General

News & Blogs

Computer News (Journals)

Computer News (Magazines)

Internet News(Magazines)

  • NetMag UK based large Internet magazine.
  • Anvil Provides new and fairly unusual perspectives issues shaping today's Internet society.
  • Cool Tricks and Trinkets Newsletter offering weekly insights into new, fun, unusual and interesting sites on the Internet.
  • First Monday Danish. Peer-reviewed journal on the Internet.
  • Internet Magazine Latest internet news, reviews, expert advice.
  • Internet Scout Project Selection of newly discovered online resources of interest to researchers, educators, and anyone else with an interest in high-quality online material.
  • Internet Week News, features and analysis on the topics that matter to IT readers: supply chain, security, Web development and IT services.
  • Internet World Daily internet news and internet information.
  • InternetWorld.se
  • El Pas website Lengthy tech news supplement every Thursday.
  • Mappa Mundi Magazine Examines information discovery on the Internet via an eclectic mix of ideas about technology, history, and the future of cyberspace.
  • New Architect Solutions for internet professionals.
  • Online Magazine General computer and entertainment magazine covering topics from Web / Computer interests to stories about cyberpunks and humor from around the net.

Wifi

Social Bookmarking

  • Blinkbits.com Web archiving, links in a social way.
  • CHNM Web scrap book Clipping file for the internet.
  • Clipmarks.com Nifty service making full use of Web 2.0.
  • del.icio.us Bookmark tagging community (0,6).
  • digg Technology news and tagging. Peer-submitted and peer-edited.
  • Google Notebook
  • Hanzo Web A social web archiving service.
  • Kaboodle.com Bookmarking focusing on specific content within a site.
  • Listible.com Creates lists of lists. Pretty useful.
  • ma.gnolia.com More social than del.icio.us
  • Myhq Online Storage of bookmarks, rather static.
  • Wists Visual bookmarking by creating a small image, text summary and set of keywords without having to save and upload anything.
  • Wink.com Search across the tagosphere (del.ici.us, digg, slashdot, Yahoo MyWeb) and save tagged bookmarks.
  • Yahoo My Web Saving bm and webpages. Not intuitive.

Information Management

Online Information collaboration

Mash-ups

  • GMdir.com Unofficial directory of Google Maps mash-ups, with annotated guides to Folkestone pubs, Dublin petrol prices and English speed cameras.
  • Mashupfeed Tracks mashups. There are mash-ups which geographically locate cars listed in eBay’s motoring auctions, maps that help you find a cash-machine, even one that takes photographs submitted to the "Hot or Not" website and presents them according to their owners’ home addresses. Also San Francisco’s mobile-phone towers and name’s sex offenders.
  • Dynamite Displays BBC travel news, traffic cams, local weather, UK Gatso.
  • celebrity-maps.com Pinpoints the homes of Hollywood stars and has been criticised for encouraging stalkers.
  • Chicagocrime Maps out Chicago’s murder scenes.
  • esportiudigital.com online sports paper, presents UEFA Champions League results and fixtures on a scrollable map of Europe.
  • Geobloggers Geotagged photos. Started in UK.
  • Housingmaps.com City maps where one can navigate between properties via location, price or photograph.
  • Weatherbonk.com Temperature, windspeed, and live traffic-camera feeds.

RSS

  • Allrss This is a collection of links to major collections of feeds, sorted into categories.
  • Feedster Search tool for finding RSS feeds from a variety of sources on the Web.

Storage

Web Design

Ajax

Wikis

  • JotSpot was started by the co-founders of Excite and is a cross between a wiki and a database. JotSpot was built from scratch and is not open-source, but is free to use by open-source projects. By offering additional features such as forms and integration with external data, JotSpot is able to overcome the issue of wikis being essentially limited to handling text documents.
  • Socialtext is based on the open-source Kwiki software and has managed to land some powerhouse clients like Nokia and Ziff-Davis. The company even ships a standalone appliance with the software preinstalled.
  • Confluence. Atlassian's codebase is composed almost exclusively of open-source libraries, and like JotSpot and SocialText, the company contributes to the open-source community and open-source projects may freely use its code. Although its software packages are not strictly open source, Atlassian does provide licensees with the source code.
  • On the strictly open-source/non-commercial front, there are several major players:
  • Tikiwiki has an editorial engine for submitting, editing and approving article submissions as well as a workflow project management system.
  • Twiki can be expanded dramatically with server-side plug-in modules that allow for specific handling of functions like calendars, spreadsheets, RSS, barcodes, and so on.
  • Zwiki offers a plug-in WYSIWYG HTML editor called Epoz that supports all the major browsers.
  • Perspective is popular with some large companies and seems to be the wiki many big businesses get their feet wet with first.
  • PMWiki
  • PBWiki lets you create your own wiki. PB stands for peanut butter suggesting that setting up and using this service is as easy as making a peanut-butter sandwich.
  • Wikispaces and Schtuff Offer more free space, tagging and invite options.

Flash Cartoons

Python

Web Design (Portals)

Javascript

CSS/PHP/FTP/ASP

PHP

Scripts

CSS

Good CSS learning sites

General CSS sites

Bug Demo sites

CSS E-lists

Experimental CSS sites

Software

General

Blog Services

Blog Tools

Windows

Downloadable programmes

  • Shareware River Collection of software.
  • Myprogs.net Peer-linked software lists (0,6) Put up list of all installed software on computer.
  • ABBYY 9.0 Lingo Russian translator
  • ACD Systems
  • Adobe Suite Photoshop, Photoshop Album 2.0, GoLive CS, InDesign CS, Acrobat 6.0
  • Blogjet
  • Blogmatrix Sparks! For podcasting/audioblog managing
  • Cyberlink Power DVD
  • EndNote
  • Flickr Uploadr
  • USB Carddriver v.2.1a
  • GenieBackupManager Pro 6.0
  • Google Gmail Notifier, Gmail Desktop Search
  • HighCriteria Total Recorder
  • ICQ Lite
  • Indy
  • Ipod Software
  • Ipodder
  • Irfanview
  • Itunes
  • Keynote
  • Macromedia Dreamweaver MX
  • Mail Navigator -- to transfer many emails to different programmes
  • Meetro
  • Microsoft Office
  • Microsoft.NET
  • Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird
  • NetSnippets
  • Norton Systemworks
  • Picasa 2 , Hello Sending emails
  • Plaxo
  • Quicktime
  • Real Player
  • Rhinosoft.com FTP Voyager
  • Sonic RecordNow DX
  • Smarttrust Personal Certificate
  • The Brain
  • Trillian
  • Windows Installer CleanUp
  • WinRAR
  • Prince -- for pdf making
  • Visual Cron -- for windows task scheduling
  • Python 2.4 -- RSS feed aggregator programming
  • AI Roboform -- for password management
  • Feeddemon
  • Wizz RSS 2.0.6 -- extension for firefox
  • Windows Tweak UI
  • Spybot
  • AdAware
  • Windows Defender
  • Mindjet.com
  • MS Office One Note
  • Keynote.com
  • Endnote.com
  • Personal Brain
  • Reference Manager
  • Lotus Notes
  • MS Project
  • Pocket PC
  • Salesforce.com
  • Visio

    Internet
    I don't think I have to say that I use Mozilla Firefox as my browser and Mozilla Thunderbird as my email client. Since I like living on the edge I use nightly builds of both.

    Pictures
    My picture viewer is currently FastStone Image Viewer which is quite fast and good at getting a quick overview of my pictures. I use FastStone rotating my pictures and giving them comments. I only comment my vacation photos. I've also started using Picasa as an experiment. Normally I never touches my pictures. Don't crop them and don't even remove those red eyes. Picasa provides and easy and fast way to do this modifications and at the same time has a nice way to preserve the original image and only saving the "diff" between the original and modified picture. But since FastStone saves the comments in the EXIF comment block of the picture and Picasa uses the IPTC standard I cant see my FastStone comments in Picasa and vica versa.

    For editing pictures I use both GIMP and Paint.Net. I'm very close to giving up on GIMP since the program is a joke when it comes to GUI. Both GIMP and Paint.Net are freeware.

    Office
    As Office program I use OpenOffice.org. It reads all of the Microsoft Office documents I throw at it, but the GUI isn't perfect. Personal I think the Microsoft Office GUI is much better than OpenOffice.org. It's not perfect but much better. OpenOffice.org is open source and free.

    Protection
    For defending my system I use AVG Free as anti virus and Spybot - Search & Destroy for scanning for spyware. AVG Free is fast and works perfectly. Spybot is updated frequently and it updates automatically when I start it. Both programs are freeware.

    Multimedia
    I use the K-Lite Mega Codec Pack which is a collection of codecs and tools to play virtually all movies and music found on the net. Having everything in one packing is very convenient. Just update it and you have all the latest codecs and players. K-Lite Mega Codec Pack is freeware.

  • Videolan.org Free and compact multi-region dvd player that takes me away from chunky over-designed DVD players such as WMP.

    • Communication
    For SSH I use SecureCRT. I have been using SecureCRT for ages and it's still the best. SecureCRT is payware.

    For connection to my mobile phone I use floAt's Mobile Agent (FMA). FMA is a phone editing tool that allows you to manage all of the personal data stored in your phone. FMA is freeware.

    My instant messenger is Miranda. It's a open source multi protocol instant messenger client for Windows.

    Utilities
    I always have had a soft spot for utilities as most of my colleagues knows. For keeping my system fast and clean I use CCleaner. It removes left over DLLs, fixes illegal startup items and optimizes the Windows registry. Not as good as jv16 PowerTools but CCleaner if free and jv16 PowerTools isn't.

    For blogging I use w.bloggar. It's not perfect but again it's free. I also use Blogjet and Performancing. The latter is an add-on to Firefox.

    For keeping a eye on the programs running on my PC and killing my nightly builds of Firefox when they go memory crazy I use Process Explorer. It can replace the original Windows Task Manager so when I press SHIFT+CTRL+ESC I get Process Explorer. Process Explorer is freeware.

    For file management I simply couldn't live without my Total Commander. Basically Total Commander is a little bit like the good old classic Norton Commander. Total Commander is normally the first application I open when I start my PC. Total Commander is shareware.

    For viewing PDF files I now use Foxit Reader. I used to use Adobe Reader but it started to include all kind of weird stuff and took forever to startup. It also added a small program to my startup folder which kept reappearing when I deleted it. So bye bye Adobe Reader and hello Foxit Reader.

    For storing my secrets I use KeePass Password Safe which is a free, open source, light weight and easy-to-use password manager.

    I also use 4NT which is a command prompt replacement. I mostly use this for my two Mozilla related tools 4getmoz and xfer. 4NT is payware and the only program which I don't have a license for. So I keep updating the trial version to get those free 30 days of evaluation. Sad but true.

    Editing
    For editing I use UltraEdit and Zend Studio. Since we program in PHP at work I use Zend Studio as the editor for all PHP files. It has nice code completion plus loads of other useful stuff but the application is a bit slow. The code profiler is really really nice when it works. I found some really interesting optimizations in my PHP programs with the profiler. Both UltraEdit and Zend Studio is payware.

    Audio

    For audio recording I use Total Recorder at Highcriteria.com