What’s the last time you set your resolution,  tell yourself something that you wish to do or to have, and work hard to get what you want for your life? As you can done almost anything online nowadays, you can set your resolution online and share it with millions of other net surfers.

People have known for years that making a list of goals is the best way to achieve them. Why is that? First, getting your goals in writing can help you clarify what you really want to do. You might find you have some important and some frivolous goals. That is OK. You’ve got space for 43 Things on your list. Not every one of them has to change the world (but save room for the ones that might).*

So how can we set our resolution online?

Short answer, 43 Things. 

43 Things is a website where you can create an account instantly and write down all your resolution and sharing it out with the community. you can also keep track on your goal achievement, write blog about your goals, put up related photos, as well as reading other’s goals and get inspired.

What’s good about 43 Things?

Different reasons for different person, but i think setting up your goal and your resolution at 43 Thing is cool because:

• It’s free and the best of all, its going to be free for a long time from now.
• Personally, i feel that sharing your goals with others help you to achieve it.
• Setting up a goal on 43 Things is even easier than setting up a blog. It’s nearly instant!
• Widen your eyesight about life and get inspired when reading other’s goal.
• It’s simply fun – reading others goals help me to kill off silly time online.
• You dont feel left out when you are working hard to achieve your goal. people with the same goal are known as a team in 43 Things – supportive huh?

Some popular goals

The list has no surprise, but i bet you want to know what most people want to do with their life. at the time of writing, 808,737 people in 11,142 cities are doing 838,368 things including, here are some of the popular goals:

• 17,903 wish to lose weight.
• 14,322 wish to stop procrastinating.
• 11,989 wish to fall in love.
• 9,421 wish to drink more water.
• 6,931 wish to save money.
• 4,071 wish to learn how to cook. 
• 2,528 wish to worry less.
• 5,983 wish to read more books.

Does any of the above match the goals in your list? now you know you are not the only one that wish to cut off that extra pounds, or to find true love, or to live your life better by stop worrying. yeah, people on earth are sharing more or less the same problem and setting up the almost the same goals…

… but NOT ALL. may i present you:

Not-the-same goals in 43 Things

To have super powers…

There are people who wish to be a superhero. Spiderman, Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Iceman….

To be REALLY crazy…

Speaking of weird, how about taking the shit on to your dinner table? with just a quick scans on the website, i found 31 people at the time of writing that wish to taste a shit… ewwwww~

To be meaningful…

And… believe it or not, there are indeed thousands that wish to decide what the hell they would like to do with the rest of their life. seeing the goal of shit-eating, i am not surprise that people sometimes are lost and want their direction back in life.

To be spontaneous…

For the adventureous, show up at the airport with a bag & a passport & take the first flight available seems inspiring…

To expose their body in front of someone…

Born naked, be naked. it might not be in your list but yes, they are people who wish to take a strip tease class, be a stripper of the day, show their nipples thru a shirt, and go topless at the beach.

(Guys, does that makes you feel like going to the beach>  )

Tips on goals setting and achieving your goals

While you might have your own way in setting your own goals and life resolutions, there are actually some general rules and ways in goal setting that help.

• Think big, but set achievable and realistic small goal that will bring you to the big destiny at the end of the day.
• Express your goal positively: Say ‘i want to achieve something’ instead of ‘i want to avoid something’.
• Write down your goals and remind yourself always on the goal – it can be a note in your wallet, a sentence at the notice board, a reminder in your outlook calender, or in 43 Things.
• Be precise. if you wish to be rich, tell yourself how rich you want to be. is it a 7 figures in your bank book makes you feel rich? or is the flashy sport car at your garage, or the luxurious swimming pool in the compound, or all of the above? tell yourself, specifically, how you want to have your goal to be.
• Visualise the day you achieve your goal. try to foresee what you’ll have on the day you made your goal come true – how does it feels? what will you see at the day? who will be there with you? try to imagine that you already had that and hard-print that feeling in your mind… this will keep motivating you to achieve the best you ever want.
• Be consistent! there’s nothing more important than being consistent if you really wish to achieve success. tell yourself, after setting a goal, you will get it done no matter how tough is the tasks or how much does it takes.

Now you’ve seen what other want to do with their life and you got some tips on goal setting, what’re you waiting for? Go save the world at 43 Things now!

So, you wanna be special and surprise her with your special way in marriage proposal huh? Frankly, the best marriage proposals are the ones that tug at your heart strings a bit. They don’t really have to be luxurious or money-burning. All they need is a true heart, and a little creativity.

With everything going online nowadays, perhaps you can make your marriage proposal online as well?

Here’s my suggestion: get all the photos of you two ready, make a simple entry webpage with those photos and some love messages, on the following page that comes after the entry, make a huge red text “WILL YOU MARRRY ME?”, send he the URL of the website and make sure that she looks at it, or if you two share the same PC, make the site as your homepage and lead her to view it. i bet she’ll burst into tears with the surprises. it’s simple, yet, it is very romantic, dont you think?

So, to the details: here’re what you’ll need to do (and the cost of doing it):

1. Register a domain name at here, price: $4.99 – $7.99 per annum.
2. Host it on a normal webserver. (you can get it here), price: $95/year, or $6.95/mo.
3. Make two simple webpages your self, price: $0.
4. In case you are a HTML dummy, get a college boy to do it, price: not more than $20.
5. In total, to the max, you will spend $7.99 + $95 + $20 = $123 for your marriage proposal.
6. Return of a good marriage: priceless!

Doesn’t the proposal plan sounds good?

Tips: If you dont ming of ugly banners at your webpages, free domain and hosting can get things done in the same way, in that case, you get everything free. but since marriage proposal is a once-in-a-life-time (or twice, maybe) thing, come on, dont be stingy… spend some money and make a good looking website for it will you!?~

*Freebies for you!*

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Other special marriage proposal that i suggest

Marriage proposal for animal lovers

Does your her love animals? Puppy maybe? Get her a pair of puppies, clean and make up the puppy nicely (ribbon on the its neck is a must), tie your proposal ring along with your proposal message on the puppy, leave the puppy (in a box) at the front door and call her out for the surprise.

Well, of course the suggestion is okay with other cute animals as well (notice the word c-u-t-e, dont bring a cow, please) kitten, rabbit, or even a pony (wow) may work fine… its up to you and what’s your her preference.

Caution: if the puppy shit or piss inside the box, things might really turn ugly.

If she ever read snail mails…

Mail her a romantic poem from Shakespeare or Browning. Include a photo of yourself knees with the proposal ring, write with marker on the photo “Will you marry me?”. If possible, surprise her by getting into her place right after she read the mail with the proposal ring in hand.

Caution: Make sure your envelope is water-proved or not easy to tear so your message can arrive safe from the hand of postman.

 

When stranger comes with flower…

Every woman LOVES flower, so flower is the best way to cheer her up and get her to say yes. 

Get lots of roses ready on the day before you propose and bribe as many strangers as you can on the day you want to propose. Get every strangers walk to her and present her a rose while she is traveling to work. Wait at below of her office with your proposal ring ready. When she appears, you know what to do.

Caution: This proposal plan will work excellent especially if she goes to work by public transport or by walking.

The NOKIA way

Remember how the guy in NOKIA proposal ad sends out his marriage proposal? Make a few photo of signboard (with your modification of course) to form the money question: “Will you marry me?” and send into her cell phone. Now that’s a creative marriage proposal.

What you can do is to re-run the whole thing again with the same idea, take photos shots on signboard, and send MMC for example. what more, with today technologies, do it in a 3G way. spot all the letters you want on the street, give her a live phone-video streaming and show her all the letters and get immediate response from her… better?

Caution: Well, for this case you two must have a phone with camera (or more, 3G enables) …

If you got lots of cash to burn… go public!
In case you have excessive cash to burn, make the proposal BIG. You can buy full page ads on local newspaper that she reads every morning; or rent the signboard nearby her house; get a radio ads if she wake up on radio alarm every morning; or hey, you can even make a TV ads asking her to marry you!

Caution: Only if you are hell rich… if not, you will be more like an idiot that has no money sense to her.

Go with her family
Gather her family for a surprise party. When she step into the party with surprises, stun her once more by kneeing down and ask her to marry you in front of her family.

Caution: It is no doubt that such way of marriage proposal shows your respect to the girl’s family and it most probably will make her feel proud. However, not every girl prefers to have their romantic moments in front of their own family member.

The hidden track…
Record your proposal speech into the middle of a music CD or cassettes. Play the music while you are driving her back after a nice dinner. When she is still in the surprise of the hidden tracks, get your proposal ring ready, pull over the car and ask her to marry you.

Caution: Make sure you stop your car safely.

Wrapping things up

See! Making a marriage proposal is not that hard… all you need is some references and some creativity. After all, if you love her with your true heart, your proposal will be always be the best to her.

Internet is all about people connection and communication. By compiling a list of free SMS services online, we hope we can help you to stay connected with your loves one.

Sending SMS online via IM service

As we all known, the major Instant Messaging software nowadays provide the ability to send SMS online, if you need to learn more, check them out at the list below. Note that all these services need a registered ID with their service as well as their messenger software installed in your PC. So in case you are in a hurry, it would be better for you to check out other SMS services listed at the later part.

• AOL Instant Messenger
• Yahoo! Instant Messenger
• Google Talk (beta)
• MSN messenger

Other online SMS services with Worldwide coverage

• www.sendsmsnow.com
• www.worldxs.net/sms.html
• www.cellular.co.za/send_sms2.htm
• www.smstoday.co.uk/free-sms-text/
• www.email2sms.ru
• www.smstoday.co.uk/free-sms-text
• www.sms.ac/

Sending SMS online to designated location or network

• Bolt Blue for Australia, United Kingdom, Ireland, United States and Canada
• Card Board Fish for United Kindom
• Cellular.co.za for United States and Canada
• Fonetastic Mainly for United Kingdom (Registration needed)
• Email2sms Only to GSM phone, worldwide coverage

Special text messaging services

Besides SMS services that allows you to send SMS online to communicate with others; there are online SMS services that allows you to get valuable information. You can send quarries via SMS to the special numbers and get information such as local shop listing, area code, weather, zip code finder, flight status, or even wifi hotspot location. As these service portals are definitely different from location to location, we will limit our list here within United States:

• Yahoo SMS, SMS send to 92466
• Google SMS, SMS send to 46645
• 4INFO, SMS send to 44636
• Synfonic, SMS send to 16504307183

If you like Flash designs and computer graphics as much as I do, I bet you are eager to look for fresh Flash designed websites online everyday. Surfing those well-designed brings me so much enjoyment – To me, a well designed Flash website are like pieces of fine art, appreciating Flash designed website is no different than those who appreciate oil painting.

But hey, “How to find nice designed Flash website” – at first glance this how to guide seems pretty silly. With Google search is so popular and simple to use, even a six years old kid should know how to perform an Internet search. Yeah, who needs a how-to guide to search for nice designed Flash website?

However, Flash website is different and it’s extremely hard to explore fresh Flash website via search engines. The fact is

• Most search engines barely crawl and index Flash designed websites
• Search engine cannot rate and rank Flash websites according to their designs
• Unlike user rating, search engines cannot rank Flash websites according to their popularity

Most of the times, when you search for flash websites, you will end up getting commercial websites that sell Flash templates but not Flash designed websites. So what can we do to explore new Flash designed website?

Awards and movie festivals on Flash websites

Yeah, that’s right, Awards and movie festivals on Flash websites are how you can get into hundreds of top rated Flash designed websites

My favorite way is to explore them via Flash websites awards. Every year, there are a few big award events in the Flash designed world – just like Grammys and Oscars awards, these awards have related industries professionals on judging and ranking the Flash websites (or other media like shockwaves) submission for the judging. Nominees and winners of such awards are often listed in their website so by browsing thru them, you get connected to the top quality Flash designed website directly. Sounds good? Here’re some of the Awards that I like them a lot!

Favourite Website Awards (FWA)

FWA is my favorite hang out place when I want to look for nice Flash designed websites. Reason being is because these guys in FWA do not take off day at all and the website is updated everyday in their daily awards. Yes, there is a new Flash website listing everyday. 
Besides the nice website collection in their website, I also particularly like their ‘wallpapers’ section. In this section, you can get tons of well designed computer desktop wallpapers submitted by the fans.

Screenshots on FWA website:

Good words about FWA from other authorities:

• Yahoo.com: “Favourite Website Awards – when it comes to Flash style, they have the newest in new.”
• Macromedia.com: “Links to the best websites containing Macromedia and Shockwave content.”

Well, I think that’s enough said and its time for you to take a visit to Favourite Website Awards (FWA)

Flash Forward is another major industry leader in Flash community. With an optional intensive workshop day, a three-day conference, and the International Flash-related film festival organized annually (year 2006 was in Austin); Flash Forwards stand as one of the Must-Go event for Flash developers and lovers.

Flash Forward only list their top rated nominees and winners in their website. All participants in the festival are grouped into 15 different categories: Art, Cartoon, Commerce, Experience, Game, Instructional, Motion Graphics, Narrative, Navigation, Online Application, Original Sound, Technical Merit, 3D, Typography, and Video.

One thing I like about Flash Forward is because only the festival finalists are listed out in their website. Thus every piece of work listed on their website is the best and no time will be wasted in sorting out the quality ones.

Check out finalist and winners for Flash Forward Film Festival in Austin year 2006

Cool Web Awards is an awards event that combines the top web site designs, logos, web site intros, flash designs and many more in one place. All entries are voted by website visitors instead of pros and developers.

Check out Cool Web Awards winners here.

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