Stacy's Weekly Mashup: Socialmatic, Graspr, FriendFeed, Pencil, Bookbyte...
Web 2.0 Sites:
- Socialmatic - A social bookmarking tool that helps you submit up to 13 social sites automatically
- Graspr - An online video community that offers high quality instructional content on a wide range of topics
- Google Docs Templates - A gallery of free spreadsheet, presentation, and document templates for Google Docs
- Boudica - A social networking and news site for women
- FriendFeed - Keep up-to-date on the web pages, photos, videos and music that your friends and family are sharing
Freeware Feature of the Week: Pencil - A free and open source animation/drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics.
Shareware Feature of the Week: E-Z Audit - Audit PC software and hardware across your network, via your intranet or from disk or USB flash drive
Wallpaper of the Week: Midnight in Karelia
The Week in Geek News:
- Viacom 'backs off' YouTube demand - BBC News
- What Microsoft does not want you to know about Netflix streaming - TG Daily
- Amazon To Debut Streaming Movie/TV Service Today - TechCrunch
- Microsoft eyes merger with AOL - Geek.com
- Ruiz Steps Down At AMD - BusinessWeek
Flickr Image of the Week: by conwest_john
Top Blog Picks:
- Bake or Break
- Dark Matter Magazine
- The Design Files
- The Post Punk Kitchen Blog
- Not Exactly Rocket Science
Article of the Week: Meet the man behind the Wii - MSNBC
Librarian Chick's Smart Site of the Week: Bookbyte - Sell a used college textbook or buy a new or used college textbook at a great price
Art Site of the Week:
The Print Yard - Provides artists and photographers with a risk free way of gaining exposure and selling prints
The Weekly Widget: Devabulator - Brings the best of deviantART to your desktop and manage your desktop wallpaper
Free Game of the Week: People Bucket - A physics based game in which you have to toss the people into their bucket
Video of the Week:
A Rubber Band Model Of the Universe
Geek Weekly: Change Excel's 'edit in Cell' Keyboard Shortcut - PC World
Suggestions? Comments?
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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