http://www.google.com - Google works well both for general purpose searches and for more research oriented ones. It almost became the standard search engine for the net
http://dmoz.org/ - ODP (Open Directory Project) is a open categorical search engine
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/ - CiteSeer (aka Nec ResearchIndex) is a digital library of scientific literature
http://cora.whizbang.com/ - CORA is a computer science research paper search engine
http://xxx.lanl.gov/ - ArXiv.org e-print archive, also a scientific paper repository with search engine
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/ - IEEE Xplore: IEEE publications online. You must pay for access
http://www.faqs.org/ - The Internet FAQ archive. Also gathers FAQ of Usenet groups, so you have FAQs on almost everything in human knowledge
http://www.webopedia.com - IT encyclopedia. Entry level on-fly definitions for most of IT buzzword
http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/ - Free Online Dictionary Of Computing; many terms, also logic and mathematics
http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/ - the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://plato.stanford.edu/ - the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Useful for mathematical logic
http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/cr3/bib/bookshelf.html - Claus Reinke's virtual bookshelf. A big collection of papers on many theoretical aspects related to programming languages (category, rewriting, reflection, Lisp to name few)
http://murl.microsoft.com/ - Multi-University/Research Laboratory seminars
http://physics.uwyo.edu/~brent/jal/jal-home.htm - Reiko-Chan course on Japanese for Anime Lovers. With sections on Hiragana and Katakana
http://www.joyo96.org/ - The Japanese Learning Dojo. Affiliated with the Japanese Ministry of the Education. Fundamentals of hiragana, katakana and kanji
http://www02.so-net.ne.jp/~central/ - A course of Japanese
http://www.allusion.net/bard/ - A homepage with some interesting stuff on Japan
http://www.fs-on-line.com - Ferrovie dello Stato (Italian state railroad company)
http://www.dictionary.com - English dictionary. A translator from/to several languages is also available
http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/ - WordNet, something more than a dictionary... at least they say. It can be used online, or downloaded
http://www.xe.com - Currency conversion
http://weather.yahoo.com - Worldwide weather
http://www.worldtimeserver.com/ - Time server; Useful to quickly solve timezone issues
http://www.abebooks.com/ - A store for used, secondhand, rare, out-of-print books
http://scout.wisc.edu/ - Archive of online resources for educators, researchers, etc
http://www.cordis.lu/improving/home.html - Human Potential Programme supports formation and movement of researches in the EU
http://www4.in.tum.de/ - Software and System Engineering at Technische Universität München. They organize the "Marktoberdorf Summer School". See under the "misc" section for the school programme and online subscription
http://www.interaction-ivrea.it/ - Interaction Design Institute Ivrea
http://www.yl.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ - Yonezawa Laboratory. Many research works, notably on computational reflection (now finished)
http://prog.vub.ac.be/ - PROG laboratory at Vrije University. They work on interesting topics on reflection, programming languages, components, reuse and contracts. A LOT of VERY interesting papers
http://www.disi.unige.it/dottorato/SCUOLE/ - List of summer schools
See Marktoberdorf above.
http://www.gnupg.org - Gnu Privacy Guard
http://www.swox.com/gmp/ - Gnu MP is a library for infinite precision arithmetics
http://www.jam-software.com/software.html - Several freeware for Windows, ExcelToLatex
http://www.gzilla.com - Armadillo (once Gzilla) proposed as a browser for Gnome, now seemingly defunct
http://ulli.linuxbox.com/fiasco - Fiasco is a fractal codec which claims performance comparable to that of wavelets. Do not confuse with the omonymous OS
http://www.winfield.demon.nl/ - Antiword: a free MS Word document reader
http://pzcommunications.com/ - Audio and video stuff
http://www.emailman.com/ - Everything for email: conversion tools, clients, standards, etc
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/ - Shareware Music Machine: Huge list of (more or less) shareware musical software
http://simh.trailing-edge.com/ - Emulators for ancient computers (mostly PDP)
http://bochs.sourceforge.net/ - BOCHS is an emulator of Intel-based computers, licensed under LGPL and multiplatform (even not PC)
http://www.maconlinux.org/ - Maconlinux is an Macintosh emulator
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/plex86 - Plex86 is a free substitute for VMWare. Seems halted due to many troubles, now hosted by Savannah
http://www.xmms.org - X MultiMedia System, a multimedia player for X
http://www.geocities.com/simplelance/download.htm - SIMPLE is a nice mp3 encoder
http://www.arts-project.org - aRts is a project which aims at defining an analog realtime synthesizer system. Thought for KDE it evolved to be independent on the environment and on QT
http://www.bitmechanic.com/projects/freebirth/ - FreeBirth: a free Rebirth clone for Linux
http://www.gnu.org/software/lilypond/ - LilyPond is a music typesetter, producing beautiful notation from a description file
http://www.math.auc.dk/~dethlef/Tips/ - Tips on using Emacs for LaTeX under Windows
http://www.miktex.org/ - MiKTeX is the best TeX distribution for Windows
http://www.tug.org/ - The Tex User Group (TUG). Everything. Also the teTeX distribution, common on Unices
http://prosper.sourceforge.net/ - Prosper is a LaTeX class to make beautiful slides in PDF. Requires the seminar and pstricks class
http://www.physics.otago.ac.nz/bec2/bmcd/pdf/ - Prosper needs ps2pdf (pdflatex and dvipdf do not work), but sometimes the standard configuration of LaTeX and dvips yield crappy pdf with broken bitmap fonts on mathematical formulas. Here some tips to have all vector fonts in your pdf with ps2pdf
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ - Emacs homepage at GNU
http://www.emacswiki.org/ - The Emacs Wiki
http://www.tigris.org/ - Open source community aimed at building a suite of tools for SE. Among the projects: subversion, replacing CVS for CM, scarab, an issue tracking system similar to Bugzilla, and ArgoUML, a tool for modelling aimed at replacing Rose
Updated: 2004-01-22 21:04 UTC