External Links

Security Tools

• https://www.virustotal.com/: Multi-scanner anti-virus (no installation required).

Web Development

CSS and Other Style Stuff

• http://paletton.com/: Color palette creator.
• http://www.colorzilla.com/gradient-editor/: CSS gradient generator
• http://www.cssmatic.com/: CSS Tools: gradient, border radius, texture, box shadow
• http://css3generator.com/: CSS multi-generator
• http://www.cssbuttongenerator.com/: CSS button generator
• https://www.hscripts.com/tools/drop-down-menu/index.php: JS drop-down menu generator
• http://purecssmenu.com/: CSS menu generator
• http://www.sassmeister.com/gist/5bcb7fefa9d05955f66c: Sass Lab

Fonts

• https://fonts.google.com/: Google's fonts
• https://icomoon.io/: Font maker

Basic Tools and Info

• http://validator.w3.org/unicorn/: HTML validation tool
• https://www.xml-sitemaps.com/: XML sitemap generator
• https://www.browserstack.com/: Browser emulator
• http://www.ssec.edu/~tomw/java/unicode.html: Unicode List
• http://www.freeformatter.com/html-entities.html: Complete list of HTML entities

News and Information

• http://darksky.net/: Really nice weather report.
• http://www.weathertab.com/: Long range weather forecast (1 year).
• http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv: NASA live stream
• http://everytimezone.com/: Visual chart of timezones
• http://www.spacerogue.net: Hacker/tech news.
• http://www.freeinfosociety.com: Tons of free information

Educational

• http://interactmath.com/: Free interactive math tutorials
• http://www.ptable.com/: Interactive periodic table
• http://ascendmath.com/fcm/html5/: Simple math flash cards
• https://www.desmos.com/calculator: Graphing calculator
• https://www.khanacademy.org: Free online academy (math, physics, chemistry, etc.)
• http://galaxyzoo.org: Volunteer to categorize galaxies.
• http://www.planethunters.org: Volunteer to help identify exoplanets.
• https://op-webtools.web.cern.ch/vistar/vistars.php: Large Hadron Collider monitor (LHC).
• http://ispy-webgl.web.cern.ch/ispy-webgl/: CMS Data Visualization
• https://www.aviso.altimetry.fr/en/data.html: Oceanic and Altimetric database

Tutorials

Guacamole VNC Server

• http://guac-dev.org/doc/gug/
• https://gist.github.com/jeffersonmartin/8236574: Version 0.8.3 for Ubuntu Server
• http://www.linuxintro.org/wiki/Guacamole
• https://deviantengineer.com/2013/10/guacamole/

Ampache Streaming Media Server

• https://github.com/ampache/ampache/wiki/Installation

Files and Software

• https://archive.org/: THE INTERNET ARCHIVE
• https://librivox.org/: Free audio books
• http://www.freeimages.com: Royalty-free/creative common images
• http://www.freewebtemplates.com/: Free web templates
• https://www.softaculous.com/apps/: Nice list of software
• https://www.draw.io/: Free web-based network diagram/flowchart designer (like Visio).
• http://www.emachineshop.com/machine-shop/Free-CAD-Design-Software/page100.html: Freee CAD software (also good for making gears).
• https://easyeda.com: Free circuit diagram software online
• https://www.circuitlab.com/editor/: Very simple free circuit diagram software online (can't save to file)
• ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/genomes/: National Institute of Health genome archives
• http://redobackup.org/: Bootable backup utility.
• https://www.sites.google.com/site/unoardusim/services: Arduino Uno simulator.

Service Manuals

• https://freeservicemanuals.info

Hardware

• https://thepihut.com/: Raspberry Pi stuff
• https://www.newark.com/?COM=element14_store_Home: Electronics
• https://www.adafruit.com/: Electronics

Materials

• http://www.tapplastics.com/: Custom plastics

Art Tools

• http://www.text-image.com/convert/ascii.html: Image to ASCII art converter
• http://www.wordle.net/: word-cloud generator
• http://www.patorjk.com/software/taag/: text to ASCII art generator
• http://www.flamingtext.com/: Logo designer

Audio Tools

• http://imtranslator.net/translation/text-to-speech/: text to speech

Document Tools

• http://www.free-ocr.com/: Optical Character Recognition (OCR); finds text in an image
• http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/: Font identifier

Space and Earth

• https://www.jasondavies.com/maps/transition/: interactive world map projections.
• https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/: NASA Worldview.
• https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/: NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).
• https://helioviewer.org/: Interactive up-to-date view of the Sun.
• http://lmsal.com/isolsearch: Another interactive map of the Sun and solar activity.
• https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/webcam.html: Goddard Space Center clean-room webcams.
• https://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/countdown/video/: Kennedy Space Center webcams.
• http://www.isstracker.com/embed: International Space Station Tracker.
• https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/widget/: Spot The Station widget.
• http://www.ustream.tv/embed/6540154?html5ui: NASA Public-Education channel.
• http://www.ustream.tv/embed/10414700?html5ui: NASA TV Media.
• http://www.ustream.tv/embed/17074538?v=3&wmode=direct;autoplay=1: ISS Livestream 1
• http://www.ustream.tv/embed/9408562?v=3&wmode=direct;autoplay=1: ISS Livestream 2

Privacy and Anti-Consumerism

Scam Alerts

• https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/scam-alerts

Government Sites About Spam, Fraud, etc.

• https://attorneygeneral.nd.gov/consumer-resources/identity-theft/preventing-identity-theft
• https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0038-spam

Opt-Out Registries

• https://www.donotcall.gov/
• https://www.optoutprescreen.com
• https://dmachoice.thedma.org/
• http://www.directmail.com/mail_preference/

Privacy/Ad-blocker Tools

• https://ublock.org/: Browser plugin
• https://adblockplus.org/: Browser plugin
• https://pi-hole.net/: Network level ad-blocker (DNS-based)
• https://freek.ws/public-pi-hole/: Public hosted PiHole DNS Servers

VPN Services:

• https://www.expressvpn.com/: This company has the highest merits by my reckoning. Authorities have asked for logs and they were unable to provide it, which demonstrates that they are honest about their no-log policy. Off-shore jurisdiction: British Virgin Islands. Also, they have less usage restrictions than other VPN providers.

Other Nifty Stuff

• https://maroslaw.github.io/rainyday.js/demo012_1.html: Rainy window animation (press F11 to full-screen).
• http://www.beepbox.co/: 8-bit music synthesizer.
• http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html: A funny list of axioms for being a successful evil overlord.
• http://www.petittube.com/: Automatically plays random YouTube videos that have zero views, so you are literally the first viewer.
• http://www.virtualcolossus.co.uk/: Functional simulation of a Colossus Mk II.
• https://ban.ai/multics/: Virtual Multics Operating System