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Link Round-Up: November 30, 2009

30 Nov 2009 Links

Resources

10 Alternatives To Mininova – After nearly five years of loyal service, Mininova disabled access to over a million torrent files when it partly shut down its website. Starting today, only approved publishers are able to upload files to the site, but luckily there are plenty of alternatives.

100 Google Wave Robots – Google Wave Robots are the best way to explore Wave. Here is the huge list of Google Wave Robots that you can add in your contacts and enjoy waving.

61 Free Apps We’re Most Thankful For – LifeHacker has compiled a list of free applications its users are thankful for. There’s a lot of the usual suspects, along with a few little-knowns.

All My Apps and NiNite – These two sites are the only two places on the internet I can find where you can install all the usual apps you load up on a new computer in one fell swoop, including Firefox, Flash, and VLC.

Check the Redesigned Google (With Always-Visible Sidebar) Yourself – Paste the following code into the address bar of your browser at google.com and hit return to become a new participant of Google’s latest and more all-encompassing prototype test – the one with a new logo, buttons, and always-visible left-hand pane in results.

Seven Mininova and Pirate Bay Alternatives to fend off P2P withdrawal – Where do we go, now that Mininova’s gone? Good question. I’ve compiled a list of free and public torrent indexes that should keep your hard-disk platters turning and your hi-fi humming — for a little while longer at least.