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Web 2.0 Sites:
- Swapagift - Buy, sell and swap gift cards
- blist - Discover, sharing, publish, distribute, and subscribe to data at home and at work
- TrackMyShipments - Track your shipments with all the major shipping companies
- Project Wonderful - An innovative model that brings fairness, transparency, and profitability to the advertising process
- Photoshop Express - Edit your photos, upload, sort, polish, and store up to 2GB of photos for free
Freeware Feature of the Week: ThreatFire - Supplements your current antivirus software by protecting against rootkits, zero-days exploits, and other threats
Shareware Feature of the Week: ArcSoft PhotoImpression - Combines photo editing with additional creative and printing tools that maximize your digital imaging experience
Wallpaper of the Week: Firefox
The Week in Geek News:
- Yahoo backs Google's push for open social networks - Reuters
- Hackers Exploit Excel Hole - PC World
- It's Good To Be A Monopoly: Bell Canada Tells ISPs To Shut Up And Accept Traffic Shaping - Techdirt
- "Modder" turns hobby into career - Reuters
- Google to push privacy initiatives - Computerworld
Flickr Image of the Week: by Matt Bleicher
Top Blog Picks:
Article of the Week: Hello, gorgeous! Meet the laptop you'll use in 2015 - Computerworld
Librarian Chick's Smart Site of the Week: Shelfari - Log your books by creating a virtual shelf that you can share with friends and discover new titles
Art Site of the Week:
Vector Magic - Converts bitmap images to vector images with a few simple clicks
The Weekly Widget: LinkedInABox - Provides a summary of your personal profile, as presented in your LinkedIn account
Free Game of the Week: Spin The Black Circle - Rotate the maze and avoid the deadly traps. It's harder than it looks! Use your brain and ball balancing skills to make it through the rotating maze.
Video of the Week:
How to Make a Bristlebot
Geek Weekly: HTML Dog has a good collection of online tutorials and resources to help you learn how to code in HTML and CSS
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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Jun 09, 2008 | 08:32 PM