The Great Geek Manual

Utilities and Resources

• doubleTap – with this Android app, music can be shared just by tapping two phones together. From doubleTwist at Google IO.
• Grabachat – a face-to-face social networking site that connects people with similar interest, hobbies and experiences to chat and share ideas via webcam.
• Ninite – streamlines the process of setting up a new PC but letting you download all of the most used utilities in one place AND helping you remove all the extra junk that comes pre-installed with new computers.

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Utilities and Resources

• d3.js – a Javascript library for manipulating data-driven documents. (Examples)
• Filebird – a website which consolidates all the major free file storage services.
• Gumroad – share and sell your digital goods over the internet in a matter of seconds with just a link. Excellent for small, infrequent exchanges.
• If This, Then That – trigger actions in one corner of the cloud based on events in another using popular websites like Facebook, Craiglist, and Twitter, email, SMS, and telephone in any configuration.
• Planetary – Bloom’s beautiful and free music visualization for the iPad
• ProCSSor – a powerful (and wholly free) CSS prettifier that lets you format CSS in the exact way you want. Turn your CSS into something that is visually more compelling and readable with a minimum of effort.
• QuickForget – upload files and set them to automatically expire after a certain amount of time or a certain number of views.
• RSS Search Engine – a search tool to discover RSS feeds on topics of interest.
• stolen camera finder – uses the serial number stored in your photo to search the web for photos taken with the same camera.

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Tech News

• Apple’s Chinese workers treated ‘inhumanely, like machines’
• FTC Prepping Google Antitrust Probe, Sources Say
• Guide to Visual Design for Everyone from Clean Up Your Mess
• Steve Jobs Responds to PhoneTrackGate
• Study: Google to Take Apple’s App Crown by July
• Wikileaks Cables Show Massive U.S. Effort to Establish Canadian DMCA
• Wikileaks on New Zealand Copyright: US Funds IP Enforcement
• Wikileaks: Police Arrested Movie Pirate As “A Personal Favor” To Movie Official

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Utilities and Resources

• 1ty.me – a service that lets users share data that self-destructs after one use.
• Peepmail – finds email addresses not publicly available. [More]
• Super Google Reader – converts all partial RSS feeds into full feeds
• WheresMyCellPhone – can’t find your cell phone? No one around to call it for you? Try this. If you loose your phone often, put it on your landline’s speed dial.
• WolframTones – a service from Wolfram Alpha that generates music with fractally complex cellular automata, in a style of your choice – classical, dance, rock, hip-hop, etc. Every composition is unique and is available as a ringtone.

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Utilities and Resources

• AudioTruce – lets you select files from your own computer to add to a group playlist. You can share then share a link with the people you are in the same physical room with, enabling them to add songs from their computer. (In Beta)
• Chute – rescues all the photos stuck on your phone and backs them up, syncs them, and shares them where you want. (In Beta)
• Goosh – an unofficial command-prompt Google shell, for when Googling just isn’t nerdy enough for you.
• Readon.ly – an applet that lets you throw up whatever article you’re reading onto Twitter with just one click.
• SpaceSniffer – find out what’s taking up all that space on your computer
• YaCy – a free search engine that anyone can use to build a search portal for their intranet or to help search the public internet. When contributing to the world-wide peer network, the scale of YaCy is limited only by the number of users in the world and can index billions of web pages.

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Utilities and Resources

• FullyFollow.me – a web service which lets users manage all their social network profiles from one signle dashboard and update them/share stuff with others across all profiles with a single click.
• GMinder – a reminder program that waits in your system tray and alerts you when you have an upcoming Google Calendar event. GMinder supports multiple calendars and allows you to configure how you want to be alerted. Since it downloads your events, it works offline and enables you to preview your agenda.
• goPileus – another super-fast, super-simple site for sharing files.
• Memidex – an online dictionary / thesaurus with a very simple interface.

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Utilities and Resources

• Amazon Cloud Drive – stores your stuff online and streams your music back to you. First 5GB free.
• Mumble – open source, low-latency, high quality voice chat for gamers.
• Opera Mini 6 – if you’re looking for a better browser for your tablet, give this a try. It offers all the benefits of Opera, only faster and with a dedicated share button.
• Small Basic – Microsoft’s attempt to hook kids on programming. Pairs Basic with a nice user-friendly programming environment.
• Stardock ObjectDock – this replacement for the Windows taskbar gives your system the feel of Mac with a more graphical interface.

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Utilities and Resources

• Convore – a quick way to instant message with groups of friends in real-time. You can join in on conversations about topics that interest you, or start your own conversations. Don’t worry about missing anything, because we keep track of what you’re not seeing, so that when you return, you can easily catch up.
• Climsy – a nice, simple Windows program that makes it dead simple to shares images on your clipboard via Dropbox and Imageshack.
• Greplin – a personal search engine that allows you to search all your online data in one easy place. Greplin indexes the information you create across the web (Gmail, Facebook, Twitter) and provides lightning fast search of all of it.

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