As Fun Goes Up Productivity Goes Down (InstantAction)

Online games can be one of the best wastes of time that one can take part in. Now in beta is a site that specializes in wasting time...playing games, which are web based, called InstantAction. Now this is nothing now, there are hundreds of flash game sites out there that you can jump on and spend hours tooling around on, but InstantAction is different from the rest of these sites because it doesn't just have 3D games but it also does multiplayer and adds community elements in to the fold to. The site is free is part of a new trend in video games that cost little to nothing, which is great for people who don't want to spend a lot on games (which should be just about everyone who plays video games). Accounts are easy to set up and the controls for the games are easy to use, right now there are only five games to play but they will be adding more as time goes on. If you go and set up an account my gamer ID is pjdamws.

Picnik (Online Photo Editing)

Sometime last year I tried to move as much computer-based stuff (Word Documents, Music, Calender, etc) as I could to web-based, even going so far as trying to get an online OS, which I didn't like. One of the things that I tried and liked a lot was a service called Picnik. Picnik is an online flash based photo editor capable of editing photos very well, I would say that for most people it will edit your photos as well as Photoshop or any other professional software but you won't have to have a bloated program filling up your hard drive. For Picnik is ad supported and you do have to have a place to host your picture files (Picasa, Flikr, Facebook, Your hard drive, and many others). There are two membership types to choose from, one free and one that you pay $24.95 per year, not a bad price but right now I don't think that there is really a reason to get that but they are adding more things as time goes on so it might be worth pay the $25 for. So if you are looking to touch up some of your picture and want an easy and free way to do it without getting a bulky program on your computer then you should give Picnik a try.