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3D document generator
ASCII art
The Awesome List
mother of all BBS
Clip Art
- ArtToday 579,000 graphic files
- Christmas Clip Art
- The Clip Art Connection
- Clip Art Review
- Image Club Store
- Scriptorium Digital typefaces and graphic arts
- Yahoo list
c|net online
Online Computer Manuals
non-profit computer recycling directory
computer tips
guide to computer vendors computer hardware and software vendors, vendor phone books, and computer magazines
Definistions
- acronyms used in the computer community
- Webopedia: Online dictionary for computer and internet terms
- whatis.com definition for thousnads of the most current IT-related words
E-Mail
- Break the Chain stop junk e-mail and misinformation
- E-mail Discussion Groups/Lists Resources everything you always wanted to know about maintaining, subscribing to, or working with mailing lists
- Eudora
  - Andrew Starr's Eudora Site
- Free Email Providers Guide over 1300 providers from over 85 countries!
- Inter-Network Mail Guide
- ListBot makes starting your own FREE email list quick and easy
- LISTSERV list reference
- MailShare
- Majordomo
  - Majordomow (Admin)- WWW Gateway: List Owner Help
  - majordomo mail list and archive site
- Spam
  - Anti-Relay: How Can I Fix the Problem?
  - Despammed.com filtering service that blocks unwanted emails before they ever reach your mailbox!
  - e-MPS e-mail preference service that allows you to opt out of national e-mail lists
  - Fight Spam on the Internet
  - Junk Mail Junction remove yourself from junk mail mailing lists
  - Removeyou.com
  - Sam Spade v1.14 network-query tool that can help you locate bulk mailers
  - SpaceAssassin
  - spam tracking
  - spamming and slamming information
  - Spamradio turn junk mail into a streaming audio broadcast
  - What to do with spam
- SwitchEmail free e-mail forwarding
- free web based pop email
Education Reading Room
File Sharing
- Gnutella
- IMesh find and share any kind of file
- LimeWire enables peer-to-peer file sharing on the Gnutella Network
- Morpheus
Finding e-mail addresses
- Internet Address Finder (IAF)
- usenet-addresses Search for e-mail addresses among those collected from Usenet postings between July 1991 and February 1996
- Yahoo! People Search
Fonts
- 1001Fonts.com
- Fontage
- Fontscape independent directory of typefaces organized into categories
- Identifont font identifier that enables you to identify a font from a sample by answering a simple questions
- MyFonts.com find fonts, try fonts, buy fonts
Free-Nets & Community Networks
Internet FAQ Archives
goBCL convert documents into PDF or HTML for free
Graphic Viewers, editors, utilities, and info
Hardware
- DriveSavers specializes in recovering lost data
- EPSON Stylus Color 880
- ramseeker
complete home page directory
Hypertext Handbook list of commonly used Internet terms, glossary of computer oriented abbreviations and acronyms, and an Internet and Unix dictionary
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
- General
  - HTML Goodies links to tutorials, images, helpers, etc.
  - HTML with style - WebReference.com
  - Internetseer.com web site monitoring service
- Advertising
  - Add Me free site promotion and submission
  - Central Registry
  - Intersept deduces the ranking procedures of the major search engines by probing them with relevant questions and optimises the site's HTML to be ranked highly by these algorithms
  - LinkPopularity.com total number of web sites that link to your site
  - Mind-it buttons automatically notify your site visitors when you have made important updates to a page
  - PositionAgent monitor your site's search engine rankings
  - RankThis! figure out how your site ranks on the search engines
  - Referral Blast enables your visitors to send your Web site to up to 10 friends, family and co-workers at a time
  - Site Add free and easy way to register your site with the top search engines
  - www.toptennow.com
    - free search engine reports
  - WebCom Guide
- Authoring
  - 404 Research Lab links to the best 404 Not Found errors on the web and instructions on how to make your own 404 page
  - Aman Software Aman Software site monitoring software
    - CyberSpider Link Test
  - beginner's guide (NCSA)
  - creating your own web page
  - Popup DHTML navigational menu
  - Doctor HTML analysis tool which retrieves an HTML page and reports on any problems that it finds
  - Dr. Watson link verification, spell check, and HTML syntax analysis
  - FreeCode code to do cool things online
  - Homepage Creation!
  - HTML 2.0
  - Webmonkey | Reference: HTML Cheatsheet
  - HTML Tags
  - internetseer.com will monitor your web site and send you an e-mail when it's not responding
  - Netscape complete list of Netscape supported extensions
  - reallybig.com more than 3000 resources for web builders including free clipart, CGI, counters, fonts, html, java, animation, backgrounds, icons, wysiwyg editors, buttons, photographs, site promotion, and much more
  - SiteInspector Inspect your site's quality, announce your site to 7 major search engines, monitor your site's ranking in the search engines, and create META Tags for your web page
  - SurveySuite
  - Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML in a Week
  - W3C HTML Validation Service checks HTML documents for conformance to W3C HTML and XHTML Recommendations and other HTML standards
  - Web Developers Guide
  - Web Page Design
  - Webmonkey the web developer's resource
  - Webreference.com SiteMap Enter the URL of a site and it will return the map
  - WebScript(tm)
  - Web Site Garage awesome utility for checking your homepage
  - WebSter's Dictionary 2.0 spell checker for WWW documents
  - ? ? ?
- Website Awards
- Backgrounds
  - Background Color Sampler
  - Background Sampler
  - John Hansen's Wallpaper Samples
  - John's Background Page
  - MacDaddy's background sampler
  - Texture Land 196 textures that you can use in web pages, 3D modelling, VRML, for wallpaper, or anything else you can think of
- Characters
- Colors
  - Webmonkey | Reference: Color Codes
  - Color Index
  - Color Picker choose background, text, link, visited link, and active link colors
  - The Colors of Plux! cool table of colored blocks with the codes on them
  - ColorServe
  - ColorServe Pro
  - Non-Dithering Colors by Hue nice list of colors and numbers for your HTML code
- Converters
  - site 1
  - site 2
- Counters
  - digits.com
  - Freewebcounter.com
  - FXWeb
  - Site Meter free, fast, and easy way to add a web counter page
- Forms
  - Carlos' Forms Tutorial
  - Response-O-Matic Free form processor
  - URL-minder have users register to receive e-mail message everytime a URL is updated
- Frames
  - An Introduction (Netscape)
- Graphics
  - 500,000 FREE!!! Cool Graphics: Clip Art, Backgrounds, Animations, Icons
  - MediaBuilder Animated Banner Maker
  - animated GIFs
  - Fairy Suryana's animated gifs
  - GIF Animation on the WWW
  - GIF Animations...
  - GIF lube reduce the size of GIF images
  - GIF wizard Online utility that will help you reduce the file size of your GIF files
  - Icon Browser
  - "The Icon Factory"
  - Listing of GIFs
  - MediaBuilder: Animation Factory free animated GIF library
  - SCS Common Image Gallery
  - VRL's Imaging Machine
  - Web Developer's Virtual Library: Images and Icons
- Photos
  - Gallery web based photo album
- Scripts
  - Cut-N-Paste JavaScript
  - 121-java-script-tutorials.com
  - JavaScript Source
  - JavaScript World
  - Matt's script archive
  - ScriptSearch world's largest CGI library
  - Woldman Tim's JavaScripts and ASP
- Tables
  - Table Maker fill in preferences and it generates the source code for you
  - Tables in Netscape 1.1
ICQ.com
ICQphone
InfoBeat get daily sports, news, etc. updates via e-mail
Interactive Age
Internet
- Internet Archive digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form
- DeletedDomains.com find "deleted" or "on-hold" domains
- Inter-Links Internet guide, tutorial, and resource locator
- Find IP address information
- Netsurfer Tools
- Providers
  - Definitive ISP Buyer's Guide
    - site #1
    - site #2
  - Free
    - All Free ISP
    - Freedomlist free and cheap ISP direectory
    - Freei.Net Free nationwide Internet access
    - NetZero Free Internet access forever
    - Tritium Network
- Talk over the net
  - MediaRing Talk lets you call from your PC to any regular phone worldwide for less than phone company international and long-distance rates
  - Roger Wilco (PC) make phone calls over the net
- tutorials
- wireless access points
- Yanoff's Internet Services List
Internet Sleuth searchable index and databases
Internet Starter Kit (TISK) Mac and Windows Internet clients
InterNIC Directory of Database Services
- via e-mail (help in body of message)
- via gopher
- via WWW
The Learning Kingdom get a daily e-mail about "Today in History," a "Cool Fact," a "Cool Word," or "Person of the Day"
Macintosh
- General
  - MacInTouch
  - The Apple Store
MapEdit
MapServe
Mathematica
- Mathematica Primer (written by Richard Murray for ME115*Intorduction to Kinematics and Robotics at Caltech)
NETGLOS Multilungual Internet Glossary Project; glossary of internet terminology
Museums & Libraries Reading Room
Network News
Online Newspaper Creation how to create your own online newspaper
OutPost Network The Internet Post Office
Personal Digital Assistants
- General
  - Palm Infocenter
  - PalmGear.com
- Companies/Accessories
  - E & B Company cases
  - StylusCentral.com
- Handhelds
  - Handspring
  - Palm, Inc. - Handheld Computing Solutions
    - PalmVx Support
- Software
  - General
    - Palm & Mac
    - Palm Software Downloads
  - Handheld Software
    - General
    - AvantGo
      - My AvantGo
    - BugMe lets you quickly scribble a note and set a time for the note to pop up and bug you
    - Cesium clock, stopwatch, and timer
    - ConvertIt! converts between different units of measurement in 38 categories and 400 conversion factors
    - DateBk4 advanced, integrated replacement for the databook, to do, memo databases with support for the addressbook database as well
    - DrinkBoy drink recipes
    - ePocrates qRx clinical drug database
    - FireViewer
    - Hacks
      - hacks
      - HackMaster v0.9
      - Daylight Savings Hack 2.1.3
      - FindHack enhanced replacement for the Palm's built-in Find application
      - LightHack allows you to make the backlight on any Palm device change its default mode
      - PalmVHack acts to disable the hardware buttons while your Palm V is processing an alarm
    - HolidayUSA displays the dates for US holidays
    - JShopper shopping-list manager
    - Lemons Lemmings for the Palm!
    - Parens
    - Select Time Hack adds the ability to increment your start and end times on your Datebook one minute at a time
    - StayOff
    - Tide Tool
    - Washington DC Metro Map
  - Palm Desktop
    - Machintosh support
    - Palm Desktop software for Mac
Pretty Good Privacy Phone (PGPfone) turns your computer into a secure telephone
Purchasing
- BUYDIRECT.COM
- PC Connection Online Superstore
Research Reading Room
Screen Savers
- Screen Savers a2z
- ScreenSaver.com
Search Engines
- Internet Search Engines Listing of search tools organized by type of search
- All4one MetaSearch 4 popular search engines and directories simultaneous
- Bookmarks2Go
- Find-It!
- FindArticles.com
- Google
  - advanced search find pages linked to your page
  - image search
  - Google monitor
  - Toolbar
  - Who links to you?
- iLOR Search
- Kart00
- Rolist
- Search Online
- SelectSurf access to over 10,000 of the Internet�s top sites
- Yahoo!
Sites
- Site du Jour of the Day
- Scout Report
  - Internet Scout Project
  - NSDL Scout Reports
  - Scout Report
SMTP
Software
- General
  - Freeware/Shareware
  - License
    - onDemand License Facility lets you rent software products to run on your computer by the week, by the month, or by the year
  - SoftWatcher new Macintosh software and upgrades
  - TUCOWS software downloads
    - TUCOWS Mac Software Archive
  - VersionTracker (Macintosh) find out the latest version of Macintosh software
- Drivers
  - Computer Drivers
  - DriverGuide.com printer, CD ROM, modem, sound, mouse, and monitor drivers
- Games
  - Freeware Games
  - Paperclip
- Systems
  - Windows
    - Annoyances.org annoying things in Windows
    - Windows 2000 downloads
- Programs
  - 3D-FTP multi-threaded transfer engine
  - Ad-aware identifies and removes surreptitiously installed applications
  - Atomic Clock Sync keeps your computer up to date with the exact current time
  - Atomic Time (PC) synchronizes you computer's built in clock with the clocks of one or more free time servers on the internet
  - cleanerEZ encode video, audio, and graphic files into QuickTime, RealVideo, and Windows Media Player
  - DivX.com
  - EzVoice 1.1 full-featured home voice mail/answering machine
  - FaberBox (PC) system utility, mainly developed for power users who want to know what's going on in the Personal Computers
  - FileMaker Pro
    - Troi Automatisering plug-ins and other products for FileMaker Pro
  - FreeRip MP3 (PC) rips songs from your music CDs and saves them in digital format
  - Ghostscript
  - GraphicConverter
  - Hot CPU Tester Lite (PC) tests the CPU and motherboard for errors
  - Internet Config (Macintosh) to save common information when using multiple net utilities
  - InterVideo
  - MacHTTP (Macintosh)
    - MacHTTP software
    - tools
  - NetPresenz
  - Netslideshow easy way to present all your digital images
  - PDF
    - Planet PDF Adobe Acrobat PDF news, tools, tips, and resources
  - Photoshop
    - Adobe Photoshop Basics
    - CoolType
    - Introduction to Adobe Photoshop
    - Jay Arraich's Photoshop Tips
    - Jeff's Photoshop Tips and Tricks
    - Learning Photoshop 6.0
    - Photoshop Tips & Tricks tips and tricks
  - PicPerk free powerful image viewer and editor
  - Pop Peeper utility that runs in your Windows task bar and alerts you when you have new email on any of your POP3, Hotmail, MSN or Yahoo accounts
  - PowerPoint
    - indezine.com
    - PowerPoint 2002/XP
    - PowerPointed
  - QuickTime
  - RAD Video Tools convert QuickTime and MOV files
  - Speak Freely
  - SwapNut
    - software
    - Spychecker checks if software you are about to install will install third party applications and/or ads
    - SwapNut.com
  - Synchronize It! lets you see what's changed in your folders across the net and allows you to transfer those changes with mouse clicks
  - Trasmit (Macintosh) really cool FTP software for the Mac
  - UltimateZip (PC)
  - WinZip
  - WordWeb Thesaurus and Dictionary (PC) includes common definitions and also shows synonyms and antonyms
  - VeriTime task/activity tracking application
  - Word
    - "Creating Sequentially Numbered Items in Word for Equations and Citations" (Word document)
- Utilities
  - Chris Free Software Cleaner displays the amount of space that each type of file is using on your hard disk
  - ContentWatch clean Internet files off your computer
  - Cron Background-only application which launches other applications at specified dates and times
  - Driver Detective v2.0 scans hard drive and displays list of all of the drivers installed on your system
  - FireEyes lets you know exactly when your PC is being accessed
  - PC Pitstop runs diagnostics on your PC to identify things that might help improve performance
  - Sound utilities
  - video and animation utilities
  - webroot software downloads
Sounds
- Daily .WAV .WAVs and .MIDs
- FindSounds.com search the web for sounds
SQL Interpreter & Tutorial
Systems
- Apple
  - AppleCare Service & Support
  - commonly used Mac OS startup keyboard shortcuts
  - Apple manuals
  - Support and Information Web
- Dell
  - Customer Care
  - Dell Premier Support
  - Support.Dell.Com register for updates
Templates
- Templates for the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)
  - LaTeX
  - MS Word
TenLinks.com web organized for technical professionals
TeX/LaTeX
- @LaTeXe help 1.6
- aiaa LaTeX Package
- CTAN WWW Interface to the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network
- CUED LaTeX supplementary documentation
- Hints about tables and figures in LaTeX
- Hypertext Help with LaTeX
- LaTeX help 1.4
- (La)TeX Navigator
- LaTeX resources
- LaTeX symbols
- TeX Frequently Asked Questions
- The TeX System
- TeX User Group Home Page
- Text processing using LaTeX
tutorials
Learn2Type.com learn to type online
University of Maryland
- Project GLUE
- inforM System
- Office of Information Technology
  - Help Desk
  - Help Desk: Communications
- WAM How-to-Page
UNIX
- UNIX Desk Reference
Virus
- big picture book of viruses
- Hoaxes
  - F-Secure industry standard information source for new virus hoaxes and false alerts
  - McAfee.com's Virus Hoaxes
- New viruses
- Univeristy of Maryland's Office of Information Technology Virus Notification Program
- Protecting software
  - Displaying filename extensions in Windows
  - Email virus protection for Netscape 4.5 through 4.73
  - Virus Security for Microsoft Office
  - Removing the .SHS file type
- Software
  - McAfee VirusScan
    - DAT update
    - VirusScan 4.5
  - Panda ActiveScan detects and eliminates any of over 60,000 viruses and Trojan horses
- McAfee.com: Virus Information Library
- Virus Information Library
- University of Maryland Virus Notification Program
World Wide Web (WWW)
- Browsers
  - Netscape
    - Netscape Navigator Components
- crawlers
- ATTRITION Mirrored Sites listings of what sites have been hacked
- World Wide Web homepage creation
- Macintosh WWW Resources
- Navigator give reporters and editors new to the Web a solid starting point for a wide range of journalistic functions without forcing all of them to spend time wandering around blindly to find a useful set of links of their own
- NetMind track changes to any Web page at any level of detail and be alerted via email, cell phone, pager, PDA, or the Web
- Mark Maimone's World Wide Web tutorial slides
- usable web collection of links about information architecture, human factors, user interface issues, and usable design specific to the WWW
- Virtual Library
- WebCopier offline browser that records websites and stores them locally until you are ready to vire them
- Webreference.com webmaster's reference library

DISCLAIMER: I do not speak for any of the organizations listed on this page.
Last updated: 9 March 2003