If you’re a poker player but you find online games and leagues to be too annoying – whether it’s because of their structure or rules – then you’ll enjoy taking a look at PokerDIY. Seriously. Do it yourself poker.
This cool concept allows you to set up your own home poker league. You have to see this to believe it. You can set up and manage a poker league (or two) whether live in your own neighborhood or online. You can send invites out to your friends to get in on the games and PokerDIY sets you up with RSVP tracking and emails. If you need more player outside your circle of friends you can put an ad up to invite more players in. You can also track winnings and see who’s on the leaderboard for your games with the widget you can put on your own blog.
If you don’t feel like setting up your own, maybe you can find a poker group online – including many freeroll leagues. There a lot of options at PokerDIY for poker players who like to do it themselves. Enjoy!
I found a cool download – at least it would be cool if it actually worked on my ratty-assed computer. (No offense, babe. I loves ya!) Take a look:
MakeitOne MP3 Album Maker (allegedly) allows you to (allegedly) join selected MP3 files into a single file that is (allegedly) compatible with any MP3 player and tag editor. The album file is (allegedly) a single, large MP3 file that contains the (alleged) merged tracks. The Album Maker (allegedly) can also (allegedly) unpack any album that was (allegedly) created with the software. (Info shamefully stolen from freesofwaredownload.blogspot.com
MP3 Album Maker is written in C# and requires the DotNet Framework which can be download direct from microsoft.
The parenthetical comments are mine. If you get this to work, let me know what if anything you had to tweak.
If you haven’t tapped into the hot search spot known as “Spock” you’re really missing out on a cool way to find people and things you’re looking for. Spock is not like most search engines in that it doesn’t simply return a dry list of text links.
Say you use a keyword search to look for web design or a web designer. Hit enter and Spock bring up a list of people – with their photos when available – and all of the links associated to each person. It will show you their community links like LinkedIn, MySpace, Twitter and their professional links like their education, affiliations and associations they belong to.
Spock also lets you create widgets of your searches that you can embed in your own pages or blog posts. This adds cool functionality to your site, allowing you to offer information for other searchers. Spock is still in beta but it works without a hitch. It’s definitely not a “bares bones” beta, as you can see from the widget of my search result below:
Spock’s search engine allows you to search people by their names, by tags related to their work or profession, and – this is really cool – by their email address. Try that with Google and see how far you get. You get a document not found message. Once you register with Spock (don’t worry, it’s free and easy) and try the same search you will find what and who you are looking for.
But enough from me. You’ll only get the full flavor of Spock.com by checking it out yourself. You don’t even have to register to do great searches, but once you do you can access even more features. Enjoy your search for a change. You will find what you need – and, dare I say it – “prosper”?
If you’ve caught the GTD bug (Getting Things Done) you know the importance of setting up a “tickler file” for yourself. Hinx RemindMe might fit the bill for you and it’s a free download. Here’s the rundown:
Hinx RemindMe is software for reminding you of important appointments by popup, sound and email. The appointments, messages, schedules, etc. are stored in file form and can be viewed at later time. Multiple emails are supported. Java and Windows supported.
Here’s a cool freeware alternative to the standard post it note programs you can find around the Web:
Stickypaper is a sticky note application that has much more functionality than most of its kind. It enables you to create normal sticky notes as well as pictures, real-time notes with RSS, and just about anything else with its fully scriptable system.
The documentation is in Japanese, but the program is in English. It shouldn’t be too hard to figure out if you have basic familiarity with these type of apps. Also, this application requires GDI+.dll (883 kB). Download Stickypaper and the .dll file here.
Since I never know what you people are getting yourselves into next, I thought it was a good time to branch out a little here. In the spirit, I’m offering you a tip to a California prostitution lawyer. No, not a prostitute turned lawyer. Meaning, you get yourself busted one way or another and the good folks at Stephen G. Rodriguez & Associates will do their best to help you out.
As they say, “we don’t take Criminal Law lightly.” In fact, it’s their one and only focus. If you wake up on the wrong side of the law and they will do their level best to get you through with reduced sentences or even dismissals. Of course, some of that depends on just what it was you allegedly did – but they’ll treat you like they’d want to be treated.
And isn’t that what we all want? Go ahead and bookmark the site. You never know…
You can easily create icons with transparency for Windows XP and Windows Vista. In the integrated workspace you can preview, save, and change icons with resolutions up to 256×256. Convert your favorite images into icons, or icons to images. With the tools and more than 40 effects, icon creation is made easy. IcoFX also has retouching tools like Brighten, Darken, Blur and Sharpen.
Yes! After perusing the New York Yankees Spring Training Schedule for 2008, I’ve found a chance too see them hit it with the Astros up in Houston on March 3. Sweet mama! I’m not exactly your quintessential New Yorker, but I’m not exactly a Texan either and who’s going to pass on a chance to see the real “America’s Team.” (Sorry Cowboys’ fans, but it ain’t them.)
Having faced the likely fact that I’ll never see a real game (who wants that pressure?), training is the place for me to be. Yankees Spring Training tickets are available, the mood in training rocks and I can walk out, zone out, take a nap – whatever – without feeling like I missed anything crucial. Perfect for my new no-stress lifestyle.
If you’ve been looking for a cool screen capture program for creating your videos, don’t waste any of your money before trying out oRipa. Check it out:
oRipa Screen Recorder is a handy tool to record your Windows desktop activity in real time and save it as a video file. oRipa Screen Recorder also captures anything you can hear on your PC, such as music and voice through the PC’s microphone.
oRipa Screen Recorder is great for making all kinds of movies, including:
1. Make software, Web site and product introduction demos and tutorials.
2. Real time record audio narration to your captured videos.
3. Turn PowerPoint presentations into movies.
4. Enhance your online help documentation.
Commercial Mortgages, you know you need them. Perhaps we all need them at some time. OK, with that settled, the question is just how do we get them? You know I’ve got your answer here.
Simply take a look at the free commercial financing advice and quotes available online at Money Magic. Through their contacts to virtually all commercial lenders, they can help you find the best deal possible. And they can get you access to mortgages of up to 70 percent loan to value, and in some cases, they can boost that to 90 percent loan to value.
You won’t have to wait forever for an answer either. They can give you a “decision in principle” within 48 hours.
