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Finding the perfect domain name for your site can be challenge.  With a gazillion sites out there, the obvious choices are all taken.  Bust a Name can help you come up with something clever, when your brain fails you.

If you wish there were an easy way to find sites that you like, then SimilarSiteSearch might just be what you’re looking for.  SimilarSiteSearch allows you to input the URL of a site, and then view a list of sites similar to that site.  Think of it as AlternativeTo, but for web sites.

Have you ever gone onto an image-heavy site and marveled at how fast it loads; at how the images just “fade in” as you scroll down the page? Cool, yes? While it may seem, to the average Joe/Josephine, that this nice little bell and or whistle is the result of a fancy and expensive tool created just for big sites like Mashable –  it’s actually just a little jQuery script. It doesn’t take too much to install, either, especially if you have a Wordpress site. In fact, there are at least two plugins for Wordpress that make it extremely simple for you to do too.

Setting up a new or reformated computer can be a real pain in the neck.  Part of the difficulty comes from having to download and install numerous programs.  Ninite, AllMyApps, and Smart Installer Pack are three sites that make that process easier, by allowing you bundle programs for download and installation.

  Today, 40Tech is pleased to present a guest post by Anthony Russo, lover of tech, science, and other geeky things. The Internet has many uses. Business, productivity, social, educational…oh yea, and watching cats play basketball! With all the power of the internet and society behind it, there are numerous sites that you can just [...]