Noteworthy Websites

today's Digital Life has recommended some websites!
hence I'm going to blog about them as a keepsake so I can visit them when I'm more free!! =)
omg my inner geek spills from this. I copied the categories for easier reading!

Parenting:

• Kiasu Parents
  SG parents gathering to exchange tips and ideas on bringing up a baby!! from planning bday parties to feedback by parents on what works for their child! Great fornew parents and also a great reminder to them that their childhood was definitely more carefree!
  
  
• Nymbler
  Dedicated to naming your newborn. Baby Name Wizard may be easier to find on search engines but it loses points on originality. Nymbler lets you pick up to 6 names and generate other similar names according to your original choices! Click on a name to find it's meaning and its most popular name in the last century! Only for English names though.
  

Pets:

• The Daily Puppy
  Pictures of cute dogs from dog owners. Health-care and training tips on forum and dog videos to teach you how to housebreak your new doggie! =)
  
  
• Lolcats 'n' Funny Picture of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  Hilarious pictures of cat photos with funny captions !

Food:

• Food Network
  Watch full episodes of various cooking shows for free!
  
• Epicurious
  Treasure trove of information on food. Over 10,000 recipes listed! Food and wine dictionaries here as well. Check them to boost your knowledge on wine! People with problems deciphering recipes will find food dictionary useful. Defines more than 4,000 food-related terms so you can use it to check how to julienne or brunoise cegetables..
• TasteSpotting
  Pictures of delicious food and recipes from the web! Blog posts, news stories and videos buried amongst links!

Healthy Living:

• Spark People
  For dieters who needs support and encouragement from others to lose weight! Tools such as calorie counter, exercise tracker acvailable! =) Personalised fitness and diet plans for free available here!
• Zen Habits
  Daily tips on how to handle tasks like managing your finances, losing weight, making quick decisions! Cover topics as varied as finance, happiness, family and parenting! Some articles tries to answer life's big questions that bug us.
• F*** my Life
  For visitors who leave posts on how they're experiencing a new low on their lives.
  While sites like Post Secret have people baring their soul and confessing their innermost secrets anonymousely, this is more of an instant-stres theraphy because some posts are downright funny! Feedback on posts can be read by author!
• Fail Blog
  Silly failures of countless people caught on pictures, videos for a good laugh.
  (Kinda sadistic but humans sometimes like to laugh at other people's failures.. to make themselves feel better maybe?) It'd entertain when you have a bad day!
• Oddee: A Blog On Oddities
  From the 15 Stupidest Warning Labels, 20 Most Bizzare Mugshots to the World's Most Creative Buildings, Oddee tracks the weirdest, most quirky and downright puzzling mistakes made by men! For those who likes to read about strange and bizzare happenings around the world!

Data Managers:

• Evernote
  Free service allowing you to save typed notes, clippings from the Internet, images, audio clips and PDF files, with a 40MB upload limit per month. Enables you to scan through images and convert images within them into searchable text format, thus making possible for you to organise the disparate pieces of info via keywords. Best part is that you can then search for something by simply typing a keyword
• Scanr
  Convert images into PDF/text files.

Inspiration:

• Notcot
  Amusing and aesthetically pleasing collection of pictures that are not only pretty to look at, they are linked to other site.
• Lovelines
  Take a peek into the hearts of people around the world through this site. It lets you discover what the rest of the world's feeling through their blogs and Internet posting. It's done by harvesting feelings through analyzing thousands of people's blogs every minute, picking up lines of feelings, presenting analysis in the form of interactive page with sliders and charts! Displays pictures people take of things they love/hate with captions and it also ties in the feelings of the geographical location of the posterm providing a glimpse of the emotional health of countries.

Entertainment

• Musicovery
  Discover new pieces of music here! The cool thing is that you can explore the world of music not by regular genres like musical style, but also by MOOD, DECADE and TEMPO! =) Based on filters you've chosen, the service throws up songs that fit the bill. Allows you to narrow down your choices by using multiple filters, say dark, energetic, musical pop from the 90's or click discovery button to let them suggest any song. Good way to try out obscure bands!
• Kontrabond
  Hosts clips, jokes, pics and games best viewed when you're alone.
• Newsarama
  For non-fans who cannot follow a comic's plot, find out more about comics and comic-related tie-ins like movies and videos games here! Comic Book Resources offer something similar but this site makes everything easier for the non-geeks to understand. Weekly reviews of the latest comics, articles of comic characters, interviews etc.
• Television Without Pity

Tech Whiz Sites:

• Hack N Mod
  Teaches you how to take a working product and modify it! Fun IT guide to reusing, recycling the geek way.
  
• AfterDawn
  Free software download alteratives from digital music players to progs that catalogue your DVD collection.
• Lifehacker
  Blog for people who want to stay on top of tech developments!

Wordplay

• Urban Dictionary
  Decipher teenage lingo here etc!
• Save The Words
  Save words that are hardly used (because it sounds very complicated) by promising to use them after finding out their meanings here.. because with increased word usage, you might actually allow decision makers to add them into dictionaries, thus "saving the word".
• Alltop
  Saves headlines of stories and groups them by topics. This way, you can read them and know what the world's thinking about!
• OneWord
  Using oneword, people makes sentences. for Inspiration for writers!
• How to Clean Stuff
  

Know-it-all:

• Howcast
• How Stuff Works
• Online Conversion
  

All About Style:

• The Cool Hunter
  Peek into the design world and see items with a certain polish to them. Images of fanciful items are listed and they're not only professional looking, they're ingenious and interesting as well, it showcases things you do not see every day!

Bookworm:

• Internet Sacred Text Archive
  From Christianity to Taoism, Confucianism to Zoroastrianism and Atlantis to UFOs, the Internet Sacred Text Archive hosts a collection of free electronic books covering religion, mythology and legends, folklore and the occult. They're not your modern fiction, offering scans of original books dating back to the 1800s!
  
• Gocomics.com
  Enjoy reading newspapers in the comic strips and laughing over them? From the popular Calvin and Hobbes to the classic Dick Tracy, comic strips are updated daily here and the free service lets you organise your online comic collection from the website! As you may not be familiar with all the comic strips available, there is a search function that recommends them to you, based on your preferences, from political, superheroes to plain old cat or dogs.
• Project Gutenberg
  Free electronic books!
  
• DailyLit
  Free public domain books in little chapters/sections that you may pick to have them send to yourself each week (through email) so you can read! A great way to stay in touch with the literary classics, and still look as if you're buried in work email!

Travel:

• SeatGuru
  Want to have access to seat maps of all makes and models of planes from some 80 different airlines? Check here to find out how to get a good seat! Good seats are especially crucial for long flights. You can check seat plans before selecting where you want to sit to make sure you do not choose one with limited recline or reduced legroom due to life-vest boxes. Check the comparison chart to find out which airline has wider seats and more leg room, etc! For more obsessive travellers, this website even tells you which seats have personal TVs and power for your laptop! It's so detailed it even tells you which power plugs are available at the seats, so you know whether or not you need an adaptor!
• Tripadvisor
  Reviews of hotels around the world submitted by regular travelers. You can get individual reviews and also an average rating of each hotel.
• Oanda.com
  Create a currency conversion table via FxCheatSheet feature to list the conversations for smaller amounts from 1 to 10 to big amounts of up to a few hundred dollars! It's wallet sized to so you can print, cut it out and take it with you! =) What's cool? you can choose to convert your currency using Interbank, or official, rates, credit card rates with a 2 per cent premium or rates you would get at a money changer. You can even determine your own exchange margin based on rates at your local money changer to customise your cheatsheet!
  
• Gothere
  A site created by Singaporeans for Singaproeans!! Provides bus, MRT and taxi directions. Know how to get from one place to another. It takes into account factors such as ERP charges and taxi surcharges!