CardFunk Delivers More Christmas Cheer
November 19, 2009 by Jason Bean
Filed under Humor, Images & Photos, Kids & Family, Online Videos, Social Networking, Weirdness
Not too long ago I wrote about the CardFunk website and all the cool and animated cards you can create and customize to send to friends. They’ve just updated their content and now have more Christmas cards to get your CardFunk groove on. If you’re not familiar with what happens, you upload a picture of yourself and some friends and embed their images on some dancing, animated characters on the card. They usually dance and sing and it’s all around a good time to be had by all. When you watch these cards, you can’t help but bring a little smile to yourself because let’s face it. Anything dancing, dressed up in Christmas cheer and a face that looks like you or your friends has got to be funny! If you disagree, well... [Read more]
Photovisi – Easy and Custom Photo Collages
November 17, 2009 by Jason Bean
Filed under Freebies, Images & Photos, Software & Online Apps
With the holidays coming up, you may want to start thinking about what to get some of those family members on your gift list. One of the gifts that’s almost always a guaranteed hit is some kind of photo gift. With Photovisi, you can create a custom photographic collage and have that collage printed on a variety of products to be given as gifts if you’d like. The Photovisi website provides a variety of starter templates to get you going with your ideas, but once you’ve started, you can customize and adjust to collage to exactly what you want to see. I really tried to put the Photovisi website through the paces as I asked for it to upload about 30 images from a fireworks show we attended earlier in the summer. These were the... [Read more]
Cellfire Brings Coupons to Your Phone and More
November 17, 2009 by Jason Bean
Filed under Freebies, Kids & Family, Shopping, Software & Online Apps
Here lately I’ve been really paying attention to trying to save some money wherever possible. I don’t consider myself a hardcore coupon person, but if I see a coupon for something we buy regularly, then I’ll save it and use it. The Cellfire website brings that pin-point item selection right to you. What’s nice is they deliver those coupons to you in a way that’s probably as convenient as possible and something you’ve already got with you at the store: your cell phone and a store savings card. Cellfire is the premier destination for valuable savings on groceries, shopping, restaurants, and entertainment. Get access and use offers from your PC and/or mobile phone. This service is provided free of charge to... [Read more]
Neighborino – Real Communities on the Web
November 15, 2009 by Jason Bean
Filed under Business & Career, Government & Politics, Social Networking, Software & Online Apps
One of my early website clients was a neighborhood association. There hasn’t been a lot of activity on the site, and now with the power of the social web sites like Neighborino are delivering real-world communities with a place to share community online. Neighborino puts all the tools and resources you need to both communicate with, engage and build an online community for the homeowners in your real-life neighborhood. Neighborino gives you the ability to quickly send updates to all homeowners and update your website, provide users with a community directory, classified ads listings and so much more. Affordability for all the features is also a plus, you get everything mentioned for just $30/mnth. Figure in your basic cost for hosting... [Read more]
How’d They Do That? – Freebord Tetris Video
November 14, 2009 by Jason Bean
Filed under Online Videos, Sports and Recreation
A few months ago I shared a post about a group of 36 skateboarders in San Francisco that created a pretty cool video. They used Freebords to make a video of what appeared to be a Tetris game as they skated downhill. Here’s a video showing how they did it. [Read more]






