Hardware Guides
Free Computer Books
Latex
| Dante e.V. (home of CTAN) | CTAN |
| (La)tex documentation | (La)tex Navigator |
| TeX Users Group | TUG |
| The best latex editor | Kile |
| Two nice bibtex-based bibliography managers for KDE | Kbibtex and Kbib |
| The best (pdf)latex package to produce beamer presentations | Beamer |
Firefox extensions
| To block popups, adds, etc. | Adblock |
| Great way of surfing (warning: very addictive) | StumbleUpon |
| Downloads multiple files | downTHEMall |
| Useful toolbar for web development | Web Developer |
| To check the validity of html code | Html Validator |
| Combines the stop and reload buttons | Stop-or-Reload Button |
| To manage the advanced preferences | Preferential |
| To improve various search engines | BetterSearch |
| Better "view page source" | View formatted source |
| Better "view page source" | View rendered source |
| Automatically fills in form entries | Autofill |
| Save/load form entries | Scribe |
| Change size of images | Image Zoom |
Thunderbird extensions
| To enable about:config | AboutConfig |
| To add/remove signature | Signature Switch |
Useful tools
| A good vector graphic editor with an obsolete interface | XFig |
| A good vector graphics editor with a nice interface | Inkscape |
| Simply the best Image Manipulation Program | The Gimp |
| Promising (but still buggy) Desktop Publishing Software | Scribus |
| An excellent file synchronizer | Unison |
| A nice latex to htlm converter | tth |
| A good data visualiser under KDE | KVisualiser |
| To easily configure Mandriva Linux packages repositories | easy urpmi |