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Just a few "Golden Nuggets" of info that I've mined from the internet
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1) Free software and services
2) Articles
3) Search engines
4) E-biz
5) Web development
6) Hardware
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http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/stories/solutions/0,8224,2616760,00.html
PC Magazine recognizes this year's best shareware products. They evaluate
40 finalists in 8 categories: business applications; desktop accessories;
e-mail, news readers, and chat; file utilities; graphics and multimedia;
HTML editors; Internet utilities; and Web development.
http://www.winmag.com/fixes/2000/0825.htm
http://pcusers.org/pcfree.html
Winmag's Dave Methvin, creator of the PCPitstop web service, offers a
free System Management BIOS data analyzer that runs under Windows.
http://www.wordwalla.com/
http://pcusers.org/pcfree.html
WordWalla is an on-line service that allows you to send e-mail in any
of more than 50 languages. You just select the language in which you would
like to write your message. The characters you see on the screen will be in
the language that you have selected and the recipient will recieve it in
that languge.
news://msnews.microsoft.com
http://pcusers.org/pcfree.html
Microsoft News Servers. Click the above link to access Microsoft's public
access newsgroups. This should open your news reader and you can then
download the list of nearly 1000 available forums covering every aspect of
MS software and related topics.
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http://pcusers.org/rogreview1.html
http://pcusers.org/pcreference.html#articles
A First-Impression Review of the New Free Microsoft Reader v1.5. By Roger
Imai. This article gives you a summary about E-books and reader software in
general and a review of the Microsoft Reader.
http://www.winmag.com/columns/explorer/2000/18.htm
http://pcusers.org/pcreference.html#resources
Scrub Your Hard Disk Clean. Easy Ways To Recover Up To Gigabytes Of Wasted Space! By Fred Langa.
http://www.winmag.com/fixes/bioslies.htm
http://pcusers.org/pcreference.html#articles
Your Lying Bios. Thanks to a feature called the System Management BIOS
(SMBIOS) , your computer makes available an incredible amount of information
about its configuration and settings. Unfortunately, a lot of the SMBIOS
configuration data inside your computer is probably wrong
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http://services.google.com/sitesearch/express
http://pcusers.org/pcwebhead.html
Free WebSearch & SiteSearch Express (BETA). Adding Google's Free WebSearch
and SiteSearch (BETA) to your site enables users to do Google searches from
your web page. These free* services give your users the option to search the
entire Internet or only the domain(s) you specify
http://www.metaeureka.com/
Metaeureka is a little bit different from other meta search engines. Just
like the others it shows the results of your query, after parsing results
(removing duplicates, sorting on relevancy). It then gives you the best
results of the most important web search engines for the categories : World
Web, News, Newsgroups (Usenet), MP3, Music, Pictures, Encycopledias, Booksand Jokes. It does not load graphics, allows you a no-decription option,
loads up to 50 results, and does it very fast.
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http://www.ideavirus.com/readit.html
http://pcusers.org/pce-biz.html#articles
Unleashing the Ideavirus. In Seth Godin's new book he talks about how ideas
start and how they spread --- how they become ideaviruses. It's about how
trends, products --- and yes, book buzz --- get started and proliferate. To
unleash his own ideavirus, he is offering Unleashing the Ideavirus online
here for free.
http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00520000824lan01.htm
http://pcusers.org/pcreference.html#asp
Microsoft sets strategy for software rentals. Microsoft has revealed that
they have been running a series of licensing pilots over the last year
designed to help them determine a strategy for offering their products on a
subscription (or rental) basis rather than as a one-time purchase.
http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2620313,00.html
Novell to usher in ASP plan. The goal is to link a network of distributors
and application service providers, via Novell's directory services software,
to make it easier for businesses to purchase and deploy software from Novell
or any third-party developer.
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http://html.about.com/compute/html/library/weekly/aa100799.htm?terms=nlkind
http://pcusers.org/pcwebhead.html
Web Site Criticism. Has somebody ever asked you to rate their web site? This
article shows you how to do it using "constructive criticism".
http://html.about.com/compute/html/library/bl_map.htm?terms=mapj
http://pcusers.org/pcwebhead.html
About.com's HTML Site Map. An index and description of every file on the
HTML site at About.com. A very extensive set of resources.
http://html.about.com/compute/html/c/ht/00/07/How_Stream_Media_Web0964145544
.htm?terms=nl14c
http://pcusers.org/pcwebhead.html
How to Stream Media From a Web Server.
http://html.about.com/compute/html/library/weekly/aa010300a.htm?terms=nl14d
http://pcusers.org/pcwebhead.html
Sounding Off. Including sound in your Web pages can be tricky, but there are
two tags that allow you to do it:
http://html.about.com/compute/html/library/weekly/aa072700a.htm
http://pcusers.org/pcwebhead.html
Types of Web Files. When learning what it takes to build a Web page, you'll
come across many different types of file extensions.
http://html.about.com/compute/html/library/weekly/aa081000a.htm
http://pcusers.org/pcwebhead.html
Using Non-English Letters in HTML.
http://html.about.com/compute/html/library/weekly/aa011899.htm
http://pcusers.org/pcwebhead.html
Beginning Cascading Style Sheets. Using style sheets give you the chance to
be completely consistent with the look and feel of your web pages, while
giving you much more control over the layout and design than straight HTML.
http://html.about.com/compute/html/library/beginning/bl_htmlclass.htm
http://pcusers.org/pcwebhead.html
HTML 101. A 10 Week HTML Training Course. This course is delivered to you in weekly lessons. After you finish this course, you will understand the basics
of HTML, and some more advanced topics. With interactive lessons and the
option to work with other people in the course, you'll be able to learn HTML
the way you want. Go at your own pace, or follow along with the weekly
syllabus.
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http://www.smartahem.com/smartnews/files/articles-2000/0300-UPnP/introduction.htm
http://pcusers.org/pcreference.html#articles
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) is an open standard technology supported
under Windows ME for transparently connecting appliances, PCs, and services
by extending Plug and Play to support networks and peer-to-peer discovery
and configuration. In this model, appliances such as telephones,
televisions, printers and game consoles exchange and replicate relevant data
between themselves and the PCs on the network.
http://www.pcworld.com/top400/article/0,1361,15397,00.html
Two Ports in a Storm: FireWire and USB 2 Vie to Replace Stodgy Parallel,
Serial Hookups
http://www.jello.net/report/Issues/2000/08/23/20000823.asp
PORT WARS Episode V: The IEEE (Firewire) Strikes Back
http://www.jello.net/report/Issues/2000/08/25/20000825.asp
PORT WARS Episode VI: Return of the USB
http://www.karbosguide.com/agp.htm
http://pcusers.org/pcreference.html#resources
Karbo's illustrated guide to AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port)
http://www.maximumpc.com/content/2000/08/23/11781
Intel has released more details for its push to AGP 8x. The new AGP 8x spec
will double the bandwidth of AGP 4x to roughly 2GB a second.
http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/iwill_ata100/index.html
Iwill ATA 100 IDE RAID Controller Card Review
http://www.coolerguys.com/
http://pcusers.org/pctechy.html
CoolerGuys.com. The place to come to go to for your computer cooling
supplies for CPU's, hard drives, cases, videocards, fans and accessories.
They even have How-To's on installartion.
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