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Geek Culture / Most usefull websites thread

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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 30th Jan 2006 15:47 Edited at: 30th Jan 2006 21:39
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I hate these threads normally, however I thought I'd give this a go... There are a number of websites I spend a lot of time on because they're just so utterly usefull, obviously this forum is one of them, however I also understand that other people know of equally usefull sites that I dont know and vice versa...


This is the list so far:

http://www.w3schools.com - Excelent tutorials and reminders about HTML, CSS, Javascript and many more

http://msdn.microsoft.com (Although I cant use this anymore as my workplace has blocked all microsoft servers so that nobody can use MSN...) - Has excelent documentation for pretty much everything M$ supports, including HTML and Javascript.

http://www.yellowicon.com/ - Great source of free icons.

http://amazingtextures.com/ - Good source of free textures. Requires free registration for hires textures.




Anybody else? If a common URL comes up, I'll try to chuck it on this post.

EDIT: Mods - if you feel this is a waste of space, feel free to lock it - tis up to you.


http://forum.antiblog.com, http://thingy-ma-jig.co.uk/new/
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Robin
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Posted: 30th Jan 2006 21:16
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http://www.amazingtextures.com - (Amazing txtures )

Robin

http://www.robinsgames.com | robin@robinsgames.com

w w w . r o b i n s g a m e s . c o m
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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 30th Jan 2006 21:37
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Nice! Thanks for that, I'm always looking for decent textures. Although that site requires registration for the hires textures, it is free registration. Thats going in the top.


http://forum.antiblog.com, http://thingy-ma-jig.co.uk/new/
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Scraggle
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Posted: 30th Jan 2006 21:38
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Handy indeed

I have added Yellow Icon and Amazing Textures to the Free Media thread


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Kangaroo2 BETA2
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Posted: 30th Jan 2006 22:17 Edited at: 30th Jan 2006 22:19
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They are obvious, but for those who don't know of/use them :

http://www.wikipedia.org/ huge encyclopaedia
http://www.dictionary.com & http://www.thesaurus.com - exactly what they say on the tin
http://www.urbandictionary.com very cool resource for slang/fashion
http://www.xe.com/ucc currency converter
http://www.babelfish.altavista.com language translator
http://www.tiffanithiessen.com a modern miracle
http://www.quikly.com/forums Fountain of all knowledge


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Dazzag
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Posted: 30th Jan 2006 23:19 Edited at: 30th Jan 2006 23:22
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Hmmm, let's see:-

http://www.imdb.com - Can't get buy without it...
http://www.darkhorizons.com/ - good movie previews
http://www.planet-source-code.com/ - Great for programming
http://www.whatlaptop.co.uk/forums/default.aspx - If you want a laptop it's invaluable
http://www.remakes.org/ - Good remake site
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ - Everything spectrum pretty much
http://www.avforums.com/ - Good for AV equipment
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ - Good for TV programs
http://ctrlaltdel-online.com/?t=archives&date=last - Very funny geek comic
http://www.whiteninjacomics.com/comics.shtml - My favourite online comic
http://quiz.iplac.co.uk/ - Quiz site. Look for ones by Crivens (me!). And download to help my stats
http://www.moviemistakes.com/ - Fun mistakes from movies (car in LOTR for instance)
http://www.eeggs.com/ - Find those hidden things in movies/ programs/ games etc
http://www.clickgamer.com/ - PDA games
http://www.clickapps.com/ - PDA apps
http://www.pocketgear.com/ - PDA games and apps

Thats the best from this computer.

Cheers

Ps. Great idea BTW.

I am 99% probably lying in bed right now... so don't blame me for crappy typing
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Undercover Steve
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Posted: 31st Jan 2006 01:28
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http://ubersoft.net
@kangaroo: The Tiffani site says: Tit 4 Tat... Any reasons?

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Megaton Cat
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Posted: 31st Jan 2006 01:44
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Here's the winner:

http://www.google.com

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Codelike
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Posted: 31st Jan 2006 07:57 Edited at: 31st Jan 2006 08:30
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http://www.w3schools.com
CSS/HTML tutorials - Agreed on that one, Nicholas!

And the best of my bookmarks, that others may not have heard of...

http://www.soundonsound.com
A very good PC music section in their forum - useful to you guys & gals!

http://maps.google.co.uk
British Atlas (I use it in conjunction with Google Earth)

http://www.dailyreckoning.co.uk/
Interesting current affairs/finance commentary.
http://www.dailyreckoning.co.uk/author/themogamboguru.html
A very serious comedy show!

http://www.financialsense.com
Yet more interesting current affairs/finance commentary.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/spaceguide/skyatnight/proginfo.shtml
The 'Sky at Night' Programme Archive.

http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk
Online musical software & instrument shop.

I have an XP3000+, 1.5gb DDR333, a 6600GT and I'm programming 3k text-based exe's?!
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Kangaroo2 BETA2
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Posted: 31st Jan 2006 17:44
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"kangaroo: The Tiffani site says: Tit 4 Tat... Any reasons?"

Um yeah - Tit4Tat is the name of her production company now, she directs films and tv shows... ( http://www.tit4tatproductions.com/ )
"tat" as in "Tiffani-Amber Thiessen", "tit for tat" is an expression so I guess its a pun, presumably not aimed at her breasts


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Undercover Steve
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Posted: 1st Feb 2006 02:14
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by presumably you mean absolutly, right

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BearCDPOLD
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Posted: 1st Feb 2006 02:48
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http://www.extremefonts.com/ - Many much free fonts.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ - If you can't find it in the other one.
http://www.gamasutra.com/ - Game industry news/articles.


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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 1st Feb 2006 16:11
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http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/ - converts bitmap images into vector based image, but does this by creating lots of dots. This is usefull is, for example, you have a photo and you want to make a large poster from it. It outputs PDF. Has an online and offline version.


http://forum.antiblog.com, http://thingy-ma-jig.co.uk/new/
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Kangaroo2 BETA2
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"by presumably you mean absolutly, right"
depends on how open she is to making sexual jokes about herself


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