Games for the Brain

These will keep you busy!!!

• Games for the Brain: Play never ending quiz, memory & brain games to train your thinking.
• Brain Games - Fun Games That Train Your Mind: Give your brain a workout by playing fun games that sharpen your mind.
  
• BrainBashers : Puzzles and Brain Teasers: Brain teasers, puzzles, online games, optical illusions and jigsaws.
• Brain Games & Brain Training - Lumosity: Improve memory and attention with scientific brain games.
• Braingle: Brain Teasers, Puzzles, Riddles, Trivia and Games: User submitted and ranked brain teasers, riddles, quizzes, trivia, logic problems and mind puzzles. Free online games and message boards.
  
• Brain Games | Fun Brain Game | Games for the Brain: Fun brain games for brain development. Play games for the brain free. Find a fun brain game to improve memory, math, logic.
  
• Brain Games: Which of the brain games is your favorite? Which is the easiest? Which game is so hard you vowed never to play it again? Do you feel smarter already?
  
• Neuroscience For Kids - brain games: Interactive games to help you learn about the brain and nervous system. 
• Brain Games: Play Free Puzzle Games Online, Free Puzzles: Play free online brain games and puzzles. Free puzzle games and brain games that make you smarter.

Slim Down Your New Computer

SlimComputer helps identify software that comes pre-installed on a new computer. If you've ever gotten a new PC and it came loaded with promotional programs, toolbars, links to advertising or trial offers, then you know how frustrating these things can be.

Also see my previous blogs on the subject. 

Five tips for getting rid of crapware 

Five Tips: Get Rid of Bloatware

Himalayan Odyssey

For decades, mountaineers have tested their wits and strength against the tallest Himalayan peaks. This spring, three friends will ditch the crampons and ice axes to relieve their summit fever in a new way: flying under the aid of thermal-powered paragliding wings.

You can track Himalayan Odyssey 2010 pilots through their SPOT Satellite Messenger devices. Click on the pilots to see their current position.

BooksShouldBeFree.com

Your source for free audio books. Download one in mp3, iPod and iTunes format today. This Web site collects and distributes public domain audio books. There is a vast selection, including many classics and childrens books. You can search by book title or category. Each book has a short preview.

Where the Locals Eat

A Guide to the Best Restaurants in America

How do we choose our restaurants? We gather opinions of critics and local media, trusted friends, site visitors, and bloggers - emphasizing locally owned favorites rather than chains. We do the research for you. So, if you see a restaurant listed on Where The Locals Eat, you know it's good!

Paris 26 Gigapixels: world largest image!

This image measures 26 gigapixels - over 2,000 times more than an ordinary digital photo. It is is a wide-angle shot of the entire city of Paris. It looks normal until it zooms in . It is a stitching of 2346 single photographs showing a super-high-resolution panoramic view of the French capital. Best viewed in Full Screen  and high definition.

Are Computer Keyboards Dishwasher Safe?

Studies show that computer keyboards have more bacteria than toilet seats. But it's hard to clean all those keys. So some people advocate an extreme solution: Throw your keyboard in your dishwasher. 

Yapta: Track flight prices and check for airline refunds

Track flight prices BEFORE you buy

Yapta email alerts let you know when prices drop and when to buy to save money on airfare.

Get airline refunds AFTER you buy

If the price of your flight drops below what you paid, Yapta helps you get a refund for the difference.

The Future of Parking

Parking can be a real hassle, whether you're fumbling for change for the meter or just trying to find an empty spot. Watch this video to see the future of parking.

Shutdown your PC automatically or remotely from any computer or mobile phone

Switch Off is a lightweight easy-to-use tray-based system utility that could automatically shutdown, suspend or hibernate your system. This could cut your electricity bills and save the Environment by lowering your PC power consumption. It could also disconnect dial-up and VPN connections to cut your internet service bills as well. Build-in operation set could be easily extended by adding your own scripts. Automation options allows you to schedule all operations daily, weekly, past specified time or when PC becomes idle.

Reported Cyberfraud Losses Double in 2009: FBI

Click below for the entire story:

 

(Reuters) - Reported losses from Internet fraud more than doubled in 2009, with scams that falsely used the FBI's name generating the most complaints, the law enforcement agency said on Friday.

DeskTube - The Desktop YouTube Application

Lights, camera, action- watch it NOW with DeskTube! DeskTube is the latest and greatest video application that allows you to search YouTube videos, video chat with friends, record video, and access social media sites like Facebook and Twitter all with just one click. 

4 WAY VIDEO CHAT

Start chatting with up to 3 friends today
Best of all, it's completely free!

PhotoWipe

PhotoWipe is a revolutionary image processing tool that magically removes unwanted objects from your photos. Just paint over them in black, and click go! Uncovers hidden details in your photos. Sit back and watch as cage bars disappear from the zoo, and your old girlfriend or boyfriend fades away. It removes wrinkles, or it can remove entire facial features.

Ninite Easy PC Setup - Silient Unattended Install Multiple Programs at Once

Ninite installs software fast with default settings and says "no" to browser toolbars and other junk. Ninite checks your PC's language and 64-bit support to install the latest, best version of each program. Ninite runs on Windows XP/Vista/7 and works in the background unattended and 100% hands-free. All Ninite does is automatically download and install the apps you select. Not even Ninite is installed. 

 Ninite

Sweet Home 3D

Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application that helps you place your furniture on a house 2D plan, with a 3D preview. You may download Sweet Home 3D to install it on your computer and/or use it online within your browser.

 Click below

Around the World in 80 Dishes

Eight Great Digital Cameras Under $200

The Photo Marketing Association show (PMA), wrapped up last week, and we got a good look at the cameras that will hit stores later this year. Honestly, though, when it comes to compact point-and-shoot cameras at PMA, there wasn't a lot to report. It's the perfect example of a category of products that's mature enough that you don't need the newest model on the market to enjoy a solid shooting experience—especially if you're a casual photographer. Read more...

Download all of National Geographic's wallpapers with just one click

National Geographic is one of the largest non-profit scientific and educational institutions in the world.Over the years, it has also been a great source of amazing photos and wallpapers that mesmerized people from around the globe.

Some of the most beautiful wallpapers have been placed online, on the National Geographic website, but due to their large number, downloading them has been a problem until now.

With NatGeo Wallpaper Downloader you can download over 5000 National Geographic wallpapers with just one click.

How to Delete a Friend on Facebook.

Inevitably there will be someone on Facebook with whom you do not wish to communicate

• Open your Facebook profile.
• In the upper right-hand corner, click Account>>Privacy Settings.
• Go to the Block List heading. Enter your "friend's" name and click the Block button. That person will now be deleted from your profile
• To report your former friend to Facebook click Report/Block link.
• The administrators at Facebook will review your report. In extreme situations, they can ban the user.
• If your friend is sending you too many messages click Hide>>Hide Friend.

This does not help when someone has your e-mail address. 

How to keep them from getting it

You can't delete your e-mail address completely. But you can hide it from everyone. 

• Click Account>>Privacy Settings in the upper right-hand of your profile.
  
• Go to Contact Information.
  
• At the bottom of the page, you will see your e-mail address.
  
• The box next to your e-mail contains your privacy setting. Choose who will see your e-mail address in your profile. 
• Set this to Only Friends.
• Select Customize in the privacy settings.
• You will see the Custom Privacy box.
• Select the people who you want to be able to see your e-mail.
• Select people whom you do not want to see your e-mail.
• You can always set it to Only Me. If you are not comfortable giving your email address to Facebook, give them a different e-mail address.
• Create a new e-mail with any free service, like G-mail, Yahoo!, Hotmail, etc.
• In Facebook, go to Account>>Account Settings.
• Click on the E-mail heading.
• Enter your new e-mail address and click Add.

You can now remove your original e-mail address. Use your new e-mail address to sign-in. The people who used your old address will still have it. In order to cure that you'd have to drop that old address completely.

Consumersearch

ConsumerSearch.com is a website that helps users find answers about what products are top-rated or best bets in their class. Our mission is to reduce the time it takes readers to make an intelligent purchase.

 

 

 

How Stuff Works - Learn How Everything Works

HowStuffWorks explains hundreds of subjects, from car engines to lock-picking to ESP, using clear language and tons of illustrations.

Kashless - Give and Get Free Stuff

Who doesn't love free stuff? Kashless is a membership community of your neighbors all giving and getting free stuff in your area. We have thousands of items in your neighborhood from free bikes to free couches. Give Stuff. Get Stuff. Get rewarded. 

Kashless - Give and Get Free Stuff

Check your area at the web site

Groupon - Coupons, Discounts

Every day this site features a product or service at a discounted price.One ridiculously huge coupon each day, on the best things to eat, see, do and buy in Detroit. (Groupon has deals in almost every major U.S. city. There is a catch. You get that deal only if enough people sign up for it.

Clicker.com - Watch TV and Movies Online

What is Clicker?

Clicker is the complete guide to Internet Television. Our mission is to make it simple for you to find the right show, right now.

Instapaper

How it works

Instapaper gives you a Read Later bookmark.

1. When you find something you want to read, but you don't have time, click: Read Later.
2. Come back when you have time, or read your articles on the go.

  Register for a free account to get started.

Books: Computer Help For Seniors

Amazon is a good, reliable source for books. They often have used books at substantial savings.

Amazon results for computer help for seniors

 

Eight Great Digital Cameras Under $200

Scores of new digital cameras will hit store shelves in the coming months, but now is the time to scoop up a deal on a top-rated camera you can get today. Click on cameras below.

MedHelp - Pill Identifier

How it Works
Describe the pill by appearance
Know the pill color?
Know the pill shape?
Any visible markings?

 Pill Finder 

Voyij.com - The Best Vacation Deals

Designed for the flexible traveler who is looking for the best and most comprehensive travel deals, specials, sales and promotions on the web to the most popular destinations, Voyij takes the pain out of searching for you. By aggregating exclusively the best deals and sales on the web from hundreds of partners and bringing them to you under one roof, Voyij is the first site that allows you to discover travel deals and sales you didn't know existed or search for the best deals by the criteria you choose.

Seagate FreeAgent Go 500GB

The Seagate FreeAgent Go is a great portable hard drive with its 500GB capacity, innovative dock, simple design, generous five-year warranty and included software. It gives you just about all you need from a portable external drive—most important, an easy backup solution.

List Price: $239.99
Sale Price: $99.99 at Newegg (in blue).
Savings: $140 (about 58 percent)  

I removed the slide show because the music was annoying! Click below for more details:

How to Buy an External Hard Drive

External hard drives promise almost unlimited storage: for under $100, you can add a terabyte of data to your PC or Mac, portable or desktop. That's enough for over 750,000 MP3s or photos, or over 230 DVD-sized movies. Every computer out there, including compact nettops and netbooks, can connect to at least one hard drive. If you're lucky enough to have multiple input/output ports, you can hook up many more. Auxiliary storage allows you to back up your system files, in case your primary system goes kaput. 

Photobie - Free Image Editor

Photobie is

•  A free software for photo editing, scrapbooking, animation, screen capture.
• A community of graphics enthusiasts, who are sharing their experties and artworks.
•  A network of professionals providing software, graphics and web design services. 

Microsoft: Don't Press F1 Key in Windows XP

Microsoft told Windows XP users today not to press the F1 key when prompted by a Web site, as part of its reaction to an unpatched vulnerability that hackers could exploit to hijack PCs running Internet Explorer (IE).

I strongly recommend you consider an alternative browser such as Firefox

Best Science Fiction (SF) Movies Ever

This article has a list of the best science fiction (SF) movies ever for technology, computers, and related science or speculative themes. It also includes a list of the top 100 SF films of all time as rated by film critics and users.

McAfee SiteAdvisor

SiteAdvisor software is an award-winning, free browser plug-in that provides safety advice about Websites when you need it - before you click on a risky site. This is an add-on for Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers. It will work with Google, MSN and Yahoo! search engines.

Keep Your Child Safe Online

From online bullies to perverts to the lure of time-wasters like YouTube, there are far too many ways unsupervised kids of any age can get into trouble on the Internet. We look at a baker's dozen ways to keep your kids out of trouble online—whether they're toddlers or teens or thirty-something return-to-the-nesters.

Free Panda Cloud Antivirus

Panda Cloud Antivirus protects you while you browse, play or work and you won’t even notice it. It is extremely light as all the work is done in the cloud.

Panda Cloud Antivirus provides you with the fastest protection against the newest viruses thanks to its cloud-scanning from PandaLabs' servers.

Panda Cloud Antivirus is truly install and forget. Don’t worry about updates, configuration or complicated decisions ever again. 

Facebook Messaging Glitch Raises Fresh Privacy Concerns

Social networking behemoth Facebook reported a glitch in a software update that caused users' private messages to land in the wrong in-boxes, stoking new fears over the site's security.  Read more...

Uiverscale

We are able to view all entities, from the microworld to the universe, from a single perspective. By setting them up against a scale, we are able to compare and understand things which cannot be physically compared.

This is one of the coolest sites I have seen in a long time. Don

Zeer - The Easy Way to Find Better Food

You will find nutrition information on a wide range of foods and drinks. You'll also see other important label information. Basic is FREE! Select is only $4.95/mo. with 30 days FREE! Click below.

Buddi - Personal Budget Software for the Rest of Us

Buddi is a personal finance and budgeting program, aimed at those who have little or no financial background. Buddi attempts to make things as simple as possible, while still retaining enough functions to satisfy most home users. 

Free Military Photos

Free Military Photos is a website to showcase some of the great work being done by journalists and non-journalists in the military. The website is NOT officially affiliated with the government. All of the photos used at Free Military Photos are in the public domain. If you use them, give the photographer credit.

BB FlashBack Express

• Record your screen, sound and webcam
• Share movies with one-click upload to Youtube and other video sharing sites
• Save movies as Flash or AVI files
• See more features BB FlashBack is available in 3 editions: Express, Standard and Pro.

 

 

How To Copy and Paste - webmasternow.com

The ability to cut, copy, and paste is found in most programs. Sometimes, the ability to do these tasks via the mouse is disabled, but is still quickly achieved through the use of the shortcuts outlined at this site.

How To Copy and Paste

PC Pitstop - Optimize Your Computer

Since 2004, over 150 million scans have been run at PC Pitstop, making Optimize the world's most popular computer optimization software. The all new Optimize 3.0 is an incredibly powerful tool that will now do even more to boost the speed, stability, and overall security of your computer. There has never been a better time to run a FREE Optimize scan and rediscover your PC's true performance.

Photosynth

What is Photosynth?

Photosynth creates an amazing new experience with nothing more than a bunch of photos. Creating a synth allows you to share the places and things you love using the cinematic quality of a movie, the control of a video game, and the mind-blowing detail of the real world. 

Where Do Facebook Friend Suggestions Come From?

There are those who have occasionally received 'invitations' from people most of whom they know only vaguely, to join them on Facebook. A lot of folks just ignore these. But people worry about where these "invitations" come from and is their privacy in jeopardy?

Google Street Views: Amazing Mashups*

You want to give someone directions to your house or office. Previously, you'd send them a MapQuest or Google Maps link. Now you can use Virtual Turnpike. It strings together Google's street views in an amazing way -- by the views.

• First enter a street address and zip code. 
• When the map and view display, you can move the stickman to another spot on the map for another view. 
• Better yet click another spot on the map and a red destination point appears. 
• Click the Route button, and when it appears, click the Drive button.

*A mashup is a web page or application that combines data or functionality from two or more external sources to create a new service.

Google Has a Shopping Utility Called Google Shopper

Shopping with your phone is nothing new. As soon we got browsers on our smart phones, we were searching for products we saw in-store, hoping to find better prices. Over the years, these applications have gotten more sophisticated. 3D-bar code readers use your cell-phones' camera phone to literally scan bar codes and search for products. There have also been products that let you photograph products and search for matching objects online. There's even voice search.

Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder

In order to migrate to a new PC, you need to find the product keys for various programs to reinstall. Magical Jelly Bean's Keyfinder quickly and efficiently finds the product keys for installed programs, then lets you print them for safekeeping.

It's compatible with all versions of Windows and can dig up the keys for your operating system, Office apps, and various other programs. Keyfinder is fast, free, and incredibly handy. It doesn't even require installation. It not just for those migrating to new PCs, but for anyone who wants to keep a hardcopy of important product keys. 

Free Family History, Family Tree, Genealogy Records and Resources from Around the World

Search records for your ancestors. Online birth, marriage, death, census, church and other indexes.
 

Family History Library

• Free Online Classes
• Research Series and Special Events
• Monthly Class Schedules
• African American Family History Resources
• Jewish Family History Resources
• Hispanic Family History Resources
• Recursos de Historia Familiar (Español) 

Family Search

Banking Trojan Steals Money From Under Your Nose

Researchers at security firm Finjan have discovered details of a new type of banking Trojan horse that doesn't just steal your bank log-in credentials but actually steals money from your account while you are logged in and displays a fake balance.

Kneber Botnet Virus Attacks 75,000 Computers Worldwide, Including US Government Systems

A new computer virus has infected almost 75,000 computers worldwide - including 10 U.S. government agencies - collecting login credentials from online financial, social networking sites and email systems and reporting back to hackers.

 

The virus, dubbed the Kneber botnet, is thought to be the brainchild of an Eastern European criminal group that is likely selling the information on the black market, according to the Internet security firm NetWitness, which uncovered the attacks in January. 

 

Blog Talk Radio

BlogTalkRadio is a web-based platform that allows callers to host a live call-in Internet  broadcast using a computer and a phone. BlogTalkRadio is entirely web-based and requires no downloads.

A friend and high school classmate has a show on this site. 

A truly funny guy. However, he takes his work in Psychology very seriously. Give him a look.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/drpaulhannig