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Find garage sales in your zip code with ZipGarage

ZipGarage is a new service that lets you list and find garage sales in your area. While the service is rather robust, there's not a lot to look at just yet. We entered about a dozen zip codes and couldn't find a single garage sale within 10 miles of any of them.

In other words, the service isn't very useful just yet. Luckily ZipGarage offers the widget you see above that shows locations of various sales. If the site catches on, it could be the Craigslist of garage sales. It offers users a simple tool for listing times, locations, and items for sale.

You can also upload photos and tag portions of them with descriptions. Say you've got a table, chairs, and dinner plates for sale. Rather than take pictures of each item separately, photograph the whole set and tag parts of the image with descriptions of each item for sale.

[via Read/WriteWeb]

Filed under: Business, Internet, Utilities, Macintosh, Web services

Taking your garage sale to eBay

GarageSaleeBay regulars spend a lot of time searching shortcuts to simplify repetitive tasks like listing and re-listing items for sale. Indeed, there's an entire page of eBay's quarterly power-seller newsletter dedicated to time-saving tips and tricks. Of course, if you're a Mac user (like me), the availability of high-quality eBay listing tools is a bit more limited than it is in the Windows world.

Fortunately, there's GarageSale, the OS X shareware lister that is one of the best out there on any platform (and one that supports eBay Motors, too). Perhaps coolest of all, GarageSale supports iPhoto, so doing multi-photo listings is a snap. If you sell complex items on repetetive basis, this application can be a huge time saver.  Version 2.1.1 fixes a few minor bugs and is available for download from Paul Hecker, GarageSale's developer.

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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