One of the coolest YouTube mashups I've come across lately has to be TimeTube, a site that takes your topic and finds videos for it, chronologically, starting with the first and ending with the most recent.

For example, I typed in "American Idol" and got a video walk down Memory Lane....the first season, the worst auditions (and there were many), the winners, the losers, etc. Plus, TimeTube gives you more than one way to look at all these videos: timeline, list view, flipbook, and geolocation. Pretty darn cool.

More great Web video doodads

• The Top Ten Sites for Movie Torrents: Looking for movie torrents? It's easy to be overwhelmed with the number of torrents found in an average search engine query. I've made finding the best movie torrents with my list of the Top Ten Sites to Find Movie Torrents.
• The Top Ten Most Popular Video Sites: Here are the top ten most popular video sites on the web - you'll be able to use these sites to find all sorts of free videos, movies, and documentaries, as well as short films, viral videos, and much more.

If you are one of the lucky folks who has an iPhone (pardon me whilst I drool a little bit....mmmmm.....iPhone....), then you might want to check out Natuba, an image sharing site specifically aimed at the iPhone crowd. As far as I can tell it's not any different from any other image sharing site on the Web; however, it is kind of neat to see the great pictures people are taking (I especially liked this one of an old Coke machine).

And speaking of images....

• Thirty Free Image Resources on the Web: Looking for free images? Here are thirty sites where you can find completely free images, available for use on your blog or web site. All of these sites offer royalty free images for your use (be sure to check each site for specific guidelines that they request you follow in order to use their images).

Tell me if you've ever done this: you're playing with a map, or you're tweaking your favorite online radio station, and you go to save it to your bookmarks or your favorite social bookmarking service. The next time you go back to this site, all the changes that you so carefully crafted? Well, they're gone. Why? Because that content you were playing with is dynamic, while the URL itself is static. One changes, the other does not.

That's what I love about Iterasi, a new service that not only saves the URL in your carefully crafted cache of content, but saves the Web page itself; a virtual snapshot of the last time you visited it, with all the tweaks, changes, or additions you made still there and ready to be accessed. Simple, elegant, and incredibly useful.

More about saving your stuff on the Web

• Save Videos for Later with the YouTube Quicklist: YouTube is addictive, but what if you don't have time to watch all the videos you want to watch? Save them to your YouTube Quicklist for easy viewing later when you're able to kick back and relax.
• Instapaper: Don't have time to really read what you're looking at? Save it for later with Instapaper, a simple bookmarking service.
• Bookmark and Share Sites with Furl: Basically, Furl gives you the ability to create your own searchable database of your favorite sites. Furl is similar to del.icio.us, in that the primary task that you can use Furl for is as an online, access from anywhere, list/article database.

Here's the scenario: you try to access one of your favorite sites (maybe one of the sites you're addicted to), and the darn thing won't load for you. You try, over and over again, and STILL no joy. You know that it really should be coming up, so you type the URL into your favorite search engine to see if there's anyone else having the same problem. Unfortunately, search engines just don't index result quite that fast (yet), so it seems as if you're the only person having the problem, and you're just going to have to wait it out. Bummer!

That's where Down For Everyone Or Just Me comes in. This is an ingenious site, and here's how it works: simply type in the name of the site that's not cooperating with you, and within seconds you'll see if this mysterious downtime is a more widespread problem (or if it's really JUST YOU). This is an easy way to troubleshoot where the connectivity problem might be happening.

More great Web tools

• The Most Useful Web Tools: If you're looking for a list of the most useful Web tools, you've come to the right place. Here are my picks for the best tools on the Web for anyone who is looking to boost their productivity.
• Remember the Milk: If you're looking for a dead simple way to manage your to-do lists, reminders, and basic stuff you gotta get done, then you need to check out Remember the Milk, a deceptively simple Web service that helps you organize yourself.
• The Top Ten Most Useful Google Services: Here are my picks for the top ten most useful Google services: the products that consistently help people achieve the ultimate productivity, demonstrate ease of use, and are viable for the long term.

If I told you you could make professionally animated movies of your photos with music and special effects, for FREE, you might look at me a little funny. After all, that kind of presentation usually requires some pretty hefty software, right? Not unless you try Animoto, a new service that takes your images, helps you overlay customized music, and personalizes your presentation. Check out one of the videos that I made with Animoto: Cool, right? All you need to do is sign up with a free Animoto account and get started; you can send these videos to friends, to YouTube, share 'em with your family, etc.

More fun with videos

• Top Ten Most Popular Video Sites: Here are the top ten most popular video sites on the web - you'll be able to use these sites to find all sorts of free videos, movies, and documentaries, as well as short films, viral videos, and much more.
• Top Twenty Viral Videos: Here are the Top Twenty Viral Videos of 2007: the videos that were passed around and watched more than any other video on the Web. Some of these are BEYOND wacky!

I love finding new Web search tools, and when I came across Addictomatic, you could say I was hooked. Plus, anything with a retro-looking robot gets my vote!

Addictomatic works like this: you simply type in your search term, press enter, and wham! You get results from sites such as Google, Yahoo, Technorati, Ask, YouTube, Truveo, Flickr, Blinkx, Ice Rocket, Digg, Topix, Newsvine and Tweetscan; plus the top 200 or so blogs as judged by Technorati and personal blogrolls of the Addictomatic staff.

That's not all though. Once you get your search results, you can move the result boxes around on the page and delete the sources you don't want. Addictomatic also offers Newsfix, a topical directory with results from top sites/blogs (this is similar to other content aggregators). So far I like Addictomatic; they've definitely got some improvements to make (no RSS feed, and searches seem to be a bit hit or miss), but I think there's a lot of potential. Plus, did I mention the retro robot mascot?

More Web Search Tools

• The Top Ten Most Useful Google Services: Here are my picks for the top ten most useful Google services: the products that consistently help people achieve the ultimate productivity, demonstrate ease of use, and are viable for the long term.
• YubNub: YubNub is a treasury of user-submitted shortcuts that enable you to search the Web more quickly and efficiently.
• The Best Writing Tools on the Web: If you're looking for tools to help you with your writing, the Web is a great place to start. Here are just a few of the incredibly useful writing tools you can find on the Web.

Hello, my name is Wendy, and I am addicted to the following sites:

• Stumbleupon: I can't get enough of Stumbleupon; hence my 2 AM bedtime last night.
• del.icio.us: If there's anything bad about del.icio.us, I haven't found it yet.
• YouTube: Did you know that you can find pretty much every 80's cartoon at YouTube? Yeah. Trust me on this one.
• Craigslist: I can't go a day without checking my Craigslist. And when I say "day", I mean "hour." Sad, isn't it?
• Etsy: I actually warn people before I tell them about Etsy, it's that addictive.
• I Can Has Cheezburger: I can has LOLs? Kthxbai!

Fess up - what are YOUR addictive sites?

Let's hear it, folks. I can't be the ONLY one out there with some serious Web addictions, right? RIGHT?!?!?!? Let's hear your favoritest sites in the comments below!

More addictive sites

• Thirty Ways to Watch Free Videos Online: More people are watching free videos on the Web than ever before in history. Find out where you can watch free videos online.
• Mahalo: The more I use Mahalo, the more I like it! Make sure to try the Mahalo toolbar to submit your own favorite sites as part of the directory.
• Top Ten Time Wasters on the Web: Got some extra time, or just feel like putting something off? Don't say I didn't warn you, but these sites are addictive! Here are the top ten time wasters on the Web.

One of my absolute favorite things to do on the Web is to find new music. I love to listen to Last.FM, Pandora, the Hype Machine, not to mention the literally thousands of free radio stations I get on my Squeezebox. Basically, I'm listening to music ALL THE TIME.

I also really like to create mixtapes at Muxtape, a great (free!) way to create your own playlists and share them with friends. In order to do this, you've got to have some mp3 music files on your system, and that's where my new article, Free Mp3 Downloads, comes in. I've rounded up some of the best sites and methods on the Web for you so you can listen to new music, make some new music mixes, and generally just get your groove on.

Music, baby!

• 100 Awesome Music Videos: Warning: you might want to carve out a few hours.
• Free Music Downloads: Even more great places to find free music on the Web.
• Midomi: If you can hum a tune, you can find a song you're looking for at Midomi.

One of the more interesting and simple to use Web search tools I've come across lately is Boolify, an educational tool that teaches you how to use Boolean search operators in a visual way. Here's how it works: you start with a green puzzle piece, type in what you're looking for (I used "how to knit"), figure out what you don't or do want in the results by adding the "and" or "not" puzzle pieces, and you're off and running.

More on Boolean search

Boolean searching is built on a method of symbolic logic developed by George Boole, a 19th century English mathematician. Most online databases and search engines support Boolean searches. Boolean search techniques can be used to carry out effective searches, cutting out many unrelated documents. Learn more about Boolean search.