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Some useful web tools

• Bing Swedish
• MSN
• YouTube Broadcast Yourself
• Endless YouTube A very nice tool if you want to loop YouTube videos
• Wikipedia English
• Wikipedia Swedish
• Online Unit Conversion
• Google Translate Swedish
• Google Swedish

Miscellaneous links

• Very good information about Skåne
• Lund University (LU)
• Lund Institute of Technology (LTH)
• Vattenhallen Science Center LTH (in Swedish)
• Biological Museums at Lund University
• SundTV - Lund Museum of Zoology A very nice video from this very fascinating museum! (talk in Swedish) New!
• Lennart's nice page about Lund Museum of Zoology I really hope that this very fascinating museum can be preserved in some form! (in Swedish)
• WWF World
• WWF Sweden I am Tiger sponsor for them. Please join!
• Individual Human Aid Sweden (Individuell Människohjälp, IM)

Astronomy

• Lund Observatory
• Statistic for astronomers by L. Lindegren (very good and useful, download lecture 1-8 from this web-page)
• Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT)
• European Southern Observatory (ESO)
• Portal to the Universe
• Tycho Brahe amateur observatory (in Swedish)
• Astrokonsult (in Swedish)
• Photopic Sky Survey Really magnificent and extraordinary work by Nick Risinger! New!
• Populär Astronomi A nice astronomy magazine in Sweden
• SETI@home Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
• SETI@home Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (old web-page)
• XEphem Astronomical Software Ephemeris
• Cartes du Ciel Sky Charts

Physics, chemistry, experiments etc

• CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research
• Tesla Downunder Very fascinating experiments! :-) Do absolutely NOT try to make something similar if you don't know what you are doing!

Medicin

• Rosetta@home Find 3-dimensional shapes of proteins and cures for human diseases
• Folding@home Understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases

Special products

• Eskader Models Steam engine and many other models (in Swedish)
• Stuart Live Steam Models Expensive but beautiful
• Stuart Models - Steam Engines A very good site with also some useful manuals
• Acme Klein Bottle Get an Acme Klein Bottle handcrafted in glass

Music, videos and artists

• ABBA - The Site
• Varvara Her official website
• Quinlan Road Loreena McKennitt's official website
• Slow Flow My cousin Pär's nice band (in Swedish)
• Deutsche Grammophon The best of classical music
• Mix Megapol Malmö (music web radio etc, in Swedish)
• Lugna Favoriter Calm Favorites (music web radio etc, in Swedish)
• Din Gata Your Street (music web radio etc, in Swedish)
• Spotify Download and Listen - Free Music - Millions of Songs
• YouTube Broadcast Yourself
• Endless YouTube A very nice tool if you want to loop YouTube videos
• DVDVideoSoft Very good free multi-format YouTube, video and MP3 file downloader and converter software New!
• Joost Web TV, videos and music

Hi-Fi and tube audio systems

• Hi-Fi klubben Enjoyment for audio enthusiasts (in Swedish)
• Audio Concept High end Hi-Fi systems etc (in Swedish)
• Intelligent Sound High end speaker systems etc (in Swedish)
• Svalander Audio AB The art of getting good sound at home and much more (in Swedish)
• Sure Electronics PWM-switched Class-D Hi-Fi amplifiers and power supplies and other electronics
• Coldamp High power PWM-switched Class-D Hi-Fi amplifiers and power supplies etc
• Dared Audio Tube amplifiers etc (in Swedish)
• Amplimo Electronics for tube amplifiers etc
• Ir. bureau Vanderveen Tube amplifiers with toroidal output transformers etc
• Pete Millett's DIY Audio pages Many tube amplifier projects and many scanned good old technical books to download
• Heathkit Virtual Museum

Electronics etc

• Elektor.com A nice electronics magazine
• Elektor.se A nice electronics magazine (in Swedish) New!
• Allt om Elektronik A nice electronics magazine in Sweden (old web page)
• Embedded Acquisition Systems Many very interesting projects, not at least the UHU DC servo motor drive board! New!
• Velleman Components Electronics construction kits etc
• Kitsrus - DIY Electronics Electronics construction kits etc
• SparkFun Electronics Electronics construction kits etc
• Anykits Electronics construction kits etc
• ELFA A nice electronics component shop in Sweden
• Electrokit (in Swedish)
• BHIAB Electronics AB (in Swedish)
• Autema (in Swedish)
• Kjell & Company (in Swedish)
• Teknikmagasinet (in Swedish)
• Electronics corner By Kenneth Johansson (in Swedish)
• Projects for Students and Hobbyists By Bob Blick

Robots, Robotica, R/C robot vehicles etc

• The Robot MarketPlace
• RoboWars Australian Fighting Machines
• 4QD Speed controllers for battery operated electric motors etc
• RobotShop.ca
• SuperDroid Robots
• Pololu
• Lawicel (in Swedish)
• HobbyTronik (in Swedish)
• IronBill AB Fine mechanics etc (in Swedish)
• LEGO Mindstorms New!
• HiTechnic LEGO certified robotic sensors, HTWay LEGO Mindstorms self balancing robot etc New!
• Golden Motor Very nice and powerful brushless electric motors and bicycle conversion kits etc
• El-scooters.se Nice electric scooters and their spare parts can be used to make robot vehicles (in Swedish)

Computers etc

• IDG Sweden
• CNET.com - News
• Tom's Hardware Guide
• 50 Years of Information Technology by Jacinda Frost; A very good compilation with links New!
• Intel
• Microsoft
• Red Hat Linux
• Fedora Linux
• Linux Online
• Register as Linux user
• Inet (in Swedish)
• GH Data (in Swedish)
• Compliq System AB (in Swedish)
• Inrego Second hand computers etc (in Swedish)

Miscellaneous programs and tools

• TUCOWS Very good free programs and tools
• Passagen (HTML guides and much more, in Swedish)
• DVDVideoSoft Very good free multi-format YouTube, video and MP3 file downloader and converter software New!
• Adobe Download Adobe Reader for free
• avast! A very good antivirus for free
• GSview A powerful GNU Postscript reader for Windows 98/2000/XP
• MiKTeX TeX and LaTeX for Windows 98/2000/XP
• WinVi The Vi editor for Windows 98/2000/XP
• ReactOS Perhaps not Microsoft's favorite but still a very interesting project
• CPUCooL Monitor CPU and graphics card temperatures and much more
• NCH Swift Sound Very good audio software (including some free and very useful demos)
• Cygwin A Linux-like environment for Windows
• DJGPP A very powerful GNU C/C++ compiler for DOS (under Windows 98/2000/XP)
• Allegro A powerful game programming library
• Scilab The open source platform for numerical computation
• Xfig Drawing Program for the X Windows System
• XV A nice image editor for Unix and Linux
• gFTP A nice FTP program for Unix and Linux
• Gnuplot A powerful plot program
• PGPLOT A powerful plot library for Fortran and C
• POV-Ray A very powerful and free ray-tracing program

Numbers and packages for arbitrary precision calculations

• y-cruncher The best and fastest mathematical constants computation program for multiple CPU cores! New π world record 10·10¹² digits on an extreme "PC"! :-) Updated!
• GMP GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library - very fast
• CLN Class Library for Numbers
• BigDigits multiple-precision arithmetic source code
• Apfloat A C++ high performance arbitrary precision arithmetic package
• Chepes Mathematical Library (C sources) Extended precision functions etc
• Numerical Recipes Home Page
• Mathematical constants and computation
• Plouffe's Inverter
• Fast Algorithms and the FEE Method
• The Karatsuba Method 'Divide and Conquer'
• Stu's Pi page Records of the fastest Pi programs for PC
• Dara's Pi Pages A quite old web-page about comparison of different Pi programs etc
• Fast implementation of the segmented sieve of Eratosthenes
• GIMPS The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search

Benchmarks

• SPEC results
• Futuremark Corporation CPU and graphics benchmarks for Windows etc
• FLOPS benchmark An old but very good (pure +, -, * and /) floating point benchmark in Forth and C with some old results New!
• Linux/Unix nbench

Very good digital image artists and resources

• POV-Ray A very powerful and free ray-tracing program
• Fractint A very nice, powerful and fast fractal program! Finally Fractint 20.04 is released for Windows! :-) Updated!
• World of Hidden 3D Stereograms Many good colour stereogram images and a quite simple program to make your own
• POVRay Fractal Raytracing Contest Result Page
• Oyonale Homepage of Gilles Tran
• Homepage of Andrea and Friedrich Lohmüller
• The Persistence of Ignorance Homepage of Jaime Vives Piqueres
• Tor Olav's home page
• www.evilsuperbrain.com
• runevision - 3D Graphics (POV-Ray)

Games etc

• GAMESPOT 3D games etc
• Fragland.net A very good place to download game demos etc
• Microsoft Flight 2011 I can't say how much I look forward to the release of this probably awesome game! :-) New!
• Great Planes RealFlight R/C Flight Simulator
• Trainz Railroad Simulator 2010
• Svenska Tågwerkstäderna
• Spelbutiken.se A very nice computer game web shop in Sweden with very good prices
• Svenska Schackbutiken
• ChessBase Very good information about world chess tournaments, top chess players etc
• Swedish Chess Computer Association Rating of computer chess programs etc
• Tim Mann's Chess Pages
• Rybka Chess The worlds strongest chess program, version 2.2n2 can be downloaded for free
• Arena A very nice, powerful and free GUI for chess, comes with many chess engines and can also be used with Rybka 2.2n2
• American Go Association
• Panda-glGo A simple, nice and free GUI for GNU Go and others
• WZebra Othello program Very powerful and free
• Tiger Technologies Funny holiday programs etc
• Really Slick Screensavers

Funny things about computers and programming

• The East Campus Nerd Test The author's result was 57 % nerd! :-)
• The evolution of a programmer
• The task is to shoot yourself in the foot

Other funny things

• Lord of the Rings Character Test The author was most like Frodo! :-)
• The CAT User's Manual
• Independent Woman - played by kittens - Joel Veitch rathergood.com, music by Elbow