Links
Below are some links to useful sites around the internet.
Top 5
- TED
- Inspired talks by the world's greatest thinkers and doers.
- Wikipedia
- A massive collaborative encyclopedia.
- PriceGrabber
- Price comparision site, mainly tech stuff.
- Consumer Search
- Best source of expert product reviews.
- Dropbox
- Free Online Backup (up to 2gb)
Family & Friends
- 6Sawins
- The Sawin family website.
- Debbie's Gallery
- The online gallery of Debbie Sawin.
- SawinLife
- Scott & Emily Sawin's website.
- Inotiva
- Greg's software development company.
Useful Free Software & Services
- MS Secuirty Essentials
- Microsoft's new free antivirus & antispyware program.
- Spybot
- An anti-spyware program.
- Dropbox
- Dropbox allows you to sync your files online and across your computers automatically.
- Picasa
- Photo management software, also has a fast viewer and can edit photos.
- Mini Tool Partition Wizard
- A partition manager software (clone/move/resize/etc)
- Macrium Relect
- A hard drive backup/restore program
- Paint.Net
- An image editor with advanced features, similar to Photoshop.
- GreenPrint
- Printing assistant that removes blank pages and allows saving as PDF.
- FileZilla
- An FTP program.
- OpenOffice
- An Office Suite, a competitor to MS Office.
- Google Reader
- Web-based feed reader to keep up with blogs and news.
- TreeSize Free
- Shows how much disk space each folder is using.
- DVD Flick
- Program that allows you to burn almost any kind of video file to a playable DVD
- Pic Resize
- Online image editing tool.
- Undelete Plus
- Can restore accidentally deleted files.
- Clicker
- Tells you where you can watch various shows online and whether it's free or paid.
- Hulu
- Watch TV shows online for free.
- FastStone Image Viewer
- A fast image viewer with photo editing capabilities.
- Eraser
- Secure file shredder.
- Darik's Boot and Nuke
- Boot disc that will securely wipe a hard drive.
Other Resources
- Trulia
- Real Estate search with a ton of location specific information and overlay maps.
- Zillow
- Home valuation app and real estate search.
- NutritionData
- Look up nutrition data on various foods.
- FreeCycle
- Reuse Group - Find or Give away free stuff.
- Earth 911
- Find a Recycling Center near you.
- Catalog Choice
- Free service that allows opting out of unwanted catalogs.
- PhoneDog
- Comparison shop for the cheapest phone plans.
- Broadband Reports
- Comparison shop for the best internet provider.
- CNet's HDTV Primer
- Read these articles before you buy an HDTV.
- EZTV
- A good site to download TV shows via Bittorrent.
- Who Called
- Use to lookup an unknown phone number to figure out who is calling.
- dnScoop
- Use to lookup all stats about a domain including estimated worth.
- Pingdom Tools
- Check the load time of your website.
- SpeedTest.Net
- Fancy internet speed testing page.