Cool USB Flash Drives

Category: Art & Inspiration
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There are hundreds of cheap and ordinary looking USB flash drives on the market. Most companies just give them away for free but they’re all pretty damn boring. Check out some of these creative and unusual flash drives that will help you transfer your files in style.

Check out Disk-On-Key for more creative USB flash drives.








iPhone Games for Kids

Category: iPhone Goodies
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My little cousins and my boyfriend’s nephews like to borrow my iPhone and play games on it. But after a while, they get bored with the few amount of games I have readily available. So I checked the AppStore on my iPhone for more games and found some really good ones for their ages.

Ages 2 to 4

KidCalc — Math flash cards and counting games are a fun, exciting, and engaging way to teach math to young children using a powerful and effective reward based system.

Puzzles — With 12 different puzzles, nice sound effects, beautiful graphics, this game will entertain your children while improving their motor skills.

Balloonimals — Pretty fun virtual ballon animal game where you blow in the mic to make an animal, tap it to make it dance, then explode it by over-inflating.

Doodle — A drawing app that is perfectly between something full-featured like Brushes and simpler apps. It even offers doodle live so you can draw with your friends between iPhones.

Ages 4 to 8

Doodle Drop — A very simply yet very addicting, tilting your iPhone to guide the doodle dog drop the page and see how far you can get!

Knots — Knots is like Twister for your fingers. Colored dots pop up on the screen and you hold a finger until told to release and stop on another dot. And, just like the original Twister, the longer knots goes on the more twisted you become and the more fun you have.

LineUp — Touch groups of three or more same-colored blocks in order to get rid of them and stop the board from overflowing. A row of new blocks is added to the pile every few seconds, and the time it takes for these to be added speeds-up as the game goes on.

Booooly! — Similar to LineUp, Booooly is a game of touching and blasting 3 or more boolies of the same colors stick together. There’s more to the game if you strategize your blasts to earn more points!

Creamy Ice — Your goal is to serve tasty ice cream to your customers by tapping the correct ingredients in the right order. Manage your own ice cream business – get more flavors, bigger stores and larger orders as you play the career mode. It’s all about concentration, skill, speed and fun!

Ages 8 to 12

Cooking Mama — This popular game is now availale for the iPhone and iPod touch! The game features a generous helping of dishes from the home console series as well as plenty of never-before-seen cuisine!

CritterCrunch — You play a furry forest dweller with a long tongue, whose job is to clear the board by feeding smaller animals into larger ones. There are initially 3 sizes of animals (small, medium, large). Feeding two of the smaller ones into the larger ones causes the larger one to explode and take out any identical animals around it. Super addicting and very fun!

MASH — Its the game that all of us grew up playing! Want to find out who you or your friends will marry? Are you going to live in a beautiful, spacious mansion or a cramped, dirty shack? Your kids will enjoy playing this with each other.

LetsTans — Tangram is available on iPhone. With new puzzle modes and plenty of new levels, this game will keep your kids busy!

UnblockMe — The goal is to get the red block out of the board by sliding the other blocks out of the way. It’s simple and addictive and will keep your kids occupied for a long, long time.

BoomBoxes — A fast-paced puzzle game that requires your to clear a set of shapes from the screen before the timer hits zero!

SuperFall — This is one fun, colorful, and hilarious ragdoll physics game. Pick the basic doll and try to fall as deep as you can by avoiding various obstacles like rotary wheels, pistons, grinders, blackholes, vents, traps, bumpers, and mines.

If that’s not enough, check out Apple.com for more games!








Stain Solutions

Category: Daily Living
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I remember running late to work one morning and driving like a maniac, I took a sharp turn and spilled coffee all over my favorite purse. Coffee is probably one of the worst stains to remove, let alone the lingering smell.

If I told you there was a place you can go to find the cure for removing any stain, would you believe me? The University of Illinois has gathered exhaustive remedies for hundreds of common, hard-to-remove stains in one easy to search resource, with surprising specificity at their Stain Solution website. The site offers a variety of stain solutions and will tell you exactly what kind of tools you’ll need to arm yourself with and the procedure for removing it. Best of all, it also provides alternative methods on how to remove the stain from different places, like from your carpet or your clothes.

Visit Stain Removal Solutions to see how dirty work gets cleaned.








Wine Cork Projects

My friends and I love to wine and dine. We can go through a few bottles of wine every time we sit down for a nice dinner. If you’re a regular wine drinker like myself, you probably have a lot of wine corks lying around. The corks are great reminders of bottles past but they can also be a project for your next rainy weekend.

Craftynest has a guide for creating an attractive, foot-friendly bath mat by hot gluing them to shelf liner. All you need for this project is a hot glue gun, some non-adhesive shelf liner, and a lot of wine corks. Other than the time it may take, the project is pretty simple. To make the corks stay down easier, you’ll need to cut each one in half before gluing them down onto the shelf liner — so you only need half has many corks!

There are plenty of other uses for wine corks such as turning them into place mats, coasters, or piecing them together into an actual cork board!

For the full scope on how to make the wine cork bath mat, check out Craftynest.

Check out LoveToKnow Crafts for more wine cork projects.








Customize Mac OS X Icons

Category: Web & Technology
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You can easily customize the icons on your Mac OS X without having to use any 3rd party app, with the exception of a few such as Finder and Trashbin. In which case, I suggest using an app called CandyBar. For all other icons, you can customize and change from one icon to another by doing the following:

  1. Select the icon you want to stamp onto another.
  2. From the File menu, choose Get Info (Command-I) to open the Info window.
  3. Click the icon in the upper-left corner of the Info window to select it.
  4. From the Edit menu, choose Copy (Command-C).
  5. Select the icon you want to replace.
  6. From the File menu, choose Get Info (Command-I).
  7. Click the icon in the upper-left corner.
  8. From the Edit menu, choose Paste (Command-V) to replace the icon.

For free Mac OS X icons for personal use, check out WeLoveIcons.com.