NealGrosskopf.com - An NG Designs Site

This is the 2007 Best Buy Black Friday Ad Scan that just came out. I haven't had a chance to look at it yet but I am excited to see it. Also it is a 5 MB files so it could take a bit download.....View Comments [0]

A tutorial that shows you how to create a folded corner effect in Adobe Photoshop. I've always wanted to know how to do this and now I do!....View Comments [0]

I found this awhile back. It's a survey of gamers playing online and what their systems look like. It's quite a bit different from your usually web usage reports because it shows things that browsers can't detect. It's interesting to see things at this live.....View Comments [0]

A list of keyboard shortcuts for Firefox. It also includes comparisons for Opera and IE, if a comparable keyboard shortcut exists. An interesting side note: I helped contribute a correction to this page a few years back, before IE had tabbed browsing.....View Comments [0]

This is a good try at an online operating systen. While it isn't truely an online operating system, it does look like one.....View Comments [0]

In a move that's sure to get the attention of Apple's lawyers, one company has started advertising a new $400 hackintosh dubbed the OpenMac. For once a Mac below $3,000...or so. The entire PC world runs this way, perhaps it's time for Apple to do so as well.....View Comments [0]

An interesting list of the top tech products of all time. This list is more fun if you expect certain products to rank high, then finding out that some other product ranks above it.....View Comments [0]

An article from xbox.com that explains how to share media between a xbox 360 and windows. It looks pretty easy to do.....View Comments [0]

A list of things you may want to tweak when you get a fresh copy of XP, or on an existing computer with Windows XP on it that hasn't been tweaked and customized.....View Comments [0]

View screenshots of operating systems over the past 20+ years....View Comments [0]

Apparently Microsoft bought out Sysinternals. Anyways Sysinternals contains a great deal of system tools, most which are portable for your computer.....View Comments [0]

Go to this site, view 3 webcasts, submit all of your personal information, and get Windows Vista Business for free.....View Comments [0]

My Friend from FVTC....View Comments [0]

A guy I went to school with....View Comments [0]

My Friend from Lakeland College....View Comments [0]

Jason Irish's MySpace like site....View Comments [0]

My future wifre....View Comments [0]

A business website of my Aunt Judy and Uncle Greg. Looks like a neat business idea. Feel free to show family and friends that have trucks....View Comments [0]

Jason Irish's company site....View Comments [0]

A website made by a good friend of mine who is currently attending Fox Valley Tech for web design. This is his first website which is actually really good compared to many of my original websites.....View Comments [2]

My friend from Lakeland College....View Comments [0]

Tyler Gitter's Electric Motorcycle Site....View Comments [0]

A PlayStation 3 system sold on eBay for only $0.99, unfortunately, I'm not the one to have bought it.....View Comments [0]

List of domains that have funny names on accident....View Comments [0]

Tour the earth with Google Maps....View Comments [0]

A list of different URL modifications that can create uncanny and bizarre images, all on Amazon's image server. You can add wacky percent off offers, even multiple ones on one item, as well as add text over the top of a product. The sample gallery shows off some creative (mis)uses of their system.....View Comments [2]

You get to ask the ninja anything you want...trust me, its funny!....View Comments [0]

Learn about words you can spell on your calculator....View Comments [0]

Try searching Google for the phrase forum topic and click on the 19th page. You will get an error (or just click my link above.) Google has in place, an anti spam measure. I've noticed several visitors coming to my site who searched for keywords similar to this (obviously spammers) so in a way this is probably a good thing that they've done.....View Comments [0]

Chuck Norris Facts, just check it out....View Comments [0]

This is a pretty un-orthodox site where companies pay money to advertise on it and people click there links. Each link enters them in for a chance to win a million dollars.....View Comments [0]

Just click it!....View Comments [1]

It's how I created my home page pictures....View Comments [0]

Facebook Lexicon is a service of Facebook's that tells you how hot keywords are on Facebook's walls. This includes every single user's wall on the site. The link I posted above compares a few people's first names - neal, emily, tyler, chris. Looks like my name isn't very popular on walls.....View Comments [0]

A really nice online quiz, which basically tells you what candidates share your values. I suggest that everyone take this quiz to better find out who they should vote for.....View Comments [0]

A Google map overlay showing by county the primary election results for both parties. Pretty cool use of Google Maps (and it's created by Google).....View Comments [0]

Looks pretty cool. I haven't had a chance to see how it's working under the hood yet.....View Comments [1]

Gives multiple shots....View Comments [0]

I saw a news article from Yahoo stating that the Island of Lesbos (located in the Mediterranean) is suing a group because they took their name and tarnished it. This link goes to the Wikipedia article. On a side note, I'd hate to live on this island.....View Comments [0]

Quotes from the famous Jack Handy....View Comments [0]

This is pretty funny. A guy named Justin wears a webcam on his head 24/7. You can watch him at anytime of the day and see what he is doing. Lets hope he is getting paid for all of this!....View Comments [0]

Windows Live Map now has a super zoomed in version (bird's eye) of the fox cities. I found Kate's house (I think) on here now. Kate does this one look like your place?....View Comments [0]

A calculator to see how long you might live. It was featured in USA Weekend. I haven't taken it yet but Emily has.....View Comments [0]

Sort of a strange Wikipedia article that I ran across recently listing the top 100 movies that have used the word f**k. See if any movies you have watched are on this list. ....View Comments [0]

A site that allows you to make your own wheel of fortune puzzle online. The first thing I thought of when I saw this was the South Park episode where Randy Marsh is on Wheel of Fortune and guesses the wrong thing.....View Comments [2]

A really useful site against all those spammers out there....View Comments [0]

Search for your favorite NFL football player to find out how much they make a year. It's interesting to see how some make more than others (and of course how much more they make than all of us!)....View Comments [0]

Great pictures of a giant diamond mine in Russia.....View Comments [0]

The Oshkosh city assessor's office web site allows people to look up information on other houses in the city and see how much their fair market value is. It's a really great tool if you're looking to buy a house because you can see how much the previous owners bought it for and also how much it is currently worth. With this information you are better informed on what to offer them for the house if you want to buy it.....View Comments [0]

Created by Music Genome Project. Just type in your favorite band and it will find songs and bands similar and stream music to you.....View Comments [0]

A 1 mb site listing PI to a million digits....View Comments [0]

A list of pictures taken with the same camera that I have. Interesting to see what other people can do with the same camera you have. Check out your own camera on the site to see what others are doing.....View Comments [4]

Wisconsin sex offender registry....View Comments [0]

The Brick Testament is a project created by Brendan Powell Smith in which Bible stories are illustrated in parody using still photographs of dioramas constructed entirely out of Lego bricks. The project began as a website in October 2001 that featured six stories from the book of Genesis.....View Comments [0]

The Chewbacca Defense. A hilarious skit on South Park.....View Comments [0]

Those funny things that end of up the internet....View Comments [0]

A rather funny look at things that were invented or are younger than John McCain.....View Comments [2]

A page I found at work. The funny thing is we recommend using netscape! I especially like the old school gifs on the page too. (This page isn't linked to anymore)....View Comments [0]

Message Board For Fighting....View Comments [0]

The title says it all....View Comments [0]

A funny site mocking windows....View Comments [0]

Look Up Your Friends....View Comments [0]

A funny site featuring an actual compitition between people and their beards. ....View Comments [0]

The site created because of Conan O'Brian. Apparently if he makes up a site name on the show, NBC legally has to buy it.....View Comments [0]

Halo 3 heatmaps of where players die most frequently. It's really interesting to see certain areas of levels darker than others. I think there are full time people at Bungie who are sort of "video game analytics" people (much like I'm the "analytics" guy at my job) Must be sort of an interesting job studying maps and trying to improve the game play.....View Comments [0]

A level from Halo 3 that was actually designed after a church in France. The level name is Epitaph.....View Comments [0]

An article about the highest scrabble score ever. The game ended 830 to 490. The players cleared all their chips on a few occasions which gives you an extra 50 points. Also the players landed a double triple word score (that's a 9x multiplier) twice in the game as well. The highest scoring move in the game was QUIXOTRY at 365 points.....View Comments [0]

A page/site with numerous mysteries from the videogame Perfect Dark. I recently bough Perfect Dark Zero and it renewed my interest in the old version of the game.....View Comments [2]

Memorible quotes from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. Most of them involve HAL which if you think about it, is really the only dialogue in the movie. My favorite is "open the pod bay doors, HAL"....View Comments [1]

Probably one of the best forums I've seen for zombie movie stuff. It's hard to find decent stuff like this on the web.....View Comments [0]

A remake of the original movie by George Romero. The trailer looks ok, not really sure what to gather from it.....View Comments [0]

A new zombie movie by George Romero. This one is independent and will occur during the events of Night of the Living Dead.....View Comments [0]

The title is pretty much explains it all. :P....View Comments [0]

Wikipedia list of films that are considered the worst films ever.The films listed have either been cited by a combination of reputable sources as the worst movie of the year, or been on such a source's list of worst movies.....View Comments [0]

A Friday The 13th and Nightmare On Elm Street Timeline from Wikipedia....View Comments [0]

The United States' National Film Registry is the registry of films selected by the National Film Preservation Board for preservation in the Library of Congress. ....View Comments [0]

Mimas is a moon of the planet Saturn. At first glance it looks ironically similar to the Death Star from the Star Wars movies. I had a good laugh when I first saw it. Apparently the moon was not discovered until after the Star Wars movies so the Death Star is not based on this moon.....View Comments [0]

A site with full length movie scripts. I'm sure there are better ones but this one is worthy.....View Comments [0]

A really funny video with the actual Napoleon Dynamite and Bill Gates. I think it was a video created by Microsoft to promote their products. It's funny what John Heder does with the world's richest man.....View Comments [5]

A free online book (PDF) of the inner workings of Star Wars and how it came to be.....View Comments [0]

A 100+ listing of zombie movies on Amazon.com....View Comments [0]

This is the first time my name has been mentioned on Lakeland's website. This is an article that is done monthly about alumni and what they are up to after graduation.....View Comments [0]

Site allows users to post news stories with links....View Comments [0]

Starting Jan. 1, 2008, all U.S. households will be eligible to request up to two $40 coupons to be used toward the purchase of up to two, digital-to-analog converter boxes, while the initial $990 million allocated for the program is available.....View Comments [0]

Ah yes, not more than 24 hours after the shootings at Virginia Tech and people have already registered domains of the shooters name. choseung-hui.com & choseunghui.com are both taken already as well.....View Comments [0]

A long article about Lakeland's Fox Cities Center in the Appleton Post Cresent. Sort of neat since I work there and all.....View Comments [0]

From the Lakeland College Mirror:

"Tomorrow Neal Grosskopf, Lakeland alumnus and current Manager of Interactive Communications, will be leaving Lakeland for a new position in Ripon, Wis. Neal, 22, filled Lakeland's webmaster position last March, despite still being a full-time student living on campus."

The Lakeland newspaper did an article about me leaving the college. This is the online version of that article. Yay!....View Comments [0]

A news article about how we are planning on going to the moon and setting up camp there.....View Comments [0]

There are new 1 dollar coins coming out. The first ones to not have a woman on them since the giant Eisenhower ones in the 1970's....View Comments [0]

An auto updating site for 2006 election results....View Comments [0]

US 41 in a few years is going to become an interstate. To become one many upgrades need to be made to our favorite highway. Unfortunately they need to redo every single interchange in the city of Oshkosh, and they need to redo the Butte Des Morts bridge. Apparently the road will be 6 lane wide in Oshkosh and the bridge will go to a whopping 8 lanes wide! Which would be the widest that I know of north of Milwaukee.....View Comments [0]

Taken from JS Online - "In an effort to promote the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a racially diverse campus, university officials digitally inserted a black student's face into a photograph of white Badger football fans that was used on the cover of their new undergraduate application."....View Comments [0]

A Yahoo! news article of the school shooting where 32 people and the gunmen were killed. The highest number of deaths in a shooting in American history. The gunmen was a 6' Asian.....View Comments [0]

To quote Slashdot... "get a first life"....View Comments [1]

Reward zone is now free. It used to cost $15 a year. I've already earned $5 free with one purchase already....View Comments [0]

A group of designers that meet each year and decide what colors should or shouldn't be "in" with industry products. I found out about it via work. Strange that these types of groups exists.....View Comments [0]

Go to this website and enter in your phone number(s) to enter your phone onto the national do not call registry. It's really easy to do and worth getting your number off of the telemarketers list.....View Comments [0]

Julian Beever's does pavement drawings that look life like and almost 3D. Really cool stuff, check it out.....View Comments [0]

A single-digit salary earner is a person whose salary is less than 10 units of the currency in which he would customarily be compensated with salary, but who is compensated by the employer via other means such as shares. This is done to either avoid taxation, or more commonly, as a symbol that single-digit salary earner has no personal gain from his work other than the gain he or she shares with shareholders. ....View Comments [4]

The apartments I moved in to in sheboygan. This site may make you register, but if it does just enter some random information in. There are pictures and layouts on here as well.....View Comments [0]

A list of fonts used, or similar to those used on the well-known game show "The Price is Right". It shows screen shots of them in use on the show, as well as a link to download most of them, or the name of the font if it is a paid font and is unavailable for free.....View Comments [0]

Well, words that are odd, e.g. really long ones like pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, or that have lots of consecutive vowels or consonants, or repeated letters, i.e. bookkeeper.....View Comments [0]

This is pretty old news now, but I was looking back today on the results from the web design survey. It's a great resource to look at, especially if your fresh out of college looking for a web job. On a side note here are two salary links for Web Designer and Web Developer....View Comments [1]