Juxtapoz – Celebrating the various visual art forms, Juxtapose magazine -a Weekly Blog winner- is a beautiful website celebrating exceptional street art, illustrations, tattoos and graffiti. To truly discover what Juxtapoz magazine is about you have to see it. The magazine’s video section would be my recommended first stop. That’s where I found the video below, Kinect Graffiti by Jean-Christophe Naour.
Speed Runner – Finger agility and seeing fast what’s ahead are the two key skills for playing Speed Runner. This game is both challenging and addicting, so watch out! Get to the bomb fast before the time is up to proceed to the next level. Good Luck!
Fooducate – Eating better and healthier is now easier than ever. No more excuses! Fooducate, a free iPhone and Android app is here to help you make smarter choices at the supermarket. The app’s barcode scanning feature facilitates deciphering those long and complicated ingredients lists, and it tells you straight up what the product you’re holding in your hand is made of (both good and bad ingredients).
The Fooducate team is made up of parents, dietitians and “techies,” which means you can trust the app’s health recommendations and product information. Use Fooducate to scan products, compare and seek alternative choices, or learn more about healthy nutrition. All you have to do is download the free app and scan products. Fooducate will do the rest.
Fooducate, especially considering the fact that it’s free, is a must-have health app you’ll appreciate and benefit from for the long term. Its interface is easy to follow and interact with, and the barcode feature works like a charm. I have already added this app to my iPhone and I use it every week. Highly recommended!
BillGuard – This new service aims to be the dead-serious watch dog for your credit card bills, calling itself the ‘Antivirus’ for credit card bills. What does it do, exactly? “BillGuard scans your card activity for hidden charges, billing errors, forgotten subscriptions, scams and fraud, and alerts you via email when your attention is required.”
BillGuard truly is a personal finance savior, and it’s particularly essential to those owning more than just a few cards and finding it hard to keep up with it all. Another cool BillGuard perk is that in addition to its automated transaction scan for errors and hidden fees by over 100 tests, it also scans the web to see if other people have posted complaints or flagged certain transactions and merchants. This ‘people power’ makes the BillGuard community a watch dog in and of itself. All for one and one for all, so to speak.
To learn more about BillGuard and how it works, watch the video below.
Listgeeks – List sites online are anything but a novelty, and many sites have taken a shot at being THE best list site out there. Listgeeks is yet another list spot that has threw in the social factor into the mix, making it super easy to create, share and follow lists online.
As for the types of lists you will see on Listgeeks, that ranges from the trivial ‘best actors’ and such to favorite movie soundtracks, and many others in-between. To create your own lists and start following other users, sign up and create your profile. Here’s a particular list I found entertaining and felt like sharing: Trends that Freak Me Out (spoiler: clogs, little kids on Facebook/Twitter and other hilarious things you will agree with).
TestQ – This well of knowledge and career quiz site is brought to us by Monster, the job search company. TestQ is packed with various quizzes that help you make better decisions, see what career fields suit you best, and it can even help you decide what to major in at college.
Although the idea of having a website dedicated to quizzes might constitute a huge turnoff to some, scratching beneath TestQ’s surface reveals a most valuable job and career resource worth exploring every now and then. I actually found that I liked taking quizzes… My personal favorite here was What Motivates You?
Dishfolio – With the catchy motto “eat. share. drool.,” Dishfolio is a food-photography aggregator that, quite similarly to Food Porn and Food Gawker, showcases large thumbnails of mouth-watering dish recipes for you to enjoy, hence the portfolio association.
In terms of concept, Dishfolio goes where others have gone before, but the execution makes it all worth while. Dishfolio will bring lots of inspiring and yummy foods right to your screen, and you can get the recipe of all the posts by simply clicking on the image. Here’s an example of my favorite summer breakfast drink, Mango Lassi.
DocsTeach – The National Archives are reaching out to teachers and educators across the country, offering an amazing collection of primary resources of historical documents and information. Moreover, DocsTeach invites teachers to browse and create classroom activities built around primary sources. DocsTeach is the perfect example of how drastically education has changed since the old blackboard school days. It is the perfect aid for the didactic confluence of fascinating history with engaging teaching methods.
Here’s an activity example I found on DocsTeach, The Settlement of the American West. Click the image below to get to the full activity.
Creative Criminals – This cool Weekly Blog winner scored lots of attention and therefore made it into this week’s Weekly Faves lineup. Creative Criminals is a website created by Rindert, Bert and Sander “who all have links to the advertising world.” This means the ads you will see here (in both poster and video forms) are filtered, top-notch advertisements from all over the world that are bound to impress and call to action. Want an example?
Here’s an innovative ad concept by a natural insecticide company in Thailand:
Company: Shieldtox
Agency: Euro RSCG, Bangkok
Country: Thailand
Baubauhaus – Here’s a daily design feed you should RSS to even if you’re not a creative professional or artist. Appreciating aesthetics and creativity is just as important and therefore, Baubauhaus is a must site to add to your web favorites list. The site provides a daily dose of inspiration in design, illustration, photography, fashion and in all else art-related.
Exploring Baubauhaus made me feel like I could spend my entire day browsing the gorgeous and inspiring entries on the site. The site’s content is not always original, but it sure is pretty! Here’s my favorite photography post, Green by Linda Lundgren.
GoBarbra – It would be fair to say that when the Barbra Streisand remix song came out, it made that year’s summer particularly sweet and fun. Now you have the chance to customize your own Barbra Streisand song with a choice of words (up to four syllables works best). To give you an example, I chose -as a tribute to Barbra herself- the words Woman in Love. Click here to listen to it.
Porsche Everyday – When a powerful brand wants to increase exposure even more online, in a way that’s part seductive, part informative, what does it do? It creates a sexy website that doesn’t take ‘no’ for an answer. That is exactly what Porsche Everyday is about: an interactive, media-rich website offering close encounters with the luxurious sports car.
Explore videos and stories of proud Porsche owners, see the various models and even build your own. Although this website’s main purpose is advertisement, Porsche did a great job at maintaining the famous car’s prestigious reputation.