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Link Round-Up: March 3, 2009

3 Mar 2009 Links

From Around the Web

20 Useful PHP Components & Tutorials for Everyday Project – Learn to build a simple CMS, create charts, paginate navigation pages, and resize images with the tutorials listed in this directory.

40+ Places to Sell Your Designs Online – Whether you’re a graphic designer, web designer or other creative professional, finding work in a down economy can be tough. And what do you do when a client doesn’t want your brilliant design, or you have no work to do to begin with?

42 Amazing Sources of Lego Inspiration and Creativity – Everybody loves Legos, but some people are more gifted than others, leaving the rest of us untalented hacks to sit back and gawk.

Enigma Desktop 2.0 – If you’re looking for an amazing minimalist theme for your Windows desktop, you have to check this one out! There’s a bit more information over at Lifehacker.

How to Hide Anything inside JPG Files – My Top Clip explains how to conceal just about any type of file inside a jpg using nothing more than your run-of-the-mill compression software.

Top 10 Tools for Your Blog or Web Site – Lifehacker shares links that make having your own hosted web domain cheaper and easier than ever. Tools to help anyone launch and maintain an internet presence.

Viking Defense – Another tower defense game, with Vikings.

What’s a Hulu? – Mental Floss explains The Origins of 8 High-Tech Names. Here are the stories behind the naming of TiVo, BlackBerry and more – including what they were almost called.