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Learn to Use ISO for Low-Light Photos. Dave Johnson, author of How to Do Everything with Your Digital Camera, explains how to leverage your camera's ISO settings to take low-light photos.

Nameexif. Photo file utility Namexif renames your digital pictures based on the timestamp they were taken, plus a custom name (like an event description). Very handy for processing huge batches of photos.

Find Technical Service Bulletins for Your Vehicle Online. Explains what TSBs are, how to find them, how to interpret them and, perhaps most importantly, how to leverage them with your sneaky no-good dealer.

Fuel Cost Calculator. Calculate the estimated fuel cost of your trip.

How To Avoid Getting Ripped Off By A Mechanic. A video tutorial that debunks five common car maintenance myths.

Gas Buddy To Go. Enter your ZIP to see the gas stations with the cheapest gas in your area. Designed to be used with mobile phones.

Bear Trap Guide. The Bear Trap guide lists the U.S. highway exits where you're most likely to get caught speeding.

Remove Car Dents Quickly and Cheaply. A couple different methods of getting a dent out of a car.

Traffic Waves, Physics for Bored Commuters. Basic phenomena about traffic dynamics and how to help erase slowdowns.

Repair Pal. Provides independent repair estimates to help you decide if your mechanic is ripping you off. It also factors in your location and provide you with a breakdown of parts and labor estimates.

Seven Things To Regularly Check On Your Car To Save Money. From consumerist.com, a list of seven common sense things you need to be checking on your car on a regular basis to save yourself a lot of money in the long run.

BillShrink. Compare cell phone plans and find the perfect plan to fit your usage need.

HowardForums. Cell phone community forums.

Sprint Media Tutorial. Shacknews informative post - Sprint Media Tutorial.

CoolService. Free WAP service for uploading all sorts of things to cell phones.

GMail Mobile. Read GMail and view attachments.

Google's Send a Text Message. Send a text message to a mobile phone. U.S. numbers only.

iSkoot. Skype VOIP for your phone. Uses airtime.

Mobile Digg. Digg on your phone.

Mobile Java Applications. Listing of various free mobile Java apps.

Mobile Navigation. Free GPS mobile navigation. Requires J2ME Java enabled Mobile phone / Data Plan.

Opera Browser for Phone. The Web browser Opera for your phone. Requires J2ME Java enabled Mobile Phone/Data Plan.

Phone Uploader. This uploader will let you send ringers, images, games, and screensavers to your phone. It works really well with Sprint PCS Vision phones, but it also works just fine with phones from most of the other providers.

Signal Map. Google Maps mashup tracks user-submitted cell signals based on carriers and location.

Supcast. A free service that allows you to record voice messages through your mobile phone, and have them appear instantly onto your MySpace or Blog. Also supports Text and Image messages.

Printable Chart for Getting Tough Stains Out of Clothes. List of clothes-saving suggestions.

VBScript Syntax. VBScript syntax for ASP (not ASP.net).

How To Write Unmaintainable Code. Ensure a job for life.

Digg PHP's Scalability and Performance. O'Reilly article on the performance and cost of PHP.

Worse Than Failure. Samples of code gone horribly wrong. Everything from "best practices" taken to extremes to reinventing the wheel by squaring off the edges.

What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory. Technical read on understanding the problems and the limitations of CPU caches and memory controller design.

Computer Languages History. A chart of that shows how and when computer languages were spawned.

Why's (poignant) Guide to Ruby. Tutorial on programming in Ruby.

SharpDevelop. Open-source IDE for C# and VB.NET projects on Microsoft's .NET platform.

Fabforce DBDesigner. A visual database design system that supports MySQL.

Querying the Database: Queries and Views. SQL tutorial on Selects and Joins.

Bash Tutorial. Bash scripts are collections of command line operations that automate frequently-performed actions in the terminal. If you're sick of typing out a set of commands one by one, it's time to script 'em out.

Connection Strings. List of connection strings for all sorts of database connections.

Expresso. Tool for Building and Testing Regular Expressions.

Hardened PHP. Tightens security against a number of well known problems in PHP.

IE7-js. A JavaScript library to make Microsoft Internet Explorer behave like a standards-compliant browser. It fixes many HTML and CSS issues and makes transparent PNG work correctly under IE5 and IE6.

Lightbox 2. Lightbox is a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page. It's a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers.

SlickSpeed Selectors Test. Speed/validity selectors test for frameworks.

Squeek Machine. Web developer resource, mostly for web coding (link points to PHP/MySQL code).

Steve Ramsay's Guide to Regular Expressions. Using regular expressions by Stephen Ramsay.

SWFObject. A small Javascript file used for embedding Adobe Flash content. The script can detect the Flash plug-in in all major web browsers (on Mac and PC) and is designed to make embedding Flash movies as easy as possible.

The Page Turn Effect in Flash MX. How the fairly complex page-turning effect can be created through ActionScript in Flash.

Angry Flower - Accura. Accuracy in throwing.

Angry Flower - Apostrophe. Quick guide to the apostrophe.

Angry Flower - Get the Word Out. Eat grapefruit!

Angry Flower - Shaolin Soccer. It is a good movie.

High5 Comics. Large amount of daily comics on one page.

Joe Mathlete Explains Today's Marmaduke. Brings the funny to an unfunny comic.

POKEY THE PENGUIN!!. I do not like the hat!

Ars' system guide. Guides to building a budget/good/godlike computer.

Bugs on Micromachines. Mites and tiny machines.

How Motherboards Are Made. A Gigabyte factory tour that walks through the motherboard manufacturing process.

LEGO Logic Gates. Digital logic gates made of legos.

Neowin UXTheme. Patches the UXTheme.dll for Windows XP/SP1/SP2 Beta/RTM and 2003 and allows you to use un-signed custom visual styles.

Vitrite. Allows you to manually adjust the level of transparency for almost any visible window.

GUIdebook. Dedicated to preserving and showcasing Graphical User Interfaces, as well as various materials related to them.

Can your computer run that game?. System Requirements Lab looks at your computer's hardware and system software to determine whether or not your current system can run a product.

CPU-Z. Freeware detection program that gives information on processor, motherboard, and memory.

CrystalDiskInfo. Keeps tabs on your hard drive health, including temperature, S.M.A.R.T. disk reporting, and the number of power cycles and run time on each disk.

eXtreme PSU Calculator. Select your system components and find out your recommended PSU wattage.

GPU Video Card Comparison. Pick a couple video cards and see how they compare.

JDiskReport. Analyses disk drives, graphs disk usage.

Prime95. To test overclocking, Prime95 has a feature called "Torture Test" that allows maximum stress testing on the CPU and RAM. There are several options allowing the stress test to focus on the memory, processor, or a balance of both.

Process Library. Resource for finding out the exact purpose of processes so you can tell if it's a system process or a security risk that running in the background.

Processor Electrical Specifications. Electrical specifications on just about every x86 processor. A good cheat sheet to see what voltage and wattage a CPU needs.

SpeedFan. Monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips.

The Buyer's Guide for Video Cards. Forum post explaining the performance of various video cards and which positive and negative sides they have.

Unlocker. Shows which programs have locked a file (preventing you from deleting it) and tells the offending app to let go of the file.

MSFN's Unattended XP CD. Install XP without being at the computer.

Ekim Software's LCDtest. Utility that tests your LCD screen for bad or stuck pixels.

Monitor Calibration Wizard. Runs at startup to calibrate display devices.

PC INSPECTOR™ File Recovery. Data recovery program that supports the FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS file systems.

Runtime Software. GetDataBack. GetDataBack will help you retrieve your files if the hard drive's partition table, boot record, FAT, or root directory have been damaged by a virus, formatting, fdisk or power failure. Tried and worked.

Anatomy of an ARP Poisoning Attack. How ARP poisoning enables local hackers to cause general networking mayhem.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures. A dictionary that provides common names for publicly known information security vulnerabilities and exposures.

Credit Card Check Digit Validation. Outlines procedures and algorithms for verifying the accuracy and validity of credit card numbers.

Crypto Law Survey. Gives a worldwide overview of the current state of affairs, with entries per country on import/export controls, domestic laws, developments to restrict cryptography, and developments favoring crypto use.

Darik's Boot and Nuke. DBAN is a self-contained boot floppy that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction.

Gibson Research. Computer security, many programs for testing / preventing bad things.

HouseCall. Free online virus scan.

Password Expiration Considered Harmful. Article on why expiring passwords are a bad idea.

Security Tracker. Keep track of the latest vulnerabilities.

WRT54G/GL/SL +tofu. HyperWRT +tofu is a Linksys WRT54G/GL and Linksys WRTSL54GS firmware based on stock Linksys firmware + HyperWRT + added extras.

EASEUS Partition Manager. EASEUS Partition Manager is a hard drive partition utility that bills itself as a free alternative to the popular commercial product, PartitionMagic. It can resize and move partitions without losing data already on them.

guru3d. All sorts of driver information for every video card.

Crap Cleaner. Cleans up temp internet files, memory dumps, chkdsk files, etc. in a single pass.

Easy Duplicate File Finder. Helps find and remove duplicate files on your PC.

Excessive Software's Power Defragmenter. A GUI that automates Contig from Sysinternals, which defrags individual files.

HijackThis. Spyware removal.

HijackThis log file analysis. A way to analyze your log without help from the outside: simply copy/paste the content of the log file in the textbox band hit the analyze button.

RegCool. Registry editor and manager. Allows you to cut, copy, paste, move, delete, and rename keys and values.

Spybot. Spybot-S&D, gets rid of Spyware.

SysInternals. Lots of monitoring and performance tools and utilities.

Cheap Wireless For Your Xbox 360. The Geeks Are Sexy weblog details how to roll your own cheap Xbox 360 Wi-Fi with a few feet of Cat 5 cable, a cheap wireless router, and the open source DD-WRT router firmware.

Deyey. Build your own attractive business cards online with this free webapp.

Patterns by R.BIRD. A series of professional observations about package design practices within specific product categories such as Juices, Coffee, and Calculators.

Design Police. Printable tags to paste around town to point out poor design.

How to Build a Cardboard Castle. Make a cardboard castle out of refrigerator boxes.

Sketch-to-Photoshop Tutorial. Core 77 forum post on quick technique to convert a sketch into a Photoshop image.

Cumulate Draw. Quickly throw together a network diagram, flowchart, org chart, or rearrange your furniture using office (and kitchen and bath) floorplan items.

Core77. Industrial design content and community site.

Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals). A design and usability blog on a weblog esign, customer experience, entertainment, politics, Basecamp, products we like, and small business.

Urban Counterfeiters. Large corporations taking ideas from small companies and artists.

Webtender. Everything you wanted to know about drinks.

cute.startkabel.nl. List of cute links ranging from graphics to games.

Flame Warriors. Descriptions of the different types of people you find online.

Herring & Waffleman. A truly great communications company, with a truly lengthy mission statement.

Huh? Corp. Welcome to the world's most dynamic e-business marketing, design and consulting agency. Our name will confuse you, but, you have to admit, the logo design is pretty cool.

X-Entertainment. Humorous analysis and playtime with all things 80s.

The Best Page in the Universe. Blunt culture commentary.

The Flithy Critic. Blunt reviews with barntalk.

Eric Conveys An Emotion. Eric with his webcam and funny expressions.

Oolong. The rabbit who had the pancake placed on its noggin. That little fuzzy's passed away, but there's a new bunny on the site.

Pixel-Lab. Different interactive programs that deal with abstract art.

Spamusement. Poorly-drawn cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines.

Star Wars ASCIImation. Almost the entire Star Wars movie in ASCII art.

I LOVE to eat Claussen pickles!!!. He loves to eat Claussen pickles!!!

JEFF K'S HOEMPAGE. Jeff K's invented a language.

JESUS the Monster Truck. Watch as JESUS crushes and destroys all of his enemies then finishes them off with the STIGMATA BLASTER©. All in the name of GOD!!!

The Killer Japanese Seizure Robots!. A classic!

This Page Cannot Be Displayed. The page you are looking for sucks and is currently unavailable.

SA - My mother is insane. Something Awful thread of the packrat mum.

SA - Robot Protest. Teaching Assistants at Madison are out on strike and so are the robots.

TV Tome. Television reference guides and reviews.

Business Buzzword Bingo. Bingo for business meetings.

Weird Stuff that Happens at Blockbuster. Funny stories of the wackiness that goes down at Blockbuster from one woman's point of view.

Active Local Events - Detroit Edition. Upcoming running events.

Dr. Mikin's Fitness Reports. Numerous short articles dealing with fitness.

Map My Ride. Google Maps mashup with advanced integration with GPS devices, a topographical map view, sharing and searching for public routes, and a workout calculator to help motivate your runs, bike rides, or walks.

Running Ahead. Offers a collection of online tools to help you train effectively.

Ecotonoha's Daily Trees. A daily tree of which its leafs are created by posting messages.

Friendly Pancake. A silly site featuring animated breakfast foods.

Kikkoman. Fight! Kikkoman.

Loituma Clock. A Flash clock with leeks and the Loituma polka tune.

Morphases. Create a face with many different photographic images in Flash.

Pre-Date Confidence Builder. Yep pretty much.

Rather Good. Wacky flashes set to music.

Strong Bad. Strong Bad reading his emails is always a treat.

Windows RG. Welcome to the Windows RG (Really Good) Edition Demo page.

You Are My Friend. Replace "you" in the URL to make it say whatever you wish!

artPAD. Paint a picture via Flash. Pictures can be saved so that others can see how it was painted.

Flash Games. It's all in japanese so I'm not sure what the title of this one is, but it has many Flash games therein.

Peasant's Quest. From the guy who does Strongbad, an early King's Quest-type game.

Quest for the Crown. It was said that it was certain doom to look for the crown!

Quest for the Rest. Same art as the Samorost game, but one's shorter.

Samorost Flash Game. Great art puzzle game.

A Calorie Counter. Search for a food to see its nutrition facts.

Fast Food Nutrition Facts. Nutritional information on restaurant franchises.

Foods that Heal. List of foodstuffs that are beneficial for the body.

Lunch Savings Calculator. Calculate the small fortune you save by brown bagging it.

What Your Food Cravings are Trying to Tell You. Naturopathic doctor Colleen Huber has made a printable list of food cravings and what you truly need.

Cooking By Numbers. Check off the available ingredients in your fridge and cupboard for a list of recipes.

Pimp My Snack. All about taking regular food and making it bigger.

Latte Art. Designs in latte foam.

Diet Television. It's a trick! Runaway, fellow fatties! There's no television to be had at this website! If you need a little more specificity and variety to your fitness plan, Diet Television offers an interesting take.

Men's Health 125 Healthiest Supermarket Foods in America. Men's Health has rounded up 125 of the healthiest supermarket foods in America by category.

Say Goodbye to Clumpy, Hard Brown Sugar. A way to use terra cotta to keep brown sugar soft.

Make Your Own Pizza Dough. Recipe for making your own pizza dough.

Top Secret Recipes. How to create kitchen clones of America's favorite brand-name foods.

A Gamers' Manifesto. Twenty things gamers want from the seventh generation of game consoles.

History of Console Prices. Is the $500 price tag for the crippled PlayStation 3 historically high or low? A bit of number crunching to try to put that number in perspective, the graphs tell the story.

Released Starforced Games. Games that come with Starforce copy protection, which is known to break CD/DVD drives.

Court Records. An Ace Attorney fansite with news and game media about the game series.

Exhibit "A". A Phoenix Wright/Gyakuten Saiban art gallery.

Counter-Strike Flash Games. Collection of Counter-Strike flash games.

Protecting Yourself Against CS:S Admins. Steam forum post on how to protect yourself against the wraith of malicious admins.

Valve Servers Tickrate Wiki. Information on what the tickrate means and how to adjust it for Counter-Strike and other Valve-related servers.

Reality Factory's Game Creation Suite. Free toolkit that lets you create games without knowing any programming.

Daggerfall Books. All the lit in Daggerfall.

Doom Comic. Ultra violent comic with dialogue so awful, it's good.

Paper Arcade. Print, cut, and paste paper Arcade machines.

X-Entertainment - Super Mario Bros. 2 Character Guide. Super Mario Bros. II is, well, strange.

Zany Video Game Quotes. Our purpose at this site is to show to you the humorous, silly, misspelled, or completely head-splittingly insane quotes you can find in video games.

Katamari Damacy Fans. Community LiveJournal for Katamari Damacy with crafts, graphics, and bits of info.

Mario Sprite History. The evolution of Mario.

The Shyguy Kingdom. Video game sprites.

The Half-Life 2 Saga Story Guide. Overview of the events dealing directly with the events of the Half-Life Saga. SPOILERS!

the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages. Hints and walkthroughs for Morrowind (and its expansion packs Bloodmoon and Tribunal), and other Elder Scrolls games.

Animal Crossing Ahead. All sorts of info on how the Animal Crossing world works.

How Hitboxes in Counter-Strike:Source Work. whine whine whine CS:S's netcode is crap check out that l33t hitbox video! Or just forget all that and read about how it really works.

johnsto.co.uk. The interweb home of Dave Johnston, the creator of the Counter-Strike maps dust and dust 2.

DOSBox. Emulates a full x86 pc with sound and dos.

Nintendulator. NES emulator.

Released Starforced Games. List of games that currently use Starforce copyright protection. The Starforce drivers are often linked to system instability and computer crashes.

Sock Master's Game Console Controller Family Tree. The evolution of game controllers.

Starforce Cleaner Utility. Software for removing StarForce drivers so your CD/DVD drive doesn't get toasted.

Morrowind Face Mods. Great face mods.

Bargin Bin Bandit. roushimsx from shacknews.com writes on excellent old and hot new imported games.

CS-Evolution. Often updated info on Counter-Strike.

National Console Support, Inc.. News on what's new for sale for consoles, imports and otherwise.

ShackNews. Gaming site with chattyness.

Steam Network Status. Valve's Steam Network stats.

Darliandor's Alchemy Lab. Covers anything concerning the skill Alchemy in the game Oblivion, including all available ingredients, possible potion combinations and their effects.

Oblivion Full Item List Hex Codes. Forum post on all the hex codes for items, so you can give your character any item.

Oblivion Map. Using Google Map with Oblivion.

OblivioWiki. A wiki on everything Oblivion, spoilers therein.

AGD Interactive. Free King's Quest and Quest For Glory games.

Hell of Sand. Fun java drawing thing. That's the best description I can do.

Image Puzzle!. A graphical puzzle divided into 15 stages, with each stage having a digital image that contains a text that allows you to get to the next stage.

Virtual Apple 2 - Online Disk Archive. Play over 1100 Apple 2 games in a browser window.

Zork. There is a small mailbox here.

Zork I, II and III. Download the Zork text adventures.

Tricking It 2. Google video of 1337 tricks in Quake 3.

The View From the Top. A cautionary tale about the pull that World of Warcraft can have on you.

World of Warcraft Mobile. A remote desktop app for mobile phones. Requires Java J2ME. Don't expect to be questing or leveling with wowMobile, (Unless your using wow glider) its more for simple things, for the geeks or addicts. You can: Check Auction House, sell/buy at merchants, small travel distances, catch up on email, chat, and monitor the wait status for a battle ground while your away from your computer.

Gardening Pitfalls. HGTV's Gardening Guy has come up with a list of the most common gardening mistakes and solutions.

Alpha Channel Fundamentals. Tutorial on transparency for graphics.

Colorization Using Optimization. An easy way to colorize grayscale photos.

hugin. Assemble a mosiac of photographs into a one panorama. Open source software.

Image Puzzler - Photo Mosaics. Image Puzzler allows you to create a large regular mosaic patterned images made of many small cells.

Neat Image. Reduces visible noise in digital photographic images.

Quickly Remove Backgrounds with Photoshop. Remove the background from any photo quickly and easily in Photoshop with ThemBid's quick and dirty tutorial.

Rasturbator. Turn pictures into posters.

Toogle. The most comprehensive image buggery on the web.

Good Brush. Craig Mullen's Artwork.

BlackCat. Digital art with an anime flair.

Boring3D. Creative and sometimes cute 3D designs.

david lanham. Sketches and digital art.

GameWallpapers. Game wallpapers. Yep pretty much.

InterfaceLIFT Wallpapers. Pretty wallpapers, available in widescreen.

Isometric Screenshots. A series of drawings from an isometric perspective, in the style of a computer game. The subject of each drawing is the image, or images, that created a popular cultural event. Historical events (like the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel) are used interchangeably with fictionalized events (like the picnic scene from The Sound of Music).

Mandolux. High resolution wallpapers of photography, available in widescreen and for dual monitors.

Sidewalk Chalk Guy. Works of sidewalk chalk art.

Streetsy. Photographs of street art graffiti. Updated daily.

xRez. A collection of insanely high resolution panoramic images in various categories covering natural and urban subjects.

Open Clip Art Library. More than 10,000 Scalable Vector Graphic images are posted here, freely licensed for use in personal or commercial projects.

Brusheezy. Free Photoshop brushes and patterns at a community-driven site.

Create Animated GIFs from Video Files. Ubuntu enthusiast offers a simple guide to creating slick-looking animations using two free, cross-platform software tools, MPlayer and the GIMP. Also works with Windows.

Create Patterned Silhouettes with Photoshop. A tutorial for creating a patterned silhouette from a normal source photo in Photoshop.

Glitter Maker. Do your part to make the Web annoying and tacky! Personalize animated glittery text!

GMax. Free 3D modeling and animation tool based on Discreet's 3ds max software.

Grand Illusions - Dragon Illusion. This little dragon is made out of paper - you simply cut it out and stick it together, and stand it on a table or window ledge. But when you move around, the dragon's head seems to follow you around the room.

How to Create Smoke in Photoshop. A detailed guide for achieving an attractive smoke effect using Photoshop.

How to Make a Folder Icon. Create a folder icon from scratch using Photoshop.

How To Make A Photoshop Brush. Create your own customized Photoshop brush in this tutorial from design blog Bittbox.

N-sane Glowing Glass Button. How to make glowing shiny buttons in Photoshop.

N.Design Studio. Vector art with Illustrator tutorials.

Spoono Photoshop Tutorials. Tutorials on how to make shiny and spikey balls, brushes, and textures within Photosthop.

The Best 80 Photoshop Text Effects on the Web. Eighty tutorials of text effects for Photoshop.

Famfamfam Silk Icons. Silk is a smooth, free icon set, containing over 700 16-by-16 pixel icons in PNG format.

Iconfactory Icons. Free iconsets from Iconfactory.

The Crystal Clear Icon Set. From the Wikimedia Commons, a collection of icons fit for web sites and desktops.

Wikimedia Icon Themes. From the Wikimedia Commons, subcategories of free icons.

100 Sources for Free Stock Images. List of sites that offer free stock images.

Architecture of Density. Michael Wolf's pictures of Hong Kong, one of the most densely populated metropolitan areas in the world.

Getty Images. Searchable image gallery.

MorgueFile. MorgueFile's free high resolution photos are has-beens in the stock photography world, but that doesn’t mean they won’t do a great job spicing up your work.

stock.xchng. Add photos to your writing or web design at low or no cost. Provides tons of stock photos, many of them royalty-free.

eboy. Pixel art posters of London, Berlin, and a few other pieces that are for sale.

Happy Toonzoo. Pixel art site heavy in graphics.

Love Pixel. Fabulous, huge pixel art. Partly in Chinese.

Portrait Illustration Maker. Make our own avatar-sized pixel portrait.

iPod displays a sad iPod icon. Fixing an iPod that's showing a sad smiley.

todbot Roomba category. Software and hardware to mod a Roomba.

Running Map. Using google maps API and Flash, you can trace a route and discover its distance.

Imperial History. Flash video on who has controlled the Middle East over the course of history.

Pirates! Fact & Legend. Pirate facts and history.

Remembering Pearl Harbor. National Geographic breakdown of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Inside Firefox - Where Did Firefox Come From?. Article on the inner workings from Firefox module owner Ben Goodger. Goes into the inner workings Netscape and fills in a timeline spanning from the open sourcing of Netscape to the release of Firefox 1.5

Les Trous Noirs du Web. Reporters Without Frontiers map of the world countries where internet usage is controlled by the government.

The Great Firewall of China. Test any Website and see if it's censored in China.

Filezilla. Free FTP Client made by the Mozilla people.

FaxZERO. Send a fax anywhere in the US or Canada for free, if you allow for an ad on the cover page. It's $2 if you don't want the ad.

wGetGUI. GUI for the Webgrabber wGet.

You Convert It. Convert documents, images, audio and video files. Upload the file and provide your email address so it knows where to send the download link for the new file once the conversion is complete.

WebHosting Talk Forums. Forums dealing with all topics about Web hosts, including as security and fraud issues.

A Parent's Primer to Computer Slang. 2 1337 4 u

NetCraft. Enter a Website domain for information on the server software and OS running it.

Postini EMail Stats. Daily and monthly stats on Directory Harvest Attacks (DHA), spam, and viruses.

Internet Health Report. Status of the Internet.

X-NetStat. Shows your current Internet and network connections.

How I'd Hack Your Weak Passwords. The man at One Man's Blog explains how easy it is to crack passwords and offers tips on choosing safer ones.

SANS Top 20 Internet Security Vulnerabilities. The ten most commonly exploited vulnerable services in Windows and the ten most commonly exploited elements in UNIX and Linux environments.

Simple Email Address Encoder. Encodes a simple email address to a MAILTO: tag that is more difficult for spammers to harvest.

Beginner's Guide to the Vi Editor. Covers all things Vi, the programmer's text editor.

DNSStuff. Domain tests, IP Tests, and hostname tests. Note that IP traces are not always accurate.

IP Address Locator. Location of IP.

VisualRoute Server. Graphical IP traceroute.

Whois. Domain name lookup.

Wireshark. A network analyzer that displays live packet data as it moves in and out of a network interface on your computer.

yoName. Search across a variety of social networking sites - MySpace, Friendster, Xanga, Digg, etc. - by email address, username, or by name.

Zipdecode. Zoom in on the location of a zip code.

Occupational Outlook Handbook. Salary information with job descriptions.

Common Errors in English. What the titles says yo.

An Explanation of l33t Speak. "l33t speak" is a unique language because it cannot truly be spoken out loud nor can it successfully be handwritten; it is an Internet-based language reliant on the keyboard.

Forvo. Find out how to say a word you're unfamiliar with at web site Forvo. Relies on users to generate both words in demand and the proper pronunciations of those words.

What’s the Difference: i.e. vs. e.g.. The Dilemma: You're reading a document that's riddled with needless, pretentious Latin abbreviations, but your year of high school Latin has been obscured by the fog of memory.

Creative Commons License. Provides you with tools and tutorials that let you add license information to your own site, or to one of several free hosting services that have incorporated Creative Commons.

Know Your Money - Counterfeit Awareness. Description of what is permitted for color illustrations of U.S. currency. Helpful information for getting Adobe Photoshop / Illustrator to open money images.

Library of Congress Copyright Office. Information about copyrights.

Stanford Copyright and Fair Use Law. Searchable database for copyright and fair use.

What Should I Read Next?. Enter a book you like and the site will analyze the database of readers' favorite books to suggest what you could read next.

Billshare. If you've had trouble splitting up, getting paid for, or tracking your bills with roommates in the past, Billshare may help.

expensr. A free online personal finance manager that helps you understand where you're spending your money. A stripped-down online alternative to Quicken or Microsoft Money.

Mailbox Map. A Google Maps mashup that shows you the closest set of mailboxes and the pickup times at each.

Floorplanner. Web-based floor planning application that creates complex layouts to help you design the layout of any room in your home.

MyNewPlace. Positioned to compete with Craigslist, users can post comments on apartments and the locations are displayed on a Google Map. Apartment owners pay a fee to post on MyNewPlace, and users get a $150 rebate for signing a rental agreement after using the site.

Walk Score. Rates neighborhoods for "walkability" based on their proximity to grocery stores, restaurants, movie theaters, schools, libraries, and more to give you an idea of how ped-friendly an address is.

Zip Skinny. Get detailed city demographics for any zip code in the United States with a site that serves up information based on the last U.S. census data.

Get Human. Lists what you need to push to speak to a real human being when calling a company for support.

Over 40 Mosquito Bite Itch Relief Tips. Conquer your itchy mosquito bite.

Arbor Update. Local News web log of Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Bands in Town. Concert-finding site offers a convenient tag-cloud-style list of upcoming live concerts in your area.

ShipGooder. Find the cheapest rates for shipping items from point A to point B. The site makes it easy to get the cheapest shipping rates without visiting each individual carrier's website.

ShipTool. After providing the site with your shipping and destination addresses and package type, Shiptool scours UPS, FedEx, USPS, and DHL, and returns all of your shipping options sorted by price to help you find the cheapest solution to fit your needs.

Pack Track. Allows you to track your packages from numerous supported carriers including FedEx, UPS, and DHL.

Amazon List for Epic Power Metal. TRIUMPHANT SYMPHONIC EPIC FANTASY SPEED POWER METAL

Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music. When, where, and how electronic styles came about.

musicplasma. Helps you visually identify all the artists fitting your musical tastes.

Musotik. Locate a music artist's discography, videos, bio, torrents, and find related artists.

Radio-Locator. A database of over 10,000 radio stations all over the world, but you can also use their sizable index to find an unused FM frequency for your portable audio widget.

RIAA Radar. A tool that easily distinguishes whether an album was released by a member of the RIAA.

Nickelback Music Comparison. Example of shameless recycled music.

The Problem With Music by Steve Albini. How the major music labels sign bands.

You Have Bad Taste in Music. One guy with a microphone informs the public of their taste before they head to the concert.

iConcertCal. A free iTunes plug-in that monitors your music library and generates a personalized calendar of upcoming concerts in your city.

iPodlounge | iPod Accessories. Find and buy over 450 accessories for the iPod.

Art of the Mix. Art of the Mix is home to a community of people all devoted to the fine art of making mixes.

OverClocked ReMix. Unofficial game music arrangement community.

Midomi. Midomi lets you find the name of a song by humming or singing a few bars of the unknown tune.

Digital Mozart Edition. Over 600 works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, separated into ten categories, from concertos for orchestra to chamber music and pieces for piano.

Audacity. Free audio editor allowing you to record, import and export WAV, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, and MP3 files.

Buzz Machines. Free modular software based synthesizer. A little buggy.

dBpowerAMP. Swiss army knife of audio.

iPodSync. A tool for Windows users to keep your Microsoft Outlook calendar. contact, tasks and notes synchronized between your PC and your iPod. iPod sync also sync weather forecasts and news from the web. iPodSync turns your iPod into PDA.

TuneBite. Run bought iTunes through TuneBite to make them DRM-free mp3s.

Your Fitness Music. Has a song tempos search allowing to you find songs you like that match the workout pace you prefer, and a program that converts any song to the pace of your workout.

Sound Dogs Sound Effects. Large collection of royalty free sound clips.

Test your musical skills in 6 minutes. A pretty good test to check for overall pitch perception ability.

Digitally Imported. Mostly electronic dance music with a bit of classical and jazz.

Pandora. Pandora is a music discovery service powered by the Music Genome Project, the most comprehensive analysis of music ever undertaken. Just tell us one of your favorite songs or artists and we'll launch a streaming station to explore that part of the music universe.

SHOUTcast. Large list of streaming stations.

StationRipper. Allows you to "record" various internet radio stations.

StreamRipper. Lets you record streaming music to your system.

Fark. Photoshops every few hours and random news.

Happy News. All the news that's fun to print.

Enter the Ninja. Boatloads of Ninja info.

Pet Supply Coupons. List of pet supply coupons for numerous sites.

Kacee's Picasa Gallery of Guinea Pigs. Lots of themed galleries with piggies.

Kleenmama's Hayloft. Top quality grass hays for guinea pigs and rabbits.

LAPS (Large Ample Pigs Society). A society for large guinea pigs and their slaves.

Mikey's Picasa Gallery of Guinea Pigs. Gallery of guinea pigs, includes a cardboard castle.

Astronomy Picture of the Day. Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

Bad TV: Fox TV and the Apollo Moon Hoax. Takes a look at the progam "Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?" and its bad thinking, ridiculous suppositions, and utterly wrong science.

Moon Phases. A calendar of moon phases.

The Solar System Scale. A scale of the Solar System.

Ten Ways to Improve Your Natural Night Vision. Improve your night vision ten different ways with Instructables' step by step guide.

Nikon's Universcale. Flash piece giving you a feel for how tiny or gigantic we are in the grand scheme of things.

The World of Wal-Mart. A map drawn as if the size and existence of countries was based on how many products Walmart buys from their nation.

Dealighted. A mashup of deals from forums like Slickdeals, Fatwallet, Gottadeal, and more. Most tech stuff.

Free Shipping. Free shipping coupons to over 600 stores.

Jungle Crazy. Amazon items that are at least 70% off.

Rebate Status. Check on the status of a rebate.

Retail Me Not. User submitted online coupon codes for stores like J Crew, Amazon, Starbucks and Avis.

Tech Bargains. Deals on computers, cameras and the like.

The Cheapest Days to Buy Certain Items. According to Smart Money's purchasing guide, you can save some ducats just by making purchases on certain days.

Woot!. Sells 1 item per day amazingly cheap until it is sold out or until 11:59pm central time when it is replaced.

Reseller Ratings. Customer reviews of online stores.

eBay Store Dooba0801Shop. Offers unique guinea pig themed items, including hand-made jewerly and cards.

The Pampered Pig. Where guinea pigs and the humans they own can shop for healthy treats, snuggle sacks, and other items essential for piggy happiness!

Eye Direction and Lying. Discusses the general tells involved with constructing a lie.

Conversational Terrorism. It is hoped that exposing these tactics will help muzzle the growing abuse in our conversational landscape

Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond?. An 1982 Atlantic Monthly article regarding diamonds and how an unruly market may undo the work of a giant cartel and of an inspired, decades-long ad campaign.

Rules of Thumb. User submitted rules, concepts, and common wisdom in various topics.

Stefan Landsberger's Chinese Propaganda Poster Pages. Chinese propaganda posters produced from 1949 till the present day.

The Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager. Interactive chart of baby names. You can type in your name and see its popularity through the years starting in the 1990s.

The Great Pop vs. Soda Controversy. Map of the regional variations in the use of the generic names to describe carbonated soft drinks.

Weight Watchers Recipe Cards from 1974. FRANKFURTER SPECTACULAR!

Why Crunch Mode Doesn't Work. There's a reason most industries gave up crunch mode over 75 years ago: It's the single most expensive way there is to get the work done.

WordCount. WordCount presents the 86,800 most frequently used English words, ranked in order of commonness.

Choosing the Right Sunglasses. Helps to choose the right frame of sunglasses.

Caution: Children at Play - The Truth About Violent Youth and Video Games. The truth is that these are the most non-violent kids we have ever had, and they all own Playstations.

Death and Taxes. A visual guide to where your federal tax dollars go.

On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study. Conclusion: Aluminium foil helmets amplify frequency bands that coincide with those allocated to the US government between 1.2 Ghz and 1.4 Ghz.

Awful Plastic Surgery. The befores-and-afters of famous peoples.

Go Fug Yourself. A web log involving god awful fashions.

Perfect Your Presentations. Tips on improving presentations.

The Diamond Invention. De Beers and the diamond industry.

All Things Kawaii. Updated every few days with a new cute site. Has a large directory as well.

The Bleat. A weekly web log, always well thought-out and a treat to read.

Burn At Once. Nero freeware substitute.

ISO Recorder. ISO Recorder is a tool (power toy) for Windows XP, 2003 and now Windows Vista, that allows (depending on the Windows version) to burn CD and DVD images, copy disks, make images of the existing data CDs and DVDs and create ISO images from a content of a disk folder.

SpamHole. Create a temporary email address. For the number of hours that you choose, all email to nameyoupick@spamhole.com address is automatically forwarded to your regular email address. After time is up, any new mail that comes to your spamhole address is automatically deleted.

Widget Gallery. Widgets for Konfabulator.

The Table of Equivalents of Windows Software in Linux.. Comparable software between Windows and Linux.

OpenOffice. Compatible open source alternative for MS Office.

PDFTextOnline. A free, no-registration web app that accepts files and changes them to plain text, available for copying or saving as a .txt file.

Farecast. Farecast brings you airfare predictions so you can see when prices are rising or falling, and when it's a good time to buy.

Flight Wait. Takes data from the Federal Aviation Association and uses Google Maps to show airport delays.

PointMaven. Catalogs the latest and greatest hotel promotions. Just enter a city name or airport code and the site serves up a list of current deals, which you can filter by hotel program, hotel brand or individual hotel.

Happy Median. Tell where everyone is coming from (you can search from up to four addresses or zip codes) and the site generates a list of places that are located right in the happy median between everyone.

Type, Handwriting and Lettering. Notes on type design, typography, handwriting and lettering.

Adobe - Typography. Fixed-pitch vs. proportional, leading, spacing and Typographic color.

So You Want to Create a Font. The tools and technique used for creating a typeface.

The Anatomy of Web Fonts. Article on what makes for a good Web typeface.

The Rules of Typography. The title pretty much says it all.

The Science of Word Recognition. Article on the technical aspects of how people read.

Better Fonts. 10,000 free fonts with a user-friendly interface.

dafont. Large selection of free fonts.

Die 100 Besten Schriften. The top one hundred typefaces. In German.

Exljbris. The library of Jos Buivenga’s free typefaces.

Font Freak. Freeware and shareware fonts.

Misprinted Type Fonts. Free distressed typefaces.

T.26. Digital Type Foundry.

There Is Something Weird Going on With the Clock on 24. The onscreen time sequences are dictated partly by the typographic limitations of the clock font.

Video Games Fonts from codeman38. Mostly old (80s and 90s) video game fonts.

What The Font?!. Upload a scanned image of the font and it'll find the name of the font.

Adverts. Advertisements in 1930s magazines.

GSpot Codec Information Appliance. Establishes what video codecs (audio and video) are required to play a movie file and tells other video file information.

Quicktime Alternative. Play QuickTime files without having to install the official QuickTime Player.

Real Alternative. Play .rm files without having to install Real.

The Flash Video (FLV) Player. The Flash script used by YouTube that's under the Creative Commons License.

Video Help. Make your own VideoCDs, SVCDs or DVDs that can be played on your standalone DVD Player from video sources like DVD, Video, TV, DV, Cam or downloaded movie clips like DivX, MOV, RM, WMV and ASF.

Womble MPEG2VCR. Editing on MPEGs, doesn't re-encode (that saves hours in time.)

Media Player Classic. A multimedia player with a similar interface to Microsoft Windows Media Player but with more features.

Digital Archive Project. A meeting place on the web for television fans and tech enthusiasts dedicated to the digital preservation of our favorite shows.

DScaler. Open source proggie that captures video from console, DVD or VCR.

DVD Shrink. Free software to backup DVD discs. If you have Nero you can also burn from a backup DVD.

Fraps. Real-Time video capture. Screenshots are taken for free, video costs $30.

SUPER - Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer. SUPER © converts video to any other format without any time or function limitation.

vConvert. vConvert allows you to convert an online video, such as a YouTube videos, to the other formats such as wmv and mov.

Paper Guns. A large collection of paper guns.

P90 Promotional Video. The p90 delivers rifle rounds in an SMG package.

Todd Jarrett IPSC Pistol Grip Lesson. A lesson from 1996 IPSC World Champion Todd Jarrett on how to properly hold a handgun from the 2004 Shootout.

Dynamic Form Builder. Create Web forms.

Email Protector. Encrypt your email address with a bit of javascript to help prevent your address from being harvested.

Prototype JavaScript Framework. Prototype is a JavaScript framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications. Featuring a toolkit for class-driven development and an Ajax library.

Color Blender. Pick two colors to generate their midpoints.

Color Scheme. Color wheel and different schemes.

Color Wheel Pro. Application that helps create harmonious color schemes based on color theory.

ColorMatch Remix. This utility will help you select a matching 6-color palette for your website.

Create color themes with Adobe Kuler. Kuler lets you browse other users' themes or create your own using a drag-and-drop color wheel and/or numerical settings (RGB, CMYK, etc.).

Technicolor. Generate and view color schemes.

The Müller Formula. Explanation of why certain color combinations appeal to common taste.

Whats Its Color. Upload an image and the site creates a palette page with a complementary background and a list of unique and dominant colors in your image.

Multiple IEs. Install multiple versions of Internet Explorer on your PC to test websites in various IE versions.

Acid2. Acid2 is a test page for web browsers published by The Web Standards Project (WaSP). It has been written to help browser vendors make sure their products correctly support features that web designers would like to use.

Clearing floats. A common problem with float-based layouts is that the floats' container doesn't want to stretch up to accomodate the floats. If you want to add, say, a border around all floats (ie. a border around the container) you'll have to command the browsers somehow to stretch up the container all the way.

CSS Cheat Sheet. The CSS cheat sheet is designed to act as a reminder and reference sheet, listing all selectors (as of CSS 2.1) and properties.

Design Detector. Web design tips & examples.

Doctype Declarations. DocTypes and how well they work in different browsers.

IE NetRenderer. IE NetRenderer allows you to check how a website is rendered by Internet Explorer 7, 6 or 5.5, as seen from a high speed datacenter located in Germany. Views are limited by the hour.

IE Whitespace Bug Solution. Fix for when IE adds another line height between links within an unordered list when display:block is used.

Layout Gala. A set of 40 CSS layouts dealing with columns.

Listamatic. Tutorials on how to make CSS lists.

Little Boxes. How to set up different types of columns in CSS.

Pup's Float Hack. Making boxes flow around floats using CSS.

SlayerOffice Mouseover DOM Inspector. This favelet allows you to view the properties of any HTML element on a page simply by mousing over the element.

Windows Explorer vs. the Standards. How to get around IE's CSS positioning problems.

Wordpress Theme Generator. A generator that creates your own custom WordPress Theme without the need for HTML, JS, PHP, or CSS knowledge.

Aqua Ballz. How to make the "Aqua" look.

Cross-Browser Variable Opacity with PNG: A Real Solution. About the image type of PNG (Portable Network Graphics).

design | snips. User submitted and ranked sites showcasing Web design

FavIcon Generator. Use this online tool to easily create a favicon (favorites icon) for your site.

Web 2.0 Design Kit. How do make those Web 2.0 graphics. Don't forget your "beta" label.

Action Script Viewer. SWF Decompiler for Macromedia Flash.

PageFlip. Source code for creating page-turned effect in Flash. Includes hardcover flips, transparency, and pages that can be ripped.

Your Website as a Tree. Tree accesses the source code of a web domain through its URL and transforms the syntactic structure of the web site into a tree structure represented by an image. This image illustrates a tree with trunk, branches and ramifications. First each tree is initialized, than all HTML links are detected, chronologically saved and finally displayed.

Eyetracking Points the Way to Effective News Article Design. OJR's design experts review usability research and offer suggestions on how you can make your online articles better connect with readers.

XHTML Character Entity Reference. Contains the 252 allowed entities in HTML 4 and XHTML 1.0, as outlined in section 24 of the official HTML 4 specifications, published by the W3C.