There are over 100 million sites on the Internet. 100 million! You might think you know about all the important ones (CollegeCandy, Gmail, Google, TFLN…), but there are thousands of other sweet sites out there (like Life is Beautiful, Go Try It On, and Soshiku) and more showing up every day! We get it – it’s not easy or fun sifting through the crap and porn to find those gems, so we’re gonna bring the gems to you. Just sit back, kick up those feet and allow us to introduce you to the diamonds in the internet rough.]

When I’ve got a problem that can’t be solved, the only way I know how to feel better is to eat things dipped in frosting vent to someone else and hope they’ll give me good advice.  Usually, the people I go to are those closest to me: my boyfriend, my BFFs, or my mom—but what to do when I can’t go to any of them about a particular crisis (because it concerns them or it’s something I just don’t want to share)?

I recently discovered a little site called Blah Therapy that solves the problem of not having someone around when I need someone to vent to. Basically, Blah Therapy is a chatroom site whose purpose is to bring complete strangers together to help each other with their problems by pairing those needing help with those willing to help. Read More »

[There are over 100 million sites on the Internet. 100 million! You might think you know about all the important ones (CollegeCandy, Gmail, Google, Zappos…), but there are thousands of other sweet sites out there (like Go Try It On, Soshiku and Party School Texts) and more showing up every day! We get it – it’s not easy or fun sifting through the crap and porn to find those gems, so we’re gonna bring the gems to you. Just sit back, kick up those feet and allow us to introduce you to the diamonds in the internet rough.]

The school year is almost over, and although summer vacation is right around the corner, the end of the school year also comes with a lot of stress: studying for finals, writing term papers, and (for seniors) graduation.  Thinking about it too much is enough to make anyone depressed.

But dwelling on all the negativity can make you forget about all the really great things that the last few weeks of the semester bring, like year-end parties, no more classes, and beautiful weather.  That kind of thinking is what the new site Life is Beautiful is all about: spreading positivity through the good things in life. Read More »

There are over 100 million sites on the Internet. 100 million! You might think you know about all the important ones (CollegeCandy, Gmail, Google, Zappos…), but there are thousands of other sweet sites out there (like Soshiku, Party School Texts and Daily Burn) and more showing up every day! We get it – it’s not easy or fun sifting through the crap and porn to find those gems, so we’re gonna bring the gems to you. Just sit back, kick up those feet and allow us to introduce you to the diamonds in the internet rough.]

Finding the right outfit to wear for a job interview, a night out, or a first date can be difficult—you want to look great, but sometimes you just need someone else’s opinion on how an outfit looks or whether it’s appropriate for the occasion.  Sure, you can usually just ask your friends what they think, but what do you do when no one’s around and you desperately need a second opinion?

Go Try It On is your answer.  In this new online community, users can share outfits and get opinions of whether it looks good or works for the occasion.  Go Try It On works two ways: you can either  “give an opinion” or “get an opinion.” Read More »

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Life can be pretty overwhelming sometimes: balancing classes, a job, and social life can sometimes be too much for one person. I know it gets hard for me to remember all that I have to do—especially schoolwork.  I have a regular planner that I carry around in my purse to help keep me organized, but I don’t always remember to look at it every day when I get home, which means sometimes I forget about a reading assignment or worse, a test… which doesn’t really help my G.P.A.  I know I need a better way to organize my schoolwork, but I haven’t found a way that works for me yet.

A few years ago, Andrew Schaper was a high school student with the same organization problems I have.  In order to solve these problems, he created Soshiku, a website that helps you manage and keep track of all your school assignments. Read More »

By now, everyone knows and loves (and quotes) the website Texts from Last Night. (Even my parents.) Most college students can relate to the drunken and crazy antics described in the texts show up on there. I know my friends and I can spend entire afternoons poring over that site, laughing until we pee a little.

And now there’s a new site out there inspired by TFLN that promises the same kind of fun and amusement: Party School Texts.

Like TFLN, Party School Texts works by having people submit the hilarious texts that they’ve either received or sent themselves.  What’s different, however, is that it’s geared exclusively at college students.  Founded by four college students in Florida, Party School Texts seeks to determine which school in the country is truly the #1 party school by ranking the drunk texts sent by its students.

Do I smell a Nobel Prize? Read More »

The weather is finally starting to warm up, and summer will be here before we know it.  While I love summer and I’m excited to have the time off to relax and have fun, just thinking about the fact that sundresses, short-shorts, and bikinis are in my not-too-distant future makes me cringe. The fact of the matter is, my body isn’t quite ready for skimpy summer clothes just yet.  I’ve begun to slack off a bit on the eating and exercise goals I set in the beginning of the year, and it’s time to get back on track.

DailyBurn, a website that tracks your diet and exercise, is helping me do just that.  Once you login and create an account, DailyBurn asks you a few simple questions about your body, activity level, and health and weight loss goals.  It then creates a customized nutrition plan that tells you how many calories and grams of fat, protein, and carbs you should be consuming daily, and users log everything they eat into the database to track their diet.  This has really helped me make smarter eating choices; by logging everything I eat, I can see what I’m eating way too much of (carbs), and likewise what I don’t get enough of (protein).

The site also helps you create customized workout plans to follow. Users also record exercise into the database, which helps track your workout goals as well as shows them how many calories they burn in relation to how many they consume a day. Read More »

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You’ve most likely already heard of online radio websites like Pandora, Last.fm, and LaLa. But you might not have heard of Musicovery, a radio-type site that helps you find new music.  And this is definitely a site worth knowin’ about – Musicovery brings something different to the online radio scene.

What really sets Musicovery apart from other radio-type sites are its incredible customization options. Like similar sites, Musicovery lets you specify what type of music you want to listen to based on genre (such as Country, Classical, R&B, etc.).  However, what makes Musicovery unique (and in my opinion, pretty awesome) is that instead of choosing the artist you want to listen to (like most other sites), you choose the “mood” of music you want to listen to – from energetic to calm, positive to dark, and everything in between – and the site creates a playlist of songs based on what you choose.  Read More »

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It’s only halfway through the semester, Spring Break can’t come soon enough and the stress of midterms is really starting to get you down.  What could make you feel better on a particularly stressful day than getting your drink on before dinnertime? Yes, I’m talking about everyone’s favorite time of day: happy hour.

I love happy hour; one reason obviously being the no cover charges and cheap drinks (something broke college students have to take as much advantage of as possible), and also because it’s an excuse to get some beer in my system before I sit down to that frozen dinner (like any of us really needed one).  But while I love my favorite go-to bars, sometimes they can get pretty old, and I’m always looking for new places to go.  And thanks to the nifty website MappyHour.com, I’ve found lots of new bars to try out. Read More »

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It’s no secret that I’m an online-shopping addict.  I don’t always buy things when I online shop, though–a lot of times, I just like to browse my favorite stores’ sites when I’m bored.  However, when there actually is something in particular I need (or want) to buy, I prefer to look for it online first rather than driving down to the mall and searching through hundreds of racks of clothes in dozens of different stores.

The problem is, online shopping can sometimes be almost as exhausting as the mall; you may not have to strap on the comfy shoes to walk miles from store to store, but there are thousands of online stores out there and having to search each one separately for the item I’m looking for can get pretty annoying.

Or, at least that’s what I thought before I found ShopStyle. Read More »

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Spring Break is just around the corner, and it has college students everywhere are dreaming of a week free from classes, preferably spent partying and relaxing on a beach somewhere warm.  However, that’s not always a reality on a college student’s budget, and many students resort to spending their week off from school at home–or worse, stuck in the abandoned dorms–while everyone else is having fun.

If you really want to go somewhere for Spring Break (or a post-school-year-celebration) but your budget is tight, there’s hope out there: Voyij.com.  Voyij searches the web for all travel deals from of a selected airport, giving you the cheapest prices available.  But it’s more than just flights: Voyij searches for the best hotel and package deals, too. Read More »