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1) 11 Free Instrumental MP3 Albums To Relax And Calm Down [Sound Sunday]
Sound Sunday is a weekly feature promoting free album downloads. Every edition invites you to explore various genres and artists from around the world. If you happen to be a little stressed these days, let these instrumental albums help you calm down and relax. Note that name your price albums can be downloaded for free [...]

2) Keep Your Blog Readers Engaged & On-Site With The nRelate Plugin [WordPress]
One problem that faces us as bloggers is how to keep users on the site, how to show them other content they might be interested in. The best way to do this appears to be a "related posts" plugin of some sort; but which to choose? For a long time, I've recommended YARPP (Yet Another Related Posts Plugin), but nRelate is a fairly new contender.

3) Cool Websites and Tools [May 19th 2012]
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4) Browse The Wikipedia Of Hip-Hop Lyrics At Rap Genius
Rap music isn't all just what you hear on the radio or thumping from the teenager's car beside you at your nearest intersection. It's a pretty popular opinion that the radio rap genre is very dumbed down and easy to understand. I'd agree with that. Rap is sort of where pop music was in the late '90s. Understanding that much, you're cutting yourself short if you shrug hip-hop music aside as immature and boring.

5) Get A $2 Amazon MP3 Credit For Sharing Your Favorite Song [Updates]
Can you think of a song you like? Why not turn it into a little bit of cash? If you don’t mind sharing your favorite song (or any song name, really) with your Facebook friends, you can get $2 MP3 credit on Amazon. All you have to do is click on the link, enter the name of the song, and click on Share & Claim. Easy. Your answer will be posted on your Facebook account, and the credit will be automatically applied to your Amazon account. Surprisingly, there seem to be no annoying catches to this. Share a song – get credit.

6) Cool Tech Deals Of The Week – Apple TV 1080p High Def Wireless Media Player $89.99 Free Shipping & More!
Newegg has the NEW 2012 1080p Apple TV for a low $89.99 and free Shipping (Tax in CA, NJ, TN. ). For more fresh hot deals, visit our Hot Tech Deals page, which is constantly updated.

7) Polly: A Fast, Customizable Native Twitter Client [Linux]
Try a fast and feature-filled Twitter client for Linux. Polly is a native Linux app for Twitter that features multiple customizable columns, support for multiple accounts and desktop notifications. Sure, I've shown you Twitter clients for Linux before. Some are great, but not all of them survived the Oauthpocolypse. And don't get me started about Gwibber, the social client built into Ubuntu.

8) Apply Instagram-Like Effects To Your Photos On Your Desktop With Perfect Effects 3 [Windows & Mac]
Ever since Instagram was introduced on iOS, people have been easily adding filters to their images to make them look better, or cooler, or any other adjective you can think of. The only downside to Instagram is that it is only for iOS and Android devices, so it cannot be used while you're on your desktop, laptop, or other daily driver. What can you possibly use instead?

9) $74 Android Mini-Computer Hits The Market [Updates]
Want a cheap computer that runs Android on an ARM processor and isn't a Raspberry Pi? Now you can have it. I'm talking about a new system, called AllWinner, that is now shipping out of China. This tiny, inexpensive Android PC has impressive specifications. It uses an ARM A10 dual-core running at 1.5 GHz, a Mali 400 GPU and offers 512MB of RAM. This puts it about on par with last year's best tablets and today's best smartphones.

10) Latest Hilarious Picks [MakeUseOf Geeky Fun]
Check out the top picks from MakeUseOf Geeky Fun during the last couple of days. Cycle Of Productivity (Pic) If Diablo 3 Were A Girl (Video) Difference Between Man & Woman (Pic) The Data Sutra (Pic) They should invent an Internet treadmill (Pic) Fake Apple Store In China: Apple Logo Sucks (Pic) What Kind of [...]