Download Sites |
| | Aunt Sally Downloads - Yo, nerd! The (Ir)reverend Aunt Sally at your beck and callback. Finding it hard to track down all the software directories? You've come to the right place, the Software Directory Directory. Get your mitts on the places to get your mitts on stuff. Shareware, freeware, public domain, high tech, you name it. Tons of stuff at every link. - boole.stanford.edu/nerdsheaven.html |
| | CyberiaPC - A general purpose site with Downloads, tips, and much more - www.cyberiapc.com/ |
| | C|net Central - cnet.com/ |
| | Download.com - From c|net company - www.download.com/ |
| | Filez - Find a file. Millions of files available. - www.filez.com/ |
| | Freeware |
| | | ACME Laboratories - Graphics * Unix * Networks * Fun. Purveyors of fine freeware since 1972. On the net since 1991. - www.acme.com/ |
| | | AlfaClock - AlfaClock Free Edition enhances your taskbar clock (tray clock) with fully customizable clock display, alarms, time synchronization, popup calendar, time speaking and more. - www.alfasoftweb.com/alfaclock/ |
| | | OpenDisk - How would you like a bundle of useful programs for your PC? And instead of emptying your wallet, get it all free? This bundle has everything from games to Internet and multimedia programs. It includes popular software like OpenOffice, Firefox, Nvu, Audacity, TrueCrypt, Blender and more. OpenDisc includes over 35 programs bundled into one. Or you can download the programs separately. - www.theopendisc.com/programs/ |
| | | Planet Jeffrey - Freeware index - including great system utilities - planetjeffrey.novawebhost.com/ |
| | | Sys Internals - Great collection of Utilities - www.sysinternals.com/ |
| | | The Gazette - members.cox.net/scotterpops/downloads/downloads.html |
| | | Utilities - Great list of free PC utilities - www.techsupportalert.com/best_free_utilities.htm |
| | | Utilities - georgedillon.com/web/freeware.shtml |
| | FreshMeat - freshmeat maintains the Web's largest index of Unix and cross-platform software, themes and related "eye-candy", and Palm OS software. Thousands of applications, which are preferably released under an open source license, are meticulously cataloged in the freshmeat database, and links to new applications are added daily. Each entry provides a description of the software, links to download it and to obtain more information, and a history of the project's releases, so readers can keep up-to-date on the latest developments. - freshmeat.net/ |
| | Happy Puppy - Computer Games - www.happypuppy.com |
| | Internet Gaming Zone - Microsoft's showplace. Playable games. Free games. (IE Only) - www.zone.com |
| | NoNags - Freeware site with progys that have no nag screens. Utilities, games more. - www.nonags.com/ |
| | PCWorld Magazine Downloads - A searchable list of ShareWare available for downloading - www.shareware.com |
| | Phil's World - Useful links to some of the best sites for software and CD writers: - www.philsworld.com/ |
| | Totally Free Stuff - We're trying to create the most comprehensive list of "FREE STUFF" on the internet. - totallyfreestuff.com/ |
| | Tucows - Welcome to TUCOWS, The World's Best Collection of Internet Software. (WINSOCKs) - www.tucows.com |
| | VersionTracker.com - Freeware & Shareware downloads - www.versiontracker.com/windows/ |
| | WebAttack - An excellent source for freeware/shareware PC utilities and fun stuff. - www.webattack.com |
| | Yahoo Internet Life - Downloads - www.zdnet.com/yil/content/depts/doubledl/dlcurrent/dlcurrent.html |
| | ZDNet Hotfiles - Software Downloads. - www.hotfiles.zdnet.com |
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Hardware |
| | Dirt Cheap Drives - www.dirtcheapdrives.com |
| | Find the Best Hardware Price - Search multiple vendors. - www.pricescan.com |
| | Monitor Repair! - Trouble shooting and fixes. - www.repairfaq.org/filipg/ |
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Help & Tutorials |
| | Belarc Advisor - For targeted troubleshooting, tech support or just for a detailed profile of your system, install Belarc Advisor and get the full scoop on your computer. Once installed, it scans your computer and creates a profile listing everything from the motherboard make and model to serial numbers, software versions, controllers, processor and much more. - www.belarc.com/free_download.html |
| | Computer Guys Help - - www.compguystechweb.com and www.compguystechweb.com/humor |
| | CoolNerds - PC Survival Camp for beginners. - www.coolnerds.com |
| | C|Net's technical supersite - www.help.com |
| | Fluid Dynamics CGI Collection - Providing Perl CGI tools for webmasters - www.xav.com/ |
| | | Getting Started with Windows XP - an excellent tutorial on using Windows to view files and understand what's on your Hard Disk and what to do about it! - riccistreet.net/gizmos/toolkit/operatingsystem/cdrivexp.htm |
| | How to break out of a frame - Here's the code: If you have come to this page through a frame,
Click here to break out of it.Click here to break out of Frame |
| | iMesh - A networked file transfer program. Similar to BearShare? says it is clean of funnyware. - WWW.IMESH.COM |
| | Incredibly Useful Sites - Ziff Davis' fun web site. - www.zdnet.com/yil/content/depts/useful/useful.html |
| | Kim Komando - the Digital Goddess. Has a great radio show, and Newsletters, and Tips - komando.com |
| | Microsoft Support Knowlege Database - Microsoft's gargantuan collection of how-to articles - search.support.microsoft.com |
| | | Microsoft's TechNet - Inside Scoop on XP - www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/default.asp |
| | | Microsoft's XP Tips - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/tips/default.asp |
| | Moke's anti-frustration support page. - A collection of links for finding PC help - www.helponthe.net/moke |
| | Registry Guide - Tips, tricks and tweaks for getting the most out of your WindowsT 95, 98, NT and 2000 system! - www.regedit.com/ |
| | | Troubleshooting XP - Kelley's Korner - I've put together a lot of information from various sources, to help you find answers to the problems some users have with Windows XP. I've also put together some commonly requested tweaks and tips to make XP work the way you want it to. - www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp.htm |
| | Tutorials on: - WebMaster tips, HTML, CSS, VBScript, Javascript, and more Goodies: - htmlgoodies.earthweb.com/primers/ |
| | W3Schools Web Building Tutorials - Here is a large number of free Web building tutorials, from basic HTML and XHTML tutorials, to advanced XML, XSL and WAP tutorials. - www.w3schools.com/ |
| | | Win Magazine - Consumer oriented advice for PC users - from BIOS to CD writing - www.winmag.com/howto |
| | Windows reinstall.com - This site will show you how to install, upgrade , reinstall , repair , troubleshoot and fix Microsoft Windows XP ( Also known as WinXP & whistler ) , Windows 98 ( Also known as Win98 ) , Windows ME ( Also known as WinME & Windows Millennium) , Windows 95 ( Also known as Win95 ), Windows 2000 ( also known as Win2k & W2K ), Windows NT ( Also known as WinNT), OEM computers ( Dell, Advent, Time, HP, and Compaq home PC's and Laptops ). Also tips, tricks, help, hints, how to build a computer plus much much more. - www.windowsreinstall.com/ |
| | Windows XP |
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How To |
| | Back Button - Script to return to the previous page , whatever it was.  |
| | CD Recordable! - This FAQ for info on recordable CDs covers all aspects of what it is and how to use it. - www.cdrfaq.org/ |
| | CSS Tutorial from W3 - www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp |
| | | How a PC Works - www.howstuffworks.com/pc.htm |
| | | How CD Burners Work - www.howstuffworks.com/cd-burner.htm |
| | | How Computer Viruses Work - www.howstuffworks.com/virus.htm |
| | | How Ethernet Works - www.howstuffworks.com/ethernet.htm |
| | | How IDE Controllers Work - www.howstuffworks.com/ide.htm |
| | | How Internet Search Engines Work - www.howstuffworks.com/search-engine.htm |
| | How Just About Anything Works - If you have never seen this web site, watch out!!! it will suck *A LOT* of your time! it is *VERY* well done with brief, simple explanations and *EXCELLENT* animations. This is definitely one of the great internet success stories. Main page - www.howstuffworks.com |
| | How to block pic pickup from a web page: - Script to prevent picure picking: |
| | | How USB Ports Work - www.howstuffworks.com/usb.htm |
| | | How Wireless Networking Work - www.howstuffworks.com/wireless-network.htm |
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Languages |
| | Alice - Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. - alice.org/ |
| | Computer Languages History - www.levenez.com/lang/ |
| | DOS Batch Files - What they are all about and how to create them. - www.computerhope.com/batch.htm |
| | MySql - Popular PC database - www.mysql.com/ |
| | PHP - Web programming language - php.net |
| | The Free Country - Welcome to thefreecountry.com's collection of free programming resources, free webmasters' resources and free security resources. - www.thefreecountry.com/ |
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Misc |
| | A TEMPLATE FOR ALL OCCASIONS - Are you designing a calendar? Or making a newsletter? You probably don't need specialized software. Microsoft offers templates for practically anything you need at its Template Gallery. You'll need Microsoft Office, Versions XP, 2000 or 97. - officeupdate.microsoft.com/templategallery/ |
| | AniMasher - Build your own cartoon animations. - www.animasher.com/ |
| | AnyPoint Home Network - from Intel - intel.com/anypoint |
| | Atomz - Build a better Web site, starting with a better search engine. With Atomz.com Search you can quickly and easily add a powerful search engine to any Web site. This service is FREE - www.atomz.com/ |
| | Browsers - List of a bunch of downloadable browsers - both general and focused. - browsers.evolt.org/ |
| | Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute - www.ri.cmu.edu/ |
| | Cult Of The Dead Cow - a hacker hangout. - www.cultdeadcow.com/ |
| | Dropload - Dropload is a place for you to drop your files off and have them picked up by someone else at a later time. Recipients you specify are sent an email with instructions on how to download the file. - www.dropload.com/ |
| | Easter Egg - The term "Easter Egg", as we use it here, means any amusing tidbit that creators hid in their creations. They could be in computer software, movies, music, art, books, or even your watch. There are thousands of them, and they can be quite entertaining, if you know where to look. - www.eeggs.com/ |
| | ePrompter(tm) - automatically checks up to sixteen password protected email accounts for AOL, AltaVista, Earthlink, Email.com, Go.com, Hotmail, Juno, Lycos, Mail.com, Mindspring, MSN, OneBox, POP3, Rediffmail, USA, Yahoo and hundreds of other email domains - all at the same time. - eprompter.com/ |
| | Ethical Web Agents - Explains Web Agents and Spiders - www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/IT94/Proceedings/Agents/eichmann.ethical/eichmann.html |
| | Ghost sites - No, this isn't about apparitions. Here you'll find an online museum of deceased Web sites, preserved in their original splendor. Everything from adforce.com to etoys.com to zoho.com, and the list grows almost every day. - www.disobey.com/ghostsites |
| | Hacker Whacker - Test your PC for virus protection & hacker intrusion. - hackerwhacker.com |
| | Internet Traffic Report - You can check this site to see the world wide internet data flow. The site monitors average response time and packet loss. - www.internettrafficreport.com/ |
| | Network Associates (McAfee) - www.nai.com/ |
| | Networking info - how to hook up your home. |
| | RefDesk Online Research - Our last stop of the day is at RefDesk. Created and maintained by the father of Internet muckraker Matt Drudge, RefDesk is a HUGE directory of Internet research and reference links. The site can be a tad bit intimidating at first -- imagine if Yahoo placed ALL of its links on its main page -- but once you get the hang of RefDesk's layout you'll discover that the site is an amazing launch pad for your journeys into the world of online research. - www.refdesk.com/ |
| | Spam Info - Death To Spam! A guide for dealing with unwanted email. - www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/nospam.html |
| | Symantec - www.symantec.com/ |
| | The Well - The WELL is the most celebrated on-line community around. - www.well.com |
| | TouchGraph GoogleBrowser - This is an interactive map of all links that Google knows about to a web page that you specify. Interesting! - www.touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.html |
| | Virus Sites - that offer info on Viruses & fixes for some viruses. |
| | Web Page Archives - WayBack Machine - This site is billed as the collection of all the web pages that there have ever been... - www.archive.org/ |
| | Web time machine - Take a trip through time - Take a look at the history of the Web through the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Special collections document pivotal points in online history, including September 11, election 2000, Web pioneers and more. - web.archive.org |
| | Web-O-Pedia - The only online dictionary and search engine you need for computer and Internet technology definitions. - www.webopedia.com/ |
| | WebEx - Check out: as a possible NetMeeting replacement - www.webex.com/ |
| | XDrive - Check out this site occaisionally to see if it is ready for me. Your Free Internet Hard Drive. As the first and only Internet Drive on the desktop, X:drive offers members up to 100 megabytes of FREE Anywhere-Anytime File Access. X:drive is smart, simple and perfectly priced. It's FREE. - www.xdrive.com |
| | Zoom networking - - wireless - zoom.com |
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PC Groups |
| | ADA group - Basic Info and SIGs - info.acm.org/sigada |
| | Atlanta PC User Group - Info and Shareware BBS - www.atlpcug.org |
| | British Computer Society - Premier World-wide PC User Group - www.bcs.org/ |
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Software |
| | | Agnitum's Outpost: - www.agnitum.com |
| | | ALICE - (Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity) is a more sophisticated program that creates the illusion of natural conversation. ALICE can even tell lies, spread gossip, and is credited with influencing several real world happenings. Try this one at - www.alicebot.org . |
| | BOTS - - |
| | | BotSpot - is the place to go if you want to find bots or learn more. They classify bots and intelligent agents by subject, with reviews and historical perspectives. Maybe you'll find a bot to automate some online activity that you do by hand today. - www.botspot.com |
| | Circuit City - Shop for Computer Stuff - circuitcity.com/ |
| | Firewalls |
| | FreshMeat - Check back here frequently to see what new software is moving to the front of the industry - freshmeat.net/ |
| | Lindows: - Check out this OS that is a combination of Linux and Windows: - www.lindows.com/ |
| | Microsoft Office 2000 Download Goodies - fixes & enhancements for all Office products from Microsoft Corp. - office.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdate/default.aspx |
| | | More - There are lots more interesting chatterbots, like BRIAN (a computer program that thinks it is an 18 year old college student), the John Lennon bot or Mr. Mind (you have to convince him you're human). Visit them and many other chatterbots at - www.botspot.com/pages/chatbots.html |
| | OldVersion.com - Sometimes upgrading to a newer version can be a good thing. Other times, your computer may not be compatible with the new version, the new version is bloated, or all the good options are no longer available. If you are looking for an old version of any program, OldVersion.com should be your first stop. - www.oldversion.com/ |
| | PC Connection - www.pcconnection.com/ |
| | | Sygate's Personal Firewall: - www.sygate.com |
| | | ZoneAlarm - ZoneAlarm is the personal firewall that automatically blocks known and unknown Internet threats, barricading your PC - and your network - from intruders and hostile attacks. - www.zonelabs.com/ |
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Technical Help |
| | Check out BrowseMaster - to help with small network connections. - www.wown.com/j_helmig/browse.htm |
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Techniques & Programs |
| | Flaming Text - At FlamingText you can type in words and get back cool, custom images of the text for FREE, to use on your website, or in your e-mail. Also have good clip-art and more... - www.flamingtext.com/anfy.html |
| | Flash Player Help - View or change your local Flash Playe storage settings - directly from your browser! - www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html |
| | Lake Effect for Images - Java Boutique has Examples of how to make Lake effectimages with Instructions.. Also has more Javascript programs for image manipulation. - javaboutique.internet.com/Lake/ and javaboutique.internet.com/ |
| | Lake Effect for Images - Example of Lake Javascript, Instructions for Lake Javascript: ripple effect web site - naturallynude.com and www.hypergurl.com/applets.html |
| | Panoramas - Beautiful 360 degree photos of many beautiful and interesting places in the world - panoramas.dk/ |
| | Transitions - Look for bookflip and other great transitions here. This site presents many Java Applets for lots of uses. - www.anfyteam.de/anj/ |
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Unsorted |
| | What's that site running on? - Displays the platform, OS, and web server for a site - uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/ |
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Utilities |
| | Allen's Win App site - www.winappslist.com/ |
| | BootDisk - - Need a boot Disk? It's here. Also has many other utilities. - www.bootdisk.com/ |
| | George Dillon Utilities - georgedillon.com/web/freeware.shtml |
| | KillAd - www.fsc-soft.com/ |
| | PC Utilities - Great list of free PC utilities - www.techsupportalert.com/best_free_utilities.htm |
| | PopUp Killer - software.xfx.net/utilities/popupkiller |
| | POW! - Popup Killer - www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/pow.htm |
| | Processes - running underneath: or search for alogserve.exe. This is where I found a list of all the funny names of programs that run under Windows without being seen. - www.greatis.com/regrun3atyouroption.htm |
| | Surf in Peace, - or SIP . "The Popup Slayer" - www.iconlabs.net/sip.html |
| | WINDOWS SHUTDOWN & RESTART CENTER - www.aumha.org/a/shutdown.htm |
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Web Development Tools & Sites |
| | BigNoseBird - Looking to improve your webmastery skills and perk up your site? Stop looking and start learning! BNB features over 200 pages of easy to read original tutorials on almost every subject you might find of interest. We have free scripts, free graphics, free tutorials and much, much more. - www.bignosebird.com/ |
| | Darryl Burgdorf - A collection of good PERL scripts - awsd.com/scripts/ |
| | Developer.com - Tons of info and links for the technical side of program development. - www.developer.com/ |
| | Dynamic Drive - Welcome to Dynamic Drive, the premier place on the net to obtain free, original DHTML scripts and components to enhance your web site! All scripts on this site take advantage of the latest in JavaScript and DHTML technology - www.dynamicdrive.com/ |
| | | Example of Lake and Instructions: - javaboutique.internet.com/Lake/ |
| | | Example of Lake JavaScript: - naturallynude.com/ |
| | Fluid Dynamics CGI Collection - www.xav.com/ |
| | | how to steal event handling code: - hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/99/30/index1a_page4.html?tw=659 |
| | IBM - IBM Web Developer page. Info on web development techniques and products. - www.ibm.com/developer/ |
| | IBM Application developer's page - from IBM - alphaworks.ibm.com and www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-sssl.html |
| | | Instructions for Lake JavaScript - www.hypergurl.com/applets.html |
| | | Java at IBM - IBM's intro page to Java - with online classes! - www.ibm.com/developer/java/ |
| | Java Stuff |
| | | JavaBoutique - A great place for Java programs. - www.javaboutique.com |
| | Lake Effect for Images : - Example of Lake Effect and Instructions: |
| | | link events: - hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/98/03/index2a_page9.html?tw=659 |
| | Matt Wright's CGI Resources Index - Matt also, of course, has his own Scripts Archive, which is arguably the best-known Perl CGI resource on the Web. - www.cgi-resources.com/ |
| | | mouseover guide: - hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/98/23/index3a_page2.html?tw=659 |
| | NetMechanic - Web page code validator from ZDNet - www.netmechanic.com/cobrands/zd_dev/ |
| | Pages That Suck - what to avoid! - www.webpagesthatsuck.com |
| | Rankings - There are only two real ways to boost your ranking in the good search engines. The first is to use "meta" tags that accurately describe your site and that list accurate, meaningful keywords for the search engines to use. See, for example - www.google.com/search?q=website+meta+keywords and www.google.com/search?q=website+meta+description |
| | ReallyBig.com - If you're building a Web site, look no further. We offer 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. - www.reallybig.com/default.shtml |
| | Rose's - Animated GFIs, backgrounds, and JAVA! - www.wanderers2.com/rose/menu.html |
| | Screen Resolution Checker - View your web page in various screen resolutions: - www.anybrowser.com/ScreenSizeTest.html |
| | Using Link Titles - to Help Users Predict Where They Are Going - www.useit.com/alertbox/980111.html |
| | W3Schools - Inside W3Schools you will find a large number of free Web building tutorials, from basic HTML and XHTML tutorials, to advanced XML, XSL and WAP - www.w3schools.com/ |
| | Web Developer - Web Developer info - www.webdeveloper.com |
| | Web Developer's Virtual Library - Scripts, tutorials, articles, and many links to book publisher VROX. Good resource. - www.wdvl.com/WDVL/ and wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Stats/Top/100.html |
| | Web Page Design - The Bare Bones Guide to HTML - werbach.com/barebones/ |
| | Web Reference - From browsing to authoring, HTML to advanced site design, we'll keep you in touch and informed. - www.webreference.com |
| | | webdeveloper.earthweb - webdeveloper.earthweb.com/webjs/ |
| | WebMonkey - Full service web development page specializing in Hot-To. - www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/ |
| | Webmonkey's |
| | World Wide Web Consortium - The W3C was founded in October 1994 to lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing common protocols that promote its evolution and ensure its interoperability. This is the organization that oversees the "Official" version of HTML and governs changes to the language. This site discusses optimal ways to use the language and also presents details (and a checklist) on accessibility requirements... - www.w3.org |
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