Clocks for your website

ClockLink From their websites "provides fashionable clocks that you can easily embed in your web page. All you need to do is simply paste the tag on your web page. Our clock will display the city name of your choice if you choose. You can also choose a time zone for your clock so it will show the correct time."

Free website monitoring service

Mon.itor.us is the only external website monitoring service which provides commercial grade distributed monitoring services absolutely for FREE."

Monitor.us service is free and there are no limits on the number of sites monitored. Get notifications via RSS feeds or email, performance reports and customizable metrics and a desktop workspace.

10 Funny Twitter Accounts You Should Be Following

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There are a lot of great uses for Twitter, but perhaps one of the best is as a source for humor. While there are plenty of funny comedians and actors on Twitter, some of the funniest accounts are by ordinary folks posing as famous people or fictional characters. So this list funny Twitter accounts takes in a big handful of these not-so-real accounts along with a few must-have humor accounts.

@TheOnion. We might as well start with the obvious. If you are a fan of satirical humor, there's no reason why you shouldn't be following The Onion. It's the quick and easy way to get your daily does of satire.
@FunnyOrDie. The brainchild of Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, FunnyOrDie might be the funniest website on the Internet, and their Twitter account makes it easy to follow their funniest videos.
@badbanana. And if we are going to make a list of funny Twitter accounts, we might as well include the perhaps the funniest person on Twitter. Tim Siedell might just want to give it all up and become a billionaire, but until someone offers him that job (and I applied for that position too!), we'll have his tweets to read.
@Stewie. Okay, enough with the real people and websites. If you want an occasional blast of fictional funny, Stewie is "working on ways to use Twitter for the whole world domination thing..."
@Broslife. nce you start following @Broslife, you'll be ready to star in your own sitcom called How I Met Barney Stinson on Twitter.
@Darthvader. First he brought peace to the galaxy, now he's bringing peace to Twitter. Thank goodness we have his dark benevolence watching over us!
@FrodoBaggins. Want to know what it was like to hang out with Gandalf? Want someone to end that longstanding debate on whether Gollum smells more like dead fish or burnt flesh? Let Frodo give you the inside scoop.
@Edgar_Allan_Poe. He's been dead for 161 years, but he can still correct your grammar in 140 characters or less.
@michael_bay. I'm pretty sure Michael Bay believes every star in Hollywood owes their fame to him and one of his short-on-story-but-long-on-explosions epics. Find out what he really thinks about the world.
@FatherKelly. Imagine you joined the priesthood and then a few decades later decided you might not have made the best decision, but it's a little too late for a career change. What would you do? Perhaps moan about it on Twitter.

And while we are on the subject of Twitter, you might as well visit historical tweets, which takes a look at what some of the most famous people in history might have tweeted.

All your mail in one place

Jump2Mail is a free web-based email retrieval application, check all your email-box from one central place - completely free, from any computer, anywhere in the world."

Jump2Mail also integrates other features, such as:

• Planning/Diary.- Reminder.
• Task Manager.
• Filtering Anti-Spam.
• Personal rules.
• Contact management System.
• Bookmark manager (in Ajax).
• RSS Reader (in Ajax).
• RSS Feed of the new malls (in progress).
• Available in 7 different languages.
• 5 different graphic topics.
  

Jump2Mail was is itch-scratch ware, created by a group of web developers to meet a need and now released for free for others to use.

Lyrics plugin for Windows Media Player or Winamp

The Lyrics Plugin is "an add-on to view lyrics in WinAmp or Windows Media Player. No more searching for lyrics. Just start listening to your favourite songs and lyrics will be displayed automatically. Oh, and if lyrics is not found, you can add it yourself :)"

Lyrics Plugin is malware, adware, spyware free and is currently in open beta.

Torpark Privacy Browser

Torpark is a small, portable, clean, open-source, free of spyware/adware, and free anonymous browsing solution.

"Download Torpark and put it on a USB Flash keychain. Plug it into any internet terminal whether at home, school, or public. Run Torpark.exe and it will launch a Tor circuit connection, which creates an encrypted tunnel from your computer indirectly to a Tor exit computer, allowing you to surf the internet anonymously."

Eight Ways to Quickly Resize Images

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Image resizing tools aren't just for people who don't have Photoshop, or the non tech savvy. I often take screen capture snippets for posting to this blog and if they exceed the width of my content area, I need to resize them. And I don't want to open up Photoshop (or another image program) to do it. Call me impatient or lazy or whatever, but that just seems like killing a fly with a hammer.

So, with that in mind, here are 8 ways to quickly resize images ...

My tool of choice:Windows XP Image Resizing Power Tool

Online Image Resizing Services:

Original Resizr

ResizR

Image Squash

pxn8

blibs

SnipShot

Use Photoshop an easier way:

Create a Photoshop Droplet to handle image resizing

Create a collage from a single photograph

Hockneyizer: Create a simulated collage from a single photograph - a couple of styles to chose from to create a unique photo presentation.