Fun Keyboards!

Anything bright and colorful, I like! This is not the most professional keyboard, but it sure is fun for home use! :) I wish I could buy BLACK stickers for some of my students that do not know their keys....that way they wouldn't be able to LOOK while they were typing! The glow-in-the-dark stickers are cool for those of you who work late at night. Also, there are laptop skins available. Explore the website, and see all of the keyboard options.....http://funkeyboards.com/ PS....I love the zebra print!

I TYPE faster!!!! :)

For all of you Facebook users, you must try Typing Maniac! Typing Maniac is a very challenging game that will help you build your speed and accuracy in typing. Compete against your Facebook "friends". I am super addicted!! Try it out!! :)

Splashup.com

If you want to edit photos, but simply cannot afford to buy Adobe Photoshop, try http://www.splashup.com/. The website isFREE, and you can edit images online with this easy, powerful tool. Splashup can also be integrated with Facebook, Photobucket, and other online applications. You can use layers, brushes, text, color editing, cropping, etc...

I am in HEAVEN!!!!

This morning, a co-worker shared her love for fonts with me. She saw an invitation that I created, and she said "I love that Scriptina font!"..... I immediately knew she was my best friend! haha :) Not too often can I find someone to chat about FONTS with!

So, she told me about her favorite free fonts website: http://www.kevinandamanda.com/fonts/ ....and I thought I died and went to heaven! Especially when I saw a button that said "Download ALL". So, in 2 seconds, I downloaded 363 beautiful, funky, sweet, and unique handwritten fonts. Ahhhh....love this site!!! Please go download some fonts for yourself!!! I have already got my next project in mind.

File Manager

https://www.getdropbox.com/

A friend told me about Dropbox this morning. I downloaded it, and it looks pretty spiffy! :)

After downloading it to your computer, it created a "folder" called Dropbox to my C: drive. Here I can save a backup of my files, that can be accessed from any computer! wow! Instead of using a jump drive, back and forth between computers, I can access all of my files through this one website. You get 2 GB of free space, and as you refer people to the website, they build your space. There are plenty of tutorials that take you step-by-step through the process. Try it out!

Language Classes

I have always wanted to learn a foreign language, but didn't have much sucess with Spanish in high school! :) My daughter is in 2nd grade, and has been learning Spanish for 3 years now! And as you all know, the Hispanic poplulation is the fastest growing. It is imperative that we learn some type of foreign language in order to be sucessful communicators! Here, you can find free online language classes: Free Online Language classes

I am thinking Hebrew would be fun....hmm, or maybe Chinese! I do have quite a few Chinese friends that I could communicate with. :)

Great Website!!

Well school started three weeks ago, and it has been crazy busy! But I did want to take a minute to tell you about the website, Family Watch Dog. http://www.familywatchdog.us/Default.asp With so much on the news about child abductions, I wanted you to be aware of what is going on in your community! There are 8 child rapists in my community, and it is odd to look at the map and see how they like to migrate around the schools/parks! You can even look at pictures on this website of each offender...what a great website! Just a little statistic....The typical sexual predator will assault 117 times before being caught. WOW! Please be aware.

Personalized Stamps!

I am loving these personalized stamps!! What a great idea for a birthday, or Christmas present! I think I may put them on my Christmas cards this year! They even have collegiate stamps for all of you football fans! Upload your family photo for a personalized stamp that is as unique as your family! http://photo.stamps.com/Store/

The stamps are about $18.99 for 20 stamps in case you are wondering... I would use them only for special occasions! ha :)

Picasa!

Google offers a wonderful program called Picasa, which allows you to manage your photos. It helps me find images that I saved years ago! I also love it because you can do simple editing, and create AWESOME desktop backgrounds. I just created a mosaic of my family, friends, and funky random images for my background. (see below) Again, this is another FREE program!! http://picasa.google.com/

School is just right around the corner..... YAY!!! :)

Photo Fun!

Free website once again to make your pictures FUN without buying PrIcEy software!

Go to http://www.befunky.com/ to try it out!

Summer is here!

Summer is here, and I hope it is a wonderful one for you! I will be extremely busy this summer with my comps at USM, and a summer project that I am working on. You will probably not see much of me, if any, on my blog. See you in the fall! :)

Linkedin.com

http://www.linkedin.com/ -- This is a neat website that I stumbled upon today. It looks like a great networking website that could possibly lead to a job. Unlike Facebook and MySpace, this website is strickly professional.