Cell phone photography finds a home on Radar.net

If you enjoy taking photos with your cell phone, the new site Radar.net has several features worth testing.

Radar wants to join camera phone pictures with social networking. The free site allows camera-phone users to post pictures and video clips to his or her page there. People selected by the user can then view the media on phones or PCs.

Unlike other sites (such as flickr or Kodakgallery), Radar wants to make it easy to post and share pictures directly from phones rather than from your laptop or PC. Users can comment on each others’ photos.

One Web game spawned there is Radar Tag, involving taking a camera photo of someone, notifying that person you’ve uploaded the image to Radar, then having them be “it” until they tag someone else with their own photo.

Music anywhere

Moving on over to Web music, two interesting sites both give users the option of listening to music collections wherever they might be.

Both Jukefly.com and Anywhere.fm have the same essential idea: load your music as a playlist to the company’s servers, then whenever you log onto the Web, you have access to those tunes.

This is very close to the pioneering effort developed by Seattle startup nuTsie, which we also like and consider just as solid.

Both are currently free but might add fees at some point.

Between the two we enjoyed the look of Jukefly.

Lynda.com

Some people learn best using a video format. Among the dozens of sites out there offering video tutorials, Lynda.com is solid, vast and highly recommended.

It costs $25 a month, but if you work in a small business (or large one), ask your company to buy access. Volume discounts are available.

The site boasts more than 26,000 video tutorials, on nearly every software program used anywhere, on either the Mac or the Windows operating system.

If you don’t have the cash for Lynda, check out the wide assortment of other sites that provide low-cost or free video tutorials. Start with vtutorial.com or tutorialicio.us.