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junk & files to download

• JAlbum : a great and FREE web photo album maker. It's what's used to make the eCaudill Photo Albums
• AdAware : must have anti-spyware software
• SpyBot Search & Destroy : the other must-have anti-spyware software
• AVG's Free Anti-Virus : a highly rated, free anti-virus (and other features) program
• GIMP : a free, photo retouching program with many of the features and PhotoShop.
• CardRecovery : not free, but saved by behind when I accidentally erased all of the pictures from my camera's SD card.  It also saved my pictures when my PC wouldn't recognize the card (thinking it was corrupt).  Trust me, if you think you're going to lose some priceless pictures, it's the best $40 you'll ever spend.
• OpenProj : a free, Microsoft Project replacement.  It reads Microsoft Project files and is an overall nice program - all things considered.
• KeePass Password Safe : a free password vault program.  There is a desktop/laptop version as well as a thumbdrive one.
• OpenOffice : a very powerful, and free alternative to the Microsoft Office Suite.  It includes Writer (Word), Calc (Excel), Impress (PowerPoint), Base (Access), Draw (Visio), and Math (formula writer).  I actually uninstalled Microsoft Office on my desktop and installed this instead without any issues.  A suite to seriously consider.
• Picasa : Google's free photo organizer - and so much more!  Red-eye removal, image effects, slideshow movies, photo albums, etc.
• Windows Photo Story : a great program that takes digital pictures and music files and turns them into slideshow movies... similar to Picasa, but a bit better.
• KompoZer : a free, open-source HTML editor.  Very simple and well designed.
• Core FTP LE : a free, FTP client to upload those webpages you've just written.
• PDFill : a very nice, free suite of PDF manipulation tools including (but certainly not limited to) merging, splitting, and reordering PDF files.  There is also a 'printer' driver to enable creation of PDF from the print menu.
• Foxit Reader : a very nice, and feature-filled alternative to Adobe Acrobat Reader.  What I like best about it is how 'light' it is on system requirements as opposed to the drag that Acrobat Reader puts on a computer.

miscellanous

• Ska's FJ40 Macromedia Flash movie... the first one!
• Downtown Raleigh Map (1.56MB PDF) from the Greater Raleigh Convention and Visitors Bureau. Includes locations of shops, museums, accommodations, schools, and parks.
• Downtown Restaurant Map (519kB PDF) from Visit Raleigh.  A nice list of downtown restaurants.  This was posted 2/9/2009.
• Raleigh Capital Area Greenway Map (2.95MB PDF) with locations and distances of all Greenways.
• Baseball scoring sheet (160kB PDF) for all of those Durham Bulls games. Check out a scoring tutorial here.

links

friends on the web

• Verlin.com : a brand-new iteration of Verlin's website. Impressive indeed... straight outta Henderson boi!
• Tiger and Heather : family pictures.
• JayMade : 2D & 3D graphic designer and co-worker Jay Rich... check out his work!
• The Cunningham Clan : check out the brood!
• Welcome To My Nightmare : page from what seems like forever ago that hasn't been updated in years.

raleigh / triangle

• Triangle Citysearch : one of the first city guides for things going on in the Triangle.
• Raleigh Now : a very nice city guide... might be better than CitySearch.
• Triangle.com : another city guide (tied to The News & Observer) worth checking out.

• Durham Bulls : farm team of the MLB Tampa Bay Devil Rays. The minor league AAA team's official site. Don't forget your baseball scoring sheet!
• Carolina Hurricanes : the NHL team's official site.
• NC State University sports : official website for the Wolfpack.
• NC Museum of Natural Sciences : Located in downtown Raleigh.
• NC Museum of Art : Located in North Raleigh
• Marbles Kid's Museum : Located in downtown Raleigh, this is more of a children's museum that teaches about the peoples and cultures of the world. Also houses Raleigh's IMAX Theater.
• NC Museum of Life and Science : Located in Durham, this museum has, among many other things, a beautiful butterfly house/preserve.
• NC Museum of History : Located in downtown Raleigh right across from the Natural Sciences museum.

• Know Your Brewer : A fantastic place to find information on North Carolina breweries and brew pubs.
• Carolina Brewing Company : Some of the best brew around... and made in Holly Springs.
• Big Boss Brewing Company : A local brewery that opened in 2006.  They also have a very nice in-house tavern - drink up!
• Lonerider Brewing Company : A new (as of April 2009) brewery in Raleigh.  Very tasty brews from what I've tried so far!
• Tír na nÓg : Irish pub in downtown Raleigh.  One of the first bars that opened at the beginning of the downtown revitalization back in the late '90's.  Located here.
• The Flying Saucer : a chain bar with ~80 beers on tap.  I must also mention it's worth visiting for the 'scenery'.  Located here.
• The Raleigh Times : a fairly new bar in downtown Raleigh.  For reasons I can't explain, it has some sort of allure that makes you want to go there - even with the way overpriced beers.  Located here.
• Hibernian Pub : A great pub in Glenwood South (one in Cary as well).  Tall pints and lots of room... one of the better striaght-up beer-drinking bars in town.  Located here.

satire and hilarity

• The Onion : one of, if not the, best satire websites out there.
• Landover Baptist Church : guaranteeing salvation since 1612.
• SeanBaby : in a nutshell, a collection of classic comic (mis)adventures - those odd Hostess comic ads, The Super Friends, classic video game junk, great reader mail.
• Chickenhead : "Towering Pillar of Intellectual Bankruptcy".
• Stuff White People Like : that pretty much sums it up.