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Are you looking for a way to spark your creative fuse?
“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
- E.L. Doctorow
I love to write, and have done so semi-professionally for the past seven years or so. Sometimes though, a good topic to write about it hard to find, or you might be out of creative muses to inspire you. That is where the web site Write for Ten comes into play.
The art of mind mapping is something I think everybody should get into. It is such a great way to get your thoughts together and organized. If your ready to take the next step, and look for a more productive way to mind map – you might want to try out one of these four premium mind mapping services.
MindMeister.com – With mobile, offline and online mind mapping tools, this brain storming tool is perfect to mind map with, no matter where you need to do it from.
The team from COLOURlovers have come up with a fantastic new tool to redesign your own Twitter page. Think of it as a coloring book for your social status.
Once you load the tools up, you can pick from a number of different template designs, or browse through some of the most popular ones. Then all you do is pick a color, change it – then move onto the next. The entire thing is a very zen-like experience. Well, it is if you were ever into coloring as a kid.
Need to share a screencast in a hurry? Have a Twitter account? Screenr will help you create and share your own mini tutorials from your desktop with the world. The benefit here is that you can use a web-based recorder, on Macs or PCs to share how to do something or how something might look.
Far from being just another off topic service, in a world filled with them, the new Web Hosting Show Coupons and Deals page will deliver, and impress you. This was a quick project I cooked up over the weekend, to better serve the public at large by delivering a better way to keep track of the latest coupons, deals and special offers from the entire web hosting world out there.
Having a timer can come in handy for all types of jobs. Lets say you wanted to work on your novel for just one hour a day, or perhaps you needed to get up from the computer a stretch a little bit every 30 minutes? The online tool, e.ggtimer.com is perfect for that.
An egg timer, for those who have never heard of such a device, is something that’s function is to measure a set amount of time. Where do eggs come into the picture? It is most commonly used to aid in cooking an egg in water. What e.ggtimer.com does is it brings that classic idea to the Web.
There are many services out there that offer widgets you can embed into your own web site layouts. How do you know which ones are the best? Well, I am not an expert. Since this is the Internet though, I can pretend.
Here are my top 10 favorite widget related web sites.
Widgetbox – Tons of free widgets to put on your site.
LinkWithin – Post related stories and thumbnails on your web site.
ShoutMix – Free shoutbox/tagboard chat widget.
Everybody can use a little help when it comes to writing. After the Deadline is a plugin for WordPress, that is like your own little sixth grade grammar book, living inside your content management system. They use artificial intelligence and natural language processing technology to find errors in your writing and to offer smart suggestions to correct them.
So, what all does After the Deadline do?
This has to be the trippiest use of Twitter I have seen yet. TweetRad.io will let you listen to what others are tweeting about, using what they call “tweet-to-speech” technology. Pick one of the options they have featured across the top of the page, tech, news, sports, funny, featured or search for any phrase then wait a few seconds. Soon, your browser will be displaying and reading tweets out to you.
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Mitch Keeler is nothing more than your average Joe trying to leave his mark on the world though both his professional work and his online projects, articles, podcasts and more.
