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