Delish – One of the most comprehensive cooking & recipe sites I’ve seen in a while, MSN’s Delish is truly a one-stop place for all your cooking, party hosting and food how-to needs.

Delish’s various features are too many to list here, but here are the main things I think you will enjoy exploring: the obvious, recipe collection, broken down to Popular -it’s where I found an amazing list of Under-30-Minutes Recipes– Special Features, and Hints & Help. More interesting sections include Parties & Holidays, Food in the news, and Coupons. Although Delish is an all-you-need resource for cooking, I recommend consulting our Cooking and Recipes pages for complementary websites.

Nuji – The idea behind Nuji is simple; “a free service where you can share and discover products you love with like-minded people.” How does it work? Use the Facebook Connect to log in, install the Nuji bookmarklet (a simple drag and drop installation), download the iPhone app if you wish, and start tagging. The Nuji innovation is simple, yet so powerful and useful I fell in love with it at first tag! See the screen shot below of one of my Nuji tags I did over at Urban Outfitters.

Once you’re all set up with the bookmarklet, you simply surf the Web as you would normally do, and when you stumble upon an interesting product of any kind, you click the ‘Tag with Nuji’ toolbar in your browser and select the tag location. After you have made some tags you can then proceed to start following other Nuji users with your line of taste, be it fashion and style, technology or any other field. I had a terrific time using Nuji, and I’ve already found several Nuji users to be inspired by.Here are but a few products I added to my Nuji list.

Teach Parents Tech – Don’t we all have at least one member in the family who has given up all efforts to learn how to make the most out of the Web? My 86 year-old grandma uses her PC offline to play solitaire, and online to read the news -she visits over 10 major news sites per day!- and receive emails, as long as these are text-only, basic messages without any attachments or links. On numerous different occasions I have tried tempting her to learn the wonders of the Web, but she would always reply with the same aphoristic claim: “Honey, I’m too old for that.”

My relentless efforts of Web-pushing (including creating for my grandma an All My Faves mini user showcasing all the news and health sites she reads obsessively every day) fail to lure my granny into deeper levels of Web exploration and interaction. It seems she’s dead set on keeping it as basic as possible, and even that, she says, is way too much. Seen as my grandma’s case is a familiar one among seniors, baby boomers and individuals with a low-tech life approach, it was wonderful to discover Google’s recent initiative, Teach Parents Tech, helping to eradicate the strong technophobia pandemic among older people.

Beautifully designed and super-easy to use, Teach Parents Tech is a two-part process; first is the form (shown above) you, the experienced Web users fills out, checking the boxes next to the online actions you wish your parents/grandparents/aunts & uncles would learn. Once you hit Preview you will be taken to a new page structured in a letter format including how-to videos corresponding to the issues you checked in the form. Next all you have to do is provide your and the recipient’s email addresses, and you’re good to go.

For my grandma I picked the two how-to videos below (how to copy & paste, and how to change the PC’s desktop background, respectively). The Teach Parents Tech project is outstanding in both its concept and execution, and I highly recommend using it for the technophobes in your family. This is a keeper!

I wonder how long it would take for my grandma to learn how to use Google Reader. On second thought, I think I’ll just take it one baby step at a time…

YouTube Rewind – Every year YouTube recaps the most viral, influential and most viewed videos online. This year, under the Rewind title, YouTube nicely showcases the videos that made the most buzz on the Web in 2010. You can choose between the Most Watched Videos of the Year, Most Watched Music Videos, or explore the Fastest Rising Search Terms (kind of like Google Trends for YouTube).

I loved the visual video-based time line display of  the “moments that defined 2010” (shown below). YouTube also wants you to join the discussion, so just below the time line you’ll see log in options via Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Log in and join the conversation. Another interesting feature I found here on YouTube Rewind is YouTube Trends (looks like someone read my thoughts…). Enjoy!

Stuff No One Told Me – A Weekly Blogs king, this witty and fun blog is all about lessons learned, wrapped up with a good laugh. Alex Noriega, the Spanish-born creator, indulges us with a concise statement about life, accompanied by a cute illustration on a monthly basis. Once a month is hardly the update frequency you would expect from a blog, but it’s totally worth it. It’s clever, lovely, and intellectually satisfying. Kudos, Alex! See a couple of posts as decent examples.

Isle of Tune – Create a world of music using streets, cars, trees and houses in this whimsical interactive game. As creators of Isle of Tune explain, “create musical journeys from street layouts. Roadside elements are your instruments and cars are the players. Share your island for others to play and vote on!”

I recommend starting out with the demo island to get the basics first. Here’s an image of my demo Isle of Tune.

Vote for the Best Games of 2010 – It’s the second year now that we’ve been keeping the ‘Best of the year’ voting tradition, and even though the voting for the Best Sites of 2010 is already closed (winners will be announced later today), the voting event for the Best Games of 2010 will continue until Wednesday, December 29.

Although all 40 game finalists are awesome and addicting, only 10 will score the winning title. “Like” your top game choices and help to make a difference! See all top 40 nominees in the image below, but be sure to click it and go to the actual page to vote. Play on!

Wishing you an especially Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Promising new and sweet surprises on allmyfaves.com in 2011…

Todo.ly – Sounds like a task manager, doesn’t it? Well, you got it. Todo.ly is a free projects, tasks and other to do’s organization tool that endeavors to facilitate and manage your busy life. According to the website, Todo.ly is “a super easy Task Management tool. Allows you to quickly create tasks, and organize them into projects. Set Due Date, and Priority for the different tasks to focus on what you really need to do.”

Although the free service Todo.ly offers is, in terms of life practicality and simplification, a great one, I can’t really see myself abandoning my Google account wonders -including Gmail, calendar, docs, tasks and reminders- and using Todo.ly exclusively. Then again, I realize not everyone is so heavily dependent on Google’s tools for the day-to-day projects and routine as I am. These very same users will undoubtedly appreciate and enjoy Todo.ly’s excellent service. Here’s my Todo.ly frontpage after I had listed my weekly projects.

Moment Garden – Sites celebrating your new baby’s birth and first years in life aren’t a digital novelty. Excited parents and 1st time parents-to-be can make use of an abundance of baby related resources online that combine photos, videos, family newsletters and invitations.

Moment Garden is playing in the same overall baby celebration field, only in national rather than little league. According to the website’s About,  Moment Garden is about collecting, documenting and sharing special moments with loved ones, capturing that “something you can re-live everyday. Something that celebrates your child’s life and keeps your family and friends updated of everything that’s happening.

How does Moment Garden compare to the other baby-childhood visual documenters out there? Decide for yourself.

Jumo – This website is simply amazing. It has cleverly combined the world of NGO/NPOs with the social network sphere, making it the best ‘follow your cause’ venue currently on the Web. In simpler terms, Jumo “makes it easy for you to find, follow, and support the issues and organizations that are important to you.”

Once you’ve signed up via Facebook, the Jumo platform asks you to select your areas of interest (such as human rights, environment and animals, poverty, art & culture, etc.). Next, based on your location, the Jumo system showcases nine different organizations and causes for you to follow in each of your chosen fields. See it here:

When you’re done, you’re taken to Jumo’s silverlining page: a Facbook profile-like page, customized according to your preferences, displaying important news and updates -feeds, really- relevant to your profile, plus suggested causes and organizations to follow. It looks amazing, includes content I’d actually like to read and it’s all for a good purpose. Hooray Jumo!

eBay Deal Finder – A new beta feature from eBay, the Deal Finder puts hot deals in the spotlight, with new grab-it now sales in various popular categories (music, video games, books, movies and electronics). The last mentioned category is super sweet -see the screen shot below.

The ‘only 2 left’ notice is a genius marketing incentive, and eBay makes great use of all its e-commerce power to make this site as attractive as possible. I know I was tempted… All products listed here are ‘Buy it Now’ deals, so the entire bidding aspect eBay is known for is taken out of the equation to create a simple, direct and rewarding online purchase experience. See anything you like here? You may also want to stop by our Happy Holidays and Gift Guide pages for some extra great deals to grab before Xmas.