Below are great tips and on finding information on employment, feel free to contact me on LinkedIn if you want to add anything to this list.

Jobs Search Tools

• Indeed
• Monster
• LI Newsday, CareerBuilder
• HotJobs
• Dice
• Stony Brook
• CareerBuilder
• Career Center (only for Stony Brook Alumni)
• GeoWeb (not sure if good)
• Jobster (not sure if good)

Consulting Gigs

• elancer

Job Market Information

• SkillPROOF
• 100 Best Companies to Work – 2009

Salary Information

• Info – 10 steps to getting a raise
• Salary.com

Startup Jobs

• NextNY
• NYCSeed
• New York Tech Meetup

Corporate Jobs, I listed a few. You can always look up more info on companies on LinkedIn.

• Jobs in NY
• BAE
• Canon
• Capital One
• Citigroup Campus Recruitment Website
• Citigroup
• Computer Associates
• Ernst and Young
• Mount Sinai
• Northrop Grumman
• Reuters
• Symbol

Temp Jobs

• Temp Legal Jobs

Web Jobs, to name just a few…

• Twitter

Government Jobs

• Job listings from NY Unemployment
• Federal Jobs
• IRS
• U.S. Department of State
• USAJOBS

Job Fairs

• Job fair listings in ny
• Women For Hire
• Meetups, I consider meetups to be somewhat of a great place to find you next gig.

Work Tips

• Handling Getting Fired
• Brainbench Test
• 12 tips for making small talk

Head Hunders … I highly recommend you work with a few head hunters when looking for you next job.

• Starpoint
• Continuity Partners Inc., I highly recommend them for people in tech.
• LinkedIn, has a ton of head hunters.

Interview Questions, do your research and read up on some interview questions.

• Java Interview Questions
• Java Singleton Design Patterns, just an example on a something that techie trying to get a Java job should read up on

These are packages that I use and recommend on my Linux Ubuntu box.

System Tools

• Filelight
  Displays a circular graph of the space used by your files, so you know when you
  have big files (for example, images of your work) that if you backup them you’ll save space.
  sudo apt-get install filelight
• gdmap
  Displays space used by files, but with squares.
  sudo apt-get install gdmap
• gParted
  Interface for partitioning your hard disk drive, and make it a bit easier, without having to reinstall everything.
  sudo apt-get install gparted
• aptoncd
  Just for Ubuntu and Debian. Allows to backup your packages installed in a CD so you can have them ready to
  install in another computer.
  sudo apt-get install aptoncd
• htop
  sudo apt-get install htop

Programming/Editor Tools

• PDFedit
  Free (and open source) editor for manipulating PDF documents. GUI version + command line interface.
  sudo apt-get install pdfedit
• Bluefish
  sudo apt-get install bluefish
• Meld
  A simple but powerful small tool that can compare two files or directories and tell you the differences, or merge them.
  sudo apt-get install meld
• vim
  sudo apt-get install vim

Music Tools

• SoundConverter

Photo Tools

• sudo apt-get install xaralx

Networking Tools

• gFTP

Media Players

• Boxee
• Songbird
  How to configure songbird.
• VLC Player

Downloading Tools

• JDownloader
• Deluge, download it here.
  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deluge-team/ppa
sudo apt-get install deluge

GUI

• Mac Dock For Linux?
• GnomeDo
  sudo apt-get install gnome-do gnome-do-plugins
• Compiz

Additional

• p7zip
  sudo apt-get install p7zip
• TaskCoach
• KeePassX
  sudo apt-get install keepassx
• ntp
  sudo apt-get install ntp
• ubuntu-restricted-extras
  sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

More Great Sites

This is great site to get applications

• Appnr

Other great lists of packages:

• Essential Ubuntu Productivity Apps
• Must have Ubuntu Packages from SuperUser.com
• Top 100 of the Best (Useful) OpenSource Applications

A great song–

If you find yourself using your iPhone and iPod Touch to browse the web more and more each day then be sure to setup your iPhone/iPod Touch to sync your Safari Bookmarks.

Discover interesting sites while on the go and able to check back on them when you return to the larger screen comfort of your Mac. Taking your bookmarks with you has never been easier.

I gave a commercial pitch to the NY Tech community this December 2009 for Dr. Chrono, it was great fun!:

SugarCRM is a commercial open source CRM.

Some of the best instructions on installation –
Installing SugarCRM on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)
Installing SugarCRM Community Edition

Ignite events let people do 5 minute presentation, very fast but if done right….great.

Here is one by Tim O’Reilly:

Another interesting presentation:

Virtual Machines software I recommend.

Linux I recommendations:
VMWare
Xen

I hear this is good as well, though I have never tried it:
VirtualBox/