ICQ

I was trying to sign on with my ICQ program and found that I would have to download their newest version in order to sign-in - so that's what I did!

ICQ is another networking piece of a software program that is available as a free download. Basically what the program does is allow for you to have "contacts" that you can communicate with. It is sort of like a networking piece of software. I think that a lot of people use it for finding friends and finding romance but you can use it for other networking purposes as well.


The program is available as a free download from the ICQ homepage. You can create contacts and message them or you can talk and/or chat with them in real time if they are online as well. I'm not entirely sure but I think that there is a webcam feature as well. (I'll have to check on that though)


Of course there are a lot of other features with this program. You can provide an avatar of yourself and there are also sound files that you can include as well.

I have had this program for a while but haven't used it lately until the last few days and when I found out that I had to download their latest version I became interested in the program again.

You can download the program by following the link below:

The ICQ Homepage

Just click on the top tab that says "Download"

Remembering 911 - Free Banner For Your Website!

I found a site where you can get free web banners to commemorate 911. All you have to do is to go to the website and copy and paste the code to one of your own websites. There are different banners that are provided and you can pick the one that you like the best and copy and paste the code for it.

I think that this is a highly commendable thing to do to help remember the events of September 11th so that we won't forget and that hopefully it doesn't happen ever again!

Free Download - Graphics - Ferryman Fractal

If you're interested in a free fractal-generating program then you should really like this fractal program I found called Ferryman. The program is available as a free download.

Once you get to the download page you will able to see examples of fractals that others have created with this program. Also you will find tutorials and the latest news about the program.

I have downloaded the program myself and once I create a stunning fractal I will upload it here so you can see what this program is capable of.

Free Ferryman Fractal Program

Playlist.com

Just found another great website that offers something great!

With Playlist.com you can select songs and add them to your own customized playlist.

As far as I know this service is totally free.

Since I have just joined this service today I just have one song on my playlist - so far! I was thinking about having "silly" songs on my playlist because of all the flak that I am getting because of my BX Error Code Blog

Here is my current playlist:

You can find out more about Playlist.com by clicking the link below:

About Project Playlist

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Google Earth

* There is a rule that Google images can't be posted to a site that has adsense on it so I'm putting a general picture of a globe here just to give you a general idea

Google Earth is a great website - or is it program? I didn't mention it before because I thought that one had to have a high-speed connection in order to use the program. But I found out from this discussion board that you can use a dial-up modem with Google Earth. Now some people say that they don't mind if it takes some time to actually use Google Earth because of their slower dial-up connection and some have been just too frustrated to continue to use it with their dial-up modem. But the general advice is to try it and see.

What is Google Earth? Google Earth is a free downloaded program that lets you "see the earth" - for lack of a better explanation. You can view the globe, view various locations and see maps of areas all around the world including your own neighborhood.

There is also a message board where people can post, ask and answer questions.

Once you start getting good at using the program you can make your own maps to send to others that have Google Earth installed so that they can see YOUR map(s). It even gets to be more fun because people have been making much more complicated maps that include everything from layers to overlays.

You can find download and find out more about Google Earth and the minimum system requirements that you have to have to install it by clicking the link below:

Download Google Earth

Would You Like To Share Your 3D Objects With The World? (And Earn Some Money Too?)

ShareCG is a site that will let you upload your own-created 3d objects so that you can share them with the world and let others be able to download your 3d objects! It doesn't cost you anything to sign up plus you get paid according to the number of times your 3d object page is viewed. You have to have a Paypal account in order to get paid

The Font Free Blog!

Here is a new blog that has free fonts download! I just visited this site today and saw some cute fonts and I actually downloaded one of the free fontsfree fonts that was on this blog.

Update!

March 17, 2011 - Unfortunately this blog no longer exists!

Renderosity.com

If you're into 3D graphics then Renderosity.com is just the place for you!

Personally I love 3D graphics but I haven't had much time to work with them. I have a couple of 3D programs like Bryce (which I was able to get via a free legitimate download, Terragen which is also a free 3D graphics program that helps you to create scenic terrains and I have Wings3D which I haven't figured out how to work with yet. I would LOVE to have a copy of Poser! Poser is a 3D program that helps you to create human looking figures - but Poser costs a lot - but it's definitely worth it when I do have the money to purchase it.

But getting back to Renderosity.com its a great place for 3D artists and wannabe 3D artists. You do have to register and join before you can post to the forums but it is free to register. Once you register you will be privy to a welath of information concerning 3D art and artists. However 2D artists participate as well. They have message forums for software programs, 3d artists, writers and a whole lot more!

What I especially love about this site is the number of free 3D models that you can download and I will admit to downloading some of them myself! There are some great 3d models that you can download for free!

They also have contests and challenges. They also have an artists' gallery where you can showcase your work. You can sell your 3d-related work on Renderosity as well!

Renderosity.com is a great place for 3d artists and for people like me - 3d wannabe artists.

Self-Growth.com

Are you feeling depressed? Need something to help cheer you up? Then you should definitely head over to Selfgrowth.com!

This website contains a number of articles both inspirational and motivational. I myself go to this website alot! It has various articles on many things including how to help with your depression, financial advice and general over-all articles about feeling good!

You don't have to pay to join because this is a free site so you don't have to pay anything just to read the articles. If you find that they are helpful to you you can sign up to have their newsletter emailed to you every week.

IRC

IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat. I was telling my brother about this and he wanted me to send him a link to where he could download a program so that he could participate in some chats. I thought of the popular program MIRC but I went to their main page and found out that the chat program is not a free chat program. You only get to use it for 30 days. However if you go to Download.com and enter "chat" in the search box you should be able to find one of the free chat programs to download.

Yahoo 360

I'm sure that most of you have heard of Yahoo. It is a very popular search engine website. But did you know that you can have your own free webpage on Yahoo? Here is mine:

My Yahoo 360 Page

If you take a good look at my Yahoo page you will see that you can add a lot of stuff to it. Like MySpace.com, it lets you have a blog too. You can also create and add an avatar likeness of yourself to add to your site.

I have to confess that I don't know all of the options that you can add to your Yahoo 360 page because there are a lot of them!

So if you're looking for (yet another) place to have your own website for free then you should check out Yahoo 360!

Widgets!

My brother has told me that his latest discovery online is widgets! What are widgets? They are these little boxes of programs and/or information that you can put on your website or or your desktop. I have a few of them on my blog here. For example I have a Twitter widget box that lets you see an update on what I'm doing. I also have a little widget box on my blog that tells you the current weather conditions in my area which is the Philadelphia area.

Of course these aren't the only kind of widgets out there. There are many, many more of them! You can add a clock to your website or desktop, you can add interesting facts and information about almost any type of subject.

Google has a whole lot of widgets that you can choose from! And if you want to find more widgets all you have to do is use one of the popular search engines (like Google or Yahoo).

Basically having a widget means that you add some programming code to your website or blog. Each should have their own instructions on how you can add them to your desktop or website.

Want To Check Your Lottery Numbers Online?

I was checking my lottery ticket numbers online

(I only got 2 numbers by the way )

But just in case you want to check your Pennsylvania lottery ticket numbers (to see if you are the next millionaire
here is the link:

Pennsylvania Lottery Website

Good Luck!

Terragen

This little picture I made with a graphics program called Terragen. I think its short for terrain generator. This program is a free download from here. This free 3D program helps you to create landscapes and scenery. Since I did this picture in a rush you can see even with that you can create some gorgeous scenery pictures.

Like I said before this is a free 3D program that you can download from the link above.

With this program you can create different kinds of terrain and even give them preset materials like grass and snow and you can also create your own materials. You can also change the look of the clouds and the atmosphere - for example you can make your scene look hazy, misty or even have a "sunset" appearance added to it.

So there you have it! Another free download courtesy of the Internet!

Bryce 3D

The above picture is from a 3D program called Bryce. I was telling my brother about this 3D program because I was able to download it for free (minus the complicated registration process). As you can see in the picture above you can make landscapes, ocean terrains and 3D objects! Now I just made this picture on the sly because I wanted to show my brother what the Bryce 3D program can do. The sky, the ground and even the foilage are all things that you can change!

When I finished installing this program I played with it for hours! I had an older version that I still keep but in this new version are trees that you can manipulate into different 3D models. The editor that is included with this program is something to behold! I can make grass that looks like stuff other than grass, I can give it different colors, different depths..................

Since Bryce is a great 3D program you can bet that it is kind of expensive and the reason I got the free download is because they are hoping that I like the program enough to buy the Bryce 6 program which costs over $100.

MySpace - Part 2

I posted previously about Myspace.com. Here is a link to that post:

Previous Post About Myspace

Since then I have created my own Myspace page:

My MySpace Page!

I was watching Nightline and they were doing a story about MySpace. Two guys thought it up and then it became this global phenomanon(sp?). MySpace is in over 14 different countries and in a number of different languages. The two guys sold it for $600 Million Dollars! and from the Nightline story they are still working there.

The main thrust of the story was about how popular MySpace is. It started out as a social networking place and then the music bands got in on it to promote their music. Soon filmakers both new and experienced jumped in on the bandwagon and even the movie "Pirates of the Carribean" had a MySpace Page! The number of Myspace members has grown to 175 Million people! Now the politicians are getting in on the act by having their own MySpace page.

MySpace means exactly that - you get to have your space on the Internet. You get to have your own webpage and the best thing about it is that it is free! If you go and take a look at my MySpace page it will give you an idea as to what kind of page you can make. Some of them are very sophisticated but there's also a website where you can pick a layout and make it your own. Once you finished your page you can look around at other people's pages and ask them to be your "friend" and they will be added to your list of friends on your MySpace page.

Now you may wonder why would you want a MySpace page and the reason why most people have one is because it's fun. You get to have your own webpage (and blog), put on it almost anything you like including music and video clips - all told it's just like having your own space on the Internet!

So if you're looking for a site where you can make your own webpage for free (plus have a free blog) then a good place for you to start would be with

MySpace"

Twitter.com

Just found another interesting website called Twitter.com. Basically what it is a website where you can post what you're doing and when you're doing it. That way you can let people know what you are doing and when you are doing it. Besides updating what you're doing to the website you can also update it via your cellphone and/or your IM service. I haven't tried that yet as I just found out about the website and just posted one message.

It does fit in with the original intention that I had for this blog which was to let my brother know what I was doing and what was going on here in Philadelphia.

So far I see that a lot of people are using this site to let others know about what they are doing. Of course some people are using it for other things other than what the site was intended for but a lot of the people are posting their updates.

I know it may seem like a novelty kind of thing but I thought it was pretty interesting and let's see how long I can keep this up.

It is a pretty good idea for being able to keep track of another person.

8/28/08 Update! - Twitter Suspended Accounts!

It is quite possible that you might get your Twitter.com account suspended! I got an email saying that someone was "following" me on Twitter and when I went to check out their Twitter.com page the site said that the account was suspended! Here is an excerpt from the Twitter.com site:

"A Twitter account may be suspended for a variety of reasons. The most common of which is automated mass following or other types of spammy behavior."

You can find out more about this by clicking here.

8/6/08 Update! - If you belong to Twitter.com then you should definitely ead this blog post about a kind of spam-related link targeted towards Twitter users!

It seems that there are links provided in some Twitter messages that if you click on them will lead you to an adult-related site that you have to pay for in order to look at the adult pictures!

So Be Careful Out There!

Pets

I found this website that has a table listing lost pets. It's called Petfinder. They also will give you a code so that you can put it on your website. So I was going to post the code to one of my websites and I just thought "What the heck" I'll make a page for my own pet.

Rah Jah's Website

Would you believe that my cat also has a blog? There should be a link to it on the above link.

You'd be surprised at how many people have websites devoted entirely to their pets. I have even seen a few memorial websites that honor beloved pets.

Just another wacky example of the many things that you can find on a website!

Gimp

One of the best things about having an all-in-one printer is that it can act as a copy machine. Back a long time ago when I got my first scanner I was glad because now I didn't have to make unneccessary trips to the post office to make copies of something. Now I can copy, fax and scan at any time of the day or night! Once I had to go to a company that specialize in sending faxes because I had to fax a form to a company and of course they wanted it right away and mailing it wasn't an option they gave me - Grrrrrrrrrr! But any way I think it cost me something like $12 dollars to fax a few forms and that made me mad enough to say that I was going to get a fax machine!

Oddly enough my brother is just as computer crazy as I am and he told me of a recent problem that he had when he tried to send an attached file of some forms. It seems the program that he used to convert his documents would only convert them into a .bmp format and since .bmp formats can be huge in size he couldn't attach the file because it exceeded the size limit of his email. That's when I told him about the Gimp Program.

Gimp is a very powerful graphics program that is open sourced and free to download. Here is the website address:

Gimp

I downloaded this program myself and since it has so many capabilities it just confuses the heck out of me but I do use the program when I need the .html coding numbers for different color palets. I'm sure in time I will learn my way around this program. My graphics program of choice is Paint Shop Pro and for more simpler graphic work I will just use Windows Paint.

But the main reason I recommended the Gimp Program to my brother is because this program will let you take a .bmp graphic and convert is to a .jpg or .gif extension which will make the file a lot smaller in size. (I didn't mention the fact that to make a graphic file smaller that you could also reduce the number of colors if its a simple black and white graphic)

So there you have it - another freebie courtesy of the Internet!

Yes the Internet has SEX on it......

It's not everybody's cup of tea but the fact remains that there are numerous sex sites on the Internet. You can find a "friend", find women (or men) to "chat" with and there are chat rooms and webcam sites - especially adult webcam sites all over the Internet!

Just in case you're curious there is a banner on the top right side of this blog that will give you a peek inside the adult world of the Internet. But be forewarned - "dating" on these Internet sites can be just as dangerous as dating in real life! You never know who you will be talking to. Have you seen that Dateline show "To Catch A Predator?" It shows about the online world of the chat rooms and some of the things that go on there.

Now of course not all websites are sex/adult websites and not all chat rooms are about sex and adult subjects. I have participated in lots of chat rooms where sex wasn't even discussed - although that may be hard for one to believe!

So if its your cup of tea you can click on the banner. If it's not your cup of tea just ignore it and go on to the other stuff that's on my blog.