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Flickr Image Search Finds Better Photos
6:30AM Gina Trapani | My favourite way to find photos (especially for publication in blog posts and use in presentations) saw a big upgrade today: Flickr’s search results page is now a whole lot easier to browse. More »
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Picasa Web Adds Advanced Search, Creative Comments Filter
1:00AM Kevin Purdy | Picasa Web Albums, Google’s image sharing service, has added advanced options for searching, making it easier to find just the size and orientation of photo you want, as well as opening the doors to commercial use and remixes. More »
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Browse, Create And Share Recipes At Nibbledish
11:30PM Jason Fitzpatrick | Nibbledish is an open-source cookbook for the wired world. If you’ve found other recipes sites to be overwhelmingly stuffed with nearly identical recipes and nondescript entries, you’ll love the variety and photos at Nibbledish. More »
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Yahoo Image Search Offers Better Creative Commons Filter For Flickr
11:00PM Kevin Purdy | Lifehacker editors are, if nothing else, veterans at finding relevant, reusable images with permissive Creative Commons (CC) licensing on photo sharing site Flickr. So it’s great to hear that Yahoo now offers advanced CC filtering for Flickr photos through its own, more powerful image search tool. More »
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Creative Commons Facebook App Licenses Your Facebook Content
8:30AM Adam Pash | Ever since Facebook unveiled its new terms of service, users have been concerned over content ownership issues. For those still concerned, the Creative Commons licence Facebook application can help. More »
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Free Music Archive Puts Thousands Of Royalty-Free Songs Up For Grabs
12:00AM Kevin Purdy | Need a worry-free background track for a multimedia project, or just some new tunes to work into your daily mix? The Free Music Archive, a project of indie freeform station WFMU, has downloads and streams galore. More »
Design
Exhaustive Roundup Of Free Image Sites
4:20AM Kevin Purdy | Need a piece of stock art or a freely-licensed photograph for your site, project, or anything else? Lifehacker alumnus Wendy Boswell rounds up a whole squadron of free stock sites to check out, including Lifehacker favourites like Everystockphoto.com. Where do you turn when you need an image without having to worry about attribution or royalties? More »
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Creative Commons Add-In For Office Inserts Open Licenses Easily
4:00AM Lifehacker US Edition | Windows only: Microsoft’s Creative Commons Add-in for Office licenses your Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents with an easy drop-drop menu—so you can set the appropriate licence in a couple of clicks. Once installed, the add-on is extremely easy to use—just check the new Creative Commons tab on the Ribbon if you are using Office 2007 (or the File menu for earlier versions), select New Licence, and then follow the wizard to specify your licensing terms—the appropriate Creative Commons licence will be available on the menu to insert. The Creative Commons Add-in for Office is a free download (and even open source) for Windows systems only. Creative Commons Add-in for Microsoft Office 2007 v1.01 [Microsoft Download Center] Creative Commons Add-in for Microsoft Office 2003 & Office XP v1.2 [Microsoft Download Center] More »
Download Unambiguously Legal Content at LegalTorrents
5:00AM Adam Pash | Web site LegalTorrents is a BitTorrent search engine designed to distribute Creative Commons-licensed content. Each torrent submitted to LegalTorrents is reviewed by moderators for the proper licensing and then posted to the site. Additionally, LegalTorrents hosts a high-speed seed for each torrent, guaranteeing that you should always be able to get fairly high-speed transfers; in my tests the downloads were indeed very fast (downloading over 400 KB/s). As is the case with many Creative Commons distribution sites, LegalTorrent’s biggest hurdle is populating the site with content people want—but as more artists embrace BitTorrent as a distribution platform, LegalTorrents might be worth keeping an eye on (and may help you avoid getting caught downloading copyrighted material). Then again, if you don’t feel like sticking to sites like LegalTorrents, there are other ways to protect your downloading privacy. More »
