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Resources - Other Websites

Cost of War - www.costofwar.com

The Late Show with David Letterman - Official Site

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - Official Website

Jimmy Kimmel Live! - Homepage

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno - www.nbc.com

48 Hours - CBS Page

The Red Green Show - www.redgreen.com

Dogpile All-In-One Search - http://www.dogpile.com/

Dailymotion (linked to train videos) - http://www.dailymotion.com/

Urban Dictionary - www.urbandictionary.com

Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia - Linked to a random article

HornBlasters, also very funny - www.hornblasters.com

Hank's Truck Pictures (local to B.C.) - http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/

The University of British Columbia: Okanagan - welcome page

Resources - Tech Links

(Try these speed tests to make sure you are getting your advertised speed from your Internet Service Provider. If you're not... COMPLAIN!)

Speedtest.net - www.speedtest.net

Speakeasy Speed Test - http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

Bandwidth Meter Speed Test - http://reviews.cnet.com/

AT&T Labs Text-To-Speech - /tts/demo

Process Library - (find out what is running on your computer)

C|NET News.com - http://news.com.com/

Internet Archive - http://www.archive.org/index.php

Globe & Mail Technology Page - news

Xirrus Wi-Fi Inspector - Client Tools

inSSIDer - Another graphical Wi-Fi inspector

Feed Validator for Atom and RSS Feeds - http://feedvalidator.org/

Large free font archive - azfonts.net

Resources - Open Source Software

It's free, full-featured, and always provides you with updates. (Of course, you can donate to their cause
if you like.) Most of the software listed here will work on Mac, too.

OpenSUSE Linux OS, perfect for home or work
Try it with the KDE interface - http://software.opensuse.org/

Download Firefox (THE IE replacement) - http://www.getfirefox.com/

Thunderbird E-Mail client, because I've uesd Mozilla products forever - http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/

KompoZer - HTML Editor

Other software powered by Mozilla - here

Sumatra PDF - Free PDF Reader

GNU Image Manipulation Program (similar to Photoshop) - GIMP

VideoLAN's VLC Media Player and file type converter (almost a perfect replacement for Windows Media Player and definitely a good one for QuickTime if you dislike Apple software) - http://www.videolan.org/

PDFCreator, to create multi-page PDFs of websites and documents. Also features a document-joining function - http://www.pdfforge.org/

FileZilla, a full-featured FTP client - http://filezilla-project.org/

Audacity, sound recording and editing studio - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

OpenOffice, office suite similar to Microsoft office - http://www.openoffice.org/

VirtualDub - Capture, edit and join AVI files

SharpDevelop - The Open Source Development Environment for .NET

DVD Flick - DVD Burning Tool (imports just about any file type)

Macam - USB webcam support for OS X

Resources - Online Productivity

Besides the obvious Hotmail and Yahoo...

Prezi - Impressive Flash slide show creation tool

Google Docs - “Create and share your work online”

YouTube - RailKelowna—my channel
(depends on your definition of “productivity”)

Weebly - Easily create a professional website and blog for free