From Around the Web
10 Apps for Web Designers Using a Mac – There are oodles of third party applications out there for web designers and web developers who use Macs. In this article, Six Revisions share with you the top ten applications that web designers/developers on a Mac will find useful.
13 Must-Have Add-ons To Strengthen Firebug – Firebug is probably one of the most helpful tools for actively developing websites. WebResources Depot has posted a list of add-ons to make Firebug even more useful.
60 Music Websites That Deliver Great Free Music – The order that the free music websites appear in is the order that has received the most hype from Internet chatter over that past few months. It’s not exhaustive, but it’s a great place to start looking.
BlindSearch – Submit a search and see which is better once and for all: Bing, Google, or Yahoo. Blind Search presents the results of all three, side by side, only it doesn’t tell you which is which until you’ve voted! I tried it five different times and picked Google four times and Bing once. I don’t the hell Yahoo! is up to, but it gets a big FAIL as far as I’m concerned.
Blurred Out – Focus runs down a list of 51 things you aren’t allowed to see on Google Maps, including some surprisingly inconsequential spots.
Files Over Miles – Skip the intermediaries. Send your files directly from one browser to another, regardless of size with this simple utility.
Fotopedia – This site bills itself as the first collaborative photo encyclopedia. It provides users with a consumer-friendly interface that makes it easy for anyone to create a page about subjects that matter to them – from butterflies to the Taj Mahal.
Is Windows 7 The Best Windows Ever? – From technology enthusiasts to the average Joe running Windows, everyone was looking at Microsoft for the past 2 years, their hopes gathered around a simple name: Windows 7. There are many reasons why this version of Windows was sought after, not the least being the public relations nightmare brought by Vista.
Twitpocalypse – The Twitpocalypse is similar to the Y2K bug. Very soon the unique identifier associated to each tweet will exceed 2,147,483,647. For some of your favorite third-party Twitter services not designed to handle such a case, the sequence will suddenly turn into negative numbers. At this point, they are very likely to malfunction or crash. When will this happen?
The Ultimate Guide To Make Windows 7 Blazing Fast – Here’s a tutorial on speeding up the latest version of Windows.
Windows 7 vs. Mac OS X Leopard: The Show Down – Now that we know Windows 7 will go on sale October 22nd and the feature-complete release candidate is available as a free download, it’s time to put it through its paces: as compared to the current state of the Mac.
Wordnik – Just launched Monday, Wordnik tries to be a hipper version of Dictionary.com. It provides definitions along with picture and the chance to contribute your own thoughts on each entry.
Tech News
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95 percent of blogs being essentially abandoned
China orders censorship firewall on all PCs
How Pirates Shook European Politics
Man made $112,000 in bank account hacking scheme
Mossberg Confirms, New iPhone Coming Next Week
Pirate Party Wins and Enters The European Parliament
Military Intelligence Used to Shutdown BitTorrent Site
Twitter hype punctured by study
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