I think i'm looking pretty good for my age. One year, fourteen pages, 30 posts a page ... that's ... 420 amazing sites to look at. Why not take a trip into the past ... and click on a link below ...
I often stumble across pictures when i'm surfing the world wide web. I found these amazing ... wild life images ... just the other day. I can't tell you much more because the site is Russian, but it's very cool.
Partly thanks to the Nintendo DS ... brain training is now a popular pastime ... Games For Brains ... is a free online compendium of puzzles also designed to increase you brain power. Some are a little more successful than others but there's plenty here to challenge your synapses.
If you have a blog or web site it can be pretty useful to get feedback from your readers ... PollDaddy ... is an excellent free tool for doing just that. Quick and easy to use with professional results.
Another day, another game ... Mouse Maze ... is probably not the sort of game i'd play a lot. But it's worth a try next coffee break. The concept is not new either, but it's a nice twist on an old idea and an interesting graphic style too ... wood!
Internet Legends ... people or sites that have achieved fame through the power of the internet.
The Internet can be a harsh place ... Fail Pictures ... are a case in point. The best ones consist of a picture where something has not gone exactly to plan ... and then a single word ... Fail. Check my flickr link for examples and you'll soon get the idea. Dark, cruel but mostly funny.
I think here was a world wide web groan when internet music provider Pandora.com had to limit access to the US. But now it's back, well ... GlobalPandora ... has managed to restore the service, for how long, i'm not sure.
Learning is supposed to be fun, well the guys at the Science Museum have had a good go at it with ... Launchball ... if you don't like puzzle games it's still worth a look for it's slick and well designed menu / instructions. There's also a neat level designer too.
Every now and then you find something on the web that makes you go wow ... PicLens ... from Cooliris was just that for me. Install PicLens for your browser and away you go. Surfing images will never be the same. Slick and easy to use with some great features like plugins for your blog. Top marks from the doc.
Looks like my favourite show is on virgin 1 next. Well that's according to ... LocateTV.com ... if you missed that final episode of that cancelled series, this could be very useful.
If you're into file sharing legal or otherwise ... YouTorrent.com ... is a useful site for tracking down who's got what.
On the face of it, a pretty simple idea ... WallpaperMaker.net ... uses all the goodness of web 2.0 to let you create your own hi res desktop wallpapers. There's some fun stuff like a few cartoon characters ... but i think it could do with a bigger library of images ... still ... free and fun.
The internet is obsessed with cats ... i can spend hours wading through endless cat related junk ... whats the deal? They're either super cute kittens or moggy monsters. Worst still some have really let themselves go ...
Back to those browser based games i know and love. Like all good puzzles ... Untangle ... looks simple, but it doesn't last long. Worth checking out the very chilled soundtrack too.
A useful application you'll probably only need from time to time, so worth bookmarking ... PDF Converter ... will create a word doc from any pdf. If you just want to rearrange pages it's also worth looking at .. PDF Hammer ... an in browser option.
Well to be honest i've not found three good alternatives to flickr yet ... but i'm still looking. So for me ... the top three are ...
Cheeky chickens or perky parrots, with ... PaperBird ... you can build or create your own paper flapper.
A world without advertising ... a crazy thought and i'm not entirely sure if it's good or bad ... Lifextender ... removes ads from Windows media centre recorded shows ... extending your life one commercial at a time.
This site has been around a while (2004) but ... Cinema Redux ... caught my eye. An interesting way to look at films.
Stark graphics and simple game play are not the only features of ... Cursor*10 ... as you move through the levels you suddenly find you're competing with yourself. It's a simple idea and a great twist.
Thanks to Facebook, Scrabble is enjoying a comeback. But in this digital age cheating is easy ... Scrabble Word Finder ... makes it all too simple to look like a spelling B.
Bruce Springsteen sang about 57 channels and nothing on ... these days with the web providing our tv content it seems like there's a channel for everyone and every subject. Now the only hard bit is deciding what to watch ...
Breathing new life into an old format ... Nine Billion Miles From Earth ... is a simple space shoot 'em up but with a great comic style and retro feel. Paying tribute to great movies like Forbidden Planet ... simple fun.
Now everyone in the universe has an ipod, finding album covers to make your itunes look pretty is a full time occupation ... Albumart.org ... is a great site for tracking down that rare or large format image.
Microsoft have released ... Group Shot ... a free program for creating the perfect group photo (from a selection of bad ones). If it lives up to the hype it's well worth a try ... i'll be testing it on vista and will update this blog with my review.
An on-line lads magazine ... Monkey Mag ... has been around for a while and is pretty popular. It's circulation matches some traditional paper magazines. I mention it 'cause they seem to have 'borrowed' my strap line ... i wouldn't mind, but they didn't even say thankyou ... cheeky monkeys.
Another very solid, very playstation one feeling game ... Crazy Karts ... is so like an early mario kart it's hard not to compare. But this plays in your browser and is free ... top marks for programming skills.
