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.

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

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

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

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."

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."

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.

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...

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

D.I.Y. digital television antennna.

Online tool to test how "readable" your text or website address is.

Paraphrased from the site,"The goal of AmericaSpace since its founding in 2009 by two former aerospace engineers is to bring to readers an informed discussion of space issues without being overly technical. In pursuing that goal, AmericaSpace is dedicated to reporting on the state of Americas space and aerospace efforts we move forward in exploration of the final frontier."

Rent college textbooks instead of purchasing them, and when you're done with your courses ship the books back. This could be a LOT cheaper than purchasing them otherwise.

Fast, freeware, hard drive imaging software.

Clever ways to make flying commercial more bearable.

Cool how to build you own Multi-Touch desk computer clone (a tablet PC built into a desk). See also johnnylee.net/projects/wii/ for something similar with an Nintendo Wii controller.

My Antivirus software of choice. Fast, doesn't hog a lot of systems resources and does the job.

AVG have released a free rescue CD that can be used to recover your computer when the system cannot be loaded normally (Essentially, it is a portable version of AVG Anti-Virus embedded in a version of Linux so it doesn't need Windows to operate).

The AVG Rescue CD enables you to fully remove infections from an otherwise inoperable PC and render the system bootable again

Add photos and make your family into hilarious e-cards. Plenty of humorous animations too.

Extensive list of tweaks and fixes for Windows XP by Doug Knox. Along with the highly useful Windows XP Security Console utility (which I recomend registering to get the full use of it). See also http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm and http://www.tweakhound.com/xp/xptweaks/supertweaks1.htm for more Windows XP registry edits (no relation to Doug Knox's page).

Download your favorite video on YouTube as an MP3 or download videos to your hard drive.

The United States Air forces demonstration team (flying the F-16 Falcon) seen at airshows all over the world.

A great site to remember (and sometimes download!) PC games of years gone by.

In depth information on the F-16C Falcon. Fans of this aircraft might also want to visit F-16.net

Loads and loads of tips on how to improve your pencil drawing technique. Great for artists (or even artist wannabees)!