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Link Round-Up: October 16, 2009

16 Oct 2009  Links

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10 Ways to Take your Site from One to One Million Users – At the Future of Web Apps conference Kevin Rose (Digg, Pownce, Wefollow) gave a cool presentation on the top 10 down and dirty ways you can grow your web app. He took the questions he’s most often asked and turned it into a very informative talk.

15 Podcasts That Will Make You Smarter – 15 great podcasts that will make you a smarter, more well rounded, and better informed person.

15 Terminal Commands for Hidden Settings in Snow Leopard – Every time Apple brings out a new version of OS X, Mac OS X Tips compiles a list of their favorite Terminal commands for enabling hidden features and changing hidden settings.

50 Must-Listen-to Lectures for Tech Lovers – The title speaks for itself. Here’s a collection of lectures covering a wide range of topics from colleges are the world.

AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 9.0 – Just out today, this basic antivirus and antispyware protection for Windows is available to download for free.

Five Best Windows Task Manager Alternatives – The Windows Task Manager is a functional but basic tool for keeping an eye on applications and activity on your computer. If you want to go beyond the built-in tool take a closer look at these alternatives.

Sublime Text – Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose. It’s a white-on-black, keyboard-friendly editor chocked full of powerful, but unobtrusive, features.

Top 5 Websites To Learn How To Hack Like A Pro – Whether you’re a college student, a middle-aged networking guru or a wife and mother fascinated by the world of online games – everyone occasionally comes across a situation where some form of hacking would make life a whole lot easier. MakeUseOf rounds up some useful resources to that end.

Tour of Google’s Chicago Headquarters – You probably knew that Google was a California-based technology company, but did you know they have 67 locations across the world, including one in Chicago?

Ubuntu 9.10 – Almost Perfect – Here’s a quick look and what makes this the best release of any Linux distro. Ever.

Discussion

10/GUI is a project that seeks to reinvent desktop human-computer interaction
According to Slate, Google Wave chatting tool is too complicated for its own good.
On The Internet, Nobody Knows You’re Not In The USA
Why Google isn’t evil
Why Non-Geeks are Scared of Computers.
Why You Can’t Get Decent Earphones for Less Than $100

Entertainment

5 Creative Works of Laptop Computer Art
CollegeHumor has posted a video of Every Nickelback Wikipedia Page Vandalism Ever.
This is the best use of Twitter EVER!
Why Larry Ellison hates Cloud computing
The WikiReader is a $99 handheld device which contains a copy of the entire Wikipedia.

Tech News

Acer overtakes Dell in PC shipments
Computer Makers Aim to Banish Boot-Up Blues
Google Accounts for 6% of All Internet Traffic
Google Wave’s Little Secret: It Already Works On The iPhone
Microsoft teams with ‘Family Guy’ creator to promote Windows 7
Worst of recession over for the technology sector

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