Links

Photography — Cameras & Equipment

• Nikon D40x on DPreview – My camera
• DPreview – Camera reviews
• AKam – Camera reviews (Norwegian)

Images, resources, editing and design

• PublicDomainPictures.net – free pictures for personal, non-profit or commercial use
• CreativeCommons.org and available CreativeCommons logos
• dafont.com – an extensive fonts library, many of them completely free or free for personal use
• HTML 4.01 reference at w3.org
• CSS 1 reference at w3.org
• VectorMagic – Easily Convert Bitmap Images To Clean Vector Art (not tested yet)
• ClippingMagic – Easily Remove Image Backgrounds Online (not tested yet)

Photographers’ websites and galleries

• Rob Gendler Astropics
• Capturing The Night

Text, resources, editing

• The Alphabetizer – Sort plain text in any which one of many ways, such as ignoring articles (the, a, an) at the beginning of lines.
• WordCountOnline.net – Will tell you how many words and characters your text contains.
• Notepad++ – Free, feature-rich plain-text editor
• OpenOffice.org – Free, full-feature office package with word-processor, spreadsheet etc
• &what; – Searchable unicode repository
• Character-Code.com – Another unicode repository
• Alan Wood Unicode Resources – Yet another unicode repository

Time-Sinks

• Failblog
• The best examples of why you should never friend your parents on Facebook
• The most outstanding comment ever left on a Facebook photo
• Video.Feber.se
• Shut Up And Take My Money

Software

• Ninite

Security / Encryption

• Scr.im – Email address protector with CAPTCHA.
• reCaptcha – Email address protector with CAPTCHA.
• JavaScrypt – online encryption/decryption tool (should be reasonably secure, works in your browser and does not appear to send your encrypted/decrypted data anywhere).
• Stego! Text Stenography – conceal your JavaScrypt-encrypted (link above) text with gibberish.
• iGolder PGP – Online tool for encryption/decryption using PGP public/private keys (note: I don’t know how secure this website is, so use with caution and/or for educational purposes only).

Science and Astronomy

• APOD: Astronomy Picture of the Day (NASA).
• Stellarium.org: A free interactive sky for your computer.
• TopDocumentaryFilms.com: Free documentaries available online, from Darwinism to Astronomy to Quantum Physics.
  • Richard Dawkins: The Blind Watchmaker
  • The Fabric of the Cosmos