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Stacy's Weekly Mashup: UrbanFonts, Wesabe, Snap, PalTalk, Neti...

Stacy serves up a hip mix of links to helpful sites, blogs, wallpaper, news, art, and much more!
Published: Dec 14, 2006
Author: Stacy Reed
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Web 2.0 Sites:

  • Loopnote - An easy and fun way to create alerts that others can subscribe to
  • Spresent - Create and edit high-quality Flash presentations online
  • UrbanFonts - A collection of free and commercial fonts and dingbats for download.
  • The FyberSearch Network - Consists of the following five distinct search engines
  • Wesabe - Take control of your money to reach your financial goals
  • LabPixies - Your source for some of the coolest gadgets and widgets on the Web
  • Gotuit - A new class of on-demand video products
  • Snap - Lets your visitors see where a link goes before they click on it
  • PalTalk -Find people talking about any subject live with voice and video
  • Geesee - Add chat to your blog or website for free


Freeware Feature of the Week: Neti - This is a peer-to-peer search engine and bookmark sharing program.


Wallpaper of the Week: Christmas Balls


The Week in Geek News:


Flickr Image of the Week: by Cyril Saulnier


Top Blog Picks:


Article of the Week: New video game theory - Vail Daily


Art Site of the Week: 9 to 5 Paintings - 9 to 5 paintings are a visual representation of your daily computing routines.


Video of the Week: Transforming a 2D image into 3D - Researchers of Carnegie Mellon University have taught a computer to recognize and transform a single 2D image to a 3D model, wait for it... automatically!


Geek Tip: - Once used by older versions of Windows to provide a more complete shortcut with information needed to run an application, PIF files are generally only used in the modern era to spread a virus. Always remember that you should never open one, even if the email appears to come from a trusted source. This is because most virus writers use your address book to identify the sender, specifically to trick you into opening the attachment.


That wraps it up! You can find an archive of past articles here. Keep the links coming, everyone! My thanks goes out to Michael for submitting this weeks Geek Tip. Do you know of a great site that's worth sharing? Do you have any comments or suggestions? Click Discuss this Article below to post your comment in the forums or send an email to sreed@tucows.com


About Stacy Reed

Stacy Reed is Tucows' resident software librarian and editor. She has been reviewing PC and mobile software as well as web services for over a decade. Helping developers improve and promote their products is only one of her areas of expertise. Stacy is also an advocate for Open Source, Creative Commons and freeware, taking special interest in educational resources, social media, cloud sharing, and mobile technology.

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By yman
Oct 15, 2008 | 08:20 AM
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the correct adress is: With the new version of PalTalk you can see all rooms support voice, video and text for thousands of members simultaneously. I got the new version from here: http://www.rosoftdownload.com/download/Windows/PalTalk
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By yman
Oct 15, 2008 | 08:20 AM
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With the new version of PalTalk you can see all rooms support voice, video and text for thousands of members simultaneously. I got the new version from here: PalTalk and it seems to work very well.
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By champro
May 23, 2008 | 11:45 PM
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what's sad is to stumble on to geek news like this, get all excited about it, to the point where you are frantically scrolling up and down the page, looking for that weird little RSS symbol, a downward radar wave? so you can re-up and keep feeding that slightly adderal-ed little back lobe , the one that thought the best way to to contain your problem was to clarify and limit your esoteric web practices and vagrancies by plugging into the best delivery system on the internet for 100% concentrate, boiled, squished, canned and frozen yesterday, OJ this morning, only to realize that the news is actually from 2 years ago, well outdated for a person that gets RSS feed based anxiety, yet still compelling enough to read... and to do all this you had to get a new name and password and, an issue you thought was noteworthy enough to warrant the creation of this post, alas on to read stale geek news and stick another tangent into my arm
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