Links

Links to notable resources

This is not a page of you-gotta-see-this links; it’s merely a place for me to store the URLs of various online resources for possible future reference, and in some cases, research. These links were either sent to me by friends, partners, clients, etc., or found during the research I conducted for other writing/ blogging efforts.

Page contents

  1. Free online classes, learning, education
  2. Notable resources from web development partners
  3. Video
  4. Large link collections
  5. Self-improvement resources
  6. Latest additions (To be categorized later)

"Controversial" subjects are game.

As in other places on this site and our other blogs, one may find references to content some people consider "controversial". This is a brain-dump blog for personal use, not a quest for the approval of others – but we’re still happy you’re here. Please note that the inclusion of links within the pages and posts of this blog to other websites does not necessarily indicate the approval of the content or opinions found on those external sites.

Latest additions; categorize later

Free online education, classes, learning

Large collections of resources (links)

Welcome to /siris/ (under the Smithsonian domain) – I stumbled across this accidentally

Video resources

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Colbridge projects

  1. Romatic Karala Tours (India travel)
  2. Buy Oil Painting Art
  3. Fools Love
  4. Rentacart – Online Store Rental – You do nothing. We set up all your products and maintain your store for you every month. No upfront costs. Search Engine Optimised. Admin access. Hosting included. Secure Shopping. Live customer support. All for a low monthly fee starting at $9.99! Start selling your products to millions of customers world wide. Still not convinced? Try it free for a month!

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Links from web development partners

Look for the best SEO-related extensions for Joomla; must be compatible with Joomla 1.5

Learn more about Joomla

  • DownloadHelper – Firefox extension
    DownloadHelper is a way to discover many sites showing Web videos from all around the world. They are here ! DownloadHelper is also a free Firefox extension for downloading and converting videos from many sites with minimum effort.
  • Snippet Manager is a desktop application built using Flex (MXML and ActionScript) for Adobe AIR; will allow the creation of an unlimited number of code snippets which you can assign to categories (which are also unlimited); Version 1.0 supports the creation of Categories and Snippets, the Edit of Snippets and Categories, and the Deletion of Snippets and Categories; Snippets are stored in the users directory (in plain text flat files), each computer user can maintain their own snippets library…
  • WorkFlowy WorkFlowy has become one of three tabs that I keep open in my browser, along with Gmail and Google Calendar. (Matt Cutts, Head of Webspam, Google)…I love workflowy. I use it every day. It is amazing. (Justin Kan, Founder, Justin.tv)…Prediction: WorkFlowy and Quora will each revolutionise significant parts of education in the next 5 years. (David Langer, Co-Founder & CEO, GroupSpaces)…At a first glance, I have to say WorkFlowy looks amazing. A simple yet powerful way of organizing your thoughts/todos. (Tina Roth Eisenberg, Founder, SwissMiss.com)
  • Workflowy videos on YouTube
  • Spotify – Think of Spotify as your new music collection. Your library. Only this time your collection is vast: over 15 million tracks and counting. Spotify comes in all shapes and size, available for your PC, Mac, home audio system and cell phone. Wherever you go, your music follows you…And because the music plays live, there’s no need to wait for downloads and no big dent in your hard drive.
  • Plancake – Tasks: Organize all your projects and all the things you need to do in one place with the help of an Inbox, intuitive item reordering, lists, tags, repeating tasks, keyboard shortcuts, a calendar and a very easy-to-use interface. You will feel you have everything under control. Notes: All your ideas and notes will always be at hand, wherever you are. You will get a Word-like editor where you can add even images.
  • Ninite – No Clicking Next, Next, Next: Ninite fully automates installers offscreen. No Toolbars: Ninite automatically says “No” to toolbars and other junk. Always Up-to-date: A Ninite installer always gets an app’s latest version no matter when you made it. It Updates Too: Just run your Ninite installer again and it will update the apps to their latest versions. No Signup: Ninite just works. No account, signup, or client needed. 32 and 64-bit: Ninite installs the best version of an app for your PC. Defraggler is just one component.
  • SimplyNoise – a resource for white noise. I visited SimplyNoise on Friday, September 16, 2011 and one of their sound files was available for download for free (a donation is required for most of the sound files): Thunderstorm! This storm lover immediately downloaded the Thunderstorm sound file. T. likes the brown & oscillate; I haven’t heard that one yet.
  • VirtueMart: Joomla ecommerce – Free Shopping Cart Software for Joomla! VirtueMart is an open source ecommerce solution to be used with Joomla. Joomla and VirtueMart are written in PHP and can be used in typical PHP/MySQL environments.

Linux/Unix, Ubuntu, Mint, etc.

Shape 5: Demos, WordPress themes, Joomla themes

Articles

Add to above list:
Drupal

Recycling pros, cons – bad for environment, as some say?
Negative opinions about recycling

Tristan’s former partner in South Carolina

Social media
Google+, social media, SMM
HOW TO Grow Your Google Plus Network in 5 Easy Steps

Online tools, free

  1. LazyMeter: Personal punch list
  2. Fitocracy
  3. Swiffy: SWF to HTML5 – Flash without Flash (HTML 5)

Freeware

  1. Jet Screenshot – fantastic screenshot app; best I’ve tried yet
  2. Orion (sent 20110715) – Orion is an open source project under the Eclipse top-level project. The project is currently in the Incubation phase… Orion’s objective is to create a browser-based open tool integration platform which is entirely focused on developing for the web, in the web. Tools are written in JavaScript and run in the browser. Unlike other attempts at creating browser-based development tools, this is not an IDE running in a single tab. Links work and can be shared. You can open a file in a new tab. Great care has been taken to provide a web experience for development…
  3. Orion wiki: Documentation/User Guide/Getting started

Humor

  1. The Treadputer
  2. ArcaMax – News and entertainment by email
  3. Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee
  4. Own your own town for $800k – Yahoo news

Fonts

  1. Font preview: Preview text using the fonts already installed on your computer
  2. AMP Font Viewer 3.86
  • yEd Graph Editor – a powerful diagram editor that can be used to quickly and effectively generate high-quality drawings of diagrams… Create your diagrams manually or import your external data for analysis and auto-magically arrange even large data sets by just pressing a button.
  • Giant ant colony – Break.com

    • 20110709

    http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/81638806/

    5 extensions to enhance Google+

    Image effects, options – MooTools

    http://shape5.com/demo/wp/basics/?page_id=744

    http://trdev.dyndns.biz/wordpress/?page_id=744

    http://www.shape5.com/wordpress/free_plugins/s5_image_and_content_fader.html

    20110625

    http://www.gazelle.com/

    Tristan – 20110615

    http://shape5.com/demo/basics/

    http://shape5.com/demo/wp/avignet-dream/

    http://theoatmeal.com/comics/smartphone

    http://trdev.dyndns.biz/wordpress/?theme=light

    Shape5 templates

    http://www.shape5.com/demo/index.php

    MyInk – a design blog

    http://www.myinkblog.com/

    http://trdev.dyndns.biz/wordpress/

    http://www.shape5.com/demo/avignet_dream/

    http://trdev.dyndns.biz/wordpress/?menu=3

    Solar wireless keyboard

    http://www.logitech.com/keyboards/keyboard/devices/k750-keyboard?geo=US

    Mindmap of Shape5 forum

    http://kondrik.com/shares/sshots/20110602-kmy-48kb.jpg

    desired mouse

    http://www.logitech.com/en-us/mice-pointers/trackballs/devices/189

    Mosquito repellent

    http://lifehacker.com/5806950/repel-mosquitoes-with-a-bubble-machine

    MadTV video – spoof of Apple iProducts

    Detailed client questionnaire

    http://threetenseven.com/misc/client-questionnaire/

    Quixey Finds the Perfect Software for Your Needs, Is the Best App Finder Around

    http://lifehacker.com/5810083/quixey-finds-the-perfect-software-for-your-needs-is-the-best-app-finder-around

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    Self-improvement resources

    This section contains links to free articles and other content relating to self improvement. Self improvement is a dicey category containing plenty of… well, cheese. Use common sense in locating the gems.

    • Free Article Library – Roger Dawson – Excerpt: You are welcome to use these articles in your publications, newsletters or blogs provided that you use the accreditation at the bottom to cite your source and that you inform us that you are using them and where.

    Off the wall

    Link to this post!