Links
Website of UNIX GOD - Dennis Ritchie
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/index.html
Website of Bjourne Stroustrup
http://www.research.att.com/~bs/homepage.html
http://www.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq2.html#layout
GNU
Know who is Richard Stallman, what is GNU project, its contribution to software community, how linux evolved, concept of Copyleft.
www.gnu.org
W3C Schools
Get tutorials for HTML, XML, VBScript, JavaScript.
www.w3schools.org
Writing Technical Report
A good article for students on guidelines for writing technical report.
How To Report
Real-time HTML editor
A very good realtime HTML editor to preview your pages without saving them. Your web development will be fast.
Real Time HTML Editor
Downloads
Splash images for GRUB loader
X Files. Download size approx. 22.9 KB
Neo (Matrix Reloaded). Download size approx. 11.3 KB
A typical guy. Download size approx. 47.1 KB
Andromeda Galaxy. Download size approx. 82.7 KB
Linux Inside. Download size approx. 4.66 KB
We suck more - TUX. Download size approx. 47.1 KB
BIOS Identifier
It retrives not only your BIOS string but also bios date, bios maker, motherboard manufacturer and motherboard model.
Get it. Download size approx. 22 KB
Setup maker - NSIS
If you wish to make a installer of your program then use this tool from nullsoft. NSIS stands for NullSoft Installation System.
Get it. Download size approx. 500 KB
Volume stabilizer for Winamp - RockSteady
It stabilizes varying volume of songs to one level in winamp.
Get it. Download size approx. 22 KB
My Favourites
Favourite Office Suite - OpenOffice.org
It is an opensource office suite developed with support from Sun Microsystems and based on Sun's Star Office.It not only provides its own document formats but also compatibility with Star Office and Microsoft Office documents.
Besides conventional applications such as text processor, presentation maker, spreadsheet maker it also has HTML writer, diagram drawing tool, formula editor.
The latest version 1.1.0 also has PDF and flash writer using which you can convert your documents to PDF or flash formats.
Get it. Download size approx. 64 MB (Windows), 70 MB (Linux)
Favourite Internet Suite - Mozilla
Includes browser, mail & newsgroup client, html editor, IRC client, Address Book. Its fast, cool, configurable.
Get it. Download size approx. 11.3 MB
Favourite Browser - Mozilla FireFox
Its fast, cool, configurable. It has tabbed browsing, popup blocker, image blocker, password manager, inbuilt search engines and many other features.
Download size approx. 5 MB
Also get the perfect replacement for Outlook Express.
Download size approx. 6 MB
Favourite Privacy Assistant - GNUPG - GNU's Privacy Guard
If you wish to implement public key cryptography in your personal life then you should have this software.
Get it. Download size approx. 1.5 MB
Favourite Instant Messenger - Gaim
First started as linux clone of AIM (AOL's Instant Messenger), it now supports Yahoo, MSN (Hotmail), AIM, IRC, ICQ, Napster, Zabber and Gadu-Gadu protocols.
Most liked feature is tabbed messenging windows i.e. all sessions in one window.
Get it. Download size approx. 5.4 MB.
Favourite Image Manipulation Program - GIMP
An extremely powerful image manipulation tool with support for different file formats.
Get it. Download size approx. 9 MB.
Favourite Search Engine - Google
Get goggle toolbar and have the search engine working in your IE window.
OR Get the google deskbar and you dont need to have IE open to make a search. (Requires IE 5.5 or higher).
Get the toolbar. Download size approx. 500 KB.
Get the deskbar. Download size approx. 500 KB.
Favourite Compressor Decompressor - 7zip
Supports compression in 7z, zip, tar, gz, bz2 format and decompression of almost every format. When working with multiple files first compress in tar and then bz2. You will be surprised to see the result.
Get it. Download size approx. 900 KB.
Favourite Downloaders - DAP & wget
Downloader Accelerator Plus can pause resume and accelerate your downloads.A handy tool to manage your downloads.
wget is a linux utility that retrives files from http or ftp. It is command line non-interactive tool. It can pause and resume downloads as well as download all links from a file. It has been ported to windows under gnuwin32 project.
Get DAP. Download size approx. 2.29 MB.
Get wget. Download size approx. 282 KB.
Favourite MP3 Player - Winamp 5.07
Plays mp3, ogg, wav, CD, mpeg, AVI files. Cool, handy, skinnable interface. Even includes internet radio & tv, cd ripper & writer.
Get it. Download size approx. 654 KB (lite), 4.2 MB (full).
Favourite PDF To Text Converter - Xpdf
Windows version includes command line tools to convert PDF files to text, retrive images.
Get it. Download size approx. 2 MB.