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50 Best Websites 2014

50 Best Websites 2014

30 Best Websites And Apps That Will Save You Money On Almost Everything In these tough economic times, most of us are doing what we can to save money. There are many websites that can help you do just that, and you can often get a lot of stuff for free. Here are 30 of the best websites in the world that will help you save money on just about everything: 1. Five Dollar Dinners: Recipes, Printable Coupons Find recipes for family meals that only cost $5 or less to make and save money on your grocery bills. 2. Take those old books you’ve already read and trade them for some you haven’t read. 3. Get restaurant free reservations and save money on your bills so you can afford to dine out more often. 4. Don’t throw away your old electronics. 5. Find a network of people who are trading free goods in their own communities. 6. This is a Pinterest board with amazing DIY design ideas. 7. Switch or give away unwanted cell phone plans without worrying about breaking contracts or additional fees. 8. 9. 10. 11. This is an online consignment store for women and children. 12.

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Best of 2013: Top 10 Cool Websites of the Year Best of 2013: Top 10 Cool Websites of the Year Posted on Monday, January 6th, 2014 by Emily Mendel 2013 is over. The Best of 2013! As another year comes to an end, we look back on memorable news moments, notable celebrity scandals, and most importantly (at least for the All My Faves team), the cool websites that 2013 introduced to us. Most Useful Internet Tool: Surfly The winner in our first category is Surfly, a screen-sharing platform that allows you to browse the web with friends and business colleagues. Staff Pick: Cloze We let you vote for the top website in each category, but we think each website is awesome in their own way. The Best Music, Video & Photo Service: Slidely The standout music, video, and picture site of the year is Slide.ly. Staff Pick: 5by 5by is not only our staff pick for the category, but possibly our favorite site of the year. 5by filters through the millions of YouTube videos so you can watch the perfect video for your current mood. Staff Pick: creativeLIVE

2014: The Year In Digg The last year has been a wild one here at Digg. While continuing to grow our homepage offerings, Digg Videos, and Digg Reader, we built Digg Deeper, created Digg In A Box, and launched Digg Originals. Basically, something for everyone (unless you’re one of those people who’s never satisfied, which, come to think of it, is seemingly everyone on the Internet these days). Most Dugg We're still not sure what that means. Best Long Reads The long and the long of it. Best How To's Just the tips. The Physics Of... Everything is subject to the laws of nature (except Helen Mirren). Story V. The battles you never thought mattered. Best Photos From The Daily Digg

Best of 2014: Top 10 Cool Websites of the Year « The @allmyfaves Blog: Expert Reviews about Cool New Sites Best of 2014: Top 10 Cool Websites of the Year Posted on Monday, January 5th, 2015 by Toby Sanders 2014 is in the record books as a great year that produced cool websites, apps, and games that will hold our attention for hours at a time. At the end of every year, it’s a tradition here at All My Faves to create a list of the top 10 cool websites, apps and games that emerged during this past year. Enjoy the top 10 coolest websites of the year! The Best of 2014! Even though 2014 is over, it’s OK to take a look back sometimes and reflect on what made the year great! Best News & Culture Site: Unmapped Unmapped is a magazine about the World’s unmapped places delivering stories from around the world. Each issues is dedicated to a different topic, and because this is on line, the site can make more of graphics, maps, and design enhancing the articles.Articles are written in the first person offering a unique reading experience generally not offered by other publications dedicated to travel.

25 Killer Websites that Make You Cleverer It’s easy to forget that we have access to a virtually limitless resource of information, i.e. the Internet. For a lot of us, this is even true at our fingertips, thanks to the ubiquity of smartphones and an ever-increasing push for online greatness by tech engineers all over the world. As a result, there are countless websites out there that are geared to make you smarter and more brilliant for either a low or no cost. Here are just 25 killer websites that may just make you more clever than ever before. 1. Duolingo This isn’t the first time I’ve recommended this language-teaching website (and app), and it certainly won’t be the last. 2. Have you ever wanted to pick up a subject you’re not well-versed in, but you didn’t have the money to invest in a college course? 3. Guitar is one of the few instruments out there that’s actually pretty easy to learn if you’re a little older, making it one of the most accessible instruments. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 19. 20. 21.

Cool and Interesting Websites to Visit When You're Bored 30 Jan 2014 Here are some cool and interesting websites that will make you smile and also help beat that afternoon energy slump. couch mode print story I have added these non-tech related websites in my “weekly” bookmarks folder. Dear Photograph – The website features photographs of people holding up old pictures that were taken at the exact spot several years ago. Also see: The Most Useful Websites Lamebook – Weird and hilarious stuff that people post on Facebook. 100 Websites To See Before You Die (Part 1) - Page 2 Shape the Hive What are humans, really, but so many bees, buzzing away? That’s the question (we think) asked by Shape The Hive, a visual “experiment in digital collaboration.” In more concrete terms, Shape The Hive is a massive, color-coded hex grid, where anyone can use a sort of virtual kaleidoscope to fill in hexes with distorted images or videos. Get The Glass We’re not the biggest fans of blurring the line between advertisement and gaming, but we’re willing to make exceptions in two instances: 1) When it comes to frosty, delicious milk. 2) When the game in question is a beautifully imagined and well thought-out virtual board game, with graphics that still look amazing three years after the fact. And what do you know—Get The Glass succeeds on both of those counts! The Wilderness Downtown False.jp What we have here is a collection of simple visualizations (most respond only to the movement of your mouse cursor, and the left mouse button) from a Japanese graphic designer. Pretty Loaded

Bono: 9 Talks That Give Me Hope When Bono accepted the TED Prize in 2005, he offered this wish: that aid to Africa not be thought of as a celebrity cause but as a global necessity. Here, he picks nine talks that express equally powerful ideas and shares why each needs to be spread. Kate Coleman: Eradication needless blindness “Kate Coleman is the quietest storm that ever blew into town. Seth Godin: How to get your ideas to spread “Describing a revolution in media in the most unrevolutionary terms, this talk is an understatement. Bill Gates: Innovating to zero! “I’m choosing this over his talk on malaria, which is hard for me. Wael Ghonim: Inside the Egyptian revolution “This man was standing right there when the 21st century began. Sheryl Sandberg: Why we have too few women leaders “Equal opportunity relationships endure longer and have better sex ... Ken Robinson: How schools kill creativity “This is just one of the greatest speakers who every spoke at TED. Sanjay Pradhan: How open data is changing international aid

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