Here you will find some of our favorite links.
The phrase favorite can be taken loosely – sometimes we think a website is simply awesome, sometimes just very informative..
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Graphics Tools
| Google Fonts | Very large collection of high quality and free TrueType/OpenType fonts. |
| IcoMoon | Ultimate place to create your own icon fonts, with existing icons and/or your own designs, for your computer or webpage, ... for free. |
| NAPS2 - Not Another PDF Scanner 2 | Wonderful simple and reliable scanner application for Windows users. This still depends on your Windows having the proper scanner drivers installed, but it makes scanning to images or PDFs a lot easier. |
| Photopea | A free alternative to Photoshop (pretty close anyway), and runs in your browser - this works surprisingly good! |
| PhotoStream2Folder | Handy little program that automatically downloads pictures and videos from iCloud - highly recommended |
| VueScan | Ultimate scanning tool for Windows, Linux, and macOS, supporting pretty much any scanner, even those no longer supported by your OS. (no scanner drivers needed!) |
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Harware / Equipment
| DJI Vision | DJI Phantom 2 Vision plus - Ultimate quadcopter drones ... |
| Frizting | Free tool to design schematics and PCB's - they even offer a very affordable PCB production service. |
| Leapfrog 3D printers | Manufacturer of the great Creatr and Xeed 3D printers - Stunning customer service!! |
| Simplify3D Troubleshooting Guide | Awesome guide to help you with 3D printing problems ... |
Internet Tools
| Down For Every One or Just Me? | Checks if a website (URL) is up or down, for every one or just you ... Awesome to test when a link is not working. |
| Internet Archive: Wayback Machine | Ever wondered what a current or disappeared website used to look like? Check it! Go back in time ... |
| Put.io | Online disk ruimte met Torrent mogelijkheden! |
| Security Awareness Tip of the Day | Great resource to make you online-life more secure - definitely some great tips here and a recommended read. |
| SpeedOf.me | Test the speed of your Internet connection |
| SpeedTest.net | Test the speed of your Internet connection (requires Flash!!!) |
| XKPassword | Super practical website for those who need to generate one or a list of passwords based on words (more secure). |
MacOS X Tools
| 0xED - Hex Editor | Compact, fast and very flexible Hex (hexadecimal) editor for MacOS. |
| Burn | Small, free, and super powerful tool for burning CD's and DVD's (audio, video,data). |
| Find Any File (FAF) | [Shareware] Find any File, even when Spotlight fails (eg. your network shares) |
| ForkLift | Great tool for FTP, SFTP, remote editing of text files (through SSH) and even a great Finder replacement - Not free, but keep an eye on special offerings (I got my copy for $5) |
| Google Fonts | Very large collection of high quality and free TrueType/OpenType fonts. |
| Hex Fiend | Free Open Source Hex viewer and editor for MacOS X. |
| IcoMoon | Ultimate place to create your own icon fonts, with existing icons and/or your own designs, for your computer or webpage, ... for free. |
| IINA VideoPlayer | One of the best media players for MacOS X - it's free and a great alternative for, and more stable than, VLC. |
| PhotoStream2Folder | Handy little program that automatically downloads pictures and videos from iCloud - highly recommended |
| VueScan | Ultimate scanning tool for Windows, Linux, and macOS, supporting pretty much any scanner, even those no longer supported by your OS. (no scanner drivers needed!) |
| XSlimmer | Awesome tool to get back some of the wasted harddisk space by removing unused application stuff. Highly recommended! |
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Miscellaneous
| DJI Vision | DJI Phantom 2 Vision plus - Ultimate quadcopter drones ... |
| Google Fonts | Very large collection of high quality and free TrueType/OpenType fonts. |
| Osceola, WI | My other home-town ... love living there! Osceola rocks! |
| Ulvenhout.com | My home town ... Ulvenhout in the Netherlands (Noord Brabant) |
| XKPassword | Super practical website for those who need to generate one or a list of passwords based on words (more secure). |
Operating Systems
| Elementary OS (Freya) | Freya, a.k.a. Elementary OS, is my favorite Linux distribution. It looks slick and works great. Highly recommend it. |
| Kubuntu | Kubuntu is a Ubuntu variant that use KDE as it's desktop manager. Fast and well supported. |
| Lubuntu | A Ubuntu variant aimed at being small and fast. Love it! |
| Security Awareness Tip of the Day | Great resource to make you online-life more secure - definitely some great tips here and a recommended read. |
| Ubuntu | Ubuntu is probably one of the most used Linux distro's out there. Very well supported and a great Linux distro |
| Xubuntu | Lightweight XFce based Ubuntu variant. |
Software
| AlternativeTo | Great resource when you're looking for alternatives for an application that you'd like to use, but might not be available on your platform or the application you have is just not doing it right. |
| MalwareBytes | Probably one of the best tools to prevent and remove all kinds of malware and viruses on Windows and MacOS X. |
| NCH Software - WavePad | Awesome Audio editor (from audio and even video files!), free for home use, available for Windows, MacOS X, iOS and Android. |
| Photopea | A free alternative to Photoshop (pretty close anyway), and runs in your browser - this works surprisingly good! |
| VueScan | Ultimate scanning tool for Windows, Linux, and macOS, supporting pretty much any scanner, even those no longer supported by your OS. (no scanner drivers needed!) |
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Software Development
| 0xED - Hex Editor | Compact, fast and very flexible Hex (hexadecimal) editor for MacOS. |
| Animizer | Animizer.net provides complete online toolbox for animations (GIF and APNG) - Edit, Assemble, Split or Convert, it's all there. |
| Lazarus / FPC | Lazarus / Free Pascal Compiler - A cross platform software development environment that show similarities with the good old Delphi. |
| Packages | Great tool for MacOS X developers, to create your own installer packages (free). |
| RegExr | Awesome website to play and experiment with regular expression! |
Video Tools
| HandBrake | Great tool for ripping DVD's and converting video. |
| IINA VideoPlayer | One of the best media players for MacOS X - it's free and a great alternative for, and more stable than, VLC. |
| KODI (a.k.a. XBMC) | KODI (XBMC) is probably the best media center application out there, suitable for multiple platforms. |
| Media Player Classic | My favorite media player for Windows - light weight and supports all common video formats. |
| MySolutions.Tech | Best DVD/Blu-ray/Video Solutions-Help You to Digitize Your Colorful Life |
| OpenElec | The ultimate XBMC distribution. No operating system required, comes completely in a compact form with Embedded Linux, for Intel, AMD, AppleTV, Raspberry Pi, etc. |
| TinyMediaManager | Small, but slick little application to manage your movies and movies meta-data (Windows, MacOS X and Linux!). |
| ViMediaManager | ViMediaManager is a media manager for Mac OS X, allowing you to gather, store, and manage information, extra art, trailers and television tunes for your movie, television etc for use with for example XBMC. |
| VLC - VideoLAN Media Player | One of the most flexible media players around and available on multiple computer platforms. Handles pretty much any audio and video type available and plays DVD as well. |
| XMedia Recode | Excellent tool for Windows users to convert pretty much any video format to any other video format, including some helpful options like removing unwanted tracks. |
Web Development
| CleverSubmitter | Submits your website for indexing with a truckload of search engines. |
| Google Fonts | Very large collection of high quality and free TrueType/OpenType fonts. |
| GTMetrix | Awesome tool to analyze the speed of your website! |
| IcoMoon | Ultimate place to create your own icon fonts, with existing icons and/or your own designs, for your computer or webpage, ... for free. |
| PreLoaders | Handy little online tool to generate preload images (spinners). |
| RegExr | Awesome website to play and experiment with regular expression! |
| Robots.txt Analyzer | Very simple and effective tool for online checking of your robots.txt file without having to use Google Webmaster Tools. |
| Visualping | Great website if you like to track website changes when changes occur (hourly, daily, weekly). |
| WhyNoPadLock | Test your website and discover why the green padlock is not appearing when using HTTPS |
| WordPress | WordPress is one of the best tools for Blogs and Content Management Systems. |
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Windows Tools
| 7-Zip | One of the best, free, and most efficient Windows archive and unarchive utilties around. Support quite a few formats as well. |
| Animizer | Animizer.net provides complete online toolbox for animations (GIF and APNG) - Edit, Assemble, Split or Convert, it's all there. |
| Google Fonts | Very large collection of high quality and free TrueType/OpenType fonts. |
| IcoMoon | Ultimate place to create your own icon fonts, with existing icons and/or your own designs, for your computer or webpage, ... for free. |
| Microsoft PowerToys for Windows 10 | Back in the day (Windows 98/XP era) we had PowerToys - Microsoft released them again for Windows 10 (free) |
| NAPS2 - Not Another PDF Scanner 2 | Wonderful simple and reliable scanner application for Windows users. This still depends on your Windows having the proper scanner drivers installed, but it makes scanning to images or PDFs a lot easier. |
| OldApps (iTunes) | Find older Windows iTunes versions here! |
| PDFCreator | Ultimate tool for Windows users: Print ANYTHING you can print to a PDF with this FREE printer driver. |
| Start-is-Back | Ultimate Start-button replacement for Windows 8 and 8.1 - Super cheap, but highly recommended. |
| VueScan | Ultimate scanning tool for Windows, Linux, and macOS, supporting pretty much any scanner, even those no longer supported by your OS. (no scanner drivers needed!) |
| WinRAR | My favorite file compression/decompression tool. Fast, efficient, and support quite a lot of formats. Unfortunately ... NOT free. |
| WinSCP | WinSCP - Great free tool for (S)FTP/SSH, includes remote editing of text files, copying files, etc. |