Free Spanish Lessons

No habla Espanol? No problemo!

Learn basic Spanish with Study Spanish, a website that features free basic Spanish tutorials. Although the website actually sells CDs of conversational Spanish lessons, the free resources available on the website are very useful and extensive. It's a great way to start learning about one of the most spoken languages in the world.

Study Spanish presents lessons that are easy to understand. The grammar explanation is in-depth starting with the gender of nouns - the use of el and la. It also has a long list of vocabulary words which are categorized, cultural notes about the language, idiomatic expressions used in everyday conversation, and sample quizzes. It also has "Listen and Repeat" drills to help you pronounce the words like a native speaker.

The site is useful to anyone who either needs to study the basic of the language, or to just brush up on the Spanish lessons learned in high school.

Be an instant super hero for free

Move over Superman! Now, everyone can be a super hero with this cool application from Kodak - Make Me Super, a website that makes anybody feel like a member of the Justice League. Make Me Super transforms you into a super hero instantly with a video and image to boot. All for free!

The website is really fun to try. I got a kick out of making a video of my "super husband." First, choose your gender. Second, enter your name or what you want to be called, eg., Super Mom, Super Girl, etc. Third, upload a photo that you want to be placed on the super hero face template. You can choose a picture either from your Kodak Gallery account or from your desktop. Once the image has been uploaded, adjust the size of the photo by scaling or rotating it to fit the face template. Then click on the video button and enjoy your super hero 10 seconds of fame. You can also share the video to your "super friends" through e-mail. Also as a bonus, you can download your super picture onto your computer.

So go ahead and see if you look good in a spandex and a cape. :)

I Love Your Blog Award

Wow, I am really honored to have been awarded the I LOVE YOUR BLOG Award from The Freebie Blogger. What a joy to be considered such, even if lately I haven't been updating this blog due to my super crazy work schedule. Thank you, The Freebie Blogger!

The rules of the award are as follows:

1. The winner can put the logo on his/her blog.
2. Link the person you received your award from.
3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs.
4. Put links of those blogs on yours.
5. Leave a message on the blogs of those you have nominated.

So "paying it forward", I would like to give the I Love Your Blog Award to:

Freebie Trading - legitimate ways to make money on the Internet

Me Find Home - homeless animals in the Philippines in need of help, features great photos too

Designs of Tattoos - informative and comprehensive guide to all about tattoos

Paperback Designs - offers free chic and amazing blogger templates

Tip Junkie - creative crafts and ideas for the whole family

Kay's K9s...& Kritters - artistic, unique handcrafted dogs and cats miniatures

Freebie Blogger - real guide to free goodies...(to Freebie Blogger, you don't need to write back another I Love Your Blog award :) )

Totally Fun and Free Online Games

Bored? Need to kill time but do not have anything to do? Or perhaps, you need a short break from what you're doing? Visit Friv for free, fun and addicting games.

Friv offers 200 free games, from easy to difficult. The website combines some of the best flash games online, which are displayed randomly in small squares. They are not categorized nor arranged alphabetically. But title of the game is revealed as you point the mouse on it.

From Tetris to Sudoku, Friv's selection of games is so vast. If you get tired of playing action-type games, you can just go back and try a puzzle game. Because of so many selection of games available, just deciding on what to try first could take a lot of your time. But surely once you get started, you'll definitely won't notice the time pass by.

Free Printable Graph & Line Papers

Need graph paper for a calculus project fast? Ran out of music sheet template? No worries, you can easily get one from Printable Paper, a website that offers hundreds of free lined papers to download and print.

Printable Paper is an awesome tool especially for students who use a lot of graph and other lined papers for school projects and assignments. Its got polar, octagon and hexagon graph papers and isometric papers, while their selection of grid papers come in a variety of square dimensions and line thickness.

If you are a musically-inclined person, or someone who composes arrangements, the website offers free printable music papers that come with various number of staves. They also have chord and tablature papers.

The website also offers free printable penmanship papers which are useful if your child is learning how to try. These penmanship papers are best for handwriting practices.

All free printable papers are available in PDF format and comes in letter, legal and A4 sizes. Also, if you see a type of graph of line paper you need, but is not available on the website, you can always let the developers about it, and maybe soon, they will have it on the site.

Send Free Photo Messages

If you can't say your message in words, then say it in picture, Polariod style!

Using a Polaroid-style background, Photo Notes lets you send cool photo messages to your friends and loved ones for free. It is so easy to use. Even children can "play" with Photo Notes.

To start, choose a photo that you want to send and upload it. Then, choose a polariod-style frame that you want to use for that photo. Next, click on a style font and color you want. Type your message on the box provided. Be concise as possible, as you only have a maximum of 50 letters for your message. Click preview.

If you're satisfied with your photo and message, enter the e-mail address of your recipient(s). You may also import e-mail addresses from your address book. Lastly, to make sure that it's a human who is using the Photo Notes services, enter the code shown and press e-mail. Your recipient(s) will get your photo message within minutes.

I had fun using Photo Notes, and I admit it was quite addicting. Here are some photos I made from the website. These are photos of some of the lovable dogs available for adoption at the Peninsula SPCA:





Sinatra is a brindle male German Shepherd Dog and Boxer mix; Peaches is a purebred Staffordshire Bull Terrier; Muttley is a sociable black and white Labrador Retriever mix.

Send BIG files up to 2GB free!

When my husband and I needed to quickly send our 1.35GB video message for my sister's wedding last month, I had a hard time looking for a website that could let me send a file that big for free. It was quite frustrating searching for a website that could do it, because most of the free file sharing applications only allow you to upload a file for a maximum of 100 MB. But alas, discovering Filemail was an answered prayer!

Filemail is a file sharing website that allows you to send documents, photos, videos and other files for up to 2GB. But what's even better is, you do not need to create an account, log in or verify an e-mail to do this. Upload your file directly on to the website (uploading can take a while depending on how big your file is), enter your recipient's e-mail address and your e-mail address. You can also include a message to your recipient.

Filemail sends your recipient an e-mail containing the link where the file(s) can be downloaded. It also mentions the number of times the file can be downloaded and the number of days it will be available on their server.

Even if it took me two hours to upload our video message. But still, using Filemail was totally worth it.