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Communication
Name	Address	Description
Facebook	http://www.facebook.com	Leader in social networking. Doesn't have the drama or clutter that myspace has.
Fubar	http://www.fubar.com	Social Networking site geared toward adults. Ability to send people virtual drinks to get sh*t faced or buy them.
Meebo	http://www.meebo.com	Meebo allows you to log into most IM networks through a web page instead of installing the software.

Anime Related
Name	Address	Description
AnimeNation	http://www.animenation.com	Good source of news on Anime as well as getting good anime merchandise.
AnimeCastle	http://www.animecastle.com	Another good site for anime gear and merchandise.
AnimeNFO	http://www.animenfo.com	This site specializes in keeping track of all the different animes (titles, descriptions, number of eps, etc).
AnimeNewsNetwork	http://www.animenewsnetwork.com	Here you can not only find out about the latest news about animes but also detailed information about all the animes.

Anime and Manga Sources
Name	Address	Description
AnimeSuki	http://www.animesuki.com	Good source of news on Anime as well as getting good anime merchandise.
TokyoToshokan	http://www.tokyotosho.info	Another good site for anime gear and merchandise.
BakaBT	http://www.bakabt.com	This site specializes in keeping track of all the different animes (titles, descriptions, number of eps, etc).
Dattebayo	http://www.dattebayo.com	Here you can not only find out about the latest news about animes but also detailed information about all the animes.
Taka Fansubs	http://www.takafansubs.com	The fansub group that does the newest episodes of Naruto
Doki	http://doki.hologfx.com	A fansub group that works on a variety of types of anime subbing.
Chihiro	http://www.chihiro-subs.com	A fansub group that works on a variety of types of anime subbing.
One Manga	http://www.onemanga.com	Manga source that has tons of fan translated manga and is updated regularly.
Stop Tazmo	http://www.stoptazmo.com	Manga source that gives the option to download or read. Not as up to date as One Manga.

Sources of Information
Name	Address	Description
How Stuff Works	http://www.howstuffworks.com	How Stuff Works is a website that explains the ins and outs of a variety of topics.
Coming Soon	http://www.comingsoon.net	Great website to find out the latest information about upcoming movies.

Tutorials
Name	Address	Description
Tutorial Outpost	http://tutorialoutpost.com	Has links for lots of Photoshop tutorials as well as Flash, 3D Studio Max, Illustrator, HTML/CSS.
Good-Tutorials	http://www.good-tutorials.com	Has Tutorials for CSS, Flash, HTML, Illustrator, Java, JavaScript, Photoshop, PHP, and 3DS Max.
Tutorialized	http://www.tutorialized.com	Tutorials on Fireworks, Flash, Gimp, Illustrator, Paintshop Pro, Photoshop, 3DS Max, AutoCAD, and lots more.
Planet Photoshop	http://www.planetphotoshop.com	Tutorials and videos for learning Photoshop. Very useful having videos for those who are not real familiar with photoshop.
PSLover	http://www.pslover.com	Lots of links for Photoshop Tutorials. Like the others great place to learn more Photoshop tricks.
Photoshop Gurus	http://www.photoshopgurus.com	Not a lot of tutorials on this site but if you are a beginner it is a great place to start.
Lynda	http://www.lynda.com	This is a subscription site but well worth it if you want to learn. All the training is video based ona large variety of topics.

Torrent Sites
Name	Address	Description
IsoHunt	http://www.isohunt.com	How Stuff Works is a website that explains the ins and outs of a variety of topics.
Cheggit	http://www.cheggit.net	Great website to find out the latest information about upcoming movies.
Empornium	http://www.empornium.us	This is another porn torrent site. Set up using categories so easy to find certain genre of porn but the site has a lot of advertisments.
Pirate Bay	http://thepiratebay.org	I personally don't use Pirate Bay anyore cause I know they were being targeted but some still do use it so I posted it anyway

Video Watching Sites
Name	Address	Description
Netflix	http://www.netflix.com	Great place to watch streaming movies and TV shows without any commercials. Does have a monthly cost but well worth it.
Hulu	http://www.hulu.com	Free website for watching TV Shows and Movies. Does have some commercials but has a lot of current TV Show episodes.
YouTube	http://www.youtube.com	Great website to watch tons of random videos on different topics. Many are user posted. There are some TV Shows and Movies but not as much as Hulu or Netflix.
TV Links	http://www.tv-links.cc	Great website to find lots of movies or TV Shows to watch streaming. This site doesn't host the videos just gives you the links to the websites that do have them.
Trailer Addict	http://www.traileraddict.com	My Favorite place to look for upcoming movie trailers. All the trailers are flash based and play with great quality.
Apple Trailers	http://www.apple.com/trailers	Another great site to watch movie trailers however it uses Quicktime instead of flash.

WebComics and Flash Cartoons
Name	Address	Description
Apple Geeks	http://www.applegeeks.com	Funny webcomic updated a few times a week. Lots of Apple product references.
Megatokyo	http://www.megatokyo.com	Webcomic about 2 americans who go to Japan and then don't have enough money to get home so they are stuck.
Dueling Analogs	http://www.duelinganalogs.com	A very funny webcomic about gaming. Has things such as video games never created and Megaman villians never used.
Penny Arcade	http://www.penny-arcade.com	A very popular gaming webcomic.
XKCD	http://xkcd.com	A hilarious stick figure webcomic.
Illwillpress	http://www.illwillpress.com	Official site of Foamy the Squirrel. Foamy has a new cartoon every couple of weeks. Site does not have all past episodes though.
Friends of Foamy	http://www.friendsoffoamy.com	Fan site of Foamy the Squirrel. This site does have all the cartoons so it is a great place to review all of the old ones.

Google
Name	Address	Description
Google	http://www.google.com	When all else fails then google search for the information you need.
Google News	http://news.google.com	Google News displays major news articles from a huge amount of different news sources.
Gmail	http://gmail.com	Best free email service currently available. It gives 7 gigs worth of space, not cluttered with a bunch of ads, and great spam filtering.
Google Calendar	http://calendar.google.com	Great free online calendar. It can be embeded onto websites if you want to share it with others. It can also send you email and text notifications of the events you add.
Google Wave	http://wave.google.com	Google's new communication tool which is like email but with features not to be found in email such as seeing people type replies realtime, dragging and dropping pics (if you are using chrome or have google gears installed), and add maps.
Google Analytics	http://www.google.com/analytics	Great free way of keeping tabs of the traffic to your site. Even can tell you the OS, screen resolution, and browser of the visitors.
Google Hosting	http://www.google.com/apps	Google's hosting is called Google Apps. Allows you to host your email through google (gmail). Also gives you docs, calendar, sites, and google talk all with your domain address. The Standard edition is free but there is a pay version with more features too.
Google Maps	http://maps.google.com	Best maps site on the web. Mapquest and yahoo maps are no where near as good as google maps. Check out the street view feature.
Google Picasa	http://picasa.google.com	Free software for keep tabs of all your photos on your computer. Can even do some editing like red eye removal. If you use PicasaWeb as well then it can make it really simple and easy to manage your online albums as well.
Google Picasa Web	http://picasaweb.google.com	Free online picture album site. Great advertisment free way of sharing pictures. Unlike facebook and myspace picasa web does not require membership to view the pictures. You can choose to share them with all, only friends, or make them private.
Blogger	http://www.blogger.com	Google's blog site. Great way to rant or post about topics you are interested in. If you have your own website then Blogger even allows you to add it to the website.
Google Docs	http://docs.google.com	Web based office suite. Great way to colaborate on documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Can even add pdf files.

Applications
Name	Address	Description
Peer Block	http://www.peerblock.com	If you download a bunch of things you probably shouldn't then this program helps. It is a firewall that blocks your computer from connecting to government agencies and companies trying to catch peer to peer sharing.
VLC Media Player	http://www.videolan.org/vlc	VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, mp3, ogg, aac ...) as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols .
Zoom Player	http://www.inmatrix.com/	Great video player alternative to Windows Media Player. After initial install it will go out and download all the codecs you should need for playing most all kinds of videos on the computer. There is a free version that is on Cnet's download.com. Free version doesn't play DVDs. This is the video player I use on my laptop.
CD Burner XP	http://cdburnerxp.se	Free CD and DVD burning software. Works even on Windows 7. Great for taking care of your basic burning needs. It doesn't do video authoring. This software is great if you just need something that will take care of the majority of your burning needs.
WinRar	http://www.rarlab.com	WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce the size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format. No reason to buy it. Download the trial version and just keep using it. It will start to throw up an option to buy it but you can exit that and keep going.