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• Local/Austin Area
  • Professional/Social Networks
    • Austin Tech Happy Hour
    • Door64 (Matt Genovese)
    • GeekAustin (Lynn Bender)
    • I.E.E.E. Central Texas Consultants Network (Robert "Bob" Spiegel, et al)
    • Launch Pad Job Club (Kathy Lansford)
    • Refresh Austin
  • Austin Film Commission: part of the City of Austin
  • Austin Film Society: a non-profit film production society
  • Goodwill Computer Works in Austin, Texas, which operates an excellent computer museum
  • IGDA Austin, TX Chapter, formerly Austin Game Developers (AGD)
  • Steve Jackson Games: Austin-based longtime purveyor of quality tabletop/paper-based games including Car Wars, Generic Universal Role-Playing System (GURPS) and Munchkin
• Computers
  • Computer History
    • Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California -- includes the artifacts of the former Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC, now part of Compaq) Computer Museum from Boston, MA, USA
    • DigiBarn Computer Museum
    • Old Calculator Web Museum
    • Goodwill Computer Works in Austin, Texas, which operates an excellent computer museum
  • Computer Software
    • Commercial Software
      • Red Hat: a leading commercial distributor of and support provider for the Linux operating system
    • Free/No-Cost/Donation-Supported Software
      • Linux.org: free operating system software
      • Mozilla.org: free (donation-supported) World-Wide Web browsers with tabbed browsing, bug trackers, etc.
      • OpenOffice.org: free (donation-supported) office application software, similar to Sun's StarOffice
      • Grisoft AVG: If you absolutely must run Microsoft Windows, this product can help cover some of its serious security holes. For non-institutional users, Grisoft offers a free version, which may be phased out soon
      • NASA WorldWind: explore Earth, the Moon, Mars, etc. in three dimensions (free, with open source code!); runs on Microsoft Windows relies heavily on DirectX, so be sure to check video card compatibility before downloading
    • Software Development
      • SourceForge.net: collaborative open-source programming projects and resources
  • Internet Infrastructure
    • Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN): the authoritative source for information regarding Internet domain names
    • World Wide Web Consortium (W3C): the authoritative source for information regarding publishing on the World Wide Web
    • Web Statistics
      • Alexa (an Amazon.com company)
      • Quantcast
    • Search Engines and Web Portals
      • Google (be sure to see its "advanced search" tips)
      • Alta Vista: from Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), now part of Compaq
      • Yahoo!
• Entertainment
  • Games
    • Cheapass Games: cheap, fun, tabletop/paper-based games
    • Steve Jackson Games: Austin-based longtime purveyor of quality tabletop/paper-based games including Car Wars, Generic Universal Role-Playing System (GURPS) and Munchkin
    • Warehouse 23: Steve Jackson Games' on-line store for many brands of paper-based games
  • Electronic Entertainment and Game Development
    • Electronic Entertainment Exposition (E³ Expo), sponsored by ESA
    • Entertainment Software Association (ESA)
    • Game Developer Magazine, published by CMP United Business Media
    • Game Developers Conference (GDC), sponsored by CMP and IGDA
    • International Game Developers Association (IGDA)
    • IGDA Austin, TX Chapter, formerly Austin Game Developers (AGD)
  • Filmmaking/Motion Picture Production
    • Austin Film Commission: part of the City of Austin
    • Austin Film Society: a non-profit film production society
    • Internet Movie Database (IMDB)
    • MovieFX Video Magazine
    • Texas Film Commission: part of the Texas state government, run from the Office of the Governor
• General Interest
  • Job Listings
    • Indeed.com: job listing aggregator
    • CareerBuilder.com
    • Dice.com
    • Monster.com
    • WorkInTexas.com: a service of the Texas Workforce Commission
  • News
    • Cable News Network (CNN): Turner Broadcasting
    • Wall Street Journal: Dow Jones, now part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
  • Reference
    • Wikipedia: free on-line encyclopedia with information available in many languages, all contributed by users; note that Star Wars fans now have their own version, called Wookieepedia
    • Dictionary.com: free on-line dictionary
    • Alta Vista's Babelfish: on-line translator
    • Internet Movie Database (IMDB)
    • Gracenote Compact Disc Dadbase (CDDB)
  • Shipping
    • DHL: named for 1969 founders Adrian Dalsey, Larry Hillblom, and Robert Lynn, part of German Deutsche Post AG (apparently an offshoot from the Princely House of Thurn and Taxis)
    • Federal Express (FedEx)
    • United Parcel Service (UPS)
    • United States Postal Service (USPS): a self-funded division of the United States federal government
  • Shopping
    • Amazon.com: new and used consumer goods
    • Digi-Key: excellent stocking distributor of electronic components
    • eBay: Inc.: on-line auction in which nearly anything goes