Who doesn’t love a little traffic humor?  I’ve done my best to search the Web for some of my favorite traffic signs out there.  Some are real, some are questionable, and well – they are all something that would make you do a double take if you saw them on your way to work.

Are we watching out for falling cars, or crazy people in the streets?

Keep your hands on your brains at all times.

Well, which one is it?

You know they’re right…

Stopping with The Supremes?

… and finally, my favorite sign, warning you about the cautions of the sign.

Hope you enjoyed, and if you know of any other funny traffics signs you know or love, leave them in the comments.  Would love to check them out!

Well, you could spend a lot of money for a program like Photoshop, take hours learning how to create custom banners, fonts and designs, or you could just go to magcover.com.  I’ll let you pick how you would like to spend your Christmas week.

How does it work? With this web site, you can easily create your own unique magazine cover.  All you do is pick your photo, edit your headlines and you are ready to go.  There are over 100 magazine templates to choose from – so the only thing limiting you is your imagination.

You can also get your custom magazine covers printed, framed or put on a shirt.  Might be too late to create one for Christmas this year – but might come in handy for your egotistical friend’s birthday.  To create your own magazine cover, go visit magcover.com.

How simple is it?  All you do is click on one of the empty “Upload Image” boxes, select the image, wait and you are done.

Really, that is it.  No more.  It is that simple.  How simple?  This is such an easy image uploading process that Picamatic decided to do almost the same exact thing.

So, which one is the better option?  I figured, since he has used both, I would ask Plug Man himself.  What do you think Plug-meister?

Actually I am ashamed in this great day and age of Internet innovation, that two online companies could show no courage to really make their own online tool more unique for the public at large.  And furthermore…

Ok, that is enough Plug Man.

But honestly, in this day of Web 2.0, you would think that one would be more encouraged to go their own route and not be afraid of vicissitude.

Ok, we get it – anyways, yes both Pict and Picamatic offer a really unique way to upload your graphics or images in a single click.  As for which one you should use? Try them both and see which one performs better for you, because as Plug Man said, neither are all that innovative once you get past the cool single click free image uploading and hosting.

Free Vaga Icons – this set of 60 semi-transparent .png icons are all 16×16 in size are are ready to be download and used for free!

Free Web Dev Icons from IcoJoy – Icojoy team is happy to present you some free icon sets. These icons are free to use in any kind of project unlimited times.

Splashy Icons – 470 icons and counting, all free to use for any web site layout design.

Free Web Design Icon Set – There are 310 of them and they are designed to be used on web design projects, but some are also suited to be used as system icons. They are all 16 by 16 pixels, in PNG format and free to use in print and web projects.

Sizcons – This icon set is free to use for any way you see fit and is available in both 16×16 and 12×12 sizes.

Xiao Icons – This free icon set is alright to use without any permission.  They are simple, great looking and free!  Perfect for any web designer on a budget.

FamFamFam Icons – The FamFamFam icon sets (Silk, Flags and Mini) have been a favorite of many web site designers for a long long long time.  Most of these are free to use, as long as you show the creator how they are being used and you give them a link back – which isn’t too much to ask.

So in conclusion, the person who said you can’t have something for nothing was wrong.  Here is a LOT of something for nothing.  I would suggest though that if you use any of these icon sets, you do thank the designer in one way, shape or form.  I am sure they would appreciate it.  Have another set of free web designer icons you like, or you would like to share with the world?  Feel free to leave your suggestions and praise in the comments.

Free image web hosts are a dime a dozen, and with that said here is another time for your piggy bank of free web hosting options.  ImgLot delivers free image hosting with the idea of simplicity in mind.  Trying it out, I uploaded a test image here.

Site features include:

• Free uploading.
• No bandwidth limits.
• Images are never deleted.

The only thing that the web site’s creator is asking in return, is that you tell others about the ImgLot hosting service.  After you upload your image, you are given the option of a direct link, a page, forum code for linking and HTML code too.  You can also share your image on a number of different social news and networking sites.

Give them a shot at ImgLot.com and follow them on Twitter (@ImgLot) for more news and updates.

Want to share your art, your photos or your digital creations via Twitter?  There are a lot of ways to get the task down, however here are the seven best image sharing sites that aim themselves at the tweeter on the street.

• flick.to.twitt – Quick and easy Flickr to Twitter photo sharing. 
• Twitgoo – A Quick and reliable image host aimed at Twitter users.
• Twitpickr – Quickly send your TwitPic images to Flickr.
• twitngo – Quickly produce Twitter status updates with photos or images.
• Twitrpix – Another instant photo sharing via Twitter web application.
• TwitPic – Probably the most popular Twitter related photo sharing web site so far.
• Twitxr – Take a picture and instantly share on Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and more.

Know of another you love to use, but didn’t make it on the list?  Leave it in the comments. 

All you need to do is browse for the file you want to convert, and then hit the “start conversion” button.  Some of the files it currently supports include:

• image/photo files (jpeg, gif, png, svg…)
• audio formats (mp3, ogg…)
• documents (doc, pdf, odt, txt, rtf…)
• programming source code (java, php, cpp…)
• web documents (html, htm…)
• archive (zip, rar…)
• video, fonts, chemical file formats and more

Once uploaded, every converted file has a unique web address created for it, so you can point others to it and share the document in question.  So if you are searching for a free way to convert any file into a web page, give them a shot at File2.ws.

How do you use it?

• Go to Pict.com main page
• Click any of the "Upload image" buttons and browse to find image(s) that you want to upload

After a short while, your image(s) will be uploaded. To share uploaded image move the mouse over the image and click "Share it" link. To view uploaded image just click on image thumbnail.  The JPG, GIF and PNG image file formats are supported.  Also at this time there no limit to the number of files you can upload and share.

To help out with ease of use, they even thrown in Firefox add-on. Overall, I would say this web site is well worth checking out if you are in search of a quick and light image hosting tool.

You should know the basic song and dance by now.  You choose your picture, you upload it and you can share it.  This service is much of the same.  Once you upload the image you are given the option to “edit” it.  Only editing you can do for now is changing the name. 

Once you have done that, you are given the final result as a URL.  You can check out my test one one to see an example of the final product in action:  http://rapidpik.com/show/4406/jd9gf

Some of the nice features here are that you can share the image using a number of social services, you can view the image in all kinds of different sizes and you also get a flash player (which comes in handy if you upload multiple images at one time).  So if your looking for another free image host to add to your favorites – give rapidpik a shot.

The Rewards of Being a Good Plurker

The "rewards" feature of Plurk is very interesting too.  You can get a little star by your name if you achieve a certain goal.  Also, certain customizations (such as page styles) are not available to you until your Karma number has reached a certain point.

Go Out and Do Something Creative!

A great inspiration as well is the status messages you can pick from.  You have:

freestyle, loves, likes, shares, gives, hates, wants, wishes, has, will, asks, was, feels, thinks, says, and is

Speaking of inspiration, seeking that great conversation starter? 

• Messages of "good morning" seem to go over well with your following…
• Random messages really do the trick, create snippets from your brain do wonders too.
• You can’t forget the plugs for your own site content or interesting links you have found on the Web.
• Plurk is much more social than the other status and micro-blogs out there.  Many more replies here and much more feedback to be had if you just ask.

Share Your Photos and Videos with Everybody!

You can share photos too, just make sure that link your posting ends with a .gif, .jpg or .png.  Plurk will automatically generate thumbnailed images for you and open them up inside of Plurk when somebody clicks on them.  The same is done for YouTube videos too. 

What Makes Plurk So Different?

The timeline is what sets Plurk apart from the competitors.  This gives you a unique view of all the messages from your friend that may seem a little odd at first, but you quickly catch on.  You also have the option to view all the new message, or mark all messages as read.

Maybe it is just me, but Plurkers seem to be a lot more friendly too.  They are all looking for replies of their own, so they might be more willing to stop by your personal Plurk page and say, "Hello!".  Looking for a friend?  Feel free to click here and add me!

When push comes to shove, Plurk really is becoming a favorite stop for me (or several stops depending on the speed of the day) and I wish them the best of luck in the future.