Technology related links

[cyber_abdullah]

I just i'd start a thread with a sample of many of my favourite technology related links. Hopefully other members will share theirs so that we can share each others sources. Would the mods consider making this thread a sticky?

TheInquirer.net (http://www.theinquirer.net/)

TheRegister.co.uk (http://www.theregister.co.uk/)

Zdnet.co.uk (http://www.zdnet.co.uk/)

Wired.com (http://www.wired.com/)

CNET News.com (http://news.com.com/)

PopularMechanics.com (http://www.popularmechanics.com/)

MAKE: DIY Technology (http://www.makezine.com/)

Techrepublic.com.com (http://techrepublic.com.com/)

Gizmodo.com (http://uk.gizmodo.com/)

T3 - Gadget News (http://www.t3.co.uk/)

Hardware.info (http://www.hardware.info/)

Hardwaresecrets.com (http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/)

Engadget.com (http://www.engadget.com/)

TomsHardware.co.uk (http://tomshardware.co.uk/)

ExtremeTech.com (http://www.extremetech.com/)

Linux Weekly News (http://lwn.net/)

Linux.com (http://www.linux.com/)

LinuxQuestions.org (http://www.linuxquestions.org/)

DesktopLinux.com (http://www.desktoplinux.com/)

Linux-Watch.com (http://www.linux-watch.com/)

PC Advisor (http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/)

PC World.com (http://www.pcworld.com/)

TechWorld.com (http://www.techworld.com/)

SlashDot.org (http://www.slashdot.org/)

Boingboing.net (http://boingboing.net/)

[belal1]

you might wanna add:

http://www.osnews.com

http://www.osweekly.com

http://www.megagames.com

http://www.linux-gamers.net

http://www.newsforge.com

http://www.vnunet.com

http://www.gigaom.com <--very cool blog, his predictions/sources are ALWAYS right!

http://planet.gnome.org
http://planet.ubuntu.com
http://www.planetkde.org

and oh yeah, forgot to add http://www.phoronix.com , http://www.arstechnica.com

[cyber_abdullah]

Thanks for the links. This is just what I had in mind, the ability to share our sources of information.

[souljaa]

:salams bro cyber

Im tryna find one of your posts where you posted some links of programs to download to keep your computer safe from spyware and stuff?

Do you remember what the links were?

[cyber_abdullah]

:salams bro cyber

Im tryna find one of your posts where you posted some links of programs to download to keep your computer safe from spyware and stuff?

Do you remember what the links were?


Don't use Internet Explorer as your primary browser, use Firefox, it is much more safe and secure, and prevents many activex malware from messing with your PC:
http://www.mozilla.org/

Download and install ALL of these programs (I assume you have an anti-virus installed, if not, then install AVG Free edition):

AVG Free anti-virus. Excellent and free anti-virus which does the job equally as well as commercial anti-virus programs:
http://free.grisoft.com/

In addition to having AVG anti-virus, you can also install Avira Anti-Virus to run alongside AVG Free as they do not conflict with each other. It is always better to have an additional anti-virus as backup rather than having one anti-virus installed as having two anti-virus programs will ensure an anti-virus picks up and removes a virus the other anti-virus program didn't.
http://www.free-av.com/antivirus/allinonen.html

CCleaner (use this program every time you finish surfing the internet, it cleans your PC far more than "Disk Cleanup" which is preinstalled with Windows XP):
http://www.ccleaner.com/download/

Comodo Firewall (the best firewall out at the moment):
http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/

Windows Defender (this stops spyware from loading on to your PC in the first place):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=435BFCE7-DA2B-4A6A-AFA4-F7F14E605A0D&displaylang=en&mg_id=10134

Spyware Blaster (this secures your browser from being hijacked by spyware and adware, it also prevents you from visiting sites which are known to infect you the moment you visit them):
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

Ad-Aware (finds and cleans spyware):
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/products/ad-aware_se_personal.php

Spybot S&D (finds and cleans spyware):
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/mirrors/index.html

PeerGuardian (Protects you from being monitored by the authorities when downloading movies, games etc from torrent networks. It acts as a firewall for torrent downloading, preventing the government from spying on what you download):
http://phoenixlabs.org/pg2/

It's important that you download all of these, as a single program by itself cannot protect you against all threats, so these programs compliment each other very well. Also, they do not waste much memory. Remember to scan your PC as soon as you download them.