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    • Artists

      • Black Dot Studios Ian Jones-Quartey’s Animation and drawing website
      • Dubworks Jonathan H. Gray art as seen in Archie comics’ Sonic the Hedgehog and on the internet
      • Starline X. Hodge Online portfolio and portal to Starline’s online comics and things like that

    • Arts

    • Blogs

      • BlogExplosion Useful stuff for bloggers
      • BlogMad Blog related site to help you keep your blog running smooth
      • bthesite The website for the daily newspaper “B” (not most google friendly name), the <a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com">Baltimore Sun</a>’s free daily. I would call it an interesting experiment in web and publishing integration.
      • w.bloggar Great freeware program for posting to your blog. I like it because I post my blog as a mirror on livejournal and on my own site and it makes it easy this way

    • Cartoons

      • Anime News Network It’s actually anime news, don’t let the title fool you.
      • Couch Slave Studios Matt Wilson of <a href="http://www.bonusstages.com">Bonus Stage</a> for flash animation stuff

    • Design

      • 36 Point Home of The Reflex Blue Show, a graphic design podcast
      • A List Apart Web design and development articles
      • Amateur Illustrator Amateur Illustrator takes a the simple and effective approach of putting up art galleries and forums letting you immediately access great content. Like Digg, they’ve moved away from the importance of the profile. You can still see the artist’s informa
      • Artlog Artlog aggregates art news, an event and exhibit log, news, museum information and a social layer into what turns out to be a promising product. The focus on the real world of art brings it above the self-love of user-generated profiles. Although they hav
      • Bad Design Kills Bad design is everywhere, let’s stop it now
      • css.maxdesign.com.au Tutorials on how to format lists, float and colums. Really good
      • David Bromstad Artist and interior designer. Definitely worth a look because of his fun personality and he’s got good looks going on as well. Enjoy!
      • Design Center
      • Design Float Not unlike the more generalized social rating site Digg, Design Float aims to help the design community share websites of interest with each other. It’s especially useful if you’re looking for specific topics such as photography. Digg has a more gener
      • FontForge FontForge is a nifty font editor that supports the very common TrueType, PostScript, OpenType formats among others. Besides allowing you to edit your fonts, it supports automatic format conversion and transformations. The documentation seems straightforwa
      • GIMP GIMP is the most widely known Photoshop alternative. Most of the functions that you might use in Photoshop are implemented; you can crop, adjust colors, save as different file formats, use various filters and brushes. CMYK support is there but fairly weak
      • Graphic Artists Guild Professional organization for commercial artists
      • Graphic Design Forum Great graphic design articles for the real world
      • Graphic Design Network The name might imply it or maybe not, but this site has a strict focus on building a community of designers and web developers. It’s based on the Ning social network development platform and is built its user base around the existing Estitica Design For
      • HOW Magazine
      • Inkscape Inkscape is a vector editor similar to Corel Draw or Adobe Illustrator. It uses the standard SVG format which makes it compatible with other graphics programs. The interface is streamlined and familiar since they focus on usability. It includes tutorials
      • myartspace What makes this site interesting is that it connects artists with curators, collectors and others involved in the arts. They also have a blog of interviews with artists on various levels.
      • PDFCreator This handy program adds itself to your Windows printer menu. Anything you print can be converted to PDF format or various other graphics formats for you to manipulate. Very handy to have on any system.
      • Pixel Art Hey why not. It’s a community of pixel artists. It’s funny that now any type of community platform is now considered social networking. It’s strange how terminology suddenly defines something. The best of these new “social networks” are the ones
      • Sabet TV Sabet, “a community of hyper-talented folks”, gives a feed approach similar to Facebook showing users recent activity and a flash slideshow of works. They also have videos and galleries. There is a lot of content types here meshed together
      • The Outer Post The Outer Post is a nice and friendly site where you can create art portfolios featured in your profile. In most other ways its like a lot of other social networking sites. The community is uniquely artists and that changes the landscape of how you can re
      • Urbanseeder While it’s in beta right now, it’s worth a mention. Urbanseeder is truly social networking. It allows you to connect with people you’ve met in a sandboxed environment. It’s a pretty creative concept, you’ll have to look at it
      • VIRB VIRB takes your interests and turns them into a more visual experience. The keyword and list oriented profiles of myspace and facebook are contrasted by VIRB’s focus on sharing your generated content. So basically, you post up your photos, link up your

    • Fashion

    • Finances

    • Job & Career

      • Job Talk Job Talk is a broadcast radio program also available in podcast form. Great tips for your job search and how to behave at work.
      • Simply Hired Consolidated job listings site. Really good

    • Music

    • News

      • bthesite The website for the daily newspaper “B” (not most google friendly name), the <a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com">Baltimore Sun</a>’s free daily. I would call it an interesting experiment in web and publishing integration.
      • explorebaltimorecounty.com Explore Baltimore County is a Baltimore County-centric website combining stories from Arbutus Times, Baltimore Messenger, Catonsville Times, Jeffersonian, Towson Times, North County News, Northeast Booster, Northeast Reporter, Owings Mills Times and Towso
      • explorehoward.com Howard County, Maryland News from Explore Howard

    • People

      • Facebook Connect with your college and high school friends.
      • JeffreyAtw Jeffrey Faden blog and music and stuff like that
      • Lovetastic Dating site for guys looking for guys to love
      • Myspace People site. You might have heard of it
      • The Outer Post This social network focuses on artists and musicians. You can post songs or your art portfolio!
      • Van Goodwin My friend. Visit his page!

    • Podcasts

      • 36 Point Home of The Reflex Blue Show, a graphic design podcast
      • Digg News site based on user reviews. You can get everything from Art and Design to the latest Tech News
      • KompoZer KompoZer is a WYSIWYG html and css editor, think FrontPage or Dreamweaver. It’s based on the same rendering platform as Firefox. It’s meant to be easy to use for newcomers and non-technical users. Advanced users of Dreamweaver will miss some features,
      • Photoshop TV Video tv show podcast with photoshop tips and tutorials
      • Scribus I’m a heavy InDesign user and since it’s what I use at work, that’s not likely to change. It is good to know that there is an open source alternative for InDesign, Pagemaker, QuarkXPress or even the unfortunate Microsoft Publisher. It’s designed t
      • The Daily Plate at Livestrong Search more than 406,800 foods for calorie counts, total carbs, fat, protein or any other nutrition facts. Includes all the fast food places like Wendy’s and Burger King, restaurants like Friendy’s, prepackaged foods, etc
      • The French Ecole Website Great website for french lessons. They have great audio lessons available in podcast form!
      • The Rookie Designer Network Podcasts for the young pro graphic designer. Quick design tips and career tips

    • Random

      • Fint The internet’s number one webcomic.
      • Gmail Great email from Google
      • Google Reader Online Google Reader. Good for taking your feeds where ever you go or reading at home it’s fine.
      • Knock Em Dead Great career planning information. The books are good too
      • Lulu A publishing company that will make print on demand books, magazines, CDs and DVDs. Great for making personalized gifts
      • Mint Free web based financial software for your basic finance needs
      • NetPost Mailing Online Upload files and mail postcards, letters, brochures and more all from your computer. Great time saver and very affordable print on demand services.
      • Official Google Blog
      • Real Simple Life made easier. Really! They have great tips on this site from everything from organizing to cooking to whatever will make your day to day life easier.
      • SimplyHired Find job listings from thousands of other job listing sites such as monster and craigslist. Good because it’s all consolidated
      • So You Wanna Guides to help you do what you want to do
      • Stumble Upon Find great links
      • Superhero Hype! All about Superhero and comic book movies and that type of thing.
      • Ta-da List Simple online to do lists
      • Television Without Pity Oh yes, talk about Project Runway, Gilmore Girls and all those shows I like. Recaps in case you missed it or forgot what happen and the forums are really the best part for me
      • TitanTV Great site for tracking your tv viewing. Check what’s on tv, get reminded of your favorites, things like that.
      • UXN Comprehensive X-Men Fansite

    • Shopping

    • Software

      • Blinksale Online invoicing system
      • ConvertXtoDVD AVI to DVD Video Converter Software. Creates menus and burns your files to DVD from a variety of different formats.
      • FontForge FontForge is a nifty font editor that supports the very common TrueType, PostScript, OpenType formats among others. Besides allowing you to edit your fonts, it supports automatic format conversion and transformations. The documentation seems straightforwa
      • GIMP GIMP is the most widely known Photoshop alternative. Most of the functions that you might use in Photoshop are implemented; you can crop, adjust colors, save as different file formats, use various filters and brushes. CMYK support is there but fairly weak
      • Inkscape Inkscape is a vector editor similar to Corel Draw or Adobe Illustrator. It uses the standard SVG format which makes it compatible with other graphics programs. The interface is streamlined and familiar since they focus on usability. It includes tutorials
      • Mint Free web based financial software for your basic finance needs
      • mIRC: Internet Relay Chat client My favorite chat client. If you’re not familiar with [[IRC]] its definitely worth a try. Read a little bit about it if you have difficulty. mIRC is a great place to start for that.
      • PDFCreator This handy program adds itself to your Windows printer menu. Anything you print can be converted to PDF format or various other graphics formats for you to manipulate. Very handy to have on any system.

    • Web Development