Resources
My Various Sites
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In the summer of 2006, I spent two weeks studying international business at Negocia in Paris. This page has my photos from the journey.
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My new blog. This is a good source of tech news, humor, and internet wackyness.
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This is my newest blog and kind of a work in progress. It's a blog about ColdFusion and ColdFusion development.
Essential Software
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Firefox is a free, fast, opensource, secure web browser that is highly personalizable.
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One of the best ways that I protect the physical media (cds, dvds) that I buy is to create disk images of the media and then place the original media in a safe place. I then, place the disk images on a home network share and use them from there. The problem with this is that you need a way of opening the disk images for use. I've found Daemon Tools to be an imperfect (you have to say no to a lot of adware during the install) but very usable program for that task. It's comparable to Alcohol 120% but has the benefit of being free.
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I was a diehard firefox fan until I started using this browser. It's not the right option for you if you need your browser plugins but if your ok with parting with adblock and greasemonkey, this is SOOOOO much faster than firefox. I love it. I really do.
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Thunderbird is a free, fast, opensource, secure email client that is highly personalizable. I recommend it and then some.
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Interested in keeping groups like the RIAA, MPAA, and advertising companies from connecting to your computer on the internet? This is the program for you. It's simple, easy to manage, and will keep evil, good for nothing, thugs from bothering you on the internet.
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Pidgin is a free, opensource multi-protocol instant messaging client. Got accounts on various instant messaging services? Pidgin can be loged into all of them at the same time and cut your number of buddy lists down to just one.
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VLC is a free, cross-platform media player that basicly plays any format that ever existed. I personally love it.
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Like VLC, 7-zip is a bit like a swiss-army knife. It's a free compression tool for windows that will open almost any format.
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uTorrent is a very stable, exceptionally portable, torrent client. It is essential for uploading and downloading from torrent swarms.
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Looking to convert any video format to any format without paying any money? WinFF is a very good option. "WinFF is a GUI for the command line video converter, FFMPEG. It will convert most any video file that FFmpeg will convert. WinFF does multiple files in multiple formats at one time." "WinFF is open source and cross platform written in Free Pascal and Lazarus. WinFF is published under the GNU public license."
News Sources
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Boing Boing simply calls itself "A Directory Of Wonderfull Things". Primarily, it's posts focus on weird news, technology news, and intellectual property rights issues.
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Slashdot is the ULTIMATE source of news for true nerds. This has been a staple for me for a while.
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Looking for news on tech? This is a good source.
Friend's Sites
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Russ is a friend from work. He has some interesting links.
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Jeremy's site is brown, CFy and happy joy joy SQUIREL!
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Not much here but maybe there will be something here, someday.