Nor can I! Actually, most applications store their icons directly in the EXE (executable) file itself, which indirectly hides those icons from you.
I sometimes enjoy changing the icons on my computer for a specific application or maybe for a certain file that I use very often and want to visually differentiate from everything else. You can quickly change the icon on a program, file, document, photo, etc by simply right-clicking on it and going to Properties. Click on Customize and then click Change Icon.
GameFly.Com - The Distance Rental Solution For Video Games
Posted on January 25, 2008 - Filed Under Cool Websites | 2 Comments
I love video games, but can never decide which ones are actually worth buying. After buying the a Nintendo Wii, I decided that I needed a solution to my endless desire for new video games (without spending a fortune, of course!). The solution was a Netflix-inspired service called GameFly.
GameFly offers video games for all of the major gaming systems (PS2, PS3, PSP, XBOX 360, XBOX, Wii, GC, DS, and GBA). It has over 5000 titles and offers free shipping and no late fees, just like Netflix. So far, I have had a great experience with this service – receiving games in only a couple days and being able to swap them out as quickly as I like.
How to create your own iGoogle theme
Posted on January 24, 2008 - Filed Under Computer Tips | 3 Comments
If you’re a big Google user, you probably use iGoogle as your home page when you open up your browser. iGoogle is the “customized” version of the Google search page that allows you to add additional gadgets to your site, such as a weather gadget, an RSS reader gadget to keep up with your feeds, a news gadget of the latest top stories, etc.
At first, iGoogle did not have any customization options in terms of skins or themes, which kind of sucked. Finally, they came out with themes (only 5 at first) that allow you to at least change the color scheme and the top graphic.
Store and Remember Your Passwords Locally with Password Safe
Posted on January 24, 2008 - Filed Under Free Software Downloads | 2 Comments
There are too many passwords to remember these days - system login passwords, email account passwords, bank accounts password, social bookmarking passwords and more. If you understand the risks, writing all those passwords in a piece of paper is not a very brilliant decision to solve this.
The other problem is that we tend to use the same passwords for multiple different accounts, making it simpler for us to retrieve it when the need arise. But wait, just imagine the damage it will cause if somebody knows the single, same, insecure password of yours.
ChatMaker - Create your own free online chat rooms
Posted on January 23, 2008 - Filed Under Cool Websites | 4 Comments
I remember back in the days when just about everyone you knew was in some kind of weird AOL chat room talking about crap with a bunch of random people from all over the world! Unfortunately for AOL, people started moving to more feature rich IM chat applications like Yahoo, MSN Messenger, etc.
However, you can’t create a chat room with a bunch of random people in Yahoo like you were able to do in AOL (not AIM). Most people prefer to just chat with their friends or family anyway, so it’s really no longer necessary to have “public” chat rooms unless you’re just looking to meet new people.
