Grooveshark (http://listen.grooveshark.com/)

Grooveshark is one of the best places to listen to music online for free. There are millions of songs in their collection. The only downside is there will be a 160×600px banner ad which will keep showing you ads (which can be removed at $3/mo). On the other hand, you don’t have to look at the screen once you have added all the songs you want to listen to the queue. You can even save those songs to a playlist and embed the playlist to your iGoogle, Blogger, MySpace, Hi5, Typepad, Wordpress, Orkut and so on.

Pros: Million of songs, Fast and smooth streaming, Ability to save playlist and embed the playlist as widgets to social networking sites and blogs.
Cons: No continuous play.

Jango (www.jango.com/)

Jango used to be my favorite music site until recently where it started to collaborate with Rhapsody. Unlike Grooveshark, Jango limits the number of songs you are able to listen to although they list down all the songs from an artist. And if you are lucky, you may be able to listen to your favorite track by your favorite artist.

Pros: A huge collection of songs, Pretty good streaming most of the time, Continuous play according to your what you have previously searched.
Cons: Only selected tracks are available for streaming randomly.

Napster (http://free.napster.com/)

Napster, these days is your source of legal music. There is a free section on Napster where you can stream your favorite music for free. But in order to listen to full length tracks, you must reside in the US. Otherwise, you’ll only be able to listen to your favorite track for only 30 seconds.

Pros: A huge collection of songs.
Cons: Only available to the US residents (others can only listen to a 30-second snippets). Even so users can only listen to any particular song up to three times, after which the users will need to subscribe to Napster or purchase the song to play it in full again.

Last FM (www.last.fm)

Last FM is one of the most popular music sites around with the ability to recommend you tracks based on what you listen to — the more you listen, the more Last FM will learn about you and the more personalized your radio station will become. However, like Napster, there is a limitation. For users living outside US, UK and Germany, you only get to listen to the radio for 30 days for free, which afterwards, you must subscribe to continue. For users in the US, UK and Germany, you can listen to Last FM for free with the exception of subscription premium radio features: listening to playlists and stations of music you’ve loved or tagged.

Pros: A huge collection of songs, Personalized radio, Ability to download a scrobbler and listen without login to the browser, Ability to listen on your iPod, Selected MP3’s available for download for free.
Cons: Available only to residents of US, UK and Germany whereas others can only listen for free for 30 days.

YouTube (www.youtube.com/

Although YouTube is a video streaming site, there are millions of music videos available in YouTube. With the playlist, you can add all your favorite tracks into one place and let it run in the background, and voila, your own jukebox with videos!

Pros: A huge collection of songs (music videos), Can watch the music videos while listening to your favorite tracks.
Cons: Slower streaming, Not available in some countries, i.e. China.

Honorable mentions: VH1 Radio, Yahoo! Music, MySpace.

Starbucks is giving away free pastry for the morning of July 21, 2009. All you need to do is print this coupon and purchase any beverage and present at Starbucks between opening time and 10:30am.

Only valid in the U.S. stores with the purchase of any handcrafted drinks while stock last.

It looks real, feels real and best of all, it’s a good place to practice your bowling game in case your company’s organizing a bowling outing for the staff in less than a week time, you don’t have to embarrass yourself with gutter balls.

Club 300 Bowling

My score is 267, can you beat that?

Go to unthinkfc.com to download your KFC coupon

The coupon is good for 2 pieces of Kentucky Grilled Chicken™ (manager’s choice) and two individual sides and a biscuit at participating KFC® locations in the United States from May 5, 2009 to May 19, 2009 — excluding Mother’s Day, May 10, 2009. Please note that coupon download time is limited as it is only available from 9 a.m. CDT on May 5, 2009, to 11:59 p.m. CDT on May 6, 2009.

This is how it works:

New users at Kerchoonz can sign up as either "Listener & Fan", "Artist/Band", "Industry Pro", "Label", "DJ/Remixer" or as a "Publisher". As musicians (Artist/Band, Label, etc.), you get a new window of opportunity to make money when other users download or stream your music. Even as an unsigned artist, Kerchoonz lets you earn money too when users download or stream your music. In fact, at the time of writing, an unsigned artist named Donna Marie is topping the "Top 100" chart with songs like "This world", "Goodtime girl" and more.

The unique features of Kerchoonz is that you can create a blog, make friends and communicate with other users whether they are established musicians, new musicians or music fans just like you and me. Long gone are the days where you buy a CD in a "brick-and-mortar" record store. Kerchoonz is the new way where musicians get their work appreciated and enjoyed by the listeners while earning revenues at the same time.

Below is one of the music videos you can embed from Kerchoonz: -

Quiznos is giving away 1 million free subs sandwich with its Millionsub Giveaway. All you need to do is simply register and you’ll get a free sub coupon in your email. You can always opt out of its marketing database later on.

At the moment of writing, 35,287 subs have already given out. That means only 964,713 subs are left to be given away. Visit Millionsubs.com and claim your subs today!

Quiznos is the second-largest submarine sandwich shop chain in North America, after Subway.

• 12 Songs for Christmas
• 31 Top Sites For Free Christmas and New Year Greetings
• 15 Seasonal Resources to Send Free Christmas eCards
• 60 Beautiful Christmas Photoshop Tutorials
• 24 Free Christmas Photoshop Tutorials
• 19 Must-Have Collection Of Free Christmas Resources (Exclusive Designers Kit)
• 18 Awesome Christmas Lights and Imaginary Photos
• 30 Photoshop Tutorials That Will Make Your Christmas Special
• 40 Free Christmas Icon Set For Download
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• 7 Free Java scripts to Decorate your Website for Christmas
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Battle with powerful cards. Power up, or draw more? You’ll need to use your entire brain to win this war.

Warning: Mytheria is extremely addictive, play it at your own risk!

Play the game! Visit http://www.addictinggames.com/mytheria.html

Great news! Registered users will get free 2GB of storage to store their photos.

Applying sketch effect on Adobe Photoshop Express

Once you sign up, you get a “personal sharing URL,” such as http://yowazzup.photoshop.com. You can only edit files that are uploaded to your account.

So what are the functions of Photoshop Express do? You can:

• Crop & rotate the photo
• Autocorrect the photo
• Change the exposure of the photo
• Apply Red-eye removal
• Retouch the photo
• Change the saturation
• Change the white balance
• Sharpen
• Highlight
• Apply special effects such as sketch, tint, pop colors, hue, black & white and distort

Photoshop Express can also be integrated into your Facebook, Photobucket and Picasa accounts.

The best part is you can display the photos you have edited on the Gallery and let the world to see! You can display your photos in 3D or in grid or like an alien pop circle. Pretty cool, huh?

Though the beta is U.S.-based, I managed to register and use it without any problems. Once awhile, I do experience a short lag but nothing longer than 10 seconds.

So, what do you think of Adobe Photoshop Express?

While this may cause a further shakeup of the music industry because other big artists may now demand better contract deals under threat of leaving and distributing music themselves like Radiohead. Soon, we may hear questions like why do we need Record Label, anyway? We can either create our own Record Label or sell it like Radiohead!

You can download “In Rainbows” album from October 10, 2007 onwards.

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All you need is a microphone plug into your PC and sing right away! Karaokeplay.com will then record your voice and other visitors can listen, rate your songs and comment.

If you think you got what it takes, maybe you’ll get good ratings and feel confident enough to share your online singing with your friends wherever they are!

Visit Karaokeplay.com

“Once the gadget is created, you can invite other people to view & use the gadget, and make it publicly available for other people to view & use it.” So whatever you choose to add to a gadget will be visible to the people you invited.

The wizard helps you set up these gadgets:

1. Framed Photo – add up to 7 photos (by rotation)
2. GoogleGram – add up to 7 greeting messages
3. Daily Me – add what you’re doing or what’s in your mind
4. Free Form – add image and text freely
5. YouTube Channel – add up to 10 videos from YouTube
6. Personal List – publish your own top ten, or to-do list
7. Countdown – share a countdown to your birthday party or special event

Other than the Gadget Maker, you can personalize your iGoogle with your favorite comic strips (i.e. Garfield, Dilbert), Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Calendars, News, Games, Dictionaries, Wikipedia and many hundreds more.

Some of its features include:

• Turn your “email to self” into an actual to-do — and get it done.
• Maintain an up-to-date address book without even trying.
• Get appointments into your calendar without wasting time cutting and pasting.
• Automatically gather the web addresses friends email to you.

The service will only begin in April. You can sign up at the website to get notified when the service starts.

It’s a worldwide event! So, grab your free coffee from 10am – 12pm on March 15, 2007 at any Starbucks!

The cool part about these arcade games is though they might be classic, some of these games are created with the blend of modern taste and feel. Games like Mini-Putt 2 and Lightning Break are a golf and pool game respectively but not like the usual ones. In Mini-Putt 2, you have 18 holes to putt and it’s not easy and test your patience.

If you prefer something very fast or you don’t have that much patience, “4 Second Frenzy” is one of the coolest-ever game and as the game title, you only have 4 seconds to finish up each game in order to stay alive. It was mentioned this game was created by 26 artists and programmers! It’s my personal favorite and here it is “4 Second Frenzy“.

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As the major providers of web-based e-mails continue to increase the size and functions of the e-mail programs they have, certain company is developing a very cool e-mail – e-mail that self-destruct, non-printable, recallable and changable/editable. The purpose of these functions is to protect the privacy of the sender so that e-mails cannot be forwarded to the wrong party. Besides the security and privacy features, it lets the users to masquerade their e-mail address as well. The e-mail provider is BigString. The free account also comes with 1GB storage, 25MB large message transfer, ability to track when a recipient opens his/her e-mail, etc.

BigString also offers Premium and Business accounts with a small monthly fee. These accounts offer 30 minutes video e-mail and it lets you use your own domain name.

The International Mozart Foundation in Salzburg, Austria has put a scholarly edition of the bound volumes of Mozart’s more than 600 works on a Web site.

The site allows visitors to find specific symphonies, arias or even single lines of text from some 24,000 pages of music.

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(Via Reuters)

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Why would you use this? Maybe you want to sign up for a site which requires that you provide an e-mail address to send a validation e-mail to. And maybe you don’t want to give up your real e-mail address and end up on a bunch of spam lists. This is nice and disposable. And it’s free. Enjoy!

Get one now at 10minutemail.com.

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Backpack is good because: –

1. It has many functions: -
• Organize your to-do lists, post notes, images or photos
• Keep your calendar online
• Plan a personal or business trip
• Collaborate on a new business idea
• Keep a list of gift ideas for friends
• Build a For Sale page
• Organize and plan a wedding or event
2. It’s web-based, thus, you can login to your account anywhere. No software or download necessary
3. You can share your Backpack page with others, privately or publicly
4. You can email to-do lists, notes, files, and images to a Backpack page. You can have Backpack email you the content from a specific page too.
5. The calendar and reminder feature allow you to set up email and SMS/text-message reminders that can be sent to your cell phone whenever you want
6. It’s FREE! Of course, for the basic features only

Backpack is bad because: –

1. You have to pay to post images. Although a web-savvy person can also add images hosted elsewhere by putting in <img src=”url”>, not many people, especially business people are that tech-savvy
2. You have to upgrade to use the calendar. Although calendar might not be a very important feature, I strongly think they should include it in the free package
3. You need to organize your time and have a strict discipline – no matter how good is the software, I believe a good time management skill would help, otherwise, this thing is as dysfunctional as any other bad software

Aight, I guess point 3 is not exactly bad, but you just need to put this to use to optimize it. Like they say, the best thing in life is free. So, use it!

Wedding planner, a good example of a Backpack page

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