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The amazing world of photo effect

Posted February 20, 2010 by Simi
Categories: Uncategorized
Tags: effect, flickr, photo, photo505

photo505

Recently discovered the wondrous world of effects pictures sites, there are many good sites in this area is very difficult to know from whom to choose.

Uuntil recently I would use only in Flickr to give my images some effects, but since discovering this good list of sites effects Photo505 I really get lost with the large selection there.
Each of the sites in this list have in bad and good side but i truly believe that anyone could find to the effect that he was looking for.

I hope I help some of you guts that want to find more cool website like i found while surfing the web.

if you have more great list like those you are welcome to leave a comment.

have a great surfing

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Animoto

Posted February 4, 2010 by Simi
Categories: blog, fun sites, photos
Tags: animoto, fun sites, video sites

Okay, we have discussed a lot about pictures. But now, when we already edited those, posted it all over the web (in Flickr and similar), how can we show them to friends in a cool way?

A new site that I discovered a few days ago is called “Animoto”. There, you can simply make a slide show of your photos.

Similar to photofunia, that site is simple to use and the outcomes looks very impressive. Although “Slide Show” may sound a little bit boring, don’t get me wrong. This is nothing like a PowerPoint un-edited slide show. You can make a movie that looks like a professional’s work.

Animoto

After a short subscription, you can make a short video or full length one for completely free, and for a few extra dollars you can enjoy many special templates (these days, for example, Animoto suggests a Valentines edited video). You can select pictures and videos from your computer, select some from Animoto’s collection or choose it from other sites.

In the “edit” field, you can add sparkles for pictures and text, shuffle the order of the items etc. After editing the pictures and videos, you can add music from their collection or choose a song from your computer.

The video is really nice and I highly recommend you to use it. In the next post I’ll check similar sites to Animoto and examine them.

Have a great week!

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WordPress and Similar

Posted December 29, 2009 by Simi
Categories: blog
Tags: blogs, blogspot, Similar Sites

Hi guys, how are you?

Last time I talked about the advantages of bloggers and about wordpress.com (the websites I’m working through). Like wordpress, there are several Blogging-sites that offer free hosting and different blog templates to your own services. The link sites like wordpress will give you a list of similar sites. Here are several that I found interesting:

http://www.blogger.com allows each user to manage several blogs and supports many languages along with English. You can open your account through Gmail users (so you won’t have to subscribe to the website). You can upload posts, pictures and videos and choose your own background and add gadgets. The profile that you edit in blogger community will assist you to get in touch with people that share the same interests as you are.

http://freeblogit.com/ is a less-familiar site that also suggests free blog-hosting. The community holds about 3,000 Blogs in different subjects. Managing the blog is pretty similar to wordpress; You’ll be able to add and edit post, add videos and photos, enter keywords, tags, categories. You can track your traffic (and maybe even consider ads if your blog has a lot of fans) , add widgets, control users’ comments etc.

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Blogging in WordPress

Posted December 3, 2009 by Simi
Categories: blog, fun sites
Tags: blogs, blogspot, domains, wordpress

Hey guys, how was your past week? In the recent days I searched on the web an interesting similar website to write about. When I ran out of ideas, I’ve decided to dedicate that post to a growing niche- bloggers. Like me, many people enjoy sharing their knowledge or their life experience with other surfers. Most of us use free-domains from wordpress, blogspot and similar sites (unlike me. For a few extra dollars I rather use my own special domain). Many sites like the two above offer a blog domain with no extra charge, including hosting and templates. The sites that power that template usually add their name into the blog domain. For example, I’m using wordpress, so the original domain of that blog should have been similarblog.wordpress.com (If I used on of its similar sites, the address would be completely different. That’s one of the reasons I rather pay). The bloggers that prefer buying their domain can still use the really-comfortable-templates of publishing our new blog posts. We can filter comments, add pictures, widgets and hyperlinks and even check how many people visit our site (that’s how I know when to continue writing about a theme and when should I pack my luggage and leave…).

The Bloggers’ greatest dream is to become famous in their niche. Sorry, did I say famous? I meant rich. Luckily, these two usually comes together. More visitors = more $$$ (of course, that is not fully correct, but I will leave that for another post). However, I’m still not using any ads in my site- I like keeping it clean, but it doesn’t stop my from writing quality content and keep my readers interested. That’s why I write about similar sites on the web- an issue that matters a lot to me (and buy the amount of viewings- I can tell that it interests many others as well). In the next post I’ll write about wordpress and it’s similar sites, expand about each one of them and announce the winner.

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Photobucket- top sites

Posted November 18, 2009 by Simi
Categories: fun sites, photos
Tags: flickr, photo hosting, photobucket, photos, Similar Sites, tinypic

Last time I mentioned Photobucket. According to these days, the site already has 8,586,710,278 photos (that’s a few more hundreds of millions pictures than last week…).

Like you know me already, I’m not a fan of the automatic choice when it comes to sites, and I like to explore the web and find better alternatives. When it comes to photo-sharing websites, I have a few main criteria to decide whether I want to use the site, and how often. The first criterion that Photobucket manages to supply very well is the amount of photos in the site. With more than 8 billion photos (and keeps growing bigger) they can assure me I won’t get board. Another few important measurements are the site options (can you upload the photos and then use them in social-media sites? Can you edit the photos before sharing them? How long can you stay ammoniums and when do you need to subscribe?), and how simple and comfortable to work with.

The best site in that field to my opinion is Flickr. Thanks to the site simplicity, every layman can get wonderful performances.

flickr site

With 8 steps, you can host the pictures online, edit them, organize the photos (that is a really important tool especially if you are photo-addicts and have to immortalize each moment in your life…) and spread them across the web. The site is really comfortable and easy to use- and I highly recommend it.

Another really nice site is Tinypic.com. Although it is less common among surfers, he is very useful. You can view random pictures or most popular, check out what’s new on Twitter or your favorite category (retro, relationships, etc.) and upload your own. Then, you can buy a product with the photo you like (your own or just one that you liked).

For more sites like Photobucket, enter the list and see all of the results. If you found a better site than the 3 that I mentioned, I would like to hear about it.

Photobucket- top sites

Last time I mentioned Photobucket. According to these days’ the site already has 8,586,710,278 photos (that’s a few more hundreds of millions pictures than last week…).

Like you know me already, I’m not a fan of the automatic choice when it comes to sites, and I like to explore the web and find better alternatives. When it comes to photo-sharing websites, I have a few main criteria to decide whether I want to use the site, and how often. The first criterion that Photobucket manages to supply very well is the amount of photos is the site. With more than 8 billion photos (and keeps growing bigger) they can assure me I won’t get board. Another few important measurements are the site options (can you upload the photos and then use them in social-media sites? Can you edit the photos before sharing them? How long can you stay ammoniums and when do you need to subscribe?)

The best site in that field to my opinion is Flickr. Thanks to the site simplicity, every layman can get wonderful performances.

With 8 steps, you can host the pictures online, edit them, organize the photos (that is a really important tool especially if you are photo-addicts and have to immortalize each moment in your life…) and spread them across the web. The site is really comfortable and easy to use- and I highly recommend it.

For more sites like Photobucket, enter the list and see all of the results. If you found a better site than the 3 that I mentioned, I would like to hear about it.

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Photo-Hosting by Photobucket

Posted November 13, 2009 by Simi
Categories: fun sites, photos
Tags: photo editing, photo hosting, photobucket, photos

The last time I actually went to a photography shop, printed out photos and categorized photos into albums where more than 5 years ago. How about you?

Computers in general and internet in particular became such a big part of our lives, and it is now replacing many out-doors activities. If a few years ago I just stored my pictures on the computer straight from my Digital camera, I could DIE if something would happened to my hard-drive (it will immediately erase a few years of my history), today there are much easier ways to store your pictures without the escort worries.

PHOTOBUCKET is a site that allows you to store your photos on-line. Not only that it saves you precious memory on your computer, you can take a pick on your photos from every computer in the world. The sine-up is free and you get to choose whether to save the photos to your selves or to make it public. You can also upload the photos to social-networks (Facebook, MySpace etc.) directly from the site.

If you are tired with your own photos you can always search for others’. There is a mega-collection of photos categorized by themes. Funny animals? Macro photography? You name it. The total collection includes over 8 billion (yes, it means 8,000,000,000) photos (not getting board is guaranteed). Latly the site added more fun stuff like videos, music category, stickers and photo-editing. However, Photobucket is not the only site that offers that service, so for the next post I will make a top-5 list of the best photo-hosting site.

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More Activities sites

Posted October 28, 2009 by hilapaz
Categories: Uncategorized

Hey friends,

Last time I mentioned the benefits of an activity site, especially in days that we spend most of our free time in front of a screen. Activitytv.com is a great site for fun activities, and although the site is targeted for kids, adults can also enjoy the content they are offering.

To find similar websites, I used the list Similar Sites to ActivityTv. You can find there several more interesting sites that I Didn’t write about in this Blog.

www.printables4kids.com is a site that is also dedicated for kids. you can use the category “coloring pages”. There you can find printable versions of different cartoons. The site also includes suggestion for group meetings and holidays, studding worksheets (in math and general knowledge) ect.

If you are interested in out-door activities, the site www.baseballrox.com would probably wake your urge to play. The site contains many suggestions and tips for playing baseball, including live videos for more effective learning.

The best site out of the list is defiantly familyfun.go.com . The site gathers around special recopies (now, when Halloween is coming, you can find plenty creative cooking ideas), printable draw-templates, how-to videos and a lot more cool stuff. I especially enjoyed the craft ideas, that can be divided by ages or themes. The site is owned by Disney, and if you enjoyed it you can subscribe their newsletter (that will be send to your Email for free) or their monthly magazine. I highly recommend it.

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Activity sites

Posted October 20, 2009 by Simi
Categories: Uncategorized
Tags: activitytv

Since we are spending so much time at home in front of a screens (whether a TV or a computer), I figured out that it would be nice to have a site that encourages you to do different activities. After a quick search on the web I discovered a site called ActivityTV.

Activity TV is a site that basically targeted for kids and teenagers. However, it has many contents that fits all ages. The site includes short videos about activities that you can have at home that are separated to themes. You can learn how to dance jazz, ballet and even mambo cha-cha, learn how to cook simple recipes, perform different magics, draw cartoons, make origami, and much more fun activities. If you are a great fans of home-made activities you can subscribe their news letter and receive news about the sites to your E-mail. Until next time, I will examine different activity sites that are similar to Activity TV, announce which one is the best one and recommend you on several more.

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More about Q&A Communities

Posted October 13, 2009 by Simi
Categories: Uncategorized

Hey friends!

Last week I promised you to have a little research on the web in Q&A communities. To find the different sites I entered to the list similar sites to Wiki answers (which is, to my opinion, is one of the best Q&A sites, especially thanks to the fact that each question has only one answer who is edited by many different users).

The first result in the list is AnswerBag-one of the biggest sites of Q&A. A good advantage is that you can ask or answer as ammoniums (if you wish that your real personality will not be exposed).

On the site you can get multiple answers to your questions and vote for the ones you find useful. You will start at level 1 (beginner), and rise to higher levels according to your points (that you will get on useful answers). The site has 4 main themes- Social, Expert, Local and shopping. Each theme holds different community discussions. If you wish to ask a question, you can first search for similar questions on the site and find out if the site holds already an answer to your question. If not, you can ask it, and the question will appear chronological in its topic.

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Upload you photos and win a free iPod touch!

Posted October 8, 2009 by Simi
Categories: Similar Web

Hey guys,

As you probably noticed, I recommend here a great site that I know- SimilarSites.com. When I work on the web, I use their add-on, which you can find at www.similarweb.com. Along giving you a list of similar sites, it can also find similar articles in the web and recent buzz.

When I entered their Blog today I saw that they are now organizing photos competitions. The best picture with their Banner will win a FREE iPod touch! I already sent mine, and I recommend you to also join this competition! You should take the picture with the following Banner:

And send it to the E-mail.

You can see more details about the competition at similar web blog .

Good luck!

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