Category Archives: Web stuff

What Web site simplifies your life?

Woman on a computerAn item in today’s WichiTalk introduces readers to the Web site Remember The Milk (www.rememberthemilk.com), which helps users organizer their lives.

A past WichiTalk story rounded up 10 of the Web’s most useful sites for women:

  1. Ask Patty (www.AskPatty.com)
  2. Be Jane (www.BeJane.com)
  3. Bridesmaid Aid (www.BridesmaidAid.com)
  4. Complaints.com (www.complaints.com)
  5. EHow (www.eHow.com)
  6. Making Bread (www.MakingBreadMagazine.com)
  7. Parent Hacks (www.ParentHacks.com)
  8. Popgadget (www.popgadget.net)
  9. Yahoo Food (Food.Yahoo.com)
  10. You Grow Girl (www.YouGrowGirl.com)

What Web site makes your life easier?

Tell us how you’re teaching your kids about money

child with bankOne survey has found that some parents feel smarter talking to teens about sex rather than investing, according to the Chicago Tribune.

That’s a scary thought, considering the state of credit card debt among America’s teens and college students.

Do your children earn allowance? Are they in charge of budgeting their spending on clothing? Do you talk about ways to save money while you’re grocery shopping? Click on comments to trade tips on teaching kids about money.

Got a dog blog?

dog computerBlogs about pets and “by” pets (OK, really written by their owners who write from their pets’ perspectives) are on the rise.

Does your pet “write” a blog? Or do you have a blog about your dog, cat, hamster or other pet? Click on “comments” to tell us about it.

Have you found a meaningful friendship online?

online friendsIt’s not difficult to find a friend online. Adding a friend in Facebook takes just a click.

But here’s the real question: Have you found a platonic pal on the Internet who now is a close friend who you spend time with — in person?

With the help of the Internet, I’ve certainly grown friendships. When you regularly read people’s blogs, twitters, Web sites and other digital life reports, it’s hard not to. But I can honestly say that I’ve never made a friend online that I didn’t already have.

Editing digital photos just got easier with Web-based Photoshop

woman with cameraThis morning, San Jose, Calif.-based Adobe Systems Inc. released a streamlined — and free — online version of Photoshop, according to an Associated Press story.

I have a photo editing program on my home computer. But when I travel and want to edit photos for immediate Web sharing, I often wish I had access to a quick and easy Web-based program like this.

Check it out at the new program and let me know what you think. Do you have other photo editing software you’d recommend? (Bonus points if it’s free and Web-based.)

How do you keep your teen safe online?

teen girl onlineThe number of tweens and teens online is estimated to be around 21 million, according to a Pew Internet & American Life Project 2005 study.

How do you keep your tween or teen safe online? Have you set up specific rules about where and when they can get on the Internet? Do you keep your family computer in a common room?

Click on “comments” and tell us about the boundaries you’ve established.

Last-minute Golden Globes contest!

    We here at the Eagle decided to hold our own impromptu, last-minute contest to see which of our readers could predict the most Golden Globe winners in the six big categories.
   We’ll give two movie passes to the person who sends in the most correct responses. BUT…. and this is important… you have to respond by 7 p.m. today.  That’s when the  awards show begins tonight. It’s all for fun. Just click on the ‘comment’ button below this posting and insert your choices in the six categories listed here. If there’s more than one winner, we’ll do a drawing to see who gets the movie passes. We’ll email that person to get his or her name and address.
  Here are the categories and nominations:

Best Picture, Drama: “Brokeback Mountain,” “The Constant Gardener,” “Good Night, and Good Luck,” “A History of Violence,” “Match Point.”

Actress, Drama: Maria Bello, “A History of Violence”; Felicity Huffman, “Transamerica”; Gwyneth Paltrow, “Proof”; Charlize Theron, “North Country”; Ziyi Zhang, “Memoirs of a Geisha.”

Actor, Drama: Russell Crowe, “Cinderella Man”; Philip Seymour Hoffman, “Capote”; Terrence Howard, “Hustle & Flow”; Heath Ledger, “Brokeback Mountain”; David Strathairn, “Good Night, and Good Luck.”

Best Picture, Musical or Comedy: “Mrs. Henderson Presents,” “Pride & Prejudice,” “The Producers,” “The Squid and the Whale,” “Walk the Line.”

  Actress, Musical or Comedy: Judi Dench, “Mrs. Henderson Presents”; Keira Knightley, “Pride & Prejudice”; Laura Linney, “The Squid and the Whale”; Sarah Jessica Parker, “The Family Stone”; Reese Witherspoon, “Walk the Line.”

  Actor, Musical or Comedy: Pierce Brosnan, “The Matador”; Jeff Daniels, “The Squid and the Whale”; Johnny Depp, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”; Nathan Lane, “The Producers”; Cillian Murphy, “Breakfast on Pluto”; Joaquin Phoenix, “Walk the Line.”

  — Posted by Lori Linenberger

Hear that pitiful meow? I gotta feed the cat…

Next time you need (or just want) to ditch a telephone call that’s going on forever, head to SorryGottaGo.com.

Click on "There’s the doorbell," and you’ll get a perfect doorbell noise your caller can hear. There’s the sound of a door slamming (gotta go, my husband’s home), a whistling tea kettle, a honking car horn (oops, there’s my ride!), kids fighting, static on the line, a smoke alarm, even a crashing car (you’re not going to believe this! somebody just ran into my fence!).

Not that I would ever in a million years stoop to such a thing. Uh oh, something just broke… Gotta go.

– Posted by Suzanne Tobias

40 marvelous magazines

Check out the 40 best magazine covers over the past 40 years as chosen by the American Society of Magazine Editors. It’s a fun stroll down memory lane.

Remember when the Vanity Fair issue of a pregnant Demi Moore hit the streets in 1991? Her new hubby, Ashton Kutcher, was 13 at the time. I wonder if his parents let him see it. http://www.magazine.org/editorial/13730.cfm

–Posted by Jaime Oppenheimer

Need a laugh?

Check out Banterist.com, a blog featuring the original wit and humor of Brian Sack.

We love Grammar Cop, and also wonder if we should stock up on those "Anonymous Source" T-shirts.

– Posted by Suzanne Tobias