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 …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 …read more
Using Springpad to Organize Your Life
November 7, 2009 by Jason Bean
Filed under Freebies, How To, Kids & Family, Reference, Shopping, Software & Online Apps
I just heard about a new online tool recently called Springpad. It allows you to quickly organize and share a variety of bits and pieces of information that you collect throughout the day that are important to you and put them into defined structure and places.
The other benefit of Springpad is that it harnesses the power of the social networking world and allows you to interact with and share your collections of data with those that are important to you too.
I would say the power of Springpad doesn’t rely in it’s ability to collect your information though, it’s more …read more
GROUPON – Collective Buying Power Coming to Your City
October 29, 2009 by Jason Bean
Filed under Contests & Sweepstakes, Freebies, Shopping
My wife shared a link with me this evening that looks pretty interesting. It’s a coupon and discount site called Groupon, but it’s more than just coupons. It’s a marketing tool as well and the idea is to swarm a location or establishment with business. What company wouldn’t want that kind of attention?!
With coupons, you did like I did tonight and save a few bucks on a variety of different grocery items. Groupon let’s you save real money on some really great stuff that you’d like to do, but you didn’t want to spend the full price on it to …read more
Have Fun and Feed Some People
October 15, 2009 by Jason Bean
Filed under Contests & Sweepstakes, Freebies
It’s not very often you get to tickle your trivia bone, expand your English vocabulary and feed some people in less than fortunate nations around the world. You can do all of that with the Free Rice website.
There’s more to learn and answer questions about than just English Vocabulary. You can test your knowledge. You can test your gray matter on other topics and subjects like:
Art
Chemistry
English
Geography
Foreign Languages
and Math
It’s all here, and the more you know the more rice that the Free Rice website will deliver to those in need.
The Free Rice website keeps track of how many grains of …read more
Using SpellingCity to Help Your Kids in School
September 27, 2009 by Jason Bean
Filed under Freebies, How To, Kids & Family, Reference
I was over at a friend’s house this evening and their kids wanted to play on Spelling City with my little girl. I’ve never heard of the site and I liked it immediately after finding out more about what the site provides to students.
The Spelling City website lets your sign-up and register as a parent and then have you kids sign-on and practice their own spelling words. The website allows you to add your kid’s spelling words into the site. This lets your kids practice their own words, not just general spelling words.
The other great feature is that teachers can …read more
It’s Fantasy Football Time!
August 31, 2009 by Jason Bean
Filed under Contests & Sweepstakes, Freebies, Software & Online Apps
It’s that time of year again. Fantasy Football time! I’ve got two drafts going on right now. Which is not helpful because I have plenty of other stuff I’m also working on as well! It looks like this year is going to be another stretched out season for me.
I’m going to have fantasy football teams on loads of websites.
Fox Sports Fantasy Football
ESPN Fantasy Football League
Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Football
CBS Sports Fantasy Football
I’m sure it’s going to be quite a bit to keep up with. I know last year I couldn’t remember what player I had …read more
Add Artistic Flair to Your Photos
August 26, 2009 by Jason Bean
Filed under Freebies, How To, Images & Photos, Software & Online Apps
As widespread and commonplace that digital cameras are these days, we still haven’t lost our enjoyment and appreciation for artistic expression we normally see in paintings and drawings. We’ve uncovered the Be Funky website that gives you the ability to transform your photos into works of art.
The Be Funky website allows you to upload a photo and completely transform it into a pencil drawing, an oil painting or even "Andy Warhol-ize" your photo.
The site requires no money and doesn’t even force you to register in anyway at all. Just click on the button to get started and then choose the …read more
Strip Generator – Creator of Web Comics
August 23, 2009 by Jason Bean
Filed under Freebies, How To, Humor
You’re the one always telling the funny little stories. You were the class clown in school. You’re the one people go to when they need to get cheered up. Well, now you need to introduce yourself to humor Web 2.0 style.
The Strip Generator website is the place where you can leave all the rules of the world behind and share with use the little stories you’ve already been telling us for years. Strip Generator lets you do it as your own little online comic. Don’t worry about knowing how to draw though, that’s not important. We wouldn’t want art to …read more
Go Back to College and DesignYourDorm
August 19, 2009 by Jason Bean
Filed under Freebies, How To, Shopping
Summer break is over. Time to pack up your recent high school graduate into the car and take them off to college. Moving into a dorm for the first time you may not be quite sure what to expect or how your want to arrange your stuff. The DesignYourDorm.com website helps you get your stuff together.
DesignYourDorm is more than just a space organization site though. Colleges and universities can upload their residential floor plans to the site so students will now how to plan their room decor. The site even lets roommates work on putting their rooms together so things …read more





