Now You See Me Now You Don’t

So you say you can’t get on the open seas of the Internet at school/work/home? You’re concerned about men in black suits watching what you see? What you need, then, is a proxy server.

You connect directly to the proxy server and it connects you to the rest of the Internet, using its IP address. Simple, effective, but more and more hard to come by.

As groups continue to try to regulate your Internet usage, proxy servers are being shut down. This has the effect of pushing people back into the main lanes of the highway called the Internet. It’s so much easier to track your sheep if they are all in the same field.

Let’s see what we can find for free proxy lists of proxy servers you can use.

Public Proxy Servers

Around since 2002, PublicProxyServers is an independent, free service to allow you to find proxy servers for privacy and to circumvent browsing controls.

I think what makes this an excellent service is that they track the performance of each server on their free proxy list.

Poor performance, or slow download/upload speeds has been the biggest traditional complaint about using proxy servers. With Public Proxy Servers, this problem can be minimized.

On average, the proxies listed have response times of less than a second. Not good enough for you? Sort the list by access time! Want to appear that you’re coming from another country? Sort the list by country! You can sort the list by any of 7 criteria.

Probably my only complaint about this site is that they have plain text advertising that looks a lot like their regular content. Not much to complain about, I know.

Stay Invisible

Stay Invisible has more than just a free proxy list. It provides some tools to help you determine if your IP address is being effectively blocked.

According to Stay Invisible, there is a fault in Java that allows for your real IP address to be revealed, even if you are using a proxy. They also provide solutions for that problem.

You can find a traditional list of proxies here, with more information about each server, such as:

• Originating Country
• Anonymity Level
• Form Submitting
• URL Encoding
• Referrer Hiding
• Cookie Blocking
• Script Blocking
• SSL Access

These details may not seem that important to you, but it would be good for you to learn a bit more about each and what they could mean to you.

What I like best about Stay Invisible is that they have a list of other proxy lists! You can order that list by how many lists each list has added today, or in the last 7 days. This will help you find the freshest lists with more working proxies.

Centurian

Centurian is another site that offers much more than a free proxy list. With an appealing design and easy to use layout, this is a learning resource as well.

Centurian provides articles on different proxy-related subjects, scripts related to proxy usage, and a forum.

The list can be sorted by the criteria of how new it is on the list, country, or script used to provide the proxy server. The speed of the proxy servers is shown graphically with a bar, that represents its score out of 10 for speed.

Now, I don’t know how that score is calculated or exactly what it means in terms of performance, however it is a nice, simple way to see if a particular proxy is useful.

Anonymity Checker

Yet another site that lists proxy servers, but has a little twist that I think could be quite useful. Their list of servers comes with a ‘whois’ link for each server. This should help you to determine just who is running the proxy server.

Is it a university, business, or government?  Consider what each might have to gain for giving you ‘anonymity’. Nothing is free.

Things to Keep In Mind

Please keep in mind that just because you are using a proxy, does not mean you are guaranteed to be anonymous. Some proxy servers will track IP addresses that use them. Some offer no additional protection beyond being a proxy and your IP address can be accessed anyway.

Another thing to consider is this – how safe is a service that is being provided in order to ‘break the rules’? What if the server is being set up for a honey pot attack? That something is too sweet and easy to pass up, but then it becomes a trap.So I only really use proxy servers to veiw websites like Hulu or if you are outside the UK iplayer.

My advice to you is to use these proxies with caution. Do some research and only use a proxy server when absolutely necessary.

Useful Windows apps to work with your GMail account

Love your GMail account but want to do more with it? If you’re a Windows user, there are plenty of great (and free) apps that take advantage of your massive inbox in the cloud!

GBridge sets up a Hamachi-like VPN and offers loads of cool features for your Windows desktop, including file sharing, backup and synchronization, and remote control via VNC. Since the developers added support for Google Apps domains, this has become a great way to keep your office team connected.

GMail Drive is an oldie but a goodie. I’ve got several of gigs available, and there’s no chance I’m going to fill that up with actual email anytime soon. Plug GMail Drive into Windows, and you can drop files into your extra space just like any other folder on your system.

g2peer allows simple file sharing with your friends via your GMail account. Don’t need the other features from GBridge? g2peer is a good option. Your pals at the other end don’t even need to install the app to get files from you since it supports “command line” interaction via GMail – check the help page to see how it works

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GMail Backup gives you an easy way to save a copy of your precious cloud-based inbox on your local system. This app requires IMAP access to GMail, so make sure you’ve enabled it in your preferences. GMB also has a restore feature – which makes it a handy way to migrate from one GMail address to another should you ever need to do that.

GPhoto Space provides you with one more place you store and share photos online. Why bother? Maybe you don’t want to set up a Flickr or Picasa Web album. Maybe you just want a mostly private place to store some photos for personal viewing.

Affixa offers an easy way to tell Windows GMail is your default mail client and to send file attachments right from your desktop. If you’d rather not bother with a desktop email app and IMAP or POP access to GMail, Affixa is a handy way to bridge the gap between your PC and the cloud.

Pidgin, though it doesn’t technically provide any straight-up GMail functionality, does let you chat with your GMail contacts who are signed in to chat. The newest version even provides Google Voice and Video support.

Digsby, of course, will let you chat with those people too – you’ll just need to use Tokbox if you want voice and video chat. It does, however, support incoming mail notifications. As always, we recommend grabbing the alternate installer.

Gmail Notifier Plus (right) makes a slick little addition to your Windows 7 desktop, with jumplist support and the ability to check multiple GMail accounts.

The GMail Reader Gadget is one of the best options available for your Windows 7 or Vista Sidebar – assuming you’re into gadgets, of course.

Got another favorite app that plays nicely with GMail? Share it in the comments!

Facebook 3.0 for iPhone released

After a couple of weeks of waiting in the iTunes app store approval queue, the 3rd major update of the popular Facebook for iPhone [iTunes Link] application has been released. Joe Hewitt, the developer of the app, has been working on it for quite some time and submitted it for review on 8/16. If you’re still seeing 2.5 in the app store, Joe suggests deleting the app from your phone and reinstalling it — it will be 3.0.

The new version includes some of the most requested features including:

• Better news feed with direct links to comments
• Ability to “Like” posts
• RSVP to events
• Create/upload photos to albums
• Write/edit notes
• Customizable home screen
• Improved photo viewing with zoom
• Better notifications

Hewitt is already working on the next release, version 3.1, which is rumored to focus on adding Push Notifications.

See What Happens…

You know those days when you just don’t know what to do with yourself, when all that extra work is done and you don’t have a video game to play. Well look what happens when very talented computer artiest get one of those days.

See what I mean…….

You Tube has a lot to answer for.

Start Google Chrome in Incognito Mode with a Shortcut

Google Chrome’s Incognito mode is great for doing a little under-the-radar browsing on your computer, but if you want to use Chrome to search in private from the get-go, these Windows and OS X-friendly methods can help.

All you need to do is right click on the Chrome shortcut and select ‘Properties’.

Now as in the picture look for the ‘Target’ box and just add the simple word ( -incognito) without the brackets.

Now ‘Apply’ the settings and you are done. Now you can buy those presents for the wife without her knowing.

Just incase you wondered you can start Incognito mode from with Chrome by pressing Ctrl + Shift + N from any chrome window to open a new chrome session in incognito mode.

Chrome Shortcut Keys:

Here are the rest of the shortcut keys for you to try, if I have missed any feel free to add them in the comments box below.

CTRL + SHIFT + N : automatically opens up a Chrome ‘incognito’ window which allows you to surf on a PC without leaving behind any digital footprints.

SHIFT + Escape: allows for fast access to Chrome’s task Manager utility that allows you to nix browser processes that have gone awry.

CTRL + SHIFT + T: will open recently closed browser tabs.

Window And Tab Shortcuts:

Ctrl+N – Open a new window
Ctrl+Shift+N – Open a new window in incognito mode
Press Ctrl,and click a link – Open link in a new tab
Press Shift, and click a link – Open link in a new window
Alt+F4 - Close current window
Ctrl+T - Open a new tab
Ctrl+Shift+T – Reopen the last tab you’ve closed. Google Chrome remembers the last 10 tabs you’ve closed.
Drag link to tab – Open link in specified tab
Drag link to space between tabs – Open link in a new tab in the specified position on the tab strip
Ctrl+1 through Ctrl+8 – Switch to the tab at the specified position number. The number you press represents a position on the tab strip.
Ctrl+9 – Switch to the last tab
Ctrl+Tab or Ctrl+PgDown – Switch to the next tab
Ctrl+Shift+Tab or Ctrl+PgUp – Switch to the previous tab
Ctrl+W or Ctrl+F4 – Close current tab or pop-up
Alt+Home – Open your homepage
Ctrl+O, then select file – Open a file from your computer in Google Chrome

Shortcuts To Open Google Chrome Features:

Ctrl+B – Toggle bookmarks bar on and off
Ctrl+H – View the History page
Ctrl+J – View the Downloads page
Shift+Escape – View the Task manager

Webpage Shortcuts:

Ctrl+P – Print your current page
F5 – Reload current page
Esc – Stop page loading
Ctrl+F5 or Shift+F5 – Reload current page, ignoring cached content
Press Alt, and click a link – Download link
Ctrl+F – Open find-in-page box
Ctrl+G or F3 – Find next match for your input in the find-in-page box
Ctrl+Shift+G or Shift+F3 – Find previous match for your input in the find-in-page box
Ctrl+U – View source
Drag link to bookmarks bar – Bookmark the link
Ctrl+D – Bookmark your current webpage
Ctrl++ – Make text larger
Ctrl+- – Make text smaller
Ctrl+0 – Return to normal text size

Text shortcuts:

Highlight content, then press Ctrl+C – Copy content to the clipboard
Place your cursor in a text field, then press Ctrl+V or Shift+Insert – Paste current content from the clipboard
Place your cursor in a text field, then press Ctrl+Shift+V – Paste current content from the clipboard without formatting
Highlight content in a text field, then press Ctrl+X or Shift+Delete – Delete the content and copy it to the clipboard

Search Speedcine to Watch Movies for Free

So before we start for one or two of these sites you will get directed to only let you view the content if you are within the USA. If you are in any other part of the world you could use ‘Hotspot Shield‘ but that’s up to you.

So you want to watch movies for free? Speedcine indexes movies and where they can be watched for free-and legally!—across the web.

Speedcine indexes feature length movies—by their definition at least 60 minutes long and not television shows—they currently have 13,000 movies in their database. When you search for a movie you’re provided with multiple ways to watch the movie.

The primary link is to the free streaming source—movies come from providers like Hulu, Jaman, and Crackle, all authorized to stream the movies. There are other links, when available, for services like iTunes, Amazon VOD, Netflix, and so on. Part of Speedcine’s revenue stream is generated by referrals to these services, although if you already have a Netflix account, for example, you can just sign in and add the movie to your queue.

Speedcine is a free service and requires no login.

Speedcine

BitTorrent Alternatives To Pirate Bay

The Pirate Bay we know and love, though still harboring torrents for now, is going away. But that doesn’t mean BitTorrent is dead. Far from it. Here are five places to get your torrent on after it closes for good.

Demonoid
Demonoid, besides having a solid community and good quality torrents—no porn, exceedingly few viruses—also operates the other major torrent tracker besides The Pirate Bay. (A tracker is what help makes the whole BitTorrent system work, since it makes sure every peer’s talking to each other properly.) It doesn’t have the best selection around, but what most of what you’ll find there is quality. The catch is that you need to snag an invitation from a member or when they periodically dole them out to the public.

Mininova.org
Mininova’s always one of our preferred torrent sites—tons of torrents from multiple trackers, not a lot of crap in the interface, and the search isn’t bad. Actually, it’s kind of the like The Pirate Bay, but with less crap and fewer headaches. The catch now is that they’re slowly implementing a new copyright filter to keep copyrighted torrents from being uploaded. But you should still be able to find True Blood on there, no problem.

ISOHunt
ISOHunt is a BitTorrent and P2P search engine that’s got what feels like the most sophisticated search engine of the bunch. But like the others, you just punch in what you’re looking for, and it pulls up results you can sort by seeds, date or whatever. It has one of the most massive indices of any site, so it’s a good thing the search engine is up to it. Still, with a lot of torrents, it can be hard to find exactly what you’re looking for.

BTJunkie
BTJunkie claims to be the largest torrent search engine of all, with around 5,000-25,000 new torrents added to the index daily. The quantity doesn’t seem noticeably better than the other sites listed above, however. Also, the interface is really ugly. But you know, it’s there if you need it.

EZTV
If you’ve downloaded a TV show, whatever site you snagged it from, chances are, it came from these guys. They’re the most prolific TV rippers around, and usually have solid quality rips of shows up within hours of airing. If you’re interested in TV, you might as well just go to the source—their site points to wherever their files are hosted, so you don’t have to search through a million different sites to find the right EZTV torrent.

The whole scene is admittedly a bit depressing now, after years of high profile closures—Suprnova, OiNK TorrentSpy and LokiTorrent—so these are what’s left of the big sites. And even they’re not guaranteed to survive. Demonoid went offline for several months back in 2007-2008, Mininova has a copyright filter attached to it, and really, any site is just a police raid away from possibly going down. So tread carefully, and don’t get too attached to any of them.

And of course, you should drop your own suggestions in the comments. Yarrrrr

How To Behave On An Internet Forum

Internet forums are either a brilliant community where you can meet and chat with new, interesting people, or full of scornful idiots who deserve to be banned from The Net in its entirety. This film explains some of the common mistakes people make in forums, which makes them the sort of loathsome fool no one wants to know.

Step 1:

Flame Wars

By-and-large, the trouble with The Internet, and forums in particular, is that everyone gets to be anonymous. That essentially gives them free reign to be as snooty and argumentative as they like.

A ‘troll’ posts deliberately controversial or annoying messages for the specific purpose of getting a rise out of people and initiating a hate-filled and overly-argumentative thread. The appropriate course of action is simply not to respond. Don’t feed the troll.

Step 2:

Godwin’s Law

Godwin’s Law states that “as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.”

What that means in real terms is that sooner or later someone involved in a forum argument will be likened to a Nazi, or displaying Hitler-like tendencies. Please note that if you’re the one invoking Godwin’s Law and likening someone to a Nazi, you’ve immediately lost the argument because it’s such a lame-a** low blow.

Step 3:

Fanboys

Approximately 99.9% of all online forums are based around videogames. Sadly, there are several members of the videogame community who have such an overly-fanatical devotion to their particular console that they’re somehow incapable of admitting any other system might have good features too. They’re best ignored, because ‘Fanboys’ are basically a special subset of ‘Troll’, and as such are all Nazis and/ or Hitler.

Step 4:

Teenagers

Sadly, teenagers are allowed on The Internet too. They have funny ways of spelling and don’t understand that proper grownups don’t want to put up with their pubescent attempts at ‘humour’. There’s nothing you can do about Teenagers on The Internet, you’ll just have to learn to circumnavigate them.

Not all teenagers are evil, mind. Just most of them.

Step 5:

Post Count

Every time you post, your post count goes up by one. Some people seem to think that the higher the post count, the more worthy and valuable they are to society at large. Frankly, the exact opposite seems to be the case; posting just to up your count is insanely annoying, so make sure all your messages add to a discussion in some way. If you’re replying in a thread, make sure what you’re writing is funny, interesting or funny and interesting. “yeh i agree lol” is not, in any way, shape or form, a valid reply, ever.

Step 6:

Respect the Admins

It’s their website, and they can do whatever the hell they like with it. You’re a guest, and hassling them about how they run things is akin to going round your Auntie’s house and curling one out in her tea-pot.

Step 7:

DON’T USE ALL CAPS IN YOUR POST

EVER. ‘Shouting’ through the written word is pointless and annoying, clearly.

Step 8:

Lurk Before Posting

Don’t just jump in to the forums spouting off reams and reams your amazing knowledge of the intricacies of World of Warcraft. In Binary.

Lurk around a bit first and read some threads to see whether or not that’s even remotely the sort of thing people there would be interested in.

Step 9:

Keep On Topic

If a thread’s all about how amazing a new 2D Sonic the Hedgehog game would be, don’t derail it and start talking about something else entirely, like Chun Li’s thighs. Make a new thread if you absolutely must.

Step 10:

Picture Etiquette

Don’t post massive pictures that are wider than most peoples’ screens. What’s more, don’t post massive pictures of filthy grotty porn or anything in case people are at work. Not even the most ardent heterosexual likes looking at boobies when sat near their boss. It’s enough to put them off for life.

Step 11:

NSFW

What’s more, make sure you mark any risqué links as Not Safe For Work, just in case, and make sure doing so is in keeping with the forum’s tone.

By and large, just remember to be excellent to each other. Be all civil and pleasant. Keep your tongue firmly in your cheek and get a nice thick skin.

BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE!

It turns out there’s even more annoying stuff people do that we simply couldn’t squeeze into the film…

Step 12:

Signatures

…should be small and tasteful. Massive graphics plugging something you’re selling are a right royal no-no. Text is very much preferable.

Step 13:

Avatars

Your profile pic is how people picture you, so choose something good-looking, funny or interesting. Pretty much anything goes, just make sure it isn’t ugly or annoying and fits with the tone of the forum.

Step 14:

Gravedigging

Old threads are old for a reason, and that reason is that noone’s interested in discussing that anymore. Unless you’ve got an outrageously good reason to do so, leave dead threads to Rest in Peace.

Step 15:

Drama

Used properly, The Internet can be a tool for good. If used for overblown, melodramatic weepy Emo nonsense, it’s ruined and needs to be scrubbed clean. Learn to relax and take everything in your stride. Noone’s on The Internet to get all stressed and angsty, we’re all just here for a good time. So leave all your haughty drivel at the door.

Step 16:

Smilies

If used sparingly a smiley can emphasise a point: sarcasm comes across extremely poorly in forums – almost dangerously so. A quick winky will sort that. Reams and reams of extravagant animated smileys performing all manner of wacky acts are annoying, and are the sort of thing your mum would do, were she able to use a computer.

Step 17:

Read the FAQ and Forum Rules

Because they’ll tell you how the community there likes people to act. They’re there for a reason.

Just remember if you post pictures they stay there forever.

WHAT A DUMB ASS

100+ Places for Free Books Online

100+ Places for Free Books Online

Have you ran out of stuff to read?

Take a look at this list of ebooks FREE to dowload and read.

Alphabetical Listing

2020k Large collection, divided into categories and sub-categories for download in a variety of formats.  Note: Many of the links to the Internet Archive from this site are not working.

Alive and Free – Links to free ebooks of living authors

AllBooksFree A small, but unique, listing of free fiction ebooks, available for download, mostly in pdf.

American Mathematical Society has a pretty complete listing of books involving mathematics.

Arthur’s Classic Novels – Over 4000 novels covering a great variety of topics, nicely separated into categories and “best” lists.  Some very interesting entries here.  Available for online viewing.

Ask Sam – A small collection of classics, including Shakespeare, and legal, resource and government texts.

AstrologyWeekly 10 books for online reading and about 30 for download.  All on astrology.

Authorama offers a few hundred books, searchable by author, for online viewing.

Baen Free Library – A small library of downloadable science fiction novels in a variety of formats.

BaenCD – A small collection of science fiction books from Baen’s promotional CDs.  They are downloadable in a variety of formats as well as viewable online.

Baldwin Online Children’s Projects 520 classic  children’s books in a variety of genres for online viewing

Bartelby – Harvard classics and encyclopedias.  HTML only.

BBC (Dr. Who) for those who like Dr. Who, this is  a collection of 8 books for online reading or download in a choice of 3 formats

Berkely SunSite Classics – A small collection of classics.  HTML only.

Bibliomania – Over 2,000 classic novels, study guides, biographies and more.  HTML only.

Book-bot 14,571 books available for online viewing in their easy to view reader.  Very nice find by fellow editor Rhiannon.

Book Glutton is a collection of 1200+ books for online reading with the added  feature of  groups available for discussion of the readings.  Nice combination of reading and socializing.  Suggested by an anonymous poster.

BookRags – Small collection of free with many paid.  Hard to find the free ones.  Available in Word or PDF.

BooksShouldBeFree While primarily a good sized collection of audio books, each of the books is available for online reading or for download in text.

Bookstacks is a small collection (100+) of classic works available for online viewing, with many also available in Adobe PDF and Microsoft Reader versions.  Nicely set up.

BookYards – 16,000+ books, videos, educational material.

Bored.com has over 15,000 books available for online viewing.  Nicely divided into a good variety of categories.

Chessville 40+ ebooks on Chess available for download (mostly in PDF)

ChestofBooks Large collection, divided into categories, for online viewing.  Nice collection.

Children’s Books Online is an excellent collection (600+) of illustrated antique children’s books for viewing online.   They are also available for download at a fee.  This little gem was suggested by an anonymous poster.

Classic Authors.net contains the works of over a hundred authors (and short biography for each), with a varying number of works per author.  Online viewing only.

Classic Book Library is a small collection (100+) of classic works arranged by genre.  Online viewing only.

Classic Book Shelf Electronic Library offers the works of 50+ authors in varying amounts.  Online viewing only.

Classic Literature Library Decent size collection that has complete works of a small variety of authors and works of others and a nice children’s section available for online viewing.

Classic Reader offers thousands of free classic books for online viewing.

ComputerBooks.us larger collection, subcategorized and available for download in pdf

CrankyLibrarian 3011 books by 752 authors available for online viewing.  Complete works of several authors and some interesting categories.

DailyLit – Read books online by daily email or RSS feed. Over 700 titles.

Diesel eBooks – Offers 750+ ebooks formatted for Microsoft Reader and MobiPocket

DivineLifeSociety over 200 books on Yoga, religion and philosophy available in pdf or HTML

DragonBytes Nice collection of horror novels available for online viewing.  Separate section for Vampire novels.

Earthbound The 5 book science fiction series of Earthbound available for download in lit .pdb .pdf .txt .rtf.

E-Books Directory 944 books in 344 categories available for download in varying formats.

eBooksJustPublished Interesting collection of DRM free eBooks listed daily.  Most are free.

eBooksRead Over 41,000 books available for download in pdf or text.  Search by author or title

eReader.com has a small collection of free ebooks for download, but a couple interesting entries.  Registration required.

eServer – Over 30,000 works covering a variety of interests

eText.lib The University of Virginia online library has a large collection of works available for online viewing (some are available in Microsoft Reader).  Even though a good number are limited to UVA students and staff, there is still a good amount of interesting material available to the general public.  Suggested by poster mikedutch.

Federal Citizen Information Center offers informational booklets on a great variety of subjects.  Many are free and most of the paid ones are available for a free download.  Suggested by an anonymous poster

FeedBooks – Thousand of eBooks downloadable in a variety of formats

FindingFreeeBooks Links to author sites with free eBooks and promotional giveaways.  Nice way to find eBooks that would not be listed at the larger sites.

Fiction eBooks is a interesting small collection of works of fiction (including some Beatrix Potter illustrated childrens books) as well as some books for writers and works philosphy and sociology.  Online viewing only.

FictionWise has 35 books available for free download in a great variety of formats.  Most are the usual classics avialble elsewhere, but there are a couple of unusual ones and a few reference books that might be interesting.

Franklin – Thousands of free titles available in text and HTML format

FreeBookCentre links to thousands of computer ebooks divided into many sub-categories

FreeBookSpot – 5,000 free eBooks downloadable in 96 categories available for download in a number of different formats.  Suggested by devinathann.

FreeBooksClub 1500+ books, in a wide variety of non-fiction categories, available for download.  Registration required.

FreeBooks4Doctors Over 650 works (in varying languages) dealing with medical matters.  Available in pdf download.

FreeBooksforAll A fairly large collection of non-fiction books availabe for download (mostly in pdf)

FreeComputer Books – Free computer, math, technical books and lecture notes

Free eBooks – Smaller collection divided into categories

Free eBooks Net – Free books and resources for authors.  Also magazines

FreeOnlineBooks Interesting collection on individualist feminism and libertarianism available for online viewing.

Free Online Novels Interesting collection for online viewing.  Several hundred novels separated into categories.

FreeRead a bibliography of Australian writers who died before 1955, with links to a good number of them for download or viewing.

FreeSFReader Collection of links for mostly science fiction, fantasy and horror novels and short stories, but also some other genres

FreeTechBooks – Computer science and programming books, textbooks and lecture notes.

FullBooks – Thousand of free full text books.

GetFreeEbooks – Smaller collection of all free ebooks.

Globusz – A place for new authors to post their work and for readers to check them out for free.

Google Book Search – Good selection of free ebooks available in a variety of categories.

GrtBooks – A large collection of great books and classics.

Gutenberg – Over 25,000 books for download there and over 100,000 available through their affiliates.

Heygidday Thousands of works in a great variety of categories available for download in pdf (zipped).

HorrorMasters 2100 classic horror novels available for download in pdf, plus links to horror novels at other sites.

Infomotions – 14,000 listings from full classic novels to Western philosophy.  HTML only.

InternationalChildrensDigitalLibrary nice collection of children’s books from around the world in a variety of languages and nicely categorized, available for online viewing

InternetArchive – Over 500,000 texts available for download

Internet Sacred Text Archive very interesting and large collection of books on religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric available for online viewing.

Islaam Pure & Clear around 50 Islamic books for reading or download

Kellscraft Studio Around 250 books available for online viewing.  Kellscraft lists out of print, public domain novels, most published prior to 1923.  Searchable by title, author and topic.

Kidspace A small collection of childrens books, available for online viewing, from the Internet Public Library.

LearningIsland Nice collection of children’s books available for online viewing.

Librivox Although mostly know for its excellent collection of audio books.  A poster named Les has pointed out that they also have links to online viewing sites for all of its large collection of audio books and also download links.

LilFingers Storybooks Small collection of books for very young children for reading and being read to.

Linux Online Around 25 linux, open source and programing, books for download or reading

Literature.org has a collection of classics, arranged by author,  for online viewing.

LiteratureNetwork has over 1900 full books and over 3000 short stories and poems by over 250 authors available for online reading.  Searchable by author and they have a few unusual ones.

LiteraturePost 825 works from 71 authors available for online viewing.

Magickeys small, but interesting, and unusual, collection of childrens books for online viewing

ManyBooks – 22,000 books available for download in a variety of formats

Master Texts is a collection of 30+ authors for online viewing.

MedLine Plus is a great, trustworthy site for general health information, including tutorials, clinical trial updates and the latest news in medicine. You can also find plenty of books, including some intended for children.

MemoWare – Free books for PDA

Mises Institute Several hundred books, mostly on economics (and from a libertarian point of view) available for download as pdf.  Some unique entries here.  Suggested by poster, Bill Starr.

MIT Internet Classics Archive – Over 400 works of clasical literature available for download.

MobileRead – Forum listing thousands of free ebooks.

MobiPocket over 10,000 works, in a variety of categories, available for download in MOBI.

Molwick Small collection of scientific and educational books available for download in pdf

Munsey’s – Over 18,000 ebooks available in a variety of formats

NetLibrary – Small selection of free.  But annual membership is only $8.95 for over 500,000 works.

OnlineBooks4free large collection of links to other sites for online viewing or download.  Nicely categorized.

Online Books Page from the University of Pennsylvania  is a listing of over 30,000 free books on the web.   Mostly this references to other sites, but they do have the Gutenberg listings available for download as well as some interesting special exhibits.

OnlineComputerBooks – Good selection of free computer books.

OnlineFreeeBooks – links to various ebooks (mostly pdf) in 9 categories

Online Library of Liberty hosts over an interesting collection of over 1,100 books available for online viewing and also for download.

OnlineSapiens has a small collection for online viewing, but a few unique entries worth a look.

OxfordTextArchive – Over 2,000 classical texts downloadable as ASCII or DOC

PagebyPage a few hundred works available for online viewing.

PDFBooks – 4,700 pdf ebooks

PDFFreeBooks Small collection of children’s books and two rare books on Syriac grammar and Arabic-Enclish lexicon.  Available for download in PDF or DJVU.

PerseusDigitalLibrary – A large collection of classical texts broken down to time period written.

PlaneteBook – Free classical literature

PlanetPDFeBooks – Small collection of classical works.

Project Gutenberg Australia over 1600 novels and an assortment of other works available in varying ways, including test, pdf and online viewing

PublicBookShelf around 150 books in varying categories for online viewing.

PublicLiterature Has some unique public domain novels among its classic collection of around 100 books.  Also has a large selection of writings submitted by authors which are free and legal to download, but not to distribute.  All are available for online viewing and download in several formats.

PubMed Bookshelf is an engine which lets you search for books containing keywords of your choice and then browse them.

PubMed Central This search engine covers all the open-access articles [rather than books] available on PubMed, the National Library of Medicine’s main scientific portal (where you can also find abstracts from many restricted-access articles).

Questia Online Library offers over 5,000 classic and rare works for free online viewing

Qvadis hosts over 6,000 free titles available in Palm Database (.pdb) format.

ReadBookOnline has a nice collection of classics available for online viewing.

ReadEasily – Small collection of works that has option for larger print.  HTML only.

ReadPrint – Thousands of books, poems and short stories.

ReadTheseLips short fiction, poetry and other writings especially for and about lesbians.

RealTime – Free media for IT professionals

Scholastic Small collection of children’s books available for online viewing (or read to you).  Featuring Clifford the Big Red Dog.

SnipFiles – Small collection of free ebooks and software.

Starfall nice little collection of works to help children learn to read

Starry FreeOnlineNovels small collection, but some interesting entries, available for online viewing.

TechToolBlog Links to 345 online programing books

TopMystery A good amount of each of the few mystery authors listed are available for online viewing or download

Webooks is a small (150) collection of “How To” books on unusual topics available for online viewing or download as pdf.  Suggested by an anonymous poster.

Web Literature has 6500+ works of over 350 authors available for online viewing.  A nice feature is that they try to display the full works of the listed authors

WitGuides – Small collection of free ebooks in a variety of categories.

WordIQ Nice collection of over 10,000 books available for online viewing.    There are some unusual entries here, but hard to find unless looking for specific title or author.

Wowio – Good size collection of novels and also comic books.

The wonderful world of video

In the bit of spare time I get I love to look for random tech videos. So having said that here are some good ones.

Google Chrome Videos

Google Chrome Addons

Google Chrome 3.0

Make Your Own Cursor

Shrink + Convert Large Files

Tweak Vista Settings

Videos are always a good place to learn new thing quickly as you can see a examples and explanations. I am currently working on some tutorial videos of my own, but if you have any videos you would like us to look at send me a link to your YouTube account and I’ll see what I can do.