Useful Stuff
Tools & Services I find Useful
Movies:
Blogical Conclusion
: Movie Reviews by Baradwaj Rangan
Stories:
Cheeseburger Brown
Poetry:
The Wondering Minstrels
: Poetry. Every day.
Introduction to Poetry
by Billy Collins
Radio:
BBC Radio
: I listen to Radio 4, BBC Asian Network, and BBC 7
NPR
: The best source for American news and discussion
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:
Threadless
: Nude No More
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:
ReZound
: An excellent audio editor
Moosic
: A music player & jukebox program
MAD MPEG Audio Decoder
: High quality MP3 decoder/player
AllMusic.com
: The one-stop source for info on western music
Raaga.com
: Listen to Indian music online (doesn't work on linux, unfortunately)
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:
Python
: The best language today for developing non–CPU-bound applications
path.py
: Makes dealing with filenames & paths incredibly convenient
Cheetah
: A Python-powered template engine and code generator
Pyrex
: Write C extensions for Python… in python!
Psyco
: A specializing compiler for Python
Python IAQ
: Infrequently Answered Questions
pygtk-console.py
: Develop GTK applications interactively in 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
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