Links

Links in this page may duplicate the ones found in ohter sections. Also, links with no clear classification may be found here.

Anime

Anime Related.

Anime Charts & Info

Charts for past and upcoming anime by season; General Anime Info

• AniChart - AniList–based interactive chart.
• Anime Trending - Charts, News, Polls, etc.
• anica.jp - Shows airings calendar.
• AniList - Anime & Manga Info; Keep track of your views.
• aniDB - Information about CJK Animation.
• SauceNAO - Image source locator.
• trace.moe - Trace back the scene from an anime screenshot.
• iqdb.org - Multi-service image search (boorus, chans, etc.).
• Link - Explanation.

Anime Download

Sites from where you can download anime.

• /r/animepiracy Index - β

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• Anichiraku - Invite only archive of HD series.
• animepahe - DDL minis of selected series.
• Anime Tosho^BETA - DDLs of scraped torrents.
• DameDesuYo - Fansub Projects.
• Doki Fansubs - Torrent & XDCC; also Manga.
• Erai Raws - (HD & FHD) DDL, Torrent & Subs download of selected series.
• FFFansubs - Torrent and DCC anime series downloads. Available in nyaa!
• Ginpachi-sensei - DCC downloads of selected series.
• Horrible Subs XDCC Search - (SD, HD & FHD) DDL, Torrent & DCC downloads of selected series. Subbing shutdown in 10/2020.
• nibl - (SD, HD & FHD) DCC downloads of selected series.
• NoobSubs - FTP and torrent downloads of selected series.
• Shana Project - Torrent downloads of lots of series.
• SubsPlease - Torrent & XDCC download of webripped new anime. Dubbed "The New HorribleSubs"...
• The Hylia - DDL of certain difficult to find series - only five episodes per day! Also, music download.

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• Kitsunekko - Download selected series subtitles in English, Japanese, Chinese and Korean.
• Link - Explanation.

Anime Music

Anime music - OSTs, OPs, EDs, etc.

• Nipponsei - Requests over IRC (nipponsei @ rizon).
• Hikari no Akari - Mediafire, Drive & Mega DDL.
• OSANIME - DDL & Live Listen.
• OstNime - Download from various DL services.
• Link - Explanation.

Watch Anime

Websites where you can watch anime online.

• 9ANIME - Watch online.
• AllAnime - Watch and download.
• Animebam - Watch and download(?). Related to AnimeRam.
• Animelon - Watch a few selected series while reading the subtitles in english, japanese and romaji.
• animepahe
• AnimeRam - Watch and download(?).
• AnimixPlay - Watch online.
• Aniwatch.me - HD & SD selection, nice interface & management, no ads, but no download.
• GogoAnime - Watch and (?)Download.
• KissAnime - Here you can watch online (and also download) anime series.
• NetAnime
• Link - Explanation.

Watch H-Anime

* AHEM! * Please, ignore this section.

• hanime.tv - Watch online & Download up to 720p free.
• Link - Explanation.

Books

This section is currently for links to e-books(pdf, ebook, djvu) download (mainly direct-download and torrent).

• Anna's Archive (Alt) (Alt) – Sci-Hub/LibGen mirror; scrapes Z-Lib and more.
• Z-Lib^🧅 Z-Lib w/Sign-in^🧅 Z-Lib Articles^🧅
• Ebooks search engine (Updated) - Google Custom Search.
• Libgen - Great Aggregator. Twitter Alt Alt Alt Alt Alt Alt Orig? Upload (Non-Fiction)
• SuprBay - The Pirate Bay Forums - A great site for ebook search.
• MirKnig.su - Russian site with tons of books and journals.
• Mobilism Forum - Not only Books — also magazines, apps, games (Registration required).
• eBook3000.biz - Lots of Magazines! (mobilism.xyz - Near clone.)
• ebook3000.com - Another ebook3000 version.
• PDF Drive - Download over 70M free PDFs. (Supposedly no limit, checking...)
• PDXOPEN - Open Access Textbooks from Portland State University.
• Serbian Forum - Some books and videos.
• DocerArgentina - Argentine site for document sharing. Includes many english teaching books.
• ScanLibs – Rapidgator & Turbobit DL (ForCoder and CodeProg seem to be same content, though lagging by a day).
• Link – Explanation.

IRC Channels

IRC Servers and Channels for book download.

• Bookz @ Undernet (US Random Server)
• ebooks @ Undernet (US Random Server) (Working?)
• ebooks @ IRC Highway (No TextBooks)
• Link - Explanation.

Freely Downloadable Books

Sites with freely downloadable books for a specific project.

• Integrated Publishing – Military specs & educational publications.
• Link – Explanation.

Mathematics

• Discrete Mathematics: An Open Introduction - 4th edition.
• Link – Explanation.

Programming

• How to Design Programs, 2nd Edition - An Introduction to Programming and Computing.
• Modern C, 2nd Edition.
• Pro Git, 2nd Edition.
• An Introduction to Statistical Learning by Stanford Profs. + Online course & forum.
• Link - Explanation.

Solutions

• LitSolutions – step-by-step textbook solutions.
• Link – Explanation.

Typography

• Design with FontForge, a book about how to create new typefaces using FontForge. Available in English, French and Chinese. Downlodoable as EPub, Mobi and PDF.
• Link - Explanation.

Calculators

Section dedicated to programmable graphing calculators (HP48, 49, Prime, etc.).

• HP Prime Calculator Portal.
• Link - Explanation.

Chess

Chess sites.

• Chess.com - Play online with someone or against the computer.
• lichess.org - Chess arena.
• Link - Explanation.

Comics

Comics and webcomics.

• Collected Curios - Various WebComics from Phillip M Jackson.
• Peanuts daily comic strips, from 1950 to 2000.
• ZomCom by EmiMG in WebToons.
• Link - Explanation.

Computer Science

Here I list links for computer science not specific for programming.

• WinWorld Old Operating Systems Library with downloads.
• OSDev.org - Wiki for OS development.
• The Jargon File
• Link - Explanation.

References

• NIST Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures – algorithms, algorithmic techniques, data structures, archetypal problems, and related definitions.
• Link – Explanation.

Unicode Tools

• What Unicode character is this ? - In Babelstone.
• Link - Explanation.

English

English Language.

English Language Resources

• English.us.org — Free download of materials for learning and teaching English.
• Link - Explanation.

Esperanto

Esperanto Language.

Esperanto Language References

• Vortaro - Esperanto dictionary online - Widely regarded as the authoritative reference.
• ESPDIC - Esperanto-English Text File Dictionary. Use with caution, is considered to be a little inaccurate.
• Link - Explanation.

Games

This section has links for games: traditional or videogames.

Traditional Games

• Link - Explanation.

VideoGames

Image Libraries

• Kagura Games - Ecchi Games!
• Retro Games at Good Old Downloads.
• EmulatorGames
• Link - Explanation.

Repacks

• FitGirl Repacks
• Link - Explanation.

IRC

IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a protocol for text communication. If its clients support it, XDCC (eXtended Direct Client-to-Client) can be used to exchange files.

Channels

The following links require an IRC client to open correctly (e.g. mIRC).

• HorribleSubs @ Rizon - Anime
• Batcave @ Rizon - Movies
• ELiTEWAREZ @ Rizon (Chat to continue downloading. More info on ELiTEWAREZ Help Site.)
• BEAST @ Abjects (Chat).
• MovieGods @ Abjects (Chat).
• Link - Explanation.

Search Sites

This is a list of some web sites where you can search some IRC channels for a file, which can be obtained via XDCC.

• nibl - Search 60+ bots.
• XDCC.eu
• ixIRC - Search "16 IRC networks, 25 channels".
• sunxdcc
• Link - Explanation.

Japan

Japan and Japanese Language.

Japanese Books

• 青空文庫 - Aozora Bunko - Japanese free digital library.
• Link… and explanation.

Japanese Language

• 傍点 (ぼうてん, bōten) or furigana dots article. これぞＣＳＳ力！！
• 350 Japanese Counters grouped by usefulnes — in tofugu.com.
• Lately Japanese – Blog with Japanese language and culture info bits.
• Link… and explanation.

Japanese Writing

• 原稿用紙 (げんこうようし, genkō yōshi, manuscript paper) usage guide.
• Link… and explanation.

Japanese Language References

• goo Jiten - Japanese dictionary. Also J-E & E-J, Thesaurus, Kanji and Name dictionaries.
• コトバンク (Kotobank) - Japanese dictionary.
• weblio - Japanese dictionary.


• JapanDict - Japanese-English dictionary.
• Japanese Learner's Dictionary - J-E & E-J, great for vocabulary.
• Jisho - Japanese-English dictionary. Great for general use.
• Tangorin - Great for inflections.
• Ultra Handy Japanese Verb Conjugator… and gratuitous pictures of alien monsters.

JLPT Resources

• Official JLPT Site


• JLPT Study Page - Unofficial Study Page.
• Link… and explanation.

Journals

Journals directories and tools.

Journals Directories

• arXiv - Repository of electronic preprints of papers in mathematics, physics, astronomy, computer science, quantitative biology, statistics, and quantitative finance.
• DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals.

Journals by Editorials

• Elsevier.
• IEEE.
• Springer.
• Taylor & Francis.
• Wiley.

Journals Impact Factor Metrics Sites

• CiteFactor - Indexing and Impact Factor of major international journals and proceedings.

Journals Tools

• BookSC - Part of Bookzz net.

Sci-Hub

Mass & Public access to research papers.

• sci-hub.se
• sci-hub.st

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• sci-hub.love* - Lists the collection of working domains
• sci-hub.app* - Redirects automatically to the working domain
• 80.82.77.83*
• 80.82.77.84*
• scihub22266oqcxt.onion^?

*Not Working.
^?Not tested lately.

Knots

Knots info.

• Animated Knots
• Notable Knot Index – A small and simple site for some knots info & tying.
• Scout Pioneering – Site including Splicing, Lashing, Knots & more.
• Site and explanation.

Magazines

Magazines and Downloads

Magazine Downloads

• Downmagaz.net – Only two DL services options, and few per day.
• Site and explanation.

Manga

Manga links and resources.

Manga Downloads

• Assorted Scans – scanlation aggregator for a few scanlation groups. DL available after registering.
• Mangageek – Downloads of selected manga series.
• Link – and explanation.

Manga Raws

• DL Raw – Raw Manga, Magazines and Novels DL (via DL Services).
• IsekaiRaw
• JRaws.net – Download Japanese Manga, Magazines, and Doujins / Rapidgator and Katfile rar zip downloads 漫画 小説 成年コミック 同人誌 雑誌 ダウンロード.
• KL (Prev. KissLove @ kisslove.net, prev. RawQV @ mangahato.com)
• LoveHeaven (Previously LHScan @ lhscan.net)
• Manga11 (Previously MangaHami @ hamiraw.com)
• Manga1000.top(!) (Still Checking)
• Manga Zip – DL manga using various DL services.
• RawDevArt
• Sen Manga
• 悪戯・漫画図書館 – Huge Raw Manga Library.
• Link – and explanation.

Free Manga Reading Sites

• Bato.to
• Dynasty Reader – read a lot of selected series, with DDL.
• Kissmanga
• LHScan - Mostly Raws.
• MangaDex
• MangaFox
• MangaHere
• MangaOwl
• MangaSee

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• Cubari – Manga reading image proxy & UI
• Link – and explanation.

Manga Scanlation Projects

• Danke Fürs Lesen – a circle that works on random twitter and pixiv one-shots and the occasional cute manga. Read online and download chapters.
• Houkago Translations – K-On! & related exclusive. Mediafire DDLs (Good).
• Manga Sushi
• Tsundere Service Providers
• Link – and explanation.

Free H-Manga Reading Sites

* AHEM! * Please, ignore this section...

• Nothing to display here... :P
• Link – and explanation.

Mathematics

Mathematics links and resources.

Mathematics On-Line Tools

• WolframAlpha — Computational knowledge engine and answer engine.
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Mathematics References

• The Springer Encyclopedia of Mathematics wiki, an open access resource designed specifically for the mathematics community.
• NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions – information about Special Functions.
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Mathematics Resources

• MIT OCW Calculus Online Textbook by Gilbert Strang. Includes Instructor's Manual and Student's Study Guide.
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Music

Music resources.

Music Download

...or use yt-dlp...

• DoubleDouble – Download music directly from Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Soundcloud, Qobuz, Deezer, Tidal, or Napster for free.
• YtMP3 – Online video converter to MP3.
• Spotify Downloader
• Site – explanation.

News

News sites.

General News

• Reuters
• The Associated Press

ebizmba's 15 top

• yahoo! news
• Google News
• HuffPost
• CNN
• The New York Times (Has a lot of paywalled content...)
• Fox News
• NBC NEWS
• DailyMail.com
• The Washington Post
• The Guardian (Open Journalism!)
• The Wall Street Journal
• abc NEWS
• BBC NEWS
• USA TODAY
• Los Angeles Times

By Country

Japan – 日本

• 朝日新聞† (The Asahi Shimbun)
• 産経新聞† (The Sankei Shimbun)
• 日本経済新聞† (The Nihon Keizai Shimbun, now known as The Nikkei)
• 毎日新聞† (The Mainichi Shimbun)
• 讀賣新聞/読売新聞† (The Yomiuri Shimbun)


• NHK News Web – Japanese News from NHK — in Japanese!
• NHK News Web EASY — with furigana!


• The Japan Times – English Language Daily Newspaper.
• Japan Today – English Language Daily Newspaper.

†National Japanese Newspaper

México

• El Universal
• Excelsior
• La Jornada

Open On-Line Education

Sites for Open On-Line Education (MOOC).

Search Tools

• Class Central – search engine for MOOCs.

Open On-Line Courses

• MIT's Open Courseware – MIT courses' material.

Photography

The following links are related to photography.

Knowledge

• Overview of ZEISS Camera Lenses technical articles — at the Zeiss Blog.

Reviews

• dpreview.com - Digital photography review (Probably Nikon-biased).
• The-Digital-Picture.com – Canon & Nikon – Camera & Lens Reviews.

Stock

• Corbis Images – Bill Gates' stock image company – 100M+ images.
• Getty Images – 80M+ images.
• National Geographic Creative – Photography, video and talent.
• Science Source^® Images – Science photography & images.

Programming

C

C language programming links.

• comp.lang.c FAQs – Steve Summit's collection of FAQs.
• Link – Explanation.

C++

C++ programming links.

• Google C++ Style Guide.
• Link – Explanation.

C#

C# is a .NET language by Microsoft.

• Steve Gordon's Blog. Many topics, mainly .NET and ASP.NET.
• Eric Lippert's Fabulous Adventures in Coding. Many Topics.
• Jon Skeet's C# and .NET articles and links.
• Stephen Cleary's Blog - Focused on Asynchronous Programing.
• Link – Explanation.

Online Testing

Sites to live-test C# and .NET.

• .NET Fiddle – Test .NET using C#, F# and VB.
• Link – Explanation.

Device Driver Development

• Building and deploying a basic WDF Kernel Mode Driver - Code Project entry.

General Development

• The Old New Thing – Raymond Chen blog.
• devdocs.io – combines multiple API documentations in a fast, organized, and searchable interface.
• Link – Description.

Learning

• Advent of Code – Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like.
• Link – Description.

Mobile

• SL4A – Original project.
• SL4A API Help by Robbie Matthews.
• Link – Description.

RegEx (Regular Expressions)

Regular Expressions (RegEx) references and test sites.

• Regular-Expressions.info – Great Regex tutorial.

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• regular expressions 101 – Test Regexes with a lot of options and information.
• RegExr – RegEx test.
• Link – Description.

Web Platforms (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP)

Programming in web platforms (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.), web page design and client-side scripting.

• XPath Syntax — at w3chools.com.
• CSS Specifications, mainly for developers, at w3.org.
• Link – Explanation.

Online Testing

Sites to live-test HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

• CodePen – Test HTML, CSS and JS.
• JSFiddle – Test HTML, CSS and JS (with a lot of libraries!).
• JSBin – Test HTML, CSS and JS.
• Link – Explanation.

References

• Mozilla Developer Network – Web APIs, DOM, HTML, HTML5, CSS, CSS3, JavaScript, Firefox, etc.
• W3Schools – Online Web Tutorials.
• PHP Manual.
• JSON – Data Interchange Standard Reference.
• Link – Explanation.

Software

Links for all kinds of useful software — Applications, Tools, Utilities, etc.

Apps

Office Suite Apps

• Microsoft Mac Downloads – Microsoft Office for Mac, all versions.
• Link – Explanation.

Tools

System Tools.

Archivers & Compressors/Decompressors

• 7-Zip – File archiver with high compression ratio.
• Link – Explanation.

Emulators

• ConEmu – Windows Terminal – FOSS tabbed terminal emulator for windows. Pepe used it mainly to host C-developed programs that needed unicode output.
• Ruffle – FOSS flash emulator.
• Link – Explanation.

Hex Editors

Utilities to edit binary files and memory.

• HxD – Free & fast hex editor, up to 8EB files and disk & RAM R/W access.
• Link – Explanation.

Video Tools

• FFmpeg – Universal Video & Audio Transcoding Tools & Libraries.
  • Older windows binaries by Zeranoe.
  • Windows binaries at OTTVerse.
• MKVToolNix – Tools for Matroska — create, alter, inspect, extract.
  • gMKVExtractGUI – A GUI for mkvextract utiliy.
  • MediaInfo GUI – Display technical & tag data for video & audio files.
• Subtitle Workshop from URUWorks.
• XMedia Recode – Video & Audio Transcoder.
• Link – Explanation.

Tools Aggregators

Sites that link and offer many tools.

• Ibsen Software - Interesting mini-libraries and tools.
• Major Geeks - Proven Tools.
• Link – Explanation.

Online Tools

Tools you can use online.

• Online-toolz – The Software Geeks' Swiss Knife (or so they say).
• File Hash Online Calculator – Html5-based, unlimited files/size; all calculations local. Gets MD5, SHA-1/256/384/512.
• Base64 – Text or File Encode/Decode.
• EZGIF.COM – Create and Edit Animated Gifs.
• 15.ai – TTS Synhesis. Based on MIT research, natural and emotive synthesis with minimal viable data.
• TinyWow – Lots of file conversion options.
• ImgOps – image operations meta-tool – get bigger ver., host, rev. search, edit, convert, etc.
• Link – Explanation.

Operating Systems

OS DL

• TechBench – DL Original Software from MS.
• Link – Explanation.

Torrents

Torrent Freak List

Torrents sites listed by Torrent Freak on January 22, 2023.

1. YTS.MX – Great site to download movies.
2. 1337X
3. Nyaa! – Anime Torrents.
4. RARBG
5. The Pirate Bay – Sadly, frequently offline or unreachable.
6. FirGirl Repacks – slimmed-down cracked versions of popular games.
7. Skidrow & RELOADED – game-cracking.
8. IGGGAMES – gaming-focused site.
9. EZTV – TV Torrents.
10. TorrentGalaxy – Movie & TV Torrents.

Dropped:

• Torrentz² – Meta-search.
• LimeTorrents
• Zooqle
• TorrentDownloads.me – Meta-search.

Movies Torrents

• Yify Movies – An Alternative site for YIFY Movies.
• *SD Movies Point – Not torrents, but DDL.
• Link – Explanation.

Torrent Client Software

• qBittorrent – FOSS torrent client, not banned by some sites.
• Link – Explanation.

Typogaphy

Fonts

Places to get free and commercial typefaces.

• 1001 Fonts(F) - Over 8k free fonts.
• Chomikuj sites: derbich_45, robertas.20.
• FontSpace(F) - 29k fonts.
• Sozi.cn - Chinese site with searchable CJK fonts.
• 字体天下 - Chinese site with some CJK fonts.
• µfonts(F) - 150k+ fonts.
• FreeJapaneseFont.com
• Fontsov.com - 140k+ fonts.
• The Fonts Master
• Fontshub - Download WebFonts.
• FontsIO (Tricky)
• Fonts geek
• FontSquirrel - 100% Free For Commercial Use.

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• GetFont - Heroku App to search fonts in GitHub.
• Link - Explanation.

Foundries

Typeface designers and vendors.

• Adobe Type Products.
• Hoefler&Co.
• Linotype.
• Monotype, and its store Fonts.com.
• (URW)++
• Link - Explanation.

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• Blambot - Free and Commercial Comic and Manga typefaces.
• Commercial Type
• Elsner+Flake Typeshopping - Typeshopping.
• Font Fabric
• Heritage Type Co. – Fonts, graphics & textures.
• Grilli Type
• HVD Fonts
• Letterhead Fonts
• Terminal Design
• Typodermic Fonts
• Typofacto - French design and typography studio.
• Wiescher Design - Gert Wiescher's Designs, nice and clean!
• Link - Explanation.

Japanese Foundries

Foundries based on Japan, designers and vendors of fonts for the Japanese language.

• C&G
• DynaComware
• Fontworks
• Iwata - Site also available in English.
• Jiyukobo
• Morisawa - The largest foundry in Japan. Site also available in English.
• Motoya
• Screen, formerly Dainippon Screen - Site also available in English.
• TypeBank
• Visual Design Laboratory
• Link

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• FontPlus Font Catalog — Browse and try almost 400 typefaces from a dozen japanese type foundries.
• フロップデザイン (Flop Design) — Font foundry and design service. Some free fonts.
• Link

References

References for typography — Design and Programming.

Font Design

• Visit the Temporary Links section of the Typography Design page in this site.
• Link - Explanation.

Font Development

• Microsoft OpenType® specification
• Adobe Type Technology - Technical notes, AFDKO and GDK for SING.
• CJK Type Blog - Adobe's Ken Lunde blog for CJK fonts, character sets & encoding.
• Adobe Type References and Tips - Glossary, Font Formats, Character Sets.
• TypeDrawers - Type design discussion forum.
• TrueType Reference Manual @ Apple Developer.
• OpenType Cookbook - Intro and Examples of OpenType Features.
• Link - Explanation.

Software

Typography software - Font Editors, etc.

Font Editors

• FontForge - Free and Open Source Font Editor.
• FontLab
  • Fontlab Download Center
• Type 3.2
• Link - Explanation.

Tools

Web Tools

• Professional Lorem Ipsum Generator
• Link - Explanation.

Web Hosting

Database

Sites where you can host databases.

• Caspio Free.
• Link - Explanation.

General

Generic site webhosting.

• UCOZ.
• Link - Explanation.

Server

Free server webhosting. With PHP and MySQL.

• InfinityFree.
• 000webhost.
• Link - Explanation.

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