Waste Away @ These Sites Today! Vol. 1

Maxed out on DaxFlame videos and Chocolate Rain mashups over at YouTube and can't find anything to do on the web, think again! Here are some sites that you can waste a few hours of your life on:

Cameroid - A web cam app, that allows you to add special effects to live web cam shots, its pretty much like a web version of apple's photo booth. (web cam not included).

Viscosity - Modern art generator. Become the next Picasso without leaving your home.

Fake Photo - Yes you read that correctly, create your own fake photos. This site has a bunch of stock photos that are just waiting for you to add your own witty tag lines and crappy slogans .

Blabberize - Do yourself a favor and just click the link for this one.... you will be glad you did.

Instructables - Want to get rid of your old floppy disks? Instructables can help you with that and a lot more. User generated step by step instructions to make all kinds of stuff.

BubbleSnaps - Oh snap! It's bubble snaps, upload your own pictures and add talk bubbles to them.

Soundboards @ Ebaumsworld - This is more like the last resort if you have maxed out on the above links.

High Rez Wallpapers and more @ InterfaceLift

InterfaceLift.com was been around for some time now. They offer high resolution wallpapers up to 2560x1600. InterfaceLift's offerings don't end there, they also have mac icon sets, windows themes and many more interface enhancements. As of recently they have just offered high resolution iPhone wallpapers, check it out.

Your Music Anywhere You Can Get Web Axx

Mp3Tunes offers unlimited space to for your music for free, as long as each song is under 10 megs. Once your tracks are uploaded you can stream them to any computer with internet axx. You can upgrade $39.95 year for Premium features which includes unlimited file sizes and unlimited streaming (which leads me to think that streaming your tunes down the pipe is limited under the free account). Mp3Tunes also directs you to sites that offer music, one for free: sideload.com which finds music that is already posted on the internet and adds it to your "music locker" and the other site Mp3Tunes/store allows you to buy DRM free indie tracks for 88 cents.

Windows Live (Beta)

I don't know which is lamer, Microsoft copying Google's Personalized Home page or copying Google's (Beta) tag on every new project. Mircrosoft has started Windows Live @ www.Live.com
which is a nicer looking (remember its all about the packaging at Mircosoft) Google Personalized start page; which can read multiple rss feeds, check your mail and weather but don't forget it can also search! This is too little too late on Mircosoft's part, what's next? Mircosoft Video.com?

Why the time to get a gmail account is now!

Google has announced that in the upcoming weeks they will be making some big improvements with gmail, like including Google talk features within gmail. Some clues to what they are going to be doing can be found here. It looks like instant messaging on the same web page that you are composing an email on will become reality in your future.

iPod Wizard *dot* Net

iPodWizard.net is home to the Ipod wizard app (which allows you to hack the firmware of the ipod) and 1,000s of ipod users that enjoy hacking their ipods. IPW (iPodWizard) forums are a hot bed for new iPod ideas, from new menu icons to completely new user interfaces. If you own an ipod this is a place to definitely check out.

Anonymouse web surfing

I dunno you might find this usefull, i find it funny.

Many mice surf the web under the illusion that their actions are private and anonymous.
Unfortunately, it isn't so. Every time you visit a site for a piece of cheese, you leave a
calling card that reveals where you're coming from, what kind of computer you have,
and other details. And many cats keep logs of all your visits, so that they can catch you!
This service allows you to surf the web without revealing any personal information.
anonymouse.org

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Google Reader

Googles RSS reader just launched, havent tryed it out yet, but since its google its gotta be good.

Peerflix Launches P2P DVD Sharing Service

Dotnaught writes "Peerflix has offically launched, ending a 12 month beta test. The company manages the peer-to-peer trading of physical DVDs (with CDs and videogames coming soon) by mail. As the article in InformationWeek suggests, while such trades may be legal under the first-sale doctrine of U.S. Copyright Act, content owners won't be pleased -- discs are easy to copy and there's ample precedent to suggest users will dupe discs before trading them."