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E-Patients Explore Online Communities
Researching your health problems online can be a great way to educate yourself — or scare yourself silly. A whopping 97 percent of Fit readers 'fess up to doing some Internet sleuthing before heading to the doc. There's even a word for us: e-patients.
Geek Tip: Expand Your Vocabulary With a Little Online Help
I've heard that the key to mental longevity is to always keep your mind open to learning new things. One easy way is to adopt a few new words and use them in your daily conversations. Surely you don't want to sit around all day, flipping through a thesaurus, so let me introduce you to Save the Words.
Geek Tip: Edit Videos and Photo Slideshows For Free Online
Add this to your already-expanding list of free online photo- and video-editing websites, but one that provides endless entertainment in the process: Masher. Not only can you upload your videos and edit them for free, put together an impressive photo slideshow of your last shindig (and set it to music), but you can browse through free clips from sites like BBC Motion Gallery and Rip Curl to add some flavor to your flicks. Once you're finished, you can upload your masterpiece to the site for all to see.
Website of the Day: Gnoosic
I know there're plenty of ways for you to discover new music online — from Pandora to my new fave, CitySounds — but I'm about to add another to your bag of tricks. Called Gnoosic, this website asks you point blank what bands or artists you like, works its analyzing magic, then spits out a list of recommended artists you might fancy.
Sure, it doesn't have a fancy interface like Pandora, but it's smart — it's a self-adapting system that has compiled thousands of band names from users, then learned what people like and don't like based on its rating system.
3 Ways to Back Up Your Data
Computer crashes are probably the most devastating event of a person's technological life. Not to mention one of the most expensive. So how many times do I gotta tell ya?
Tech Dating 101: My Boyfriend Is All Up in My Virtual Business
In this installment of Tech Dating 101, we're discussing virtual boundaries. Whether you've been dating your significant other for one week or five years, we all have our personal boundaries. For example, I don't pee with the bathroom door open, and I certainly don't read my boyfriend's emails.
Website of the Day: LivePerson
There's a variety of subjects I'm not familiar with, but would love to know more about (like web design), and it would be awesome to have my own personal expert to give me tips and advice whenever I needed it. If real-time advice is what you seek, then LivePerson will provide.
LivePerson is a live and online chat service that lets you speak with an expert on almost any subject under the sun.
Geek Tip: Backup Your Data With Mozy
If you don't have the time to run out and buy your own external hard drive (or the patience to figure out how to format it) you can keep it simple sister, and back up your docs and data with Mozy. You probably have a ton of stuff floating around on your computer that would be a heartbreak to lose, and a back-breaker to retrieve. In other words, it's not cheap.
Geek Tip: Simple and Free Sites For Storing and Sharing Files
In my line of work, there are a lot of photos and videos being passed around, which can take a painfully long time to email in Entourage (or any other email client for that matter). To make things easier on my co-workers, and my patience, I rely on file-sharing websites. Here are some of my favorite services for sharing files for free or a minimum fee.
Do You Buy Wine Online?
Dorothy J. Gaiter and John Brecher, wine columnists and founders of Open That Bottle Night, recently assessed the world of online wine, only to find it came up short.
"Some really fine stores out there haven't spruced up their sites since dirt was invented," they lamented.
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