Link Mania: Quick Guide to Windows XP

5 productivity tips for Windows XP

Windows XP tips and tricks

Maintain your system with Windows XP

Help and How-to: Using Windows XP

Link Mania: Quick Picks

How to Write a Resume

How to Improve Your Writing

Amazon Video On Demand

From Water To Pillows, Airlines Pile On Fees

Movie Labels To Launch New "Open Market" Play Anywhere Scheme As Last Ditch Effort To Save DRM

Link Mania: Full Tilt

Zillow - online real estate service

Wize - "Wize gathers millions of product reviews from websites like Amazon.com, Walmart.com, and CNET. Using our proprietary technology we figure out which products are the best for how people want to use them."

Askville (by Amazon.com) -  "Askville is a place where you can share and discuss knowledge with other people by asking and answering questions on any topic.  It's a fun place to meet others with similar interests to you and a place where you can share what you know."

amapedia (by Amazon.com) - Amapedia is a community for sharing information about the products you like the most.

TechCrunch50 Conference 2008 - technology conference that started in 2007 with this goal: "find the best starts-ups and launch them in front of our industry's most influential VCs, corporations, fellow entrepreneurs and press"

U.S. News and World Report - online news resource (Breaking, World and Business News as well as America's Best Colleges)

Dell Inspiron Mini 9 - new miniature laptop from dell; good for internet browsing, e-mail, and other simple tasks; also very affordable and portable

Toofy Film Fest - a celebration of independent arts

MLive News - Michigan News, Updates, Photos and Video

The Green Guide - green living tips, product reviews, environmental health news

National Public Radio (NPR) - "NPR is an internationally acclaimed producer and distributor of noncommercial news, talk, and entertainment programming. A privately supported, not-for-profit membership organization..."

Democracy Now! - "...a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez."

My Rich Uncle Student Loans - "We believe that the financial aid process is more complex and confusing than it should be. It seemed to us that parents and students are just not receiving the information and tools they need to fell comfortable and well-informed about their decisions to pay for school. So we talked to parents and students, and considered the ways we can make it better."

OnTheIssues.org - candidates on the issues

Video from Gnomedex 8.0

Link Mania: Mint.com

One of the best, most useful pages I have found on Mint:

• Money 101 - build a solid financial foundation.

Also, Mint partners with the Motley Fool, who also have an excellent personal finance section:

• Personal Finance - from the Motley Fool

Other excellent articles I found on Mint.com:

• A Financial Management Guide For New Graduates
• 10 Financial Management Tips For The New Employee
• College Grads: Sticking to a Personal Budget Doesn’t Mean Sticking to Ramen
• Personal Expenses Mangement - Eight Things You Should Not Buy New

Personal Finance Forums

1. The Get Rich Slowly Forums
2. Mint.com: Personal Finance, Personal Budget, and ...
   
3. The Finance Forums
   

Link Mania: Full Tilt

Pownce - "Send messages, files, links, and events to your friends. Create a network of friends and share stuff. It's free and easy…"

Wise Bread - "Wise Bread is a community of bloggers here to help you live large on a small budget. Despite what you may have heard, you don't have to sacrifice your financial independence to enjoy life."

Tumblr - "To make a simple analogy: If blogs are journals, tumblelogs are scrapbooks.You can also look at tumblelogs as slightly more structured blogs that make it easier, faster, and more fun to post and share stuff you find or create."

Ma.gnolia - "How ishttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif Ma.gnolia different from other social bookmarking services? It starts with making the social side of social bookmarking work better. With contacts, groups and different ways to share bookmarks both within and outside of Ma.gnolia, we make working together on a casual basis or more formal projects fun and easy."

Webmonkey - "Webmonkey is an online resource for web developers. Here, you'll find tutorials, tips and advice for designing and building websites and programming web applications. We have articles for beginners, professionals, students, grandparents, bloggers and programmers of all skill levels."

Internet Public Library - "The IPL is many things:
* the first public library of and for the Internet community
* an experiment, trying to discover and promote the most effective roles and contributions of librarians to the Internet and vice versa
* a group of highly talented, creative, strong-willed people, working hard"

blip.tv - "We've got a great service for great shows. A new class of entertainment is emerging that is being made by the people without the support of billion-dollar multinationals. Our mission is to support these people by taking care of all the problems a budding videoblogger, podcaster or Internet TV producer tends to run into. We'll take care of the servers, the software, the workflow, the advertising and the distribution. We leave you free to focus on creativity."

Seesmic - "Seesmic provides anyone with an innovative way to communicate and connect online through video conversation. It's so easy: record a video directly on Seesmic's website, mobile phone or upload an existing video straight from your computer or link to a video posted on a social network. Join the Seesmic community and experience a new way to express yourself, make friends, join in active conversations, and engage in real interactions with real people."

FriendFeed - "FriendFeed enables you to keep up-to-date on the web pages, photos, videos and music that your friends and family are sharing. It offers a unique way to discover and discuss information among friends."

Some General Tips for Switch to Mac From Windows

Music, co-op games the dominant trends at E3

Inventor of the Internet takes aim at BitTorrent

8 Cool Things You Can Do With Your iPhone 2.0

Link Mania: Full Tilt

SmallNotebook.org - encouragement for a simple home

My Two Dollars - personal finance blog

I Will Teach You To Be Rich - personal finance blog

Wallet Pop - money and finance website by AOL

Consumerism Commentary - personal finance blog

Money Blog Network - personal finance blog network

PokerNews.com - independent online poker authority

Scour - innovative search engine that allows users to vote and comment on relevancy of results

Restaurant.com - "Restaurant.com helps restaurant owners promote the new and unique aspects of their restaurants while providing diners with great value in a fun, new and cost effective way"

ConsumerReports.org - "working for a fair, just, and safe marketplace for all consumers and empowering consumers to protect themselves"

Startcooking.com - learn the absolute basics of cooking, with short cooking videso and step-by-step photo tutorials

Energy Star - program to help people save money and protect the environment thorugh energy efficient products and practices

Reclaim Your Time: 20 Great Ways to Find More Free Time

Hidden Price Increases at the Grocery Store

How To Save on Your Energy Bill

Link Mania: The Simple Dollar

Trent quitting his job and becoming a full time writer:

• I Quit
• Early Reflections on a Career Change
• Reflections on Abandoning the 9 to 5, Four Months In

Other articles:

• Planning for the Long Haul: My Family's Lifetime Financial Plan
• Welcome to the Public Domain
• Ten Tactics for Improving Your Luck
• The One Skill That Will Earn You Money, No Matter What You Do
• The Minimalist Kitchen: What You Need to Set Up Your First Workable Home Kitchen
• What Individual Stocks Would I Invest In for the Long Haul?
• Money Magazine's "7 Investments You Need Now," Portfolio Theory, and My Own Plans for the Future
• Twelve Ways to Make Your Car a Better Investment
• How To Write an Effective Thank You Note for Any Occasion
• My Entrepreneurial Inspiration
• The Bogleheads Have Won: Dipping My Toes Into A Mutual Fund With Vanguard
• The Chorus of Voices for index Funds
• The Essential Bookshelf: The Only Eight Books I've Kept (After Hundreds of Reviews)
• How to Get Personal and Professional Value from Idle Web Surfing
• The Five Ps: Breaking Down Big Dreams Into Little Steps
• What I Read to Keep Up on Personal Finance

Links found on The Simple Dollar:

• Angies List - A word-of-mouth network for consumers (on service companies)
• The Home Depot Know-How Center - "Your destination for home improvement resources"
• Green Panda Treehouse - blog about money
• Twelve Top Personal Finance Podcast via Get Rich Slowly
• College Money Network - group of personal finance blogs run by college students, grad students, and recent grads

Link Mania: Emergency Fund

How and Why to Start an Emergency Fund - (via Get Rich Slowly)

21 Strategies for Creating an Emergency Fund... - (via zenhabits)

Building an emergency fund - (via Bankrate.com)

Why You Need an Emergency Fund - (via Kiplinger.com)

Emergency Funds - (via About.com)

Lifehacker Top Five

The following are five Lifehacker articles or discussions that I found useful and interesting:

1. Top 10 Modern Life Survival Skills

2. Top 10 Computer Annoyances and How to Fix Them

3. How Priorities Make Things Happen

4. How to Hack a Technical Job Interview

5. Best Video Feeds?