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

I see more and more efforts and opportunities to try and get smaller as the world around us gets overwhelmed with more and more information. For some reason as the world appears to get smaller in front of us, there’s a desire to get more in touch with what’s happening around us locally as well.

Outside.in is working on putting it all together for you. They want to let you know what’s happening, right where you are, right at this moment. It’s being all collected and packaged together in this "hyperlocal" goal.
If you’re a visitor to the site, you …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

Is it just me, or is it weird that there are so many NFL teams with either a 5-0 record or an 0-5 record. So much for the normal bell curve you’ve come to expect with sports teams.

This NFL season I’m stumbling around trying to figure out what I’m doing with four different fantasy football leagues. I’m doing fairly well in one league, and then bringing up the absolute rear with two of the other ones. I try to keep up with what’s going on with all the players, but with so many teams, I feel like I’m trying …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

What do you do when you want to subscribe to a magazine but you just can’t decide if you’re really going to like it for the full term of the subscription? What if your mood changes through the year and you always want something different to read?

The Maghound website is going to deliver exactly what you’ve been looking for in your reading material. They say it’s the magazine lover’s best friend, I say it’s for magazine lovers afraid of commitment.
The Maghound service lets you select 3 magazines and subscribe to them for $4.95/mnth. If at some point you decide you …read more

What’s the most popular song on the planet? The last time I think I heard the answer to this question it was "Happy Birthday to You". Makes sense when you think about it. What do you do though when you can’t think of the name of the song you just heard.

Now you can go to the Musipedia website and figure out what that song is that you just heard. Sure, if you had a new HD radio with iTunes tagging you could figure out what that song was, but you may not have an HD radio and may not want …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

"Dad… I’m bored!". "There’s nothing to do!" How many times have you heard those in your life? How many times have you said it yourself? I remember in college, I went to a small school in a small town, we’d sit in our dorm rooms and complain about not having anything to do.

The Goby website has brought Web 2.0 to choosing your own adventure.
The interface is simple to use, you just put in a keyword of what you want to do, where you want to do it and when you’d like it to happen. Clicking on "Search" then …read more