Stacy's Weekly Mashup: Free Music Zilla, JAlbum, Infoplease, 12Ghosts Pop-Up Killer...
| 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:
- School puts a chip on pupils - Doncaster Today http://www.freemusiczilla.com/
- Low-cost laptop production started - Reuters
- Google to Offer Drivers Help at Gas Pump - Wired
- Cancer-busters tap into grid computing - iTnews
- Apple Blasts Past the Forecasts - BusinessWeek
- Adobe Brings Out Online Word Processing App Buzzword - LifeHacker
- Microsoft Willing To Lose Money Online To Fight Google -
- - Search Engine Land
- Party like a rock star with 'Guitar Hero III' - MSNBC
- YouTube Enhances Video Flagging System - Search Engine Land
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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