Ditto.com is a respected image search alternative to google images. Consider it another place to look. I did notice that Ditto searches and finds powerpoint slides dealing with the searched topic and I have not seen that ability with Google image search.
blinkx.tv
Has a good search engine for finding videos and podcasts. They claim to search 1,000,000 hours of TV and video. I dropped in some stuff I care about and was pleasantly surprised with the results.
W3Schools Online Web Tutorials
A nice collection of tutorials on all sorts of web related topics. Some simple, some complex.
Here are some free and cool web applications including word processing, file sharing, and internet tools. http://nedwolf.com/Web-Applications.htm
Registry hacks for Windows XP
Some of these might be fun just to do because I can….
Cleaning up Music Files
My music collection is gigantic (37 Gig I think) and the tags are all screwed up. I found this little tutorial on how to clean it all up.
Boosting my iTrips Range
I have a iTrip, which is an FM transmitter build especially for iPod. Well, the range on them sucks, but I found this hack to boost the signal by a large amount. I am going to try this with mine. I’ll let ya know how it works.
Cool Banner Maker
If you have a website that has a title bar, this site is for you. You can make really sweet banner pages.
A wiki updated list of free software
Broken down by broad categories, This Wiki entry is a go first step when you are looking for a piece of software to do a particular job. It is not exhaustive, but fairly full.
The ‘I want to’ Page
This page gives a simple correlation of what you want to do (electronically) and what tool you should use to do it. Short and sweet. Updated often I think.
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