RRC-SCS: Bookmarks

Web & E-mail

• http://mozilla.com/ - Firefox web browser & Thunderbird e-mail client.
  • http://getpersonas.com/ - Customize how Firefox looks with themes.
  • https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/ - Quick way to check and update your installed plugins (warns about outdated versions, etc.)
• http://mailformat.dan.info/ - Learn all about e-mail including signatures, attachments, etiquette, etc.

Office Productivity

• OpenOffice.org (http://openoffice.org/) is a free open-source office productivity suite. LibreOffice (http://libreoffice.org/) is a reboot of OpenOffice.org with several useful features such as SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) support and optional extensions included by default (e.g. PDF import, MediaWiki Publisher).
  • More extensions for OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice
  • http://openclipart.org/ - Thousands of free clipart images in PNG and SVG format.
  • http://LearnOpenOffice.org/ - Online OpenOffice.org training.
  • Mail Merge in Openofficeorg: Everything You Need to Know - http://blog.worldlabel.com/mail-merge-in-openofficeorg-everything-you-need-to-know

Multimedia

• http://videolan.org/ - Video Lan Client, a free open-source multimedia player.

Educational

• http://wikipedia.org/ - Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia.
• http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~squadron/ - The One Page Linux Manual.

Computer Security

• http://getfiregpg.org/ - FireGPG is a cool Firefox add-on for using GnuPG to encrypt e-mails in GMail or other web pages.

• http://truecrypt.org/ - TrueCrypt is a free open-source encryption software for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

Linux

Linux Distributions

• http://ubuntu.com/ - Ubuntu Linux
  • http://ubuntuguide.org/ - Unofficial Ubuntu Guide
• http://fedoraproject.org/ - Fedora Linux
  • http://easylifeproject.org/ - easyLife: A software management tool for easily installing the most frequently used add-ons including Adobe Flash Player, Sun JRE, Skype, audio/video codecs, video drivers, etc.
• http://slackware.com/ - Slackware Linux

Installation Tools

• http://wubi.sourceforge.net/ - Ubuntu Installer for Windows: Try Ubuntu Linux on a Microsoft Windows PC without an emulator or the need to repartition the hard drive.
• http://lubi.sourceforge.net/ - Like Wubi, but for Linux.

Create & Share

• http://www.circuitlab.com/ - Use only a web browser to sketch, simulate and even share your electronic circuits.

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