If you want to make your listening experience even more...

As you know matching what you drink with what you are eating can enhance the experience. The same is with the music that you are listening to. This is where Drinkify comes into place. You can put in the artist that you are listening and get a recommendation on what you should be drinking with it. Check it out....

having one of those days?

When you just need something to make it 'all ok'?

Then this is probably the right place for you to go....

Insight into the universe

Copyright 2012. Magnifying the Universe by Number Sleuth.

Watching the wind

This site is wicked cool and can suck a lot of time out of your day. It gives a sweet representation of what the wind flow across the United States looks like. Check it out!

Online journal that does your work

This is an interesting concept, the site will email you and ask how things are going and then take your responses together and compile them into a journal. And it is free!

Check it out here.

What is going on with Twitter?

A great breakdown of recent info and where Twitter is @ in 2012:

Link from Holy Kaw

Want something done? Got $5?

This is an interesting hub of people willing to do things for $5. While I will admit I haven't checked or tried any of these things - it is an interesting site and concept!

Nice breakdown to help make sense of social media

Want to waste an afternoon?

Just start dragging your mouse around this site. Soon your day will be gone, but in a really cool way.....

Some background on CAPTCHA

You know those squiggly words that you have to input? Here is some background about it and how it works and what is it being used for.

Great experience: Warby Parker

I was in need of getting my eyes checked, and when you have that done, it is also a good time to get some new glasses. The reason is that the eye check is really annoying so it is nice to 'get' something out of it.

I had heard about Warby Parker awhile ago and was going to give them the first chance in buying some new frames. Partly because of the price ($94 for frames and lenses) but mostly because of the one-for-one where when you purchase a pair of glasses they give a pair to a person in need. Which is awesome!

The Warby Parker site attempts to make purchasing something such as glasses via the web as painless as possible. There is a virtual try-on where you can take an image of your head and virtually try on glasses to see how they look. They also have a free home try-on. I picked 5 different frame shapes and sizes and placed my try-on order. In 2 days the box was at my front door.

The frames are nestled in a really nice black case and ready for you to try on and get opinions from friends and family. Most of the frames that I picked for my first try-on tended to be on the large size, and while they were pretty cool frames, I wasn't ready to jump to such a larger size. So I returned the first order and selected 5 more frames. This second batch again showed up quickly and there were several great frames that I really had to choose from. 

The choice was tough, but there was one frame that when I put it on, it made me feel kind of like a scientist for NASA in the 60's. So I went for those. After getting my prescription I placed the order. Because I have really crappy eyesight I went for the micro-lenses. 

The order arrived in less then a week. The best thing I can say is that these are amazing glasses and the Warby Parker customer service is amazing. Being a newbie around ordering glasses and not wanting to mess this up I asked a lot of questions via email and also called a couple of times, and they were very kind, prompt and helpful. 

So here they are, the new frames:

If you are in need of glasses, I would strongly recommend Warby Parker. You will be doing something good as well as looking good in your new specs! 

Get even more from Google

Created by: HackCollege
 Link from Mashable

The history of search

From the 'god' of search - Google. In just 6 minutes.

 

More info here

Are you an average Facebook user?

From Mashable

Buy something and do something good

This is a great mashup of all things Steve Jobs and also raising money for cancer research. At this site, when you buy something that was mentioned in the Steve Jobs biography, the profits go to cancer research. Love the idea, and the options. Check it out!

Things change - must be quick not sticky

It is interesting how things change over time. When I first started working with websites the mantra was that your site had to be 'sticky' you wanted to hold the user's attention as long as you could in order to try and 'sell' them more information, stuff, or display more ads. This is why so many sites break articles up into multiple pages and other tricks to force the user to see more ads.

However technology has changed how we interact with digital information. Individuals are more likely to be accessing information via mobile devices and have no patience for slowness or delay tactics. We want information fast and we want it now.

This means that the way that success is measured must also change. No longer is success to hold captive an individual, but you must have something worthwhile for that individual to return over and over.

Ultimately, it comes down to having something of interest that people want to find out more about it or want to continue to engage with it.

To read the full report click here.

New layouts for Blogger

It seems sometimes that Blogger tends to lag behind WordPress a little bit in being able to do different things to customize your blog. However when they introduced the Template editor and the easy ways to upload your own backgrounds and tweak your layouts, it really improved Blogger as the easy to use, but really powerful blogging solution. Now with the release of the new layouts on Blogger, this has moved to even greater hights. I love the different ways that you are able to display your content and allow your readers the ability to 'play' with the layout as well. You can read more about the new layouts here.
Or watch this:


There aren't any abilities to tweak the default settings on the new layout, but as they have just been released, I am sure that more updates will be following.

Social Super Heroes

More information here @ Bit Rebels

Twitter a waste of time?

Here is a look at if that might be the case....

Full story @ problogger

Simple video games

This is one of many images that come from classic video games. For more minimalism looks at games check out the full listing here.