Stacy's Weekly Mashup: Jaman, YouTomb, GetRight, bab.la, Amie St...
| Published: | May 23, 2008 | |||
| Author: | Stacy Reed | |||
| Software that can help | Good for | Cow Rating | |||||
|
|
Resume, accelerate, schedule, and manage your downloads. |  |
||||
Web 2.0 Sites:
- Google Earth Outreach - Explore and learn about the impacts of climate change and find out how you can make a difference
- Jaman - Download and stream award-winning films in better than DVD quality
- YouTomb - A research project by MIT Free Culture that tracks videos taken down from YouTube for alleged copyright violation
- Amie Street - Discover new independent music
- Google Friend Connect - Grow traffic by easily adding social features to your website
Freeware Feature of the Week: Tor - A freeware project that helps defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security.
Shareware Feature of the Week: GetRight - Extends your file-downloading power by resuming broken downloads and accelerating them to make them faster and more flexible. GetRight easily manages all your downloads, making it easy to find what you have in progress, and track files you've finished so they don't get lost.
Wallpaper of the Week: Gates of Gold
The Week in Geek News:
- Netflix offers movie downloads; stock upgraded - Reuters
- Senator Lieberman Wants Terrorist Videos Removed From YouTube - Information Week
- Microsoft To Offer Cash Back To Search Engine Users In Effort To Fight Google - TechCrunch
- Lawmaker questions Google over privacy practices - Reuters
- Design revamp for '$100 laptop' - BBC News
Flickr Image of the Week: by fernando
Top Blog Picks:
Article of the Week: A Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace - John Perry Barlow
Librarian Chick's Smart Site of the Week: bab.la - A free collaborative dictionary, language quizzes and a language forum featuring user-generated content
Art Site of the Week:
Doodle 4 Google - Google asked US students in grades K-12 to design a Google logo around the theme 'What if...?'
The Weekly Widget: Schmap Widgets - Brighten up your website or blog with one of these useful, cool and stylish widgets, combining maps with content and event schedules for travel, sports, concert tours and more
Free Game of the Week: Bloxorz - Can you get a rectangular cube into a square hole?
Video of the Week: This week's video is also the Geek Tip which comes from PCWizKid's TechTalk
Windows XP TIP - Unlock Hidden Options
Suggestions? Comments?
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.
The latest iteration of iOS 5 has it's own Messaging application similar to the wildly popular BBM and we're going to show you how it works in this episode. view it
Reminders are a new way to stay on top of the things that you need to do. There are a couple of ways to use Reminders, as we'll show you in this episode. view it
In this episode we show you how Apple has changed the notifications system in iOS 5. view it
Here, we show you some of the new features of iOS 5, including improved notifications and integration with iCloud. view it
In our first episode of this series, we'll show you how to install iOS 5, Apple's newest version of their mobile operating system. view it
In this episode, we'll show you how Maps can help you easily get from point A to point B when you're navigating using your Android phone. view it
While you can change the notification sound for all notifications, there is also a way to change the notification tone for SMS messages only, as we'll show you in this tutorial. view it
