Diegetics

Diegeticists, what is best in life?

A handy thread to share and discuss all those marvellous and useful tools and toys the www provides us with for little to no money.

I'll start us off:
http://www.spotify.com

Spotify is a service which gives you free streaming access to a huge library of music, similar to but with twice the number of tracks, a neater interface and its easier to use. All you need to do is create an account and download their client application. Alas - it is only currently available in Sweden, Norway, Finland, the UK, France, Spain and the Netherlands.

Books!

Sparky wrote: There's this awesome thing...

YAY!

... but it's not for you

DIE, MOTHERFUCKER!

linux and/or freebsd

if your ignorant of any of this new world, its your fault, the books where printed but you where too lazy to learn how to read.

Speaking of free, open source middleware and general Java goodness can be found at the . ActiveMQ! Tomcat! Servicemix! Ant! The world's most popular http server! Etc!

Alternative to MS Office:

Mature software that is the successor to the ill-fated OpenOffice done in by Oracle