Citrify - Free Photo Editor for the Web

I just discovered this great free online photo editor, Citrify. With this photo editor you can remove blemishes, shine and wrinkles. Hue, contrast, saturation and brightness can be adjusted and teeth can be whitened. Citrify even has some great special effects that can be applied to photos. So far they've developed the Hulkify, Obamify, Sketch and Watercolour effects.

They even have a Facebook app so that you can edit your Facebook photos directly from there.

 http://www.citrify.com/

Bob Harper - Biggest Loser Trainer - Podcasts

I have always loved the active and healthy lifestyle. After a period of food addiction, I am back on the road to making healthy choices, losing weight and exercising. These podcasts by The Biggest Loser trainer, Bob Harper, have great tips and motivators to help keep me (and you) making the right choices everyday to continue to pursue a healthy lifestyle.

All of the current podcasts are located in grey on the left side of the website.

http://www.nbc.com/the-biggest-loser/exclusives/resources/trainer-podcast/set-goals/

Reknit - Turn Your Old Sweater Into Something New and Fabulous

From the website:

How it works:

1.) you send an old sweater to my mom

2.) she unravels & reknits it into something new.

3.) a brand new, hand-made, one of a kind item is sent back to you.

Each month a new item is knitted. This month (March 2010) you can turn your old sweater into a new hat. Only 30 orders at $30 each are taken each month. As of today, there are only 5 more order slots left for March.

http://www.rekn.it/

Free Folk Album Download - Amazon.com - Ryko: Flash of Light Sampler

While browsing the freebies that Amazon.com has available, I found this sampler album that I thought I should share here. Folk music is one of my favorite genres of music and this sampler has some great songs on it.

Ryko: Flash of Light Sampler

Artists included:

Will Hoge

Sam & Ruby

Jupiter One

Matt Duke

Leslie Mendelson

Justin Currie

Gary Louris

Nickel Eye

Thea Gilmore

Free Weekly Meal Planner & Monthly Menu Planner Templates & Spreadsheets

The printable meal planners include 2 styles of Weekly Meal Planners, a Two-Week Meal Planner and a Monthly Meal Planner.

The meal planner templates for Excel and Open Office include a Weekly Meal Planner, a Monthly Meal Planner and a Monthly Meal Planner with Grocery List.

Here is more from the website about the templates:

The Weekly Meal Planner spreadsheet isn't just for printing a blank meal planner. For each main dish, side dish, breakfast, and lunch entry, you can select an item from a drop-down list within the cell. You can edit the meal lists based upon your own favorite foods and recipes. The weekly meal planner also has a notes and grocery list section.

The Monthly Meal Planner is great for longer-term planning. It contains lists for main dishes and side dishes and has the same type of drop-down list selection as the weekly meal planner above. If you prefer to write your meals ought by hand, this template works well for printing blank monthly menu planners.

The Monthly Meal Planner with Grocery List is a new (improved??) version of the monthly meal planner. It lets you list ingredients for each meal so that you can create a grocery list automatically. It does unit conversions and includes a place to enter prices. If you think this looks too complicated, you should have seen my first few attempts.

http://www.vertex42.com/ExcelTemplates/meal-planner.html

Next Direct Children's Model Competition 2010 - $100,000 College Scholarship

Britain's most loved children's clothing brand, Next, is launching in America and to celebrate they are holding a children’s modeling competition to find a 4-7 year old who will become the face of Next Direct (their global presence and U.S. launch) and win a $100,000 college scholarship fund and one year contract with Wilhelmina Models.

Entries will open on their Facebook page, facebook.com/nextdirect, at 7am EST on February 18th.  Moms just need to upload a photograph of their child.  Fifty finalists will be invited to Universal Studios on April 24th where they will choose the winner.

Next is one of Britain’s most popular brands – there are over 650 Next stores worldwide selling classic-contemporary fashion for men, women and children, plus stylish furniture and homewares. As Europe’s biggest fashion e-tailer (with a global online presence through Next Direct), the brand is at the forefront of home-shopping, too.

Be sure to visit Next Direct's Facebook page, facebook.com/nextdirect, for more details about their brand and the contest.

Disclaimer:  Although I would have posted about this contest based on the college scholarship alone and the wonderful opportunity this gives to the right family, I was compensated via store voucher for this post.

The Great Backyard Bird Count 2010 - Feb. 12-15

The Great Backyard Birdcount 2010 is Feb. 12 - 15.

From the website:

The Great Backyard Bird Count is an annual four-day event that engages bird watchers of all ages in counting birds to create a real-time snapshot of where the birds are across the continent and in Hawaii. Anyone can participate, from beginning bird watchers to experts. It takes as little as 15 minutes on one day, or you can count for as long as you like each day of the event. It’s free, fun, and easy—and it helps the birds.

Participants count birds anywhere for as little or as long as they wish during the four-day period. They tally the highest number of birds of each species seen together at any one time. To report their counts, they fill out an online checklist at the Great Backyard Bird Count web site.

As the count progresses, anyone with Internet access can explore what is being reported from their own towns or anywhere in the United States and Canada. They can also see how this year's numbers compare with those from previous years. Participants may also send in photographs of the birds they see. A selection of images is posted in the online photo gallery.

The Great Backyard Bird Count 2010 is only a few days away.  Mark it on your calendar now and head to the website to find out how to participate.

http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc/