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Embed Your Head on Famous Movie Posters

kjackson_ott — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 11:15:18 +0000

Theme parks and other tourist magnets often have kiosks where customers pose in front of a green screen for a photograph. The photograph is then manipulated to morph the customers’ heads with celebrities’ bodies. These souvenirs cost around $20 and are good for a few laugh with friends. You can make these same photographs at [...]

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Embed Your Head on Famous Movie Posters

Play Angry Birds and Other Games in Chrome

kjackson_ott — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 11:50:59 +0000

The Chrome Web Store has more than browser plugins that make your life a little easier. It also has a growing collection of games that, once installed, can be played online or offline, giving you something to do on your laptop while riding an airplane or bus. One of the most popular games for Chrome [...]

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Play Angry Birds and Other Games in Chrome

Recycle Spam into Works of Art

kjackson_ott — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:32:41 +0000

Spam is a problem. Even with the greatest of spam filters, our email addresses are still bombarded with requests for money from third-world royalty, promises of instant appendage enlargements, and various get-rich-quick business opportunities. Instead of letting spam waste space in your inbox or spam folder, try recycling it. SpamRecycling.com can turn this daily annoyance [...]

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Recycle Spam into Works of Art

Play Nintendo 64 Games on Your PC

jclaerr — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 12:21:10 +0000

You don’t need a Nintendo 64 game console to play Nintendo 64 games. There are several Nintendo emulators that will allow you to play Nintendo 64 games on your PC without getting a console or shuffling game cartridges. You don’t need a game controller, either; instead, you can use your keyboard to play the game. [...]

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Play Nintendo 64 Games on Your PC

Top 3 Coupon, Promo and Deal Websites To Save You Money On Your Next Purchase

nmcgrory_ott — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 12:03:55 +0000

Sure you purchase items online once in a while (or often), but how often do you enter a promo or coupon code into the text box during checkout? Much easier to use than traditional cut-out coupons, online coupons are a simple matter of copy and paste. From there, instant savings can be anywhere from 5% [...]

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Top 3 Coupon, Promo and Deal Websites To Save You Money On Your Next Purchase

2 Ways to Make Photos Look Old

kjackson_ott — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 11:03:28 +0000

Most places online photo processors, like CVS and Snapfish, offer online tools to make photos look either Black and White or Sepia Tone. These classic tones make a photo look older, and sometimes, more elegant. There are two online services that can make photos look older than the quick color-change filters offered by the online [...]

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2 Ways to Make Photos Look Old

Turn Your Photo into a Cartoon

kjackson_ott — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 11:26:35 +0000

Overtime, finding new and interesting pictures to post as profile icons on sites like Facebook becomes frustrating. Many people resort to posting cartoon characters or celebrity photos in place of photos of themselves, just to keep the pictures from becoming boring. Instead of using a cartoon character as a profile picture, try turning your own [...]

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Turn Your Photo into a Cartoon

3 Last-Minute Holiday Greeting Cards You Can Make Online

kjackson_ott — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:21:14 +0000

The holidays come at the same time every year, yet many of us still forget to send our holiday greetings in time for them to arrive before the holidays. Luckily, the internet embraces and rewards procrastinators with many last-minute options. Here are a few ways to make and send last-minute greetings: 1. GotFreeCards.com If you [...]

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3 Last-Minute Holiday Greeting Cards You Can Make Online

Make a Comic Strip the Easy Way

kjackson_ott — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 11:26:52 +0000

Most everyone enjoys a good comic strip—which is why this section of the newspaper continues to retain its popularity as overall newspaper popularity declines. Comic strips are classic, graphical ways to communicate ideas and concepts; plus, they are good for a laugh. No artistic talent is needed to create a comic strip with a site [...]

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Make a Comic Strip the Easy Way

5 Fun Computer Office Pranks

nmcgrory_ott — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:32:37 +0000

Work can be a boring place. Sometimes, someone has to do something to liven it up. That’s where pranks come in handy. However, you don’t want to be the office A-hole either. Prank at your own risk, don’t overdue it, and don’t take it too far. Here are some cool pranks to add some fun [...]

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5 Fun Computer Office Pranks

Make Your Own Mouse Cursor

kjackson_ott — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 11:48:10 +0000

The mouse cursor, the little white arrow forever pointing at whatever we want, is possibly the most underappreciated part of our computers. We rarely think about it—for the most part, it is just there. But, the mouse cursor has a wide range of customization options. With a site called CursorWiz, you can even make your [...]

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Make Your Own Mouse Cursor

Use a Sound Clip to Identify a Song

kjackson_ott — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 11:54:13 +0000

When the iPhone gained popularity a few years ago, one of the commercials featured an app that could use a radio-recorded sound clip to identify any song. The featured app now costs more than the service is probably worth, but the idea is still a great one. A new service called AudioTag has the same [...]

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Use a Sound Clip to Identify a Song

Anonymously Prank Call Your Friends with PrankDial

kjackson_ott — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:23:44 +0000

Thanks to the invention of caller ID, teenagers today miss a huge rite of passage practiced for over a century: the prank phone call. Sure, we can block caller ID with *69, but most people no longer answer unidentified callers. PrankDial.com understands how deprived today’s youth are, and have devised a way to prank call [...]

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Anonymously Prank Call Your Friends with PrankDial

Web Sites Giving Away Free Stuff

kjackson_ott — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:27:56 +0000

No matter our financial, cultural or political differences, all humans share one inherent trait: We love free stuff. The internet is a great place to score freebies, if you know where to look. 1. VocalPoint.com VocalPoint.com is a consumer-driven community where registered users are routinely sent samples of products. In exchange for the samples, users [...]

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Web Sites Giving Away Free Stuff

Convert YouTube Videos to Animated GIFs

kjackson_ott — Mon, 10 May 2010 11:58:09 +0000

The fun things we can do with YouTube videos seem limitless. We can download them and watch them on our telephones. We can rip the music from their videos and listen to it as free MP3s. We can turn a video’s music into our ringtone. And now, thanks to GifSoup.com, we can turn a video [...]

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Convert YouTube Videos to Animated GIFs