Great Websites - 10x - Newest Finds of the Week – Tuesday, February 17, 2009

10 x Weekly Finds

1. Adium (for mac) is a free instant messaging application for Mac OS X that can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, and more. (instant messaging for Mac) …

2. J.Y. Design > Resources - “Downloads, Extensions, Tips & Tricks” (design resources) …

3. Kadoo lets you share your media files online. Now, you can decide who sees what with greater sharing & privacy. You get 10 free gigabytes of storage to share your photos, videos, files and more with only your friends. An “easy way to Share your Digital Content”. (share media files online) …

4. MPEG Streamclip is a powerful video converter, player, editor for Mac and Windows. It can play many movie files, not only MPEGs; it can convert MPEG files between muxed/demuxed formats for authoring; it can encode movies to many formats, including iPod; it can cut, trim and join movies. MPEG Streamclip can also download videos from YouTube and Google by entering the page URL. (video converter and editor) …

5. Paint (for windows). Free paint program falling somewhere between paint and photoshop. Please note: You will need to have the Microsoft .NET Framework installed in order to run this program. www.microsoft.com/ … (paint - for windows) …

6. RCDefaultApp is a Mac OS X 10.2 or higher preference pane that allows a user to set the default application used for various URL schemes, file extensions, file types, MIME types, and Uniform Type Identifiers (or UTIs; MacOS 10.4 only). MacOS X uses the extension and file type settings to choose the application when opening a file in Finder, while Safari and other applications use the URL and MIME type settings at other times for content not related to a file (such as an unknown URL protocol, or a media stream). (default app) …

7. Spheric Lounge – streaming live ambient music - session 95 … (live streaming music) …

8. StumbleUpon hits 7 million users, quietly 50% bigger than Twitter (as at February 9, 2009 – from ReadWriteWeb.com) … (stumble upon) …

9. Wings 3D (for windows and mac) is a FREE, yet powerful 3d modelling program. It's a great introduction for those who want to start learning/experimenting in 3D modelling, considering the alternative of dipping your toes in programs such as Maya or 3D Studio will set you back up to thousands of dollars … (3D modeling) …

10. WordWeb (for windows) WordWeb is a free English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows, and can be used to look up words from within almost any program in just one click. It works off-line, but can also look up words in web references such as the Wikipedia encyclopedia. Features of the free version include: Definitions and synonyms, proper nouns, related words, pronunciations, with 150 000 root words, and 120 000 synonym sets. Finally, it allows you to look up words in almost any program. (thesaurus and dictionary for windows) …