If you haven’t checked it out already go to littlequiz.com and in a few clicks you’ll be in with the chance to win a great prize.

It’s completely free, all you need do is complete a simple and fun quiz and you’re in with the chance to win.

Not only that but there are 3 ways to win – the quiz on the front page, the weekly draw by subscribing to the newsletter (yes it’s as simple as that!) and thirdly by making friends with the monkey by getting in touch with littlequiz on facebook, bebo or twitter and you can win some cool littlequiz swag!

Check it out now at littlequiz.com where you can also keep up to date with the littlequiz blog.

I signed up for this not too long ago to check it out and was pleasently surprised by how many great features were available. Not only can you read up on the latest Munster rugby news, catch the latest chat in the discussion forum and follow the latest posts on the MyMunster blog, but you can connect up with your friends and fellow Munster fans on the social media network and share stories, videos and photos.

Sign up here to check it out and see if you can win yourself some tickets for the Munster vs Leinster match in Thomond April 4th!

You can also follow @MyMunster on Twitter.

Twitters mobile site m.twitter.com was my first stop on the phone’s browser. While this is good for scrolling back through previous tweets there is no way to quickly @ reply someone.

So I gave Twibble a try. This gave me more functionality but I found the timeline didn’t go back as far as I wanted and the interface is a bit basic.

Finally I gave dabr.co.uk a go on the Opera Mini browser. This is definitely proving the best option with a feature-rich easy to use interface. Pretty much all of the functionality I need is here and its by far the nicest looking interface too.

If you still haven’t voted already, here are some easy instructions from Joe Scanlon on how you can get your vote in for the great Rick O’Shea who is up for Best National DJ.

This post which featured on Fluffy Links 16th Feb explains the 10 Facebook privace settings we should all know about. I recommend checking it out; for instance I didn’t know you could create friend groups.

Joe has a great Five Things you should know about writing web content post by Calvin Jones that I found very interesting and well worth a read.

If you are a child of the 80’s like me or are feeling nostalgic for your Sega Mega Drive check out this Ultimate Game collection – it has loads of the oldies.

And a Polish dictionary helps crack the case of the elusive repeat traffic offender, Prawo Jazdy, who had been evading the Gardai for quite a while.

Gmail labs

The Gmail labs features for multiple Inbox views sounds like a useful feature but after trying it out my mail Gmail view looked cluttered; maybe this type of view is more useful on a wide screen monitor than on my single laptop screen and for multiple email accounts perhaps. Instead I tried out Quick Links. This lets you bookmark a particular view of your mail and save it as a quick link for later use.

I typed in is:unread into the Gmail search box and then clicked on Add Quick Link in the Quick Links box on the left column in my Gmail. This added a quick link so I can click on this in future and quickly and easily search for unread mail.

A list of Gmail search terms can be found here. The most useful ones I have used myself include is:unread, from:person, has:attachment and in:anywhere.

Chat

Another new handy feature is that Google chat now recognises YouTube links in chat messages and give you the option to play the clip right inside the chat window.

Contacts

One of the most annoying things about Gmail contacts I find if the duplication of contacts and addition of contacts I didn’t add myself. Cnet have a good article on the new Merge these contacts feature. This will let you specify the default email address, whether one is a work address etc and generally tidy up your contact list.

Although this is a pure and utter marketing ploy, the site is fun to use and you can email your Simpsonized image, full size or avatar size to yourself.

Check out mine:

The uploaded image must be 640 x 480 pixels, jpeg/jpg or png format, colour and a close up of your face. I found I had to make a few changes to the default image first created but the results were fun if nothing else!

This app can display stars, constellations, planets, nebulas rendering 3D photo-realistic skies in real time.

It downloaded and installed quickly and I found it quite easy to use and configure. I entered my location and city in the Location settings and then found myself with a 3D view of the night sky in my area. Panning around is easy in a manner similar to Google Earth and constellation lines can be displayed by toggling this on from the left hand side menu.

And even better, it’s open source and can be downloaded here.

@DarthVader shared this great clip recently: Is Chewbacca in my nightstand?

Amazingly 14,000 people in the UK have been reported to have suffered vegetable related injuries..

TwentyMajor.net lists the worst Irish films of all time.

June 11th 2010 will see the release of the A-Team movie rumour has it. While speculation on the cast continues here’s a funny fantasy trailer.

Patrick reviews the BBQ app for the iPhone, and Joe posts a brilliant clip of the great Mick Pyro from the Republic of Loose.

Google Docs

There are a few ways of integrating your Gmail and Google Docs. For Word documents I usually click the Open with Google Docs link in the end of the email and that adds the document for me. Gmail will let you open and view PDF, DOC and PPT formats and save these into your Google Docs also.

Alternatively, if you go to Google Docs and click on the Upload button, in the bottom half of the screen you will see a section named “Email-In Your Documents and Files”. There you will find an email address listed that looks something like yourusername-secretid@prod.writely.com.

Save this address to your Gmail contacts or Google Contact Manager and by forwarding a email with some text or with an attached document to this address, you will be adding a new document or the attached document to Google Docs. You will receive an email confirming the addition and giving you a link to your new document. This feature is a little flaky and I would tend to stick with the first option above and Open as a Google document.

A third option is to install the Send to Google Docs addon for Firefox as featured on Lifehacker. This will let you right-click on a URL to a supported file type and choose a menu option to Send To Google Docs which works for PDFs, Excel, Word, PowerPoint and all Open Document formats.

In Google Labs in your Gmail (the little  icon on the top right in Gmail) you can turn on the Create a Document feature which will allow you to convert an email into a Google Document. The Create a Document link will appear on the right hand side of your email.

Finally, if  you have a document on your computer you want to add you can bypass Gmail by going to Google Docs and clicking Upload a File.

Picasa

Similarly to the email to google docs option above, in your Picasa Web site, go to Settings, then Upload Photos by Email. Here you can create a private email address of the following format, yourname.secretcode@picasaweb.com, where you can email or forward image attachments to add them to Picasa Web.

The photos will appear in your ‘Drop Box’ album unless you specify an existing album’s name as the subject of your email.

I found this to be an easy way of backing up and storing photos I had been emailed that were hidden away and taking up space in my mail.

Signatures

If, like me, you use Gmail for multiple email accounts, you may wish to tailor  your signature for each account. Or even have a selection of signatures for the same account.

MakeUseOf.com have 5 ways to create multiple custom signatures through various Firefox addons.

David Coallier recommended the Black Canvas Gmail Signature Firefox addon following my Part 1 post, which I have been happily using since.

Well, that’s it for Part 2, although with a few more bits and pieces to add there’s a good chance of a Part 3, so stay tuned. If you have any comments on the above or some suggestions you’d like to see added feel free to Post a Comment!