Shopping

Deals, coupons, dicsounts, rebates.

• Wise Shopping

City links

My favorite places in Cincinnati.

• Cincinnati Bookmarks
• Travel Links (USA)
  

Linux (free OS)

There are two kind of programmers: "masters" and "salesmen". A "master" creates a  masterpiece (Linux), a "salesman" creates profits (Windows). Linux is free, can be installed on top of Windows, or simply can be run from a flash drive or CD/DVD. 

• Ubuntu
  
• openSuse
• Fedora

Free Soft for Windows

Microsoft Office alternative

• OpenOffice (same as Word, Excell, Powerpoint, but free again)

Image edition

• GIMP (same as Photoshop, but free)
• IrfanView (simple editor, nice for photos)
• Picasa (organize and publish online your photos)

Browse your files

• Total Commander

Web browsers

• Opera
• Firefox

Exchange files on internet

• Free Download Manager (best)
• uTorrent (best torrent client)

Burn CD/DVD images

• ImgBurn 

Emulate CD/DVD drives

• DAEMON tools 

Science

• Scientific Computing

Web

Watch how the popularity of the different words (websites as well) and their combinations changes with time

• Google Trends
• Google Blog 

CEO and founders (more)

• Google (Larry Page and Sergey Brin)
• Amazon (Jeff Bezos) 
• Wiki (Jimmy Wales) 

Torrent repository

• The Pirate Bay 

Defend your rights in the digital world

• Electronic Frontier Foundation 

Internet crime is rising.

• Internet Scam Advisor

Create your own server at home. Very simple.

• About web servers
  

Website markup validation 

• W3C 

Experimental google shell

• goosh

Internet speedometer

• Time Warner speedometer 

Wikipedia

Must-read articles

• RTFM :) 

Academia

A collection of advices how to write a paper or give a talk

• Academia

Distractions

Nothing is more tempting than distractions.

• Movies
• Interesting
• Interesting Videos
• OpenCourseWare (lecture notes, presentations, etc...)

Community

• Social Networking Websites

Create your own survey

• Survey Monkey

Don't be another dummy

• How to ask questions the smart way 

Housing

Family

• Kidzone
• Parents Corner

Gourmet

For those who are not "food processing machines".

• Yummy

Aliens

Certification of foreign documents in US.

• Apostille
• Diploma Evaluation 

American slang

• Urban Dictionary
  

Consumerism

• Stop telemarketing phone calls 
• BBB (consumer protection) 

Links in Russian

Must know russian to read these links.

• online dictionary
• Lenta_ru
• Nauka i zhizn'
• PopularMechanics 
• Gazeta.ru (nauka)
• Russkaja Kuxnja 
• Stezja Pravi 
• Russian Rock in America 
• Malchish-Kibalchish (politika, economika) 

Learning... 

• English
• Russian
• German
• Spanish
•  Typing speed test