I love cooking and finding new recipes, but my organization system could use a little work. Right now it’s nonexistent — all my recipes are either in a bookmarked page of a cookbook, copied from a magazine and stuffed into a folder, or housed on Evernote or Pinterest. I may have finally found a way to keep it all under control, however, with Forkchop.

Forkchop helps you keep all your recipes in one place by allowing you to import them from various website and magazines. Once you have all your recipes uploaded to the system, it’s easy to search and  keep them all organized. You can add in your own recipes or import them from anywhere on the web via their bookmarklet. Read More »

We all know the importance of taking care of our health, but let’s be honest — we usually don’t make it as much of a priority as we probably should. The good news is there are small steps you can make every day to improve your health in the long run… but if you’re anything like me, you have a hard time remembering to do those things.

Budge can help with that.

Budge helps you build healthy habits by sending you daily reminders. Beyond simply writing it on a Post-it note or setting a reminder on your phone, Budge will text, email or tweet you every day (at whatever time you choose) to remind you to take small steps toward a larger goal.

Simply sign up and log onto Budge to get started. Choose a program to “play,” (such as flossing, stretching, or doing push-ups), set up when and how you want to be reminded and that’s it! Just remember to check in to Budge (either via their website, text or Twitter) so that it knows (and everyone else on Budge knows) that you’re making progress.

Sometimes, all you need is a little reminder. Thanks to Budge, I’ve remembered to floss three days in a row! Sign up, and you’ll soon be on your way to better health.

The school year is almost over, and many of you may be graduating! At this exciting time in your life, you have lots of things to focus on — one of the most important being, of course, what you want as your graduation gift.

I’ve heard of lots of different types of graduation gifts, including trips, cars, new computers, housewares and furniture for your new apartment, suits for interviews and more. And while all of those things are great, let’s be honest. When it really comes down to it, there’s one thing that all of us want more than any iPad or trip to Europe — just old fashioned cash. Because if you had a bit of money, you’d be able to cover your first few rent checks or student loan bills and possibly still have enough leftover to buy a little somethin’ somethin’ for yourself. Read More »

Many of you are probably like me in the fact that I like to take notes and make comments for myself in all my textbooks and printouts I read for class. Do you ever wish you could do the same with a website? Well with Markup, you can!

Markup is a cool web app that lets you mark up webpages with drawings or text and share them. It’s just as simple as it sounds: just drag the Markup button to your browser’s bookmark toolbar — there’s nothing to download! Read More »

There are times that the pressures of school and work just get to be too much and I find myself itching to just get out of town. However, my schedule and my budget don’t really allow me to do that as often as I’d like.

I’ve found that an easy way to satisfy the travel bug is to explore new places in my city! I love visiting new restaurants, museums, nature preserves and other local tourist attractions I might not normally visit since I live there. And one great resource to help me find cool places to explore is Trazzler.

Think of Trazzler as a sort of traveler’s guide, except for your hometown. Trazzler‘s “experts” review all sorts of attractions, nature preserves, historical sites, bars, art galleries, beaches and more, and their micro-reviews detail exactly what makes each place unique and awesome. Of course, since Trazzler features guides for a range of cities, it can come in useful when you’re actually planning a real vacation as well. Trazzler also has an awesome iPhone app, so you can explore your town (or the world) from just about anywhere. Read More »

We all know how hard it can be sometimes to express exactly how you feel into words. Like, for example, how you feel after you drunkenly tell your crush you like him or when you discover your new favorite sushi roll. These kind of complicated emotions are what What Should We Call Me is for.

What Should We Call Me is my newest go-to site for procrastinating. It’s a Tumblr page that features just about any situation you can think of (for example, “when my professor shows up late for class,” “when someone tries to tell me how unhealthy my meal is,” or “when someone tells me they don’t watch Bravo”) accompanied by a hilarious animated GIFs that describes it perfectly in a way that words never could.

You’ll find yourself cracking up and relating to so many of the posts on What Should We Call Me — it’s the perfect time-waster! So whether you need a break from studying or just need a good laugh, check it out!

By now, pretty much everyone knows about, and is completely addicted to, Pinterest (myself included). There’s no better way to spend hours discovering new recipes, DIY projects, pretty pictures and fashion inspiration.

And now there’s a new site that combines my love of wasting time browsing Pinterest with my other love, online shopping — Have to Have! Have to Have aims to make online shopping easier by giving you a place to save things you just “have to have” from all over the web in one place.

You can also organize your finds into lists, such as a shopping list for your next trip to the mall, your birthday wish list or a packing list for your next vacation, which you can then share with your friends and family to not-so-subtly drop some hints about what you want this year. Read More »

In this “information age” that we live in, news spreads quickly — and nothing moves faster than Twitter! I love that I can rely on Twitter to provide me with breaking news and celebrity gossip pretty much as soon as it happens.

But as much as I love Twitter for how fast it provides information, that’s also what makes it hard to keep track of at times. There’s nothing I hate more than logging onto Twitter after not going on for a few days and having to scroll through hundreds of Tweets.

But now there’s a way to ensure you get all the top stories from Twitter every day, without having to monitor your feed constantly: News.me.

The premise behind News.me is simple: every day, News.me scans tweets and posts by who you follow on Twitter and Facebook and provides you with the top five stories via an easy-to-read feed in an iPhone/iPad app or a daily email.

If all that wasn’t cool enough, News.me also lets you create and save an offline reading list, so you can continue to read the news even when you don’t have an internet/cell phone connection (like the subway, for example). And News.me is also interactive — post your responses or comments to a story to continue the conversation, and follow what others have to say as well.

News.me makes it easy and enjoyable to keep up with what’s going on in the world — you’ll never miss an important news story again!

Planning on getting away for spring break?

While I love to travel, the one thing that I don’t love about it is planning the flights. Trying to find the perfect flight on the date and times you want, without too many layovers, at the lowest price possible amidst the sea of flight options out there is enough to drive a person crazy.

But with Hipmunk, booking flights is now a whole lot less stressful.

Hipmunk is an airfare search engine that, like other similar sites, lets you search multiple airlines to find the right flight for you. However, it stands apart from the competition with its clear, easy-to-understand interface. For example, while Kayak also searches multiple airlines, it still generates multiple results pages. With Hipmunk, you’ll get only the best results on one page. Read More »

I know I’m not alone in my love of Pandora Radio. Whether I’m studying, walking to class, having a dance party with my friends or working out, I have a station that suits my every situation and mood.

As much as I love Pandora, though, I’ve recently discovered a new site that’s giving Pandora a run for it’s money.

Raditaz is an internet radio service, much like Pandora, except it has over 14 million songs in their library — that’s about 13 million more than Pandora has. That means you might have better luck of finding songs from an obscure artist you liked back in your high school punk days, and also that there’s less chance of hearing the same songs over and over. Read More »