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

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

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 …read more

I’m going to geek out for a bit here and tell you all about a site that some of you may never use. I spent the majority of my day today troubleshooting a problem I was experiencing trying to get some reports to work on a website I’m working on for a client.

In searching for the answer to my problem online, I uncovered the Stack Overflow website. It’s completely free to join and there are questions and answers to just about any question the geeks around us might have to ask.
You can use the easy tagging functionality to quickly jump …read more

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

Prior to getting into consulting and technology development, I spent about a decade in the travel industry. I quickly moved into a technology role within travel so I became quickly interested in any new travel related technologies. To this day I still enjoy keeping tabs on some of the travel tools that are now available online.

The Dopplr website is a very interesting travel tool that doesn’t serve as a reservations assisting application, but is used more for sharing and interacting with your reservation after they’re booked. In addition, it also lets you share your travel plans easily with your …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

2009 will go down in history as the year everything at least seemed to change if it didn’t really change completely. It’s become a new world for many people with lots of change in a variety of areas. Perhaps the one thing that still remained the same is that the web is still almost central to much of what we do.

MediaWeek has released their 2009 Digital Hotlist that covers just what has been happening in the world of the web and technology.

Facebook – up from #2 on the list in 2008. This site is larger in population than most …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

My personal belief is that one of the best things about the whole social media and web 2.0 world of things is the interaction. It’s about connecting with people and interacting. It’s about sharing your thoughts without being forced to share anything else.

I was visiting a website today and wanted to leave a comment. The problem was I couldn’t leave a comment without creating an account and registering as a user for the website. I may never visit this site ever again in my life, why should I have to register and create an account just to leave a …read more