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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) Special article
4) Web development
5) Tips:
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1) Free software and services:
http://www.lavasoft.de/free.html
http://pcusers.org/pcfree.html
AD-aware detects and removes Web3000, Gator, Cydoor, Radiate\Aureate, Flyswat, Conducent\TimeSink and CometCursor (1.0 and 2.0). These are programs that are used by various freeware developers to generate income by displaying banner ads within the program when you use it. The problem comes when this "adware" is removed from your system. It sometimes does not remove itself cleanly and can continue to run. AD-aware detects these leftover files and allows you to remove them.
http://www.babylon.com
http://pcusers.org/pcfree.html
Bablon.com. An online glossary service. Anything you want to know, on every
single word or term at the ease of a single click! Enjoy the following
features:
* Over 600 Corporate & private glossaries from: Britannica, Accuweather,
whatis & many more...
* Translations covering over 90% of languages spoken on the web.
* Currency conversions & More
* Search and reference from online resources
* Text To Speech Add-On
* Set up your own on-line glossary
http://cws.internet.com/newsletter.html
http://pcusers.org/pcfree.html
Keep up to date with the Internet Software scene by subscribing to the free
CWSApps newsletter. Subscribers will receive a daily (HTML) or weekly (text)
e-mail summary of 'net software updates as well as the latest software news.
I have subscribed to this newsletter over the past couple of years. It keeps
me informed of the latest revisions and updates to my internet/antivirus
software. It also rates the updates as to their significance or importance.
Every week when I recieve this newsletter it reminds to me to update my
InoculateIT Anti-virus signatures.
http://cws.internet.com/reviews/encrypt-pgp7.html
http://pcusers.org/pcfree.html
PGP Desktop Security debuts with the 7.0 edition of PGP (now in closed beta
release). Among the many new features in PGP Desktop Security are
integration with ICQ (99 and 2000 versions) for securely sharing instant
messages. It has also added an enterprise-class Personal Firewall and
Intrusion Detection System (IDS), which creates a dual-layer security
perimeter around the PC.
http://www.cameraware.com/
http://pcusers.org/pcfree.html
CameraWare. Your 100% FREE high-speed, zoomable,
multi-channel, Internet video solution! Send and view moving images over
the Internet. All at high speed, all fully zoomable.
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http://www.howstuffworks.com/flash-memory.htm
http://pcusers.org/pcreference.html#resources
How Flash Memory Works - Flash memory is the essential component in
solid-state hard disks and digital cameras.
http://www.portablelife.com/news/story/0,1089,2516,00.html
Internet Explorer's Secret Repair Tool. Microsoft includes a repair tool
with every copy of Internet Explorer.
http://www.portablelife.com/newsletters/items/1,1241,15,00.html
Great little Outlook tricks that you can use to manage your e-mail when you
use different PC's, locations or time frames.
http://www.portablelife.com/newsletters/issue/0,1332,473,00.html
Free and Low-cost On-line Services Keep You Connected.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,38466,00.html?tw=wn20000901
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,38517,00.html?tw=wn20000901
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,38565,00.html?tw=wn20000901
The above three articles show that sometimes you just don't know who or what
you are talking to on the internet.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/misc/policy/privacy.html/102-4747725
-5752957
Amazon.com. Their newly revised privacy policy allows the selling or
transfer of information they have on your transactions in the event of
merger or acquisiton.
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I've been Nortonized. by Roger Imai
This is to let everyone know that I've been Nortonized.
I uninstalled McAfee Uninstaller, McAfee VirusScan, and ZoneAlarm, and installed Norton CleanSweep, NAV2000, and Norton Personal Firewall. I'm impressed by the progress Norton has made in its online support, as well as the installer and the LiveUpdate technology.
All around, Norton provides a lot more information at each phase of the installation or update, and an information windows appear when something doesn't go as planned, so you can gracefully recover from it. For instance, the LiveUpdate attempted to connect after I shut down my DSL connection (oops, wrong "shut down all running programs.") But instead of hanging, like McAfee VirusScan does, it allowed me to skip that step and run LiveUpdate later. LiveUpdate ran for all three programs and seamlessly updated a bunch of modules, including ITSELF, for all three programs. The Symantec program updates, even when they were purchased separately, instead of bundled together in Systemworks 2000, all ran identically. McAfee's live updaters seemed to connect to different services for each program, using different technologies.
The Symantec website is now much better integrated and easier to navigate than the McAfee-NAI-CyberMedia sites, which are still all fragmented, where one division doesn't know what the other is doing, or about the issues between them.
Also, Glassbook will not install on a system that has CyberMedia Oil Change installed on it, so I had to remove that module. Symantec LiveUpdate was a good swap.
I think the overwhelming advantage now of Symantec products over NAI-McAfee-CyberMedia is that they have a better team of developers handling the installation and updater programs. Ninety percent of problems with system utilities, are not with the tools themselves, but with faulty installation and update programs. I used the Uninstall icon from the VirusScan program group, and it ran and reported that the uninstall was successful, but left 18.5 MB of files scattered in three folders on two drives. I had to use CleanSweep to find and remove all the orphaned files, and probably need to run the Registry Cleaner too after this. My confidence in McAfee has fallen several notches. Their web-based support forum sucks, too. There are two unpaid peer users contributing there, who are often more helpful than the official staff that monitor the groups. Pretty sad situation.
Well, so far, everything seems to be working the same. I think the new software will all work together better than my hodge-podge mix of utilities I was running before. Of course, I would've gotten OnTrack's System 2000, but these were too good a deal to pass up. I got NPF for free from MindSpring. NAV2000 and CleanSweep I got bundled as a special $39.95 special member offer in a NetDirect mailing. So you got a new Symantec convert.
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http://www.bravenet.com/samples/faq.php
http://pcusers.org/pcwebhead.html#resources
The Bravenet FAQ Database is a terrific tool for any webmaster. This super
tool takes the drudgery out of answering visitors' questions or requests for
product/service support! It's easy to implement and simple to configure and
will save you both time and effort
http://html.about.com/c/ht/00/07/How_Clear_Netscape_Cache0962932781.htm
http://pcusers.org/pcreference.html#resources
How to clear your cache in Netscape
http://html.about.com/c/ht/00/07/How_Clear_Cache0962932781.htm
http://pcusers.org/pcreference.html#resources
How to clear your cache in Internet Explorer.
Do have problems getting a page to load properly? Then try clearing your
browser's cache.
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Here is a tip from the Windows 98 newsletter at http://tipworld.com
MAPPING A DRIVE
"If you use a shared network drive only occasionally, you probably access it by double-clicking Network Neighborhood. If the drive is one you use more frequently, however, you can get to it quicker by mapping the drive so that it appears as a drive letter on your computer. To map a network drive, first find the drive in Network Neighborhood and then right-click and choose Map Network Drive. Choose a drive letter from the drop-down menu and click OK. You can now access the network drive by selecting it on your computer the same way you would your hard drive--that is, by simply double-clicking on My Computer and finding it."
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