If you have ever wanted to be a part of a big documentary directed by an Oscar-winning director, well here's your chance.

Using YouTube, the Internet's biggest video-sharing website, producer Ridley Scott and Oscar-winning director Kevin MacDonald, want you to submit a glimpse of your life TODAY and to be a part of Life In A Day

Unique and compelling footage will be edited into an experimental documentary film, thus creating a social filmmaking experience.

The completed version of the user-generated film will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and on YouTube in January 2011. Not only will you be credited as a co-director in the movie, but you could also be Kevin Macdonald's date at the Sundance in Utah.

Learn more about the film and how you can participate here. 
So, get out your camera and show them what you got!

Facebook has teamed up with CEOP (Child Exploitation and Online Protection) to introduce ClickCEOP, an application that can be installed on a Facebook profile that can help teens 13-18 fight cyber abuse and bullying.

Other sites, like Bebo, have similar buttons, but they differ from the ClickCEOP application because they are only able to report inappropriate links, whereas ClickCEOP gives the user the option of reporting another user of acting inappropriately towards them, and provides resources and advice on how to deal with potential threats on the internet.

ClickCEOP is an opt-in application that users must agree to use, and is only available in the UK at this moment. Sophy Silver, a representative from Facebook, says that the new app will integrate with both CEOP and Facebook's systems and will act as a viral awareness campaign, creating a safer environment for teens on the Internet.

From time to time, I still see people who manually check websites for updates daily, or a few times a day. They'll go and click on their sites for updates on their sports teams, their tech news blog, their favourite forums. And my soul weeps.

Trust me, there's a much easier way.

The easy way to go (and frankly, an addiction for me) is using RSS feeds. See on this site, up where it says 'subscribe' on the top right with that little icon with the radio waves? You'll see this on most sites out there, it's usually orange but sometimes blue as well and it can often be on your browser's address bar as well. What this'll do once you click it is subscribe you to the site's new postings and check the site for you. If you don't know of this, it's a real game-changer for using the internet. It's like surfing the web, but just the surfing part and not the confusing web part.

How to you get to subscribe and read these updates? There's several ways. You can subscribe to these RSS feeds using software that you download, you can get these in your mail client (usually) but many peoples’ method of choice is to get it through a website. That way you can check from whatever computer you're on. For me, I go by Google Reader which is a pretty popular choice.

Microsoft has opened its arms and released their new Office Web Apps to the public. What's even better? It's free!

There are differences between the desktop version and the online apps of Office 2010, but the convenience of having access to Office programs from any computer makes this groundbreaking.

Office Web Apps consist of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, which are remarkably similar to their desktop counterparts.

When using Web Apps, you can open and edit your documents from anywhere. Also, all of your files can be stored online on Microsoft Skydrive, which you can get with a Windows Live ID. On Skydrive (where all your Web App documents are stored), you are given 25GB of free online storage for your documents.

There are some really cool features of the web apps. If you have Office 2010 installed on your computer, you can launch the desktop version of the web app you are using from your browser with just a click of your mouse, and continue editing the document from your desktop office application.