SHOUTcast Radio

SHOUTcast is a free server software designed for streaming media over the internet. As it turns out, that meant no more complicated than an application to create and listen to internet radio. You’ll find thousands of radio stations which are constantly updated and improved upon by hobbyists and professionals, not to mention that they are also free of charge. This adds to the simplicity of the design when you can choose between streaming radio stations into your own media player or use the convenient shoutcast toolbar/mini-player. Rarely do any sites have such a wide variety of streaming music available to the public, so be sure to appreciate and send out a good word while you’re enjoying it.

Free photos for the self-aware

Image searching services like Google Search has made referencing images in our daily work much easier, albeit forgoing the lack of responsibility for using copyrighted material. To be frank, professional photographers and artists rarely go after an individuals for violating some alleged copyright laws of the internet, in which morguefile is overcoming with it’s own methods. Host to perhaps the world’s largest free photo site, visitors can beam off images from a myriad of galleries for use in their own commercial or personal works. So forget that old PowerPoint clip art gallery and slap on a few set of forests and wildlife snaps to spice things up, mind you that you can also upload your works here and use it as a online photo gallery, except you’re sharing it with the world and giving out to the community.

Is it worth a thousand words?

The old saying that “A picture is worth a thousand words” couldn’t be better projected into reality than the case for the site Worth 1000, where a large collection of photoshopped pictures never ceases to amaze the odd visitors.  Like Link-inn and many other image hosting site, worth 1000 is a user driven community service in which contests and additions are aplenty. As such, it isn’t unusual to find some photoshop masters showing off their superb image manipulation skills and leaving you gasping for words. This makes it a great site to send pictures over to fool your friends, or simply picking a couple off and pass them off as your own in a PowerPoint slideshow. Either way, the uses for the galleries of images at its disposal is only limited to your imagination.

Yahoo! Answers

The internet sure did us a lot of good by search engines and whatnot, a concept that would be further refined in Yahoo! Answers. In this inituitive service, users are able to search databases that includes millions of questions asked by regular joes like ourselves, and all the answers that respond to it. Asking a question would almost immediately get you a response from like-minded viewers or experts in the field, whether it’d be computers or gardening. Perhaps the most appealing factor in this are the community-driven approach that has proven to be almost as effectively as the ones you see in Wikipedia. Though not always free from spam or irrevalant Q&As, the mere fact of quantity more than compensate.

Mailinator to the rescue!

Some time ago i informed blog readers about “BugMeNot“, a website that serves its purpose at providing online user credentials for disposal usage. But what about those times when you just can’t find an used account and have to reveal your precious e-mail account at the wrath of spammers? With mailinator acting as a shield, you are now able to register disposable e-mail accounts under multiple domains that are great for account activations and those times when you know you are gonna get overwhelmed with spam. You can’t send mail using this service, but that’s probably for the better as spammers might take advantage of this. Registration and checking your e-mail here takes literally only a second, which seems lighting fast compared to signing up for a new account at yahoo or gmail.