Here is a list* of video channels, operating systems, web services, software, games and books, I would recommend any day. I will keep updating this list with what I feel is the best that technology has to offer.
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* Descriptions provided below are mostly reproduced from the item’s homepage/wikipedia.
Online Video
TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Today, TED is best thought of as a global community, welcoming people from every discipline and culture who seek a deeper understanding of the world, and hope to turn that understanding into a better future for us all.
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
The Daily Show is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning program that takes a reality-based look at news, trends, pop culture, current events, politics, sports and entertainment with an alternative point of view. In each show, anchorman Jon Stewart and a team of correspondents comment on the day’s stories, employing actual news footage, taped field pieces, in-studio guests and on-the-spot coverage of news events.
The awesome Stephen Colbert delivers the day’s news and events through his fictional anchorman character who he describes as a “well-intentioned, poorly informed, high-status idiot”. This hilarious Emmy and Peabody award winning show is a much watch for your daily dose of “truthiness”.
Founded in March 2007, Hulu is an online video service that offers hit TV shows, movies and clips at Hulu.com and other online destination sites. Hulu brings together a large selection of videos from nearly 190 leading content companies. Users can choose from more than 1,700 current primetime TV hits, TV classics, movies and documentaries.
Movies
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Books
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Operating Systems
Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that showcases the latest in free and open source software. Fedora is always free for anyone to use, modify, and distribute. It is built by people across the globe who work together as a community: the Fedora Project.
Web Services and Tools
Wikipedia is a multilingual, Web-based, free-content encyclopedia project based mostly on anonymous contrinutions. Dubbed “The Free Encyclopedia”, Wikipedia is written collaboratively by an international group of volunteers. Since its creation in 2001, Wikipedia has grown rapidly into one of the largest reference web sites with around 65 million visitors each month. So if you want information on any topic, Wikipedia might just be the best place to go.
Delicious is a social bookmarking service that allows users to tag, save, manage and share web pages from a centralized source. With empahsis on the pwoer of the community, Delicious greatly improves how people discover, remember and share on the internet.
Software Applications
Firefox is an award-winning free and open source web browser, which boasts of security, speed and new features that will change the way you use the Web.
Thunderbird is a powerful, safe, fast and easy email client, which includes intelligent spam filters, powerful search and customizable views. As advertised by Thunderbird community, “Reclaim your inbox” with Thunderbird.
Skype is a free IM, voice and video messenging application which also allows calls to landlines and mobiles in many countries via a paid service.
Empathy is a messenging program which supports text, voice, and video chat and file transfers over many different protocols. You can tell it about your accounts on all those services and do all you chatting within on application.
VLC media player is a highly portable, open-source, multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
GIMP is GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
Pybliographer is a tool for managing bibliographic databases, with a user-friendly GNOME interface for editing, searching and inserting into several authoring software. It can also search external databases and fetch citation information.
Texmaker is a free LaTeX editor, that integrates many tools needed to develop documents with LaTeX, in just one application.
OpenOffice.org is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It stores all the data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages.
Games
Game recommendations will be added shortly.