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Link Round-Up: December 16, 2009

16 Dec 2009  Links

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5 Online Photo Sharing sites which are Free Alternatives to Flickr

6 Tips On How To Unblock A Web Page From Behind A Firewall – Sometimes you might find yourself not being able to access a particular website, and you may be wondering why. One reason for not being able to access the site is that the site may just be down – check out Down For Everyone Or Just Me to see if the site is down or not. If it is blocked, here are a few tips on how to unblock a web page from behind a firewall.

10 New Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know – Last week Facebook rolled out a new version of their privacy settings to all users. Privacy settings are something that many Facebook users are regularly confused about. As important as privacy is to Facebook users, it’s a great time to update your account.

Hassle-Free Virtual Private Network – Need to access files on your home computer while you’re at the office? A virtual private network will give you a direct link to your desktop over the Internet, and the easiest way to set one up is with Hamachi.

How to Convert a Netbook Into a Touchscreen PC – Tablet PCs may be the next big thing in computers, but netbooks are cheap and widely available now. Why wait for Apple to do it for you? Here’s how to make your own touchcreen PC, starting with an off-the-shelf netbook.

Most Popular DIY Projects of 2009 – Lifehacker remembers its most popular DIY projects of 2009, including Sharpie rockets and portable air conditioners.

ScreenToaster – Fire up this site, load its Java-based applet, and you can record surprisingly decent quality screencasts or demonstration, with audio voice-overs, at the push of a single button. When you’re done recording your desktop, you can upload the finished product to YouTube or download it as a Flash or QuickTime file.

Totally Overhaul Your Phones With Google Voice – Google Voice lets users consolidate all their phones under one number, archive your texts and voicemails, and much, much more, is two things to most people: vaguely promising, and totally confusing. Here’s how to make the switch, in plain English.

Discussion

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Bank’s antifraud tactics stun security expert: How much do they know?
The Best Windows Laptops, From $400 to $1500
Geeks drive girls out of computer science
What Microsoft must fix for Windows 8

Entertainment

300 Million-Year-Old Limestone Houses Ultra Efficient Data Center
Get Where’s Waldo? on the iPhone!
Old Hard Drives Get Sculpted Into Cars, Bikes, Robots
Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive at Google.

Tech News

Bar-code Scanning RedLaser iPhone App reaches 750K downloads
How Facebook Is Making Friending Obsolete – WSJ.com
MIT gestural computing makes multitouch look old hat
MIT Plans to Rebuild Artificial Intelligence from the Ground Up
An omnivorous Google is coming
Texting Edging Out Cell-Phone Calls
Twitter Reveals Most Discussed Topics of 2009



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