Dreamyicons – Free Profile Icons for Live Journal

// May 25th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Alice in Chains, Blogging, Design, For Geeks, Graphic Design, Graphics, Ibdreamy, Icons, Live Journal, Personal Pictures, Personal Posts, Pictures, Useful, free

When I started really getting into the whole online social thing it all began with Live Journal and a community I started called Dreamyicons. We held icon contests based on themes. Now the community is just members posting icons that they’ve created..no more contests. So you’ll notice a lot of the icons have themes and you’ll also notice a lot of adult themed icons. I love pin-up art so.. I hope your eyes are not offended by sexy chicks.

• My Live Journal – Ibdreamy
• DreamyIcons Community – Free Profile  Icons 100×100 pixels

Today I dragged all those old icons out of the closet and dusted them off. It’s been a couple years now since I made any new icons. Your free to use them for your journals, websites, Myspace, Twitter profile or what have you.

DreamyIcons

All Your Tweets Belong To Us – Resources for Freelance Designers

// May 14th, 2009 // No Comments » // Blogging, Cool Links, Design Resources, For Geeks, Social Network, Twitter, Useful, webdesign, webmaster

All Your Tweets Belong To Us – Resource links being tweeted about today… Follow me and you will see..

• 35 Online Tools That Make Your Freelance Career Easier
• Become an illustration master +60 adobe illustrator tutorials + resources
• 10 Resources to Help You Decide What To Charge for Design Work
• Top 10 job boards for freelance web designers

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Get your Social Networking fix at Soup.io

// November 18th, 2008 // 3 Comments » // Blogging, Cool Links, Facebook, For Geeks, Geeks, Graphics, I recommend, Ibdreamy, Live Journal, Pictures, Social Network, Twitter, Update, Useful, webmaster

Get your Social Networking fix at Soup.io -

You really need to check out Soup.io if you haven’t already. I just found it tonight and thought I had stepped into heaven.

Ok well, maybe it wasn’t that dramatic but it’s pretty damn cool. You can stream all your social networking sites into one page like all your digg submissions, delicious, twitter, live journal posts, flickr, youtube, last.fm and any rss feed so it’s sweet as hell. I know there are other sites that do this but not like this..
So, visit mine to see just how cool it is..I actually pointed my other domain name to my stream..so just go to ibdreamy.com

UBD Block Ad Wordpress Plugin

// September 4th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Affiliate Networking, Blogging, I recommend, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins, sidebar, web tools, webmaster

I recently started using the UBD Block Ad Plugin for Wordpress and I really like it. It’s super easy to configure. The plugin comes with a user interface that allows you to manage your advertisers banner ads in your sidebar and you can add up to 10 at a time. It gives you the ability to choose how many ads show at a time. You can choose to show all ten of your ads or rotate 3-4 ads at a time.

The plugin automatically rotates your advertisers for you. Now you can spend less time managing your affiliates banners. It’s all done for you with this plugin. I love it.

If your using banner ads on your website then I recommend checking it out. You can see a live example of how this plugin works on my website. (the 3 verticle ads in my side bar).

Co-developed by Alex King and UBD, the new plugin is a must for anyone who uses block ads on their Wordpress blog. With smart, easy to use features, the plugin will help you manage the advertising more effectively than manually editing code (if you are even familiar with editing code, that is).

The plugin is also fully widget compatible. You don’t need to manually edit the sidebar.php file in order to add the add the block ads to your page.

Uniqueblogdesigns.com also offers a free Wordpress theme

Free UBD Moneymaker Wordpress Theme

18 of the Hottest Music Sites Online

// August 29th, 2008 // 5 Comments » // Ibdreamy

Here is a list of 18 of the hottest music sites and social networking music sites online right now. I hope you find it useful. It took me forever to put together..but I found some really cool website’s in the process. Enjoy!

Last.fm – is another Web 2.0 veteran and is more socially-slanted than the others. Tagging is a big part of the last.fm experience and you can tag any song that comes along in addition to being able to listen to “user tag radio” which is based on tracks that users have tagged with a specific genera. last.fm has a separate desktop application that “scrobbles” the songs you listen to and generates a music profile that you can share with friends.

The Hype Machine – follows music blog discussion. Every day, hundreds of people around the world write about music they love. Then it all ends up here. Hype Radio is Internet radio that is powered by blogs. All the tracks that end up in the stream are songs recently mentioned by bloggers listed on the Hype Machine. It’s radio that’s truly powered by the Internet.

Pandora – is the granddaddy of the bunch and it’s one of the Web 2.0 applications that I can’t live without. It is built using OpenLaszlo and provides the cleanest experience out of all the applications on the list. Pandora uses the Music Genome Project to generate a stream of songs that you’ll like based on how you rate previous tracks. You create stations around artists, songs or albums and you can provide feedback (thumbs up or thumbs down) on the songs Pandora chooses.

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One Bored Gamer Girl – Star Wars 2008

// August 20th, 2008 // 2 Comments » // For Geeks, Gaming, Geeks, I recommend, Ibdreamy, Ipod, PS3, Pictures, Videos, Xbox

I’m so bored with the video game selection that’s out right now. I’ve either played it or I don’t want to play it. My all time favorite games are Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Silent Hill , Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy, MassEffect (wallpaper), Morrowind and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion…etc.

Basically think of any good fantasy-based, role-playing adventure game and I’ve played it. Has anyone played Dark Sector yet? I’m just curious if it’s any good..I haven’t heard much about it yet but it’s one of the last games at Blockbuster for PS3 that I haven’t rented yet..they have a crappy selection but their actually getting a tad better lately. Lame thing is they got rid of all their older games so if I wanted to rent Silent Hill 2 or SSX Tricky..I couldn’t..Blockbuster won’t carry older games anymore.
Anyway, there are a few games that are coming out soon that I’m excited about..

Upcoming Games

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Publisher: LucasArts Developer: Krome Studios Release: Sept. 16, 2008 Genre: Action Platform: PS3, PS2, Xbox 360, Wii, DS, PSP, iPod, iPhone Graphics: HQ Wallpaper Trailers @ Gametrailers.com Photo Gallery

Silent Hill: Homecoming Publisher: Konami Developer: The Collective Release: Sept. 30, 2008 Genre: Adventure Platform: PS3, Xbox 360, PC Trailers @ Gametrailers.com (more videos) Graphics: Screenshots Photo Gallery

Final Fantasy Versus XIII Published by: Square Enix Developed by: Square Enix Release Date: Dec. 31, 2009 Genre: Action RPG Platform: PS3 Trailer: Trailer – gametrailers.com Graphics: HQ screenshots page (beautiful) Final Fantasy Versus XIII Screenshots Final Fantasy VII PS3 techdemo

More – Trailers Fable 2 Trailer BioShock 2 HQ Images

Silent Hill: Homecoming marks the sixth story in the Silent Hill mythos, and introduces a new protagonist to the mysterious town.The story follows Alex Shepherd, returning to his hometown of Shepherd’s Glen to investigate the sudden disappearance of his brother and the strange occurrences taking place around town. Shepherd unravels a tale that takes him from his boyhood home to the fog-shrouded streets of Silent Hill, facing the darkest horrors of his soul to find his missing brother.

OMG! Creepy as hell! The sound effects in Silent Hill have always creeped me out big time. I can’t play in the dark. Download Trailer to your iPod

FlockStar!

// August 17th, 2008 // Comments Off // Applications, Browsers, For Geeks, Freeware, Geeks, I recommend, Ibdreamy, Social Network, Update, Useful, web tools

Flock is so bad ass..It seems I find a new feature on Flock everyday that makes me go “WOW that’s cool”.

_ For example I took this screen shot with Flocks built in screenshot tool that allows you to select clips and snap away.

_ It has a built in Blog editor so I can post to my blog using my browser

_A drag and drop web clipboard manager

_Media bar that streams media from sites like Flickr, Digg, Youtube, your Facebook friends

_A sidebar with all your updated feeds and social networking sites

_side bar listing all your accounts and services that you can click on an automatically be logged into

So if you haven’t tried it yet..dammit try it! I still use Firefox and I probably always will but I love me some Flock now and then.. it’s like my secret little drug…well maybe not that dramatic no..but it’s damn good? I love their My world page it shows me all my updates from my social networking sites. It’s nifty. (see screenshot)

Random Icons

// July 27th, 2008 // No Comments » // Ibdreamy, Icons, Live Journal, Pictures

just some random live journal icons…use and abuse…

I love the 80’s icons

// July 27th, 2008 // No Comments » // For Geeks, Funny, Gaming, Graphics, Ibdreamy, Icons, Live Journal, Pictures

Check out these adorable T-shirts at 80stees.com! These are the ones I want. I’ll be adding them to my checklist of things to buy online.

made some fast live journal icons using their t-shirt thumbnails..

Celebrity Photoshop and body image in my 30’s

// June 30th, 2008 // 9 Comments » // Celebrity, Celebrity Pictures, Ibdreamy, Pictures, Reality TV, WTF

Women in our society are constantly trying to live up to a level of beauty that is sold to them through fashion mags, TV and movies..what we all might not realize is how much of that beauty is a computer generated.
Fantasy women that real women could never measure up too.
I think these pictures are an eye opener and goes to show just how incredibly fooled we all are by the media. We’ve been bamboozled! Don’t get me wrong I think we all like to look at beautiful people but  it’s also nice to know we’re not so bad after all too..that everyone has their faults and no one is picture perfect.

What’s been hard for me is just getting older.. not being in my twenties anymore…and when I turned 35 whoa I really started to feel old. I want to see the beauty in myself but its not always easy because I do notice those little smile lines and imperfections that come with natural aging..I see them everyday and it does get me depressed.

I’m really grateful for Roy because he’s always telling me “Your so beautiful” which usually makes me feel better but then again deep down inside I’m also always thinking to myself.. he’s just saying that because he loves me.. so he can’t win for losing. Haha!

I think I struggle with the same thing a lot of other women…body image and lack of self esteem. It’s something I want to work on and something I want to get over.

If the media were to ban Photoshop retouches..could you just imagine? Women might actually start to feel better about themselves when we all begin to realize that our favorite stars have the same smile lines that we do..would we admire them ore or less?

more before and after pictures

About Last Night

// June 21st, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Ibdreamy

Here are some pics of friends at an 80’s theme party that I went to last night..it was pretty fun. I hate the 80’s though..it was a horrible decade in fashion. I got a little tipsy and we all danced to sipping on some siszurp

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Just Hot

// May 29th, 2008 // No Comments » // Ibdreamy, Pictures

This picture is just hot!

Old school pic…

// May 29th, 2008 // 10 Comments » // Alice in Chains, Celebrity, Celebrity Pictures, Demri Parrot, Ibdreamy, Layne Staley, Personal Pictures, Personal Posts, Pictures, Rest in Peace, Update

I was just going through some old pictures in my Fotki albums and I found this picture of Demri and Layne..I love this picture. I miss them. This was a picture that Demri’s Mom gave me at Demri’s funeral. It was just a photo copy. I hung it on my wall and took a picture of it so that’s why it looks weird it’s hanging on my wall. This was taken at RockCndy in Seatlle during an Aids benefit..around 1992. This was during the good old days before everything fell to shit and they turned into sad reflections of their former selves….and then passed away. Demri in 1996 and Layne in 2002. Rest in Peace my sweet friends.

Demri and Layne 1992

Demri Parrott 1992

What is a Diva Geek?

// May 4th, 2008 // No Comments » // For Geeks, Geeks

Lazy Saturday Poll: Am I a Geek or Not?

Asking myself that same question is basically how I came up with the domain name for this blog “DivaGeek“.

What is a diva geek anyway you might ask yourself..well let me explain..When your a girl it can be a little hard to be 100% geek 100% of the time because being a girl drives us to do girly things that true geeks wouldn’t get caught dead doing like going purse shopping, wearing pink lip gloss and if your a true Diva going to brunch and doing pilates.

I personally don’t do pilates or go to brunch but that’s just because I’m lazy and I eat breakfast… I do however LOVE pink lipgloss.

What I’m getting at is when your a girl in technology sometimes you just can’t fit into the mold of geek..we can’t help it if we’re a little diva and a little geek. I like to say I’m 25% diva and 75% geek or visa versa depending on my mood.

Blogging..my rock star life..

// April 13th, 2008 // No Comments » // Alice in Chains, Celebrity, Demri Parrot, Ibdreamy, Layne Staley, Music, Personal Pictures, Personal Posts, Pictures, Rest in Peace, Update, friends

I hardly blog anymore …for a long time I blogged about everything I did, saw, heard and felt..but lately I feel like I don’t have anything remotely interesting to say. Wow that sucks.

My life is pretty boring now. I go to work, I come home and I take care of my family. We do things together of course but nothing that people would want to read about. I’m sure my trip to the park or whatever is not something the general public could give two cents about. I know this because I don’t want to read other peoples posts about their boring ass crap either.

Lately I just post stuff that I’ve found online that I think is cool, funny or that I think might be useful to people.

I don’t have a rock star lifestyle but I’m no Auntie M either..I’ve had my fair share of the rock star lifestyle. In the early 90’s I was living in Seattle and I dated one of the guys in Alice in Chains, Mike Starr.

I spent most of my 20’s hanging around people in the music industry and/or people trying to get into the music industry. I’m the farthest thing from a groupie so don’t even go there. I just happen to live in Seattle at the time it was popping off like crazy and I happen to meet some of the people who were in the middle of it all. I was close friends with Layne Staley and his girlfriend Demri for years.

Demri passed away at 27 when her abusive lifestyle.. god she was so beautiful and talented…and I cried again 6 years later when Layne passed away from his broken heart and spirit.

My life is completely different now that I’ve had my kids and all that I have left from my rock star lifestyle is a Platinum album that’s framed and hanging on my wall. It was presented to me by Alice in Chains and has my name on it which is pretty bad ass. It’s one of my prized possessions and a nice reminder of the good times.

My son is turning 11 this month so it’s been years since I was hanging out backstage except for maybe backstage at my kids Winter Recital. My life has gone in such radically different directions since then.

I have 3 beautiful kids and an awesome man and we’re both concentrated on our careers and trying to make it or at least not be broke. We want more from life then we have now and we know the only way to get there is to work hard.

I recently started a new job doing tech support for an email hosting company and I really like it so far it’s a great young company that seems to have their game going on. I just moved over there after working a year at a well known web-hosting company doing tech support for them. It was great learning experience, I learned more in a year then I ever thought possible.

So..for now I’m just working hard trying to buy that dream house. I don’t regret giving up my rockstar lifestyle for the Mommy track. Memories are still good.

Demri Lara Parrot

Layne Staley

Mike Starr