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Google today launched Lively which is a like a Second Life type world where you can create your own avatars, rooms and chat with your friends. Details of how to actually get started with it seem pretty skimpy at the moment, but one cool feature is that you can apparently watch Youtube videos in a [...]

If you’re like me, you’ll use an image editing application quite a lot - from removing red-eye from party photographs to cropping an image, rotating it or putting a border on it for your blog and so on.
It’s sometimes frustrating though, say if you’re at work and need to alter an image quickly or away [...]

I use Gmail for my e-mail, and think it’s great - it does everything (almost) that I could possibly want - access from my Mail client at my home, the web, and my ‘phone. That’s not why I like the video above though - I think it’s just a brilliant demonstration of how creative people [...]

Toodle pip! This is probably how my Mum wishes I look - very posh, and with the title of Viscount Upper Dundee! Monifieth probably would have sounded even better, but never mind.
See my posh twin in his full glory here, or make your own here! (It is a Burger King site advertising their new burger which [...]

I would have thought that I had pretty mainstream music tastes, but not according to this tool - I’m only 14.68% mainstream which is WAY cooler than like being 80% mainstream or something. It works using Last.fm which I’ve found to be a bit flakey in taking music submissions recently, but I’m hoping they’ll sort [...]

Most e-card sites like Hallmark.com are ok for generic happy birthday messages (although a real card is always better in my opinion!) but if you’re looking for e-cards with a bit of sarcasm and adult humour in them, check out someecards.com (some cards on the site are quite rude - disclaimer). The same categories as [...]

My favourite Photo sharing everything site, Flickr, has announced 24 hours of Flickr.
Basically, they’re asking everyone to join the relevant group and upload their best photo taken on that day (geo-tagged of course) and they will be considered for publication in a book. That may be the main incentive for taking part for some, but [...]

Not joined the social networking web phenomenon yet? I’m getting pretty fed up with Myspace - it’s the garish pages everyone seems to want to put together which either crashes your browser or makes it impossible to read the pages. Or maybe it’s the fact that half the time you try to log in you [...]

I used to get about 70 comment spams a day on this site - basically where spammers try and leave a comment with links to their sites (usually cheap generic drugs, used cars, or the obvious young scantily-clad women). It was extremely frustrating.
Then I found akismet which does a really good job of filtering out [...]

I was looking at Google Maps tonight (there’s a prize if you can guess what I was looking at) when I saw that massive Target sign. From way way up above you can still see it.
It’s obviously a Target store but I thought it was pretty neat that they bother painting a massive target on [...]