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(safely hot swap single-volume SATA hard drives; requires controller support) You convert it (file and unit conversions on the go) Multiple IE (standalone versions of IE 3.0, 4.01, 5.01, 5.5, and the especially sucky 6.0.. for debugging CSS) BrowserCam (view your web-page on countles browser types/versions on various platforms) Microsoft Live Writer (but MS does something right.. this is an excellent companion for your blog!) Todoist by Google (handy to-do list on the web) Aptana IDE (free, open-source, cross-platform, JavaScript-focused editor and development environment for building Ajax applications; learn more) Name that Color (a handy online tool to name colors, or to find colors for the names :) Ville's Ergnomics Recommendations (formerly part of the Link Resource, now revised and at a new location) Mail Print (automatically print emails from any POP3 account; read more here) My Galagzee! (my blog revived as a space for technical notes and commentary) Scrollovers (a new way of linking) ConceptArt.org (concept art galleries, discussions...) The Daily Galaxy ("News from Planet Earth and Beyond"; science and technology news & commentary) CAcert (*free* authenticable SSL certs coming up; support CAcert for inclusion into mainstream browsers) OpenDNS (free-for-all DNS resolvers) Command line Renamer (a command-line tool to perform UNIX-style RegEx [mass] file renames; great for scripting!) xkcd.com (a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language) Junction Link Magic (create/delete junction points in 2000/XP/2003/Vista the easy way; freeware) Petri - IT Knowledgebase (an excellent Windows administration resource by Daniel Petri) NoteZilla (The best desktop "sticky" note program for Windows) ArtRage 2 (Autodesk SketchBook Pro on steroids.. at 1/9 of the cost!) browsersize.com (set and get your browser size; a handy development tool) Arounder (surround panoramas from around the world) LetsGoDigital ("Your online magazine for digital imaging") TravelBlog (travel blogs, journals, diaries and photos) RemoteScan™ (easily share a scanner or a camera over a LAN; it works!) Forgotten Places (a photo gallery of bygone times; more pics on the old version of the site) Geocaching (The official global GPS cache hunt site. No GPS? Try letterboxing instead [U.S. only]) Feed43 - Feed for Free (Who said there is no free lunch? A free service to convert any web-page to RSS on the fly!) Feed For All (easy way to create RSS feeds) AfterDawn.com (DVDR, DivX, P2P resource) WAssociate (free Win util to easily modify file associations) Sling Media Slingbox (network video player) Pricelessware (the annual best of the best in freeware as determined by the readers of alt.comp.freeware)   News, Magazines and Weather CNN.com (News 24 hours a day, 7 days a week) Google News (your new news homepage!) Google via FaganFinder (more options for Google searches) NewsHub ("Headline News Every 15 Minutes") World News (Global News) The Mid East Information Network BBC Online (BBC news, anywhere, anytime) ShortNews.com ("the News-Community", news briefs) WiseEye ("scans more than 300 news sites daily") OnlineNewspapers (All the World's Newspapers) mediachannel.org ("the global network for democratic media") HeadlineSpot ("Welcome to news nirvana") 1st Headlines (Up-to-date news collage) USA Today (News 24 hours a day, 7 days a week) Russia Today (Daily overview of Russia, pay service) China Today (ok.. I know, it's not news) Detroit News (Well edited news and interesting features) Washington Post online New York Times Moscow Times ABC News CBS News Up to the Minute DayPop (Search 6000+ news sites and weblogs for current events and breaking news) Technorati ("Searching the World Live Web"; search 6+ million blogs) CountryWatch.com ("Website to the World") Abyz News Links Tradepub.com (free professional magazine subscriptions for the qualified subscribers)   Miscellaneous Zines, Weblogs Kuro5hin ("technology and culture, from the trenches") Utne Reader Online (Thoughtful news analysis from independent thinkers) MUSARIUM (formerly "Journal E", "Discovering signs of intelligent life on Planet Earth") LiveJournal.com (online journals; read others' and keep your own) FutureNet (Zines & Web communities about everything) Salon.com (another classy zine; also check out Salon Audio) The Atlantic Unbound (The Atlantic Monthly Online) BayArea.com (News and information from San Fran) Boston.com MAGportal (helps you find individual magazines on the web)   Science & Technology News ScienceBlogs (conversation about science) AnandTech ("Your source for hardware analysis & news") Hardware One (daily computer news & reviews) The Inquirer ("News, reviews, facts & friction", tech news) Neowin.net (where unprofessional journalism looks better) BYTE.com (the good old PC tech magazine online) Wired News (cyber newz) HotWired by Wired (Tech zine w/wired news) News.com ("Tech news first" by CNET) TechWeb (The site for IT and other technology professionals) 21 Century Science & Technology Portal SiliconValley.com (San Jose Mercury's Silicon Valley News) EurekAlert! ("Your Global Gateway to Science, Medicine, and Technology News") World-Science (global science news) Science Daily (Good daily review of news in science) New Scientist ("the leading weekly science magazine") Physorg.com (science, technology, physics, space news) AlphaGalileo (European Science News Wire) MIT's Technology Review InfoWorld Internet World Online Daily Internet related News SlashDot (News for Nerds) Scientific American Online Discover Magazine   Weather Weather Underground (weather info for the U.S.) Skeetobite Weather (track the storms) ACCUweather ("The World's Weather Authority") The Weather Channel Online (Track hurricanes & more...) U.S. Weather at a glance (by USA Today) U.S. Weather at a glance (by Intellicast) U.S. Weather (satellite image) UM Weather (wealth of weather info) National Hurricane Center (U.S.)   News analysis & commentaries World Watch (a weekly column by Orson Scott Card; Mr. Card for president!!) GlobalSecurity.org ("innovative approaches to the emerging security challenges") STRATFOR (Global Intelligence & News Analysis) Blue Eagle Political Commentary (Links to the best U.S. political columnists, newspapers, journals..) PoliticalInformation.com (search of thousands of political web-sites) Human Rights Watch LLRX Buzz (More net leads) ResearchBuzz (news and updates about search engines, databases, and other information collections, since 1998)   And more... news? What Really Happened ("X-Files" of the current events) ViewZone (A look at life from different angles) The Register ("Biting the hand that feeds IT") Drudge Report (Rumors, gossips on the net) The Onion (America's Finest News Source :-) The Smoking Gun (zine, not quite "Conspiracy Theory") DISinformation (.. or is it?) Above Top Secret (can you spell "paranoid"? ;) Worldwatch Institute (Future forecasting) SatireWire.com (on the lighter side of news)   Miscellaneous Services & Reference   Telephone Reference U.S. & international Area Code lookup NANPA - North American Numbering Plan Administration (area code maps & information) USPS ZIP Code lookup (same for Canada) Country Calling Codes (international calling codes) PhoneSpell (What does your phone number spell?) DialABC (various telephone number/DTMF tools)   Encyclopedias & Dictionaries The Free Dictionary ("Online dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus. Free access.") OneLook Dictionaries (dictionary meta-search) Encyclopedia Britannica Encyclopedia.com yourDictionary.com (A magnificent collection of on-line dictionaries!!) Merriam-Webster Online (Dictionary & Thesaurus) Thesaurus.com (Online thesaurus/dictionary) Cambridge International Dictionaries Online Law Dictionary (This is, in essence, a dictionary and encyclopedia :) Wordsmyth (Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus) Acronym Finder (over 414,000 acronyms & abbreviations listed) Acronym Search MedBio World: Links to Glossaries FOLDOC (Free On-Line Dictionary Of Computing) A Word A Day (expand your vocabulary... a word a day)   Online Learning & Reference Answers.com (online dictionary, encyclopedia & more) Answerbag ("inquire within") Instructables (step-by-step collaboration) HowStuffWorks (Learn how Everything Works!) The Teaching Company (university lectures in A/V format) HighBeam Research (Electric Reference Library, formerly "eLibrary") About.com ("What You Need to Know About", guides for Everything. Formerly "The Mining Company") Infoplease.com ("All the Knowledge You Need") Family Education Network ("Internet's premier education source") REFDESK.COM (a great source for miscellaneous facts) xrefer ("the web's reference engine") The Glossarist ("A comprehensive directory of glossaries on all subjects") faqts ("Get the faqts, and nothing but the faqts")   Units & Measurements MegaConverter 2 (Convert between countless units; also see MegaCalculator) More Unit Conversions by EntiSoft Online Conversion (Yet more unit conversions) A Dictionary of Units of Measurement Lee's Decimal-to-Roman Numeral Converter ("MCMXCIX")   [More information about measurement of time at "Time" section few pages down]   Online Shopping ResellerRatings.com (don't be scammed - check the reseller's rating before ordering online) ShoppingBots Subject Tracker (info about online price scanners) epinions.com (check the electronic opinions before you buy) Price Watch (don't pay too much for your hardware!) MySimon (Online price comparison) NexTag (compare prices before you buy) Shopper.com (Hardware price comparisons and reviews) PriceScan (Buying something online? PriceScan it first!) PriceGrabber (more online price-scanning) eBay (The world's leading auction site) Sell.com (interactive classifieds - buy & sell anything) eAuction Watcher (Client to simplify eBay & other auction site usage)   Online Business Escrow.com (online escrow service) Charge.com (premium c/c merchant accounts) 4 Credit Card Processing (a guide to accepting credit cards online) PayPal (easy web payments & personal/business credit card processing; use handy PPCalc to calculate the fees) 100 Best Credit Card Merchant Accounts THAWTE (SSL and SuperCert digital certificates) RapidSSL (inexpensive SSL certificates; formerly known as "FreeSSL") Company Corporation (form your U.S., or a LLC on the web; note that the Secretary of State     of the state you live in may provide easy online filing at a much lower cost; example: State of Texas)   U.S. Politics & Government FirstGov ("The U.S. Government's Official Web Portal") FedStats (U.S. Gov't statistics) Population Reference Bureau (PBR) (worldwide population trends) U.S. Counties (details for over 3,000 counties in the United States) FindForms (U.S. Federal/Local Gov't Forms search) American Presidents (Pick a president, any president :-) U.S. Mint Federal Bureau of Investigation Central Intelligence Agency National Security Agency Military.com (U.S. military connection)   Miscellaneous Mahatma Gandhi: His life, work, and philosophy (info about Gandiji) Public Figure (Info about people in the public eye) dialpad (net telephony; not so free anymore) The Stalker's homepage (links to all kinds of information searching services) Fast Company ("How Smart People Work.") Startup Journal (Wall Street Journal Center for Entrepreneurs) Small Business Administration homepage U.S. Census Bureau Population Pyramids World-o-Meters (World statistics) City Population (city population statistics from around the World) World Population (5851244980 when this link was added on 11/11/97) PBS: Six Billion and Beyond (about the effects of the growing population) American Immigration Center (Moving to the U.S.? Help with the USCIS [formerly INS] procedures)   Literature on and off the web Wikibooks (open content textbooks) Audible (Take web-audio for a ride) Invisible Library (a reference for books which exist only in books) Bibliomania (online literature library) KnowledgeRush.com ("Free Books on the Web") Audio Book Club The Library of Congress (United States) Amazon.com (The bookstore on the web; over one million titles..) Amazon Bibliofind (Find hard-to-find books) Barnes & Noble (see also B&N's technical books section) FetchBook.Info (compare 100+ stores, 60,000+ sellers in a click) Bookfinder.com (Search 20 million books) BookFinder4U (book price and availability comparison at 55 stores) UsedBookFind.com ("the perfect way to find used books!") Direct Textbook (compare prices on new & used college textbooks) Alibris ("Over 40 million used, new and out-of-print books!") BestBookBuys (Find lowest-priced books!) Powell's Books (New, used, and out of print books) Half.com (eBay's book store; finds cheap & rare books) BookPool (on-line bookstore w/technical slant) ABE Books (Advanced Book Exchange) Internet Public Library (Great collection of online texts and resources) Luminarium (The best of English Literature from Medieval times, Renaissance and 17th century) Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies Poem Finder (subscription based service; free trial available)   Fantasy, Sci-Fi & related... Starship Dimensions (dimensional information about space transports) Fantastic Fiction Bibliographies (Info on over 1,000 fiction authors) The Lord of the Rings (The official website of the cinematic trilogy) TolkienMovies.com (The Lord of the Rings movie site) TolkienWiki (info about Tolkien's world) There and Back Again (another LOTR page, requires flash) SF Site (The Best in Sci-Fi and Fantasy) Science Fiction (Articles, history, biographies and links) SciFan (books & links for the science fiction fan) The Alchemy Virtual Library (Turn that lead to gold...) Urban Legends Reference Pages Folklore and Mythology Archive Winged Sandals (learn Greek mythology in a fun way) Mythweb (Nicely illustrated site about Greek mythology) The Encyclopedia Mythica (an encyclopedia on mythology, folklore & legend)   Travel, Distant Lands & related...   [Refer to our "Maps" section for more map related links] Global Gazetteer (worldwide directory of cities and towns) How Far Is It? (Returns distances between two cities) Mysterious Places (explore sacred sites and ancient civilizations) Mystic Places (Stonehenge and other mystic places featured) National Geographics' Adventure site ("Alaska: The Great Land" and many other Great Adventures!) Planetrider (Directory of the best travel sites on the net) American West Travelogue (Tour the Western United States) STATEGUIDE.com ("Destination research made simple") The Virtual Tourist (Virtual Journey and Real Travel) TerraQuest (Virtual expeditions on the World Wide Web) Geographia (Exciting guide to the World) Lonely Planet On-Line (Guidebooks for Independent Travelers) VIA Magazine (California AAA's WebZine) CNN Travel section International Campaign for Tibet (China out of Tibet! Now!) Arctic Explorations - Ultima Thule (.. and the extreme north)   Miscellaneous travel info FlightArrivals.com (real-time flight arrival & departure info) Travelite FAQ (Tips on traveling LIGHT) One Bag ("The Art and Science of Travelling Light") Trails.com ("Connecting People to the Outdoors") Trailsource (Mountain bike trails around the world) U.S. State Department Travel Warnings U.S. State Department List of Independents States in the World The Earth Calendar (a daybook of holidays and celebrations around the world) Embassies World Wide Embassy World (All of the World's Embassies in a Searchable Database) World Electric Guide (Power grid info for the entire World) Currency Converter and Financial Forecasts The Universal Currency Converter   Global Country Data & Maps Google Maps (the best online map out there!) Atlapedia (Global maps & country information) Expedia Maps Online Encarta Online (MS's Atlas, now online!) National Geographics Map Machine (Satellite mapping engine) Terraserver (Satellite imagery from all over the world) MapQuest (interactive map) MSN Maps & Directions (formerly "MapBlast", interactive map; free registration required; global content) U.S. Library of Congress Country Studies CIA World Factbook 2007 Nationmaster.com ("Where Stats Come Alive!") metroPlanet (Subway maps for cities around the world) Rough Guides Travel (brief synopsis on most countries)   Travel Services Passanger Aircraft Specifications (Number of seats, etc..) World Airport Codes (almost 21,000 codes; search the list) Airline 800 numbers (in the U.S.) Cities.com (information about over 4000 cities around the world) Travelocity (Your travel agent online) Accommodation Search Engine (World-wide search of 155,000+ lodgings) LowestFare.com (Lowest air-fare lookup service) Discount Airfares Boojum Expeditions (Visit Mongolia, Tibet...) Distant Journeys (international hiking tours for the active traveler) Travelex (get your travel cash delivered to your door)   Mountain climbing & info The Mountain Gallery (Breathtaking imagery from mountains of the World) Mount Everest, Kathmandu, Nepal Climb Mt. Everest with PBS/NOVA MountainZone (Climbing Mount Everest and more) Ghosts of Everest (Article about Mallory and Irvine mystery in Outside magazine) World Mountain Encyclopedia Virtual Cave (climbing under the mountains)   Travel, Adventure & Survival gear Equipped.com (be equipped to survive!) Surefire ("The flashlight used by military and government agencies.") Planet Outdoors (Outdoor gear junkie's paradice) Leki (High quality hiking and trekking poles) Nordic Walking Online (information and equipment) eBags (Cool way to shop for the perfect luggage) Luggage World (Lots of travel gear!) Lehman's (Everything without electricity) Travelsmith (Everything for traveling to the end of the world) Magellan's ("America's leading source of travel supplies") Walkabout Travel Gear (More traveling related stuff) Patagonia (Technical gear for the adventures) Misty Mountain climbing gear Katadyn portable water filters (now also "exstream products") AquaRain tabletop filter Leatherman (The ultimate SuperTool) Hummer - The Official Website (Vehicle for the tough)   Travel & Adventure Tech gear LapTraveler (mobile computing desks) TeleAdapt (Phone plug converters for the entire World) iGo: Solutions for People on the Go (Telephone, power & data products, including Quest batteries) eBatts (power cells for everything) PlanetBattery.com (batteries for appliances) Priority Electronics: Laptop Batteries Intelligent Batteries Inc (batteries for notebooks, camcorders, phones, tools...) Connect Globally (More gadgets for the "Road Warriors") Laptoptravel.com (Everything for mobile computing) Garmin International (manufacturer of GPS receivers) Magellan (Satellite access products: GPS, etc.) Hello Direct (wired and wireless communications gear)   Tour the World Virtually Phoons from Around the World (tour the World with Phoons :-) Woophy (photographs from around the world) Terragalleria (breathtakingly beautiful photography from around the world by Quang-Tuan Luong)   Cargo carriers & Shipping InterShipper (quick shipping rate comparisons) iShip.com's Package Tracker (Tracking provided for FedEx, UPS, DHL/(Airborne), and USPS) USPS ZIP+4 search ZIPinfo.com (additional information derived from a ZIP) ZIP Find (even more info derived from a ZIP) Stamps.com (another USPS approved e-stamp merchant) Endicia Internet Postage (YET another USPS approve e-stamp merchant)   Global Village stuff Google Docs & Spreadsheets ("Excel" and "Word" on the web.. and they are not from Microsoft! ;) Writely (The Web Word Processor; it's free, and it's also by Google) Listible! (make a list, share a list; "Quick way to get resources") YouTube ("Broadcast Yourself") Open Workbench (the leading project management solution) LinkedIn (professional social networking) Skype (free p2p internet telephony) Pamela (extend your Skype!) TestYourVoIP.com (how does your broadband fare for VoIP use?) PIMonline (FREE web-based Personal Information Manager) QuickTopic ("Start your own topic in 20 seconds") Mimio (Whiteboard-to-computer interface) J2 Communications (fax-based messaging; formerly "JFAX" & "eFax") MyFax.com (better — cheaper and more versatile — than eFax; option to receive faxes as PDFs or TIFs) send2fax.com (low cost email-to-fax service) fax1.com (pay-as-you-go email-to-fax service) Faxaway Internet Fax Service (Web-to-Fax service) VisionLab FaxBlast (quick and easy PC to Fax broadcasting service) Google's gmail (still in beta; send feedback to the listkeeper if you need an invite!) Yahoo Web Mail Microsoft's Hotmail whalemail ("large" temporary storage on the net) mailexpire (free temporary email address) Mailinator (temporary email boxes) MailTracking.com (track your emails) Candor's Reminder Service Calculator.com ("calculate anything anywhere...") StumbleUpon (a great way to stumble upon new stuff on the web; also see Video StumbleUpon) popurls.com (popular URLs to the latest web buzz) OldNewsBaby.com ("you're the coolest, and you can prove it"; good source for cool/interesting sites) Flash-Enigma (I: J, II: F, III: K; RKTTCWGVNXKH LHZTK !!! ;-) Strange New Products NewWebPick.com (site showcase) GHOST TOWN (recent views of Chernobyl) Engrish.com ("Bringing you Engrish favorites from Japan and around the world!") Origami Boulder Company ("This site about origami boulder very fine wadded paper artwork." ;) Oriland (take a break, fold an origami! :) Museum of Online Museums Tartans of Scotland (the definitive guide to tartans on the web) Symbols.com ("Encyclopedia of Western signs and ideograms") PrintableCalendar.com (calendar templates in Word format) Servicelighting (over 4000 light bulbs and related accessories online) Antique Light Bulb Collector Bulbs.com (Light bulbs for everything) 1000Bulbs.com (more light bulbs of all kinds) BulbMan.com (more light bulbs for everything :) BulbCo.com (tons more light bulbs for everything!) WhatWatt.com (even more light bulbs for everything!) Share the Technology (donate your old PC for those who need it) Computers for Schools (donate your old PC for schools across the U.S.) Guinness World Records online Library Cats Map (Frequent a library with a cat!) Video on vinyl (but why..?) Yesteryear Toys (Steam Engines!! :) FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service (The LDS Church's massive online genealogy database) The Museum of Dead, Gone and Obsolete Computers Squirrel Fishing (weiiirdd ;) Death Clock (tick-tock.. the seconds are flyin' away :-) Jim's "Find-a-Grave" (Find the location of your favorite [late] rock-star's grave) The 80's Server (Nostalgic about the material decade?) Center for Online Addiction (Info on "Interned Addiction Disorder", or "IAD") Virtual Flowers (send virtual - or real - flowers) Take a VR Tour in an Abandoned Missile Silo   Cartoons Tintin store (Tintin comic books and related paraphenelia) Dilbert!! Calvin & Hobbes (good old strips! :-) Doonesbury   Games on and off the web JigZone.com (over 800 pictures, 32 puzzle cuts.. endless fun :) ZDnet Gamespot (for the lighter side of computing) VideoHelp.com (DVD ripping help) Myst Worlds Kyodai Mahjongg (Quality Mahjongg for your PC!) SODA Constructor (Hey, this's fun! :)   Recipes, Cooking, Food & Drink The World's Healthiest Foods (selecting, preparing and enjoying) Food Reference Website (culinary history, quotes, recipes, trivia...) The Gumbo Pages' Culinary World Tour AsiaRecipe.com (Asian & sub-continent recipes with background info) Baking 911 (Help for the home cooker & baker) The Olive Tree World ("Where Olive Oil is a Passion") Cooking Light (Healthy recipes) All Recipes (Portal for recipes of all kinds) For the cookie monsters.. (Allrecipes.com's cookie section) Thanksgiving Recipes (Recipes for America's holiday; Allrecipes.com's Thanksgiving section) Avocado recipes Cooking.com's seasonal recipes TopSecretRecipes.com (Recipes for your favorite restaurant dishes) CopyKat (More secret recipes) Epicurious.com ("The World's Greatest Recipe Collection") Arielle's Recipe Archives (selected recipes from rec.food.recipes) iChef Recipe Archive (30,000 recipes online) Sorbent Systems vacuum sealer (buy in bulk & freeze.. save $) The World of Tea (by the Stash Tea Co.) The World of Coffee (by National Geographic) Starbucks Locator (Sudden need for a latté? The help is near!)   Nature & Conservancy American Rivers (online community of river activists and friends in the U.S.) The National Arbor Day Foundation (save the forests!!! seriously!) Pearls (a science exhibit by American Museum of Natural History) Earthshare ("One environment. One easy way to care for it.") Photo of the Day @ National Geographic VolcanoLive (volcano eruption news & pictures) Solarbuzz (portal to the world of solar energy) Climate Change Impacts on the U.S. NGNews @ NationalGeographic.com (Environmental & science news) Bat World (Sanctuary for bats) EPA's Global Warming Site Scorecard (U.S. environmental statistics) Natural Resources Defence Council Earth Observatory by NASA The Nature Conservancy ENN (Environmental News Network; not CNN :) EnviroLink (The On-Line Environmental Community) PBS: Crocodiles! PBS-NOVA: The Living Edens Fishbase (Global database of fishes) Mineralogy Database (Data on 4400+ minerals) GeoQuiz (test your Geography knowledge)   Gardening How-to Hydroponics (info on hydroponic gardening) Esoteric Hydroponics (tools for hydroponics) PlantFiles (the largest plant database in the world with 100,000+ entries) All about Lawns (info about lawn care) PondInfo.com (The complete source for water gardening information) Terawet (Helps to grow plants in dry places)   Architecture, Interior Design, Furnishing & Home Improvement HomePortfolio.com ("Where dreams become homes") Home & Garden TV online Rammed Earth Works (eco-friendly house construction technique) Mathmos Lava Lamps (Groovy, baby!) Hammocks (hammock resource site) Hangouts (handwoven hammocks & hanging chairs) ExoticHammocks.com Hammock Jungle (find the perfect hammock) Levenger ("Tools for Serious Readers") RepairClinic.com (parts for almost any major appliance for the "do-it-yourselfers")   Fountains, Aromatherapy... Stone Forest (Japanese tradition; contemporary design) Kinetic Fountains (more fountains..) Fountain Gallery (even more fountains..) Laguna Waterworks (yet even more fountains..) Incienso de Santa Fe (maker of several different wood incenses)   Movies and TV IMDb - Internet Movie Database (Search massive movie database; subscription-based Pro version also available) Video E.T.A. (Video release dates) MOVIES.COM (..about the movies currently playing, or soon premiering) Moviefone (movie U.S. showtimes, reviews & info) History of the Discovery of Cinematography Film Score Monthly Movie Cliches list Movie Goofs list Star Wars - The Official Site (Every Generation has a Legend...) Your Daily Dose of Star Wars The StarTrek Nexus TrekToday ("the first and only daily updated guide to all things Trek") Star Trek Minutiae (for all the Trekkies out there) The Klingon Language Institute (Qapla') Bond.. James Bond (The page for all 007 fans) UltimateTV, replayTV and TiVo (The new way to watch TV) SageTV (pause the TV broadcast without a TiVo) ZAP2IT (U.S. Nationwide TV programming) Ticketmaster (U.S. entertainment events list) Movies Unlimited (Over 45,000 titles in stock!) Reel.com (the place to buy movies) BargainFlix (Your source for net bargains on DVD) DVD FAQ Blu-ray.com (25GB/disk coming soon to PC near you; impressive.. until inPhase starts shipping) DVD Review (news, information, new releases) Code Free DVDs (buy a code-free DVD-player!) Remote Central (Control your entertainment system with style!) Azuradisk Disk Repair Service (scratches removed from CDs, CD-ROMs, DVDs, DVD-ROMs for $1/disk (or side)) Public Broadcasting System   Cool Gadgets... Crazy Aaron's Puttyworld (home of Thinking Putty) Powerball (addictive game/hand exercizer) Thinkgeek.com ("Stuff for Smart Masses") G4 - Video Game Television (formerly "techTV") Sovietski Collection (KGB "spy" stuff ;) Cybiko (new communicator for the classrooms and more ;) Ceiva (Internet-enabled photo-frame for the web-challenged relatives) Digi-Frame (digital photo frames) Penguin Radio (Stand-alone internet radios.. soon for cars, too) SmartHome (Home automation to the extreme) X10 (Home automation & security) Binoculars! (Source for binoculars for every purpose)   Car stuff... Automotive.com ("where your car search begins") Edmunds.com (car prices, consumer ratings, opinions) License Plates of the World Custom nameplates (Get custom URL plates for your car! :) Highway Safety (See how your car fares in a collision)   Astronomy & related...   [read more about Extraterrestrial Intelligence in the ETI section] Astronomylinks.com (astronomy and space links) Spiral-Galaxies (over 600 images of spiral galaxies) Starry Night (Stuck on this planet? Buy starmaps here!) MarsQuest Online (experience the NASA Mars mission first hand) NJ Night Sky (amateur astronomy & telescope building) The Electronic Sky (site for the entire universe) GRIN - Great Images in NASA (over 1000 significant images from NASA's history) NASA's Deep Impact (The 2005 look inside Tempel comet) Space Imaging (Images from the orbit) Spaceweather (News and information about the Sun-Earth environment) Star Charts (provided by The American Association of Variable Star Observers) NASA's Visible Earth (Images, visualizations and animations of the Earth) HubbleSite (Out of the ordinary ...out of this world) ESA Portal (information about European Space Agency) Heavens Above (info about satellites & astronomy) Bad Astronomy (misconceptions about astronomy) Antimatter: Mirror of the Universe (page by CERN) Encyclopedia Astronautica (wealth of space flight info by Mark Wade) The Apollo Saturn Reference Page Einstein research at Stanford (learn about "Gravity Probe B - The Relativity Mission") Space.com (Wealth of Space information & news) Spaceflight Now (also see the launch tracker and Breaking [Space] News) NASA SkyWatch (Realtime data about current events) SpaceWatch (Space Science and Astronomy news) NASA Watch (How is the Space Agency faring?) Your Sky (the interactive planetarium of the Web) Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center ("Gateway to the universe of x-ray astronomy") Home in the Sky (Page about ISS by Discovery Online) Inconstant Moon (multimedia tours of the Lunar surface) Voyage to Milky Way Astronaut Biographies by NASA Astrobiology Web National Space Society Backyard Astronomy Page NASA's Human SpaceFlight page (info about ISS, shuttle & more) Today @ NASA Newsletter (Latest news about the space exploration) NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive NEAT (Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking) Earth & Moon Viewer (up to date images from the orbit) The Aurora Borealis homepage Auroras Now! (Auroras watching in Finland) Albert Einstein Online PBS: Stephen Hawking's Universe SpaceRef   Ancient Worlds, Anthropology, Paleontology & more recent history Ancient American (Archaeology of the Americas Before Columbus) Smithsonian Institution (visit virtual the Smithsonian) Rabbit in the Moon (about Mayan hieroglyphs..) The Runic Journey ("an online exploration of the Norse runes") Perseus Project (A growing digital library of resources for studying the ancient world) Earthlore Explorations (Journeys of Meaningful Encounter With the Cultural Legacies of our World) Mesoweb (An Exploration of Meso-American cultures) At the Tomb of Tutankhamen (Well-done site by National Geographic) Colours of the Nile (tour the land of the ancients..) Glass Encyclopedia Becoming a Glassblower The Nature of Diamonds (An American Museum of Natural History exhibit) Tale of Three Cities (page by National Geographic) Sonoran Desert (5000 Square Miles of Silence) Georgia Revealed (Searching for the soul of Caucasus - another exceptional OneWorldJourney) Vikings - The North Atlantic Saga (Well designed page by Smithsonian) Invertebrate Paleontology Image Gallery Stories of the Dreaming (Australian aboriginal mythology) Aboriginal Art & Culture Centre (What is Dreamtime?) The Empire That Was Russia (a U.S. Library of Congress exhibit)   Miscellaneous Sciences Karl's Calculus (dust off your math skills) MathWorld (the web's most extensive mathematics resource by Wolfram Research) The Math Forum @ Drexel ("people learning math together") The ABC's of Nuclear Science Nature science journals NOVA Online (Companion site for the TV program) Robot Café (Robotics news, tutorials, forums, and links) Perspectives on Plasmas (some 99+% of the Universe is plasma!) CiteSeer / Research Index (NECI Scientific Literature Digital Library) Web Elements (Periodic Table of Elements) NEIC: Current Earthquake Information (list of recent global events) The Human-Languages Page Dinosaur Illustrations PhysicsWeb (Physics news & resources; see also "best of") Photonics.com (Worldwide coverage of optics, lasers, imaging, etc.) CDDB by Gracenote (The Compact Disk Database) AllMusic (the imdb of the music industry!) liveplasma (the music visual search engine; formerly "musicplasma") Head-Fi (headphone Hi-Fi & portable audio resource) ecoustics.com ("Everything Hi-Fi Online") Artist Direct (search over 100,000 artists!) SoundStage! (Online magazine for high-end audio and music) AudioReview (Audio, Stereo Equipment Reviews) MOJAM (The largest listing of live music in the world) D.J. Rhythms: Links Catalog (Links to number of band pages) New York Philharmonic Orhcestra (America's Oldest Orchestra!) Contemporary Jazz Links Charts All Over the World (Top-whatever charts from everywhere) Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of [classical] Composers ididj (Didgeridoo Cultural Hub)   Software Total Recorder (if you can hear it [on your PC], you can record it!)   Music Stores (on and off the web) SongSearch (SongSearch finds many very-hard-to-find CDs.. at a premium) CD Now (Maybe the web's largest music store) Compact Disk Connection (Tens of thousands of titles available!) Music of the World (get a free catalog) World Music Store (Music around the world) CD Europe (Yet one more source for that evasive CD) Backroads Music (More electronic exotica and other ambient music) Global Electronic Music Marketplace GROOVE Unlimited (more Electronic Music)   MP3 Scene Mp3/Tag Studio (Handy utility for maintaining MP3 ID tags) Lycos Music (find new Artists, free downloads) WinAmp (The best MPEG sound player for Windows) DFX (WinAmp enhancement; it really works!) Nomadworld (Nomad Jukebox and other personal MP3 players) Nomadness (Nomad resource) Notmad Explorer (a better Nomad controller) Archos Technology (portable MP3 players/recorders) Dension (Mp3 player & player control units for your car) OMNIFI (Mp3 player systems for the home and the car) Estone (self-contained, standard DIN-size HD-Mp3-player/FM Radio/CD player for your car) PhatNoise Car Slim Devices' squeezebox (network music player) TextAloud MP3 (Convert text into spoken word) Opticom's MPEG Layer-3 Producer Audioactive MP3 Production Studio   iPod iTunes Library Updater (provides the single most important feature missing from Apple's iTunes) Belkin Media Reader for iPod (use iPod to store digital images on the go) iLounge (provides the single most important feature missing from Apple's iTunes) Anapod Explorer (alternative for iTunes) Sensaphonics Phophonic Soft 2X in-ear monitors (not exactly cheap, high quality in-ear headphones) Ultimate Ears (high quality custom & stock in-ear headphones)   Podcasting Podcast.net (the podcast directory) Podcast Central (another podcast directory) The Podcast Bunker ("we only list the best podcast") Digital Podcast (ah, even more podcasts) iPodder.org (podcast utility & podcast directory) Podzinger (podcast search engine; searches also the content) Doppler ("redefining podcasting") Happyfish (RSS reader and enclosure manager, with or without iTunes)   Music Labels & Artists Steve Roach (Listen and order Steve's exceptional music!) Vir Unis (the official website) Vidna Obmana (the official website) Patrick O'Hearn (Patrick O'Hearn's music) Waveform Records (Electronica music label)   Great Radio Shows & Stations Echoes (A nightly soundscape on PBS stations in the U.S.) Musical Starstreams (weekly broadcast of exotic electronica, RealOne stream also available) Hearts of Space Radio on the net (Music from Hearts of Space label) National Public Radio   Net & Satellite Radio XM Satellite Radio ("Beyond AM. Beyond FM.") Sirius Satellite Radio (broadcasts from the orbit!) TVRadioWorld (TV & radio internet broadcast directory) VirtualTuner.com (Portal of 10,000+ net-radio-stations from 100+ countries) Live 365 (Streaming music for every flavor) Radio-Locator (over 10,000 stations listed!) Mike's Radio World (guide to online radio stations) RadioTower.com ("The Internet Radio Receiver") ShoutCast by Nullsoft (Hundreds of stations in streaming MP3 format)   Pro Audio Wizoo (music technology books and sample CD-ROMs) AudioForums.com (forum for PC and Mac digital audio hardware/software) Harmony Central (Resource & news for musicians) The Sonic Spot (resouce for electronic musicians) FutureProducers.com (the music community) PrePal (audio gear sale tracker w/average pricing info) Music Books Plus (Literature for musicians) MIDI World (MIDI stuff) Synth Zone (stuff about various keyboards) Northernsounds Forum (GigaSampler discussions & more) Keyboard magazine on the web Synthtopia (electronic music resource) Electronic Musician magazine on the web Tapers Section (audio recording forum) Sounds On Sound (music recording mag online)   Instruments & Pro Audio Gear guitargeek (check out various artists' rigs) Kurzweil Professional Products Korg (professional music gear) Studiologic (Fatar controllers/keyboards) Digital Audio Labs CreamWare (professional audio boards) Terratec Promedia Aardvark Professional Audio Antex Digital Audio Buckingham Music (traditional Indian instruments) Erik the Flutemaker (bamboo flutes & saxophones) Lark In The Morning (A World of Music; international musical instruments)   Pro Audio Software Algorithmix reNOVAtor (almost magical utility to remove unwanted noises from recordings) Sibelius (probably the best notation software around) Cakewalk (Logic is as good as gone - use SONAR instead!) Steinberg (Cubase & more) Sony Creative Software (SoundForge, ACID, Vegas, CD Architect; formerly by Sonic Foundry) MultiQuence (Excellent, simple, multitracking arranger for sound files) n-Track Studio (Turn your PC into multitrack recorder!) t-Racks (Analog-modeled mastering environment) MixMan Fruity Loops Pro (Hardware now as software!) Groovemaker SampleTank (VSI Sound Module) Magix (Samplitude series, etc) LinPlug Virtual Instruments Synapse Audio Software (formerly "Sonic Syndicate", maker of Orion) Native Instruments (Absynth, Reaktor, FM7, PRO-53, B4, Kontakt...) Propellerhead Software (ReBirth, ReCycle, ReWire and Reason software synths & more) Reason Refills (samples for Reason 2.0) Applied Acoustics Systems (Tassman Modular Software Synthesizer) STORM Software synth/studio Muon Software (soft-synth plugins) Crusher-X (Vapor Synthesis plugin) Mellosoftron (Sampler utility) Stomper (Drum-sound creator) Groove Agent ("your virtual drummer", VSTi) Voice Tweaker Arboretum (Hyperprism) NTONYX (Style Morpher, Style Enhancer, Virtual Audio Cable..) Master Penguin Audio Meter PAS (acoustical analysis tools) TASCAM GIGAstudio Musicware (Listings & reviews of free/shareware Audio apps) Bome's Mouse Keyboard (computer keyboard is better than no keyboard; postcardware :) MIDI Yoke (MIDI Patch Cable driver for Windows, contributionware)   Music & SFX Libraries Soundrangers Sound Effects (royalty free audio) Sound Effects Library (massive sound effects collection) East West Sounds Online (Professional quality loops for sampler/ACID use) FindSounds.com (Search web for sounds) SoundAmerica (Over 24,200 sounds!) The Daily .WAV (cool site with lots of good .WAVs)   Digital Imaging Reference Digital Photography Review DSLRBlog (adventures in digital photography) Steve's Digicams (Digital Imaging resource) Underwater Photography Magazine (free, well-edited zine in PDF format) Kite Aerial Photography (amazing aerial shots and other beautiful photography by Scott Haefner) fredmiranda.com (specialized in digital cameras, photoshop actions, and digital darkroom) Digital Photography Forum Megapixel.net (Digital Imaging zine) PHOTO.NET (photographers' online community) All Things Photo (Photography Portal) rogalbraith.com ("Digital Photography Insights") PC Photography Magazine ePhotoZine (U.K.'s leading photo zine) Digital Camera Resource Page (see their links page for countless resources) Digital PhotoCorner PhotographyTips.com (tips for, well, photography :-) PhotoKB (Photo Knowledge Base; photography community & resource) Imaging Resource (resource for digital imaging) Third party lenses for conventional and digital SLRs Digital Fine Artists Association Digital Media Net ("Where the Creative Community Meets") Color Matters (Learn about the effects of color!) EasyRGB (Color harmonies, complements and themes) Color Theory Overview & Tutorial CreativePro ("Resources for creative professionals") DesignInMotion (The Art, Technology and Business of Motion Design) Online Art References DIGIT Magazine Online (magazine for digital content creators) Internet ArtResources anticubicle (graphic design community) Production Hub (Film/Video/Digital Media Production portal) TrendWatch (trends in the graphics, publishing & electronic media) .DNG - Digital Negative (RAW-formats standardized, finally!) digideep.com (resource for underwater imaging) PDFzone.com (PDF resource) PDFlib (a library for processing PDF on the fly with PHP, Java, Python, etc.)   Infrared Photography Infrared Digital Photography Infrared Digital Photography FAQ Infrared FAQ by CoCam Beyond Red Galleries (digital infrared photo gallery)   CG zines Communication Arts Magazine mark(s) (a quarterly journal of literary and visual arts) Computer Arts On-line (CG zine) Publish RGB (Publish Magazine on the web) Computer Graphics World Online Photo Electric Imaging online (PS tutorials & more)   Digital Imaging Products & Services printRates (digital photo printing comparison) DxO ("Simply better images", digital photography tools) Breeze Systems (maker of the excellent BreezeBrowser and DSLR Remote Pro) Capture One ("Get More from RAW", DSLR tool) CompactFlash Performance Database (CF performance sorted by camera) Kanguru Media X-change (hard drive card reader) SmartDisk FlashTrax (up to 80gb of portable storage capacity for digital photos) Epson P-2000 (good quality—albeit expensive—HD-based digi-image storage/viewer) Lexar Media (Digital Film) Simple Technology (Digital Film, Readers, etc.) Hitachi/IBM Microdrive (high capacity CF-II HD cards) Thomas Distributing (inexpensive NiMH power-cells and chargers) PowerEx/MAHA Energy (MAHA chargers work also in a car!) Hoodman (LCD glare reduction equipment) PhotoSolve Xtend-a-View (LCD glare reduction + enlargement) The Rollbar (Digital camera flash bracket system) Lens Pen (for easy cleaning of all fine optics) Lumiquest (Flash reflectors) Shutterfly (35mm quality prints from your digital images) Snapfish.com (Virtually free 35mm film development!) DC Pro Direct (A good selection of digital camera accessories) BugEyeDigital (more digital camera accessories) B&H Photo ("The Professional's Source") Really Right Stuff (unique solutions for photography afield) Sticky Pod Camera Mount (stick your camera on any smooth surface) LE-Adapter (universal Lens-to-Eyepiece adapter) ExpoDisc (quick white balancing for digital photography; it really works   Digital Video Videomaker magazine online (news, reviews, and other resources for the video professionals) CamcorderInfo.com (camcorder resource) DVinfoNet (The Digital Video Information Network) DV & Firewire Central ("The No Bull Technology Guide to DV and FireWire") Digital Video Editing (Professional Production Resources) Digital Post Production About.com's Desktop Video site (Great starting point to learn about DV) StickyPod (camera mount for extreme situations) Steadicam FAQ (keep that camera steady) Eyeon Software (Makers of Digital Fusion) Creation Magazine ("film, television, broadcast & post-production") Final Draft AV (scriptwriting tool for A/V content) VirtualDub (extremely handy video capture/processing utility, freeware)   Panoramic Imaging Fullscreen QTVR (full screen panoramas + related technology) panoramas.dk (more impressive full screen QTVR panoramas) Virtual Reality Photography (online resource for immersive imaging) Stereoscopic 3D (independent 3D and virtual reality resource) PanoGuide.com (panoramic photography resource) VR.defocus.de (360° Resource) VRlog (news and comments about about panoramic photography) IAPP (international association of panoramic photographers) International VR Photography Association   Panoramic Tools & Products SpheronVR (digital panoramic cameras) Panorama Tools (Panorama resource by Professor Helmut Dersch) fieldOfView SPi-V engine (hardware accelerated panoramic viewing engine) PTGui 360 (GUI for Panorama Tools; also handles fisheye lenses) Panocube Plus (create QTVR from Panorama Tools' panoramas) RealViz ("Stitcher" creates 360°x360° panoramas, rectilinear lenses only) PhotoModeler ("measuring and modeling the real world") VR Toolbox (QuickTimeVR tools for PC & MAC) PanaVue (ImageAssembler stitching application) IPIX InfoMedia iSeeMedia (PhotoVista, RealityStudio, Zoom Image server) PMVR ("Poor Man's VR") Kaidan (Panoramic tripod heads) Manfrotto (panoramic heads for cylindrical, spherical/cubic & VR object photography) Immersive Media (maker of Telemmersion system) List of subtitling/captioning software/hardware   Techniques & Tutorials   PhotoShop   [Refer to "PhotoShop Plugins" section for more PhotoShop related links] Printing Black & White Photos (a PHOTOgraphical.net resource; includes free Gray Balancer plugin for PhotoShop) Pixelparity Graphics Forums (discussion, tips for Photoshop, Illutrator, Painter, etc.) CBT Cafe (tutorials for Flash, Photoshop, etc.) tutorials at noir.org (tutorials for Photoshop) Pure Photoshop (PS tutorials, more) PS Workshop (Photoshop tutorials & tips) Adobe Evangelists (Photoshop tutorials & more) The Web Machine (tutorials & help for Adobe web tools) Planet Photoshop (Photoshop tutorials & more) PhotoShop tips by Wacom teamPHOTOSHOP (One Stop Photoshop; tutorials, tips, etc) Hands-on Training by DocOzone (Photoshop effects & more) The Photoshop Guru's Handbook ("... for the intuitive Photoshop user") GURUs Network PhotoShop Tutorials (PhotoShop, Flash, 3D, etc) The National Association of Photoshop Professionals ("NAPP") TalkGraphics Photoshop forum   Painter Painter tips by Wacom Pixelalley.com (Painter tips, tutorials, etc..) DMN Forums (digital media net community) TalkGraphics Painter forum Painter list (Corel Painter mailing list) GraphicXtras.com (formerly "Sapphire Innovations", Painter, PhotoShop & Illustrator add-ons) Digarts Software (Grains, Palms, Forestry & Jungle 2D/3D nozzles for Corel Painter, etc. EXCELLENT!!)   3D and Animation Reference   [Refer to "3D and Animation Software" section for more 3D related links] The Computer Graphics Society (society of digital artists) CGTalk (Creative Computer Graphics Forum) 3D World Magazine online Digital Game Developer Ultimate 3D Links Animation Artist (animation news, tutorials, movies, cartoons) Digital Animators Brycetech (Bryce tutorials, etc.) Ghosteffects (Poser Gallery, tips & more) Poser Forum (Poser Gallery, tips & more) Poser World (Tips, downloads for Poser users) PoserPros (Poser community) Renderosity (3D Artists' Community) 3D Cafe ("Resource for Computer Graphic Artists, Web-developers, CAD Architects...) 3D Commune ("the artists' community") 3D-Ark (everything 3D) 3d total (the CG artist's homepage) High End 3D (3D Community, tutorials, etc) Guru3D ("3D in games") Dreams & Magic (Great 3D resource)   Graphics Software   [Refer to "General Software" section for other software] Autodesk SketchBook Pro (formerly "Alias SketchBook Pro"; the next best thing to a paper pad and pencil :) Jalbum (free java-based webphoto album creator) TigerColor ColorImpact (Design color sets on your desktop) ColorCache (a handy color picker tool) Photozoom Professional (the way to increase printable resolution of an image, formerly "s-spline PRO") Ultra Fractal (advanced fractal software) ExtractLink (extract URLs from text, etc. files) Reglo (shareware screen ruler, more features) Iconico Screen Calipers (screen measuring tool; also check out Protractor and Compass) MicroAngelo ("The Master's Tools" for creating icons) Qimage (Handy digital image printing utility) SnagIt (an excellent screen capture utility, by TechSmith) HyperSnap-DX (another good screen capture utility, by Hyperionics) Capture Professional (another good screen capture utility, by Creative Softworx) Infinity Textures Marlin Studios (Tiling textures for architecture, sci-fi and more) Director tools (PS Layer import, etc) Freehand Source (Freehand tips and links) Adobe (Flex, Flash, Dreamweaver, Freehand, Fireworks, PhotoShop, Premiere, inDesign...) Corel (CorelDRAW, Painter, Poser...) Recolored (tool for colorizing B&W photos) e-on Software (Vue d'Esprit - Bryce's challenger - 3D scenery creator) Digital Element (World Builder) World Construction Set (create virtual worlds) Pandromeda (Virtual world creator, MojoWorld) Microsoft Expression (formerly by Creature House; download available for free) Equilibrium (maker of deBabelizer) Satori Paint Ron Scott's QFX U-Lead Systems (PhotoImpact, PhotoAlbum, GIF Animator, etc.) Retas Pro (2D Animation System) LifeArt (Medical clip-art, commercial site) Harpy Digital (Clipart of bugs, gargoyles, cathedral and more) Visual Language Library (Clipart of Antique maps, motifs, etc.)   Stock Photos OpenPhoto.net (photos licenced under Creative Commons license) Picturestation (free access stock photos) stock.xchng (100.000+ free access stock photos) Fotosearch Fotos (meta search over 700,000 images from 50 vendors; commercial) image100 (royalty free stock photography, commercial) PunchStock (more royalty free stock photos, commercial) eyetraveller.com (Stock photos with international taste) National Geographic Images (free registration required to view commercial comps) The BoeingPhotoStore (aviation imagery by Boeing) FreeFoto.com (free for non-commercial purposes) Getty Images (commercial Stock Photographs)   PhotoShop plugins (PC)   [Refer to "PhotoShop Techniques" section for more PhotoShop related links] Tools for Television (plugins for video titling & frame-grabbing from within Photoshop) Digital Element Aurora (skies, volumetric light, water planes, haze...) Digital Film Tools ("Light", & "Ozone" plug-ins) The Plugin Site ("Your Guide to Image & Video Effects") nik Multimedia (PS plugins) Ultimatte (bluescreen plugin, soon also for PhotoShop) Nova Design/Digital Dominion (Cinematte - blue/greenscreen filter for PS) StudioDepot Digital Effects Supplies Synthetik Software (Studio Artist... available for PC soon) Right Hemisphere (DeepPaint, TextureWeapons, RayGun...) CyberView ImagePro (selective JPG image compression utility) nik Multimedia (Color efex, Dfine, Sharpener) Krust's Plug-Ins GraphoManiac's Free Plugin list CGSD RealTexture (PhotoShop plugin & libraries) Auto F/X (PhotoGraphic Edges & more) Mister Retro (Machine Wash filter for Photoshop; retro effects for the modern designers) Human Software Company (Squizz, Textissimo, OttoPaths, Select3, etc.) Extensis (maker of PhotoTools, etc. for PhotoShop) Visual Infinity (Grain Surgery plugin for PhotoShop) PhotoTune Software (photo color correction and skin color correction plug-ins) Digital Anarchy (Texture Anarchy and other filters) Alien Skin Software (Eye Candy 4000, Xenofex, etc.) Andromeda Software (Series 1-4, 3D, Velociraptor, Shadows, Screens, Perspective...) Flaming Pear Software (Blade Pro, Lunar Cell, India Ink, Sandwater & and other excellent PS plug-ins) Digieffects (CineLook, Aurorix, and more) XAOS Tools (PaintAlchemy+Terrazzo+Typecaster; Also for the PC) Genuine Fractals (resolution independent image format for PS) Box Top Software (various high quality plug-ins for PS PC/MAC) VIMAS (various PS plug-ins) Panopticum (PhotoShop & Illustrator plugins) Ultra-Sharpen (improving on Unsharp Mask) The Imaging Factory (various Photoshop plugins) Chroma Software (various Photoshop plugins) Pictographics International (iCorrect and inCamera for Photoshop) Fo2PiX buZZ Plug-ins (various Photoshop plugins) Namesuppressed (Plaid lite, Autochromatic, Softener, and Autointerlace plugins) Richard Rosenman (number of Photoshop plugins, many of them freeware) SkyPaint   Other plugins (PC) Pluginz.com ("Plugins & Digital Tools For Digital Artists") Virtual Mirror (maker of Vector Studio - enhancement for Illustrator) Graffix (plugins for Illustrator) Hot Door, Inc. (plugins for Illustrator & PhotoShop) Woodwing (Plugins for Adobe inDesign) Cacidi Systems (Plugins for Adobe inDesign) Zaxwerks 3D Invigorator Pro (title animation for AfterEffects; also see ProAnimator)   3D and Animation Software   [Refer to "3D and Animation Reference" section for more 3D related links] Onyx Computing (Onyx Tree - realistic 3D tree modeler) Myriad (all-in-one imaging viewer) Autodesk (includes Discreet, the maker of 3D Studio, edit, etc.) NewTek (maker of Lightwave) Alias (maker of Maya) Z Brush (3D Paint program) Z Brush Forum (come to share and learn about Z-Brush!) Amorphium (create 3D with ease) Strata 3D (check out the new CX :) MAXON's Bodypaint 3D (well-designed 3D paint program) Maxon Cinema 4D Zenstar software (TreeDruid and Thør) PlantStudio (Grow your own 3D plants) TreeDruid (Tree modeler for Lightwave) Form•Z (3D Modeler by auto•des•sys) Luxology Modo ("the advanced 3D modeler"; polygonal and subdivision surface modeling tool) Silo 3D (see also the Silo 3D support/community forum) Hexagon ("model your way") Rhinoceros (excellent NURBS modeler for Windows) Flamingo 3D (raytrace and radiosity rendering for Rhinoceros) Penguin 3D (non-photorealistic rendering for Rhinoceros) eFrontier America (maker of Poser; formerly "Curious Labs") DAZ Productions (the new home of Bryce, Carrara; characters and poses for Poser) Terragen (photorealistic scenery rendering software) Armanisoft (Free font-DFX-izer and DFX spiral generator) Zygote (3D objects, textures and motions; also specific to Poser)   Typography Typophile (typographic elitism collaboration :-) Planet Typography ("the essence of the typo online") Wiki: ProgrammerFonts (info on great programming typefaces) Typofile zine The Font Site TrueType Typography Proggy, Andale (member of MS core fonts) (some of my favorites, especially "Andale Mono") Pragmata (geometric condensed monospaced font; it is better for coding than Andale Mono! $108 at MyFonts.com)   Software Acute Systems CrossFont (Mac -> PC type conversions) FontLab Studio (one of the best font editors) FontLab Fontographer (classic font editing tool) Extensis Suitcase (The best font selection tool for PC/MAC) Typograf (Type management/listing tool) Printer's Apprentice (Type management/information tool) Font Matcher (find typefaces easily based on a sample)   Dynamic Fonts for the Web WEFT - Microsoft font embedding page WEFT3   Foundries Better fonts (free foundry with handy preview) Typodermic (quality fonts by Ray Larabie; commercial foundry) The Font Bureau, Inc. (commercial foundry) Positype (typefaces by Neil Summerour) typOasis (type news, resources, and archives of old foundries) Essential Fonts for Designers (300 free truetype fonts you should have) Letterhead Fonts ("rare and unique typefaces for artists"; commercial foundry) fonts.com (commercial foundry) P22 (commercial foundry) DaFONT (thousands of free to download) FontShop (large, commercial type foundry) StimulEye Fonts Blambot Fonts (cartoon fonts & balloons) T26 (commercial foundry) Stereo Type Haus (commercial foundry) Famous Fonts (fonts from Movies, TV, etc) Pizzadude DK (original free fonts) Blue Vinyl Fonts (free & commercial fonts) Font Face Fuelfonts Font Freak Fonts & Things 1001 Free Fonts Funky Fonts The Dingbat Pages FONT.IT Foundry (content's in Italian, but fonts are universal! :) Typeart (Typeart Foundry) The Type Quarry (Home of Texas Hero, Houston Pen, and other commercial typefaces) Iconian Fonts Fonthead Design (Fonthead Foundry) FrONTation! Phil's Fonts ("You can never have too many friends, or too many fonts") Fontworks Digital Retail (Commercial foundry) G@ragefonts Scriptorium by Fontcraft Dan Smith's Fantasy Fonts (From The Lord of the Rings, etc..) RSUB's TypoGraphic FontFont (commercial foundry) Emerald City Fontworks Happy Hour Fonts The Font Pool (over 700 windows truetype fonts) Treehouse Type Foundry The Chank Company (more fonts & other cool stuff) Astigmatic One Eye Foundry (Free & Shareware fonts) SynFonts (Free & Shareware fonts) Emigré Foundry   Galleries ArtSeek (Index for NetGalleries and more) Mark Gray's landscape photography gallery (vistas from Down Under) 3D Artists - Art Gallery (amazing eye-candy!) Flickr ("The best way to store, search, sort and share your photos") PBase.com (Photo Database - host and share your photos; wonderful galleries!) Lomographic Society International ("don't think just shoot") Photos to the Extreme: The Gigapxl Project (gallery of four gigapixel images across the U.S.) Worth1000.com (manipulated photographs) Raster Art Group | Rasterized.org (CG art) photoblogs.org (list of thousands of photoblogs) deviantART ("where art meets application") Mondolithic Studios' illustration gallery (futuristic/sci-fi gallery) Photographica ("Upload, Share, Review") Scenic Oregon Photos (breathtaking photography from Pacific Northwest) 3D Artists (galleries, information) Art by Seung Holmberg (Awesome CG imagery!) Lighthouses: A Photographic Journey (photographs & information about lighthouses) Abandoned Places (a fascinating photo gallery of desolate places) Night Photography Photoimagination (Photographers of the World gallery) Skydancers (visual delight - an amazing gallery!) Darko Bandic photography (views from Bosnia, Kosovo, Irak & Egypt) Erwin Zueger Photography (beautiful photographs - I wish they were bigger, though) Digital Artworks ("A FREE Gallery for FREE Artists around the world") Martin Murphy's Gallery (Creator of Bryce 4 cover image) Digital Blasphemy (Amazing 3D imagery) Nexus 3D (Exquisite 3D gallery) Molecular Expressions (Microscopic imagery) MicroAngela (electron microscope image gallery) Ken Duncan Gallery Online (gorgeous photographs from down under) Tibetian Photo Gallery Museum of Techno-Impressionism (The art is cool, the photography is breathtaking!) Graphica Gallery (Art of Mathematica) Caltech's Snow Crystals page (Gallery, info and more) Dana Vallery's art Out Of Balance... (Gerry Manacsa's galleries) Steve Jackson's ABANDON ART (Gallery of the Fantastic) Dave Archer Studios (art by electricity, actual gallery/studio site) Paul Friedlander (Kinetic light sculptures, actual gallery site) The Digital Photography Exhibit BRAID Media Arts töshöklabs (formerly "52mm", "House of Jinn") HyperArt (photgraphs by Jochen Brennecke) Caligari Gallery (Works created with trueSpace, monthly contest) Artnetweb Chroma Concepts Virtual Gallery Novagraphics Space Art Gallery Elfwood (Beautiful Lothlórien, the fantasy gallery, and more)   Copyright and Trademark Issues for Artwork, Corporate ID, Design, etc. Creative Commons (better way to license creative work; now you can search it) The Copyright Website (All about copyrights) U.S. Copyright Office U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Mr. Trademark (Commercial service to help with trademark registrations) International Trademark Association World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Digimark (DigiMark your images!)   Maps & Flags Odden's Cartographic Links ("The Fascinating World of Maps and Mapping") UN Cartographic Section (Online maps from all over the world) World Flag Database (Drawings from Flag Institute Collection) Graphic Maps & Flags Perry-Castañeda Map Collection (library of maps around the world) International Map Trade Association (Where to find detailed maps..) TruEarth (global satellite Earth imagery) Map Resources (Maps for Graphic Design, commercial; formerly "Cartesia") maps.com ("world's largest map store") Digital Wisdom - Mountain High Maps (commercial relief maps) Raven Maps (Printed high quality maps for your wall)   Internet Yellow and White Pages and Search Engines   Web Search Engines Google Search (try Google's IE Toolbar) Google Image Search (Hundreds of Millions of Images!) Ask.com (AskJeeves + Teoma = Ask.com) Ask Jeeves for Kids (Child-friendly version of Ask.com) Intelliseek ProFusion (Powerful new search engine) Northern Light Search Yahoo! Fast Web Search ("All the Web, All the Time") Slider Search (The next big search engine?) AltaVista WebCrawler Lycos GuideStar (Looking for a non-profit? You found it!) QuickFindIt ("Channelized" search engine) Groups.Google.com (formerly Deja.com; Post/Search USENET postings & find newsgroups with a keyword) BoardReader (message board search engine) DMOZ Open Directory Project (Pre-sorted & evaluated links) Search Engine Showdown ("The Users' Guide to Web Searching") Search Engine Watch (status of the Internet search engines) SearchEngineGuide (The Guide to Search Engines, Portals & Directories) CopSeek.com (Law enforcement search engine) Neoseeker (tech info search engine)   Meta-Search Engines Info.com (query 12 top search engines at once) Metacrawler Dogpile Search Engine Colossus (search engines round the world)   Personal Info Search BIGFOOT! Switchboard Yahoo People Search InfoSpace Teldir.com (World Telephone Directories on the Web)   Miscellaneous Web Search Stuff HotSheet ("The easy way to the best of the web")   For the Internet roamers... Internet Filter Review (make your family PC safer for your children) Cloudmar (spam prevention technology) Backflip.com (flip through the web) KaZaA (distributed file sharing network) LimeWire (file sharing power of Gnutella) Tracerlock (net monitoring service) Make A Shorter Link (Abbreviate mega-URLs for easier posting) shorl.com ("To make a long story short: Shorl makes long URLs short.") TinyURL.com ("Making long URLs postable!") NotLong.com (with URLs shorter is better, see a comparison) Traffic.com ("The Portal Portal") PC World Online (Daily computer related news headlines) CIO.com (Resources for the Information Executive) ZD Net (Ziff-Davis Publications on the net) Hobbes Internet Timeline (History of the Net) IRC help (All about IRCing) Viruslist.com (information about viruses, hackers and spam)   Internet Tools & Utilities South River WebDrive (integrates WebDAV/FTP/SFTP targets into Explorer via assigned drive letters) VanDyke's CRT/SecureCRT & AbsoluteFTP/SecureFX (the best TELNET/SSH, and FTP/sFTP clients!) AutoFTP (AutoFTP client; for web-cams, etc) CuteFTP (another hugely popular FTP client) SmartFTP (a free FTP client) WinSCP (Secure CoPy, SFTP client for Windows, freeware) Bitwise WinSSHD (SSH2 server for Windows) HTTrack (One of the best site mirroring software; freeware) Linkman Professional (control your URLs) Extract Link (collects URLs from files for, say, easy import to Linkman, or any database) RealVNC (formerly "Virtual Network Computing", free remote computing utility) mIRC Page (latest mIRC version) ICQ Download Page (latest ICQ version) SocketWatch (the best clock synchronization utility) Azureus (Java-based BitTorrent client) Qualcomm's EUDORA (email client; now open source!) Hyena (Excellent network management tool) Mobile Net Switch (easy network profile changes; time-saver for road-warriors & IT folks) Web Link Validator ("The Broken Links Doctor" by REL Software) Check&Get (handy web change monitor) WYSIGOT (monitor the web) Xenu's Link Sleuth (a good freeware utility to fight linkrot) News Rover (usenet news reader done the right way!) NewsGator (online and desktop RSS aggregators) Ad-aware & HijackThis (keep your browser scum-free)   Internet Statistics Netcraft (internet statistics, e.g. Web Server Survey) NetFactual.com (the guide to finding facts about the Internet) Global Internet Statistics by Language Internet Domain Survey   Web Browsers Microsoft Internet Explorer (the [sucky] "default" browser...) Firefox (.. and the competition) Maxthon ('tabs' for IE, and more, free; formerly "MyIE2") Browser Archive (archive of most any web-browser "out there", also see other evolt.org resources)   Plugins for the web browsers... Adobe Shockwave RealPlayer (.. and the 'generic' RealAlternative) Download the latest Windows Media Player Apple QuickTime Adobe Acrobat   World of Webcams WebCamDV (DV camcorder to WebCam converter) Webcam Watcher (automate web-cam watching) webcamXP ("the powerful webcam software") Crime Catcher (webcam software for site surveillance) NetSnap (PeleSoft's WebCam solution) EarthCam (WebCam Network)   WWW Organizations World Wide Web Consortium (perhaps better known as "W3C") Internet Softaware Consortium (Internet's core software: BIND, DHCP, etc.) Internet2.org (The 2nd generation network is on its way) International Webmasters Association   Domain Registration & Naming System SnapNames (preregister for soon-to-expire names; now pay only for successful registrations) DeletedDomains.com (daily list of deleted and on-hold domain names) Namedroppers (search existing domain names with keywords) Domain Name Analyzer Pro (Automatically checks list of domain names) ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) ICANN GNSO (Generic Names Supporting Organization; information about the new TLDs) Internet Domain Name System Generic Top Level (IAHC was dissolved) Better Whois (Search all whois databases at once) ARIN Whois (Locate IP numbers mostly in the U.S.) RIPE Whois (Locate IP numbers mostly in Europe) IANA's List of National TLDs ISO Country Codes (ISO 3166)   Registrars GoDaddy Registrar (the best domain registrar!) .NU Names (search and register .NU domains) World Site (search and register .WS domains) Network Solutions (the original .com gTLD registrar, WHOIS service) NetNames (Internet Registry, international domain registrations)   ISPs, Web hosts, free eMail, WebDiskSpace, etc. The Web Host Industry Review (daily web hosting news, reviews, etc.) The List of ISPs Freedomlist (Free and cheap ISP directory) HostingCatalog (find a web host with a good track record) Web Host Directory HostFinders SMESource: Web Hosting Directory HostSearch HostIndex HostReview Free Email Providers Guide (Free email around the world!) Free Web Space (List of companies that offer free web hosting)   Web Development   WebDev zines Stylegala (a publication about about web design and standards) Zez.org ("about code") DevArticles.com ("articles for the serious web developer") The Internet & IT Network Digital Web Magazine ("The web designer's online magazine of choice") A List Apart ("For People Who Make Websites") Builder.com (resource for web developers) WebDeveloper.com (Web-dev resource) New Architect ("Interner Strategies for Technology Leaders") Dr. Dobb's Journal (new and improved) Webmonkey (The Web Developer's Resource; see also Webmonkey's handy reference)   General WebDev Reference List of valid DTDs QuirksMode ("for all your browser quirks."; developer's resource) Experts Exchange ("the #1 IT Professional Collaboration Network") Tek-Tips Forums (technical discussions) robotstxt.org (info about controlling the well-behaving indexers) Special characters reference Online Unicode Character Map Font Tester (no Windows 'charmap' handy? Use this instead!) ASCII table (.. and more) webref.info ("advanced web reference") Dreamweaver FAQ (all you ever wanted to know about Dreamweaver) Webdesigner's Bookmarks (more quality links for the web designers) Tutorialized.com ("where everything is a tutorial") Webmaster-Forums (discussion with the webmaster community) Website Publisher ("A Guide to the Independent Internet Publisher") BestCatalog.net (extensive resource directory for the web developers) WebmasterWorld.com ("News and Discussion for the Independent Web Professional") Webgraphics (web interface designers' resource) SitePoint Community Forums (Web-dev discussion group) WebReference (Webmaster's Reference Library) MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network, essential resources for developers of Microsoft Technologies) Creating Killer Websites Online   Interaction Design / site usability guuui.com ("The interaction designer's coffee break") Human-Computer Interaction Resource Network Jakob Nielsen on Usability and Webdesign ("How Users Read on the Web" and other observations) Control Design magazine WebPagesThatSuck.com (Merciless Vincent Flauders saves no words...)   Technical Reference SPF (Sender Policy Framework; fight the spam!) WiFi Hopper (analyze the hot spot) EZLAN.NET (networking resource for home & SOHO environments) SearchNetworking.com (networking-specific information resource) Cybergeography ("An Atlas of Cyberspaces") PNG Specification (About Portable Network Graphics file format) Link Popularity (Link statistics for a URL) DNS Stuff (DNS Report & other DNS tools) Network-Tools (Online DNS lookup & more) DynDNS (DNS lookup & backup, mail (MX) backup services) Mail Bagging (good backup mail (MX) service) Simple DNS Plus (DNS server for Windows) Browser Spy (See what information can be extracted from your browser)   Development Tools & Utilities Pacestar Software (clean-cut, easy to use diagramming apps: Edge Diagrammer and UML Diagrammer) CNet's Bandwidth Meter (test your connection speed) NetObjects Fusion by Website Pros gotFusion.com (NetObjects Fusion community) Sizer (handy window sizer) GIF Wizard (On-line utility for shrinking GIFs) Online color scheme tool WebBug (handy free developer's utility to view traffic between client/server) HTML Interceptor (on-the-fly viewing of raw TCP communication between [web] client and the server) HttpWatch ("The easy way to view HTTP", a plugin for IE) HTTPLook (capture http traffic for analysis) TCP Test Tool (intercept TCP traffic to any IP, any port) Charles (web debugging proxy) Ethereal: A Network Protocol Analyzer (heavy-duty open source network protocol analyzer with handy "Follow TCP Streams" feature)   SQL Tools MySQLFreaks ("The first place you should look for anything MySQL...") EMS MySQL Manager (the best MySQL administration tool!) Navicat (MySQL administration tool for Windows & OS X) Intelligent Converters (database migration tools: convert from MySQL to MSSQL, from MSSQL to MySQL, etc. with ease) Case Studio (tool for creating SQL scripts, relationship diagrams, more) Superior SQL Builder (create SQL faster)   Version control CVS (GNU Concurrent Versions System home) cvsnt (CVS server for Windows) WinCVS (CVS GUI for Windows) TortoiseCVS ("Enjoyable version control") Subversion ("the better CVS"; read why not VSS) Version Control with Subversion (free eBook; great reference & documentation for Subversion users) TortoiseSVN ("The coolest interface to (Sub)Version Control") AnkhSVN (Subversion support for VisualStudio) SourceGear VAULT (the better SourceSafe)   Eclipse Eclipse IDE (OpenSource IDE for Java, PHP, ColdFusion, etc., requires Java™ runtime) Eclipse Plugin Central (eclipse project plugin site) Eclipse Plugins (more plugins for eclipse) CFeclipse (ColdFusion support for Eclipse) PHPeclipse (PHP support for Eclipse) Eclipse PHP Development Tools (dev tools for Eclipse by Zend) JSEclipse (JavaScript support for Eclipse; a free Adobe product) ASDT (AS Development Tool: ActionScript support for Eclipse) JOPE Eclipse (JOnAS plugin for Eclipse) XMLBuddy (XML support for Eclipse) XAMPP (easy to install Apache+MySQL+PHP/PEAR+Perl & more development environment)   HTML / XML / XHTML References HTML 4.01 Entities Reference XHTML Tutorial (what's the difference between HTML and XHTML?) XML Pitstop (what's the difference between HTML and XHTML?) HTMLhelp.com (HTML, CSS, CGI reference) The Site Wizard (Site development guide) Sizzling HTML Jalfrezi (a comprehensive guide to writing web sites) D.J. Quad's Ultimate HTML site HTML Goodies Barebones HTML guide XML.com ("XML from the inside out") The XML FAQ (more XML info) <oXygen/> (XML editor) XMLwriter (XML editor) Stylus Studio (XML editor) Altova xmlspy 2006 (XML development environment for modeling, editing, debugging & transforming XML) xmlBlueprint ("The Lean and Mean XML Editor") Softsilver (convert your data into XML from various sources)   CSS / XLS / XSLT References CSS Creator (a CSS learning resource) Grids CSS (easy page layouts with CSS) CSS Zen Garden ("The Beauty of CSS Design") CSS Vault ("The Web's CSS Site", CSS resource) TopStyle Pro (excellent CSS/XHTML/HTML editor) The House of Style - CSS resource (also try StyleMaster CSS editor) Brainjar CSS Positioning Tutorial   JavaScript & DHTML Firebug ("web debugging evolved", a *real* debugger for JavaScript; read more) script.aculo.us (web 2.0 javascript) Rico (JavaScript for Rich Internet Applications; full AJAX support) moo.fx (super lightweight javascript effects library) jQuery ("The Write Less, Do More JavaScript library"; learn more) prototype (JavaScript framework; read quick guide to prototype for an intro) Ext JS ("a foundation you can build on", a JavaScript extension library) Low Pro (unobtrusive scripting for prototype; this is an essential enhancement for prototype) InnovaStudio (commercial WYSIWYG editor for ASP, PHP, and ASP.NET apps) Cross-Browser Rich Text Editor (easy-to-customize JavaScript Rich Text Editor component; donationware) ActiveWidgets (customizable javascript datagrid widget) Unobtrusive Javascript (writeup about proper (?) use of JS) Windows Scripting Solutions (source of countless scripts) JavaScript Kit (comprehensive JavaScript, DHTML, CSS tutorials & free scripts) Dynamic Drive (The Future of JavaScript, Today - DHTML library) JavaScriptSource.com JavaScript Search ("Your source for free JavaScripts.") JavaScript Examples (JavaScript examples, tutorials) JARS.COM (The #1 Java™ Review Site) qForms by PengoWorks.com (JavaScript API for DHTML) overLIB (handy JavaScript pop-up library, free) Walter Zorn's JavaScript libraries (JS function grapher lib, vectorgraphic lib, drag/drop DHTML API, excellent tooltip lib & more) Interactive Crop Canvas (PHP class that makes use of Walter Zorn's drag/drop DHTML API) JavaScript MD5 (The MD4, MD5 and SHA-1 algorithms for JavaScript!) Antechinus JavaScript Editor by c-point (JavaScript IDE) JSEclipse (JavaScript plugin for Eclipse enviornment; a free Adobe product) Sothink DHTMLMenu (DHTML menu generator) xFX JumpStart DHTML Menu Builder (ditto) OpenCube InfiniteMenus & QuckMenu (DHTML and CSS-only menu generators)   Ajax AjaxLessons.com (Ajax resource) Ajaxian (Ben and Dion on Ajax Platform) AJAX at Wikipedia (info on Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, links, examples)   PHP PHP - Hypertext Preprocessor (it's cool and it's free) alt.php.faq (PHP frequently—and some less frequently—asked questions) PHP Freaks (PHP coders' community) Smarty (template engine for PHP; you don't want to be without it!) Smarty support forum by PHPInsider SmartyWiki (information about Smarty) SmartyDWT (edit Smarty templates with Dreamweaver) PHP-GTK (PHP bindings for GTK+) SAJAX (Simple AJAX Toolkit) JPSpan (OO AJAX library for PHP; more info here) PHPMailer (PHP email class) phpDeveloper (PHP developer's resource) PHPBuddy.com (learn PHP the easy way) PHP Classes Repository (OOP components for PHP) PHP Builder (Programmer's resource for PHP builders) PHP-Editors.com (PHP programming resource) Codewalkers (resource for PHP and SQL developers) php | architect (digital / print magazine for PHP programmers) International PHP Magazine (another PHP monthly) PHP Resource Index PHPkitchen (PHP resource) Maguma Studio ("More Power With PHP!", PHP IDE) PHP and MySQL examples & resources Zend ("The php Company") CodeIgniter (popular lightweight RAD framework for PHP; also works in shared hosting environments) symfony (popular RAD framework for PHP; good for dedicated server environments, has built-in AJAX support) CakePHP (another popular RAD framework for PHP) Zend Framework (RAD framework for PHP) CodeCharge (RAD tool for generating DB driven web apps in PHP, CF, ASP, Perl, Java..) WROX Programmer Forums (excellent resource for PHP, ASP, JavaScript, VB, etc)   ColdFusion Adobe ColdFusion (see also Adobe DevNet: ColdFusion for tips) FusionReactor (excellent ColdFusion server debugging tool) CFMX Coding Guidelines (Adobe recommendation) CFAjax ("remoting" with asynchronous JavaScript + XML for ColdFusion) ColdFusion Developer's Journal (ColdFusion resource) Fusebox.org (ColdFusion standardized development framework, also for PHP) Fusion Authority (ColdFusion news) CFFORM.com (about <CFFORM> tag) ColdFusion Zone (ColdFusion community) <cfopen> (the open source community for Coldfusion MX) House of Fusion (ColdFusion resource) CFFAQ (ColdFusion frequently asked questions) cflib.org (Common Function Library Project creates a set of user-defined function libraries) CFX_XMLParser (1000x faster XML parsing for CF than MSXML and CF tools & resources) BlueDragon (run CFML natively on .NET or J2EE)   Java™ Java™ Homepage at sun.com (download Java Runtime) Java World (Java™ zine) The Java™ Boutique Java-Source.net (open source software in Java™) sanOS (minimalistic 32-bit x86 OS kernel for Java™ server appliances) Apache Tomcat (OpenSource Java™ servlet container) JBoss Application Server (OpenSource J2EE Application Server) Enhydra (OpenSource Java™/XML Application Server) JOnAS (Java™ Open Application Server) IntelliJ IDEA (excellent IDE for Java/JavaScript/HTML/XHMTL/XML/XSL/CSS/Ruby)   ASP.NET The ASP Resource Index 15 Seconds (Great ASP, etc. reference) ASP 101 ("The Place ASP Developers GO!") 411 ASP.NET Directory (the ASP.NET resource index) 123 ASPX (ASP.NET tutorials, components, links) DevASP.NET (resources for ASP.NET, VB.NET, XML, and C# Developers) ASP.NET.4GuysFromRolla.com (ASP.NET articles)   Perl Perl homepage ("The Source for Perl") perl.oreilly.com (O'Reilly's Perl resource) ActiveState's ActivePerl perlpod.com (searchable Perl online documentation) Perl Mongers Perl Monks (great Perl resource) CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) PerlCGI FAQ Dale Bevley's Perl Scripts & Links The Perl Language homepage   PHP, Perl, etc scripts & applications TheScripts.com (Web programming resource) The CGI Resource Index CGI Made Really Easy Extropia (Selena Sol's CGI Scripts and more) Free Perl CGI scripts Dale Bewley's CGI Resources Matt's Script Archive (wealth of CGI scripts) Ranson's CGI Scripts (commercial site) Squirrel Mail ("Mail for Nuts", PHP-based web-mail)   Bulletin Boards, Blogware, and Content Management Systems vBulletin ("The Ultimate community forum software", PHP & MySQL required) vBulletin.org (resource for customizing vBulletin) vBulletin Modder (Taking vBulletin to a New Level; more vB customizations) vBulletin Setup (more vBulletin mods & resources) Invision Power Board (another commercial PHP based bulletin board system) phpBB ("Creating Communities"; an excellent free alternative to vBulletin) Simple Machines Forum (bulletin board/community software from the creators of YabbSE) XMB - Extreme Message Board (.. and another. SQL & PHP-based open source board) MegaBBS (possibly the best ASP-based bulletin board script.. and it's free!) Scoop ("collaborative media application") Movable Type (the venerable Perl-based "publishing platform".. i.e. blogware) Movable Type Plugin Directory (community/support site for the above) Wordpress (easily extendable and themable PHP-based blogware) K2 (Kubrick 2.0, or advanced front end for Wordpress 2.0) Wordpress Plugin Database ArenaWP (Wordpress Gallery & Community) Semiologic CMS/theme & plugins for Wordpress Taragana's Wordpress Plugins (including handy "mandatory login" plugin) Mambo ("power in simplicity", an excellent open source CMS) MamboForge.net (development & distribution site for Mambo) Joomla! (a.k.a the new Mambo, an open source CMS) Joombers! (user/developer community for Joomla) BBpixel plugins (plugin to integrate Joomla! or XOOPS with vBulletin or Invision Power Board) PostNuke ("make it your choice"; an open source CMS) XOOPS (extensible, Object Oriented PHP-based CMS) phpX (customizable PHP-based CMS) eZ publish & eZ publish Pro ("professional open source content management system") Coppermine ("Your online photo album") Gallery (PHP-based server side web-gallery) PhotoPost PHP (full featured photo gallery for community driven sites; integrates well with vBulletin, etc.   3rd Party Services for your site Everyone.net (custom webmail & more for your site) eXTReMe (free visitor tracking/statistics for your website) PicoSearch (free site search for your website) ALXNET Webtools (Polls, guestbook, quiz, etc. for your site)   Java™ Applets for your site ParaChat (an excellent, configurable Java™ chat application) CoolFocus (Quality Java™ & Flash applets for the web)   Flex/Actionscript Development ActionScript 3 Tips (by Senocular @ Kirupa iteration::two Cairgngorm (a best practices framework for RIA development with Flex) Flex Daddy (Adobe Flex and related technologies; Flex 2.0 is shipping!) Flex.org (resource for Flex programmers) Flex + AMFPHP (Flex remoting w/PHP)   Flash/Actionscript Design & Development   Tips & Techniques <swfobject> (fix for patent idiocy: show your active content without prompts due to the greedy Eolas-induced IE-update in April'06) Sepiroth.it (home for Flash/Flex & PHP coders) AFLAX (Ajax + Flash = AFLAX) Adobe DevNet: ActionScript and OOP Adobe XML News Aggregator (aka "MXNA") Flashsupport.com (home of the Flash Bible Forums) Organic Flash (All your base are belong 2 us!! Well.. it's a good Flash forum! :-) KIRUPA.COM (Flash resource.. tutorials, tips, downloads..) Flash Kit (Flash Resource) Ultrashock (cool interface & Flash resources) moock.org Flash page (Flash tutorials) ActionScripts.org (Flash resources & tutorials) Actionscript.com (news, forums "fresh daily.") MotionCulture (flash & webdev community) FlashDevils Community ("web award at the cutting edge") DerekFranklin.com (Derek's informative blog "Flash - In Ways Never Imagined" & more) Stranger's Flash Links Fullasgoog: Rich Internet Application Goodness The Flash Simulation Website Eyezberg ("bringing you the latest Flash") Flash Extensibility ("your source for Flash extensibility") FlashPro (mailing list for Flash designers & AS developers) FlashCFM.com (Flash and ColdFusion Application Development) AS Fusion (blog; the fusion of ActionScript and ColdFusion) Flash/JavaScript Integration Kit (communicate between JavaScript and Flash with ease) Flash XML FAQ (Flash<->XML questions answered) Studiowhiz.com ("resources for the rest of us", flash, etc.) Chattyfig (flashcoder mailing lists, resources) Quantumwave.com (Flash ActionScript source) Flash MX Files (a Flash community) Community MX (extending knowledge about MX product line) FlashGuru's MX 101 (the Flash MX knowledge base) Flash Zone Flashmagazine.com ("The best place for information about Flash") TalkGraphics Flash forum Flashmove ("the Flash movement") Director Online (Director user group)   Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) Adobe DevNet: Rich Internet Application Topic Center Usability Heuristics for Rich Internet Applications Adobe Flex (Enterprise-class RIA platform; see also Flex devnet)   Flash tools MTASC (Motion-Twin ActionScript 2 Compiler) SEPY ActionScript Editor (excellent, free AS editor!) AS2UNIT (Unit Testing Framework for Flash/ActionScript RIAs) sIFR: The Healthy Alternative to Browser Text ("Rich Accessible Typography for the Masses") .sol Editor (local shared object editor) Flash 7 Trace viewer (view the trace output of flash movies inside a web browser) multi.dimensional.media, or "mdm" (maker of Zinc & Glow) Tenmiles (Screenswift, Flash Wallpaper, etc.) Swift 3D (Easy 3D graphics for Flash, now from Lightwave, 3DS MAX; also visit swif.tdev developers resource) FlashJester (Tools to make Flash better) ActionScript Viewer (study & recover actionscript from any SWF) FLV MetaData Injector (free command line utility to add metadata to FLV files) Zoomify for Flash (high-res imaging with Flash) SaveFlash (easy way to capture Flash sequences) Dreamingsoft Flash Utilities (PowerPoint->Flash, Flash Capture, etc.) swfXXL (your flash to fullscreen -tool) Livetronics (SWF Scanner, SWF Convert, etc.) Flash Toolset (utilities for Flashers) FLASHANTS (iceProjector; video for Flash) Wildform ("flix" Flash-video-streaming utility) Swish (Tool to create Flash text effects easily) Swift-tools (Tools for Flash) Swifty Utilities (free utilities for SWF files) Blue*Pacific Software (Flash Turbine, etc) KoolMoves (Flash Animation tool)   Components, extensions & libraries Drumbeat Insight (V2 components for Flash) Darren's Flash Components (V2 components for Flash) XP Components (charting and interface v2 components for Flash RIAs) The Flash Components Network (components and more components!! :) Animations.com (over 3000 Flash source files; subscription based) ANYR&D Flash components (MX 2004 components for PayPal integration, SWF licensing) Flashloaded ("expand your flash", various Flash components & more) Proxus Components (FLV Player & FLV Video Pack) GhostWire Studios (various v2 components) AnimationPackage (AS2 animation library) AMFPHP (Flash AMF remoting with PHP) PHPObject (Flash remoting with PHP) OpenAMF (Flash AMF remoting with Java) Flash-DB (Flash back-end development tutorials & community; also has a remoting library) FlashChat (excellent Flash+PHP+MySQL based chat script... for $5.00!!) Fjax (lightweight Ajax-style web 2.0 RAD methodology w/Flash engine under the hood)   Design Elements Bigshot Media (video elements, etc.)   Server-Side Flash Adobe Flash Media Server 2 (true streaming, server-side ActionScript, etc.) ElectroServer (a more economical version for MM Communication Server)   Type for Flash Fonts For Flash (pixel fonts for flash) Website Tips: Pixel Fonts (list of various pixel fonts for Flash & graphic design use) MINIML (more pixel fonts) Flash Pixel Fonts (free pixel fonts for Flash)   Media for Flash (audio, video) SoundShopper.com (audio loops for Flash; commercial) SoundRangers (audio loops for Flash; commercial) Killersound (audio loops for Flash; commercial)   GUI Examples - some interesting site designs For inspiration and awe: Best Flash v2.2 (collection of some incredible Flash sites) Deconcept Archive Liquid Journey (AI, more, done with Flash) Favourite Website Awards ("web award at the cutting edge") Eye4U (Flash expertise from Germany) NEOstream (excellent, dynamic site design) Dr.Ozone's java-spiced site CoolHomePages (Categorized examplory sites) Laptopical (blog about laptops: news, reviews, resources) WServerNews (Sunbelt's Windows news bulletin, formerly "W2Knews") WinGuides' Windows Tweaks (hundreds of registry tweaks) COTSE.com ("The computer professional's reference") Internet FAQ Archives (Newsgroup FAQ archives) Tech-Report ("Personal computing explored") epic.org (electronic privacy information center) Ethics in Computing Sharky Extreme (Extreme Computing - formerly known as "Power Users" ;-) ars technica ("the PC Enthusiast's Resource") Windows NT/2000/XP FAQ LabMice ("The Windows 2000 Resource Index") searchWin2000.com (Windows 2000/NT portal) NT FAX FAQ (All about faxing on 2000/NT platform) The CD-ROM Shop (Over 4,300 titles in stock!) CD-R FAQ (CD-R info by Andy McFadden) Skippy Disk (Damaged CD or CD-ROM? There's still hope..) Tom's Hardware Guide   UNIX reference Shell Scripting! (links to libraries, resources) mod_security (essential security module for Apache web servers) mod_security rules at GotRoot.com   Electronics & Components BeyondLogic.org (hacker's invaluable guide to system internals) Chip Directory ePanorama.net (comprehensive electronics link list) Dictionary of Electronics Mouser Electronics (electronic component distributor) DigiKey (electronic component distributor)   Software Development Planet Source Code (the largest public source code database on the Internet) The Code Project (C++, C# and .NET articles, code snippets, discussions, news, and community) C# Corner (resource for C#/.NET developers) CodingForums.com (talk about coding) Codebox (links for coders of all persuations) Koders (source code search engine) Regular-Expressions.info ("Your Regex Information Web Site" by the developers of RegexBuddy) RegExLib.com (Regular Expression Library) ProgrammingTalk (forum for programmers) Programmer's Heaven (Free code, resources for C++, VB, ASP, Javascript, more..) BetaNews ("Inside Information, Unreleased Products") Open Source Technology Group (formerly "Open Source Development Network", or "OSDN") SourceForge.net ("Breaking down the barriers to open source development") Developer Shed ("The Open Source Web Development Site") MetroWerks CodeWarrior Analysis Tools Learn C/C++ Today (self-study resources) The C++ resources network C programming.com ("Your resource for C and C++") Dive Into Python (Python for programmres) Programmer's Paradise (Everything for the coders) The Language List (information on about 2500 computer languages; visual map of about 50) base64 encoder/decoder   Methodologies, Patterns, Coding Standards, and Programming Philosophy High-Tech Anthropology™ (read the article and get the free whitepaper Seven Keys to Building Great Software Products) Extreme Programming (a novel software development process; and the case against it) XProgramming.com (an extreme programming resource) Why You Need Coding Standards (see also the author's own standards document (zipped Word doc)) Naming Classes - Do It Once And Do It Right   Object Oriented Programming 18k+ Links on Objects & Components (programmer's resource) Objects by Design (OOP resource) MVC (Model View Controller design pattern, examples in Java) Object Orientation Tips Patterns Library (design patterns references) Fusebox MVC implementation (create MVC with CF Fusebox)   Libraries, Extensions & Tools for VisualStudio.NET CoreLab MySQLDirect (.NET data provider for direct access to MySQL databases; also for Postgre, Oracle) LLBLGen Pro (THE n-tier generator and O/R mapper; generate the data-access tier in the easy way) Xceed Software (.NET components) Codejock Software (more .NET components) Developer Express (.NET, C++, Delphi components) Dundas (Data Visualization Components for Microsoft Technologies) Infragistics (Presentation layer components) Rebex (ftp, mail, and time components for .NET) Divelements (more presentation layer components) Componentsource ("the definitive source of software components")   Software Reference   [Refer to "Graphics Software" few pages up for graphics-related software]   Cool Tools & Applications Rasterbator (enlarge/rasterize your photos for LARGE printout -> instant pop-art :-) AndreaMosaic (photomosaic tool for Windows; donationware) SQLView.NET (SQL-based info sharing for Outlook without Exchange!) WorkgroupShare (another data sharing tool for Outlook) Directory Opus (excellent Windows Explorer replacement!) WinAbility AB Commander (dual-panel file manager; formerly "Singularity") TechSmith (tools for tutorials) Qarbon (build viewlets for product demos, etc.) Adobe Captivate (create product simulations, demos, etc.) Bopup Messenger (handy LAN messenger utility) Outlook LAN Messenger (easy-to-use LAN messaging solution) Bootdisk.com (boot disk images) WindowsUpdate @Microsoft (Update your Windows; must use IE to access) Winternals Administrator's Pak (collection of irreplaceable utilities for Windows sysadmins) Where Is It? (The ultimate CD Cataloguing tool) ClipMate (Finally a functional Clip-board extension!) Diskeeper (the best Windows disk defragmenter) Raxco Perfect Disk (disk defragmenter) O&O Defrag (disk defragmenter, also works well with RAID storage) Nuance (formerly "ScanSoft", Paperport, OmniPage) VueScan (supercharge your scanner) JD Design (ExpPrint - directory listing utility, etc.) PrintFolder Pro (Easily print folder contents) Fine Print (Print multiple pages on a single sheet of paper - save trees!) pdfFactory (the easy way to create PDF documents) Tracker PDF-XChange (the professional way to create PDF documents of any size) NovaPDF (another excellent PDF creation utility) Nero the burning ROM (one of the best CD-R burning programs) BlindRead/BlindWrite (Produce 1:1 copies of CD's) Feurio (CD-R utility; checks for the maximum recording time) Fireburner (simple CD-R read/write w/BinChunker & ISO/BIN burner) CD-R Diagnostic (Save files from damaged CD-ROMs) CD-Lock (easy and inexpensive utility to encrypt & password protect Windows CD-ROMs) FarStone VirtualDrive (virtualize your CD-ROMs for HD storage for easy and quick access) DriveCrypt (create encrypted virtual hard-drives for your sensitive data) BestCrypt (create encrypted virtual hard-drives for your sensitive data) ExactAudioCopy (generate perfect CD rips) CDex (excellent freeware audio ripper) WinImage (image your remaining floppies and get rid of them! :-) TrayDay (excellent, simple calendar for system tray) DateInTray (excellent, free simple calendar for system tray) Free Meter (handy resource display utilitiy) SpaceMonger (find space-hogs on your hard drive easily) ACD Systems (maker of ACDSee, and now the home of Deneba Canvas) Yahoo! Widget Engine (formerly known as "Konfabulator"; widgets for your desktop; even more widgets) Master Converter (converts between 700+ unit types) TakeCommand & 4NT (4DOS text-mode/GUI reincarnations for the modern Windows O/S) XXCOPY for DOS (file copying the professional way) Hoo WinTail ('tail' for Windows; active listing of log, etc. files) SmartSerialMail (easy way to mass-mail) Magic File Renamer (Pattern renaming utility) The Rename (another good pattern renamer; freeware) Funduc Software (Search & Replace, Explorer Extensions & more) PowerGREP (regular expression file/folder search for Windows; select files w/regex) Advanced Find and Replace (multi-line replace, more) RegexBuddy (invaluable tool for building regular expressions) Beyond Compare (the best interactive file/folder "diff" and sync for Windows) Araxis Merge (it does three-way compare!) DiffMerge and ProjectDiff (handy tool to compare folders and various Microsoft / Borland / Codegear [Delphi] projects) HexCmp2 (binary file comparison tool) HashTab (adds various hash and CRC values to the file properties, includes comparison; freeware) WinMerge (open source file comparison/merging utility) TEXTools ("Why write code to process text when you can 'pipe' it?") TextPipe Pro (text transformation, conversion, cleansing and extraction workbench) Super Flexible File Synchronizer (excellent synchronization tool; backup and synchronize PCs, servers, and notebooks) ViceVersa (highly configurable automatic file synchronization/replication/backup/comparison utility) Second Copy (handy automatic backup tool; includes on-change synchronization) VersionBackup Master (automated hard disk backups) No Hands Backup (automatic backup of Flash media) Backup-Platinum (easy, optionally spanned, backups to DVDs, LAN, or other media) FireStreamer (a handy utility to turn your DV camera into a tape backup unit) Schedule Wizard (an excellent scheduling software) Automize (scheduler based on BeanShell Java interpreter) AutoMate (heavy-duty - and pricey - automation utility) Macro Scheduler (VBScript based macro/scheduling utility) WinCron (Unix scheduler utility for Windows) ShortKeys (handy keyboard macro utility) UltraEdit (The Best Shareware Editor "out there" - get it!!) Unlocker (free Win util to easily unlock locked files) Sapien (PrimalScript - excellent web/HTML editor, perfect for ActionScript; PrimalCode - powerful .NET IDE) WinHex (The best disk/file/memory editor) Febooti Hex Editor (freeware hex editor) Resplendence Registrar Registry Manager (excellent Windows registry editor) FireDaemon (run any native Win32 app or batch file as a service) Advanced Registry Tracer (tool for analyzing Windows registry changes) Process Explorer (Windows Sysinternals util for advanced process monitoring; kill PIDs with "ntsd -p pid -c") Keyboard Layout Manager (extensive keyboard editor for Windows) The Journal (the best journaling software) My Personal Diary (another journaling software) Symantec (maker of various AntiVirus and System utilities) ESET (maker of nod32, the best anti-virus software on the market) 'Best of Breed' NT/2000 Utilities Second Nature (Countless screen savers..) Envelope Manager Software (Dazzle Designer, etc.) ABBYY FineReader (OCR that actually works) NextUp.com ("The Power of Spoken Audio"; synthetized voice has come long ways!)   Information Management, Brainstorming & Presentation InfoSelect (the best Personal Information Manager around; also for PalmOS) Mindjet (maker of MindManager - software for visualizing and managing information) CaseSoft (present your case with clarity; case analysis tools)   Compression, Encryption & Security WinZIP WinRAR & FAR Tar, Gzip KGB Archiver (exterme data compression: "The best ultimate archiver on the world" :) Stuffit Expander (opens ".SIT" files & more) WinACE PGP/Steganography/Remailer, etc. homepage ArticSoft FileAssurity OpenPGP (openPGP implementation for Windows) PGP Corporation (PGP solutions for Windows) Steganos ("Privacy Software made easy.") KREMLIN (A handy, reliable and easy-to-use security tool for your PC) Spector & eBlaster (PC surveillance) CastleCops ("because security is everything"; formerly "ComputerCops") WhatChanged (track changes on your PC) Sunbelt Software's CounterSpy (protects your PC from spyware... well!) ZoneLabs ZoneAlarm (no hardware firewall.. ZoneAlarm to the rescue!) Comodo™ (the best firewall.. and amazingly it's free) Safend USB Auditor & Port Protector (control/audit what's being plugged in your USB ports) DeviceLock (lock out unauthorized USB devices)   Software Repositories Download.com (More freeware/shareware downloads) Jumbo archive (more freeware/shareware) Tucows archive (Tons and tons of freeware/shareware) ServerFiles.com (Software directory for network admins and IT pros, formerly "32bit.com") Web Attack (Internet Tools) WinDrivers (New & Legacy Drivers for Win)   Hardware Reference   Connectivity/Networking & Telephony IP 101: All About IP Addresses HughesNet (2-way satellite internet anywhere in the continental U.S., formerly "DirecWay") USB.org (the way of [serial] things to be) Comtrol (multi-serial port boards) 3Com   Motherboards motherboards.org ("Motherboard HomeWorld") Supermicro Tyan Computer Corporation ASUStek Computer GIGABYTE American Megatrends, Inc. (BIOS manufacturer)   Chassis & Power California PC Products (High quality U.S. made chassis) Rackmount Pro (great selection of rack mount chassis) PC Power & Cooling, Inc. (High-Performance Computer Power Supplies & CPU Coolers) ZIPPY USA (high quality redundant power supplies)   Remote management & Console Servers Raritan eRIC express (remote management PCI Card, formerly by Peppercon) Lantronix Securelinx Spider (secure, server-powered KVM/IP device) Etherpath (single port serial server; with Tactical Software COM/IP software if needed) Eltima Serial to Ethernet Connector (share up to 255 serial ports over Ethernet) Eltima USB to Ethernet Connector (use a USB resource connected to a remote PC, works over LAN or Internet) USB Redirector (another utility to share USB devices over Ethernet; includes client inactivity disconnect) Keyspan USB 2.0 Server (USB2-to-Ethernet device) Moxa (serial servers and other industrial device networking solutions) Avocent Cyclades ACS1 (secure serial device server; successor of "TS-100") PC Weasel 2000 (PCI Serial Console Card; use with a serial server such as Cyclades ACS1 for secure remote access; note: for PCI 5V bus only!) Portwell Single Board Computer (use, for example, with "Conserver" software) Dataprobe iBoot (stand-alone power control over Ethernet; now also iBootBar rack-mountable unit with multiple outlets) Western Telematic remote control products (heavy-duty remote power management) picotux (smallest Linux computer in the World) CAT6 Ethernet cables (includes rare lengths & colors)   Video Cards & chips AMD/ATI (multi-display & high-end solutions) Leadtek (solutions for gamerz and professional users) Matrox Graphics Products (multi-display & business applications) digitaltigers' SideCar (multi-monitor solutions for laptops) Panoram Technologies (premium panoramic displays.. at a premium) Gainward (for gamerz) ArtVPS (PURE, RenderDrive, etc.) nVidia (maker of the GeForce chips) 3Dlabs Semiconductor (maker of 3Dlabs Media Processors)   Digital Video & Displays LcdNfo.com (easy comparisons between LCD displays from countless manufacturers) Darim Vision (Real-time DV MPEG encoders) Pinnacle Systems (Real-time DV MPEG encoders) Axis Communications (web-ready cameras) Toshiba Network Cameras (versatile high resolution network cameras) Planar (LCD monitors)   Storage Reference Storage Review (Hardware, reviews, benchmarks, reference & more) CD Media World (Info about CD-R(W), DVD-R media) STORAGEsearch ("the most complete guide to computer storage products and suppliers") "RAID.edu" (Info about various RAID standards) BiTMICRO (solid state hard drives with IDE, SCSI interfaces) TapeOnline.com (Tapes for data, audio, video..)   Storage Media The Data Storage Industry Search Engine (search over 1 million data storage related pages) Seagate Corporation Maxtor Corporation (Maxtor and Quantum hard drives, now owned by Seagate) IBM Storage Media Western Digital Toshiba Storage Fujitsu Hard Drives Samsung hard disk drives Hitachi Storage (now also owns IBM hard disk product line) TREK Thumbdrive (world's smallest HD)   Storage Controllers Adaptec AMCC (formerly "3Ware"; high-quality SATA RAID controllers) Areca (RAID controllers with RAID 6 capability) Highpoint SATA-RAID (fast and inexpensive SATA RAID 0, 1, 0+1, and 5 controllers) Promise Technology SATA-RAID controllers ATTO ("Power Behind the Storage")   Printers Kodak Wide Format Printers (formerly "ENCAD")   Input devices Wacom Technology (leader in pressure-sensitive pad technology) 3DConnexion (3D input controllers: SpacePilot, SpaceBall/SpaceMouse, and SpaceTraveler) Spacial Freedom ASTROID (the next generation spatial controller) ShuttlePro by Contour Design (multimedia [edit] controller; also see ShuttleXpress) Kensington trackballs Logitech trackballs Kinesis ergonomic keyboards BAT keyboards (keyboards for one-handed operation) Genovation Micropad (add-on numeric keypad) Genovation programmable keypads PI Engineering X-Keys (programmable keypads)   Security & Identification Aladdin eToken (USB authentication key) Griffin Technologies SecuriKey (USB key for your system) RF Ideas (Proximity identification systems) Digital Persona (Fingerprint identification systems)   Miscellaneous RS232 Protocol Analyzer (serial protocol analyzer) Intel Processor Spec Finder Grip-It Strips (Don't drop that laptop!) CaseLogic (Cool CD-ROM folders, etc.) Microfasteners (Nuts, bolts, screws, washers...)   Handheld Computing Palm (The Original PalmOS portable; the HandSpring products are now part of palmOne) Pocket PC Blast! (...and info about the competition; see the list of Pocket PC hardware)   Palm Software & Hardware   [aviation software for PalmOS can be found under aviation section] Palm Gear H.Q. (Everything for PalmOS) Handandgo (Everything for PDAs) MemoWare (The PDA Document Repository) Acrobat Reader for PalmOS InfoSelect for PalmOS DateBk4 for PalmOS (The best appointment manager for PalmOS) The Talk.Origins Archive (exploring the creation/evolution controversy) GodChecker.com ("Your Guide to the Gods" boasts almost 3,000 gods now online) Beliefnet ("Spirituality, Religion, Morality, Faith, Belief, Community") Bible Gateway (search & browse many translations of the Bible) Yoga-Age (yoga resource: all you need to know about yoga) Yoga site (another great yoga resource) Yoga Journal (yoga teachers directory & more) Spiritual Endeavors ("Many Paths - One Destination") Earth Heart (Tao books & cool calendars!) eastwest.com ("Know thyself"; a large new age bookstore online) Lightworks Audio & Video The official site of Zecharia Sitchin (read about the views of often-controversial author) Panspermia (site on "cosmic ancestry")   Extraterrestrial Intelligence   [read more about astronomical research in the Astronomy section] MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) UFOseek (The Paranormal and UFO Search Engine) Paraseek (Search engine of the Paranormal) Whitley Strieber's Unknown Country (UFO news, etc.) Jeff Rense Program (formerly "sightings"; Aliens, crop circles, etc.) Coast to Coast with Gregory Noory (formerly "The Art Bell Show") National UFO Reporting Center   Crop Circles - Multidimensional Messages? Swirled News The Crop Circle Web Site Crop Circle Research Crop Circle Connector   Participate in Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence SETI@Home (download client and join the search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence!) SETI Institute (Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Intelligence) Planetary Society's SETI page Drake equation (figure out how many intelligent civilizations there are in Milky Way)   (Anti-)Gravity research Gravity Control (reference, facts, links & theory) NASA researching anti-gravity American Antigravity (anti-gravity as a business venture; information) About.com's Anti-Gravity Resource Gravity/Magnetic Glossary NASA's breakthrough propulsion physics program James Woodward's mass-reduction theory QuickField (tool for electromagnetic field simulation)   New Realms of Science FarShores ("your anomalous phenomena resource") YOWUSA.COM ("Netizens for Spin-Free News") Kirlian Research Network (Kirlian photography a.k.a. corona discharge photography) KeelyNet Weird Research (free energy, etc.) Nikola Tesla Page (learn about tesla coils and other incredible inventions) Tesla Engine Builders Assoc. (fascinating resurrection of an old invention)   Miscellaneous The Disclosure Project ("Going Tactical" and other good food for thought) Fortean Times Strange Magazine's homepage   Nutrition, Health & Medicine Life Extension (no, not cryogenics, but interesting read about diet!) ABC Homeopathy (Online Homeopathic Remedy Finder) Drugs.com (Drug information online) RxList (the internet drug index) Learn CPR online (a useful skill for anyone to have) Flu Watch (cough.. U.S. cough.. only; requires Flash) The American Journal of Bioethics Online (about the moral implications of Science, Medicine and Research) The Truth (..about smoking. Ewwww!! WHO would light up voluntarily!?) MedicineNet.com ("We Bring Doctors' Knowledge to You") Cyberdiet Brain Connection (News and features about the brain) The National Health Museum Science News WrongDiagnosis.com (symptoms, diseases and diagnosis) WebMD ("Health has a Homepage") Doctor's Guide to the Internet IntelliHealth Blood Types Tutorial MedSite (discount medical books & supplies) adam (Site about Health) MedicalNDX (medical search engine, research monitor, and news) MedlinePlus (health information from the National Library of Medicine) MedicineNet ("Smart Medicine" a great medical reference) The National Human Genome Reserach Institute DOEgenomes (U.S. Dept. of Energy genome page; DOE is the founder of Human Genome Project) GeneMap'99 (Gene mapping is complete!!) Human Gene Mutation Database (..just because it sounds cool :-) DNA Learning Center (Check out the DNA From the Beginning) CDC's Tobacco Information & Prevention site The Lycaeum (The World's Largest Entheogenic Library) The Vaults of Erowid (Documenting the complex relationship between humans and psychoactives) Entheogen Forum   Viruses & Emerging Diseases Virology.net ("All the Virology on WWW") Epidemic! (The World of Infectious Disease) FDA's "The Bad Bug Book" CDC - Centers For Disease Control The National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID)   Ergonomics - Improve your Quality of Life Biomorph (adjustable, "interactive" desks) Prio (glasses specially designed to combat computer eyestrain) Information about QWERTY and DVORAK keyboard layouts Ergorest forearm support (replaces a conventional wrist-rest to prevent a typing injury; buy it here)   Aviation Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields of the U.S. The Definitive Aviation Training Directory (flight training in the U.S.) Aviation Forum (discuss aviation) Thirty Thousand Feet (extensive aviation directory) Airliners.net (World's biggest aviation photograph archive & more) Rising Up (Aviation Resources) Professional Pilot Rumour Network Aerolink.com ("Where Aviation Comes To Find It On The Web") Landings ("If you can't find it here [about aviation] it isn't on the Web") Aviation Week's Aviation (Aviation news & resources) USA Today Weather for Pilots Federal Aviation Adiministration AviationSafety Network (Information about aviation safety, recent accidents) AirDisaster.com (When something has gone wrong..) NTSB Aviation Accident Reports (.. the official descriptions) Collection of Air Sickness Bags from around the world Moller International (ahh.. my next car! Yes, its in "aviation" :)   Aeronautics & other flight gear David Clark Aviation Headsets Peltor Aviation Headsets AvShop (aviation's internet superstore) The Pilot Shop (pilot supplies) Air Chart Systems   Aviation Software Captain's Keeper (Professional Flight Log for PalmOS) Navigation and PalmPilot (Best of Navigation Software for PalmOS; see also HandyGPS for Visor) PalmPilot for Aviators (Best of Aviation Software for PalmOS) Flight Simulator Planet (MS Flight Simulator enhanchements & info)   Rotary Wing Rotary Wing Forum (A Meeting Place for Rotorheads) Hovercontrol (Helicopter Simulation and Software Development) Heli-Chair (dry-train for less :-) Just Helicopters (helicopter resource) Vertical Reference (helicopter resource) PHPA (Professional Helicopter Pilots Association) Heli-ops (civil helicopter industry trade publication) Vertical Magazine ("North America's Helicopter Authority") Helicopters Magazine (Canada's national helicopter magazine) Experimental Helo Magazine (dedicated to experimental and personal helicopters) Helicopter Association International Helicopters Only (Helicopter pilot shop & resources) Helicopter History Site   RC Aviation R/C Helicopter Fever (Fly helicopters... from the ground)   Scuba Underwater Archaeology DiversDiscount.com (Full-featured web-store for scuba-divers) Scuba, scuba ("The scuba diver's website") Scuba Yellow Pages ("Dive the Web") Mark Hubler's SCUBA Links (*Many* more SCUBA related links) Scuba Diving Magazine Online Skin-Diver online (formerly Scuba Times Online) Three Routes Worldwide SCUBA Diving Directory Divers's Alert Network (Program all divers should join) PADI Homepage (Professional Association of Diving Instructors) NAUI Homepage (National Association of Underwater Instructors) PDIC Homepage (Professional Diving Instructors Corporation) SSI Homepage (Scuba Schools Interntaional) CMAS Homepage (World Underwater Federation) IDEA Homepage (International Diving Educators Association) IANTD Homepage (International Association of Nitrox and Technical Divers)   Reef Aquariums CORAL Magazine (reef magazine) as of 23-JAN-09 Aquarium Advice (forums for freshwater, saltwater & ponds) myfishtank.net ("it's your tank also...") fishforums.net (tropical fish forums) FishInThe.Net (aquarium community) Saltwater Aquariums on About.com (see also forum) Reef Frontiers (a reefkeeping community) Reef Central (reefkeepers' online community & resource) Reef Aquarium Guide (reef aquarium resource) Nano-Reef.com (learn about tiny reef tanks) Minibow (links to nano-reefkeepers' sites) frags.org (buy, trade & sell propagated coral fragments) FRAGexcahange (more coral fragments) Reef Central (saltwater aquarium resource) Geothermal Aquaculture Research Foundation (about coral propagation) Reefs.org ("Where reef keeping begins on the Internet") Reeftank.com (reef aquarium resource; including a forum) Janet's Reef (reef aquarium resource) ReefTalk (more reef aquarium discussions) ReefLounge (even more reef aquarium discussions) Coral Forum (yet even more reef aquarium discussions :)   Time The official U.S. time TimeTicker (Cool Flash-based time-zone tool) World Timezones Map Time Zone Check ("Timing is Everything") World Time Server ("Any time, anywhere", also sells World Time Zone Database) The World Clock (see also TimeAndDate.com's other services) World Time Zone offsets Walk Through Time (The Evolution of Time Measurement) Calendars through the Ages (evolution of calendars) Calendar Home (Eternal calendar & more) Daylight Savings Time (history, rationale..) Britannica's Clockworks (from sundials to the atomic second) U.S. Time Service Department ("The Official Source of Time..") NIST Internet Time Servers   Watches & Clocks Watch-U-Seek ("Watch You Seek Is Watch You Get") Watchfinder.net (find your watch) Wristwatch.com (watches, watches...) Watch Net (For the time-piece enthusiasts) Ashford (The place to shop for a new watch, sunglasses...) Breitling (High precision Swiss timepieces) OMEGA (The only watch worn on the moon.. and it's Pierce Brosnan's choice ;) Atomic Time (Clocks & Watches that auto-calibrate) LOOKING FOR THE FINNISH LINKS? The Finnish Link Resource, or "Etusivun Linkki.info", is available at http://etusivun.linkki.info

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