Interesting links
Funny:
- Nozz-a-la: For thirsty fans of Stephen King.
- Coolhunting: Some very interesting stuff - any kind of stuff.
- i want one of those: shop selling all possible stuff.
- ThinkGeek: One more shop.
- Clocky: An alarm clock that hides itself if you push on the "snooze" button.
- http://www.axbo.ch: Again an alarm clock, but this one wakes you up gradually.
- Fridge: Fridge webcam.
- No wing: Video of a F-15 landing without its right wing.
- Ted Goff: One new cartoon each day.
- Animal: The drummer of the Muppet Show.
- Minuscule: Homepage of a hilarious and really really well done cartoon series about insects.
- Michael Bach's optical illusions
- Get a First Life: If you know "Second life", then you have to have a look at this.
- Spitfire: Build your own Spitfire!
- A different clock: A reaaally weird clock.
- My Place: A funny bar in Zurich, where you can buy any furniture you see in there.
- Top 40 demotivational posters: Funny posters.
- GraphJam: Some funny graphs.
- Jam Legend: Guitar Hero clone running in your browser.
- Village of Joy: Weird facts and pictures... .
General:
- IATE: A really good translator.
- Frasi.net: A good German=>Italian translator.
- MarineTraffic.com: Real-time map of almost all ships in the world.
- Zurich ATC visual: Real-time map of air traffic over Zürich-Kloten/Switzerland/LSZH airport.
- Zurich ATC audio: Real-time audio of air Traffic control over Zürich-Kloten/Switzerland/LSZH airport (Direct link).
- Swiss trains: Real-time feeds of swiss trains position.
- AuroraWatch alerts: Get notified immediately by email whenever major solar storms occur.
- Allmetsat: A lot of weather satellite images.
- JACDEC: Jet Airliner Crash Data Evaluation Centre.
- Time and date: Local time of different places around our planet.
- High-Def Digest: Reviews of the video quality of Blu-Ray releases.
- Shoutcast radios: Radios that can be recorded with song title and interpreter
- themoviedb.org: A great site where to find informations about movies, posters, etc... .
- Slimdevices: Squeezecenter software changelog.
- Espérance ACTI: Aid and cooperation from Ticino to Indochina.
- Wikipedia - Japanese honorifics
Webcams:
- Stockholm live: Live webcam of Stockholm.
- Stockholm live2: Again another webcam of Stockholm.
- EarthCam: Many animations of webcams placed around the globe.
Travelling:
- Wikitravel: All sort of informations about all sort of destinations.
- Travel.ch: Book hotels and flights online.
- Destination Stockholm: Book hotels for Stockholm online (incl. Stockholm card).
- BOOKING.COM: Online hotel reservations.
Music / Movies / Television:
- Zattoo: Web-TV
- theTVscreen: Web-TV
- Joost: On-demand Web-TV
- Teleboy: Swiss TV program.
- TV-Browser: European TV program.
- IMDB: The Internet Movie Database.
- Radio Swisspop: The Swiss radio (Pop music).
- Radio Swissjazz: The Swiss radio (Jazz music).
- Radio Swissclassic: The Swiss radio (Classical music).
- Ticino Online TV: Shows live Swiss-italian TV channels.
- Sottofondi musicali: Blog about music in general.
- Last.fm events: Live music events in your city
- digital inspiration: A list of good technology video podcasts.
Search engines:
- Brainboost: A search engine you can ask questions to (english only). Seems to work!
- Gigablast: An alternative search engine.
- exalead: An alternative search engine with screenshots of the pages.
- Snap!: A very alternative search engine.
- KartOO: A search engine (uses other search engines in the background) which relates the hits to themes. Nice!
- Mnemomap: Similar to Kartoo (still in beta phase).
- Google Trends: See when which keywords where most used for searching in Google.
- Midomi: You remember a song and would like to know its title? Go there, sing or whistle it and you should get back its name.
Product search & review:
- Toppreise.ch: The Swiss price comparison.
- Idealo.de: German price comparison and products review.
- Testberichte.de:German products review.
- TruestedReviews: English products review.
- d&m electronics: Shop which sells touchscreens - cheap prices and fast delivery.
- Testeo: German products review.
IT-Linux/Gentoo / AIX:
- Polishlinux.org distribution comparison: Comparison of Linux distributions.
- Gentoo.org
- Gentoo security handbook
- Gentoo wiki - NEW
- Old Gentoo wiki backup 1 - English
- Old Gentoo wiki backup 2 - German
- German Gentoo wiki
- Gentoo security
- Gentoo on notebooks: German description about Gentoo powersaving settings.
- Gentoo GCC upgrade guide
- Parameters to be used in the variable CFLAGS of /etc/make.conf
- Korn shell tricks
- Unix / Linux commands
- AIX commands
- AIX performance tuning
- Tipps für Gentoo-Linux
- Software-RAID HowTo: How to create and manage a software-raid in Linux.
- Gentoo compilation optimization guide: Meaning of the CFLAGS & CXXFLAGS.
- LinuxQuestions.org: A very good Linux forum.
- Linux für alle: How to connect two Linux boxes through USB (Deutsch).
- Homepage of Vladimir Brik: Ready-to-download-images for LiveUSB-sticks (Gentoo).
- How to use multimedia keys: A description of how to map keys to programs or events.
- Makelinux.net: Linux network administrator guide.
- Makelinux.net: Linux sysadmin guide.
- Makelinux.net: Linux Kernel module programming guide.
- Makelinux.net: Linux filesystem hierarchy.
- Makelinux.net: Bash guide for beginners.
- Arachnoid: Bash basics.
- Makelinux.net: Advanced Bash-scripting guide.
- LinuxInsight: Explanation of files contained in /proc/sys/vm (filesystem flush parameters).
- programmer Fish: How to install MS Office in Linux using Wine.
- Compiz forum
- Linux App Finder: Listing of Linux applications/programs.
- BTRFS filesystem homepage
- SATA Linux support: Support status of your SATA drivers.
- Linux Kernel changelogs are here:
- Linux Kernel forum:
IT-Programming
- http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/: C++ language reference.
- fb: A file viewer - contents can even be displayed as raw bits.
- QT-Eclipse integration: How to integrate QT into Eclipse (C++ and Java) and plugin download.
- Xavier Decoret: How to integrate the QT-plugin into Eclipse.
- This and this: One more QT integration for Eclipse.
- dlopen mini howto: How to use shared libraries in C++-code.
- Universität Magdeburg: A good example of a C++ multithreaded OpenGL QT widget.
- Steve Baker: Steve's guide to OpenGL lightning.
- QT OpenGL multithread tutorial: One more tutorial about how to create a multithreaded OpenGL widget (did not work for me).
- Cprogramming.com: Explanation of passing variables by reference (instead of using pointers).
IT-General:
- Bruce Schneider's blog: The guy who invented the Blowfish encryption algorithm.
- How DES encryption works
- How stuff works
- Krugle code database
- system76: A great shop where to buy Linux-based machines (with or without OS).
- Spareparts Warehouse: A very good place where to find spare parts for your notebook or whatever.
- Passmark software: CPU benchmarks.
- The Poster: Free poster about the history of informatics.
- Oracle-base: How to install Oracle 11 on Fedora 9 (FC9). (Backup here if orig. site goes offline)
- DynDNS: DynDNS service.
- IOzone tips
- Apache & SSL: How to install SSL certificates on Apache
- Apache & Webdav: How to install Webdav for Apache.
- Webdav & Windows: How to connect to Webdav servers in Windows.
IT-Website:
- WebXACT: Homepage analyzer
- Very detailed IP-Whois database
- Domain name availability
- German page with internet search hints
- SELFHTML
- List of PHP webmailers
- List of XMPP clients
- Mindquarry installation
- MXtoolbox: To doublecheck your the MX-record of your DNS entries.
- Apache: Apache 2.2 docs.
- Java applets - How to sign a java applet: This is required e.g. if you want your java applet to be able to access your local filesystem.
- woorank: A very nice online-tool to analyze your site.
IT-Graphics & Video:
- VicMan: A collection of shareware tools for improving the quality of pictures.
- Neat Image: A program that increases the quality of pictures.
- GIMP: The free Image Manipulation Program.
- Stage 6: Find a lot of interesting videos, in good quality.
- Wink: Program to create Flash presentations (flash, exe, pdf are supported).
- Linux & Webcams: List of supported Webcams in Linux (see as well links at the bottom).
- OGMRip: Together with Vobcopy, a great program to create your personal media library, riping your DVDs to the MKV container, keeping all languages and subtitles.
- Screenr: Create screencasts without having to install a client application.
IT-X-Plane:
- x737 project: Very nice planes for X-Plane.
- Skytrek: Nice scenery files for X-Plane.
- XopenATC: A plugin for X-Plane that displays in the sim real flying airplanes (source data retrieved from openATC)
- X-Plane sceneries: Very nice map of the world displaying almost all available sceneries for X-Plane.
- Cepstral voices: Very nice text-to-speech voices for Windows to be used e.g. in X-plane.
- Boeing 737: Tech informations about the Boeing 737.
- RouteFinder: A route planner for flights.
- Peter's aircraft: Wonderful payware planes for X-Plane.
- X-Plane SDK
- SMARTCOCKPIT: Online resources about airplanes (e.g. manuals) and everything related to aviation.
- Wikipedia - List of commercial aircraft accidents: To simulate in X-Plane.