Bored of traditional gifts? Here are some original and funny ideas.

Orgas-gum

You may say that you don't need it, but note that the name of the product is kind of tricky, because it doesn’t guarantee any pleasure. Peppermint flavored, it’s recommended for the "after-time". 40 units in a pack cost only US$ 1.25. Available at Blue Q and other websites.

Just Add Water Prince

If your sweetheart is not exactly a prince but has a good sense of humor, you can give to him (or he can give it to you) this fantastic present. Inspired in the classic tale, the difference here is that you don’t need to kiss the frog to transform it in a handsome prince. Just add water and in a couple of minutes you’ll have it. It doesn’t come with a castle, but you get it just for a couple of dollars/euros. Available in I want one of those and other websites.

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The acceptance speech, the dance on a TV show, or a fan film? Find out what are the most popular online videos of the new president.



He’s the man of the moment and people want to see him, to talk about him, to express how much they love him or hate him. And people have Youtube, a simple tool to upload any video, from an official speech to a domestic shot. So, what happen when you type “barack obama” in the famous video web?

Here’s the countdown top 10 of the most viewed videos related to the new president.

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It’s all about privacy: it doesn’t matter if it’s your e-mail account, your files or your credit card. Anytime you have to decide a new password you wonder which one will be the best to protect your stuff. You wish you could find out a combination of letters and numbers that no expert hacker could find out.

The bad news is that there’s no perfect formula to avoid an eventual violation, the good news is that there are some safety tips you can take note to prevent it.

Don’t choose any on this list

In 2007, PC Magazine compiled a list of the “10 worst passwords”. Although this research is not very recent, it is worth to make sure ours is not in the list:

password
123456
qwerty
abc123
letmein
monkey
myspace1
password1
blink182
(your first name)

If you want more, you can check the top 500 worst passwords compiled by Mark Burnett’s in his book Perfect Passwords: Selection, Protection, Authentication.

Avoid personal details

You’ve probably heard about this one, but there are still a lot of people who pick their birthday, children’s names, home address or favorite team. They are certainly easy to guess, so use your imagination and think a little bit more.

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Would you like to have 120,000 monthly visits (or more) in your articles? Maybe you should write about the new First Lady.

120,000 readers. That’s the amount of traffic that the blog Mrs. O got last November, according to The New York Times. Mrs. O is not an official blog and it’s focused only in one aspect of the future First Lady’s life: her look. Clothes, shoes and jewelry are some of the categories in which the articles are divided.
Here the columnists and readers discuss what color she should wear or how her fashion style can be compared with others ex presidents’ wives.
Of course, I’m not saying that everyone who writes about Mrs. Obama is going to have the same success, but certainly she’s on the way to become one of the most popular public figures around the world and she attracts the interest of lots of people.

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If you publish content online you probably know about some image editing programs, but many users still don’t know how many options there are and what do they offer to you.

Adobe Photoshop is the most popular software in this field, but you have to buy it (the last version is US$ 699). I use different tools but all of them are free and very easy to manage.

I made the following list thinking about the most frequent and basic needs and what can you do in every case.

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