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Information:
- Information on PC
motherboards, including downloadable manuals
These come recommended by Carmine Salvo <carm@sunyit.edu>
- Bud's Troubleshooter: http://www.geocities.com/~budallen/
Bud Allen has put together a rich collection of software and hardware
tips and resources guaranteed to impress and assist veteran support
pros
and novice users alike.
- P.C. Hell:
http://www.pchell.com/
Glossary of Computer Terms, Hardware, Software, Virus, and Onlne
Support
Tips. Lots of good stuff that it's hard to find
elsewhere.
As they say: "Everyone has been to PC Hell at one time or another. It's
that place you visit when your personal computer is driving you insane
with problems, glitches, and so on. To try to soothe the frustration,
we'll
provide some tips, hints, and troubleshooting remedies to help you get
out of PC Hell."
- Hardware Book: http://ftp.sunet.se/hwb/
Pinouts for all those connectors, busses and cables are just some
of the excellent resources stored at the Hardware Book, " Internet's
largest
free collection of connector pinouts and cable descriptions."
- Driverzone: Hardware and driver info: http://www.driverzone.com/
Reviews of motherboards and hardware; extensive files of drivers; lists
of motherboard manufacturers; even a search
engine to find the manufacturer
given the FCC ID number on the motherboard
- 2000
Trainers, many good tutorials: http://www.2000trainers.com/
The site provides informative resources in 12 subject categories,
including
Windows 2000, Linux, A+, and Cisco CCNA. (The site also publishes
feature
articles regularly on these subjects.) In addition, 2000Trainers offers
moderated interactive forums, multimedia tutorials, a weekly
newsletter,
and practice exams. 2000Trainers is great example of a low
budget
IT certification site. You won't find a lot of bells and whistles, no
streaming
video presentations, or complex in-depth practice exams. What you will
discover is a free supplemental resource worthy of a bookmark. (quoted
from TechRepublic newsletter)
HTML
Information ... to
HTML Tools......... top of page
- Dr. R. Glass' guides
produced by this NCC professor
to help out his classes.
- Ben's Tutorial to HTML http://www.rollanet.org/~benm/html/
A very nice beginning tutorial
- HTML 4.0 Reference: http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/
All the current HTML
elements arranged alphabetically or by
function. Also a list of special characters, etc. and the
codes
for producing them.
- HTML Goodies: http://www.htmlgoodies.com/
A good resource site with primers, tutorials, downloads, books,
etc.
Covers perl, javascript, cgi, & more
- PHP open source scripting language info: The following is from
HTML
Goodies
To Go newsletter (see previous listing).
- HTML Writers Guild: http://www.hwg.org/
"The HTML Writers Guild is the world's largest international
organization
of Web authors with over 147,000 members in more than 150 nations
worldwide."
Many resources can be accessed by visitors.
- TechWarehouse: http://www.techiwarehouse.com/index.html
A lot of tutorials on a lot of subjects: Certifications;
Programming (including Active X, ASP, Assembly, HTML, Java, more);
Operating Systems, Beginner's Guides. Networking, Security
- Usability Guide for web page design: http://www.usability.gov/guidelines/
A comprehensive list of design guidelines broken down by subject. From
the National Cancer Institute.
- W3Schools: http://www.W3Schools.com/
"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
tutorials." Also thousands of cut and paste examples, an on
line
html editor, and extensive web references.
- Web Monkey: http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/
How-to guides and Quick References for levels from beginner to expert
HTML
Tools (free) ... to
HTML
Info......... top of page
- E-mail Stripper: http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm
A simple utility to clean up e-mail test (removes ">" and extra
spaces
and returns) for pasting into other documents or replies. Highly
recommended.
- Jafsoft Ltd: http://www.jafsoft.com/
- AscToTab a text-to-table
(HTML or RTF) converter. (FREE)
- AscToHTM a text-to-HTML
converter. (shareware)
- AscToRTF a text-to-RTF
converter. (shareware)
- ToniArts free HTML Tools http://www.toniarts.com/
- EASY THUMB is a really
nice program for producing thumbnails from many
different format originals and/or converting formats and
resolutions. Works on a batch basis for entire folders. I
use it and recommend it.
- EASY HTML is a good
program for editing HTML source code (non-GUI)
- EASY CLEAN (registry
clean-up) and several other useful free tools are available.
- Mozilla Browser and tools: http://www.mozilla.org/
Firefox web Browser (replaces Internet Explorer) and Thunderbird Mail
program (all free). I use it
and recommend it.
- Nvu web authoring system: http://www.nvu.com/
A free WISIWIG program for
making and managing web pages. I
use it and recommend it.
- Verdi Software: http://www.virdi-software.com/
- Text2Web
(FREE) - converts text files into html code
- EyeOnSite (free) -
monitor your sites or servers to see if they are accessible
to visitors.
- as well as a host of
other shareware utilities for maintaining a web site
Networking
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- 2000 trainers, lots of
tutorials (
to link
in "general" above)
- About Computer Networking: http://compnetworking.about.com
Tutorials and fact sheets on: Cabling, Certs / Careers,
Client/Server, Design, DSL and Cable, Ethernet, Firewall / Proxy,
Gaming, Home Networking, Internetworking, Intranet/Extranet, ISPs, LAN
/ VLAN / WAN, Operating Systems, P2P - Peer to Peer, Programming,
Protocols, Security / Privacy, Speed Tests/Tweaks, TCP/IP,
Troubleshooting, Utilities, VPN, Web Servers, Wireless, ATM, RAS
and Modems, Telephony
- How Things Work/How Stuff Works: http://www.howstuffworks.com/category-science.htm
You name it, they've got it; at a level designed for the general
student. For example:
- DPEC's TCP/IP Tutorial: http://www.bizcenter.net/dpec/courses/tc1/tc1title.htm
A comprehensive tutorial including: the basic reasons for using
TCP/IP with Windows NT, the historical goals in TCP/IP's development,
the role of the IAB, the IETF, and the IRTF, etc.
- PC Network Advisor's TCP/IP tutorial: http://www.itp-journals.com/TCP_IP_tutorial_page1.htm
As the site says: "Understanding TCP/IP is easier than you think. Find
out in
this free 5 part tutorial." Other links are also included.
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- Sandra Diagnostic Program: http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/sandra
A very good general PC detailed diagnostic Program; free to download,
or
the full professional version for $29.
- Fresh Diagnose: http://www.freshdevices.com/download.html
Another good general PC detailed diagnostic Program; free to download,
or
the full professional version for $39. Also other free programs to
adjust windows settings (Fresh UI) and view multimedia (Fresh View)..
- Start-up program
information (MSCONFIG): http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php
A rather complete listing of programs which load on start-up and what
they do.
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