Paramjit Oberoi: Useful Stuff

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Photography:

IMAGE: Designing Effective pictures by Michael Freeman: An excellent book,
but out-of-print and expensive. Get it from a nearby library if possible.
Digital Photography Review: Digital Camera news and reviews

T-Shirts:

Photography Software:

GQview: An image browser
Gimp: GNU Image Manipulation Program
jhead: View and modify EXIF info in digital camera photos
PhotoPNMTools: A toolset for processing photographic images
Hugin: Make panoramas using this easy to use GUI for Panorama Tools
Enblend and autopano-sift are also very useful when stiching panoramas
ImageMagick, Netpbm, Libjpeg: Essential tools for working with photos on UNIX
Resynthesizer: A Gimp plugin for texture synthesis (useful for removing items from images)

Audio:

Programming:

jEdit: A mature, well-designed, and extensible programmer's text editor
Boost.org: A collection of some amazing C++ source libraries
C++ FAQ Lite: I am starting to develop a grudging respect for C++ after hating it for so long
Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel: An excellent introduction to Common Lisp
A Survey of the JavaScript Programming Language, by Douglas Crockford
Unobtrusive Javascript by Christian Heilmann

Python:

Misc Software:

Gaim: A multi-protocol chat client
SpamBayes: Death to SPAM!
Opera: The Best and Fastest web browser on Earth
30 Days to Becoming an Opera7 Lover
Mairix: Index and Search your email
BFilter: A heuristics-based filtering web proxy. Surf without ads!
Pychart: A Python library for creating high quality graphs and charts
Mail Notification: A mail notification icon supporting a wide variety of mailboxes
Devil's Pie: Detect windows as they are created and perform a series of actions on them