Here are things that I find interesting or helpful, or both:
Blender is a free, full-featured, open source 3D suite. It has some amazing tools, and with a little work, you can make some pretty neat things. (projectredwall.blogspot.com...)
https://ninite.com/
Ninite is a great website if you want to do a batch install of a selection of common programs.
Sadly it only works on Windows now.
www.pcpartpicker.com
Fun website if you like building computers. Targeted at desktop users, but there's a little bit of server class hardware on there too. You can also see price trends for the items you choose.
www.microcenter.com
Nothing special about the website, but it's really nice having the store nearby.
They have the absolute best prices on CPU's, and their motherboard combos are really good too. They've also been expanding into the DIY market some, they carry Raspberry Pi's, Arduinos, and Intel boards. They even have a model rocket section!
www.servocity.com
Not cheap, but if you can afford it they have some really nice aluminum channel for building. Servo mounts, gears, driveshafts, gear chains, etc. Erector set on steroids.
http://www.freenas.org/
FreeBSD based OS for file servers.
I wasn't able to figure out how to set all the user permissions like I wanted when I was using it, but it keeps improving, and for a home NAS it could work pretty nicely. ZFS filesystem too.
www.dreamspark.com
Students: Free Microsoft software.
http://expresspcb.com/
Schematic and PCB design software. This is what I use. Nothing fancy, but it does the job and it's free.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jpegview/
Nice light photo viewer.
http://www.magiclantern.fm/
For the Canon camera owners, this is a really cool website. RAW video on a 5D MKII(I)! Lots of added functionality. And if you do the raw video this is a nice viewer/converter: http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=9560.0
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve
Free video editor. It's serious about the minimum specs though. While not strictly required, you should have at least 16GB of RAM and a good GPU for this.
http://powernotebooks.com/
A good place to look for a new laptop. Some of the best prices, and lots of options.
http://billfitzmaurice.com/
Horn loaded speaker website. Some really good info on there about sound in general too. I have a pair of the DR 250 and Titan 48 speakers, and I'm pretty happy with them.
Nothing special about the website, but it's really nice having the store nearby.
They have the absolute best prices on CPU's, and their motherboard combos are really good too. They've also been expanding into the DIY market some, they carry Raspberry Pi's, Arduinos, and Intel boards. They even have a model rocket section!
www.servocity.com
Not cheap, but if you can afford it they have some really nice aluminum channel for building. Servo mounts, gears, driveshafts, gear chains, etc. Erector set on steroids.
http://www.freenas.org/
FreeBSD based OS for file servers.
I wasn't able to figure out how to set all the user permissions like I wanted when I was using it, but it keeps improving, and for a home NAS it could work pretty nicely. ZFS filesystem too.
www.dreamspark.com
Students: Free Microsoft software.
http://expresspcb.com/
Schematic and PCB design software. This is what I use. Nothing fancy, but it does the job and it's free.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jpegview/
Nice light photo viewer.
http://www.magiclantern.fm/
For the Canon camera owners, this is a really cool website. RAW video on a 5D MKII(I)! Lots of added functionality. And if you do the raw video this is a nice viewer/converter: http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=9560.0
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve
Free video editor. It's serious about the minimum specs though. While not strictly required, you should have at least 16GB of RAM and a good GPU for this.
http://powernotebooks.com/
A good place to look for a new laptop. Some of the best prices, and lots of options.
http://billfitzmaurice.com/
Horn loaded speaker website. Some really good info on there about sound in general too. I have a pair of the DR 250 and Titan 48 speakers, and I'm pretty happy with them.
This may be updated as I come across / remember other things.
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