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Sawgi is a social networking site to search, share and play songs from your favorite artists. When you search for music, it provides you with options to download, listen or add the song to your playlist. The search results are also displayed as a playlist in a flash player on the site. You can share your playlist via an embeddable widget for your blog, myspace, hi5, facebook, fotolog etc. It features the most searched and popular music as a tag cloud. It also provides you with a embeddable widget of most popular songs of the moment.  It's currently available in English, Spanish and Italian languages.

Features:

• Search, share and play songs from your favorite artists.
• Create and share your favorite playlists.
• Embeddable widget to share your playlist on your blog, myspace, hi5, facebook etc.
• Create your Sawgi personal webpage.
• Free to use with optional registration.

SpeakerRate is a community website intended for event organizers, speakers and attendees. It's an easy way to get to know about talks, upcoming events and fellow speakers. You can give fellow speakers a recommendation by leaving a testimonial and receive feedback about your own presentation. It's an incredible place to research about speakers and talks at an event.

Features:

• Event organizers can find speakers and determine who would be an apt match for the event they're organizing.
• Event speakers can receive feedback directly from attendees and improvise their talks in further events.
• Event attendees can directly provide feedback to speakers and get to know about upcoming events and talks.
• You can Increase your network and get to know other fellow speakers.

Fonticate is a free and lite program that shows you all the fonts in your system next to each other. It lets you quickly type in some text and check how it is rendered in all the different typefaces. It will be immensely useful if you need to evaluate and compare how some text is rendered in different typefaces. For instance, while choosing an appropriate typeface for logo designing etc.

 Check out Fonticate @ http://stereopsis.com/fonticate/

F.lux is a simple application, which makes your computer's lighting adapt to the time of day. Once installed, you will need to key in your latitude coordinates or zip code. It automatically adjusts your computer's lighting according to the time of day. You can have a 24-hour preview of the change in lighting and temperature from the f.lux settings.It also provides you with an option to adjust your computer lighting for day and night from halogen, fluorescent to daylight.  You may even disable f.lux for one hour if you are doing any color-sensitive work.

Currently F.lux is available for Windows XP/Vista and Mac OS X users. PC users can invert day vs. night settings (unlock the sliders) by holding the "control" key. Mac supports multiple displays, adding/removing displays on the fly, and a slower start up animation.

F.lux is a lite application to adjust your computer's lighting automatically according to time of the day and make your computer look better. It's certainly an interesting application to try out.

Check out F.lux @ http://stereopsis.com/flux/