A posting about how you can outfit your computer with all the essential (and non-essential) software you need using strictly 100% freeware and/or open source titles.

• Software

• freeware
• software
• utilities
• windows

DRM free classic Windows games. Guaranteed to work on WIndows XP (and Vista). Great site.

• video games
• pc games
• drm free
• videogames

FlightGear is an open-source, multi-platform, cooperative flight simulator development project. Free to download and distribute. Runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS-X, FreeBSD, Solaris, and IRIX platforms

• Flight Simulators

• flight simulator
• flightgear
• open source
• software
• pc game
• aviation/aerospace

Pixlr is a free online image editor, jump in and start edit, adjust, filter. It's just what you imagine!

• Art

• webware
• graphic design
• internet
• image editor
• photo
• photoshop clone?

From the page,"Find out how you can prepare yourself and your family for an emergency. You can also learn what to do in response to a specific disaster, like a tsunami, just in case."

• natural diasters
• hurricane
• earthquake
• emergency preparation
• emergencies

Paraphrased from the page," The Khan Academy is an organization on a mission. We're a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a FREE world-class education to anyone anywhere.
All of the site's resources are available to anyone. It doesn't matter if you are a student, teacher, adult returning to the classroom after 20 years, etc. The Khan Academy's materials and resources are available to you completely FREE of charge."

• education
• online education
• college courses
• video courses
• video lectures
• learning
• free

Dragons Unleashed
Dragons of Old Volume One Author: C.J. Charles

Written by my friend C.J. Charles (who's also known as CharlesHB on StumbleUpon among other aliases). His first (published) ebook, hopefully many more to follow. For a little under $5 for a 221 page story/ebook you can't go wrong.

• Reading Resources

• ebook
• e-book
• fantasy
• dragons
• swords & sorcery
• charleshb

Research URL's and websites long dead (or the history of current "alive" websites). Remember that great website you used to love that went away several years ago? Odds are, you can find it here! Great for ebooks, mp3's, etc...

• internet
• history
• ebooks
• e-books
• e books
• mp3
• reference

Lifehacker presents,"Learn to Code: The Full Beginners Guide"

• computer programming
• education
• coding
• programming
• lifehacker

D.I.Y. digital television antennna.

• television
• antenna
• instructable
• diy