Free "E-Cards That Don't Suck"

E-cards. We've all seen them, whether we sent them or they were sent to us, e-cards are corny ways of getting a smile out of somebody we care about. Some sites offer many, some offer only a few unless you're a registered member, some e-cards are cute, some are eh-OK, and some are just plain stupid.

Rattlebox on the other hand, is a free e-card site that's raised the bar for e-cards. Promoting their bold statement, "E-Cards that don't suck", you'll find a new variety of cards with, let me say, and "interesting" gift of creativity.

Rattlebox's collection of online video e-cards includes pets, children, vintage film & cartoons clips, and some pretty rockin' animated styles, too, appropriate for the workplace, school, sports, travel, and every occasion.

Rattlebox greeting cards cover a range from sexy and provocative, to sweet love; funny birthday e-cards, thanks, apology, thinking of you, congratulations, good luck, invites, save the date, vote, new baby, couples, wedding, anniversary, relationships, sympathy, encouragement, insult, breakup, graduation, new home, new job, and many more! *Be aware though that some Rattlebox e-cards are adult-oriented, not so appropriate for children. Most are labeled with a yellow “Caution” banner across the selection, and a warning before playing (but some are not).

Although you are not required to in order to send a funny short film to your friend or loved one, free registration will allow you to create your own e-cards from your own videos, and include them in the Rattlebox online library. Cool, huh? Click here for an example from the "thinking of you" category.

Turn your resume into an online "Wow!" resume

If you're like me, you’d like to find a second job. You could post your resume on about 10 different job sites, but with some sites requesting different information, not only can turn into more of a time-consuming project for your day off, but you’re also bound to a boring (or sloppy) resume according to their site’s format. And for an employer, looking through a bunch similar-looking resumes could be about as exciting as reading through the fine print of a legal document.

That’s what’s nice about Visualcv.com. VisualCV gives you the opportunity to create your own resume to stand out from the others! (Imagine the employer: boring resume, boring resume, boring resume, WOW!”) You can include work samples, charts and graphs, audio, video, and images. Control who sees it, and get your very own URL (www.visualcv.com/yournamehere) for easy sharing via e-mail or with your social networks. Or, you could reply to job posts with your URL link, giving them everything they need in one place (versus sending everything in bulk email).

VisualCV is also great for students and alumni, giving them tools to build a portable and customizable portfolio of their qualifications, offering employers greater depth, breadth and substance than traditional resumes.

Curious? Click here to watch VisualCV.com's info-video.

Free Guide to Book Summary Notes

Whether you are in school now or soon will be, you know that with all the books you already have to read, even by skimming you may not get all your reading assignments done on time. But what if you didn’t have to read the whole book in order to understand it? FreeBookNotes.com is how you do it.

Producing a comprehensive guide to free book notes, free book and chapter summaries, literature notes, and study guides (like "cliff notes") for over 1600 books, plays, and poems, Freebooknotes.com is dedicated to helping you reach your reading goals. Currently, they are sporting a powerful database of links to over 2500 free cliff notes, free book notes, and free book summaries for a wide variety of literary classics from all the major study guide sites (including Pink Monkey, Barron's, SparkNotes, Classic Notes, Book Rags, BookWolf, and Campus Nut).

I wish I knew about FreeBookNotes.com when I was in school. Each individual study page shows a list of links to all the cliff notes, book summaries, book notes, and analysis for that book. This way, any time you need free literary criticism, chapter summaries, or other study help with a book, you can check here first, and they'll point you in the right direction. Also, should you have a specific question about a book, Freebooknotes.com also lists links for discussion forums and message boards, thus allowing you to discuss your book with other readers.

So whether you’re a student, a teacher, a parent who wants to know about the books your kids are reading, or just somebody who would like to read but just doesn’t have the time,

FreeBookNotes.com is a useful tool for quick book reading.

Free Spanish Lessons

No habla Espanol? No problemo!

Learn basic Spanish with Study Spanish, a website that features free basic Spanish tutorials. Although the website actually sells CDs of conversational Spanish lessons, the free resources available on the website are very useful and extensive. It's a great way to start learning about one of the most spoken languages in the world.

Study Spanish presents lessons that are easy to understand. The grammar explanation is in-depth starting with the gender of nouns - the use of el and la. It also has a long list of vocabulary words which are categorized, cultural notes about the language, idiomatic expressions used in everyday conversation, and sample quizzes. It also has "Listen and Repeat" drills to help you pronounce the words like a native speaker.

The site is useful to anyone who either needs to study the basic of the language, or to just brush up on the Spanish lessons learned in high school.

Be an instant super hero for free

Move over Superman! Now, everyone can be a super hero with this cool application from Kodak - Make Me Super, a website that makes anybody feel like a member of the Justice League. Make Me Super transforms you into a super hero instantly with a video and image to boot. All for free!

The website is really fun to try. I got a kick out of making a video of my "super husband." First, choose your gender. Second, enter your name or what you want to be called, eg., Super Mom, Super Girl, etc. Third, upload a photo that you want to be placed on the super hero face template. You can choose a picture either from your Kodak Gallery account or from your desktop. Once the image has been uploaded, adjust the size of the photo by scaling or rotating it to fit the face template. Then click on the video button and enjoy your super hero 10 seconds of fame. You can also share the video to your "super friends" through e-mail. Also as a bonus, you can download your super picture onto your computer.

So go ahead and see if you look good in a spandex and a cape. :)

I Love Your Blog Award

Wow, I am really honored to have been awarded the I LOVE YOUR BLOG Award from The Freebie Blogger. What a joy to be considered such, even if lately I haven't been updating this blog due to my super crazy work schedule. Thank you, The Freebie Blogger!

The rules of the award are as follows:

1. The winner can put the logo on his/her blog.
2. Link the person you received your award from.
3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs.
4. Put links of those blogs on yours.
5. Leave a message on the blogs of those you have nominated.

So "paying it forward", I would like to give the I Love Your Blog Award to:

Freebie Trading - legitimate ways to make money on the Internet

Me Find Home - homeless animals in the Philippines in need of help, features great photos too

Designs of Tattoos - informative and comprehensive guide to all about tattoos

Paperback Designs - offers free chic and amazing blogger templates

Tip Junkie - creative crafts and ideas for the whole family

Kay's K9s...& Kritters - artistic, unique handcrafted dogs and cats miniatures

Freebie Blogger - real guide to free goodies...(to Freebie Blogger, you don't need to write back another I Love Your Blog award :) )

Totally Fun and Free Online Games

Bored? Need to kill time but do not have anything to do? Or perhaps, you need a short break from what you're doing? Visit Friv for free, fun and addicting games.

Friv offers 200 free games, from easy to difficult. The website combines some of the best flash games online, which are displayed randomly in small squares. They are not categorized nor arranged alphabetically. But title of the game is revealed as you point the mouse on it.

From Tetris to Sudoku, Friv's selection of games is so vast. If you get tired of playing action-type games, you can just go back and try a puzzle game. Because of so many selection of games available, just deciding on what to try first could take a lot of your time. But surely once you get started, you'll definitely won't notice the time pass by.