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Link Round-Up: August 25, 2009

25 Aug 2009 Links

Resources

25 Great Pirate Bay Alternatives – The end of the Pirate Bay is nearing. Even if the deal with GGF doesn’t go through the current owners are likely to sell to one of the other interested parties. For many BitTorrent fans this means that they have to find an alternative. Luckily there are plenty of good ones out there.

50 Alternatives to Craigslist – Let’s face it, Craigslist can be a mess. Here are a few sites offering specialized services and a few sites offering general classifieds.

Academic Earth – A growing site featuring videos of university lectures on a vast array of subjects from notable schools around the country.

How to Create Your Own Planets Using Your Panoramas – Here’s a tutorial that shows you how to turn any panorama or landscape photograph into a spherical planet with a just a few clicks in Photoshop.

SignMyImage – SignMyImage is a utility that allows users to embed an invisible watermark on their images. Paid users can use ImageSpider to crawl the internet to find copies of images bearing these watermarks. Could be useful for photographer and graphic designers.

Space: The Final Junkyard – EU Infastructure has posted an informative infographic on the all junk that is orbiting the Earth. It’s an eye-opener.