Who are you today?

Avatars are great. We just love saying the word 'avatar' and we love that it sounds like something that can be found on the dashboard of a new-age spaceship run by vegetarian scientists. So it only makes sense that we came up with custom designed LifeLogger avatars (a.k.a LifeLogger Cousins & 2nd Cousins. Don't ask why) featuring our signature speech bubble decked out to the nines, served on a silver platter for your free consumption. Ok, you veteran users would know this is not totally brand spanking new so we won't try to get away with saying it is. (Feeling pretty smug, aren't we now?) But the avatars have been missing in action for a while, so we'll call this a comeback! Point your browsers to explore.lifelogger.com/206152 and download your picks of LifeLogger avatars to represent you, your counter-egos, and all the moods in between. Some ideas on how to put an avatar to work:

• Use it as your profile photo on LifeLogger, on your IM client, and your other blogs. Our wide selection allows you to reflect many different moods a day, thus putting up mood warnings so when you act nutty, it won't come as a surprise to your loved ones
• Display it as your email signature
• Use it as an image link from other sites to your LifeLog
• Use it as your mobile phone wallpaper
• Tile it and use it as your desktop wallpaper or your blog's background

If you think our avatars are lame and your grandma can do better, please get gramps to send her original creations (in Jpeg format, preferably square, minimum size 90x90 pixels) to avatars.rock@enjoy.lifelogger.com. They'll shoot straight into our special avatars-only LifeLog that's creatively named avatars.lifelogger.com, where everyone can enjoy them. You're welcome to contribute your creations too!

We won't let you be the last to know

We've come up with new email notifications to keep you clued-in on life in your LifeLog. You can now find out when your friends' birthdays are creeping up, what they've been up to on LifeLogger, and how many stamps you have left just by checking your email. Activate the notifications at My Account > Notifications and you can be as on-the-ball as those freakishly organized people you secretly envy.

Load on the downloads

Forget insider secrets, code hacks, conversions, yadda yadda yadda. If you like a video/photo/audio entry on LifeLogger, it's all yours. Just click on the Download original link under Share This on the right of the entry's page. Doing so will take you to a page that offers links to the file you want in its original size and a comprehensive bunch of other sizes to suit your fancy. Really, there's so many, it's like choosing cereal at the supermarket. All you have to do is click on your desired size and save it to your machine. There's even a code block there for you to copy and paste to display the file on your blog. That's not just sharing, it's caring. Nobody should have to crack their heads on codes except our developers. (And that's just because they find it hot)

Helps to know: If you don't see the Download Original link next to an entry you like, that's because the owner has disabled the option. It's a setting that's available in My Account > Preferences. It's a 'respect' thing. You know, for copyrights, privacy and stuff. You can set it too, if, say the idea of strangers downloading photos of you vacationing with your extended family doesn't appeal to you. R-e-s-p-e-c-t!

Our bookmarklet has Chihuahua Syndrome

It's small and travels well but that don't mean it's a little pipsqueak. Our bookmarklet may reside quietly in your browser's toolbar, but when you click on it, it's as attentive as a loyal puppy. We now have it in two incarnations for your added ease when logging bookmarks on-the-fly: The Bookmarklet, which brings you right back to your Bookmark It page and the Simple Bookmarklet, which opens a little popup window with a super quick bookmarking form. And like a true puppy, you can teach it tricks too: Select a chunk of body text from the page you're bookmarking before you click on the bookmarklet and the body text will automatically be logged as a description for your bookmark. Woof.