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The Usual Suspects' favorite websites




Woody "Chipper" Leonhard recommends...

  1. Windows Secrets .com, general tech news;
  2. Ask Woody .com, letting you know whether it's safe to patch ("update") Windows and MS Office;
  3. Phuket Internet Speed .com, a.k.a. "CRISP": citizens reporting internet speeds in Phuket;
  4. Phuket Gazette .net, local news;
  5. WOPR .com, a forum for people sharing advice about Windows and MS Office;
  6. Twitter .com, where you can follow my PC news twits by searching for "PhuketPC";

Ross "The Wookie" James recommends...

  1. Digg .com, Reddit .com, and Huffington Post .com, for the news;
  2. Google Translate and Thai 2 English .comfor translating between languages;
  3. Froogle for online comparison shopping;
  4. ISO hunt .com for Torrent downloads;
  5. Cnet's Download .com for downloading freeware and shareware.


Roger "Captain Jean Luc Picard Hates Win7" recommends...

  1. Phuket Wan .com - very entertaining "Editor's comments";
  2. Phuket Gazette .net, a Phuket institution;
  3. Andrew-Drummond.com/feed/- digging the dirt nicely;
  4. The Register .co.uk - daily emails are good;
  5. Leonsk9's Tweets™ - often links to the above;
  6. The Box .bz, The Empire .bz, and The Geeks .bz, for TV show downloads;
  7. Torrent Day .com, for movie downloads.

Leons "Linux, forever and always" recommends...

  1. Ars Technica .com - serious PC tech news;
  2. The Register .com, PC tech news;
  3. Tech Radar .com;
  4. Major Geeks .com, a great place to download shareware & freeware;
  5. Anand Tech .comand The Inquirer .com, PC tech news.

David ""Don't distract me 'til the last slice of pizza is gone"" Weinraub recommends...

  1. PapayaSoft - Phuket website development. Shameless self-promotion.
  2. Zend Framework - a great PHP web framework
  3. Doctrine - A DBAL/ORM/ODM for PHP
  4. jQuery - a great Javascript library
  5. MySQL - Open source relational DB
  6. PHP - Programming language
  7. Subversion - A version control system
  8. Git - Git hosting, social coding
  9. GitHub - A distributed version control system
  10. StackOverflow - Arguably "the" definitive site for professional programming questions and answers. I rather like this guy.
  11. Matthew Weier O'Phinney - lead developer for Zend Framework
  12. PHP Architect - Magazine for PHP professionals
  13. The Tao of Programming - Parse the code in my hand, Grasshopper.
  14. weinraub.com - My personal blog, mostly family stuff. Shameless, shameless.
  15. XKCD - Brilliant, simply brilliant comics about science, mathematics, programming, etc.
  16. The Oatmeal - More programming comics

 

Seth "The Whiteboard Dude" recommends...

  1. The Register .co.uk, general tech news often with an irreverent twist;
  2. Ask Woody .com, letting you know whether it's safe to patch ("update") Windows and MS Office;
  3. Phuket Internet Speed .com, a.k.a. "CRISP": citizens reporting internet speeds in Phuket;
  4. Phuket Gazette .net, local news (but the real estate section is pure Prozac™-inspired fiction;
  5. Phuket Wan .com, rival local news (but the real estate section is pure Prozac™-inspired fiction, and the editor is petty in his replies to comments;
  6. The Phuket News .com, more rival local news;
  7. User Friendly .com, a long-running badly-drawn cartoon about PC nerds;
  8. Deviant Art .com, a large online artists' community with free gallery space for members;
  9. BB Spot .com, another nerdy humor site with fun movie reviews;
  10. Ohayo Sensei .com, a free help-wanted ads newsletter for English teachers in Japan;
  11. Dave's ESL Cafe .com, resources for EFL teachers, good international forums, employment ads;
  12. Gaijin Pot .com, English/Japanese employment ads...not just for teachers: tech, artist, translator, etc.;
  13. Tin Eye .com, an engine that finds duplicates of your pictures online. Great for finding copyright pirates;
  14. Images. Google .com, great for finding images of ... anything;
  15. Alexa .com, a good place to find out more about how visitors find and view your website;
  16. Driver Guide .com, the perfect place to find driver software for new and old PC hardware;
  17. Daily Rotten .com, weird news of the world;
  18. Michael Moore .com, news for liberal activists like me;
  19. The Internet Movie Database, everything you ever wanted to know about every movie;
  20. Joe Bob Briggs .com, funny-as-heck movie reviews by John Bloom, a.k.a. Joe Bob Briggs, king of the drive-in movie theee-ater.
  21. BBC .co.uk and ISO hunt .com, for any and all Torrent downloads;
  22. IX quick .com, a Google-like search engine which does NOT track and record you & your searches;
  23. C net .com, for downloading any free software or shareware;
  24. Source Forge .net, for finding and downloading Open Source software...and joining their development teams.