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Color me crazy - 10 best online color tools
If you're tackling some graphic design project or maybe even your wall decor, getting color hints from ready made color templates from professional designers can be useful. Below are 10 of the better...
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Vote the site - vote for your favorite political website
If you're not sick of the campaign open season yet, and need some way to show some love for your candidate's website, VotetheSite might be for you. Okay, officially you're supposed to vote on which...
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3 photo sharing sites for your new shutterbug - Holiday Gift Guide
If you know someone on your gift list is getting a camera or is a new shutterbug, you might want to consider getting them a "pro" photo sharing account where they can upload all their new photos. This...
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Plinky - inspired content in the eye of the beholder
Sometimes you're on a roll and the words flow forth effortlessly on the page, while at other times you're struck with the agony of having zero to say. Writer's block occurs sometimes and Plinky is...
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Thymer - easy web based project management
Thymer is an absurdly simple web based project management tool. Thymer's approach is unique in that you can literally start using the system immediately without having to learn a complex project...
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Google Reader - new tools to share and save as PDF
Google Reader has released some useful features to help you share stories to your favorite social networks. Also, thanks to the folks at Digital Inspiration, there's a nifty tool where you can save a...
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Google Reader - Send To buttons for Instapaper and Evernote
One of our favorite people evar, Jordan Running, former lead blogger at Download Squad sent us this great tip as a follow up to yesterday's Google Reader post about sharing stories to social networks...
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Online tools to fight the freshman 20 - Back to School
Off to college and dreading the inevitable 20 pounds or so of fat that comes with drinking binges, lack of exercise, all you can eat dorm food and late night snacks? Hate the thought of not being able...
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Carbonmade - free online portfolio for designers
Carbonmade is a online site where designers can show their work in a ready made online portfolio. The site is easy to get around and perfect for designers who don't care to manage their own domain and...
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Fast fix - block your *unwanted* contacts from Google Chat
If you're like me, there may be several contacts that appear in your Google chat that you probably would never dream of emailing again, let alone having a late night chat with. Well the good news is...
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Invisible Hand - Firefox add on to help you find sweet deals
Trolling around on the web for the best deal is tedious and time consuming. Invisible Hand, an add on for Firefox notifies you of better prices on items you are searching on the web with a discreet...
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David Lynch's Interview Project blog launches Oct. 20
Interview Project by David Lynch is an online series of interviews with Americans from different walks of life, in various towns and cities all over America. Beginning October 20, the project will...
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Shopping for Windows 7? Score it free or heavily discounted
So you got your party hat on and want to buy Windows 7 but don't feel like shelling out $119.99 - $319.99 for the various editions upgrade or full version? Well, we made life a little easier for you...
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Amawaitin - Amazon bargain shopper's tool
You know how you feel when you miss a sale on an item you were definitely going to buy, but now the price has gone up and you feel like you've been robbed? Yeh, I hate it when that happens. Amawaitin...
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PDFAmigo - quick, fillable pdf creator in your browser
If you're in need of a quick pdf form creator and don't want to dig in your wallet too deep, PDFAmigo might be a good option for you. Running from your browser, PDFAmigo allows you to create enhanced...
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Share unlimited media files for free with Libox
Libox got my attention with free and unlimited - as in unlimited - media sharing. It's a new beta desktop application that allows you to share all your photos, videos and music with your friends and...
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Track Black Friday prices with Invisible Hand add on for Firefox
We've covered Invisible Hand, the discreet shopping comparison add on for Firefox, which displays prices on items you are searching on the web. Just in time for Black Friday, the hand has trotted out...
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Now finally available - ubiquitous media sharing with Orb for Mac
It was pretty exciting news at Download Squad to hear Orb, the "sort of software version of Slingbox," was available for Mac. Orb allows you to broadcast your media to any device that has a web...
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Gift Guide: get 50 photo holiday cards for free
Since we're all looking for ways to save money for the holidays, you might want to take advantage of this limited time offer from SeeHere.com where you can buy 50 (4x8) or 50 (5x7) photo holiday cards...
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5 ways to save money with an iPhone
On 12/28 I am eligible to switch phones and am rationalizing an iPhone purchase, which is all the more difficult as I just read David Ramsey's Total Money Makeover. The book advocates saving money and...
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Framed! - nice iphone app boredom buster
Framed! is a fun photo app for iPhone/iPod touch that allows you to drop your photos in 34 different scenes such as taxi billboard, album cover, wanted poster, cereal box, TV, etc. After you select the...
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Wantzit - an online wish list you might actually use
As you're thinking about all the holiday goodies you're yearning to get your hands on, Wantzit is a super easy online wish list that lets you share your heart's desires with del.icio.us, Facebook,...
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The last full day for free super saver shipping!
If you can muster the time to get your online shopping done today, you'll be among the last to take advantage of free super saver shipping from Amazon this holiday season; the same goes for many other...
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Who needs shipping? 14 online sites where you can get great gifts
Don't want to spend more on shipping your gifts to arrive before Christmas than they're actually worth? Don't worry, there are lots of online sites where you can give some super gifts via download...
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Firefox add-on lets you edit and save your website form input
Dissociated Press turned me onto It's all text!, a nice Firefox add-on that allows you to edit text on web pages using your text editor of choice. This comes in handy when you want to leave comments or...
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Should Americans go on a data diet?
This graphic by Rob Vargas represents the 34 gigs of information the average American consumes in one day -- or 3.6 zettabytes for all Americans collectively per day. For reference, 1 zettabyte is...
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Payvment lets you launch a storefront on Facebook
Finally, beyond the sale of virtual gifts like hugs and angel wings, Facebook has an app that allows you to open an ecommerce storefront via Payvment. Introduced in November 2009, Payvment uses a...
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E-book buyer's privacy guide - reading isn't solo anymore
The digital footprints we leave as we move along in our daily lives are pretty astonishing. As our lives are transformed by the convenience technology provides, the price we pay is the privacy we give...
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Send a real gift to your valentine on Facebook
If sending virtual gifts like hearts, flowers and smiles on Facebook isn't your bag, you can send the real deal via RealGifts, a Facebook app that allows you to purchase real items and send them to...
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1DayLater - simple as it gets time, mileage and expense tracker
If you're in the market for a simple, easy project/time tracker tool to help you manage expense reports and invoicing, 1DayLater is a simple online tool that does the basics. Currently in beta, this...
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The key to going viral
What's the magic sauce that makes something go viral on the internet? Why do some things end up being more viral than others? Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania tackled this question by...
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Happy 20th birthday, Photoshop!
It's hard to picture life before Photoshop, but yes, some 20 years ago, Photoshop did not exist and photo manipulation was a matter of darkroom editing techniques and using complex sequences such as...
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FillAnyPdf makes it easy to share forms and collect data online
FillAnyPDF is a free online, SSL encrypted PDF form editor that allows you to upload your PDF form so that others can fill it out and even sign it online. While it's marketed as a replacement option...
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137 years of Popular Science Magazine now online
A special shout out to our tipster @RussHogg who told us the entire 137 year archive of Popular Science Magazine is now available for online free browsing. You can view the entire collection's issues...
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Payvment adds special fan pricing to Facebook storefronts
Payvment, the e-commerce app that allows you to add a PayPal shopping cart to your website and launch a Facebook storefront, announced a new feature for its Facebook app. Retailers can now offer...
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Stardust@Home is a Time Waster with real astronomical significance
Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to search for interstellar dust particles. They're the tiny particles that measure only a few microns (one millionth of a meter) in diameter and hail from...
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LinkedIn recommendations based on fact or fiction?
Our esteemed editor emeritus, Grant Robertson, tipped us to a not so well-known security breach at LinkedIn that allows you to re-engineer your work history to reflect, well whatever you want it to....
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Google now integrating its own Google Health service into your search results
Thanks to a tip from Stuart we learned Google Health is now being integrated into health search results. For instance, if you Google search "hay fever," the top search result is Google Health. The...
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Notable is a polished website feedback tool for teams
If you're part of the development team for a website project, it's important to keep tabs with all parties involved. It's necessary to get everyone's input, track progress to date, and synthesize the...
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Bounce is a dead-simple way to share notes on websites
The folks at ZURB have just released Bounce, a nice little tool which lets you take notes on websites and then share the URL with friends or colleagues. Bounce is basically a dressed down version of...
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