Resources

Introduction

The following is a catchall of helpful software resources that don’t necessarily fit on more specific pages.

Basic Computing

• 10 Free Ways To Keep Your PC Safe

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

• 6 Things To Know About Video For The Web - Part 1
• 6 Things To Know About Video For The Web - Part 2

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.”