= Sunshine Tech Endorsements =

F-Secure's Virus Info Center:
http://www.F-Secure.com/v-descs/

Trend Micro Houscall Antivirus offers free online scans so stop spamming viruses at me and scan your computer often:
http://Housecall.AntiVirus.com/

Microsoft Windows free update:
http://WindowsUpdate.Microsoft.com/

Microsoft Office free update:
http://Office.Microsoft.com/officeupdate/

Ad-Aware SE gets rid of spyware. My new favourite.
http://www.LavaSoftUSA.com/software/adaware/

Spybot - Search & Destroy gets rid of spyware. Still great, my former favourite.
http://www.Safer-Networking.org/en/

A computer's fountain of youth, Registry First Aid helps slow Windows' inevitabley bogging down after months of use, keeping it operating smoothly and useful longer.
http://www.RoseCitySoftware.com/reg1aid/

Diskeeper.com.
http://www.Diskeeper.com/

Hewlett Packard recycles your old inkjet cartridges (the nitrates are carcinogenic) and they pay the postage.
http://www.HP.com/hpinfo/globalcitizenship/environment/recycle/index.html

Cancel AOL - uninstalling AOL isn't as easy as you might think.
(I can't say enough bad things about AOL, so I won't even start.)
http://www.Cancel.ws/

The Open Source Definition at Open Source Initiative:
http://OpenSource.org/docs/definition.php

The Copyleft concept explained:
http://Orunla.org/pnohteftu/copyleft.html

Free Software Foundation, 'free' as in 'free speech' is a matter of liberty not price:
http://www.FSF.org/

Creative Commons is a nonprofit that offers a flexible copyright for creative work (audio, images, video, text, education):
http://CreativeCommons.org/

Creative Commons Deed - a readable summary:
http://CreativeCommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/

Mozilla.org is the internet browswer + email software commonly know as Netscape but without AOL and ads:
http://www.mozilla.org/

Open Office - originally started by Sun (but unable to compete with MicroSoft) released it to become an open source document suite:
http://www.OpenOffice.org/
Has a good spell checker, but unfortunately does not have a grammar checker.

Java.com.
http://www.Java.com/

Electric Sheep Screensaver - uses your computer's dreams (new renders) with other computers (a hive mind) to make new screensavers:
http://ElectricSheep.org/

eMule has more confusing options but is far better than Kazaa (adware) and has more accurate downloads. (The best download times are the weekends, but you want to leave this running all the time if possible.)
http://www.eMule-Project.net/

Azureus is probably the best bit torrent downloader I know of:
http://Azureus.SourceForge.net/
Torrentz Search Engine is the best place to find your torrents:
http://www.Torrentz.com/

Coppermine is a PHP photo gallery for your website (more secure than Gallery):
http://Coppermine.SourceForge.net/

Tight VNC software for remote machine control (more complex than GoToMyPC):
http://www.TightVNC.com/

Miranda Instant Messenger combines MSN, ICQ, IRC, AIM (AOL Instant Messenger), Jabber, and other protocols:
http://www.Miranda-IM.org/

Jabber is "an open, secure, ad-free alternative to consumer IM services like AIM, ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo":
http://www.Jabber.org/

Drupal has been recommended to be the best interactive PHP, CMS, Wiki, groupware (not installed it on this website yet.):
http://Drupal.org/

Research for the best interactive PHP, CMS, Wiki, groupware led me to TikiWiki (not installed it on this website yet.):
http://TikiWiki.org/

J2 makes you a phone number and forwards your fax and voice messages to you by email:
http://www.J2.com/

FreewareSeek.com:
http://www.FreewareSeek.com/

Tucows freeware and sharewared downloads:
http://www.Tucows.com/

Download.com for free downloads, shareware, and more:
http://www.Download.com/

SoftLandMark freeware and sharewared downloads based in India.
http://www.SoftLandMark.com/

Allume Systems StuffIt beats WinZip for archival compression and decompression:
http://www.Allume.com/

Thursby Dave allows Mac (pre OS X) to network with Windows.
http://www.Thursby.com/

Mediafour MacDrive allows Windows to recognize Mac (pre OS X) files.
http://www.MacDrive.com/

Canada Computers:
http://www.CanadaComputers.com/

Fry's Electronics / Outpost.com:
http://www.Outpost.com/

Premier Computer Canada:
http://www.PCCanada.com/

Imaging Resource - cameras, printers, scanners:
http://www.Imaging-Resource.com/

I've never had a problem with Linksys, wired or otherwise:
http://www.Linksys.com/
(D-Link is generally good but for a wireless router I had a long nightmare, USRobotics hasn't allowed me to port forward successfully)

FaceBook:
http://www.FaceBook.com/
View my online community profile.

Flickr:
http://www.Flickr.com/
View my online community profile.

Friendster:
http://www.Friendster.com/

LinkedIn:
http://www.LinkedIn.com/
View my online community profile.

MySpace:
http://www.MySpace.com/
View my online community profile.

Tribe:
http://www.Tribe.net/
View my online community profile.

Google Talk:
http://www.Google.com/talk/
Search for "Jason Carswell" to find me on Google Talk.

MSN Messenger:
http://Messenger.MSN.com/
Search for "Jason Carswell" to find me on MSN Messenger.

Skype has an instant messenger but the free internet phone service is superior to other instant messengers (and to call land or cell lines costs extra):
http://www.Skype.com/
Search for "Jason Carswell" to find me on Skype.

Aspire Software - cell phone music utilities:
http://www.MusicMasterWorks.com/cell_phone_tune.html

DialABC.com, everything you want to know about phones:
http://www.DialABC.com/

PhoneSpell.org:
http://www.PhoneSpell.org/

Phonetic.com:
http://www.Phonetic.com/

AC3 Filter - is audio compression decompression that works with video files:
http://AC3Filter.SourceForge.net/

Aspire Software - cell phone music utilities:
http://www.MusicMasterWorks.com/cell_phone_tune.html

AudioGrabber is good for ripping your CDs (the demo only allows half of the tracks to be ripped, which is good enough for me).
http://www.AudioGrabber.com-us.net/

Ahead's Nero is probably the most popular disc solution to 'capture, copy, burn, edit, author, backup, playback and share' your CD's and DVD's.
http://www.Nero.com/

CyberLink's PowerDVD seems to be the best DVD player for PCs:
http://www.GoCyberLink.com/

DivX is a popular codec application featuring MPEG4 compression and decompression with packaged bundles that may have spyware:
http://www.DivX.com/

ImagesPro.com - resources index for video and images:
http://www.ImagesPro.com/

K-Lite CoDec Resource Site has all the free compression and decompression packs you could need:
http://www.CoDecGuide.com/

VirtualDub.org - video utility:
http://VirtualDub.org/

Xvid is MPEG4 compression/decompression for free:
http://www.XviD.org/

ImagesPro.com - resources index for video and images:
http://www.ImagesPro.com/

Lokas AW Icon software is good for editing your icons.
http://www.AWIcons.com/

ACD Systems digital imaging and browser.
http://www.ACDSystems.com/

Laughing Squid provides great web site hosting (you're looking at one), feature excellent technical FAQ documentation, and timely friendly service based in San Francisco.
http://www.LaughingSquid.net/ or http://LaughingSquid.com/

WordPress is more than just an open source blog (web log):
http://WordPress.org/

easyDNS provides solid domain registration as well as dynamic DNS service:
http://www.easyDNS.com/

GoToMyPC.
https://www.GoToMyPC.com/

DynSite for Windows is an automatic IP updater (for dynamic IP address):
http://NoelD.com/dldynsite.htm
[ Also EasyDNS provides Dynamic DNS Service: http://www.EasyDNS.com/ ]

PHPCounter is a real time, free PHP web page counter script that tracks page names and page views. PHPCounter can track an unlimited number of pages using a single script. It does not need a database.:
http://www.Ekstreme.com/

DriverGuide.com:
http://www.DriverGuide.com/

InnerGeek's Geek Test:
http://www.InnerGeek.us/

Jovino's Dual Tone Multi Frequency:
http://www.Jovino.com/stuff/dtmf.html

Jovino's HTML Typographic Character Entities:
http://www.Jovino.com/entities.php

Meme Pool, a blog list of interesting and geeky links
("leaves no navel ungazed"):
http://MemePool.com/

The File Extension Source tells you all about the types of files you have.
http://FILExt.com/