Boris Savitskiy, Let Your Imagination Grow, Interactive Media Design

Over time I collected many useful links to different web sites all over the net. I'm sure you know how hard it is to remember them. I thought it would be a good idea to have useful links online so I can just access them from my own web site and they might be useful to you too.

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Boris' Useful Links Collection

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Hannah Montana Calls Get a morning wake up call from none other Hannah Montana. She will wish you an amazing day or remind you of an activity you need to forgot. Send a friend a few messages.	Crime Reports You can find out what is crime like in your area. Don't be afraid and try it. I did and I'm happy about my area pick for a new apartment. Safe Safe Safe.	Insult Comic, Lampenelli The only truly evil comic out there! You will love her after she insults a hell out of you. She is coming to Baltimore, Maryland in November.

\//\ Fun and Random Online World

Nightwish Band I would like to present to you one of my favorite bands, Nightwish. This is a European Metal band with each story which reminds me of Lord of the Rings.	Energy Race This is a web site allows user to calculate how much pollution you produce and help you see how much you can reduce. Helpful tool for those who would like to help environment.	Honda Racing F1 One plane of existence come to one site. Honda Racing Formula 1 created a very interesting web site. So much fun clicking links and seen screen shifting from one place to another.
Mail Box Map I never use mail box, sorry! But if I needed one I could use this web site with Google Maps to find closes USPS mail box and drop of some mail. What is Mail and why do you box it?	Dragon Force Band Amazing band! Recently redesigned their web site. Web site is so so really, but now has more music to listen on it then before.	How Stuff Work Ever wondered how something works? Have you wondered how to make a Jedi Lightsaber? or how to lock pick? Here is a site for you that shows how EVERYTHING is or will be.
TrueNuff TV MAC Many of you seen those MAC vs PC ads on TV. This is a hilarious web site with collection of parody advertising that not just show PC and MAC, but also combined UNIX.	Clairvoyant Site is been redesigned :-(	Easter Bunny Hates I always wondered, what does easter bunny do when there is no easter holiday. Now I know the answer.
Very Funny Ads Saw this very funny TV program "World Funnies Ads" and got their site link with even more funny ads from all over the world. Check it out and get a laugh from it.	Chat Acronyms If you are confused by all the BRB and LOL in chats. Go here PLEASE and read up. You should know what BRB and WOOT means. I mean how can you now! get with the program already LOL.	Dudes Kajeet They come in cute shapes, sizes and colors. They are cell phone buddies, aka cell phone thignies :-) I saw ad for them on tv and they looked so cute I had to see their web site.
Leek Spin Have you ever heard one of those songs that would just get stuck in your head and go on forever? Get into Dutch veggie song with a nice Japanese animation and you will never see end.	Orneryboy Comic Love this one, this is an online Comic book by Michael Lalonde. This is a hilarious adventures of Orneryboy, his girlfriend Dirtygirl and pet Brain (Updated Regularly).	Day of Silence Thank you to my good friend who gave me this link. Get involved and start the action with Day of Silence! Remember those and Act for them!
Wiki Quote I love quotes from famous people, movies, anime, books and just people. Thanks to my friends who gave me this link, here is a great source of quotes from famous Wikipedia network.	Sunsad This is a very interesting, pretty and well designed web site. At first its hard to say what its about since its all in German. I found that this is a music band and a good one too.	Heroes (TV) This is a nice flash site, not too great, but the series is very nice. Now being shown on Mondays at 9:00PM EST on NBC 4 and also Fridays at 8:00PM EST on Sci Fi.
Trek Core Enter into the world of Star Trek from an amazingly designed web resource. Focusing on the Star Trek series and new games from ever loved bright future universe that is Star Trek.	Renaissance Fair Great place to go and have some fun in Maryland. Engulf yourself in the midevil times with knights, knobble, flower girls and much more.	2000 Coach This site is mostly for people who live Washington DC, Philadelphia and New York. Purchase cheap bus tickets and you can easily visit any of these three cities.
Maritini.com OK, I'm not promoting alcohol here, loll I really like their site. If you see each page has cuts from different commercials arranged in a very nice way and different on each page.	Sci Fi London I was just bored and searching for some sci fi inspiration when I found this. This is a site for London's Sci Fi Festival. Recently redesign to a much better web site.	Troika Party Club Troika is a russian night club with some of the best parties in the area. You can check out the pictures they have of people having fun and some of my friends are on those pictures.
Production IG Anime fan? Here is a place where anime is born. Production IG is one of the leading anime creation companies. Check out their site for the latest releases.	Go Red Car Game This is a very fun little flash game, but a hard one. Here you have to be able to park your car into designated area in a limited time. Can you pass this driving test?	Jamiroquai Band This is a British band that a friend of mine really likes. I really like their navigation bar, its unique in its design and in its functions. :-) There is also a funny game on this site.
Panda Video Cam Check out this live feed from a panda habitat in the Smithsonian National DC Zoo. Panda are so cute and this 24/7 live feed is a great way to see them without going to the Zoo if you can't	Stargazer Online European sci fi web site about Star Trek, Star gate, Battle star Galactic and Babylon 5. I've made their graphics: banners and buttons.

/\\/ Inspirational Portfolios

Mathieu Badimon Lab An amazing flash user interface designer. His use of prospective dimensions and 3D like effects in flash are simply amazing. A true master of his trade and inspiration.	Anji Design Beautiful and art works. Web site not the best, but art work is very inspiring. Great place to just explore and get inspired to be more creative. That is the best thing about this place.	Sophie Griotto Moving fast is the style of this web site combined with fast brush. Good use of Flash to create fast motions that compliments the brush stokes and amazingly vibrant colors.
Still Effects Studios Company web site for a classmate of mine Camilo Sanz, from AiW. Good use of only one single web page with multiple different information. Single source for multi info.	Stephen Bair, Blair Very talented and his work is great. There are some nice features on his site, like selecting different colors for the web site and many more.	Digital Science This is a very cool site and I recommend you all to check it out. Here the designer used extensive 3D models and concepts to combine with his flash portfolio. A truly good use of two them.
N-Design Studio Great Site about a great designer. One of the best I've seen with very usefully information on his web site. Nick La is one of the leading designers and blogger of the current Web 2.0 industry	179 Media While it does not contain a lot of information on it. . Its very minimum, but its size and use of very little amount of various elements is what makes it a good site.	Arcane Machinist Site of a talented Matthew Lee Keith Animator / Web Designer from my school (The Art Institute of Washington).
Art World Store This is a class mate's web site from Scripting class that I'm taking right now. He has some good work there and he has a unique style.	Feng Zhu Design Feng Zhu is the best Illustrator / Concept Designer I've ever seen. Work include for entertainment industry, computer games and concept development.	Dream Like Reality Portfolio of my fellow Web Design classmate from the Art Institute of Washington who now lives in Philadelphia, PA.
Octavez Darkness meet the light open your gaze. Talk about the best designs I ever seen. This is a great combination of dark colors that slowly going into light.	X-Pell Awesome 3D+Flash design from Europe. I just love when there is a combination of high resolution 3D with animated Flash web designs.	Gian Cruz Another fellow student designer from the Art Institute of Washington. Currently working for AOL AIM division.
Portfolios.com Have a portfolio to show off? Here is a place that you can use to show of you portfolio for people who are looking for designers.	Pez Lady Portfolio site of Lisa Jones Animator from the Art Institute of Washington. She is great and has some fun stuff at her site. Congrats to her graduating. You go girl.	Digital Art.org One of the biggest image archives online. it contains an extensive, fantasy art, sci fi art and other images by the visitors.

/\\/ Web Design and Graphics Showcases

Logopond Impressive showcase of logo designs from all over the world from all kind of industries. Great place to gain inspiration and see those amazing tricks that people can come up with.	Command Shift 3 If your design was thrown into battle could it beat others? Could the weapons you gave to the design bring it victories? If you want to find this out then go to this web site.	Most Inspired Inspiration is a hard thing to come by sometimes. Answering the needs of your inspiration come and visit the latest most inspired selection of the web site.
Best Web Gallery Become best of the best with this web showcase for flash and CSS designs. Created by Nick La from N Design-Studio and Web Designer Wall.	Light on Dark Darkness is your friend and Light is your companion in this web design showcase. This is the first design showcase sites to feature me. Which means this site is great in my book.	CSS ReMix One of the best ways to create something amazing is by finding something that is already amazing. Here it is, a collection of the best CSS Web Sites from many countries.
Logo Lounge Logo design is one of the busiest areas of the design industry. Everyone wants to have a memorable logo that anyone can recognize in a second.

/\\/ Web Tools and Tutorials

Alexa Traffic Information Need to know how well your web site is doing? Alexa will provide you detailed information about your web traffic and compare it to other sites of your choice with easy graphs.	53 CSS Techniques You Couldn't Live Without I say this. GO HERE. This is the place for CSS tutorials from around the web by Smashing Magazine.	For Web Designers A very useful web site that contains large number of links for web design and development. You can never have enough useful things when it comes to online design industry.
Bust a Domain Name Its extremely complicated to create a nice and easy domain name. I know from experience how hard it can be. Here then use this web site enter few keywords and get your new domain.	Gmail, 10 Things to Know I never thought Gmail had such a cool new and old things in it. These a gmail blog that contains 10 Little Known Gmail features. This post opened my eyes to ever greater world of Gmail.	NetTuts An amazing resource for latest web design tricks and tutorials. This web site must be checked out daily for the latest and coolest things from around the web.
Free Screen Reader It must have taken me ages to find a good stable free screen reader. This is Thunder and Web IE Free Screen reader for blind. It is very good and easy to use.	Cam Studio Ever wanted to capture something off your screen as a video? Lets say surfing the net? Here is easy and fast solution. Cam Studio allows you to record what is happening on the screen.	Favicon You know those cool small icons that appear by a site address in url bar in your browser? Well, here is a great online tool for you to convert an icon you want to use into .icon format.
Lorem Ipsum I keep on forgetting this site's name, so here it is now in my links section. This is a best site to get filler text for your project. And no its not Spanish or Latin. I've been asked that before.	Free Primo PDF Are you annoyed by not been able to make PDF files from MS Word. Fear not here comes Primo DPF. Its a free Plug in that will allow you to Print to PDF from your Word document.	JavaScript Source Good source of Javascript for your web site. Also, contains a forum where u can post your questions about the javascript.
Dynamic Drive Very big collection of Free DHTML codes to build up your site. Good way to start making your site more interactive.	W3 Schools Online Web designer tutorial from html to advance PHP. Come and learn it. It contains good tutorial for u to learn some nice web stuff.	Find My Host If you are looking for a web hosting here is the place for you. This is the Google of the Web Hosting, where you can set specific search options to find the best hosting.
Google AdSense One way to make money off your site is though advertising, but how do you get relevant ads to your site? Easy, you sign up for Google AdSense and have ads on your site.	Google Code Google is slowly taking over the online world. Why not join and submit to its supreme rule. :-) What I mean is that, this site is where you can find all of the free codes for your web site.	Google Keywords Tool Having problems creating relevant keywords for your site? Well, you are not the only one. Google to rescue (as always) with Keywords Tool that helps you create best keywords.
Go To and Learn My number one choice for learning fancy flash tricks. The best video tutorials by a person with easy to understand and pleasant voice. :-)	Fam Fam Fam First of all, great site name. Talking about simple and clean as the best design. This is a site where you can get royalty free icons for your site. Don't forget to yell out Fan Fan Fan loud and clear.	You Send It Great site for those people who can not send emails with file over 10Mbs. You Send allows you to send a file via their site and file will be stored on their server for you friend to access.
Custom Scroll bar If you want to have a custom colored scroll bar on your site but know that not all the browsers support it here is your solution: Costume Scroll bar.	Dreamweaver 8 FTP Fix If you have Dreamweaver 8 and Internet Explore 7 then you might have some problems with you Dreamweaver 8 FTP. Here is a quick solution from Adobe. YAY	Yellow Icon I love to have different cool Icons for sections for my computer. Here is my ultimate source of such icons. Download free very stylish and detailed icons that will satisfy any taste.
Ultra Shock One of the best sites you can ever visit. This site has a lot of flash files in .fla format for you to download and learn how they did it.	Ningen's Wallpaper A very good collection of Anime wallpapers for your computers. From time to time I enjoy putting some anime ones on my computers and this is the place where I get them!	Brands of the World Looking for a EPS file of a famous logo? This web site contains all corporate and government logos you can think of. Great resource I often use at work when EPS format logo is needed.
Freelayouts Good freelayouts for your site if you are not worried about the ads. Also, a nice site to get inspiration.	MappedUP RSS Recently updated amazing RSS feed inside world map. Each entry shows up from the location it was actually made. Every second new entry is displayed in real time as it retrieved.	Slide Show Pro Thanks to my friend Jason, this is a web site for a great flash program. You can create your own extensive gallery of images, art works and photography.

/\\/ Stock Photography and Fonts Collections

Morguefile Its hard to find a good stock images source. Here is another one that a lot of people recommend me. Great resource for any pictures and always something you can use.	Stock.XCHNG Web site contains great high quality stock images that you can use for free in your projects. I really like this site and recommend it to all designers.	Clip Art if you are willing to pay then Clipart is your pick. You only pay monthly or early fee and you can use any vector or high quality photos you want.
Bluevertigo Stock images here I come. No this is not another stock images site, but this site lists hundred of stock images out there in the vast web. Great use of horizontal scrollbar. Good job.	iStock Photo Another great stock photo web site. Contains very high quality images, but does requires a small fee for different resolution photos. And you can submit your photography there.	1001 Free Font.com Very big collection of free fonts for PC and MAC. This site contains lots of various fonts designed for a specific task for you to use.
Da Font.com Very big collection of free fonts. Contains fonts from TV series and any other font you can imagine. I always check for a nice new font here to make each project more unique.

/\\/ Blog's, Online Communities and Fan Sites

Fail Blog.org This fail is not an option. From the creators of LOL CATs comes FailBlog.org Extremely funny web site with images and videos of FAIL things from around the world and around us.	I Can Has Cheezburger LOL Cats!	ISO50 Blog Amazing blog by Scott Hansen. He is the retro style master and my personal inspiration. When I grow up big and strong I want to be just like him. He talks about everything and anything.
Hemmy.net Gate way to strangest and no need for a key because Hemmy.net is an open gate. This is one of my favorite web sites with lots of strange things from around the web.	Thayer Avenue Silver Spring blog created by my coworker covering events around and in Silver Spring, Rockville and Bethesda, Maryland.	Danny Choo One of my most favorite blog to read. Great view into life in Japan. I enjoy every single post he makes and how he walks around Tokyo in Storm Trooper outfit.
Chevron26.com One of the best Stargate fan sites. Contains a Gaul dictionary to which with help of my sister we added some words. Anything and everything you need to know is here..	Cycle Posers I would like to present to you my friend Ricardo's new online community web site. This is one of the fastest growing communities form motorcycle owners with latest news and reviews.	Paula's Choice This is a very useful site for those who want to take care of their skin. Here you can find reviews by a well known professional Paula Begoun - The Cosmetics Cop.
Beta Watcher Ever wanted to be the first to try new games? Here is the best web site to get latest info on open and closed betas. I actually got to test new online multi player Beta from this site.	iBlog.Chubzz The only reason I'm adding this site is because of its great short news/updates section on the right. Its a great combination of iframe which they are hiding and a great javascript.	Yuna Personal Site Very good web site by and about my friend from AIW. She did a great job on this site and I told her that she should be doing web.
Japan-Zone Good site to learn more about Japan and Japanese culture. Contains various information and very nice image gallery.	Peter and Company Web site comic book illustrated by Jon Ponikvar. beautifully designed character that are so cute and live.

/\\/ Shopping

Flash Loaded While searching for free flash cool things I got to this site. However this is not a site with free stuff. Actually you have to pay for files off this site.	Ses Inc e-store I love fashion an Japanese street fashion is something I would love to see in person someday. Here is a site that contains Japanese street fashion clothing for sale.	Lets Talk.com When I was cell phone shopping for the first time I found this site to be very useful. With easy compare tools between plans and cell phone features.
ADV Films.com Good site that contains Japanese Anime and this site is well designed with nice features. Also, contains good Anime/movies sites.	Craigslist DC List of free stuff you can get around the Washington DC Metropolitan area. Site is a bit cluttered with too much info.	Samgoody Online One of the places where I buy my music. They have a good in store and online collection. I like to shop there, especially when friends give me gift cards.

/\\/ Computer Games

GunZ This is a free Korean online first person shooter game. Graphics is not very good, but its a fun game and you will enjoy it.	Guild Wars Web site for a Guild Wars online game. The illustrations are great and game is very nice too. It cost about $50 USD, but no monthly fee.	Another Century's 3 Gundam and Robotech all together in this great new game Another Century's Episode 3.
Battleon RPG Very nice free flash based RPG. Impressive flash works and good RPG. After a while this RPG can get boring.	Dream Gazers.com Great site created in flash with very good graphics. This is a site of the game that is still being developed.	Keepers: Key of Life beautifully designed flash web site for a russian computer game. Very well drawn illustrations and actionscript use.

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