Computer and Web Articles

1. http://tinyurl.com/6e3jj75 Beautiful!! It’s like watching colorful, glowing, digital fireflies. These videos show the movement of 880 iPhones in Europe during April 2011.
2. http://abstrusegoose.com/354 - One illustration. Eight words. I *love* this. Hilarious
3. http://tinyurl.com/yk2n64w - 100 ways to find ideas for your blog posts. No more excuses.
4. www.BanksyiPhoneApp.com – If you love Banksy (like, LOVE love Banksy) and you have an iPhone, you want the Banksy location app, trust me. Check the 40 second video, click the huge “OUT NOW” button to the left of the video, and read the details.
5. http://tinyurl.com/38g2p8o - 62 ways you can use Twitter for business. Not all items in this list will apply to you, but perhaps you can find a few new ideas.

1. http://tinyurl.com/5srxnca - Learn how to diagnose and fix an overheating laptop.
2. http://tinyurl.com/3bsxpbj - And here we have your time-wasting, non-educational yet embarrassingly somewhat-entertaining link of the day. View a slideshow showing the one of a kind cars owned by VIPs and celebrities, starting off with a $200,000 baby pink Bentley. I won’t tell you who owns it. (It won’t be a big surprise when you find out.) Thanks to this slideshow, I now know what the EcoJet car is. I also now know that the Qatari royal family owns a fleet of turquoise luxury vehicles that includes a fancy $1,800,000 sports car with a name I can’t pronounce.
3. http://EclipseCrossword.com – An easy, free, and fast way to create your own online and printable crossword puzzles.
4. http://twilert.com – A web app that shoots you email notifications when your brand, product, or service (or any keyword you like, really) has been mentioned on Twitter. In other words, Twilert acts as an always-alert watchdog that keeps an eye day and night over Twitter per your instructions. Completely free, quick and easy to set up. Have a look at Twilert’s two and a half minute intro video by clicking the gray button near the upper right-hand corner of the site’s homepage.
5. http://instagrid.me – A clean, simple web gallery for all your Instagram photos.

1. http://vimeo.com/19374769 - A two and a half minute video showing a fellow using a simple machine to make rainbow vandalism. A duality of property destruction and smile creation.
2. http://tinyurl.com/4k7ygjp - This isn’t your standard alarm clock app. The Sleep on It iPhone app was designed to help you wake up on time feeling your best. Iin addition to waking you in the morning, Sleep on It tracks how long you sleep as well as your sleep quality. It keeps track of your moods, meds, and sleep cycles so that you can ultimately locate patterns that affect your sleep and learn how much sleep you need to feel energized. Developed by MedHelp (a large online health community) in partnership with GE Healthymagination, the Sleep on It iPhone app is completely free.
3. http://tinyurl.com/5uqttf - One hundred and one computer magazine ads from the past. A fascinating, and oftentimes quite funny, visual trip down one of technology’s memory lanes.
4. http://SproutSocial.com - Does your business actively use social media? Do you find yourself wishing it was easier to manage and track your efforts? SproutSocial can help. SproutSocial allows you to find new customers, generate simple reports and analytics, monitor your brand, organize your contacts, and maintain a clear understanding of your engagements’ and efforts’ results. An easy to understand Social Media Dashboard and comprehensive (yet not overwhelming) tools can streamline and simplify your social media management. Sound enticing? Give their free thirty day trial a shot.
5. http://tinyurl.com/4v6hqgw - Eleven beautifully designed charts that shed light on a not-so-pleasant topic: the substantial imbalance of wealth in the U.S. The graphics take large numbers that are often challenging to appreciate on their own and transform them into clear visual representations of the state of our nation’s current wealth distribution.

1. http://tinyurl.com/6hnomom - What do you get when you slow down a video (to half speed) of a laughing baby and a dog snapping at soap bubbles? As one astute commenter pointed out, it sounds like a evil man laughing who’s had too many cigarettes and whiskey. This video WILL make you smile, if not laugh.
2. http://tinyurl.com/3vh7vmn - Facebook-loving parents name their kid “Like”. I’m not kidding. I wouldn’t make this up.
3. http://tinyurl.com/3djz8op - QuickReminders is (yet another) tool that allows you to email reminders to yourself. Choose one-time reminders or recurring reminders, search past reminders, and manage all your reminders in one spot.
4. http://tinyurl.com/3fht3tm - Do you use a police scanner app like iScanner, PoliceStream, or 5-0 Radio Police Scanner? You might be breaking the law.
5. http://tinyurl.com/3pld2fv - If you used to play Super Mario Brothers like there was no tomorrow, this one-man performance of the game’s glorious theme will pour on the nostalgia.

• http://bit.ly/eVQPQF - Here are your happy, funny, should-hopefully-make-you-smile photos of the day. You’ll likely get a chuckle out of these if you love dogs and/or funny photos. I give you: running basset hounds.
• www.Instructables.com – Do you ever browse through the Instructables website? If you like making things, you’ll like perusing the endless number of DIY projects offered in the site, ranging from building your own hanging chair out of palettes to creating self-watering plant pots to making green tea pancakes with ginger syrup. A fun site indeed.
• http://tinyurl.com/3bljgo8 - Foot Locker has launched “Sneakerpedia”, a Wikipedia for the sneakerheads of the world.
• http://tinyurl.com/3ueswm5 - Attention Facebook users! Facebook does not have a Dislike button. All claims to the contrary are fraudulent, typically with unethical, spammy, or malicious intentions. Be smart, be careful. Learn a bit more here.
• http://tinyurl.com/3qcjng3 - Speaking of Facebook, have you heard of the latest Facebook fad? It’s called planking. Sadly, a fellow in Australia just died doing it.

1. http://www.timbuktu.me/ - The first iPad magazine for children has made its debut. Surprise! It’s gorgeously designed.
2. http://tinyurl.com/4ydc6ly - Five new features in Google Analytics version 5.
3. www.backupify.com - An “all-in-one” archiving, search and restore solution” for services including Twitter, Facebook, and Picassa.
4. www.yournextread.com/us/ - Receive book recommendations far more customized and interesting that those you can find on Amazon, based on your favorite books. For each book you specify you’ll receive eight suggestions. The more you fine tune your preferences, the better your recommendations. (Click the “About Us” link at the bottom of the page to learn about the site’s benefits.)
5. http://tinyurl.com/6y7×37z - Head for the hills. We now have robots that can catch two balls thrown to them at the same time. [Yep, go ahead and insert a playing catch with dad or robots talking over Major League Baseball quip here.]

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erin pheil is the owner of timeforcake (www.timeforcake.com), a web design/development studio in Frisco, CO. She can be reached via email at erin@timeforcake.com.

1. http://vimeo.com/22306468 - Wedding invitations have come a long, long way over the years. (At several moments while watching this video clip I found myself wondering “How much did each one of their cards cost?!”)
2. http://tinyurl.com/3laj3ke - A recent, very interesting “Using the Internet Safely” article that ran in the Denver Post titled: Wi-Fi owners face legal troubles when others tap into network. The moral: password-protect your wireless router. Or else.
3. http://tinyurl.com/3bmegmq - Adobe’s exploration of Photoshop interaction with tablet devices. Very, VERY cool…
4. http://tinyurl.com/6dly7jh - Use this handy infographic to determine what, exactly, your home state does best.  (To save the native Coloradans time: Colorado is #1 in beer production *and* has been the skinniest state 2 years running.)
5. http://tinyurl.com/3wufng3 - iPad vs. iPad2: The real performance difference.

1. http://tinyurl.com/447ytv6 - A lovely YouTube collection of ten deadly Do-It-Yourself gadgets. We’re talking bacon bazookas, automatic shaving helmets, and homemade TSA scanners here. Oh, the things you can learn from the internet.
2. http://tinyurl.com/43rhfqe - Easy to follow tips that will help you navigate about your PowerPoint presentation’s slides more easily.
3. http://tinyurl.com/44jm7ms - Curious to know the difference between the web’s 3 primary image file types? Do you know your jpegs from your gifs from your pngs? Do you know when you should be using each one? This (very) short post should help clear things up.
4. http://tinyurl.com/2bnodba - The Ten Commandments… of Twitter. The Commandments include: “Thou shalt not use DM autoresponders,” “Thou shalt not sell out”, and “Thou shalt not beg for retweets”.
5. http://setster.com – Setster allows small business owners to make appointments 24 hours a day directly from their websites through streamlined online appointment software.

We buy tons of items online now - everything from clothes to books to new cars - but when it comes to the basics, most of us still shop at the local stores. When you’re out of toilet paper, you’re just out of toilet paper. Placing an order when you realize there’s no more, then waiting 3 -5 days for more rolls to arrive isn’t an appealing option.

There’s a (much) better way. Tell Alice how many people are in your household and what products you typically use. Alice uses this information to estimate when you’re likely running low on essentials like toilet paper, toothpaste, trash bags and other household items, then emails you a reminder before you push that final bit of toothpaste onto your toothbrush. This means you’ll have your replacement tube of toothpaste long before you actually need it.

Will you pay extra for this convenience? Are the costs for household items purchased through Alice.com higher than at the local stores? Nope. When you purchase through Alice, you’re typically purchasing directly from the manufacturers. You’re saving money.

What makes Alice even sweeter (much, much sweeter, actually) is that the site automatically looks for coupons and other deals that fit your needs. If there’s a sale on Dawn dish detergent this week, Alice might ask you if you want to make your purchase a little early in order to take advantage of the lower price.

Best of all? Two words: FREE SHIPPING.

What can Alice help with? Bathroom supplies (facial tissue, dental floss, shaving cream…), kitchen supplies (paper towels, dish liquid, trash bags…), medicine cabinet items (bandages, contact solution…), and some laundry, pantry, nursery, and office supplies as well.

Let’s recap this amazing service. Alice…

1. saves you from your own forgetfulness by keeping track of your household needs.
2. saves you time; less shopping is always a good thing.
3. saves you money: you buy direct from the manufacturers.
4. saves you even more money: it’s constantly scanning for coupons and discounts on products that fit your needs.

What’s not to like? Learn more about Alice at www.Alice.com.