Online Life
Get Your Tax Question Answered Free This Month [Taxes]
This year might have made you sick of hearing/thinking/worrying about money (just maybe?), but tax season still looms ahead. Luckily, one software maker is offering free answers to tax questions throughout January.
Actual human experts affiliated with Intuit’s TurboTax software and online services—which Gina previously threw into a faceoff against a human accountant—will call back anyone [...]
GetHushed.org - A Step Towards Changing The World
What it doesThe Hush Project is a new initiative that aims to change the lives of those who change lives. This charitable social enterprise empowers internauts to nominate web workers all over the world, and thank them for all their efforts by putting forwards the donations that have been made by members of the online [...]
Get a Great Fire Photo [How To]
A lone flame against a dark backdrop makes a great scene, but, on most automatic cameras, a washed-out or drab picture. Digital Photography School has sound advice on capturing fire in a frame.
For instance, if you’re practicing or shooting with a candle flame, don’t focus on the flame itself, but on the end of the [...]
RoadEscapes.com - On The Road Again
What it doesFeel like planning a trip and hitting the open road? If that happens to be the case, a visit to this website will certainly not go amiss. Its name says it all, really – it will help you arrange a road trip in a minute fashion, just by furnishing some basic information such [...]
DestroyToday.com - A New Twitter Client & More
What it doesDescribed by its author as “a robust but compact Twitter applicationâ€, DestroyTwitter is a new Twitter client that has been built atop the Adobe AIR platform. This new client is available for free, and you can download the latest version at www.destroytoday.com, along with other tools that are also developed by this programmer, [...]
Gawkk.com - Sharing Videos With Your Friends Online
What it doesThe social web is in full bloom, and video hosting services can’t stand aloof from the phenomenon. Gawkk is a new service that will let you share any video you find on the web and take a liking to, as well as discovering videos you might enjoy by looking at what your friends [...]
Invite43.com - Invite Others To Your Parties Easily
What it doesAs the title of the review puts it, this service will enable you to create invitations for any event you are going to host and send them to your guests over the web. The emphasis is on providing an easy-to-use solution, as there is no need to register in order to get started [...]
Downloadr Backs Up Your Flickr Pics [Windows Featured Download]
Windows only: Downloadr is a small application that allows you to completely back up the photos from your Flickr account.
You can grab everything in one bulk swoop or use a series of filters to drill down to just the photos you want to grab. It automatically grabs the highest quality image and preserves the [...]
PC Buyers May Get Windows 7 Free after July [Windows 7]
The Tech ARP web site nabbed a draft “Technical Guarantee Program” from Microsoft that implies anyone buying a PC from major vendors after July can receive a Windows 7 upgrade for free.
Microsoft wouldn’t confirm, but didn’t truly deny, the implied upgrade program when Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley asked. And an official release date, [...]
Wibe7.tv Provides Thumbnail-Only YouTube Search Results [Search]
If you’re looking for one particular, recognizable YouTube video amidst a galaxy of copycats and look-alikes, Wibe7.tv offers a vast wall of thumbnails that pop up the clip, no visit to YouTube required.
It’s very similar to (and inspired by) the previously mentioned, just-the-pics-ma’am Flickr searcher Compfight. Once you’ve searched, the results can be sorted by [...]
