Some people are so passionate about books that they can’t even think of throwing the old ones away, even when they know they’d never read it again. Here is a free community designed to make it easy for such people to exchange with others their older books for new ones! This way the books find a good home, with someone who appreciates them too. On BookMooch you don’t get charged for swapping books, however you do have to pay the shipping costs.
You could keep a “book wish list”. Once you have enough points or /and the books are available in the stock, it will automatically arrive to you.
The give and take policy
Every time you ship someone a book, you earn a point that you can use to get any book you want from anyone else at BookMooch. Once you’ve read a book, you can keep it forever or put it back into BookMooch for someone else to read. In order to keep receiving books, you need to give away at least one book for every three you receive.
The worldwide network
You can request books from other countries, in other languages.
You receive extra points when you send a book out of your country.
Membership is required, which is again completely free. You will receive your first book after typing in 10 books you’re giving away.
Doesn’t it often get difficult to find a good photo for your website or blog? In an earlier post, I had written about a free photo library and how it could help designers, artists, and bloggers find the right image.
Today, I’ve got better news for you. Adding to the list is one more photo laboratory called Photl.com – a huge collection of free, high resolution photos (Free Stock Photo Images). The best part is that all photos on the site are available for a free download and can be used for personal as well as commercial purposes! Isn’t that awesome?
Features
Minimum size of all photos: 4368 ? 2912
You can download up to 45 Mb of photos daily (so remember to search photos carefully and download images you like in the necessary size)
There are from 10000 to 15000 new photos monthly
How to get started?
Register online (recommended for a better functioning of the resource)
The account will be immediately activated
Soon after, you will have full access to the stock of images
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Free commercial use of photo images for unlimited circulation in:
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Books, newspapers, posters, magazines, catalogues, booklets, brochures and other printed matter
Congratulatory, advertising and other postcards
Various packing
Presentations, seminars
In the form of reproduction on paper, plastics, glass and other physical carriers
In the form of elements of design of sites, electronic and video publications
On cups, T-shirts, mats, toys and other physical products
In the electronic mass media
I personally like this site. The massive library of images allow you to find the right picture for a lot of commercial / non-commercial purposes.
You could use its search feature to easily locate the picture you have been looking for… just remember not to type in keywords that are too specific. It won’t yield any results. Try and be as generic as possible. For example, words like ‘metal’, ‘food’, and ‘paint’ would give you plenty of results, but if you are looking for something like ‘a crying baby’ it gives you nothing.
LinkWithin is a new widget with photo thumbnails that links to related posts from your archive under each story of your blog. It’s a useful widget that links any newly published story to the ones published long back. This way, the new readers on the blog get to read about the older posts as well, and not just the recent ones. The posts chosen for linking are based on factors such as relevance and popularity, etc.
Features
Increases page views and helps in keeping the readers engaged. The widget links to posts that are relevant to readers, keeping them engaged on the blog, and as a result increases the traffic.
The widget displays photo thumbnails and also has a subtle design that blends in with any blog site.
It’s free and also very easy to install.
How to get started?
You don’t have to sign up or furnish your personal identification details.
Just key in the address of the blog
Choose your platform with the help of drop down menu.
Also, don’t forget to check the box that reads “The body text on my blog has a dark background” if that applies in your case.
A very sad moment for the flight sim community and one of the largest flight simulation sites – Avsim, which has been effectively destroyed by malicious hackers. The site was launched in 1996 and covered all aspects of flight simulation, focusing mainly on Microsoft’s Flight Simulator.
The shocking attack took down the site’s two servers, that had the library, email and web site, and the forum. Unfortunately, there was no external backup system established. The site had a very heavy participation with forums. The entire user generated content and tweets, etc. are all gone. This incident just goes to highlight the importance and critical need to take regular external back-ups for your data.
Tom Allensworth, the site’s founder said:
“Some have asked whether or not we had back ups. Yes, we dutifully backed up our servers every day. Unfortunately, we backed up the servers between our two servers. The hacker took out both servers, destroying our ability to use one or the other back up to remedy the situation.”
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The flight sim community remains shocked, like everyone who has heard about this. A temporary forum has been set by Tom Allensworth till the time they get to know how the future of the site will shape up to be.
Allensworth added:
“The method of the hack makes recovery difficult, if not impossible, to recover from… AVSIM is totally offline at this time and we expect to be so for some time to come. We are not able to predict when we will be back online, if we can come back at all.”
One of the users on website said that “there’s a special place in hell for hackers who pull stunts like this”. Some others believe that they will we see the rise of Avsim like a phoenix from the ashes, into something bigger and better than ever before. Let’s hope they rebound.
Have you missed the previous cheap domain name registration offers? Never mind. The cheap domain name registration offer is back again! You get a domain name for only USD$1.99. It is the current lowest price in the market. This special offer expires on June 30, 2009.
You may get a new domain name at only $1.99USD. The offer is valid for new customers upon new registrations. The only catch is high renewal price next year, so watch for that and better transfer it to some to other registrar at least month before.
This is for all you movie buffs… welcome to iKlipz, a free film-based community site that allows filmmakers to display their work and get recognized, and film lovers to watch and rate the movies, as much as they want. This site aims to bridge the gap between the aspiring filmmakers, the film industry and audiences.
iKlipz was founded by veterans of the Hollywood entertainment industry who believe in movies as forms of entertainment and communication, and want to give all movies the best opportunity to find their audience.
Things you could do at iKlipz
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Screen independent and user-created feature films
Upload your own films and get them in front of a large group of enthusiasts
Meet up with friends and family to chat and keep in touch
Network with industry professionals
Discuss film and filmmaking
Create your very own “MyPage” mini site where you can express yourself and share your opinion, films, photos, and more!
How does this work?
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SEE: This site allows you to check out some great films.
SHOW: You could upload your own original films, independent projects in an open venue and get recognized.
SHARE: Interact with your friends, family and others and get feedback on your work.
Get discovered by Hollywood’s most renowned companies!
iKlipz selects exciting new films chosen by the iKlipz Advisory Board, containing members from some of Hollywood’s most renowned companies like:
As the name suggests, Widgipedia is a resource center for both users and developers of widgets and gadgets. The lack of collaborative resources to help developers increase their widget making knowledge led to the creation of Widgipedia. This site makes it easy for anyone to find the best widgets and gadgets.
It has a comprehensive catalog of Web widgets and desktop widgets (and gadgets) across all platforms. Developers can use Widgipedia to upload their creations, to collaborate with others, to learn or teach through tutorials, code samples, libraries and more.
What is a widget?
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A widget is a small application that runs either on your desktop or in a Web page. Users typically find widgets easier to use than regular applications and developers usually find them easier to code.
This site is a storehouse of unlimited goodies:
Cool widgets and gadgets
Tutorials
Code samples
Code libraries
Knowledge
A community of both widget users and widget developers
Platforms supported
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Desktop widgets:
Yahoo! Widgets (Windows)
Yahoo! Widgets (Mac)
Dashboard (Mac)
Standalone Widgets (Windows)
Standalone Widgets (Mac)
Vista Sidebar Gadgets (Windows)
Opera (Windows, Mac, Linux)
Google Gadgets (Windows)
Adobe AIR (Windows, Mac)
DesktopX (Windows)
Kapsules (Windows)
Samurize (Windows)
KlipFolio (Windows)
AveDesk (Windows)
And all web widget platforms:
Flash, DHTML and Java
Do you need an Account?
To download widgets or to post feedback about them, you don’t need an account.
To upload and manage your own ones, you will need an account.
Aren’t we all facing the problem of information overload in web search? Clusty offers a new way for you to search the web. Rather than just focusing on search engine result ranking, Clusty search engine clubs the results into topics, or “clusters” for the convenience of the user. This is a “metasearch” approach and helps in raising the best results to the top and pushing search engine spam to the bottom.
Features
Examines several top search engines
Combines the results
Generates an ordered list based on comparative ranking.
Retrieves results from Ask, Open Directory, Gigablast and others. (You could see which search engines returned results for your query by clicking on the “Details” link at the top of the search results list.)
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What makes it so different?
Clusty brings an innovative angle on the whole searching process. It displays categories of search results, in addition to the regular ones.
It does not deliver millions of search results in one long list.
It groups similar results together into clusters so that you could see your search results by topic and easily find what you’re looking for.
You don’t have to scroll through pages as the clusters help you find results you may have missed or that were buried deep in the ranked list.
It’s a crowded market Clusty joined. No wonder, they haven’t been able to compete that well with the major players like Google, Yahoo, and Ask.com, etc., till date.
A plain t-shirt, some fabric paints, brushes and the ‘creative’ you… Isn’t it fun designing your own t-shirt? Based on a similar concept, a gang of about five people came up with the concept of Tshirt Takeaway– a place where you could show off your t-shirt designs in the most attractive way possible.
What is Tshirt Takeaway?
Tshirt Takeaway is a new way to design your very own t-shirt and then take it out to the online market and sell it!
You can design t-shirts and sell them directly on your
Websites
Blogs
Social networking sites like MySpace, Hi5, Blogger, Piczo, and others via its customizable widget (panel) that you can embed
The t-shirt design also appears on the Tshirt Takeaway website to increase its popularity.
How does it work?
Use the Tshirt Builder to create a t-shirt design
Add the amount of commission you would like to earn from the sale of the design.
Then add the t-shirt to the Tshirt Takeaway shop
Place the widget code in your web space.
When a buyer clicks on the widget from the user webspace they are redirected to the Tshirt Takeaway checkout.
Tshirt Takeaway then takes care of the payment and shipping.
If you don’t wish to sell your design, rather keep it for yourself, then you could do that as well.
Here is a great resource for designers, artists, and even bloggers! On Open Stock Photography, you could find free stock photographs much easily than doing a regular Google search. Plus the search options are quite flexible. It is a multilingual system, which means you can search for stock photography in virtually any language!
Features
Search by Term, Tag or Color
Search Suggestions by Concepts
Search Translations
Image Light-boxing
Implicit Image Tagging
In addition to on-site features, it also integrates the following off-site features:
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Image Cropping
Image Resizing
Photo Printing
Licensing
All images listed at Open Stock Photography come from Wikimedia Commons and as such “can be used by anyone, for any purpose”
There are no restrictions of use. However, licenses which limit commercial use are considered non-free.
Photographers can directly submit their photos to the site via Wikimedia. To store photos in your lightbox and to make comments, you’ll need to log in with your Yahoo ID.
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