Resources
Introduction
The following is a catchall of helpful software resources that don’t necessarily fit on more specific pages.
Basic Computing
Tools
- Converticon - Upload a PNG image and it will convert it into an icon for you.
Photography
- Twelve Essential Photographic Rules
- Improve Your Photos in 60 Seconds
- VisualEye - A website for photographers: bookstore, galleries, auctions, and magazine.
- Jodie Coston - Free Online Photography Course.
- Epic Edit - So you think you know what an f-number is?
- Lifehacker - How To Add Green Screen Effects to a Video.
- Lifehacker - How to create a stop-motion video.
- Top Left Pixel - Making Little Planets.
- Think Camera - Long Exposure Photography.
- How to use Discofilm to clean your camera sensor.
Video
UNIX/Linux
- Tomato Firmware - Get the most out of your router by upgrading to this firmware.
- How To Turbocharge Your Terminal.
- Setting up a Server
- Roll your own servers with Netcat.
- Comprehensive guide to .htaccess.
- Using .htaccess to Stop Content Theft.
- Three Things you Didn’t Know about SSH - Part 1
- Three Things you Didn’t Know about SSH - Part 2
- Three Things you Didn’t Know about SSH - Part 3
- cURL Manual - The man page as found from the command line but online as well.
- cURL Tutorial - Learn more about making GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, etc. requests.
Security
- How to Crack a Wi-Fi Network’s WEP Password with BackTrack
- Nessus - A vulnerability scanner. Free to use for non-commercial use, $1200 for business use.
- BackTrack - A security penetration tool for testing the strength of your setup.
- Wireshark - A tool for analyzing the security of your network protocols.
- pfSense - “A free, open source customized distribution of FreeBSD tailored for use as a firewall and router.”
Data Recovery
- TestDisk - “A powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table).”
Network
- OpenDNS - “A leading provider of free security and infrastructure services that make the Internet safer through integrated Web content filtering, anti-phishing and DNS.”
- Google Public DNS - “A free, global Domain Name System (DNS) resolution service, that you can use as an alternative to your current DNS provider.”
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