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DoNothingFor2Minutes: Improve Your Short Attention Span In Front Of Your PC

Israel Nicolas — Tue, 31 May 2011 21:01:09 +0000

Working for so long on our computers causes us to be jumpy and lose focus. We have trained ourselves to fiddle the mouse and keyboard so that we can’t stay long on a computer without doing something. Do Nothing For 2 Minutes is a simple web app that challenges you to relax, by forcing you to do nothing for two minutes.

Upon entering the Do Nothing For 2 Minutes page, the two-minute timer will automatically commence. If you move your mouse or press a key on your keyboard, the website will display a “Fail” message and restart its countdown once again. The website also displays a background image of a sunset on a beach while playing the sound of waves, to help you unwind for that period.

Once the countdown is over, the site will display a “well done” message and you may now resume working on your computer.

Features:

Website that can help you relax for two minutes.
Countdown timer that resets if you move the mouse or press a key.
Displays a relaxing image of a sunset on a beach.
Plays a relaxing sound of waves.
Similar Tools: Focuswriter, KoiWriter, and OmmWriter.

Check out Do Nothing For 2 Minutes @ www.donothingfor2minutes.com

Mustachify: Instantly Add A Mustache To A Photo

jpot — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 01:01:29 +0000

Some web apps are useful; others put mustaches onto people faces. Guess which kind Mustachify is? If you didn’t guess, Mustachify puts mustaches onto people’s faces. Here’s how it works (as though this requires explanations!)

Copy the link to any photo on the web and paste it into Mustachify. This magical and revolutionary tool will then analyze the photo for any faces and automatically insert a mustache where one is needed.

Any picture on the web can do, though you might have trouble with photos from password-protected sites such as Facebook. There is sadly no upload feature, but that’s okay: this site does it’s job and does it well provided the picture you want to edit is already online.

This can be a hilarious tool to use with pictures of your friends, male or female. There is no one on the planet who doesn’t look better with a mustache, so experiment and see what you can learn. Enjoy!

Features:

Add a mustache to a picture.
Copy URL of photo and paste into site.
Fun way to tease friends.

Check out Mustachify @ cloudnine.se

THE SQUIRRELIZER: Squirrelize Your Images

Kaly — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 07:08:17 +0000

If you follow web trends chances are you have heard of a squirrel that has once stormed the web and became another internet celebrity. Check out the image below, seen him before?

Now there is fun little app where folks can create their own squirrelized images. Give it a pic that you want squirrelized, customize things like image size, squirrel size, blur etc. and finally click on the “Squirrelize” button. Done.

In case you need some inspiration check out some random images created by others enthusiasts like you.

Check out THE SQUIRRELIZER @ www.lutralutra.co.uk/squirrelizer

HugeURL : Create Enormously Long Links

Kaly — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:17:11 +0000

Completely useless but rather entertaining tool that lets you convert small and nice looking URLs to really long and ugly ones. You can ask, what for? The answer is “Because bigger is better, right?”.

For instance, something as short as www.makeuseof.com can be converted to

Check out Hugeurl @ www.hugeurl.com