Web 2.0 Sites:
Freeware Feature of the Week: Converber - A unit converter that supports conversions between 1208 various units of measure in 32 categories. Converber converts everything from length and force to flow and temperature.
Wallpaper of the Week: Baby Harp Seal on the Arctic Ice
The Week in Geek News:
Flickr Image of the Week: by
Top Blog Picks:
Article of the Week: MPAA Admits Mistake on Downloading Study - The Associated Press
NEW! Librarian Chick's Smart Site of the Week: LookWAYup - A multilingual dictionary, thesaurus, translation, and other handy tools. Don't worry about spelling, this dictionary fixes it.
Art Site of the Week: Understanding Art for Geeks
NEW! The Weekly Widget: WidgetBucks - Features pay-per-click shopping widgets that help you make money fast. They instantly display the most popular products based on buying trends of 100 million shoppers. Thus they are highly engaging, which means instant dollars!
NEW! Free Game of the Week: Lux from YoYo Games - See how many chain reactions you can cause in this fun, fast paced arcade game that will keep you glued to the edge of your seat!
Video of the Week:
VideoTrace
Geek Weekly: This week's geek tip comes from Optimize Guides - You may or may not already know that there is a hidden Internet conference application called NetMeeting that comes packaged in Windows. To launch it go to Start > Run and type conf.
OG notes that Windows XP is the last version of Microsoft Windows to include NetMeeting. NetMeeting delivers a complete Internet conferencing solution for all Windows users with multi-point data conferencing, text chat, whiteboard, and file transfer, as well as point-to-point audio and video.
TGIF! Enjoy your weekend, folks! If you'd like to read more articles like this, you can find an archive of past mashups here. Keep the links coming, everyone! Do you know of a great site that's worth sharing? Do you have any comments or suggestions? I'd love to hear from you! Just drop me a line at sreed@tucows.com and say hello!
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.