Stacy's Weekly Mashup: TrueCrypt, Buzzword, Bluestring, Mozilla Labs, ChatStat...
Web 2.0 Sites:
- sk*rt - Users provide content on a broad array of topics, linking to cool Internet finds
- Bloggers Unite - An initiative designed to harness the power of the blogosphere to make the world a better place
- Buzzword - This word processor for the web is a breakthrough in collaborative authoring for documents that matter
- Bluestring - Preserve and share your memories in a whole new way
- Fubar - Fubar is for anyone 18 and older who is interested in meeting new people while connecting with old friends
Freeware Feature of the Week: TrueCrypt - Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux
Shareware Feature of the Week: Paragon Hard Disk Manager 2008 - All-in-one suite to completely protect, maintain and manage your PC's hard drives, including partitioning, backup, cloning, defrag, disposal, system management and system recovery.
Wallpaper of the Week: Helix Nebula - Interfacelift
The Week in Geek News:
- Adobe joins Linux Foundation, develops AIR for Linux - Yahoo! News
- Intel unveils updated low-power laptop - PC World
- Adobe Announces Creative Suite 4 - PCWorld
- MySpace and Record Companies Create Music Site - The New York Times
- Intel unveils updated low-power laptop - Computerworld
Flickr Image of the Week: by LightMirror
Top Blog Picks:
Article of the Week: Just Put It on My Phone - Companies are introducing services with new ways for consumers to buy, sell, and carry out other transactions using wireless handsets - BusinessWeek
Librarian Chick's Smart Site of the Week: World Atlas - World maps, flags, geography facts, currency conversion, world clocks and more
Art Site of the Week:
MOLI - Starving Artist Contest
The Weekly Widget: ChatStat - The ability to conduct live chat with both website visitors and any of the supported IM clients (AOL, ICQ, Yahoo, MSN, GoogleTalk, and Skype) using a familiar instant messenger interface
Free Game of the Week: DHTML Lemmings - A javascript remake of the old classic
Video of the Week:
BigDog Quadruped Robot
Geek Weekly: This week, Ryan Faas of Computerworld wrote an article titled The top 25 overlooked and underrated features in Leopard. If you are a Mac user, you're sure to find something helpful among this well-rounded list of features for Mac OS X 10.5
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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