Stacy's Weekly Mashup: Original Signal, Farecast, KeepVid, YouRipper, UberGizmo
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Welcome to the new and improved weekly mashup! Every week I scour the World Wide Web looking for geeky-hip-goodness to share with you at the end of the work week. Hope you've got your clicking finger ready!
Web 2.0 Sites:
- Vidspedia - A collection of the best Google and YouTube videos, submitted and rated by users
- Original Signal - Aggregates the 15 most popular Web 2.0 sites
- Typetester - Compare screen type
- Yotophoto - A search engine for finding free-to-use photographs and images
- mTextbox - Take your reading wherever you go on your mobile phone
- Farecast - Airfare predictions from over 75 cities
- KeepVid - Download videos DIRECT from most video sites
- NEooWS - An online RSS aggregator and reader
- Qloud - A people powered music search engine
- Podzinger - A powerful audio and video search engine and online advertising network
Freeware Feature of the Week: YouRipper - Download videos from the YouTube and Google Video websites
Wallpaper of the Week: Trick or Treat
The Week in Geek News:
- BitTorrent to Appear in Electronics - BetaNews
- Diebold Source Code Disks Mailed to Maryland Democrat - BetaNews
- Mozilla Releases Firefox 2.0 - The Washington Post
- Opera Launches Mini Browser for BlackBerry, Treo - PC Magazine
- Hacker claims to have cracked iPod restrictions - CNN
- 12GB Hard Drive Mini-Roundup: US Modular Monstor, Plus a Couple of Others - Gizmodo
- OEMs Reveal Their Vista Upgrade Plans - PC Magazine
- Novell Announces PCs Preloaded with SUSE Linux - PC Magazine
- Headgear Shows Images in 360-Degree View - ABC News
- Report: Serious Bug Delays Vista RTM - BetaNews
Flickr Image of the Week: by kousik
Top Blog Picks:
- Good News Blog - Real positive news
- bDigitalCameras - A blog about digital camera technology
- Ubergizmo - news and reviews of gizmos and gadgets
- The Daily WTF - Curious perversions in Information Technology
- Camera Toss - A showcase photo-blog for the "best of" Flickr's Camera Toss
Article of the Week: Spacecraft to make 3D Sun movies - Jonathan Amos, BBC News
Art Site of the Week: Official Bluesfear Worm - At 79.16 ft, could this be the longest page on the Internet?
Video of the Week: The Life and Death of a Pumpkin
Geek Tip: Did you know that you can quickly insert the current time into any cell that is selected in Excel? Just press CTRL+Shift+; (semicolon)
That's it for this week, folks! For a compiled list of links from past articles, visit the Weekly Mashup Archive. My thanks goes out to Rahul and Jody for recommending a few great sites this week! If you have any comments or suggestions for future mashups, just click Discuss this Article below.
About Stacy Reed
Software librarian and acclaimed artist seeks knowledge and entertainment via Internet. Stacy Reed is an advocate for free information, software and services. She began reviewing software for Tucows in 2000. She's naturally curious with interests in a wide array of subjects including science and technology, software, the arts, and open education.
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