hey, look at that. a site dedicated to free, original ringtones that actually sound like regular notifications. amazing.

good portion of these are freeware. great to download for a laugh (or in the case of cave story, complete obsession).

oooooh...this could waste a whole bunch of time.

stands for your gadgets are great, but probably way too expensive than they should be. here's a bunch of cheap/free ones you can make yourself.

nero or roxio too much or too expensive for your cd burning purposes? i've had infrarecorder on my portable usb drive for a year now, and it does a much better job than the giants, but any of these should do the trick.

open source acrobat reader replacements. get rid of the bloat! windows users - my personal favorite is foxit, which is not on this list, but still very free and very fast.

i'm a huge nerd, and yet, i had no idea this existed. for those of you who ask google about seemingly rogue windows processes, you may want to start asking here instead.

this one takes the cake.

all the sysinternals freeware utilities for direct download in one spot - run directly from any windows machine connected to the 'net.

yet another badass free e-book site. go forth and absorb, kids.

yet another excellent place for free fonts.

find new music based on stuff you already dig. lots of unsigned artists, but good quality stuff and a much simpler interface than last.fm.

free ebooks by people who write books. direct downloads for mobipocket reader, which is my ebook reader of choice, too!

good starting point for wannabe hackers. check the comments for alternatives.

licensed through creative commons; maps of almost anything you could imagine, in gif, pdf, and eps formats. found this for a friend.

very simple thesaurus with rhyming matches and some other cool writer's block remedies.

wanna try/abuse it without having to give up your e-mail address?
user: dssignage@mailinator.com
pass: L7G6BF

looks legit enough.