Good Stuff On The Net:
Here we have links to sites that I have found to be useful. While these are by no means the only sites of value out there, they should be of some benefit to you, depending of course as to what your needs are. I don't put just any links in these lists, so you can rest assured that I don't put fluff here.
Games and Gaming
- Baseball Mogul 6 For Free - This version of Baseball Mogul has been released absolutely free!
- CyberNations - Rule your own Nation, run it as you see fit!
- Garage Games - Home of the Torque game engine, great place for game development resources.
- Mafia Crime - Play the game, be a Boss, create a gang, join the Family.
- MMORPG.com - Great site dedicated to MMO RPGs out there.
- Penny Arcade - The funniest web comic in the freakin’ world.
- Steam - Great games and great delivery platform.
- Top Web Games - A list of lots of web based games out there, something for everyone!
- Travian - Run a country or kingdom whatever way you see fit.
Misc Links
- Child's Play Charity - From the dynamic duo that brought you Penny Arcade, it’s an awesome charity for sick kids, check it out!
Resources
- Consumerist - Website with news and info for the consumer. Great advocate!
- GamersIP - Need to know your IP address? Check out this site, it’s free too!
- Internet Health Report - Great site the reports Internet latency issues from all over.
- Lifehacker - Great site for info, gadgets and treats for everyone and everyday life.
- Manager Tools - Great resources for managers, team and project leaders, and everyone else too.
- Manager Tools - Quite possible the best information and training for managers and staff alike via podcasts, forums and more.
- MYfilesanywhere - Online file storage with a nice and clean web based front end.
- Trizle – Rock Your Business - Great business advice and info, must read.
- WebMedia Designs - Consulting company that hosts this site.
Service Providers
- Audible - Great audio books any time, download to your iPod or any MP3 player.
- CodeSpaces - Hosted subversion and project management. This company knows how to host subversion repositories and a whole host of project management tools and features, the service rocks!
- Giganews - Superb USENET service provider.
- Hushmail - Need free secure and encrypted email that you can access anywhere? Here it is.
- ServerBeach - Web, virtual and dedicated server hosting. These guys build redundancy into every damn thing, their service is impeccable!
Software
- Bits du Jour - Great site for cool software deals!
- CCleaner - This is a great Windows maintenance tool. Clears wasted space, scans the registry and more. A must have.
- CentOS - Great free distro based off of Red Hat.
- Debian Security (Updates Listings) - Check this page out to see the latest vulnerabilities that have been found in the Debian Linux distro and all of it’s accompanying software.
- Defraggler - This is a great defrag tool, plus it’s free!
- Distrowatch - Awesome collection of pretty much all linux distros out there.
- Donation Coder - These guys make some great software, and it’s free although I recommend donating something to help out. Great forums too.
- Easy Thumbnails Software - This is perhaps one of if not the best tool around for making and manipulating thumbnails.
- freshmeat - Great place to find Open Source projects.
- GrabIt - An awesome usenet search and download tool, superb!
- GreatNews - A great RSS reader and aggregation tool, lightweight, lots of functions, and free … where can you go wrong?
- NirSoft - Some great utilities here, an especially good registry editor. Check ‘em out!
- Notepad++ - The best text editor out there for Windows.
- Open Source CMS - Great site to try before you buy so to speak, wonderful way to check out lots of CMS packages.
- Pendrivelinux - This is an awesome site all about running many flavors of Linux on USB drives, both memory sticks and portable hard drives.
- Portable Apps - Loads of apps that run right off your thumb drive, no install necessary.
- Simple Machines - These are some kickin’ forums, and in fact, the forums we use here.
- Splunk - Quite possible the best logging software ever.
- Sunfreeware - An awesome site with Solaris packages of almost any freeware, open source stuff you want, including dependencies, etc.
- Vim - The best text editor from nix is now on Windows.
- WordPress - This is a great blogging package, and in fact it powers this site.
Vendors
- Acer Support Site - Support (downloads, drivers, utilities, etc) site for Acer products.
- NetApp - A great storage vendor, company and partner.
- Oracle (formerly Sun Microsystems) - Solaris and SPARC, need I say more?
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