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Link Round-Up: July 27, 2009

27 Jul 2009 Links

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5 iPod Alternatives That Rock – With over 120 million units sold, no company comes close to the success that Apple has enjoyed with its iPod. But commercial success doesn’t necessarily mean the iPod is the best player on the market. In fact, many competing portable media players offer equally high sonic sonic performance, as well as a handful of features not found in the iPod.

9 Alternative Web Twitter Clients – Believe it or not, almost 50% of Twitter users, prefer to tweet directly from Twitter.com. This isn’t surprising, but most heavy Twitter users agree that Twitter.com is actually the poorest user experience among the plethora of alternative web applications to access the service.

15 New jQuery Plugins To Help You Conquer The Web – A fairly solid list of the newest jQuery Plugins to hit the internet.

Creating a Diorama Illusion in Photoshop – Have you ever built a diorama? Using a blur effect, you can create an attention-catching effect to make a object really pop in your composition.

Cutout NES – Cubecraft is offering up a downloadable cutout model of the Nintendo Entertainment System console. Print it out onto cardstock and voila! your own tiny gift box or desk toy.

Ubuntu to make Linux application installation idiot proof – Installing applications on Linux isn’t really that hard, but it is different from how it’s handled on both Windows and Macs. Now, Ubuntu is working on a newbie-proof way for users to install Linux programs.