Useful Links

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Here is a selection of links for useful websites, listed by category.
If you have some links that you would like me to add, comment on this journal or Note Me

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Generally Useful Links:

Upload Images For images that aren't art (so you can't use DeviantART) but you want on the web  www.uploadimages.net/index.php
YouSendIt Send Files of Upto 1GB! to your friends and best of all it doesn't fill up their inbox and its free  s2.yousendit.com/
Tutorized Loads of Tutorials for every piece of software imaginable www.tutorialized.com/
Broadband Speed Test Test the speed of your broadband connection www.broadbandreports.com/stest or www.dslreports.com/stest
MetaGrid Index of Online Magazines and Newspapers www.metagrid.com/
BabelFish Translator Used to translate websites to almost any language babelfish.altavista.com/
Webopedia A dictionary of computer related definitions www.webopedia.com/

DeviantART related Links:

DeviantART Submission Policy Very important to read, explains all the DeviantART rules and policy about Submissions about.deviantart.com/policy/su…
DeviantART Etiqutte This explains all the general rules, another neccesity to read about.deviantart.com/policy/et…
ShoutBox Rules Explains all the rules about ShoutBox use in detail shout.deviantart.com/rules.php
dxd's Forum Descriptions Describes the use of each different board within the DeviantART forum, if you plan on using the forums then check this out www.ece.nu/daforums.html
Today Updates about the world of DeviantART today, with stats such as newest Deviant, popular mood etc today.deviantart.com
DeviantART Help and FAQ If you have a problem this is the first place to go, extensive help section for all your questions. FAQ: faq.deviantart.com Help: help.deviantart.com/
DeviantART Forum Chat about a huge range of things in the forum, just make sure you do so in the right place forum.deviantart.com
DeviantART Status Check on the latest updates and the general status of DeviantART forum.deviantart.com/devart/st…
DeviantART Site Statistics Statistics on things such as the total number of Deviations, Number of Deviants etc about.deviantart.com/stats/
About DeviantART Brief explanation about DeviantART and its purpose and also explanations of who all the staff are and their roles about.deviantart.com/
DeviantART Emoticon Legend All the emoticons that you can use on DeviantART comments.deviantart.com/emotic…
DeviantART Subscription Page Here you can subscribe, or just look at all the benefits you can get from subscribing www.deviantart.com/store/subsc…
Complete Gallery List Lists all the galleries and sub-galleries, with links to browse those galleries about.deviantart.com/galleries…
DeviantART News Archive Complete listing of all the DeviantART news articles ever, grouped by category news.deviantart.com/browse/
Searching DeviantART Using Google Journal Entry by HipHopPromotor (me :P), explains the details of using Google to search through DeviantART's Jam Packed Pages hiphoppromotor.deviantart.com/…
New Member Welcome Journal Entry by HipHopPromotor (me :P), it details all kinds of information that will be useful to new deviants hiphoppromotor.deviantart.com/…
Tips and Tricks Journal Entry by ZirTuan useful information for newbies to deviantART and veterans alike leodadominico.deviantart.com/j…
How To Give Better Comments Journal Entry by ZirTuan telling you just that! leodadominico.deviantart.com/j…
Devious Behaviours Journal Entry by ZirTuan a guide to giving something back to the DeviantART community leodadominico.deviantart.com/j…
The Comment Revolution Journal Entry by splat Promotes the giving of constructive criticisms to help Deviants to improve their art splat.deviantart.com/journal/2…
The Comment Revolution 2 An expansion the original Comment Revolution which helps to clarify and update on progress splat.deviantart.com/journal/2…
Looking Like A Pro A guide to help you look more professional on DeviantART, ultimately increasing your art sales news.deviantart.com/article/99…
Getting and Giving Help Journal Entry by sapphiretiger A very useful guide to help you get useful help and explaining how to give it as well sapphiretiger.deviantart.com/j…
Clubs-Club Huge Listing of over 400 DeviantART Clubs clubs-club.deviantart.com/
Communities This clubs listing is probably the most used on all of DeviantART communities.deviantart.com/
DeviantART Groups Another Huge DeviantART Clubs listing dagroups.deviantart.com/
DeviantGroups Over 180 groups listed here, and categorized to make finding clubs easier  deviantgroups.deviantart.com/
Gallery Stats II If you want to know your DeviantART stats then check this out www.ingenial.com/applied/Galle…
Random Deviation Chooses a Deviation randomly, lets you view new styles of art and new artists www.deviantart.com/random/devi…
Random Deviant Chooses a Deviant randomly allowing you to meet new artists and see new work www.deviantart.com/random/devi…

Computing Links:

Wincustomize Loads of skins and themes for a huge ranges of skinning applications  www.wincustomize.com/
Mess.be Loads of custom content for Messenger mess.be/
Start Up Entries Find if all those programs that will run on start-up should be there or not  www.2-spyware.com/entries.php
Windows XP Services Lists all the common services that start-up on WindowsXP, so that you kind find out what they are for www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servi…
Symantec Security Check  A Free online security check from the guys who make Norton Systemworks. Not a Replacement for a decent virus scanner, firewall etc   [link]
Linux vs. Windows A truthful and unbiased analysis comparing the two OS's  www.michaelhorowitz.com/Linux.…
BraveNet Lots of tools and scripts for website developers www.bravenet.com/webtools/
DeviantART Skins and Themes This is the DeviantART Gallery for all your skins and themes for a huge range of applications browse.deviantart.com/skins/
LinuxISO The place to get ISO versions of almost every Linux Distro out there www.linuxiso.org/

Freeware/Shareware Links:

ShareWare Site with links to a huge number of shareware applications www.shareware.com/
GIMP - For Windows Free GFX Package, a windows version of the very well known Linux software www2.arnes.si/~sopjsimo/gimp/s…
Dr Ping If you are curious to find out your Ping/Latency, which is useful to know, especially for online gaming www.broadbandreports.com/beta/…
Download.com Has almost every Freeware/Shareware Program imaginable www.download.com
TextPad A text editor like Notepad, only with lots more features, its very useful for programming www.textpad.com/download/
ProtoWall A small app that barely takes up any system resources that blocks packets going to various banned sites. Program,  follow the link, then follow the ProtoWall link in the sidebar:  www.bluetack.co.uk/index1.php Help File: www.bluetack.co.uk/pwhelp/
The Blocklist Manager Use this to get updates and customise your ProtoWall, follow the link, the follow the link in the sidebar.  www.bluetack.co.uk/index1.php
RealOne Player Media Players, useful for playing streaming video and audio uk.real.com/player/?&src=ZG.uk…
Mozilla FireFox Ultra fast browse, with no added features you don't want. Best reason to get rid of Internet Explorer out there www.mozilla.org/products/firef…
Mozilla Thunderbird The Mozilla email client, works with Mozilla, FireFox and other Mozilla based browsers www.mozilla.org/products/thund…
Opera Another great replacement for  Internet Explorer, ad supported www.opera.com/download/
WinAMP Arguably the best media player out there, plays almost any audio files, and now video files as well.  Also very skinable www.winamp.com/player/
QuickTime Player Apples media player, and the only way to play QuickTime Media www.apple.com/quicktime/downlo…
Stardock Loads of applications for skinning windows and improving the GUI www.stardock.com/
Desktop Sidebar This application adds a fully skinable sidebar to your desktop that can display RSS Feeds, Messenger Contacts, Outlook Appointments and lots more www.desktopsidebar.com/downloa…
Style XP One of the most well known skinning applications for Windows available www.tgtsoft.com/download.php
Trillian A Instant Messaging Application that lets you chat to AIM, YIM, ICQ and MSN Contacts at the same time www.trillian.cc/downloads/
Logon Studio Allows you to customise your windows logon screen to fit whatever needs you want www.stardock.com/products/logo…
BootSkin Allows you to customise your windows loading screen with images and different loading bars www.stardock.com/products/boot…
MSN Messenger Microsoft's Instant Messaging Application, and one of the most widely used out there messenger.msn.com/
Messenger Plus! An add-on for MSN Messenger that adds features such as being able to ad sounds and get rid of the ads www.msgplus.net/
Yahoo Messenger Instant Messaging application from Yahoo, for chatting to your friends with a yahoo email and yahoo messenger messenger.yahoo.com/
AOL Instant Messenger The first Instant Messenger to be released was AIM and its still one of the most widely used www.aim.com/download.adp?aolp= Direct Link for Latest Windows Version: www.aim.com/get_aim/congratsd2…
ICQ Another very early IM programs, however now it can seem dated, especially with Unique number system, still widely used though www.icq.com/download/
mIRC One of the best programs out there for connecting to different IRC channels and chatting www.mirc.com/get.html
SmartFTP Great program for uploading to and downloading from various FTP's www.smartftp.com/download/
WinRAR The BEST archiver out there, for extracting and creating a huge variety of archives www.rarlab.com/download.htm
LiteStep A extremely powerful application for skinning and completely overhauling the look of Windows [link]
FeedDemon A program for receiving and reading RSS Feeds and getting updates www.bradsoft.com/feeddemon/ind…
All Seeing Eye Very useful program for those Online gamers, it detects which games you are running and adds then to its lists, then it will update the game servers for that game, you can also add favourites and apply filters to all of the servers.  What GameSpy Arcade should have been www.udpsoft.com/eye2/index.htm…

Funny Links:

BullSh*t Generator Use this to generate all those long  "buzz-words" that make you sound clever dack.com/web/bullshit.html
Real Hussein Spoof of Enimem's Real Slim Shady, only with Saddam Hussein, even if, like me you don't like Enimem, you will still find this flash video funny atomfilms.shockwave.com/landin…
Weird Al Yankovic Videos These are all the launch videos available for Weird Al, some of them are very funny, my personally favourite is Amish Paradise launch.yahoo.com/artist/videos…
DribbleGlass A huge range of funnies, from The wit of Homer Simpson to funny, non-existent bill boards www.dribbleglass.com/
Euphemism Generator Very funny, generates Euphemisms for masturbating from a huge database of words www.worldwidewank.com/generato…
Mother of All Excuses Page A site which has 1000's of excuses for every occasion, an amusing and maybe even useful read members.tripod.com/Madtbone/
Complaint Letter Generator Generates amusing complaint letters about People or Organisations of your choice www.pakin.org/complaint/
Cannot Find Porn Similar to the WMD one above but with porn being the subject my.core.com/~oldgrendel/cannot…
Weapons of Mass Destruction I am sure that most people have seen this already, but for those that haven't check it out www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk…

Gaming Links:

SteamPowered If you play Half Life and Half Life Mods then you will use this regularly, great app, just a shame there is not support for more Mods www.steampowered.com/
GamesRadar Site which has the latest new, preview and reviews on all the latest games and games platforms gamesradar.msn.co.uk/
GameSpy Games News as well as links to the latest patches, demos etc on FilePlanet www.gamespy.com/
3D Action Planet Site with links for other sites about a huge variety of games, the sites linked are very useful and have loads of information and files for the games in question www.3dactionplanet.com/
FileFront Get the latest patches, demos, updates and files for you PC and PC Games www.filefront.com

Games/Fun Links:

Create your own South Park Character Great for quick ID's southparkstudios.com/games/cre…
Create Your Own South Park Cartoon The easiest way to create a South Park Animation [link]
FlashPlayer Loads of the best flash games on the official site flashplayer.com/games/
Spele The Site isn't in English (Dutch?) But you can still read the names of games like Lemmings :D www.spele.nl
Coffee Break Arcade Loads of games, just right for that break you owe yourself www.coffeebreakarcade.com/inde…
Mad Shark Play JAWS in this game where you are the shark www.shockwave.com/sw/content/m…
Not Just Cricket Run around with a cricket bat trying to subdue rampaging badgers www.channel4.com/entertainment…
Bubbles Collect falling bubble while dodging bombs, but be careful you get bigger and bigger www.freepgs.com/mindistortion/…
Bowman Great game which you must fire arrows at your opponent, they say the best games are also the simplest ones and in this case this is true www.xeron.org/cosas/bowman/bow…

RSS Feeds

What is an RSS Feed? A quick explanation about RSS Feeds www.webreference.com/authoring…
Steam Feed The RSS Feed, for Steam, the Half Life Multiplayer Application, with news about updates and new games www.steampowered.com/rss.xml
BBC News The BBC News RSS Feed, the latest world news. Goto the bottom right for the link to the RSS Feed news.bbc.co.uk/
Boing Boing Funny and unusual news from all around the world boingboing.net/rss.xml
Blues News Games news and Gaming RSS Feed bluesnews.com/news/news_1_0.rd…
NewsIsFree A huge list of different RSS Feeds available, listed by category www.newsisfree.com/sources/byc…


All of these links are to free resources/sites, though some may also have premium resources as well.  The link will always refer to the free ones.
If you have some links that you would like me to add, comment on this journal or Note Me

NB:  I cannot remember who told me all these links, some I have found some I have been using for a while.  None of these are my sites, they are just sites that I find useful


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prezrok's avatar
Thank you very much for those very useful links I’v found allot of new links that will help me thx a bunch :hug: