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Do you love finding and downloading new apps for your cell? Then you’ll have a blast trying out these free online sites too!

Picture Perfect!
Fans of the picture share site flickr, will enjoy checking out taggalaxy.de. It’s an impressive site even if you don’t use flickr. Key in a tag (something specific like Audrey Hepburn or a major sort topic such as music) and your galaxy of photos will appear—continue to define the categories until you get it just right. Once your pictures stick, rotate the photosphere and you’ll discover that this site is visually out-of-sight!

Check out fotoflexer.com and picnik.com if you enjoy editing pictures—lots of tools and gadgets are available to recolor and retouch, add text, doodle, morph and distort. You’ll feel like a pro as you access your photos from facebook, picasa, photobucket, smugmug, flickr, etc. Don’t miss the fun effect that picnik provides under the create tab—“panography-ish”—once you try it, you’ll love it!

Cover Girl! (or guy or pet . . .)
Magmypic.com is your home for fake magazine covers designed by you! The possibilities are awesome and it’ll make a great gift—just frame it up!

Digital Creations
Ladies, start your creative engines! We’re highlighting some great sites to spark your imagination and fire-up your inspiration!

Smilebox.com is a great site for designing quality e-cards, slideshows, photo albums and digital scrapbooking. Personalizing is super easy just as the smilebox tagline “sharing life’s moments in minutes” suggests. Bookmark this site because you’ll visit often!

Microsoft offers Photo Story 3 a totally fun program that’s downloadable and free. Just as Microsoft promises, Photo Story does make “show-n-tell cool again”! Add a touch of reality to your picture stories with soundtracks and your own voice as you narrate the action. We’ll need a few road signs to keep you on track—specifically, the Yield sign and the yellow caution light—as you could spend hours at this site!

That little twitter birdie has been super busy designing tweetphoto.com and twi.tt—flock to these sites and you’ll see why twitter is the go-to site for celebs, the president, and you!

We’ve been humming along at a comfortable pace but now we’re kicking it into overdrive as we rev up to the ultra-cool sites!

Time to produce and direct your very own video . . . click on over to the mega-hit site animoto.com and you’ll discover how easy it is to create a digital blockbuster that’s sure to be number one with your best buds! This site provides easy-to-follow instructions along with a sharing feature in the video toolbox that allows you to email the link or post to your favorite social media site. You’ll say, “that’s a wrap” before you know it! Keep in mind though, the bigger the production, the longer the finalizing process.

Another cool site is voki.com. What’s a voki? You enter the world of voki when you create an avatar, your online personality. A voki can be contemporary, futuristic, historical, realistic or cartoony depending on your preference. Lots of selections in appearance, backgrounds, and accessories—you can even record your own voice—voki creations can become addicting, it’s that much fun!

One final site that’s got hundreds of reasons to love it is wordle.net. Come up with your list of words, scramble, and print! A few suggestions to make your wordle perfect: use a tilde between words rather than a space if you want those words to remain together in a line; and, whichever word you want to be the biggest, key that word three times in a row. Check out the bizMe wordle–