Blogs, Websites and Resources
Blogs - Entertainment - News - Stuff
Agents
- Fjord West marketing advertising communications
AgitProp / AgitPop
Art / Design
- Ads of the World
- Art Chantry
- BruteProp / Aidan Hughes
- David Lance Goines
- Design View / Andy Rutledge
- TheGraphicMac. James Dempsey
- Eric Grohe Murals
- Mike Sellers
- New Art
- The Press Photographer's Year
- Evan Sklar
- we make money not art
Bay Area, Ed's, and SoCal Family Stuff
- Big Sur Camping Guide
- Billy Bils: Nelllingen Kaserne
- Costanoa Resort
- El Capitan Canyon Resort
- Girl Scouts of Santa Clara County
- Mavericks Surf at Half Moon Bay: Biggest, Baddest Waves on the Planet
- NW YMCA of Silicon Valley
- YMCA of Silicon Valley
- Yosemite National Park
Blogs
- Global Guerrillas
- Global Guerrillas: John Robb's Weblog
- Ivan Krstic - Code Culture
- James Lileks
- Mail Order Husbands
- Neatorama
- oursignal
- The Pinky Show
- Rocketboom
- Roseanne World
- Scribbling.net
- Stuff White People Like
- TNL.net: Tristan Louis
- ZapRoot
DIY Do It Yourself
- The Art of Speaker Design
- Fixya tech support, manuals and troubleshooting for consumers
- Instructables.com
- Makezine
- Small House Style
- Location Independence
Free Stuff
- 8 Free Pictogram/Ideogram Libraries
- 15 Free Guides that really Teach You useful Stuff
- 40 Beautiful Free Icon Sets
- 40 Free GUI Icon Sets
- 50 Must Have Free Open Source Resources
- Fotolia. Cheap, royalty free stock images
- WSG: Free
Investing
- Beating the Dow 2008 New dog
- Dogs of the Dow old bogus stuff, but interesting
- How to Beat the Dow
- McClellan Summation Index
- NYSE McClellan Oscillator and Summation Index
- Top 5 DJIA
Multimedia / Comic / Anime / Manga
- Candid Camera Online
- Drawn! The Illustration and Cartoon Blog
- Le Building - the animated short
- Political Cartoons
- Public Domain Movie Torrents
- This Modern World
- Undergroundfilm
News
- Breaking News On FriendFeed
- news:lite: It barely qualifies as news
- NowPublic Crowd Powered Media
- popurls
- Rebooting the News
Sonic Stuff
Stuff
- ctmu.org Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe
- Data.gov
- Every Monday Matters
- Hydrofoil Sailing
- Recovery.gov
Weird Stuff
Computing Stuff
Domain-Website Information
Hacks
Mac Stuff
- 5 Mac Optimization Tips (however, the best is to get lots of RAM)
- 10 Tools to Keep Your Mac in Top Shape
- About Disk Utility: Repairing permissions as a voodoo cure-all is a myth - It deals with a specific thing - "When you use Disk Utility to verify or repair disk permissions, it reviews each of the .bom files in /Library/Receipts/ and compares its list to the actual permissions on each file listed. If the permissions differ, Disk Utility reports the difference (and corrects them if you use the Repair feature)."
- AppCleaner thorough app cleaner/trasher
- Free Mac Manual
- iFixit Mac DIY
- iVPN GUI for MacOSX built-in VPN server
- Macinstruct free Mac tutorials and support
- OpenVPN open source VPN (secure your public wifi)
Miscellany
Security
- auditmypc
- Hackerwatch.org
- GRC | ShieldsUPI
- National Vulnerability Database
- OpenVPN open source VPN (secure your public wifi)
- PHP Security Guide
- Rootsecure
- Secure your Stuff
- Secunia
- Securing PHP
- Using Public Wifi - Hop into a Free VPN Tunnel First
Web Development
VPS
- Linode Xen VPS hosting
- prgmr Linux and NetBSDE Xen VPS hosting
- Rackspace cloud hosting
- Slicehost Xen VPS hosting
- Webbynode VPS hosting
Technology
Data
- Ben Fry visualization
- Dataspora data, analytics and visualization
- FlowingData data visualization and statistics
- OpenProcessing: Rhizome: Tiny Sketch 200 character processing competition
- Processing open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions
- Stamen Design
- Topsy search engine powered by tweets
- Visual Complexity: Mapping complex networks
Web 2 Stuff
General Reference
Hooks, Hubs, Blocks, Stacks
Lifestreams
- ticktock6 Sarah's lifestream
- Tom Beardshaw lifestream, tools and reference for lifestreaming
Lifestream Software
- Sweetcron open source lifestream software
Lifestream Reference
Memes
- BloggerFodder aggregator
- TweetMeme: Search and retweet the hottest stories on Twitter
Social Networks
- 12seconds video status updates, 12 seconds at a time
- Odadeo social network for fathers
- Tweegee web portal for tweens
- FriendFeed
Web Applications
CRMs / Customer Service
- Get Satisfaction: People powered customer service
- Zoho Free/premium CRM
- Better Firefox Extensions: Better Flickr, Better GCal, Better GMail, Better GReader, Better Lifehacker, Better YouTube
- Foxmarks bookmarks and passwords sync, repository and backup
- FoxyTunes. Control almost any media player and find lyrics, covers, videos, bios and more. More music tools, and FoxyTunes Planet, a personalized music aggregator of music videos, photos, news, bios and much more from the best music sites all over the Web into one convenient place
- NachoPhoto
- Open IT Online. Firefox extension that enables you to open and edit several types of documents directly in Firefox without needing any software to be installed: *.doc, *.rtf, *.odt, *.sxw, *.xls, *.csv, *.ods, *.sxc,*.ppt, *.pps, *.odp, *.sxi, *.jpg, *.gif,*.png
- Zotero, easy-to-use, powerful research tool that helps you gather, organize, and analyze sources (citations, full texts, web pages, images, and other objects), and lets you share the results of your research in a variety of ways
Mass Media
- 8Tracks free streaming playlists
- MP3tunes. Your music everywhere
- Deezer. Free music on demand
- Flickr free/premium photo sharing
- Get Tube.
- Gravatar free global avatars
- Hulu. Watch your favorite TV or movies, anytime, for free
- Jango free internet radio. Stream your playlists from your Jango jukebox
- imeem: Discover, interact, share media
- Last.fm
- Odeo audio-video media directory, search engine and social network
- Orb. Unfortunately, not yet a Mac version. With Orb, an always-on PC is a personal media broadcaster (including TV, with a tuner card), then you login to Orb with any internet device with a browser (cellphone, laptop, etc) and enjoy your PC's videos, photos, music, etc
- Picasa web albums, free web albums
- SeeqPod playable multi media search
- SmugMug photo-video sharing
- SpiralFrog free legal music
- VideoSurf video search
- Vimeo video sharing
- XBMC award winning media center for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows and XBox - The ultimate hub for all your media
- Zooomr free/premium photo sharing. Unlimited uploads. Square, thumbnail, small, medium, large and original sizes
Productivity / Organization / Communication
- Contactify: Personal contact form - Email w/o the address
- Google apps
- Zoho apps (personal favorite). Free/premium doc, spreadsheet, database and reporting, notebook, presentation, planner, project, wiki, CRM, webconferencing, GUI'd web app creation, chat, invoice, file repository/share, HR, business, marketplace, candidate evaluation, polls, 24X7 website monitoring
- Plaxo
- Highrise
- Backpack free/premium small business organizer
- Remember the Milk free online to do list and task management
- Checkser free checklists
- Evernote. Free. Remember everything: Capture information in any environment using any device or platform, accessible and searchable anytime, anywhere
- SlideShare
- Treasuremytext: Save/archive your SMS. Create an account then just forward your messages to standard rate numbers, that's it
- yoName free people / web / records search
- Meebo instant messenging everywhere
- GrandCentral transforming how you use your phone
- YouMail visual voicemail
Project Management
- Zoho Free/premium project, wiki, webconferencing, GUI'd web app creation, chat, invoice, file repository/share, HR, business, marketplace, candidate evaluation, polls, 24X7 website monitoring
- Huddle online project management, group collaboration and document sharing
Resources
- 50 Web Tools with Elegant Design: Actually, 'Elegant Design' belies the functional or usefulness significance of these web apps, i.e., the best apps are often the best designed
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Utilities
- Zoho Share. Free unlimited online file storage/share
- MediaFire. Free unlimited online file storage
- ePaperClip. Free online file storage (and PIMs)
- fontcapture Create a font from your own handwriting
- Mobile17. Make your own ringtones and graphics
- Wakerupper: Web's easiest telephone reminder tool
- Dapper: Data mapper
- eyeOS web desktop - web OS - web office
- Zamzar file conversion
- youconvertit file/unit conversion
- kwout screenshots with live links
- PDFHammer PDF editor
- favicon.cc favicon generator
- Browsershots: Test web design, browser compatibility
Whiteboards / Bulletin Boards / Noteboards
- Stixy Stixyboards. Free, fun, flexible, online collaboration and sharing
- Writeboard. Shareable web docs that let you save every edit, roll back to any version, compare changes, and collaborate
- skrbl: easy to share online whiteboard
