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___UTILITY SITE DIRECTORIES. ASP (Association of Shareware Professionals) Members list contains links of thousands of shareware providers arranged alphabetically and searchable by keywords. | |
___UTILITY SITE DIRECTORIES. Educational Software Directory lists learning software. | |
___UTILITY SITE DIRECTORIES. Nerd's Heaven Directory lists shareware websites with descriptions. | |
___UTILITY SITE DIRECTORIES. Shareware Industry Awards has an annual banquet honoring the best and brightest shareware in the industry. The winners are listed here. | |
__UTILITY DOWNLOAD SITES. CNETs Download.com has an elegant directory that arranges shareware by categories and allows keyword searching. Star ratings and reviews are provided for the better offerings. | |
__UTILITY DOWNLOAD SITES. Freshmeat is the Web's largest index of Unix, cross platform, and Palm OS software. | |
__UTILITY DOWNLOAD SITES. Network Computings IT Pro Downloads provides directory and keyword searches plus full reviews for each offering. Offerings are geared towards the interests of IT professionals. | |
__UTILITY DOWNLOAD SITES. MajorGeeks provides directory and keyword searches. | |
__UTILITY DOWNLOAD SITES. SharewareJunkies is the oldest shareware site on the Web. Volunteers review every utility offered. | |
__UTILITY DOWNLOAD SITES. SimplytheBest provides a clear list of categories and good description of software. | |
__UTILITY DOWNLOAD SITES. Tucows offers Windows, Linux, Mac, and PDA shareware. It offers category and keyword searching. Each offering is rated. | |
__UTILITY DOWNLOAD SITES. WinSite is the largest Windows shareware site. Offerings are checked for viruses, and approved by humans. | |
_UTILITIES. Adobe Acrobat Reader is freeware that allows you to read PDF files which is the standard for multi-platform document distribution. In the latest version, editing comments can be added to documents created with Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional or higher. | |
_UTILITIES. CoolTabs 2.0 creates tabs on the edges of your screen to store icons for launching applications, documents or URLs. Cleanup your desktop and sort icons by categories. Completely customizable and slick. | |
_UTILITIES. Editor2 is a free notepad replacement installed along with the free trial download of xplorer2. It can handle larger file sizes and the search and replace functions are way faster than notepad on large files. | |
Google Toolbar is worth using just for the easy to use popup blocker. Turn off Internet Explorer's blocker and use this one instead for better control. Plus you can do a Google search from the toolbar. | |
_UTILITIES. Macromedia Flash and Shockwave freeware plug-ins for browsers allow complex media content to be displayed on web pages. Plus you can do a Google search from the toolbar. | |
_UTILITIES. mIRC is one of the most popular clients for IRC (Internet Relay Chat). IRC is a multi-user chat system, where people meet on "channels" to talk in real time, including technical discussions. IRC is the net's equivalent of CB radio. But unlike CB, Internet Relay Chat lets people all over the world participate in real-time conversations on any topic imaginable. | |
_UTILITIES. MusicMatch Jukebox is one of the more popular utilities for playing music on your PC. | |
_UTILITIES. OpenOffice.org by Sun Microsystems is freeware Office Suite "OpenOffice.org 2.0" with much of the functionality of Microsoft Office but with the advantage that it is open source. It is available for Windows, Linux, Solaris, and Mac OS X. It has been under development for 5 years and this release version is excellent and has won several awards. It is fully ODF compliant. Sun also offers a $100 version called Star Office with more functionality, including additional fonts, templates, clipart and a database component. | |
_UTILITIES. Powertoys is a collection of Microsoft utilities, the most popular of which are TweakUI and Cleartype Tuner. TwaekUI gives access to system settings that are not exposed in the Windows XP default user interface. ClearType Tuner allows tuning of text clarity on flat panel displays. | |
_UTILITIES. Slim Browser Lite is a tabbed multiple site freeware browser. The tool bars are compact using very little screen real estate. It is a slick and elegant full featured browser. This free plug in at the site is also useful: SpellCheker. It incorporates a large collection of powerful features like built in popup killer, FTP, RSS, skinned window frame, form filler, site group, quick search, auto login, hidden sites, built in commands and scripting, online translation, script error suppression, blacklist / whitelist filtering, URL Alias. | |
_UTILITIES. Snort is an open source network intrusion prevention and detection system utilizing a rule-driven language, which combines the benefits of signature, protocol and anomaly based inspection methods. It is available as freeware for the Unix platform. With millions of downloads to date, Snort is the most widely deployed intrusion detection and prevention technology worldwide and has become the de facto standard for the industry. | |
_UTILITIES. Stardock Object Desktop is the ultimate in customizing the Win XP user interface. There is no limit to how you can design your desktop - more than eye candy, you can increase your computer's functionality. | |
_UTILITIES. Teleport Pro downloads an entire website to your computer for offline viewing. The trial has 40 free uses. | |
_UTILITIES. UEStudio is an award winning IDE (integrated development environment) that includes all the features of UltraEdit HTML editor plus native support for over 30 popular compilers, integrated CVS version control, built-in class browsing, language intelligence (like Intellisense), project converter, and a batch builder. | |
ARTICLES & DATABASES IT. Black Box is a vendor of networking equipment that provides many learning resources and superior support from their site. | |
ARTICLES & DATABASES IT. College Planning & Management is written for college decision makers who are involved with the business side of running a college/university. Solution oriented articles cover facility planning, safety, maintenance, business, technology, and finance. | |
ARTICLES & DATABASES IT. It provides in depth, aggressive coverage of specific technologies, their uses and implementations; eLearning and course management systems; presentation technologies; communication, portal, and security solutions all the important issues and trends for campus IT decision makers. | |
ARTICLES & DATABASES IT. T.H.E. Journal covers technology for K 12 education. | |
ARTICLES & DATABASES IT. University Business is a publication for presidents and other senior officers at colleges and universities throughout the United States covering management, enrollment, technology, academic affairs and legislation. The magazine covers current and emerging trends in all areas of university and college management. University Business is circulated to 42,000. | |
ARTICLES & DATABASES IT. eWeek has in depth coverage on ~30 IT topics. These topics are listed in the lower left of the home page and on the Topics link. Some of the key links are: Windows, security, IT management, Linux, and Macintosh. | |
ARTICLES & DATABASES IT. ItToolBox is a collaborative network for the IT market where over 2 million professionals seek and provide actionable IT content that supports decisions throughout the IT lifecycle; from vendor selection to post implementation support. | |
ARTICLES & DATABASES IT. ItWorld has these portals to webcasts, whitepapers, news, and articles: general, open source, security, small business, storage, utility computing, and wireless. | |
ARTICLES & DATABASES IT. Lockergnome is a general technology resource. | |
ARTICLES & DATABASES IT. WinXP Solution is a rich site dedicated to Windows XP. | |
BUSINESS. The SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) has information on companies in its Edgar database. See the link for a quick tutorial on Edgar. | |
BUSINESS. Technologies Grant News offers comprehensive information on grants. Subscription fee is $35/yr. | |
DATA MINING GENERAL DIRECTORIES. The Internet Public Library has a good directory but poor search feature. It does or on multiple words and will not do an and function. | |
DATA MINING GENERAL DIRECTORIES. LookSmarts hand selected Companies directory. | |
DATA MINING GENERAL DIRECTORIES. LookSmarts hand selected Education directory. | |
DATA MINING GENERAL DIRECTORIES. LookSmarts hand selected How-To directory. | |
DATA MINING GENERAL DIRECTORIES. LookSmarts hand selected Money directory. | |
DATA MINING GENERAL DIRECTORIES. LookSmarts hand selected Sciences directory. | |
DATA MINING SEARCH ENGINE REVIEWS. SearchAbility reviews a specialized search engines that search for databases by topic. Recall there are over 200,000 databases on the Web. Specialized search engines are a big help in finding databases of interest to your research. | |
DATA MINING SEARCH ENGINES. Yahoo! Mindset divides search results into shopping and researching categories with a slider bar to control the relative mix of these two categories. This is a great way to filter our noise whether shopping or looking for information. | |
MACINTOSH. This is Apples portal for IT Professionals. | |
MACINTOSH. eWeek has in depth coverage on ~30 IT topics. These topics are listed in the lower left of the home page and on the Topics link. Some of the key links are: Windows, security, IT management, Linux, and Macintosh. | |
MACINTOSH. Mac Addict is a Mac enthusiasts site and magazine with hardware and software reviews. | |
MACINTOSH. MacBuddy has a listing of Mac links. | |
MACINTOSH. MacBuddy has resources for security on the Mac OS. | |
MACINTOSH. MacEnterprise is a community of IT professionals collaborating on information and solutions for the deployment, management, and integration of Mac OS X client and server computers into multi platform enterprise computing environments. | |
MACINTOSH. MacNN (Mac News Network) has operated since 1995 providing Macintosh and iPod news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews. MacNN has a presence at almost every major Macintosh related conference to provide its readers with the most punctual news coverage possible. | |
MACINTOSH. MacReviewZone reviews Mac hardware and software. | |
MACINTOSH. MacRumors covers news and rumors for Macs. | |
MACINTOSH. MacWindows covers Mac Windows integration. | |
MACINTOSH. MacWorld has been covering all aspects of the Mac since Macs beginning in 1984. | |
MACINTOSH. Co-founder of Apple, Wozniaks favorite Mac sites. | |
MANAGEMENT. eWeek has in depth coverage on ~30 IT topics. These topics are listed in the lower left of the home page and on the Topics link. Some of the key links are: Windows, security, IT management, Linux, and Macintosh. | |
MEDIA AND TRAINING. TV Portal Mediahopper allows free access to ~1,000 TV stations around the globe. Many are in foreign languages, some are in English. These channels are played through Windows Media Player or Real Player from this website. | |
MEDIA AND TRAINING. The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Currently there are 80,000 movie and audio files, whose copyrights have expired. | |
MEDIA AND TRAINING. Universal Class offers online classes by experts in a wide variety of subjects. Each course has been reviewed by their staff. Prices are low. | |
NEWS IT. The Surfwax search engine has a build in news accumulator function that accumulates news on 56,000 topics from 4,200 news sources providing an excellent portal to current events on any topic. | |
NEWS IT. The Surfwax search engine has a build in news accumulator function that accumulates news on 56,000 topics from 4,200 news sources providing an excellent portal to current events on any topic. | |
NEWS IT. The Surfwax search engine has a build in news accumulator function that accumulates news on 56,000 topics from 4,200 news sources providing an excellent portal to current events on any topic. | |
NEWS IT. The Surfwax search engine has a build in news accumulator function that accumulates news on 56,000 topics from 4,200 news sources providing an excellent portal to current events on any topic. | |
NEWS IT. CIO (Chief Information Officers) is read by more than 140,000 CIOs and other information executives and provides comprehensive coverage. It serves over 12 million pages annually. | |
NEWS IT. The Inquirer provides technology news. | |
NEWS IT. The Register provides technology news. | |
NEWS IT. SiliconValley provides technology news. | |
NEWS IT. TechWeb gives daily technical news including a video newscast of "Your Technology Minute." | |
NEWS IT. VNUnet provides technology, news, reviews and downloads from the UK. VNU is active in more than 100 countries, and employs 38,000 people. | |
NEWS GENERAL. News Portal has links to 1,800 news sources on innumerable topics from drop down menus. | |
NEWS GENERAL. Slate provides editorial insight on the days news from a variety of writers. | |
NEWS GENERAL. World Scientist gives global scientific news. | |
NEWS GENERAL. The Surfwax search engine has a build in news accumulator function that accumulates news on 56,000 topics from 4,200 news sources providing an excellent portal to current events on any topic. | |
PEOPLE GENERAL. Google Groups is a free online community and discussion group service that offers the Web's most comprehensive archive of Usenet postings (more than a billion messages). | |
PEOPLE GENERAL. The full Usenet archive formerly maintained by Deja.com is now a part of Google, providing complete access to Usenet data since 1995 and the ability to add your own comments to the more than 650 million messages already posted. Google is committed to making Google Groups the best source of Usenet postings on the Web. | |
PEOPLE IRC. mIRC is one of the most popular clients for IRC (Internet Relay Chat). IRC is a multi-user chat system, where people meet on "channels" to talk in real time, including technical discussions. IRC is the net's equivalent of CB radio. But unlike CB, Internet Relay Chat lets people all over the world participate in real-time conversations on any topic imaginable. | |
PEOPLE IRC. #Winprog is the premier Windows programming channel on the EFNet IRC network. The channel is comprised of professional software developers, talented college and highschool students, and novice programmers The primary focus is: C/C++ programming with the Win32 API or MFC. | |
REFERENCE MATERIAL IT. Assistive Technology Doit at the University of Washington provides links to assistive resources. | |
REFERENCE MATERIAL IT. Assistive Technology LD Resources at the Hamilton School at Wheeler School in Providence, RI provides links to resources for learning disabled individuals. | |
REFERENCE MATERIAL IT. Assistive Technology Microsoft provides links and information to assistive technology for disabled individuals. | |
REFERENCE MATERIAL IT. Assistive Technology RESNA (Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive Technology Society of North America) has as its purpose improving the potential of people with disabilities to achieve their goals through the use of technology. They serve that purpose by promoting research, development, education, advocacy and provision of technology; and by supporting the people engaged in these activities. | |
REFERENCE MATERIAL IT. Domain Codes gives the meaning of domain and county codes in domain names. | |
REFERENCE MATERIAL IT. HIPPA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) information is on this site regarding the security and privacy of health information. | |
REFERENCE MATERIAL IT. Kelly's Korner Win XP provides troubleshooting & registry tweaks. This rich website offers hundreds of registry tweaks, a comprehensive list of MVP websites, A to Z troubleshooting, and more, by Kelly Theriot, MVP (Microsoft's Most Valuable Professionals). | |
REFERENCE MATERIAL IT. Lifehacker Gina Trapani, coder and computer expert, saucily deciphers the latest in personal productivity technology and reveals the million ways hardware and software can improve our busy lives. | |
REFERENCE MATERIAL IT. Microsoft HCL (hardware compatibility list) is no longer maintained as a comprehensive reference by Microsoft. The Windows Catalogs have replace it. | |
REFERENCE MATERIAL IT. Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Portal | |
REFERENCE MATERIAL IT. Microsoft Windows XP Portal | |
REFERENCE MATERIAL IT. Minidumps Debugging describes how minidumps work, how to make an application create them when it crashes, and how to read them back with Visual Studio .NET. | |
REFERENCE MATERIAL IT. Register is one place of many to register domain names. This site offers many similar alternative names when the one you want is already taken. | |
REFERENCE MATERIAL IT. Sarbanes Oxley allows firms to stay abreast of the proposed and final rules and regulations issued by the SEC to implement the Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX). | |
REFERENCE MATERIAL IT. Subnetting Tutorial is a presentation of how to address your TCP/IP network. | |
REFERENCE MATERIAL IT. TimeLine Microsoft Windows gives a quick overview of Windows history. | |
REFERENCE MATERIAL IT. Uwhois provides whois searches by domain name or by IP Address. | |
REFERENCE MATERIAL IT. Vendor List is provided by Microsoft listing addresses and phone numbers of hundreds of vendors. | |
REFERENCE MATERIAL GENERAL. AwesomeStories tells the real story behind historic events, famous people, heroic exploits, legends, disasters, movies, plus topics of current and general interest. It uniquely uses the Internet to link its story content to hundreds of thousands of the world's best on line primary sources, showing relevant maps, pictures, artifacts, manuscripts and documents, in context, within each story. Some content is free and a full subscription is $20/yr. | |
REFERENCE MATERIAL GENERAL. This central Better Business Bureau portal will take you to local branches. | |
REFERENCE MATERIAL GENERAL. BigCharts provides free interactive charting of stocks and mutual funds. | |
REFERENCE MATERIAL GENERAL. Dictionary.com has the unique feature of offering possible spellings when you mis-spell a word. Other online dictionaries do not do offer this. | |
REFERENCE MATERIAL GENERAL. Dictionary AcronymFinder | |
REFERENCE MATERIAL GENERAL. Dictionary Medical | |
REFERENCE MATERIAL GENERAL. Dictionary Slang | |