Jigsaw Forte's Lensography

Internet Lenses! 

How Your Blog or Webcomic can Make Money Through Project Wonderful

Most advertising systems online pay by the click, and thus have to guard against click fraud; horror stories abound about people who have had all their money tied up in Google Adwords or similar projects disappear because they were somehow found guil...

How to Optimize your Twitter Experience

Lots of people have Twitter accounts... only a few of them know what to really do with them and tweak them for maximum impact! From Twitter Tools to Custom Backgrounds, there are lots of great tips and tricks available for all sorts of twitter users,...

TWITTER vs. PLURK -- Who Rules in 140 Characters or Less?

Twitter. No Question. It's not just that Twitter came first, and so the built-in case is so much larger... but it's also because Twitter is so much more useful than Plurk to me. Twitter connects to my blogs, my facebook, my browser... and I don't N...

Morning Coffee: The Simplest Webcomic Utility Ever

You love webcomics. I love 'em, too. The problem is, once you start following half a dozen or so, they're hard to keep up with all the time. Even if you've got them bookmarked, you just might forget to check certain sites... Well, that's a shame. Y...

How to Make Money off your Online Comic

Don't worry, we'll assume you already know what a webcomic is -- an online version of a comic strip (or a comic book) that you can read online instead of in a bookstore or a newspaper. We're not going to assume you know how to make money off of them...

Gaia Online Lenses! 

How to Quest For Items on Gaia Online

There's a way to earn lots of gold that doesn't require anything the Gaia Online website gives you, except the space and voice it gives everybody else. Questing! Questing (not to be confused with the automated Gaia Quest System) is where you set up...

The Ultimate Gaia Online Aquarium Guide!

It's here, and it's the latest, greatest way to play on Gaia! Feed your fish, decorate your tank, and if you do it all right, you get awesome items from the Aquarium Overseer! Sometimes they're new fish, othertimes they're cool clothes... there's ev...

Titan's Legacy: The Cheapest Evolution Item Ever

Within Gaia Aquariums (On Gaia Online of course) you can receive a wonderful thing from the Aquarium Overseer... Titan's Legacy! The first generation-less Evolution Item, Titan's Legacy is available for free from the overseer (or damned cheap from t...

Your Guide to Gaia Online!

Gaia Online is the internet's biggest forum/collectible game on the internet! Hang out in the forums, play games, watch free movies, or run around in a 3D world, all while earning virtual money called Gaia Gold which you can use to buy great new item...

Captain Ara's Nestegg: The Coolest Evolution Item Ever

Combining pirates with parrots, Captain Ara's Nestegg is one of the newest Evolution Items on Gaia Online! While the Nestegg's supposed steampunk sensibilities haven't materialized, this is one bird we can't help but love! Follow this page as we bri...

Squidoo Lenses on Squidoo! 

MORE SQUIDOO LENSES?! Why would I make those?

Humans are obsessed with perfection. Squidoo doesn't work that way - rather than rewarding really, REALLY good lenses, it rewards people who have lots of lenses. This may sound unfair, but really, it works to your advantage. You don't have to have...

PAY TO PLAY on Squidoo? No Way!

You don't need it! All the "Squidoo Secrets" and other programs offering you the "keys to making money online" are all just offering the same thing -- Search Engine Optimization (SEO)! Now, sure, do they have "secrets"? Yeah, but they're the same o...

How to Make Lots of Spinoff Squidoo Lenses

I want to be a Giant Squid too! The problem is, that pesky "50 good lenses" entry fee is a hard one to reach. It's one thing to create a lens that is passable, but 50 lenses that all get traffic and rankings and other yummy things? It's impossible,...

Crafting And Customization Lenses! 

Make it, bake it, or just order it, it's yours!

Top 10 Ideas For Your Custom Sidekick Shell!

T-mobile's latest version of the hiptop (also known as the Sidekick Aspen and the Sidekick Gekko) has one thing no other phone has had before; the ability to make completely customized, professional-looking faceplates that are all your own! Wonderin...

MOO MINICARDS are the business cards of the future!

I've used MOO Minicards for the past year, and they stand out so much more than the ordinary business card! They're smaller than ordinary cards, but thinner, so they make great bookmarks clients can hold onto. They catch readers' eyes, so they'll wa...

Cut Down on Waste with Reusable Market Bags!

Well, guess what uses lots of oil? Plastics! Now, sure, we're addicted to cheap plastic as much as we are to cheap oil, but as consumers, there's an easy target for saving resources, and it's one we won't miss a bit: our shopping bags! Sure, there...

Yarn Hackers: The Coolest Crochet Ever

0's and 1's are just binary. Sure, if you don't know what binary is, it can be a scary word. Not to worry, though: binary just means that something is only one thing, or another. On or off. Black or White. Knit or Purl. Just like long strings of bi...

Make your own Custom Jewelry with Shrinky Dinks!

If you've somehow managed to grow up as a child without playing with Shrinky Dinks at least once... our condolences! This amazing shrinking plastic we call Shrinky Dinks (also known by the more generic term shrink film), once licensed for all sorts...

Okay, so I've got a bit of an Ego. 

Last Resort: The Deadliest Webcomic Ever

The 41st Century has lots of things; the key to happiness isn't one of them. Sure, we've got awesome technology, faster-than-light travel, floating robot assistants, and even more types of food on a stick than you'd know what to do with, but after a...

Rachel Keslensky, Creator of Last Res0rt

Rachel is a Georgia Tech alumnus with a degree in Computer Science! She runs her own webcomic, Last Res0rt, about a vampire on a deadly reality show. She's also been busy drawing lots of art for other people who're willing to pay her for it, and she...

Jigsaw Forte, Last Resort Executioner

Finally, a vampire that doesn't #$%@in' sparkle! Jigsaw Forte, Last Resort's violinist turned violent marsupial, is the main audience favorite along the volunteers on our titular deadly reality show. At this point, only a handful of the others on t...

Check out these Furry Lenses! 

Design a Character Reference Sheet for Your Fursona!

A character reference sheet (also known as a character model sheet, ref sheet, character sheet, or other similar terms) is a visual representation of your character, a few key accessories / weapons / outfits, and whatever else you think is needed to...

MANGA vs. FURRY: Who Has the Better Cartoons?

Come on, Anime is nice and all -- it certainly might be helping the fortunes of both animation and comic books as we know it -- but for all intents and purposes, we're still importing a culture that most of us couldn't even hope to be a part of. Eve...

How to Make a Lens All About Your Fursona

Okay, so you've already gone and made a fursona! You've picked out how you want her to look, from her hair to her clothes, her personality, maybe even built a world and some friends... This is great. Now how are you going to tell me and the rest of...

The Best Furry Comics Ever!

They're webcomics featuring cartoon animals, animal-like characters, anthropomorphics... whatever you call 'em, we got 'em! If you're a fan of the furry fandom, you can't go wrong reading these! It's just the tip of the iceberg, but we've got summar...

How to Create Your Own Fursona for the Furry Fandom!

Welcome to the Furry Fandom! You've already done the hard part -- you've decided that you enjoy cartoon characters as much as the rest of us. Maybe you're even willing to draw, write, or whatever creative fun you do best with rest of us while having...

Furry Convention Lenses! 

Pages about Nearby and Faraway Furry Conventions

How to Get the Most Out of Furry Conventions!

They're unlike any other sort of convention, because unlike Comic or Anime conventions where everyone's chasing after only a few stars, at a Furry convention, you can be a minor celebrity all unto yourself! Be careful, though... this also means you...

Your Furry Convention Guide to AnthroCon 2009

Welcome to Anthrocon! We're glad you're thinking about coming here and seeing all the furries you know and love on the internet in one great place! Anthrocon is the largest of the furry conventions, and there's plenty here for all ages! Check out al...

Your Convention Guide to Furry Weekend Atlanta

This convention is the best thing to hit Atlanta in years! Come see the fursuits, the artists, the fun... it's cute, it's cozy, and it's all furry! This page contains everything I can find to help you have the best time you can at Furry Weekend Atla...

Your Convention Guide to Furry Fiesta!

Texas's newest furry convention is coming your way, and it's being held February 19-21, 2010! We can't wait to see you there and help make it a success, but first, we've got to do what we must (because we can!) to get you down there and having a gre...

Your Furry Convention Guide to FURther CONfusion 2010!

Awesome! You're going to the second largest furry convention in the world! This page contains everything I can find to help you have the best time you can at Further Confusion! Hope to see you there!

Travel Lenses 

Your Anime Convention Guide to MomoCon

We've got anime, video games, dealers, artists, cosplayers, pocky, lots of room to roam, and AWESOME people to hang out with... ... and did we mention it won't cost you one red cent in admission? MomoCon is America's largest free convention. We cov...

The Georgia Aquarium: Atlanta's Finest Summer Attraction!

Looking for a summer getaway, but can't quite make it to the beach? Want someplace in Atlanta where you won't have a sunburn for a souvenir? Want to see HUGE creatures like whale sharks, beluga whales, and even sea lions? Well aren't you glad the Ge...

Your Convention Guide to Dragon*Con

A science fiction, fantasy, cyberpunk, steampunk, punk, gaming, anime... heck, it's an anything and everything convention! If you think nerds and geeks will get together over it, they will, and it's here! From fairy wings to Star Trek, Corsets to Ki...

Your Convention Guide to Anime Weekend Atlanta

This great little convention with all the anime, manga, and pocky you could want is in Atlanta, just for you! You and 10,000 of your best friends will have a blast running around in costumes of your favorite characters, buying awesome art from peopl...

Your Hacker Convention Guide to PhreakNIC

Wi-Fi Racing. Geocaches. Rooting around in other people's boxes for fun and profit -- with their permission! Oh, and scaring the other half of the hotel when you rickroll their myspace page. They deserve it for trying to piggyback on YOUR wireless, y...

My Video Game Lenses! 

I hate GAMES FOR GIRLS -- They're Sexist and Patronizing!

As a feminist and a female gamer, I have a lot of the typical strong opinions you'd expect out of any other gamer - Nintendo is awesome, Jack Thompson is just some glory hound trying to latch onto video games like some blood-sucking tick, and so on....

"My Weight Loss Coach" for the Nintendo DS, Reviewed!

Nintendo has been doing its best to make games that are not only fun for the whole family, but also useful in their own right - and My Weight Loss Coach is no exception! Similar to Wii Fit, My Weight Loss Coach is a Ubisoft game that aims to help pl...

The Top 8 Nintendo DS Games For Your Road Trip!

Travel takes a while. We know it. And the DS, pound for pound, is still lighter and likely to hold your attention far better than taking along a bunch of coloring books, a novel, or even similarly useful electronic equipment like your laptop. With t...

Are Fitness Video Games the Weight Loss Miracle?

Lots of people treat any weight-loss program with skepticism, no matter how many people claim they work. My Mom uses Weight Watchers, Atkins was a huge craze a few years back to the point my nearby grocery store had whole aisles... you get the idea....

Nitrome Game Guides! 

The Ultimate "Toxic 2" (by Nitrome) Game Guide!

The hit game from Nitrome just got harder . . . your favorite hazmat-suited hero is back and ready to take on a cataclysmic world of robots, toxic waste, and cool glowy effects! You want help though, and we've got it! Check out all the cool videos a...

The Ultimate "Final Ninja" (by Nitrome) Game Guide!

Final Ninja, Nitrome's Newest Pixel-Art adventure, features an old ninja who's dragged himself out of retirement to put the hurt on his former underground employer once and for all! Of course, you're neither old or "grizzled", so we're here help you...

The Ultimate "Ice Breaker" (by Nitrome) Game Guide!

It's up to you to slice the ice just right and save these frozen, stranded vikings before the rats eat them alive or they fall into the icy waters (whichever sounds worse!) Nitrome's newest puzzler will have you pining for the fjords, so this page i...

The Ultimate "Onekey" (By Nitrome) Game Guide!

Don't quite get it? Onekey is about using only the spacebar -- a single key on the keyboard (one key, hence the name) to move around the level! You can't control the character, cute as he is, but you still have to use the level around him to safely...

The Ultimate Pixel Pop (by Nitrome) Game Guide!

Maintain your rythym as you click your mouse to beat this game! This retro-styled (even more than normal!) rythym game from Nitrome will keep you tapping all sorts of things to maintain the beat... let us help you figure it out!

Lenses about Stuff I've considered Buying! 

The Coolest Tokidoki Ever!

You'd think something this hot and trendy could only come from Japan. Well, it's not! Tokidoki is the brainchild of Italian artist Simone Legno, whose awesome anime-inspired artwork can be found in anything and everything from toys to purses and othe...

The MAGIC BULLET SYSTEM works just like the Infomercial!

It's a Fact of Life: People just don't trust infomercials. And truth be told, neither did I. Fortunately, we live in the age of the internet. I've already done the hard part and pulled lots of information together about the Magic Bullet Blender, so...

Cashvertising / Ca$hvertising -- Improve your Advertising Instantly!

I've been flipping through this book for ages in the bookstore, and gleaning so much from it. Whether it's finding new ways to stand out from the crowd or figuring out how to advertise your brain-baby, this book will help you!

Pandora Jewelry: Is it worth it?!

So what sounds more appealing: A Class Ring for College that looks like everyone else's, or a bracelet filled with pretty charms and gems that you design yourself? Both are pricey, but which one will I remember more and regret less in the long run?...

Some Just-For-Fun Lenses! 

"DEVO Was Right About Everything!" Lyrics and Video

Celebrate the Golden Age in Which We're Living Your Opinion Counts and Freedom is Key Sadly this has led to art and sport and politics Being led by people ill equipped to breathe There was a group that could have saved us from this ignominy There wa...

When you eat tacos, do you put the cheese on top of everything, or right next to the meat?

Taco Bell has their cheese on top. As a result, we've fallen into the habit of thinking all tacos need to have the cheese on top as a garnish... but some people like to put the cheese next to the meat so it has a chance to melt together, giving us a...

Who Wants Some Hot Horny Endosperm?

Get your minds out of the gutter, we're serious! Popping Corn is special from ordinary corn because it has a hard exterior layer -- also known as a horny endosperm -- that resists expansion when heated until it explodes into the treat we all know an...