My Personal Choice of Tools & Internet Resources
Research Tool:
- Google Scholar
- Wikipedia
- Publisher list
- ACM portal
- IEEE Xplore
- ScienceDirect
- Scimago
- EigenFactor
- Siam
Nice and Free Tools to download:
- IrfanView (Free Simple image processing software, small Photoshop)
- VirtualDub (Free Video capture, similar to IMovie, Window movie maker)
- Audacity (Free Sound and audio editor)
- Blender (Free 3D graphics, similar to Maya, Studio 3D Max)
- R (Free Statistical package similar to SPSS, SAS, Minitab). Dont forget to download the R Commander for the GUI
- Scilab (Free Matlab-like software)
- VLC media player (Watch your DVD with it)
- Maxima (Free Computer Algebra Sytem for symbolic computation). Use wxMaxima for better GUI
- Kurzweil CyberArt software to make art, poet
- ExplorerXP (Powerful File Manager)
- GNU Software list for Windows
- SourceForge (open source software)
World Time & Space :
- World map time zone
- Local time of cities
- World meeting planner
- Distance between cities
- Meeting Planner (more accessible for the sight impaired)
Language:
- English-Japanese Translator
- URL translator Japanese to English
- AltaVista
- Itools
- Download Japanese Kanji Learning tool
- Learning Chinese
Code Converter
Web online tools:
- Reverse domain - get IP address from domain name and vice versa
- link checker - verify that links from a page or site aren't broken
- Speed test - check your connection speed
- IP location - check the location of an IP address
- Google Keyword tool - get ideas for new keywords that can help you improve your ad relevance
- Overture Keyword selector - count how many time the term was search last month
- Markup validation services - check the documents of your web site
- Web Archive - history of your web contents
- SEO Tools
- Google Webmaster Central
Free courses:
- MIT open course - a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners around the world
- Kardi Teknomo Tutorial - free introductory tutorials
Nice Blogs:
- Dan Appleman: Visual Basic Guru
- Carpemanna: Inspirational blogs for you
- Kardi Teknomo: Personal Blogs
Online Books
- Urban Operational Model - Spatial queuing, network, simulation
- Planning Algorithm - Motion planning, decision theoretic
- Numerical recipes - in C, C++ and Fortran
- Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction by Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto
General International news: (reading news from different sides may reveal better understanding)
- Google News
- BBC
- CNN
- NHK
- Manila Bulletin
- Jerusalem Post
- ArabNews
- Haaretz
- kompas
- Jakarta Post
- SwissInfo
- Korea Times
- Taipei Times
Technology & Science news:
- OSNews
- TechRepublic
- ScienceDaily
- Dr.Dobb's Journal
- Spectrum
- PC World
- Wired
- Distributed System
- TechWeb
- Computer Society
- Computer
- ComputingScienceEng
- NewsFactor
- New Scientist
- GizMag
- Space
- Computer world
- Open Source
- Gizmodo
Those who use the things of the world, as if not engrossed in them. For this world in its present form is passing away.(1 Corinthians 7:31)