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Stacy's Weekly Mashup: Free Music Zilla, JAlbum, Infoplease, 12Ghosts Pop-Up Killer...

Welcome to the Weekly Mashup, where you can find links to the coolest sites and resources on the internet. Find out what's hip this week in Web 2.0, blogs, news, media and more!
Published: Nov 8, 2007
Author: Stacy Reed
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Web 2.0 Sites:

  • JAlbum - Free gallery software that makes web albums from your digital images
  • Chictini - It's like Digg for buzzworthy products
  • Wheel of Lunch - Enter your Zip Code and keyword then spin the wheel to figure out where to eat locally
  • Citizendium - An open wiki project aimed at creating an enormous, free, and reliable encyclopedia
  • Time and Date - Offers calendars, date calculators, countdown tools, time zone calculators and more
  • Wired Store - All the cool shizzle at great prices
  • Free Music Zilla - The first tool specialized for social music downloading, lets you download free music from almost all online social music services
  • ModifyVideo - Convert online videos direct to your PC, iPod, PSP, iPhone or mobile
  • Spigit - One of a kind community platform for launching new ideas, products, and companies
  • Infoplease - Online encyclopedia, almanac, atlas, dictionary, thesaurus and much more


Freeware Feature of the Week: 12Ghosts PopUp-Killer - Free Popup-Killer that blocks ALL popups of IE


Wallpaper of the Week: C-Curve


The Week in Geek News:


Flickr Image of the Week: by marikska


Top Blog Picks:


Article of the Week: Ask the Experts: How Does Bluetooth Work? - Scientific American


Art Site of the Week: Words of Art - Dictionary of terms, words and phrases in art


Video of the Week: Twisted Reality


Geek Tip: This week's tip comes from Firefox Facts - By default Firefox does not spell check all text areas, only the larger fields. As it turns out, there's a way to change that! Here's how it's done:
In your about:config (type about:config in the address bar to access) search for this string: layout.spellcheckDefault Change the value from 1 to 2 to get spell checking for all text fields and not just the big text area boxes.



TGIF, right folks? Well, that wraps it up for another week! If you're looking for more, you can find an archive of past articles here. Keep the links coming, everyone! If you know of a great site that's worth sharing, or if you have any comments or suggestions, I'd love to hear from you! Just send an email to sreed@tucows.com and say hello!


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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