Worth 1000

Worth 1000 (from the phrase "A picture is worth 1000 words") is one of the coolest websites I have ever found. I will warn you right now that if you do not have a lot of time to spare, you shouldn't look at it.
According to the website, Worth 1000 is two things: "a daily image manipulation contest site [and now also writing illustration and photography] and it’s also a gallery of all the entries ever produced for these contests." While this is a pretty good overview, I would add to it that it is also a great place for Photoshop Tutorials. I have found some of the coolest tutorials on this site, and they are pretty easy to follow and explain how to do some really cool stuff.
The other thing about Worth 1000 is the images that are stored there. As mentioned in the overview, it is a database of all of the entries from these contests, and some of the them are absolutely amazing! Here are some interesting ones: turtle sandwich, angry scarf, stepping through the door, and mechanical frog.
I haven't so far, but at some point, I am hoping to enter some of these contests just for the sake of doing so.

Vixy.net

Vixy.net is a cool website that lets you convert FLV (flash) videos (for example, YouTube videos), to AVI, MOV, MP4, or 3GP formats, and then download the converted movie. This is very useful for getting videos in a format that can be easily played on your computer (ie. MOV files can be played by Quicktime) or for getting a video in an acceptable format for upload by video upload sites.
I recently used Vixy.net to convert a YouTube video that I had uploaded to MOV format so that I could upload it to another website to enter a contest to win free Oakley products. It worked quite well, and I highly recommend it.
Here's how to use Vixy.net:
1. Enter the URL of the video you wish to convert
2. Choose the output format of the video
3. Click "Start"
4. When Vixy.net has finished converting your video, it should automatically ask you what you if you want to open the file, or save it. If it doesn't ask you, click on the "download video" link
5. Click "save" and choose where to save it

Adobe Photoshop CS2 Help

While I was in Salt Lake City visiting Victoria, I had quite a bit of time to kill while she was in her classes, so I decided to use it to improve my knowledge of Adobe Photoshop CS2 on my Dell Inspiron 1300. I found that the standard Adobe Photoshop Help that is part of the Photoshop program is quite an extensive resource and quite helpful. To access Photoshop Help, click File > Photoshop Help, or press F1. You can then search for any Photoshop topic that you can think of, or simply move from topic to topic from top to bottom (like I did). You can also click File and choose any of the options at the bottom of the drop-down menu if you know what you are looking for (ie. How to Create Web Images > To create a rollover button).The one thing that really showed me how impressive of a program this was, was the "Shadow/Highlight" command. I took a picture of a bike ride that I had taken that was so shadowed that it appeared silhouetted, and used the "Shadow/Highlight" command (Image > Adjustments > Shadow/Highlight) and it went from being silhouetted to being completely visible.
Another great place for Photoshop tutorials is the internet. Here are a few of the places that I found that I liked: PSDTuts (my favorite), Photoshopcafe, Entheos Web, Adobe Tutorialz, Photoshop Talent, and Graphics.com. You can also find just about anything by Googling "Photoshop (your version) (what you want to learn)".