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IToW 3

Posted on September 23rd, 2007 in IToW by Freedom1378

Name That Color
Great mini web-app that aids in color based stuff. Get the specific name for that hex number or vice versa.

Lifehacker Top 10 Back to School Tools for the Organized Student
Great list that’s at least worth a look through.

Software for Starving Students
Absolutely fantastic list of free/open source software for any person. Definitely worth the input on my *amazing* site. [Note: It’s not just a list of programs. The file that you download will be a close to 600 MB file that’s either an .iso or .dmg file [Windows or Mac respectivel] Click on this link for instructions on how to burn it onto a CD or if you know me personally, contact me so I can burn the disc for you]

The 10 Best Foods You Aren’t Eating
For all those “zomg I must eat healthy!” people. Here’s a list of foods you might not have heard of to add to your collection.

Napkin Folding Instructions
You know those times when you’re at a fancy restaurant and always marvel the folded napkins? Well here are visual instructions on how some of the more popular/common ones are folded.

How to Crack a “Master Lock” Combination Lock
This is one of those skills that’s useful if you tend to forget your lock combination at work or at the gym. or if you like showing off. Otherwise, it’s pretty complicated.

10 Tips for Saving Money in College
Some of the tips are tips that are always told, some are things that you may have overlooked. Worth at least a glance over.

HOWTO: Jump Start Your Credit History While You’re Young in Five Easy Steps
Totally worth a read. Written in the Mint blog. Mint is a financial organization web app that I might find very useful when I get a credit card.

Man in China Dies After a Three Day Internet Session
Ok. WTF. is all I have to say.

Take a Walk That Will Reboot Your Brain
Just another article stating how taking a walk [even if it’s just a short walk] can be beneficial. But it’s a nice article nonetheless.

iLEVL
For the first time, I’m highlighting an actual “thing” that is on the web for purchase. This is the iLEVL. It’s a simple concept that turns out to be extremely useful. Using the magnet on the side of the iMac, iLEVL will hold up documents for easy viewing for duplicating, revising [comments on a hard copy that would be transfered for the final draft], or simply for viewing right next to your iMac. Interesting concept, product currently not for sale yet?

How to Procrastinate More Productively
Featuring a new site that I will start to frequent to check for new entries, LifeClever. Article name is self-explanatory and it’s a good read.

IToW 2 and then some

Posted on September 1st, 2007 in IToW, Blog by Freedom1378

ok, I really dont know which IToW I’m on exactly so I’ll just start over [IToW X would be 1].

Comcast Throttles BitTorrent Traffic, Seeding Impossible
Comcast decides “hey, no BitTorrent [even legal torrenting] for you!”

Eat a Lunch That Keeps You Productive All Afternoon
Self explanatory.

Sleepy? Cut out late-night Internet and TV
The Japanese conducts an experiment on the relation of late night Internet/TV and sleepiness. Silly Japanese people. Where would they be without late night Internet and TV :D [HAAARDU GEI DESUUU!]

18 Overlooked Things Everyone Should Bring to College
For all you college people going to. Oh wait, a bit late. But think about this list and see if you might need anything.

25 Tips to Becoming More Productive and Being Happy at Work
Self-explanatory.

SkreemR
This site has already been featured in Lifehacker and Downloadsquad.com so I decided to put it on here since it’s new. A search tool to find MP3s on the web. Put in the artist or the song title and up pops a list [if there are any] of links that link right to the MP3.

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Ok real post time. So school is really coming up soon. We’re gonna be seniors. It doesn’t feel like it. And I only read like half of the Canterbury Tales. Ghey. … That’s all I really gotta say until school starts :)

1st Semester

Psychology
Intro to Astronomy
GT English 12
Latin 1

2nd Semester

Japanese 2
Visual C++
Hon Physics
Calculus 1

IToW X

Posted on August 22nd, 2007 in IToW by Freedom1378

oh man, X! It’s like… mysterious! Ok whatever. I’m FINALLY going to update this thing because I’m sick of delaying it further.. .plus I have a gazillion links to sharrre. I checked Digg to see if there were any more recent things, but I got nothing. [Mind you that I started collecting these links like last month, so some of these links you may have already seen. whatever]

The Cheapest Days to Buy Certain Items
SmartMoney.com posted an article outlining which days would be the best days to go shopping for certain items or going out to eat.

Default Password Lists for Wireless Routers
A ginormous list of possibly every single wireless router’s default username and password. I don’t have any use for this… but for anyone else that does!

Periodic Table of the Internet
Just a table of the Internet’s most popular sites all “organized” in a reasonable fashion. I got a few laughs out of this.

Learning Style Survey
A survey used to determine your style of learning. I’ve taken similar surveys before and got the same or similar result. Tips are given at the end to help studying habits.

Getting Exceptional Service, Without Paying for it
Lifehack.org gives tips on how to get better customer service by doing little things that count. Having worked in a customer relation sort of job *ahem* I find that most of these tips really do help. Nice people make the job so much more fun, and you tend to give them better service.

The Best 80 Photoshop Text Effects on the Web
Self-explanatory. Helps if you have Photoshop. I’ve tested some of them and think they’re fantastic. It’s a nice place to go to if you need some inspiration.

Laser Flashlight Hack
From Instructables: Hack a flashlight and a DVD burner and make a makeshift laser.

How to Lucid Dream
WikiHow has a … wiki article with instructions on how to lucid dream. “The most basic definition of lucid dreaming defines it as ‘being aware you are dreaming while dreaming.’ ”

Hide Your E-mail Address from Spam Bots
From Wired. Really only useful for website owners. Sorry. Lists various ways to cleverly hiding your e-mail address from spam bots using techniques such as flash.

Free Stock Photos and Textures
A database of stock photos free for use on personal and commercial works. Each photo is at least 2400 x 1600.

Best Mac Software
Having been a proud owner of an iMac for a little over half a year now, I found a majority of the listed software on this page to be essential for Macs. There is also a link on that page for Open Source programs for Windows XP and Vista and OS X.

Overclock Your Audio Learning
Useful for college students who record their lectures or who listen to podcasts or anything of the sort. All that’s required is a media player that supports uh. making the audio file go faster.

Tips for Keeping the Peace
10 nice tips to being a good peer mediator or simply keeping an argument from going out of control. Worth a skimming at least.

Top 9 Fitness Myths — Busted!
Self-explanatory. Interesting read.

College and University Directory
A bit late for us, but lists a load of information about specific colleges/universities. Helpful if you’re still like me and haven’t reallly narrowed it down yet :)
And there you have it! IToW X! *BLAH* That was long…