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Link Round-Up: July 14, 2009

14 Jul 2009  Links

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20 Smart Ways to Discover New Music – Tech Radar rounds up the best places online to find your new favourite band, beginning with Last.fm and moving on to many you may not have heard of before.

Choosing the Perfect CMS – Noupe has posted this excellent article on the comparative features of the most popular CMS systems, including Frog, Joomla, and Wordpress.

DateLine – A small, simple app which displays a linear calendar on your desktop in a transparent window. It provides easy access to iCal by double clicking on a day. The background and text colors are customizable with support for transparency.

Hid.Im – A Hidim turns a torrent into a regular PNG image. You save the png yourself. You can post it anywhere. People can decode it, but it can’t be searched for… it won’t turn up in searches for those torrents, unless you provide text that matches.

How Much Is A Petabyte? – Mozy Blog visualizes how much data is contained in a Petabyte.

iPhone apps – the 10 smartest and the 10 stupidest – The soon-to-be-released iPhone 3.0 software will offer a slew of new capabilities to iPhone developers. The Register names the 10 smartest and 10 stupidest apps that the iTunes App Store has to offer.

Rollip – An online tool that lets users convert uploaded photos into faux-Polaroids.

Top 10 Best Sites for Free Stock Photos – Here is a list of the best websites where you can find and download free stock photos and images.

TwitterFeel – This Twitter-based opinion search engine will show you what people are saying about any give topic. The best part is that it filters out any messages that don’t explicitly express an opinion. Take it for a spin by typing in “Harry Potter” for starters. Very amusing.

Wikipedia Game – This multi-player web game is similar to Six degrees of Kevin Bacon, but it is based on traversing Wikipedia articles instead.

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