Okay, not really ALL links, but quite a few. I'm going to be posting requests like this with various topics with the hope that people will share their favorite links here. Please, don't link to social bookmarking sites or Google. Give me your favorite links and the reasons why you like the links so much.

Today's links request is for any link related to fonts and various pieces of related software. If you have any I haven't shared or if you have opinions on what I have shared, please leave a comment.

Some of my favorites:

Fonts:

• http://www.abstractfonts.com/ - Can usually find fonts here not found elsewhere, although not sure how true that still is


• http://www.1001fonts.com/ - I've been using this site for years


• http://fonts.tom7.com/ - the fonts here are different!


• http://www.fontmart.com/ - awesome retro fonts (and some clip art) - this is NOT a free font site


• http://www.typenow.net/ - some good well-known fonts not always found elsewhere


• http://www.fontspace.com/ - love the navigation here


• http://www.acidfonts.com/ - been using this one for years


• http://www.dafont.com/ - been using this one for years


• http://www.bvfonts.com/ - one of my favorites for free and paid fonts - very fun!


• http://www.blambot.com/ - great for all the budding artists in the comics world...


• http://www.fontica.com/ - another I've been using for years


• http://www.fontcraft.com - unique fonts - paid site


• http://www.fontgarden.com/ - I usually come here for handwriting fonts


• http://www.fonts.com/ - insane number of fonts... really


• http://flat-it.com/ - unique paid site


• http://www.smeltery.net - free and paid fonts


• http://www.fontpool.com/index.html - been using this one for years


• http://fonts.katgyrl.com/ - unique fonts


• http://www.linotype.com - paid site with a nifty identifier to help locate the fonts you want without knowing the names


• http://www.scrapnfonts.com/ - probably one of my all time favorite paid sites

Related Links:

• http://www.stcassociates.com/lab/fontbrowser.html - a nifty website that will allow you to browse the fonts installed on your computer


• http://www.fontlab.com - great software for editing/converting/creating but also contains links to other third party software


• http://fontexpert.com/ - great font identification software - can also identify fonts online


• http://www.proximasoftware.com/fontexpert/index.html - excellent font manager


• http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/ - build, share, download... all in your web browser, and all for free!


• http://www.blacksunsoftware.com/xfonter.html - the font browser I used for years... until it became shareware

I would really like to know what the heck keeps turning my Windows Firewall back on. It's seriously craptastic. If I needed a software firewall, I wouldn't be using Windows. However, we have a real firewall installed, so I don't need this software crap telling me (or my computer) what it's going to allow (or disallow). Seriously annoying. Seriously!

Okay guys, I'm about to geek out on you for a bit. If you're interested, hang around. I have recently had the pleasure of testing a new (to me) piece of software and I have to admit, I wasn't impressed at first, but the more I've used it, the more I really like it. Handy folders is a great way to access your favorite folders in any program within Windows, as well as Windows itself.

I think one of the reasons I wasn't terribly impressed at first is my extensive use of the Quick Launch bar. I rely heavily on my Quick Launch bar, and have shortcuts to every drive I access on a regular basis (along with many programs and various folders) all laid out for ease of access. Because of this, I didn't think I'd really benefit from Handy Folders sitting in the systray. I've left it, just to see if I would use it or not (I have, amazingly enough).

One of the things I absolutely love about Handy Folders, though, is the functionality of Handy Folders within dialog boxes. When I'm going to open or save a file now, I don't have to worry about browsing through my crazy folder structure (and believe me, it's crazy). I can easily click one of the Handy Folder buttons and get where I want to go much more quickly. I am honestly pretty underwhelmed that Microsoft hasn't thought to add that feature to Windows yet (I'm using Vista, but perhaps it's in the works).

I am not entirely certain I'm as impressed with the website as I am with the software. There are no requirements listed on the website, so I'm assuming this would work with Win9x but I could be very wrong. Of course, I may have missed the requirements, but I went over the site fairly well.

In any case, it's nothing earth-shattering or ground-breaking, but Handy Folders will save a bit of time and frustration, especially within dialog boxes.

I've been editing images with The GIMP, and have liked what I've seen so far. I can see all of my images that I've edited when I upload them to LJ when I'm using Firefox but I can't see them using IE. I'm not sure what the heck I'm doing wrong, but that's the only thing I can think of that is different about these images. It doesn't make any sense to me that a simple .jpg file will show in Fx, on my computer, in my LJ gallery, but not in IE.

Anyhow, I've just downloaded Paint.NET to see if I can get anywhere with this program. Fingers crossed it actually works.

I did a little research tonight on NOD32, made by ESET. I was impressed to learn this software has passed 45 times out of 47 testings by Virus Labs, which is the highest passing rate of tested anti-virus products. Users at CNET appear to love it, too, since they've given it a rating of 4.5 stars out of 5.

I have mixed feelings about anti-virus software. I usually wind up installing it, only to uninstall it later because of some hangup of some sort. I'm tempted to give NOD32 a whirl, however. Even the full version isn't terribly expensive. I think I paid a lot more for Norton back in the day. ESET looks like a pretty reliable company with some decent products, so I have a feeling I'll be adding NOD32 to my list of stuff to download and install.