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  • Schplock
    Krsitins Sprachblog. "Hier geht es um Sprache(n) und Sprachwissenschaft, manchmal etwas komplexer, aber ab und an hoffentlich auch allgemeinverständlich."
  • Chinas Schätze
    Verenas China-Seite "soll ein kleiner Wegweiser sein zu Chinas Schätzen. Sie erkundet den Alltag und die Sprache, zeigt boomende Metropolen und vergessene Plätze, Tradition und Moderne, Beschaulichkeit und Fortschritt. Sie blickt in Chinas Wohnzimmer, Chinas Kochtöpfe und Chinas Karaoke-Bars."
  • Indexed
    "This site is a little project that lets me make fun of some things and sense of others. I use it to think a little more relationally without resorting to doing actual math."
  • The New Adventures of Mr Stephen Fry
    Renowned British comedian/actor/presenter Stephen Fry writes about open source software, gadgets, language and other things.

 Productivity

  • "Getting Things Done"
    Wikipedia entry on the Getting Things Done productivity system by David Allen.
  • GTD-Grundlagen
    Getting Things Done essentials explained in German. "GTD richtet sich als Selbstorganisationssystem insbesondere an Wissensarbeiter, also Menschen, deren vorwiegendes Arbeitsmaterial Wissen und Informationen sind, und deren hauptsächliches Arbeitsmittel ihr Kopf ist."
  • Zen To Done
    German translation of the book Zen to Done. "Zen To Done ist ein Selbstmanagement-System, für das der Blogger Leo Babauta das Beste aus dem berühmtem “Getting Things Done” und anderen Methoden genommen, gemixt und in ein Buch gegossen hat."

Software

  • Ubuntu
    The operating system of my choice. "Our work is driven by a philosophy on software freedom that aims to spread and bring the benefits of software to all parts of the world."
  • OpenOffice.org
    might not have as many features as Microsft Office yet. But it also comes with less bugs and for free.
  • LaTeX
    " LaTeX is a high-quality typesetting system; it includes features designed for the production of technical and scientific documentation. LaTeX is the de facto standard for the communication and publication of scientific documents."
    • Texmaker
      "Texmaker is a free LaTeX editor, that integrates many tools needed to develop documents with LaTeX, in just one application. Texmaker runs on unix, macosx and windows systems and is released under the GPL license ."
  • Firefox English / German
    The most versatile web browser you'll find.
    • Aardvark
      "Powerful and user-friendly selector utility for selecting elements and doing various actions on them. It can be used for cleaning up a page prior to printing it (by removing and isolating elements), and for web development."
    • DownThemAll! English / German
      A download manager for Firefox.
    • Firebug
      "Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page..."
  • GIMP
    "GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages."
  • Inkscape
    "An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format."
  • Scribus
    "Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of 'press-ready' output and new approaches to page layout."
  • Subversion
    An open-source revision control system. It's primarily used for software development, but why not use revision control for papers, articles etc.
    • RapidSVN
      Multi-platform GUI front-end for the Subversion revision system.