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Dear reader,
This may actually be the nicest place on the internet! I don’t want to give too much away about it… All I’ll say is that first, you need the sound on (or headphones in if you’re having a break at work); and second, make sure your internet is quick enough to play short Youtube videos.
I’ve just spent five minutes on it, and I think I may have stumbled upon one of the most sincerely sweet websites I’ve seen in a long, long time. It’s lovely and I GUARANTEE you’ll be sporting a nice wide smile because of it. Click here to go to the nicest place on the internet! Especially recommended if you’re feeling a bit down.
Bad Lip Reading – Honestly there isn’t much for me to say here except, for goodness sake, if you’re interested at all in the current Republican candidate race, watch some of the videos on this oh so clever Tumblr blog!
The one below is Herman Cain. Watch it, see if you find it as amusing as we did in the All My Faves HQ, and then click here to get to videos of other famous political (or musical) personalities.
I personally recommend watching the soundbites of Ron Paul, Rick Perry & Mitt Romney for the politicos; and if you want to see Michael Buble taking an, erm, interesting new musical direction, there’s a great video on there for you too… I’m confident you’ll like this 
DonorsChoose.org is an innovative online nonprofit that makes it easy to help fund great learning projects for kids in some of the US’s poorest public schools. It’s a great system, allowing you to make a specific donation according to what projects teachers are asking for on the site (which also means it can be as big or as small a donation as you would like to make). And with causes being sorted into locations, subjects, resources and categories such as ‘Most Urgent’, ‘Lowest Cost, and ‘Highest Poverty’, the donating process couldn’t be easier.
The projects being funded by guys ‘n’ gals like you or me range from touchscreen learning on tablet PCs, to essential textbooks, to transportation for a school dance team to a live performance. Literally anything. And each request is a very personal one by a teacher or his or her students. So that means that if you’re teaching in a public school and you would really love to improve your kids’ education, you gotta get your cause onto this site!
Pictures like the ones to either side of this show you just how much it means when someone donates and provides kids with opportunities they just wouldn’t have had before. Click here, or on any of them to see how you can help, or get helped by this lovely website
Get involved and check out this great nonprofit, DonorsChoose.org
Don’t forget to check out the AllMyFaves NPO Directory; linking you to many of America’s most popular NPOs, and some great causes you haven’t heard of.
Try out this amazingly comprehensive, personal video feed, stuffed with great videos just for you!
Frequency – There’s just so much interesting video content floating around the internet on any given moment, on any given day. And that means it’s really easy to miss a heck of a lot of good stuff! Stuff that gets posted on Facebook or Twitter by your friends or people you follow; stuff that gets posted on news websites (of which there are far too many to browse through in one go…); or just random, funny videos that get posted by random, funny people on Youtube.
And that’s where Frequency comes to the rescue. It’s basically the Google Reader of Video, but a lot more accessible! Or in other words, a real-time, social platform that brings you video content from a variety of different channels that you’re interested in. After registering for free, click the ‘guide’ button at the top of the page, and from there select the types of video that will appear in your personal feed; picking either the genre (business, sports, politics etc.) or ‘following’ specific sources Twitter-style (anything from videos your friends share on Facebook, to BBC News, to Apple videos, to the White House official feed!). Literally there’s something there for everyone; a plethora of content waiting to be funnelled to your starting page. We at All My Faves see Frequency as a really useful, and not-too-complicated way of getting the best video for you.
A preview of my personalized Frequency Feed (slightly embarassed by the Disney video but oh well, I do love it!)
Click here to try Frequency out. I feel confident enough to guarantee that you’ll find a lot of video that you’ll think is absolutely fantastic, on any subject!
Rately – Online shopping. In so many ways the best thing to ever happen to average Joe Couch Potato. No longer did he have to waste valuable energy browsing around endless endless shops with a friend in the nearest mall looking for that perfect pair of trainers. Now he could simply switch on his laptop, get onto Amazon and buy those same trainers without ever leaving his easychair. There is however one downside to all this convenience: it’s quite lonely! And what happens when you can’t decide whether you want your Ugg Boots in camel, beige or wood brown? Your friends aren’t standing next to you in the shop, helping you make these important decisions.
Rately appears to have solved this nagging issue. It allows you (when you install a free addon a bit like the AllMyFaves Bookmarklet Tool to your web browser, and then click on it) to save an item you like, compare it against similar items, and then send this comparison to your friends on Facebook or Twitter. They can then compare pictures of those items side by side… and ‘rate up’ their favorite. And then know exactly what you should be spending your money on online!
Rately makes it much easier to get your friends' advice on online purchases!
It actually adds a really enjoyable, personal touch to online shopping that isn’t really available anywhere else. Of course you can just send a friend on Facebook a picture of something you’re thinking of buying to ask their opinion, but the process of doing that is long winded, and nowhere near as streamlined and fun as what Rately is offering. So click here and have some fun shopping almost with your friends!
Nitro Type is a free, real-time, worldwide, online racing game that helps you improve your typing. It’s pretty simple: enter a race on the site; control a car against other real people from around the World; win the race by typing the fastest: as you increase the speed of your typing, you increase the speed of your car!
It’s a novel, fun way to track your ‘words-per-minute’ rate; and you also will notice yourself improving your touch typing speed over time, as you’re forced to read the rather complicated sentences the game gives you to type out. The only downside is that it really is quite tricky at times, but then I think that may have been down to my typing skills than the game being too hard! Still, it’s definitely fun and worth a quick try if you want to know your official typing speed! Click here or on the pic below to get racing…
A screenshot taken from a NitroType Race - click it to play!
Eater National – Tiring of Taco Bell? Applebees just too Average? Want to find somewhere new and cool to eat in your local area (US only)? Well then it’s time for you to put Eater on your menu! With dedicated pages for most of the USA’s major cities (and a National page for those that aren’t on the list), you can find great places to eat and drink, whether you want the top restaurants or somewhere to fit your budget.
The Eater's post about ehe top 38 restaurants in SF this January: Click to find your City
It’s a really fun site to navigate around, with maps pinpointing great local eateries… and even heatmaps to take you to the hottest trending locales! There’s a wide selection of posts to browse through, including “Best Business Lunches”, “Best Late Night Specials” and even “Best Drunk Food” (!), although some cities’ posts are more extensive than others. In general there’s more than enough to get along with however, so click here or on the pic to pick out your next evening out.
Incredible Things – If you have a few spare minutes, check this entry in our Weekly Faves out. It’s a fun site, whose dedicated staff scour the depths of the web to bring you strange or unusual products (pretty much like we do at allmyfaves.com to bring you all the coolest & most unique internet content!). The products range through all the popular categories, like tech, toys and fashion; although I personally really enjoyed the “Incredible Gift Guide”, which picks out some rather interesting products for you to bring to your next dinner party instead of the usual bottle of wine or chocolates! Click the pic to have a browse around…
Click this to look at some unique & interesting products on 'Incredible Things'
Color – The makers of this cool little iPhone and Android app are heralding what they call the new type of Facebook status update. And they’re right, it is new. And it really is cool! Color is simply an mobile video recorder that broadcasts what you’re seeing in front of you completely live to your Facebook friends, before allowing you to save it as a video with a caption. Clever eh? Watch the videos below, and then learn more on Color app’s clean and clear site, by clicking here
Laundry Day – Here’s a fun, free flash game for you guys. It’s a skill game this week, where you manage your own launderette, keeping up with all your customers’ orders and running the shop on time. Make sure to get the dry cleaning, ready and ironed to the delivery truck on time to avoid disaster! Click here or on the pic to play
It's surprisingly fun managing a launderette! Click here to play this challenging skill + strategy game
Quiz Factor – Now who doesn’t like a good quiz. I know my friends already addicted to online quiz site and weekly fave alumnus Sporcle definitely do; and well Quiz Factor is simply a fun, free addition to the online quiz world, with added tricky timing twists… It’s got a quiz for anything, from Harry Potter Trivia to Guessing the real names of Actors. Which makes it good in my books!
Quiz Factor’s added value really comes out in the social side of the site: You can compare your scores on the community leaderboards, and you also have the opportunity to enter into some great prize draws just for playing and getting a few correct answers! Click here or on the preview pic below to get your trivia head on and play some fun, free quizzes.
There's a quiz for everyone on Quiz Factor... Click on the preview to play for free!
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