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‘Bag of the week’ for January 28, 2008

This week, a great selection of links from user i1135t. It’s a great way to resume our weekly feature articles after a brief impromptu fall/winter break. 

 i1135t offers up a pretty eclectic mix of bags featuring Firefox, Music, Lifehacker, Online TV, Online Web Utilities, GMAIL Tweaks, Techie Resources, Freeware, Linux, and Ubuntu! Whew!

A brief sampling reveals a slew of useful links, chief among them this Lifehacker link. Not only do the editors over at Lifehacker feed our heads with a feast of posts every day, every once in a while they put their programming chops to good use and build custom software for their readers. Check out all the open soure goodness here.

In i1135t’s music bag we happened upon Music Map—the tourist map of music. Even if you don’t know what you are looking for—the music map will find it.  Music Map is a self-adapting system that learns about the outer world by asking its visitors what they like and what they don’t like. It is a kind of a search engine for music you don’t know about. It will ask you what music you like and then think about what you might like too.

Last but not least is the Techie Resources bag. Chief among these links is Ask the Admin—a site dedicated to answering your technical related questions. As a collective they have loads of information stored away in their ‘meat computers’ but occasionally they will have to go out and search the interwebs for an answer. They also review new products, services and pretty much anything that will improve our quality of life.

Thanks i1135t! A great bag o’ links—a great way. Check the rest of ‘em out here.