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An amazing site featuring tech related net-casts which one can watch live as they happen or download the recorded audio podcast. If you are interested in social networks, privacy and security, and the Internet as a whole you will love Twit.Tv

Ixquick is a new search engine that respects the privacy of its users. Their results are quite accurate and the best thing is that they claim that they keep absolutely no records of ip addresses and search strings. ( as you know Google maintains a detailed user profile for everyone that uses its services)

We all know that Twitter can send you an email each time someone send you a direct message. But what about when someone send us a replay? That is usually the case when someone wants to address us publicly in the course of discussion or is attempting to start one. Twitstra will solve this problem by sending you an e-mail every time a tweet mentions your Twitter name. The service is simple to use and it utilizes OAuth, so you don`t have to worry about any phishing.

There are many programs ( most not free) which allow you to check your system for drivers that need to be updated. Today I stumbled on a site that would check your system for free and provide WORKING links to the drivers you may need. Great idea and functionality!

The website of the Electronic Frontier Foundation is a valuable source for news and information about privacy and personal security to users from all over the world. They go extra step in protecting the free speech, privacy, innovation, and consumer rights.

Whatever you are running a site or a blog you will find a lot of useful codes, script and tools at Dynamic Drive. Some of the tools will allow you to optimize your photos so you site loads faster, to generate a FavIcon or a button, protect your email from spam…etc. And when it comes to scripts – the extensive collection of Java Scripts neatly organized into categories is there for you. Best of all –the resources on the site are freeware. Highly recommended.

TheSkyKid.com features Live radio, articles, discussion forum, audio and video clips, previews, introductions and reviews of coming of age books, short films, music and movies with a focus on adolescent development. The site has been certified as family friendly and is regularly monitored and moderated to ensure consistence of its content.

In addition to the usual reviews of films and youthful musicians which has been the staple of the blog from its inception, since last Fall the blog has been documenting the phenomenal growth of the Elton John/Lee Hall production of Billy Elliot the Musical as that show has grown from a London beginning to Broadway and Chicago and soon to several other countries. Several articles profile all the current Billys in those productions as well as highlight many other aspects of the show.

Lovely site that will allow you to convert your favorite clips from YouTube to high quality mp3s in real-time. You can set a specific timing and even the tags such as artist and name of the song / or the clips /.

A wonderful web 2.0 site which allows you to search Flickr and discover great photos uploaded by its members. The search result is displayed as thumbnail mosaic spreading on different pages.

Many sites require you to register just to see a simple video or read a review... etc. Even if this registration is free if you stumble on a site that you are unlikely to visit again, creating yet another registration is a haste.BugMeNot.com will help you quickly bypass the login of web sites that require compulsory registration and/or the collection of personal/demographic information. The service is quite good as you only have to enter the site you need to log into and some other user would have shared credentials.

Sometimes, you are looking through pictures and one of them catches your eye. You are familiar with all these sites that let you bookmark your favorite sites.vi.sualize.us is a social bookmarking site which will allow you to bookmark, not sites but graphics and photos. They have a Firefox extension which makes bookmarking easy and you can have both public and private RSS feed to share with your friends.

Amazing tool for every webmaster to analyze the performance of his website/blog. Rich functionality and tips on improvement are provided.

Bloghints.com is is well maintained directory of blogs. It is human moderated which ensures the quality of the blogs being featured in it. The design is clean and the directory is easy to navigate.The directory is running on PHPLD Script and has a Unique Template made by Syed. Recommended!

A favicon (short for 'favorites icon'), are litle icons associated with a particular website or webpage, shown next to the site's name in the URL bar of most browsers. genfavicon.com is an excellent free service that generates favicons for your blog or site. Recommended!

shrinktheweb.com allows you to capture screen shots of the interface of entire sites allowing to choose several different size of the generated thumbnails.

I found Qapacity by accident while looking for a coupon for Google add words and Facebook Advertisement. It turned out that the company offered EUR 50 for both services, and after I took advantage of the offers I went ahead to browse the site. It turned out to be asocial media friendly website builder which is easy to use and come with many advance features for newbies or businesses who wants something simple but good looking to represent them online.

the-cloak.com is a web site that offers free anonymous browsing via HTTP and HTTPS proxy. You can use it to protect your privacy and freedom of expression. It works quite well even if there are some quotes enforced. You won`t have problem with these if you don`t visit adult sites with the service. Bear in mind that nothing is truly anonymous on the Internet and while the site may give you an extra level of security one is always responsible for his actions as states in their terms of service.

I like the site as it allows you to watch the full episodes of the South Park series. A great way to spend some time in front of the PC watching the creative episodes.

retailmenot.com managed to keep its reputation of one of the best sites for discounts coupons once can find on the net. There is an active community and people can vote if a coupon is active or not. A real money saver!

After a friend recommended this news site to me I have been a frequent visitor there. Alex Jones is quite knowledgeable and brave journalist and discuses issues which most of his US colleagues do not dare. The streaming radio and podcast on the site are interesting to listen to as well.