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

Are you color blind? Maybe you just design like it. Color can really pull emotions out of us that we maybe didn’t expect. When you’re designing a new graphic, website, or some other piece of art, getting the colors right can be pretty important.

The Color Scheme Designer website is now in it’s third major iteration and version for users and it will give you quite a bit of information to make sure your next color palette for that project will be exactly what you needed.
The site let’s you select your color preferences on a color wheel and then depending on …read more

The folks behind Farm Town on Facebook have released some new functionality and features that are now available to those of us willing to admit we’re addicted. A couple of friends and I have a good time helping each other out on our farms, but we haven’t come close to this magic.

The Farm-Town.com website has put together a great collection of tips and tricks so you can learn how to do a little bit more with your farm than just grow some crops and raise some animals.
Taking advantage of the angled perspective of the farm layout and some forced …read more

If you’re a blogger, you’ve probably heard about the new compliance regulations issued by the FTC that impact how you may do what you’ve been doing without thought up to this point. If you receive anything from someone to review or blog about, you should let people know.

The CMP.LY website makes it easier for bloggers to clearly inform their readers on exactly what type of connection exists between themselves and the person, company or organization they be writing about.
The CMP.LY website provides six different, simple links bloggers can use at the end of their posts to cover their rear …read more

I’m sitting here on the couch in my flannel lounge pants, t-shirt and covered in a nice warm quilt my grandmother made a long time ago. If you haven’t gotten the imagery yet, I’m not feeling good and am sick at home.

My wife is already fearful that I’ve got the swine flu, the other white virus. I personally like to call it just feeling like crap and that my head may explode at any minute.
Microsoft has setup The H1N1 Response Center website to help me confirm that idea by teaching me more about the virus and whether or not …read more

I’m knot sure what it is about the weigh eye grew up, but I always seam too find and point out errors in spelling, typos and other slips of the English language. That is except win it’s my own writing sometimes.

The FunnyTypos.com website provides a place to both collect and highlight some of the greatest examples of typos, misspellings, bad grammar and Engrish. Users submit photos and examples of these highlights of the English language and forever capture it on the web.
Like other similar sites that collect photos and images from the user community that all support a general theme, …read more

My wife and I are big fans of Dave Ramsey and his Total Money Makeover plan. He was recently in Indianapolis for one of his LIVE events and my wife was able to attend. While she was there she heard about a website called E-mealz.

The E-mealz website helps you take most of the time and hassle out of planning your meals for your family each week. The founders of E-mealz, Jenny Cochran and Jane DeLaney, started the E-mealz site to achieve a few goals for themselves and for busy moms and frugal family cooks everwhere:

Spend more time with your family
Save …read more

Looks like we’re on a bit of a theme here with websites related to pets so we’ll stay with it for a bit longer. Can’t help it as new pets and questions about pets have been proliferating through my discussions as of late. The Petsicon website is like WebMD.com except for your dog

Petsicon is still in beta, but after reading about it and browsing through the site, I’m surprised by the fact I’ve never stumbled across a site quite like it before. More Americans than ever are including pets into their families. More than half of all American households have …read more

Tonight we stopped by our local pet store to look for some new shells for our growing hermit crabs. It appears our house is becoming a haven for a variety of family pets as we’ve also gotten a new puppy this weekend as well. While I was at the pet store my desire to setup an aquarium in our house grew even stronger.

Not too long ago I uncovered the Aquatic Eden website while I was searching for something else. Can’t remember what it was, but it also reminded me of how much I really wanted a freshwater aquarium in my …read more

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