Want to be the next Idol, or just searching for a song? Try Midomi, this website lets you search for a song by singing or humming. You can than save your recordings and let people listen to it.

You can listen to other users’ songs and rate them. They can come to your profile and rate your songs.

If you are like me you always forget names to different songs. This is not a problem anymore, just hum it and Midomi will search for a song that matches your humming.

But if your terrible at singing or humming do not expect Midomi to help you out.

All you need is a microphone and you are ready to go, but be sure to test you microphone first. Sing as many songs as your voice can handle and save them. Then you can let your friends listen and rate your songs.

If you like certain songs you hear, you can buy them through Midomi. So sing your heart out and you might appear on Midomi’s homepage, which gives you a lot of exposure.

Find out information about anybody you know using Wink People Search. Wink, the self proclaimed world’s largest people search engine, scans websites and databases to look for a match.

It even retrieves social website profiles, like Facebook and Myspace. It works quite well, I was able to find a couple of people I know.

You can refine your search if you get to many results. You can also download a search plugin for your browser, making it easier do a search.

If you join Wink you can link your Wink Profile to your website or blog.

Be careful with what you put online about yourself. Websites like Wink, Spock, etc make it easy for somebody to retrieve information about you, which is available for free.

This information can include anything you put on any social websites (address, phone number, workplace, school, etc).

Piclens is a cool and free 3d search plug-in for your browser that’s lets you navigate pictures or video in a gallery style fashion. The interface has a black background and with your mouse you can scroll from left to right and near to far.

Piclens sorts all the pictures and video your search finds in google, flickr, smugmug, photobucket, yahoo, or deviantart and displays them.

A cool feature is that you can even search and watch youtube videos. The Piclens search box is in the top right corner.

Hover over a picture and click the play button to start, like shown in the left picture.

A cool feature would be to be able to change the background color or to access social website profiles (myspace, blackplanet etc.)

With cool options like using it as your own screensaver, watching pictures full screen and using it as a search. It basically does not get any better then this (if it does hit me up with an email).

Piclens is free and you can download it at Piclens.com.

The quickest way to find the cheapest international airline tickets is by using Kayak, a travel search engine. The cool thing about kayak is that it uses other travel search engines like Orbitz, Airfare etc. to find the best prices for you.

You can also compare its search result with those of Hotwire, Priceline, Expedia, Travelocity etc. I flew to the Netherlands recently and I used Kayak, which referred me to Vayama, a travel website.

If your like me, you will get bored doing manual searches everyday to see if the price on a plane ticket has dropped. Kayak’s fare alert solves this problem.

Fare alert

Fare alert is a feature that Kayak uses which sends you an email of price changes about your chosen flight.

Sign up with Kayak and click on My profile. Head over to email & alerts and create a new alert. you can also put a maximum price with is optional but highly useful. Finish of the alert by choosing how often you want to get emailed.

Keep in mind that prices can change quickly, so it is important to do a manual search at Kayak every now and then to find the cheapest airline tickets.

Silverlight is a web plugin that makes internet websites more interactive. Silverlight gives developers the option to add rich media to their website and also work with databases.

It is of course more advanced then Macromedia Flash and cellphones also use it.

That is it in a nutshell. Many websites explain the nitty gritty about Silverlight, which flies over the normal person’s head. Right now I just use it to look at pretty NBA pictures (click on the blue play button).

Download Silverlight and look at this example after downloading to see what it can do.

If you are really interested in learning more, visit Silverlight to learn more.