Newton-Willbanks Engineering, Inc.

Top 10 Free Video Rippers

http://lifehacker.com/software/lifehacker-top-10/top-10-free-video-rippers-encoders-and-converters-316478.php

PDF Tools Software

Try this free program to merge, reorder, add watermark, etc. to pdf files:

http://pdfill.com/

The tools are free, but the editor is a good deal at $19.95.

I found this in Life Hacker's Top Ten PDF Tools:

http://lifehacker.com/software/lifehacker-top-10/top-10-pdf-tricks-289583.php

100 Useful Ubuntu Links

http://www3.telus.net/lordfoul/pics/useful%20ubuntu%20links/useful%20unbuntu%20links.html

Mohawke's Open Surce Software List

http://www.digitaldarknet.net/thelist/index.php?page=windows

Ubuntu 7.04

http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu704

Maximum PC's 5th Annual Softy Awards

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/maximum_pcs_fifth_annual_softy_awards

Top 10 Free Windows Downloads

http://lifehacker.com/software/windows/lh-top-10--free-windows-downloads-248303.php

Open source Alternatives to Commercial Software

http://www.osalt.com/

Microsoft Calculator Plus

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=32b0d059-b53a-4dc9-8265-da47f157c091&displaylang=en

Freeware List

http://www.econsultant.com/i-want-freeware-utilities/

Sites for Free Learning

http://www.eliteskills.com/free_education/?foo=x

High Resolution Wallpaper

http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/index.php?sort=ratings&w=1920&h=1200

Stuff You Can Use

http://stuffucanuse.com/

List of Free Software from Microsoft

http://bhandler.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!70F64BC910C9F7F3!1231.entry

Time Magazine 50 Coolest Sites

http://www.time.com/time/2006/50coolest/index.html

Software for Starving Students

http://softwarefor.org/

Nine Inventions Edison Did Not Make

http://m4th.com/Articles/Article.php?Article-Title=9-Inventions-Edison-Did-Not-Make

Soda Constructor

http://www.sodaplay.com/constructor/player.htm

Best New Aps of 2006

http://www.lifehacker.com/software/best-of-2006/geek-to-live--the-best-apps-of-2006-221920.php

Google's Hidden Features

http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly.asp?p=675528&rl=1  

Interactive Periodic Table

Interactive Periodic Table

Open Source Hardware and Software Gift Guide

Make Magazine's holiday guide to open ource gifts.

More Free Security Software

Anti-Rootkits

AVG (Beta) - www.tinyurl.com/gaho8

Sophos - www.sophos.com

Anti-Spyware

Spyware Terminator - www.spywareterminator.com

Various Applications

Comodo - www.comodogroup.com

Super Video Conversion/Player Software

This free software converts almost any video format to almost any other video format.

SUPER = Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer

http://www.erightsoft.net/SUPER.html

Truecrypt

http://www.truecrypt.org/

Free open source software to create a virtual encrypted disk.

101 Freebies from PC World Magazine

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130045-page,8-c,freeware/article.html

Spyware Fix for WinFixer 2006, Amaena, Vundo, Blackworm, Etc.

There I was minding my own business, checking my gmail account, when a popup appeared. It warned me that I had a virus named blackworm. It said that a product called Anti-Spyware would fix all of my problems. I have a pop-up blocker and was a little surprised to get one. I hadn't seen one in months. Anyway, in order to not be a victim of blackmail, I attempted to close down the offensive popup. Crap! No matter where I clicked on the screen, the popup wouold not close and informed me that it would just go ahead and download the program that would solve my problems. A <cntl><alt><del> shut ti down - or so I thought. Sometime later, the dreaded pop-up appeared again. Also, somewhere along the line, I started getting ominous warning from Windows Security center. They looked real enough, but who knows? I had never seen such a message before. To make matters worse, my computer started running sloooowly, hanging up while printing, and refusing to shut down. Damn! I made sure Norton had the latest anti-virus files and ran a full scan. Nothing. A little searching of Google yielded the following site:

http://forum.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=si_virus&message.id=50366

After reading all that, I went to:

http://www.atribune.org/

and downloaded VundoFix.exe and run it. My problems were solved.

Conclusions:

1) Blackmail is alive and well.

2) Norton Anti-Virus is worthless.

3) Sometimes the best things in life are free (even though I decided to make a donation).

Print Screen Helpers

MWSnap is at Mirek's home page, www.mirekw.com.

Screenshot Captor is by the nice folks at www.donationcoder.com.

Video Sites

apple.com/itunes - $2

video.google.com - free to $4

video.aol.com - free with ads

video.yahoo.com - free

ifilm.com

youtube.com

atomfilms.com

Google Pack

http://pack.google.com/

A Brilliant Idea

http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

Belarc Advisor

The Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware, including Microsoft Hotfixes, and displays the results in your Web browser. All of your PC profile information is kept private on your PC and is not sent to any web server.

http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

Free Software from Microsoft

Visual Studio Express Editions home page

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/

Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition home page, download

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vb/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vb/download/

Visual C# 2005 Express Edition home page, download

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualcsharp/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualcsharp/download/

Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition home page, download

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/download/

Visual J# 2005 Express Edition home page, download

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualj/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualj/download/

Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition home page, download

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vwd/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vwd/download/

SQL Server 2005 Express Edition home page, download

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/sql/default.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/sql/download/

RS485 Cheat Sheet and Trouble Shooting Guide

http://www.bb-elec.com/cheatsheet/RS485_Cheat_Sheet.pdf

http://www.bb-elec.com/guide/RS485_Trouble_Shooting.pdf

GPS Coordinates Converter

This is a handy site for converting GPS coordinates (degrees - decimal minutes) to other formats. Useful for radio path studies.

http://www.terraserver.com/tools/degrees_converter.asp

Send This File

Use this site to send/receive large files that may be blocked by size limits in your email provider. There are free and pay options.

http://www3.sendthisfile.com/login.jsp

Solar Voyager Wallpaper

http://www.solarvoyager.com/wallpaper.asp

RS-232 Information

Info for RS-232 pinouts, signal levels, etc.: http://www.zytrax.com/tech/layer_1/cables/tech_rs232.htm#db9

Satellite Views / Mapping

Google Earth , formerly Keyhole, is now free. Satellite views of the earth. More densley populated areas have higher resolution images available, but the entire planet is covered. earth.google.com

EarthSlot is a collection of 3D GIS and terrain visualization applications designed to allow a better understanding of earth sciences The site offers virtual flyovers that illustrate information on glaciers, climate, snow cover, etc. www.earthslot.org