Columbus's Links

As of the last update of 15/04/2004, there are 1686 working, verified links on this page, on all sorts of subjects of interest to me, sorted alphabetically by topic. But first, here are the four downloading aids I find the most indispensable. I think you might, too.

eMule At last - a visually beautiful, FREE, efficient client program for the classy eDonkey 2000 peer-to-peer file sharing network.	Astalavista The premier hacking and cracking search engine. It's fast, has a nice clean interface, and is very thorough. Act ethically, now ...
Google Since its release, this newcomer has quickly come to dominate the whole scene - it's simply the fastest and best search engine.	ZDNet The definitive, searchable, trial / demo / freeware / shareware software collection, now ably run by CNET.

Australiana

ABC News for Western Australia - local news for Columbus's State.

ABC News Online - the latest bulletin.

Australia Post - Postage Assessment Calculator - calculate mail costs within Australia and internationally.

Australian PC World magazine.

Australian political parties, government, bureaucracies, and media organisations - Chris Griffith's rather useful links page.

Australia's online pharmacy, your direct chemist - ePharmacy.

Beam up my IP packets, Scotty - Australian teleport breakthrough - June 2002 - from BBC News SCI-TECH.

Burke's Backyard TV show.

Christmas in Australia - light-hearted stories of how Christmas is celebrated in Australia.

Crikey - Aussie news site that 'will point out theft, corruption, deception and collusion whenever and where it can.'

Electronic Frontiers Australia Inc. - a non-profit national organisation representing Internet users concerned with on-line freedoms and rights.

History of suburb names in Perth.

Margaret River Online - a colourful little Western Australian town.

news.com.au.

Perth Virtual.

PerthWeb Zones.

Quokka Classifieds Online.

The Sunday Times newspaper - updated daily.

The West Australian Newspaper - today's edition.

The Whitlam Dismissal - November 11, 1975

The World of Ned Kelly.

Transperth's unbelievalby cool Transperth Journey Planner. Fast and accurate public transport planner for those of us in Perth, WA.

TV - late night - Perth TV Guide for Free to Air - Sofcom.

TV - this afternoon - Perth TV Guide for Free to Air - Sofcom.

TV - this morning - Perth TV Guide for Free to Air - Sofcom.

TV - tonight - Perth TV Guide for Free to Air - Sofcom.

TV Guide - Perth - CitySearch.com.au.

TV Guide - Yahoo! Australia & NZ.

Weather Forecast for Perth, Australia - CNN.

yourMovies.com.au - cinema schedules in your area.

Beginners' Guides to the Internet

Email Basics - Get Started - TechTV.

Free Online Photo Albums - an excellent, objective, informal guide to what's left out there.

Guide to Flaming on the Internet

How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

Internet 101 - an award-winning newcomer's introduction to the Internet.

Lissa Explains it All - HTML Help for Kids. Even kids can publish websites these days!

Mind Your E-Mail Manners - Flooding In-Boxes Won't Win Friends or Influence People. A good primer from PC World.com. Newbies, please read this!

refdesk.com's Facts Page - Beginner's Guides - Tutorials.

refdesk.com's Indispensable Links.

The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Starting a Web Site - FREE downloadable PDF document. Not bad. It's free.

CD Ripping with EAC, Exact Audio Copy, the Rolls Royce of Rippers

EAC - Exact Audio Copy - the famous FREE, highest quality ripper for CD-ROM drives, can cope with scratched audio CDs too.

EAC BBS at Yahoo! Groups

EAC DAE Elite - Chris Myden dot com

EAC Unofficial EAQ Page for CDR Traders - Dick's CDR Page

If you find EAC too complex, Columbus recommends CD'n'GO! A very good FREE LAME-capable CD ripper.

CD-R & ASPI - Solve that Pesky 'CD-R drive not found' XP Problem

ASPI - what is it - Bart's page about the ASPI layer, a good FAQ of sorts. But beware the reference to Nero's ASPI driver. Don't use it unless all else fails!

ASPI Package ver 4.71 downloads for Windows 98-ME-NT-2000-XP. Bowing to public pressure, now FREE from Adaptec!

aspichk.exe - a FREE ASPI layer check utility from Adaptec FTP.

ForceASPI 1.7 - use this for subborn CD-R 'ASPI layer not found' problems, if the Adaptec drivers don't work for you (they should). XP SP-1 often requires this!

CD-R Burning & Mastering

AutoPlay Menu Studio - create Software and Autorun CDs.

Bart's way to create bootable CD-ROMs.

BBIE - Bart's Boot Image Extractor

Blindwrite - a set of tools to reproduce or clone any CD, even protected ones.

bobby geeWOW's CDR Rant.. a very entertaining introduction to all things CD-R .. from CTREE-SHN THE CANADIAN WAY EH!

CD Wave - designed to aid in CD mastering. It precisely splits WAV files from any source, to elminate the dreaded 'click during silent track gaps' problem.

CDR Identifier - FREE utility to identify your CD-R disc's manufacturer and its capabilities!

CDRCue - a powerful CD-R cuesheet editor for precision CD mastering.

CDRCue comparisons - how well different CD-R mastering programs actually execute cuesheets.

CD-Recordable FAQ

CDRInfo.COM

CDRWIN - supports the recording of AUDIO, CDROM (Mode1), CDROM-XA (Mode2), CD-I, Mixed-Mode, and Multisession discs.

CreateCD - FREE Windows XP and Windows 2003 CD Recording utility by Alex Feinman.

DVD-Squeeze - claims to copy any DVD to a standard Compact Disc! Likewise Playstation 2 games. Columbus wonders if it actually works, though!

Encoding Utility 2001 is a FREE data rate and video size calculator for CD-R burning.

Feurio!® CD-Writer - integrated software for creating audio CDs

FireBurner - a fast, compact, absolutely minimalist program for all kinds of CD mastering - IgD's CD-R Portal

ISO Recorder Power Toy for XP - a 3rd party tool, FREE for download.

IsoBuster - the Ultimate CD & DVD data recovery tool. Convert, decode and work with any kind of CD data file.

Lite-On LTR-24102B - a review of Columbus's first-ever, cheap, but terrific little CD-RW drive. It's still going great ...

LP to CDR recording tips.

Nero CD recording software. Supposedly the only choice of 'Power Geeks', and Roxio EZCD's only real rival. Columbus finds it inelegant and crash-prone, though, and still MUCH prefers EZCD!

Resources for CD-R

Roxio, EasyCD and Windows XP - the true story of the mini-scandal - from The Register

Roxio's Easy CD Creator 5.3 Platinum - the famous, huge, all-singing, all-dancing, all-in-one CD burning suite. Controversial and considered by Nero fans as girly, Columbus loves EZCD anyway!

The Speed of Sound - How Safe is High-Speed CD-Audio Recording

WinXP Bootable CD - How to make your XP CD bootable when it's not

CD-ROM

Build your own high quality CD Player using Philips VAU 1252-10 CD engine. A nice article for the technically inclined; ignore the appalling spelling!

CD Freaks - claim they're the World's largest CD-DVD community.

CD Page.com.

CD speed utilities.

CDRom Drive Analyzer.

Make a Spectroscope from an old CD!

Nero CD Speed - and other FREE, useful CD-ROM utilities.

Notes on the Troubleshooting and Repair of Compact Disc Players and CDROM Drives

Offline CD Browser - FREE cataloguing utility from Anders Petersson.

Sony Storage Support

Spindown utility - change the spindown time of your CD-ROM

CD-ROM Covers & Labeling

CD Box Labeler Pro is an easy to use labeler program for your CD, jewel case, floppy and zip labels. Quite good.

CD Covers Search Engines

CDcovers.CC - Over 280,000 Music, Games and Movies CD Covers

cdrLabel - a shareware tool for creating labels for your CD-R and CD-ROM disks. A very nice little program, Columbus finds it great for data disks. Recommended.

coverXP - a nice, drag-and-drop utility to make quick CD Labels. Cute.

Designing CD and DVD Packaging and Labels - some good links at About.com

Roxio's CD Label Creator - part of the EZCD Platinum suite. Columbus hates to say this, but this one is the pick of the crop!

SureThing CD Labeler - also does floppies, Zips, CDRs etc. Not bad, but perhaps a bit overrated.

CD-ROM Playlist Utilities

CDAID from MarvinTecs - a nice, FREE utility for cataloguing your audio CDs' cdplayer.ini entries. Has slick freedb & cddb lookup facilities.

CdMerge - a FREE tool for merging multiple cdplayer.ini files.

CDpie - a FREE utility to edit your cdplayer.ini file. Columbus uses this one to validate the file's integrity.

cdplayer.ini Q & A page at hinzen.de.

Play List Converter - FREE local CDDB converter. Converts from DeluxeCD database deluxecd.mdb, Windows CDPlayer.ini and WinAMP CDDB in_cdda.cdb to DeluxeCD and CDPlayer local CDDB formats.

PLC - CDPlayer PlayList Converter - a FREE tool to compare and merge databases for software CDplayers. It handles files on disk as well as databases on the Internet.

Columbus Can't Believe These Sites Take Themselves Seriously

Independents Day - unbelievably 'up themselves'. Poseur hip design for 'writers, editors, developpers. We refer to ourselves as being the 'independent web', no less.

Townhall.com - Conservative News and Information - laughably right-wing mainstream nonsense. Oliver North is one of their heroes; say no more.

Columbus Couldn't Live Without Total (formerly 'Windows') Commander

Club Total - an excellent Total Commander enthusiast's site - tools, plugins & more. Invaluable.

FREE CHM download - Total Commander 6.0x Tutorial by Frenchman Claude Charries, in fractured but engagingly enthusiastic English, a good reference.

Gorbush's plugins for Total Commander, including Startup Guardian.

Home page of Total Commander - the ultimate File Manager by Christian Ghisler. DOS old-timers will remember Norton Commander, and need no more encouragement!

Ilya Gulko's Guide to Efficient Use of Windows (Total) Commander. Columbus configures Total Commander differently, but this is interesting nonetheless.

IrfanView - the single most useful FREE utility of them all. The fastest viewer for just about ANY media file. Natively works with Total Commander too!

JBCat - a very powerful FREE disk catalog program, designed for Total Commander use - Jan van den Borst

Robert Orndorff's famous 'File Manager Commanders' page - a good comparison and list of 'Norton Commander-type' file managers.

Softpanorama Society Orthodox File Managers Site - see why 'Norton Commander' - type file managers are the choice of the power user.

Some neat FREE plugins at JojoSoft, including an MSI packer - unpacker.

Tir Na Nog's Total Commander Plugins.

Total Commander - AddOns (official list).

Total Commander Forum (English).

Total installation! A great Russian guide and download source for Total Commander 6.01 and the complete set of plugins and utilities for it.

XARA X FREE Thumbnail Viewer - stand-alone and as Total Commander Lister plugin!

Comics

ADVANCED IRON! The World-Wide Iron Man Fanzine. (Iron Man was always Columbus's favourite Super Hero!)

Art by Bob McLeod

Balloon Tales - The Comicraft Guide to Comic Book Lettering and Production using Illustrator, Streamline and Photoshop

Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonists Index!

Dilbert

Doonesbury - Daily Dose

The Invincible Iron Man - at last, Tony Stark has his own chat forum!

User Friendly the Comic Strip Daily Static

WebComics

Computer Suppliers for People in Perth, Western Australia

AusPCMarket - on-line and mail-order, very up-to-date, but not that cheap

Austin Computers, Osborne Park and Cannington - a very good supplier, recommended

Evolution Xtreme, Hulme Court, Myaree - recommended, Columbus's favourite supplier

Evolution Xtreme, Hulme Court, Myaree.

EYO Technologies Pty Ltd - on-line ordering

Linux Services Western Australia - computer store near Action, Hilton

MCG Technology, Wanneroo Rd, Westminster WA - often very good prices, lousy location!

Navada Online

Perth Digital Services for monitor repairs, terminal repairs and power supply repairs in Perth

Tang Computers, Perth

Computer Training & Certification

Ars Technica - A+ Certification Overview

Beginners.co.uk - hundreds of FREE online IT tutorials

CompTIA Certification Home Page

Cramsession.com #1 in IT Certification.

freeskills.com - Free Training Courses

Internet Marketing Center - on-line business tips

Trainingtools.com - FREE online (and downloadable, mostly FREE) Tutorials - Flash, Dreamweaver, JavaScript, FrontPage 2000, Adobe PhotoShop and more. Up-to-date and very good.

Conspiracy Theories - Australia

Australian Military & Gov't Role In The UFO Controversy - by Bill Chalker

Bright Skies - The Banjawarn Event - Other Fireball Events - The Perth Event - Silent Fireballs

Christopher Boyce - 60 Mins interview transcript. He blew the lid on the CIA's involvement in Gough Whitlam's Dismissal. Immortalised in the movie 'The Falcon and the Snowman' (text file).

Global Economic Collapse and the Iraq war drive. A very good Australian site on our upcoming war and related matters.

HELLSBELLS - the Perth Bell Tower reeks of Freemasonry and deceit.

Joe Vialls, Private Investigator, Exposing Media Disinformation. Columbus is a huge fan, and was astonished to discover this guy lives in Perth too!

Joe Vialls's interesting fictionalised account of the Tesla technology in the Omega LF 'radar' sites in Australia and elsewhere.

Not too surprisingly, there apparently is an 'untouchable pedophile and satanic network operating in australia involving high government officials' in Victoria.

Orwellian Nightmare Down Under - ASIO's scary new powers to hack your computer is now LAW! Not good.

Pine Gap - Area 51 in Australia. An unusual spin on Pine Gap and our Parliament House's future role. I've always wondered why it's so darn BIG!

Satanism in Perth - alternative theories regarding the Claremont 'serial killer' - some intriguing articles by Ellis C. Taylor.

Stan Deyo - author of 'The Cosmic Conspiracy', the famed conspiracy best-seller from the 80's. He used to live in Perth!

The OZ Factor - Barry Taylor's intruiging Australian UFO and related subjects site. He specializes in image analysis, it seems.

Conspiracy Theories - New World Order - Bush Family, Nazis & Friends

Against School, by John Taylor Gatto. What's wrong with the Schooling System, by a Teacher of the Year.

ALIVE AND WELL by Philip E. Binzel, Jr., M.D. - the entire text of his book on his experiences with Laetrile and the FDA Cancer Industry.

Antarctic Enigma - Admiral Byrd, post-war nazis, flying saucers. Sounds like 1947's 'Operation High Jump' was quite a party.

Coca-Cola - here, on their own web site, they actually admit they created our modern Santa Claus!

Conspiracy Cafe

Conspire.com

Diana-Dodi Murder Plot - Sherman Skolnick's Report

Education and its subversion by corporate interests. A great series of articles by John Taylor Gatto.

Focal Point - revisionist historian David Irving's website.

Global Elite.org - Exposing the new world order.

How the Bush family made its fortune from the Nazis - a nice succinct article by by Robert Lederman.

Infowars.com -- Talk Radio's Alex Jones v. the New World Order.

Jean Bertrand Aristide Humanist or Despot - hmmm, Columbus wonders why the Bush team pushed this guy out, and why is Haiti important to them.

Mormon Leaders Fight Satanic Infiltration - Reports of child sacrifice - Issue 81 - Salt Lake City Messenger

Most U.S. Companies Paid No Taxes between 1996 and 2000 - what a surprise - from The Motley Fool.

Nazi UFO Mythos by Kevin McClure. He's completely skeptical of the whole idea.

Pearl Harbor - Mother of All Conspiracies. FDR and his 'day of infamy' indeed.

Rumsfeld - yikes! Beyond Halliburton and the Iraq war et al, it turns out he's responsible for the cancerous ASPARTAME!

savethemales.ca - exposing feminism's real purpose in the NWO. Hmmm, controversial indeed.

Sherman Skolnick's Report

Still Don't Believe In The New World Order - then read this great list of celebrity quotes at The Konformist.

The FBI website

The only murderer Dubya ever granted clemency to in Texas - the satanically-linked Henry Lee Lucas. What a story.

Too Stupid To Be President - some funny Shockwaves about Dubya and Pals.

Trance Formation of America - Cathy O'Brien is the only vocal and recovered survivor of the Central Intelligence Agency's MK-Ultra Project Monarch operation.

Who Killed James Forrestal

Conspiracy Theories - New World Order - High Technology

Al Hubbard - The Johnny Appleseed of LSD for the CIA's MKULTRA, from The Memory Hole.

Beatlemania, Mind Control and the New Objectivity - were the Beatles at least partially utilised as a mind-control tool.

Big Brother Controlling Your Head - a nice list of mind-control inventions of recent years, including their patent applications!

CHEMTRAILS - CONTRAILS

Cloudbusters at Yahoo! Groups - make your own Chemtrails-busting device! Hmmm.

DARPA is interested in Metabolic Dominance - 'superior physiological qualities in our warfighters'. Sounds like an episode of Dark Angel, yikes.

Echelon Watch - keeps an eye on the vast Echelon project - the global electronic communications surveillance system.

Lost Alamos National Laboratory's fascinating history.

SANDS OF TIME - Montauk memories.

Steven M. Greer, M.D., in his famous disclosureproject site, attempts a positive proposal to declassify free energy technology.

TCPA - Palladium FAQ - yikes, this 'Trusted Computing Platform Alliance' sounds scary as hell.

The famous Lt. Col Thomas E. Bearden (retd.) PhD, MS (nuclear engineering) - his personal website on antigravity, electromagnetic and more.

The Mars Records - FREE e-book. Wow. Military bases on Mars and more.

The Montauk Project & Philadelphia Experiment

The Philadelphia Experiment and Montauk Survivor Accounts, especially the utterly amazing Al Bielek.

World Trade Center missile - what the hell was that OTHER black streaking object so many of us have seen on the Web ... a great site called 'streakingobject'.

Conspiracy Theories - Recent NWO 'Bombings' of Interest

Al-Qa'idah group had NOTHING to do with 911. The US media has utterly spiked this authentic and crucial Usamah Bin-Ladin interview. From Khilafah.com.

Bali Micro Nuke - Joe Vialls doesn't buy the usual 'lone nut car bomb' theory for the October 2002 Bali bombing. Neither does Columbus.

CNN.com - September 11 Memorial - officially reveals ZERO Israelis died in the WTC buildings. Interesting.

Enterprise Mission's mind-blowing page on the disturbing Occult - Egyptian - Masonic mathematics connected with 911. YOU HAVE TO READ THIS ONE TO BELIEVE IT.

'Let's Roll!' On 911's United Flight 93 - the Saddest Lie of All. Another great 911 article by Joe Vialls.

Proof of Bombs and Cover-up - an excellent article about the Oklahoma City bombing - from The New American.

SUPPRESED DETAILS OF CRIMINAL INSIDER TRADING LEAD DIRECTLY INTO THE CIA's HIGHEST RANKS - some intruiging details about pre-911 stock trades.

WarFolly.com - Blockbuster Grand-Pre Expose Of 9-11. Confirms the 'remotely controlled planes' theory of 911.

Was 'Home Run' technology used to hijack and remotely control the 911 aircraft - by Joe Vialls, yet again. Perhaps this is the most likely explanation of all. READ THIS.

Conspiracy Theories - the 'Classic' Illuminati

A fascinating early interview with the justly famous Bill Cooper, author of 'Behold a Pale Horse'. Streaming Real Audio format. Bill was shot by police in 2001. RIP.

Antiquities of the Illuminati - a pretty ambitious website, with some fine articles and lots of good links.

BeyondWeird.com - a great, convenient collection of 'classic' alternative text files, from Aliens to Crowley to Montauk and more.

Captain Morgan's Exposition of Freemasonry Contents - the whole book online.

Conspire.Com - Giants of Our (Conspiracy) Industry

Did Rothschild Write 'The Protocols of Zion' - another great essay from Henry Makow, as usual.

Diocletian's Problem-Reaction-Solution - the Illuminati's Standard Operating Procedure has illustrious roots! A good little article at propagandamatrix.com.

History of Freemasonry by John Yarker (full text), The Arcane Schools.

How the City of London created the Great Depression. Keynes was not the 'genius pragmatist' you've been led to believe.

Illuminati Defector Details Pervasive Conspiracy - a harrowing, but well-written account from a surviving whistle-blower, from savethemales.ca

JohnKaminski.com - Devils From Heaven. A pretty good layman analysis of the folly of taking religion too literally, especially simplistic fundamental Christianity.

Kena Hiram's really neat Masonic Picture Collection.

Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy Theories

Lincoln, the Greenback, JFK and Edmund D. Taylor. So THAT'S why they shot Lincoln ...

Masonic Service Association of North America

Noah's Ark Emergency Preparedness - (Holly Deyo) Doomsday Survival How-To

Occult & Conspiracy-related Secret Societies - a Chronology 40,000 BC-1987 AD by Michael Howard

The C!A - the Counter Illuminati Agency

The Fishman Affidavit - the infamous 'brainwashing' Court document that Church of Scientology hopes you won't read, by Karin Spaink.

The Illuminati Agenda - transcript of Myron C. Fagan's legendary 1967 recording. Still powerful stuff.

The Revelation @ The Forbidden Knowledge . com

Vatican Assassins - apparently the Illuminati are actually run by the Jesuits, and their 'Black Pope'! Maybe ...

Watch Unto Prayer - a fascinating, vast, scholarly website concerning the Illuminati, Freemasons and 'Understanding Satan's Deceptive Plan To Counterfeit the Second Coming of Christ'.

Watcher Website Conspiracy & Prophecy Index

While We Held Our Breath - the 30th Anniversary Of The Lunar Landing - an actual Freemason's page admitting that Apollo 11 took a masonic flag to the moon!

Why is the World Jewry Opposed to the Zionist State. Zionism is NOT synomous with Jewry, a common 'anti-Semitic' assumption!

Zionism Data Page. Some good links here, on this highly delicate issue.

Conspiracy Theories - UFOs, Space & the Vexing Alien Question

Are Their Aliens Among Us - David Icke's infamous shape-shifting Lizard theory.

Area 51 Resources

Cosmic Deception Let the Citizen Beware - Steven M. Greer M.D.'s summary of the coming UFO invasion hoax. A good one for newcomers to the subject.

Enterprise Mission - amazing and compelling site on 'Just what really IS on Mars' ... and much more besides.

Enterprise Mission's incredible propositions independently investigated - read this thorough, impartial investigation.

Gridpoint - Mapping the World Grid - UFOs, USAF bases etc - Bruce Cathie is directly involved with these guys, apparently.

HISTORIC UFOS - some good links.

Historical Artwork and UFOs by Matthew Hurley

MARS by Percival Lowell

Nazi occult, UFOs and MKULTRA. An interesting variation on the Nazi-Roswell legend.

Nazi UFOs savagely debunked by a professional skeptic at The Fortean Times (of all places). Who really knows...

ORIGINAL UFO PHOTO by Henry Rowland

OvniLab - UFO topics. Lots of multimedia content.

Planet X and the Pole Shift - good resource site. 'Doesn't exist' is their conclusion, to say the least.

The Alien Jigsaw - a good collection of essays intelligently examining the whole area of Aliens and Abductions.

THE CONTROLLERS - A New Hypothesis of Alien Abduction by Martin Cannon. Nicely written article re-examining 'alien abduction' memories.

The Majestic Documents - a website purportedly devoted to assessing the authenticity of the 'Majestic 12' scenario.

The Project Apollo Image Gallery. The Web's biggest collection of high-resolution Apollo images. These photos sure look plausible to Columbus!

UFO sightings by NASA Astronauts. None of them publicly talk about them anymore. But they don't dispute earlier comments they made. Curious.

UFOs Down to Earth - a pretty good essay covering the 'why' of the UFO-ET coverup for readers new to the subject, by Vivienne Legg.

Who Mourns For Apollo, or, Was It Really Only a Paper Moon ... the Apollo 'hoax' theories seriously addressed.

Cracks, Key-generators, Serial Numbers, Warez

Astalavista SEARCH - if a published crack, key-generator, or serial number exists AT ALL, you'll find it here!

CRACKS.AM - excellent, up-to-date, mostly reliable cracks and keygens. Columbus's favorite source at present.

cracks4u.com - ugly site, powerful search engine.

DAMN (Ivanopulo) - the famous Russian cracker. A nice guy, too.

Fosi PROGRAMZ mirror sling.to fosi.

Fosi's excellent full version PROGRAMZ (a very good Warez collection).

Fosi's PROGRAMZ mirror kickme.to fosi.

Hackerthreads.org - DIY or DIE Security Forum.

WarezCrawler search

CueCat Barcode Scanning Wand - Mods, Software, Uses

Answers to Top 25 Barcode FAQs - Bar Code

Barcode 39 TTF - download a FREE (numbers and symbols only) TrueType font for printing barcodes. Works great with the CueCat.

Cat Kit 32 - a commercial solution for 'turning the FREE CueCat into a REAL barcode reader in your favorite Windows 32-bit applications!'

CDman - graphics tutorial on how a commercial CD's UPC barcode should be formatted

CueCatastrophe CueCat Message Forum

CueCatastrophe CueCat™ Mirroring Sites Database

Decode the CueCat barcode scanner's output

Hack your Cue Cat! Decrypt its output without special software, disable its serial number (easy hacks)

ibm.com - Registration Form for ordering your free CueCat scanner (USA and Canada only)

Quick CueCat Modification Solutions. A good overview of the pros and cons of various techniques.

Readerware Corporation - Tools for book lovers and collectors

The Book-Scanning Project using ISBN barcodes

UScan CueCat decoder - Web Version

Databases & Reference

Anglo-Saxons.net - 'eleven years of Anglo-Saxon studies at Cambridge distilled into a website'. Great stuff.

Appliance Help by The Virtual Repairman

Bartleby.com - Search Great Books Online

Bartlett's 'Familiar Quotations'

Biographical Dictionary

Britannica.com - Encyclopaedia Britannica - oh no! Free for a while, but no longer. Basic references only again. How sad ...

CakeRecipe.com Conversions

CancerNet Credible, current, comprehensive cancer information from the National Cancer Institute

CDDB (vast music CDs database)

Dictionary.com

freedb.org - a database to look up CD information using the internet

Guinness World Records

How Stuff Works

Merriam-Webster OnLine - Dictionary - Thesaurus

National Mapping - Astronomic Information - Phases of the Moon for 2004

refdesk.com (vast reference & web launch site)

Shakespeare Play Summaries-Synopses - very brief, but handy for quick reference.

TechWeb Encyclopedia - The Business Technology Network

The Plays of William Shakespeare ~ Presented by The Electronic Literature Foundation (ELF)

Webopedia Online Dictionary for Computer and Internet Terms

whatis.com - Every File Format in the World - filename extensions

World Flag Database

Desktop Themes, Logos, Screensavers

Beatles Desktop Themes

BootXP.Net - make your own XP boot screens without the fuss and huge ntoskrnl.exe files!

Cinema Desktop Themes

DeskMod - XP Visual Styles to download

Desktop Starships - Sci-Fi pictures and computer art

Desktop Theme Creators and Collectors

Digital Blasphemy - stunning 3D wallpaper, FREE to download.

EZskins.com

EZthemes - THE software download site for Themes, Wallpapers, Outlook Stationery, Screensavers

IconsPLUS - Comic Book, Sci-fi, TV, Movie icons

LogonUIBootRandomizer - a fabulous FREE Logon and Boot screens manager. Also 'Boot Editor' - an editor for creating boot screens themselves, both for WinXP. These are the ones to get!

MS Article Q136898 - Desktop Icons Do Not Change When Different Users Log on

Screen Saver Studio - The easiest way to create your own screen savers!

Screen-Savers.com - Download Free Screen Savers

ThemeDoctor.com - Desktop Themes and Reviews

ThemeWorld.com

ThemeXP.org - XP Visual Styles, Logins, Boot Screens.

User Logos for XP - XPLOGOS.com

Wallpaper Girls celebrities, models and beauties wallpapers

Webshots - great collection of high quality FREE Wallpapers. Requires FREE Webshots client software.

Windows Logos (all the original defaults)

XrX Animated Logo Tools - customise your Win 9x logos

Doctor Who

BBC Online - Doctor Who - Homepage

Doug's Doctor Who Sounds Page

Dr Who Newbies FAQ

Download Sites Columbus Recommends the Most Often

Fifty Freeware Favourites - a very good, sensible, safe, and useful list of the 'best' free stuff to download by George Dillon.

FreeWareFind.com - sometimes, these guys report a gem nobody else seems to know about.

Microsoft Download Center - searchable.

Moon Software - several really great FREE utilities for intermediate-to-advanced users, including 'Bookmark Wizard' that helped prepare this very page!

Radified Binaries, Downloadable Files - a useful place to find a lot of 'basics'

Simtel.Net - A worldwide distribution network for Shareware, Freeware, and Public Domain software. They host many essential utilities that nobody else does.

Tucows - a convenient Australian mirror at Arachnet, Perth, for we locals.

ZDNet Software for Palm, Mac, Linux, DOS, Windows CE, 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP and probably other OSs too - the biggest and best collection anywhere. Enough Said.

DVD

DeliVereD the DVD specialists - DVD hire, DVD rentals, multi-region mods. Perth Western Australia

DVD Digest Downloads - Software DVD Players

DVD Rent - Australia

DVD-ROM firmware upgrade

Glossary of new age DVD terms, incl. Dolby etc

Home Cinema Choice Online - a rich resource of home cinema news, reviews and articles

Sonic CinePlayer's DVD decoder quality compared to the opposition.

SupportFAQ - Digital Digest

Windows Registry Guide - Enable DVD Features in Media Player (All Versions)

eDonkey2000 - Download in Peer-to-Peer Style

Donkey Jockey - for graphically showing eDonkey's downloading progress.

eDonkey2000 - absolutely the latest, hippest Peer-to-Peer file sharer. Bizarre name, terrific program. Columbus can't imagine life without this one!

eDonkey2000 currently uses generous Server Operators. eDonkey Monitor is an invaluable utility for them.

eDonkey2000's big brother has come of age, and it too is FREE - Overnet. Download it immediately!

eDonkeyBot Lite - a FREE, powerful 'front end' utility for the Donkey. Very useful for server.met file refreshing.

Emule - the beautiful, FREE open source GPL replacement eDonkey client.

Kdrive is a secure global virtual hard drive. An interesting new concept from the developers of eDonkey2000 and Overnet. Could be worth watching.

Pretty good Edonkey software site - www.download-center.fr.fm

Remote Filesync (or RFSync) is a small tool for synchronizing large files over the net.

ShareConnector - after the demise of ShareReactor, probably the most prominent eDonkey2000 Search site.

Electronics for the Technician, Hobbyist, and DIY Type

'Almost All Digital Electronics' - a really nice site for electronics hobbyists

An Outline of the History of the Transistor

Audiophool - a backwater branch of the planetary library dedicated to the hobby of obsolete electronics - vacuum tubes in particular.

bit-tech Delayed Reset @ Power On circuit for computers

Boondog Automation - complete how-to for controlling external equipment with your PC

CIR - ZipLabel.Com's Computerized Infrared Remote circuit and software

Dick Smith Electronics - Technical Data

Digital Camera News and Reviews Digital Photography Review Forums, Glossary, FAQ - a very cool digital camera site

DSP Generation of Pink Noise

Electronic Schematics

Electronics info page

Elliott Sound Products - The Audio Pages - great collection of circuits and tips

Ground loop problems and how to get rid of them - a good article by Tomi Engdahl.

Jaycar Electronics, Australia

LED Circuits - real-time javascript wiring guide to 7 segment LEDs!

Making PCBs the easy way

Norman Koren Vacuum tube audio page

Oatley Electronics Pty Ltd, Australia - supplier of weird and wonderful secondhand electronics gear and components

obock.de - Parallel Port Customizer - control electronics from your parallel port.

Optoelectronics

Oscilloscope for Windows

Overclockers Australia - Build your own printer cable LCD Display

Paul Stenning's great DIY circuits at WebEE Schematics and Projects

RCS Radio, Sydney - supplier of every project PCB ever designed by Electronics Australia, ETI, Silicon Chip magazines and more

Sam's F-Lamp FAQ - Fluorescent Lamps, Ballasts, and Fixtures

Siliconchip Magazine, Australia

The LED FAQ Pages

Tomi Engdahl's Electronics Pages

Ultimate Info Center for LCDs - Computer interface info

Vintage Electronics Sales, Repair, Parts for Marantz, Pioneer, Teac, Etc.

WWW.LEDMUSEUM.ORG THE LED MUSEUM - Reviews of LEDs etc.

Email, Fax, USENET

An impressive sample HTML Outlook Express form

Command line email downloading utility, FREE - GetMail

Command line email sending utility, FREE - BLAT

Creating personalized HTML E-mail templates for Outlook Express

DBXtract - utility for extracting Outlook Express messages

ePrompter - FREE eMail Notification Software

Express Assist 2000 - Columbus reckons this to be THE essential Outlook Express backup utility.

Formatting Dual Text and HTML Newsletters

Free Outlook Express Stationery by CloudEight Stationery, Main Index Page

HTML email - test your email program's HTML capabilities. Send a blank email, and automatically receive a fully formatted HTML test email

MailWasher - the easiest way to filter spam, check and manage your emails before you download them.

Memo To Me - FREE Internet email reminder service.

Outlook Express tips

Snappy Fax 2000 - a great, simple Fax-from-your-computer application, 'better than WinFax Pro', many say. Columbus used to use this one in Win 98SE all the time.

The Phone Company (TPC.INT) Homepage - free internet faxing

uReach.com logon page - free personal 800 Number, Fax, Voicemail

Usenet - some Guides and good links by Jukka Korpela

WebBox email service

Windows XP Faxing - XP has a terrific, built-in faxing client! by Slipstick.com

Employment - Australia

Australian Job Search - The largest job site in Australia.

Byron Employment Australia

Careers Online

Centrelink

JOBNET

JobOptions.com

JobStar Job Search Guide

PCWorld.com - Get Wired, Get Hired

SEEK

TAFE

Fonts

Famous Fonts (TV shows etc)

Font properties extension, version 2.1 - find out all about a font's properties, especially Unicode features. FREE from Microsoft.

Fonts In Cyberspace

Free downloads - TrueType core fonts for the Web from Microsoft

IDAutomation.com Barcode Fonts, ActiveX Controls, Bar Code Components, Scanners, JavaBeans, Servlets...

Intro to Embedded Fonts (amusing article by Webmonkey)

Russian Font site

Unicode.org's reference site.

Fremantle, Western Australia

Challenger TAFE, Fremantle - the local technical college.

Fremantle Focus - an attractive, award-winning local news site by the Fremantle City Council.

Fremantle Markets, our famous local tourist attraction.

FreoNet - attempts to provide a taste of the music & life in the city and a glimpse of the people that make Fremantle what it is. Not bad, but not updated often enough.

FTI (Film & TV Institute, Fremantle W.A.) where Columbus worked for many years.

Murdoch University - the local university.

PC Plus Web Design, Fremantle - a new business endeavour. Columbus is watching them with great interest. Their site ALMOST works...

Friends & Family-related

Carol-Ann's (France's cousin) article on Wind power in China May 2001.

Cori Ferguson.com - a commercial music PR site by France.

FoodsForChildren Info Page (site by France).

France's Kitchenette - Baby Food Recipes, Toddler Tempters, Craft Ideas, and More.

France's Neck of the Web.

France's Stampamajiggies

Fryd Mehta's Home Page (by Columbus).

George Duncan's Facts of WWII

Green Star Brigade Reclaim Land in Fremantle! (Page by Columbus).

Likelylad's GF, Linda's Page.

Our first Annual Family Newsletter - December 2000

Paul Kitchener's website.

Recettes - by France.

Sub Pop Records (for whom France used to work).

The Association's Stewart Clan page!

The World of Véronique and Cordelia.

Uranus's Moon Cordelia.

Various Cards I Made and Sent - by France

Games - Cheats & Utilities

Free games -dosgames.com

Game Reviews - 8 Dimension

GameCopyWorld

GameGuides.com -- quality PC and console hints, secrets, walkthroughs, cheats, tactics, and more

Grammar & Writing Guides

100 Most Often Mispronounced Words - from yourDictionary.com.

HTML Tip Top 10 Spelling Errors - Use a Spell Checker

Lynch, Getting an A on an English Paper

Lynch, Guide to Grammar and Style - a nice, funky approach to the topic. This guy is frequently hilarious.

Milton Reading Room - Paradise Lost

One Space or Two - a Q & A from the Chicago Manual of Style. The answer, of course, is One!

Strunk, William, Jr. 1918. The Elements of Style - a witty, absolute American classic in the field.

Style Convention on Usage of SI units (e.g. is it 35mm or 35 mm)

The American·British - British·American Dictionary

The Book of Zines -- Readings From the Fringe

The Trouble With EM ’n EN (and Other Shady Characters) - A List Apart.

Typewriter History at a glance - interesting series of pages, by the online classic typewriter store, myTypewriter.com.

Graphics - Free Graphics Sources

!conMania Download Center - download 1000 quality icons for free

Absolute Background Textures - FREE Tiling Background Textures

Bannerz~R~Us--Banners & Graphics

Barrys Clipart Server

Clipart.com

FirstGov – U.S. Government Graphics and Photos.

Free Graphics.com

Graphics and clipart by Tess

IconBAZAAR

iStockphoto.com - royalty free stock photography community.

reallybig.com - The Complete Resource for All Web Builders

squidfingers - FREE patterns. Nice for tiled backgrounds and such.

Stock photography from Alamy Images.

stock.xchng - the leading free stock photo site.

Xara X brushes swap forum at Talkgraphics.com.

Graphics Editing - Gamma & Calibration Issues

AIM - Photoshop 5.x.x, Monitor and RGB Calibration - working in Gamma 1.0

AIM Calibrating with Kodak Q-60 or Agfa IT8 and Photoshop

AIM Color Space FAQ txt

AIM Downloads (ICC profiles, gamma charts, CGIs etc) for Photoshop

CGSD - Gamma Correction Explained

CGSD - Gamma Correction Home Page

Display gamma estimation applet. Determine or verify your monitor's Gamma setting. Vital for scanning and graphics editing accurately!

Monitor-printer calibration and gamma by Norman Koren - this guy doesn't approve of the AIM gamma 1.0 approach either. Hmmm.

TestScreens - terrific, free monitor adjustment test-pattern generator utility - Watson's hot Programming Pages (C++ programs)

Graphics Editing - Photoshop

About.com's Photoshop 6 & ImageReady Tutorials all FREE, some downloadable.

Adobe Photoshop Basics - A FREE Online Class by About.com

Adobe Photoshop training - FREE online tutorials - www.computerarts.co.uk

AIM - Accurate Image Manipulation - advanced techniques for imaging - home page

AIM Photoshop Induced Noise and how to hack and correct it

AIM Photoshop Section

Bruce Fraser - Creativepro.com Author, Photoshop 'color geek', vitriolic critic of AIM

Combating Flash Fall-Off with Photoshop

Computer Darkroom - Photoshop - a very good, FREE, How-To site. Tutorials and lots of PDF downloads.

Computer Darkroom - Red Eye Removal with Photoshop

FREE download kit to produce Speech Balloons in Photoshop 6

Instant Photoshop - a primer for beginners - The Luminous Landscape.

Jay Arraich's Photoshop Tips

Keyboard Shortcuts - Photoshop - from CNET

Masks in Adobe Photoshop - Graphics Software - about.com

Out of Gamut Color-Correcting Photographs in Photoshop by Bruce Fraser at creativepro.com

Photoshop in a Nutshell, Special Tools tutorial

Photoshops Curves Command - a Primer

Planet Photoshop

Professional Adobe Photoshop Articles by Dan Margulis (downloadable PDFs)

Russell Brown's Photoshop Tips & Techniques

Some great calibration and technical Photoshop tips from digitaldog.net

Stair Interpolation (SI) - a FREE Action for Photoshop to allow quality up-sizing, surpassing even Altamira Genuine Fractals!

Steve's Desktop Photography for Photoshop.

Tangled Synthesis - Photoshop tutorials.

The Photoshop Guru's Handbook - For the Intuitive Photoshop User

The Photoshop Roadmap - learn everything about Adobe Photoshop

TRAININGTOOLS Online Training - Photoshop 5.5 on-line FREE tutorial

TRAININGTOOLS Online Training - Photoshop 6 on-line FREE tutorial

Viewlets by Mike McGrath - animations showing Photoshop effects

Why bother working with 36- or 48-bit color when you're stuck with 24-bit output anyway

Graphics Editing - Photoshop-compatible Plug-ins

AlgoLab Photo Vector - wow, finally, a really practical raster-to-vector tool that actually works as intended!

AmphiSoft filters - some nice effect plug-in filters, some for free.

Color Mechanic - a very powerful and cool selective color correction plug-in.

Color Pilot selective colour correction utility or plugin. A terrific Russian tool

Cybia - Reviews - Plug-In Filters. A big list.

Free Filters to remove black or white backgrounds from @edesign.com

I.C.NET - Links for Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro filters and plugins

iCorrect - Pictographics International Corporation's wonderful 48 bit-capable Photoshop Plug-In for levelling and cast removal, Columbus loves it.

iCorrect EditLab - iCorrect's 'big brother'. Columbus loves this one even more! Also fully 48 bit capable.

Photoshop plugins and filters Photoshop Plugged _IN_

Planetside's Terragen - fabulous landscape drawing plug-in for Photoshop

Res Up Your Images with Altamira Group's Genuine Fractals - Graphics Software

Graphics Editing - Tutorials

CorelDraw 101 - Production Graphics with Wendy Peck at Webreference.com

CorelDRAW, Corel PHOTO-PAINT, Macromedia Flash and Web Tips & Tricks from Graphics Unleashed

Creating a Windows Media Skin

Exporting from Xara X to Xara 3D - Topic Powered by Infopop

Learn to be an artist in GraphicsDEN

Logos for the Design Challenged, Part I -- Logos and Business Cards -- by Gary Priester, Unleash.com

Production Graphics with Wendy Peck at Webreference.com

State of Entropy Webgraphics and Design - Paint Shop Pro tutorials, Blade pro presets, and Webdesign tips.

Web Color Gallery = some colour combo ideas from About.com

Xara X hints and tips

Graphics Editing - Utilities

Albumatic - the easiest, fastest way to get your photos on the Web

Box Shot Maker - FREE tool to create a virtual package for your product. A box shot is a colorful image of the box in which your product or book cover.

CopyRightLeft - FREE utility to insert a © symbol or message into your graphics

DeKnop - strangely named, great, FREE and very flexible 3D button maker utility

Free PDF utility by the Zipguy - create PDFs from any Windows application!

Free Tools - Screen Ruler, Split File, Directory Printer

GIFCruncher Free GIF Optimizer

GraphCalc The Ultimate Windows 2D-3D Graphing Calculator. FREE!

Image Optimizer - a great utility for tweaking images ready for the Web, supports TWAIN too, from xat.com

MagicMap - FREE software for preparing raster images and vectorization

PhotoGenetics - improve your digital images fast

Pixie is a FREE, easy-to-use, fast and tiny utility designed especially to fit the needs of Webmasters and Designers. From Nattyware.

SVG Factory - FREE utility to export to SVG.

Web Album Generator - quite a nice Web photo album maker, FREE from ornj.net

Xara X FREE colour mixing utilities, including XPal - the harmonising colour palette helper.

ZPaint - Forget your button maker! This FREE software for creating 3D-looking elements for websites and software interfaces is much more flexible.

Internet Explorer - Articles, Browsers, Tips & Related Technology

ActiveWindows -- Internet Explorer Section

Adjusting Scale for Higher DPI Screens with IE6

Crazy Browser - another NetCaptor clone, sounds quite nice.

CSS bugs in Internet Explorer 5.5 - HTML with Style - Webreference.com

CSS Enhancements in Internet Explorer 6

DHTML Lab Accessing the User-Defined Windows System Colors - reveals your stystem colours settings!

DHTML Lab IE4 , IE5 Rendering Differences

Emulating the new CSS 2 property 'max-width' in Internet Explorer. A clever article.

EzTools Windows Internet Explorer Programming Tools

Favicon.com - the java icon generator

Fixed Positioning For Internet Explorer On Windows - a wacky, bold approach that uses CSS only. Document has to be in Quirks mode, unfortunately, but it seems to wo

GetRight Tools - a great add-on for fans of GetRight. Enables dran-and-drop downloading in any IE-based browser.

GetRight Tools - FREE sidebar add-on for GetRight and IE.

How to avoid those annoying popup windows (Java)

HTA Properties - HTML Applications (HTAs) at MSDN.

IE Booster is a very clever FREE collection of context menu tools for MS Internet Explorer (version 5 and up).

Internet Explorer 5 Tips & FAQ's (Digital Spider, UK)

Internet Explorer Client Registry Layout (a thorough MS article)

It IS possible to run multiple versions of IE on the same OS! From QuirksMode.

Make CSS min-max sizing work in IE Win with this 4k javascript. From and.doxdesk.com.

Microgarden - makers of great IE add-ons. Themed kiosks, a multible-Tab plugin for IE and more.

MSKB Q201535 - Internet Explorer Does Not Check for Newer Versions of Web Pages.

MyIE2 - Plugins collection for the great, FREE MYIE2 tabbed IE browser. Wow! NetCaptor had better watch out ...

NetCaptor Support in GetRight.

Stumble Upon toolbar - the cool web site finder, a FREE, novel toolbar for IE.

Typical IE4 - IE5 Rendering Difference - JavaScript workaround solution

WDVL The Dastardly favicon.ico not found Error

Windows Secret Explorer - reveal or move to another machine all that Password, Auto-fill data and more than IE secretly stores

ISPs of Interest for People in Perth, Western Australia

Australian ISP List - Perth

Australian ISP List - Western Australia

iiNet

WestNet - Western Australia's Statewide ISP

Kids - Some Safe Sites Worth a Visit

Angela Anaconda on-Line

Dinosaur colour-ins, fact pages PDFs - learningpage.com Fact Files

Family Kids Coloring-In -- Christmas

Free printable coloring pages at Coloring-Page.com.

KidsCom

Nickelodeon

PBS - Caillou Caillou's Magic Keyboard (Shockwave)

StarChild - for young astronomers

Teletubbies! Home Page

The Wiggles Home Page

Totcity - Preschool activities, toddler activities, and more

Yahooligans

Media Player - Windows

322642 - Error Message Unable to Find Playable File in Windows Media Player for Windows XP

Captioning Windows Media - a good, practical HOW-TO article.

Classic Media Player - an incredibly versatile player - from SourceForge.net Project Info - guliverkli.

Is the XP Media Player (MPXP) Spyware (probably not) - ExtremeTech article

Windows Media Newsgroups.

Windows Media Player FAQ - a very thorough XP Windows Media Player FAQ written as a public service from a WMP developer.

Windows Media Player in Netscape 7.1 using ActiveX! Yes, it can now be done. (Windows only, of course).

Messaging & Chat On-line with ICQ, mIRC and the Like

HOAXBUSTERS Home Page

ICQ - Firewall - info for Network Administrators

ICQ 2000b Nightmares - Software Reviews - CNET.com

ICQ Lies

Icrontic.com Articles The Ultimate ICQ Tweak Guide

mIRC - Home Page (UK)

oz.org IRC Network

ParaChat Home -100% Pure Java chat

Patch for ICQ (NetMeeting bug)

Talk City Chat - Computer-Windows

Telephone Answering and Voice Mail Messaging Software

The Hoaxkill service Let's get rid of hoaxes now!

MIDI - Sources, Players, Technology

Bookmarklets - Stop Music test page

Dana Pannell's BEATLES KARAOKE

Getting an extra 32 voices from your MIDI card using Wingroove

Grandpa Schober's MIDI Files (Good Music) - Accordian and Keyboard - Polkas, Waltzes, German, Country, Religious and Standards 2000

Kmel MIDI Music

Melody Machine - SoundFonts for Sound Blaster Live, FREE samples

MIDIWORLD

The Beatles Midi Page

The Händel Page at MIDIWORLD

Miscellany - Various Sites which Columbus Found Memorable

Airliners.net - Civil Aviation Center and Aviation Photography Gallery

Alternative Cancer Treatment - Cancell

Bill Weiss's Photos

Buffy, The Musical - Once More, With Feeling. Lyrics and pictures.

BuffyGuide.com

Christopher Columbus's Shipwrecks. He lost nine ships - find out about them, and if they've been found.

Ferrari 312PB built by Pierre Scerri of Avignon, France. This 1-3 scale marvel is the real thing in every sense of the word.

Fred On Everything - Fred Reed's quirky, opinionated ramblings.

Gianpaolo's Photo Gallery - Free High Quality Scenic and Nature Wallpaper

Guy's Everett's favourite links - quite an interesting list

Louvre Museum Official Website

Meet the Queen of Clean - Linda Cobb - as seen on Oprah

Nurflugel - a great site on 'Flying Wing' aircraft.

Paul Lutus -- Home Page (Arachnophilia author)

Picks' Tribute to the Simpsons

SoloTrek Exo-Skeletor Flying Vehicle by Millennium Jet Inc.

Starship Modeler - some cool Thunderbirds and other Gerry Anderson models.

The art of Auschwitz survivor Jan Komski

The Case Against Walt Disney studios (extreme Christian site)

The Gore Vidal Index

The Political Compass - a fascinating, FREE, 'how do I rate on the modern political scale' questionnaire and graph. Very revealing!

The Wizard of Oz - everything you ever wanted to know about the book and film

Thunderbirds Online

Wings'N'Things Hobbyworld, Sydney (plane and model kits etc)

MOD - Sources, Players

MAZ Sound Tools Page

MOD - Shareware Music Machine

Open Cubic Player home page

Modems - Configuration, Troubleshooting, Performance Tips

56K Modems @ 56K Speed!

Dramatically speed up your dialup speed with the MaxMTU Fix - InfiniSource, Inc.

Eircom Large graphic test (470KBytes)

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Modems

Gamer's Lag-Trouble with v.90 - DUN tips

Hayes Drivers at WinDrivers.com

Limiting Connection Speed (incl. PCTel AMR modems)

ModemHelp Support for modems

ModemHelp.Org

PCTel Chipset Modems

Test your Internet connection - auto pinging site

TweakDUN, adjust your MaxMTU for a Faster Internet Experience - Rose City Software and InfiniSource, Inc.

V92 FAQ - the upcoming V.92 dialup modem Standard

Motherboards - Articles, BIOSs, Overclocking, Reviews

AMD Athlon 1GHz (1000MHz) 'Thunderbird' Processor - Processor Identification

AOpen Slot 1 Board vs. CPU listing

Ars Technica Our rockin' system guide - current best system recommendations

CaseETC - Your one-stop case mod shop!

Cooling Project - Case Cooling Noise Reduction

CPU Water cooling at Benchtest.Com

Dan's Data - PC hardware reviews and tutorials!

Detailed article on Athlon and Duron overclocking tips and workarounds - AnandTech

DIMM RAM identifier - FrostyTech

Elitegroup Computer Systems - driver downloads

ExtremeTech - Deep technology content for the IT community by Ziff Davis

Getting up to speed with the P3V

Icrontic.com - Case Temperature Research Part 2 Ghetto Ducting, drawing cool air from spare PCI slots!

Insane Hardware - Asus A7V Multiplier Dipswitch Modification

Iwill Slocket II Review

Make your own case badge

MBProbe - monitors your motherboard's temps and fans

Mishaps - SystemLogic.net - amusing pics of fried computer components

Modifying Your Case - Add a Second PSU Speedy 3D

Motherboard HomeWorld - motherboards.org

Motherboard Monitor - unobtrusively monitor your motherboard and CPU temperatures and fans' RPM

Overclockers Australia Forums

Overclockers Australia

Overclocking - a brief history and review - Australian IT

Overclocking, Manila -Abit BF-6 Review

Overclocking, Manila Homepage

Paul's IBM PC330-PC350 (Type 6576, 6586) - LPJT63A - Flash BIOS update

Photo Guide to Building an ATX PC, Step by Step - Contents

Review of the Abit BF6 slot 1 440BX motherboard

Rubber Boxes & Carved Foam - More HDD Silencing - a DIY from SilentPCReview.com

Sharky Extreme - PC - Hardware - CPU Overclocking Basics

Should I purchase a motherboard with a VIA chipset - VIAHardware.com

SiS USB Tips and Tricks

The Bastard Guide to Overclocking - The Register. Very funny.

The Definitive BIOS Optimization Guide - rojakpot.com

The Flashbios Site - these guys will repair or replace your dead BIOS when nobody else will!

Tyan Trinity KTA socket A motherboard

Void your Warranty - make your own internal diode reader for AMD palomino core CPUs.

Wim's BIOS Page Everything you want to know about BIOS.

Motherboards - PCChips M810LMR - Columbus Loves this Board

Amptron Drivers for the PCChips 810LMR

BIOS updates for PCChips motherboards

Download Uart's tiny utility sseen.zip if you have a Duron Model 7 or Althon 4-MP and your bios is not enabling SSE properly.

How to choose a PSU for K7S5A (or similar high-current AMD boards)

Init string to limit the PCTel AMR Modem's connection speed for stability

K7SEM home page at ECS - ECS's version of the M810LMR.

Linux drivers for the SiS730s PC Tel AMR modem for kernels 2.2.12 and 2.4.7 - 9, thanks to Dietrich

M810LMR home page at PCChips

OCworkbench BBS FAQ 1.0 on K7S5A (PCChips M830) Data Corruption - Memtest86, 1400, CONFIGMG, 133-133 Problem

PC Chips M810LMR FAQ by Dietrich

PCChips M810Lv71a home page.

PCChips motherboard drivers

SiS Graphic drivers - SiS730 family - SiS630 family

The PCChips Lottery BBS - 8xx boards discussion, including the M810LMR

The PCChips Lottery

Movies - Projectionist-related

...in 70 mm - a fascinating, detailed website dealing with the history and present role of 70 mm exhibition.

...in 70 mm - The 70 mm Newsletter - their great page of 70 mm links.

Bob Leader, Washington, USA has his own DP70 (Todd-A0) screening room!

Cinema Consultants & Services International, Inc.

Cinerama Adventure - wow, maybe Cinerama is making a slow comeback!

Cinerama Information.

Film formats and projection - Frequently Asked Questions - Film-Tech

Film-Tech - nice technical resource for projectionists. Projector manual PDF downloads and more.

historictheatres.org - 'classic' movie theatres of old, especially the famous Roxy in NYC. Sad isn't it, that this topic is now 'historical' ... whatever happened to quality cinemas ... oh well.

How Movie Projectors Work - a very nicely illustrated page, Columbus recommends this one. By HowStuffWorks.

How Movie Sound Works - a nice site by HowStuffWorks.

IMAX and 15-70 Motion Picture Information.

Internet Archive - Moving Image Archive - weird and wacky films archived for your pleasure.

Internet Moving Images Archives - some wild and whacky films from the 50's and earlier about all kinds of weird stuff

ISCO's lens calculator programs - FREE download.

KODAK Student Filmmaker's Handbook.

Lucasfilm THX Theatres.

One hundred Years of Film Sizes. Almost one hundred film widths and perforations were experimented with.

Pictureville Cinerama & IMAX Cinema, Bradford, England. Looks like a beautiful cinema

Projectionist Tips - a good, sensible collection from Film-Tech

Schneider Optics - Super-Cinelux 70 make short-throw 70 mm projection possible. Columbus drools over these.

The American WideScreen Museum. An absolutely gorgeous site.

The International Jingle Collection - a pretty darn good collection of MP3s and videos of classic Cinema logos and more.

The World's largest screen - set up  in Oslo, Norway 1996 for a special screening of ID4.

Yellow Layer Failure, Vinegar Syndrome and Miscellaneous Musings by Robert A. Harris, the famed film restorer.

Movies - Reviews & Fan-sites

Buster Keaton - The Damfinos Official Website

Classic Movies

Doug Stickney's Silver Screen Sirens

Ebert's Great Movies List

Greatest Films

Judy Garland.net

Kennesaw Civil War Museum - Home of Buster Keaton's 'The General'

La Femme Nikita (Unofficial) Home Page

Military Aviation Movie List

Movie Review Query Engine

movie666 - interesting 'alternative' movie reviews

movie-mistakes.com - Hollywood's Big Brother

movie-mistakes.com

Ravin' Maven of Classic Film

Roger Ebert's Main Page

Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews & News

Shock Treatment (1981) - IMDB Columbus's comments on this sequel to 'Rocky Horror'.

Slayage - The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies.

tdfilm.com your starting point for film on the net

THE ASTOUNDING B MONSTER - cult-movies

The Internet Movie Database (UK)

The Internet Movie Database (USA)

The Internet Movie Database

The Projectionist - movie reviews

Movies - Stanley Kubrick

'2001 A Space Odyssey' - 'Thus Spake Zarathrustra'

2001 A Space Odyssey - Underman's 2001

A Tribute to Stanley Kubrick - Classic Movies - 3-14-99

Christiane Kubrick's Website

Interesting Kubrick lens story - Two Special Lenses for 'Barry Lyndon' by Ed DiGiulio, Cinema Products Corp.

Krusch's Stanley Kubrick site

Kubrick Multimedia Film Guide

Kubrick's 'Eyes Wide Shut' - Occult and Illuminati references throughout the film - from Steamshovel Press

Stanley Kubrick The Master Filmmaker

The 2001 Internet Resource Archive

The ALT.MOVIES.KUBRICK FAQ

The Konformist - The End of an Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick Dies

The Unknown Kubrick

MP3 - Sources, Players, Advanced HOW TOs, LAME Tips

ALL2LAME frontend

Columbus's No. 1 favourite 'most essential' MP3 utility - MPTagger - handy FREE MP3 tag utility. Fully edits ID3 v1 AND v2 tags simultaneously, and add embedded images!

Copah's CD Reader plugin for Winamp, makes use of local cdplayer.ini and has improved read quality.

customize.org - the mp3 player skin & plugin search site

Encoder Analysis and Visualisation - comparisons article by airwindows

Geiss Screensaver and Winamp plug-in

LAME - The list of recommended settings - CD Freaks

LAME MP3 encoder and other high quality encoding - decoding tools

Lycos MP3 Search

MilkDrop - fabulous visualization plug-in for Winamp

MP3 Cat - a FREE handy database utility for your mp3 and music files - Simone Tellini

MP3 Folders is a FREE program that lets you treat a folder as a playlist for MP3 and WAVE files - from Millpoint Solutions

Mp3 Tag Tools - a last, a FREE Open Source MP3 tag editor that elegantly supports as many features as Media Player!

MP3.BOX.SK - MP3 search engine

MP3.com - The mp3 resource on the internet

MP3Gain - a FREE, lossless, intelligent MP3 volume normalizer. NOT 'just peak normalizing'! Columbus loves this great tool

MP3sFinder.com - UK Top 20 for download!

mp3Trim & WavTrim

PlayNow - Control WinAmp from NT-95-98 command line

SOFTPOINTER Tag&Rename - ID3v2 tag editor, mp3 organizer, rename mp3, mp3 playlist creater

STP - System Tray Player, a great FREE MP3 and audio CD-ROM player. Tiny and fast. This site is a mirror.

The Mp3-Tag Studio Homepage

the Official a.b.s.m. FAQ

Xorys' MP3 FAQ

Networking - Articles, References, Installation Tutorials

3d Traceroute - replace all your ugly PING plotters and TRACEROUTE programs with a FREE, full blown 3D traceroute program!

602Pro LAN SUITE 2002 - Secure e-mail server with anti-virus, spam protection, fax and Internet sharing...

Bart's Network Boot Disk

BpBatch is a versatile remote-boot processor for Linux, FREE and powerful.

CAT-5 o' nine tails - Professional Version - SysAdmins, keep your users in line!

Center for Internet Security.

ClarkConnect - Open-source Internet Gateway router using an old 486

CommView - a program for monitoring Internet and Local Area Network (LAN) activity capable of capturing and analyzing network packets, from TamoSoft, Inc.

Computing.Net - Realtek RTL8029 PCI Adapter problems discussion

Connecting from a DOS system using TCP-IP - by good ol' Helmig, featuring his unique use of English!

Dartmouth Project for Teaching Engineering Problem Solving.

Definitions - Networking Glossary - The Siemon Company

eDexter - is a program that acts as a local-only HTTP server on your computer to replace bocked ads etc.

Famatech's FREE Advanced IP Calculator - great! As good as that OTHER one, but looks nicer and no advertising.

FREESCO - free replacement for commercial routers

How I built a rackmount server. Good technical article.

How to build a tin can waveguide antenna

How to share your Internet connection - Dansdata.com

ICF - Internet Connection Firewall usage in Windows XP. 'Don't Let the Defense Rest' - a nice, readable article by MS.

ICQ, Windows 98 SE-Me ICS, and Firewall Configuration

ICS - Internet Connection Sharing - Helmig's not-so-well-written, but nevertheless excellent, 'How To' guide. Recommended.

Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) - InfiniSource, Inc.

Internet Traffic Report - see the Net's real-time performance graphically

IP Subnet Calculator by WildPackets - FREE utility for computing information about IP addresses.

LEAF - FREE Linux-based Floppy-Boot Firewall.

Linux Remote-Boot mini-HOWTO Configuring Remote-Boot Workstations with Linux, DOS, Windows 95-98 and Windows NT

Making a Network Boot Disk

Map ports through ICS with ICS Configuration

Mapnet - an amazing Java applet page that graphically visualizes the infrastructure of the Internet's multiple backbone providers simultaneously.

MSKB - Description of File Sharing and Permissions in Windows XP

Neoseeker Server Project 2002 - Neoseeker's own story of their search for the perfect medium-sized web server. They built their own!

no.ip.com - dynamic DNS, Static DNS for Your Dynamic IP

Parallel Technologies - Direct Cable Connection utilities

Peer-to-peer Mac-to-Windows networking tips

Ping Plotter is a FREE enhanced trace route program for Windows 9x-NT-2000-XP.

Practically Networked

RASPPPOE - PPP over Ethernet Protocol for Windows

RazzMon - Dial-up Networking Monitor and Control for Internet Connection Sharing

Remote Dialer by Birusoft - give you the ability to dial or hang up modem from remote computer

servererror.net - silly refreshable error messages

SmoothWall - great, FREE GPL Linux Router and Firewall project.

Structured cabling standards guidelines - The Siemon Company.

SuperScan v3.0 - FREE, powerful TCP port scanner, pinger, resolver utility.

TCP-IP Analyzer - FREE utility that analyses your online identity

TCP-IP FAQ by ITPRC

The Home PC Network site

thin computing.net - news and articles about server-based computing.

TINY Software - technology leader in firewalls for medium size networks

Tweak3D.net - . How to Build a Server

USB.org - FAQ

What Is My IP Address online ID page

What it took to get our Web business up and running - from HTML Goodies

Windows 2000 & XP Pro TCP-IP Routing - it CAN be done with regedit!

Wntipcfg.exe - download the Win 2k version and use it in XP.

World of Windows Networking - a very thorough site, by a German, Helmig

News - Some Sites which Columbus Doesn't Entirely Mistrust

ABC News (Australia) Online - the latest bulletin.

Ananova

Conspiracy Planet - The Alternative News & History Network.

Crikey - Aussie news site that 'will point out theft, corruption, deception and collusion whenever and where it can.'

DAILY ROTATION - Quick Loading Headlines From 130 Tech Sites

David Letterman's Top Ten List (daily)

FuckedCompany.com - very crass but funny site that reports on dot.com failures etc.

Greg Palast, controversial and powerful UK journalist. Columbus likes his stuff.

Hunter S. Thompson's commentaries at ESPN.com - Page2 - Fear & Loathing in America

Jeff Rense - an alternative, very popular conspiracy news site.

Media Whores Online.

News Flashes from PAK News, Pakistan

September 11 - Journalists' Resources - best portal for bin-Laden & 911 'info'. Almost all controlled, of course, but thorough nonetheless.

Slashdot News for nerds, stuff that matters

The Daily Rotten (weird news headlines and pics)

The Drudge Report

The New York Times

Zogby International (Pollsters)

Nikola Tesla, Free Energy, Antigravity

Brent's (New) High Voltage Page.

Electrical Hazards - great fan Tesla Coil website, home of WinTesla, FREE coil designer software for Windows.

Nikola Tesla Page, Tesla Coils (Bill Beaty's Homepage).

Nikola Tesla's astrology chart by Astrology Software for Research.

Quick timeline overview of Nikola Tesla.

Scalar Wars - The Brave New World of Scalar Electromagnetics. A layperson's personal discovery of Tom Bearden & Tesla by Bill Morgan.

Tesla in Morse Code ... beyond belief! The entire life story of Tesla told entirely in morse code!

Tesla_Downunder - a nice site by a West Australian Tesla buff. Hosted at Columbus's ISP too!

The Complete Patents of Nikola Tesla.

The Resonate Coil Project.

To the Smithsonian or Bust - fascinating story of how Yale (and everybody else in the US Establishment) suppressed Tesla's invention of Radio.

Two Fascinating Historic Interviews with Nikola Tesla.

Notebook Computers - Manuals, Drivers

Acer - Texas Instruments TravelMate 4000 Drivers and Downloads

Gateway Solo 5150 notebook manual

Manuals for HP Omnibook 4150

Novelty - Sites which Columbus Found Quirky or Entertaining

9 drawings done by an artist under the influence of LSD - part of a US government test during its dalliance with psychotomimetic drugs in the late 1950's.

About that thing with Richard Gere and the gerbil ...

Acme Klein Bottle ... what IS a Klein Bottle

Adding and Subtracting. A twisted pair of twins take body art to extreme levels.

Apparently Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon' synchronises surprisingly well as a soundtrack to the film 'The Wizard of Oz'. (Wayback machine link.)

Bad Coriolis - is it true that water drains differently depending on which Hemisphere you're in

Carl Sagan's Billions And Billions Of Bong Hits - from Gettingit.com

Darwin Awards - a great and classic site devoted to people who kill themselves by stupid mistakes.

Dead or Alive - check if your favourite celebrity has kicked the bucket or not

Dying Words of Famous People Celebrity Quotes Collection Brain Candy

Fake or Photo - can you tell a real photo from a Computer Generated one

Fat Freddy Talks - the 'real' Fat Freddy, made famous in THOSE comic books!

Homer's 'D'oh!' has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary - GIST TV Gossip & News

ihateclowns.com - for people who are afraid of or just plain hate clowns

Optical Illusions

Robert Anson Wilson's Page of Jokes, Limericks, and Off-Color Tales (famous U.S. Occultist author)

Rubberfaces.com - play with the faces of your favorite celebrities

Soda Constructor (an utterly amazing, real-time Java applet)

The 1971 Esquire article about 'phone phreaking' that first insprited Steve Wozniak - Secrets of the Little Blue Box.

The Dialectizer (very amusing webpage 'translator' - English to Jive, etc)

The Skeptic's Dictionary A Guide for the New Millennium

Urban Legends and Folklore - About.com

Urban Legends Reference Pages - snopes.com

Which side of the road do they drive on...

Who really invented the telephone - Bell cut off as phone inventor - The Age

Occult - Kabbalah, Theosophy

Aleister Crowley Factsheet

An Abramelin Ramble

Atlantis of Blavatsky and Theosophy Found

Blavatsky Net

Bnei-Baruch Kabbalah

Catholic Encyclopedia_ KABBALA

Colin Low's Hermetic Kabbalah - a great, thoroughly Western, introduction to Kabbalah

Critical Notice Frank J Tipler (1995) - The Physics of Immortality

Cult-busters, The Ross Center, investigates the Kabbalah Centre (kabbalah.com).

Douglas Baker - Esoteric Astrology, Esoteric Psychology. A terrific theosophical author, one of the Superstars of the scene. Columbus has met this guy a few times and is a gushing fan.

FREE Tarot Readings at facade.com - a nicely presented introductory site

H.P. Blavatsky & her writings

Hmm, is Kabbalah.com dodgy - 'No business like Kabbalah business' raises questions about Madonna's celebrity cult.

HP Blavatsky

Kabbalah - M.Alan Kazlev's handsome website. A good introductory and medium-level guide.

Kabbalah Links - Colin Low's Links page.

Lucis Trust (Alice Bailey devotees)

Magickal Mystical Symbols

Meru Foundation - Secrets of the Hebrew Letters - a brief introduction to Stan Tenen, a physicist and Director of the Meru Foundation

Meru Foundation - The God of Abraham - A Mathematician's View

Meru Foundation - The Meru Project has discovered an extraordinary geometric metaphor in the letter-sequence of the Hebrew text of Genesis

Rider Tarot jpgs (MAY BE DOWN)

Robert Anton Wilson

Schools and Places To Learn About QBL, on The Internet

Science as Applied Kabbalah (Jewish Mysticism)

The Academy of Jerusalem (site about the City, and its mystical traditions)

The Inner Dimension Shopping Center - Offering Books and Tapes by Rabbi Yizchak Ginsburgh. What! Kabbalah on-line shopping ... Columbus isn't sure if he's ready for this ...

The Kabbalah Centre - Study of Kabbalah, Books, Classes on Spirituality and Kabbalah. Very slick Los Angeles-based website. Madonna mentioning it on TV led me to this site!

The Tree of Life - a nice, framed interactive Tree of Life reference

The Witches Voice

Theomatics - numerical coding in the Bible

Theosophy sites - Blavatsky Net

Theosophy World (email newsletter)

Theosophy.com.

Tree of Life of the Kabbalah - (Interesting and odd site on Sefirot and Morality)

TS (Theosophical Society), U.S.

Underwater pyramids off Japan

United Lodge of Theosophists RealVideos

Office 2000, XP and 2003

290658 - OL2002 How to Programmatically Import Outlook Items from Microsoft Access

291407 - OL2002 General Information About the Outlook View Control

328019 - ACC2002 Descending Indexes Become Ascending Indexes When Upsizing to SQL Even After Office XP SP-2 Is Installed

Clean HTML - a MS Word template that creates 'Clean' HTML equivalents of the contents of Word 2000-2002 files. This template translates W3C-compliant HTML - from Songhay System.

CodeWeavers CrossOver - allows you to install your favorite Windows Office productivity applications in Linux.

Create Serialized Disk Labels with Publisher 2000 and Excel 2000

Creating Custom Views in Outlook

David Bartosik MS MVP Publisher.

ELCOMSOFT Advanced Access Password Recovery

Genie Outlook Backup for Outlook 200 - 2003.

Get FREE training kits downloads for Using Microsoft Project 2002, from Microsoft

GUIDClean - a FREE program to detect, display and modify the Global Unique Identifiers (GUID) that some MS Office products (Word and Excel) place in documents.

How to make sure the Task Pane can appear when Word 2002 starts up, even when add-ins are present

LBE Toolbox for MS Outlook - separates attachments, removes duplicate Contacts and more

Lynch, Guide to Grammar and Style - quirks in MS Word's spell- and grammar-checking

Microsoft Digital Dashboard for Outlook - a good introduction by Slipstick.com.

Microsoft Project Best Practices - FREE email course by Rod Gill, MVP in Project 2000.

Microsoft Visio - MSDN.

Microsoft Word web publishing - WD2000 How to Minimize Metadata in Microsoft Word Documents (Q237361)

MSDN Add-In Guide - Text Box Defaults Add-In Project for Microsoft Publisher.

Office 2000 HTML Filter 2.0 - MS's tool to remove the code bloat when exporting to HTML

OfficeThemes.com - the resource for MS Office and FrontPage 2000 Themes

ontarget - desktop publishing & design using Microsoft Publisher.

Opening .exe Attachments with the Outlook E-mail Security Update and Outlook 2002 - how to tweak or override the new security settings.

OutBack Plus - Advanced Backup and Restore for Microsoft Outlook (and any other nominated user files). Columbus trusts his life with this tool!

Outlook Contacts Scrubber - FREE utility to remove duplicate Contacts in Outlook.

Outlook Redemption - works around limitations imposed by the Outlook Security Patch and Office XP, plus provides a number of other functions.

Outlook Tips and Techniques

Post2Note for Exchange 2000 - FREE programming solution to the 'reply to Sender' problem Posts.

Slipstreaming Service Pack 2 To Office XP - from T h e   D D R Z o n e

Tips-Tutorials - MS Office & Windows - FREE from personal-computer-tutor.com.

Update Office XP - a hands-on, step-by-step to avoid grief

Using Outlook's Rules Wizard and Assistants

Using ShellExecute to start any program or short cut from inside VBA

WD2002 Part 1 Troubleshooting Word Encountered Problem

welcome to mcdev.com - mcdaniel development tools for Outlook 2002 and more

Which to use - Access 2002 or Excel 2002 to manage your data

Woody's Office Portal - wopr.com

Working with sections in Word - why does text move and do strange things when pasting.

PC Tech Support - Tips & Articles

BuzzWhack The Buzzword Compliant Dictionary

Computer Stupidities - Stupid Tech Support - funny, sad but true tales from clueless Tech Support guys

Dvorak Keyboard Compare Applet - see just how efficient the Dvorak keyboard is

Evil Tips and Tricks - cunning Windows tweaks to irritate the User

Evil Tips and Tricks - Part 2

LBE Free Help Desk Software - the free and simple way to manage customer service

OLD-COMPUTERS.COM - a funny page with wacky old computing ads, scanned from old magazines

PC Pitstop Home - online system check & repair

Recycling that old PC - Hobby Machine - TechTV

Tweaking a monitor's focus and brightness - TweakHardware.com

Pictures in Anaglyphic 3D

1st APEC III stereo view exchange - Earl Keyser - Anaglyph

1st APEC III stereo view exchange - Greg Kane - Anaglyph

1st APEC III stereo view exchange - Les Gehman - Anaglyph

1st APEC III stereo view exchange - Shab Levy - Anaglyph

3D by Dan Shelley - Home

3D Image Library - Free Anaglyph Glasses!!!

3D Stereo Products

3dham's gallery - Mars

3d-web.com - Professional Stereoscopic Three Dimensional Services

Programming - CGI, PERL, PHP, SSI

BigNoseBird.Com's Server Side Include Page (SSI)

cssfile Alternate stylesheets - a neat FREE PERL CGI script.

Kira's Web Toolbox - CGI 101

Knuth and LevyCWEB

Literate Programming

Manage Your Content With PHP - a nice simple introduction by A List Apart.

Matt's Script Archive, Inc.

NCSA HTTPd Tutorial Server Side Includes (SSI)

noSQL - a small set of SQL-like PHP functions to manage a database in an SQL-like way without a SQL-server.

Perl2Exe - command line utility for converting perl scripts to executable files.

Q Counter - a powerful FREE Perl CGI script.

Smarter Scripts - Load Timer - FREE CGI script to record and graph your page's actual load times for visitors.

Smarter Scripts - The Bouncer - a FREE CGI script to prevent direct entry to your site other than through your preferred page.

Textdb - a text database FREE system class for PHP, from PHP Outburst.

The Automated Archive - a group of Perl scripts designed to handle maintaining and searching an online archive.

txtSQL - a class of functions designed and implemented to handle flat file databases in a more efficient, and complex manner, just like MySQL or Access.

UPB - a forum and message board PHP FREE script using a text database, from PHP Outburst.

Using a flat-file database in Perl.

Using XSSI Variables - Webmonkey

WDVL Server Side Includes

Webmastering Center - some useful SSI and CGI scripts

xhtml2txt XHTML to plain text - a neat FREE PERL CGI script.

Programming - Java

JCreator - a great little Java IDE. Columbus began his little foray into Java with this one!

Robocode - you'll program a robotic battletank in Java for a fight to the finish. The game is designed to help you learn Java, and have fun doing it.

Scribbler - JavaScript, VBScript and DHTML Editor with library of special effects scripts.

ViewletBuilder - Java tool from Qarbon

Programming - XML

Is the XML XHTML 1.0 Prolog necessary or not ... it upsets IE6-Windows' CSS box model ...

Manipulating a XML file using DHTML.

Peter's XML Editor is FREE to download and use.

TopXML - Learn XML.

XML Tutorial - WC3 Schools.

Programming (Microsoft) - ASP, .NET, VB, VBA, VBS

A Real-Time VB6 ActiveX News Control - Compiling and using our new ActiveX control Developer Fusion Free VB, ASP, C#, .NET, PHP, XML tutorials and source code

Active Server Pages - MSDN

ADO Data Control in Visual Basic

ASP 101 - Active Server Pages 101

ASP Sample Code and Tutorials - links at SiteBuilder.

ASP Tutorials @ Active Server Corner

ASP.NET Web Matrix - a community-supported, easy-to-use WYSIWYG application development tool for ASP.NET.

asptutorial.info - ASP tutorial for beginners and free scripts.

BlackBeltVB.com

Call the MS Word Spell Checker inside your VB application.

Chris Rae's VBA Pages

FreeVBCode.com -- Free, High-Quality Visual Basic Samples and Code

Gasanov.net - some neat FREE System Shell VB Code Samples

Guerilla Install Tactics for Visual Studio.NET Final

Karen's Power Toy - a good implementation of MS Agent speaking technology, with VB source freely available.

Lewis Moten - some good ASP and VB code.

MCI Command Strings - MSDN.

Mike Caldwell's handy little Microsoft VBScript for ASP reference pages.

MS Q129796 - HOWTO Use a 32-Bit Application to Determine When a Shelled Process Ends

MSDN - VB Programmer's Guide (All Editions)

Planet Source Code - VB and much more. Over 5 million lines of source code.

Script Center - Microsoft TechNet

ShellExecute - MSDN reference for VB, VBA

Taking Advantage of the Windows Scripting Host - MSDN

VBShelf - Programming Resources and Software

Visual Basic MCI Command Post - FREE Downloads

Windows Script is a comprehensive scripting infrastructure for the Microsoft Windows platform - MSDN.

Windows Scripting - MSDN articles on all forms of VBS, JavaScript etc.

WinScripter - WSH

WMI Scripting Primer - MS's primary management enabling technology for Windows - MSDN.

Writing WMI Scripts Using the Scriptomatic Utility - FREE Download from MS.

Satellites, World Time, Planetariums

A funky Java applet that builds a zoomable, rotateable globe showing the current position of more than 500 satellites. Interactive and very cool!

Celestia - an amazing FREE 3D Planetarium-cum-Space Simulator. Check it out!

CyberTime - check local time of any location using this neat Java applet.

Heavens-Above - satellites and astronomy graphics for your location in real-time

MapQuest.com - World map database, Expedia competitor!

MyStarsLive - Interactive Star Chart

Networldmap - a geographical map of the internet

The World Time Server - correct, current, local. The definitive World Clock site

Where the Space Station is right now - Human Space Flight (HSF) - Orbital Tracking

Scanners & Scanning

Buyer's Guide Scanner - a brief summary of scanning technology and history, by Digit Life

Epson 1240 Reference Guide (Columbus has this model)

EPSON Support Perfection 1240U driver downloads

Flatbed scanners from A to Z, drum scanners, wide-format scanners, 35mm slide scanners, 4x5 film scanners, Epson, Linocolor, Heidelberg, Agfa, Umax, Scitex, Polaroid, and Nikon slide scanners.

How to Scan 35mm Slides on a Flatbed Scanner without a TMA (very clever little site)

IPhoto ICC Profile Center - downloadable FREE ICC profiles.

Mustek, Inc., USA, for Scanmagic scanner

Parallel Port Scanners under Linux

Scanfont - create your own font from handwriting etc

Scantips.com - an excellent 'how to' introduction to scanning

SilverFast - high-end TWAIN plugin for Photoshop etc. Very high quality preview

SilverFast 5 Tutorial - Digital Darkroom

The Kodak Q60 Ektachrome test slide

Using an Epson Scanner for Printer Profiles- Computer Darkroom

Search Engines

Advanced Google Search Operators

AllTheWeb.com Images Search

AltaVista - Image Search

Ask Jeeves PLAIN ENGLISH search

Astalavista HACKS and CRACKS search

Australian Search Engine - [ WebSearch.COM.AU ]

CompletePlanet the Source of all Search

Copernic - The Smart Software to Search the Web! (free, the World's most powerful, downloadable web searcher program)

Deja.com - Newsgroups searching NOW ACQUIRED BY GOOGLE!

Dogpile

Excite voyeur - see what people are searching for - right now - in real-time

FAST Search - All the Web, All the Time

FileMirrors (by HeadLight Software, makers of GetRight) - search for alternative download locations for that elusive .exe

GOeureka (Alta Vista Australia) - fast, text-only mode

Google Image Search

Google Microsoft Search

Google Zeitgeist - Search patterns, trends, and surprises according to Google.

Google

irt.org Search - JavaScript, DHTML and more.

LapLink FTPSearch

LISWA Search Engine (Library of Western Australia)

Lycos Advanced Search

Mooter - Web Search. An ingenious 'clustering' search engine, developed in Australia. Still in beta, but very promising.

PC World News article - Going Gaga for Google

Rainbow Query - Search the Queer Internet!

Search Engine Showdown - The Users' Guide to Web Searching

Search Past Lockergnome Issues

Search the LISWA Catalogue

SearchEngines.com - top search engines rankings and web promotion tips.

Submit Your Site to the Top Search Engines - Free!

Teoma Search - brand new for 2001

The Anatomy of a Search Engine - the academic paper that led to 'Google'

'The Wayback Machine' - by The Internet Archive - search the Web of the past

White Pages OnLine (Australia)

WiseNut - brand new for 2001

Yahoo! (Australia)

Security - Backup, Privacy & Virus-related

Ad-aware - a FREE multi spyware removal utility from Lavasoft. Removes naughty spy components from apps like Comet Cursor and Gator etc.

AVG Anti-Virus Systems - they offer a FREE anti-virus program!

Backup MyPC Software from Stomp

BlackCode Security Scan is an Online tool which makes an exhaustive test on your computer or firewall searching for open ports.

CD Backup Software - NTI Backup NOW! Deluxe - supports XP

Drive Rescue - the hard disk recovery tool

eicar - Anti-Virus test file

eTrust EZ Antivirus - latest version, directly from ZDNet Downloads. The best and most easily updated virus protection of them all

F-PROT a fabulous, FREE DOS & Windows virus scanner & cleaner

F-PROT program & virus definition file updates download page

Genie-Soft's Genie Backup Manager - perhaps the best backup program around. Even burns to CD, handles Outlook 2003 data and more.

GetDataBack - Data Recovery Software for all Windows File Systems

GRBackPro - professional backup utility (Compress Restore Schedule) by GRSoftware

MGCWShredder - a FREE small utility for removing CoolWebSearch, and its variants (nasty home page hijackers).

Norman - the data security company

O&O Defrag V6 - the best disk defragger for Win NT, 2000 and XP.

Radified Guide to Norton Ghost by Symantec - A Tutorial on How to Create and Restore Ghost Images

SARC Reference - W32.Klez Removal Tool

Second Copy® 2000 is the perfect backup product designed for Windows - by Centered Systems.

SecurityFocus

Shields UP! - Steve Gibson's famous, FREE on-line Internet Vulnerability test page. Try it.

SpywareBlaster - Prevent spyware from ever being installed! Great FREE solution to those awful ActiveX popup installers!

Steve Gibson's famous, invaluable, FREE security software, for ZIP drives, IP security, XP vulnerabilities and more. This is his 'Most Popular Freeware' page at GRC.COM.

Symantec - miscellaneous Removal Tools.

Symantec Security Response - How to disable or remove the Windows Scripting Host with a FREE utility, script.exe

Virus Bulletin home page

Virus Encyclopedia of all current known viruses

VirusEye is MessageLabs' live virus information service.

Shockwave & Flash - Some Cool Sites

A very cute little UFO Flash 'navigation menu' at EYE4U.

Boomer - not free, but a great and painless way to Convert any static or animated Gif, Jpeg, Png or Avi to the Shockwave Flash format - from Crazy Ivan Productions

CleverMedia Shockwave Arcade Shockwave Games Index

Idleworm - cool satirical Shockwave mini movies

LoopLabs.com - wild Flash DJ mixer page

Mark Fiore's Animated Political Flash Cartoons! This guy is terrific; I love his stuff.

Rooney Design - includes Truth behind Mother Goose

The Digital Dude's Digitally Remastered Knowledge Emporium

Sound, Computer Sound Cards & Audio in General

ACD - Graphic Advanced Equalizer program.

Archiving Old 78's to CD - from Goldmine Collectormania Archive

Audiotester - use your soundcard as an oscilloscope, tone generator and more

Audiotools - an audio recording tool with the facility to automatically split a recording into tracks.

Black Dahlia Audio - DIY speaker projects and more

CEDAR Audio Ltd Audio Restoration Systems

ClickFix for Cool Edit (vinyl click remover plugin)

Convoy International (formerly Australian importer _ agent for Nakamichi cassette decks)

CoolSpeech 4.2 The Text-to-Speech Synthesis Application for Windows

Dan's Data Review AOpen AW744S sound card

Dasound.com - a vast, searchable listing of Audio Software utilities.

DeGlitch - a FREE utility to detect and correct isolated bad samples in digital audio files.

Early Recorded Sounds and Wax Cylinders

HELP Read - Reads text aloud from the Clipboard, Browser etc

Interesting essay on computing sound card basics today - from The Tech Report

jyk's listening room - a hi fi room that takes the cake!

Nakamichi Cassette Decks_ FAQ

Naks.com, the [unofficial] Nakamichi cassette deck resource.

North Creek Music Systems, USA - high-end speaker drivers

PC ABX - a PC-based 'Virtual Reality' methodology for testing audio. It is based on the ABX methodology for 'Double Blind' audio tests.

PCAVTech Sound Card Technical Benchmarks

ProRec - targets pro, semipro, and amateur recordists primarily in the PC digital audio workstation market.

QuickMix audio mixer presets utility - Martin Saxon Systems

rohitab.com - FreeVoice text-to-speech utility and vocal command launcher

Royal Device, Italy - pics of their 'Biggest Subwoofer in the World'

Scanrec is a free audio recorder that is primarily designed to record speech. It has a VOX control that allows the user to save disk space when no sound is present in the signal.

Sound Shuffler - shuffle Windows Event sounds

sounddesign 101 - a 'quick & dirty' introduction to the most fundamental concepts in making sounds on a subtracitve synthesizer.

Tabs Quadraphonic CD-R

Talking Parrot FREE download

TallStick's Sound Project - including AudioToMidi

the Agentry - Applications using Microsoft Agent technology

The Microsoft Agent Ring - FREE downloadable Characters

The Tapeless Studio - the Magazine of Computer Audio

Total Recoil, Melbourne - performance speaker (and high-end car audio) specialists

Total Recorder - captures any audio from the Internet, CD, microphone, line-in and records to WAVE (and even MP3 on the fly).

Wave Repair - an editor specifically designed for the restoration of WAV files that were recorded from vinyl records (pop and click removal etc.)

WaveGain - a FREE program that applies 'normalizing' ReplayGain to wave files.

Tintin

Hergé and Tintin

Other TinTin Sites

Pictures,Pictures,Pictures

The official TINTIN site by the Hergé Foundation

Tintin Web Ring

Tintin.org (French site)

Titanic

IMBD's links for Titanic - the movie

The Wreck of RMS Titanic - Roy Mengot

Titanic - Special Exhibit at Britannica.com

U.S. Civil War

15th Alabama Infantry Regiment - Civil War Links

Battle of Gettysburg Essay

Civil War Interactive Online Magazine

Civil War Interactive The Daily Newspaper of the Civil War

FOURSCORE

'From Manassas to Appomattox' by General James Longstreet

Gettysburg Chronology

Gettysburg Discussion Group Home Page

On This Day February 18 - Confederacy announces its existence (NY Times)

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant

Pictorial View of Gettysburg the Second Day

Surratt House Museum - all about John Wilkes Booth and the (conspiracy to cause) the assasination of Abraham Lincoln.

The Unofficial Visitors Guide to Gettysburg

Utility Programs - Miscellaneous, FREE or Shareware

Access Folders - provides fast and easy access to your common-used folders in Open-Save dialogs and Windows Explorer. One of the best of its type that Columbus has tried.

ATnotes - a nicer-than-most FREE desktop 'sticky notes' FREE utility. Allows semi-transparency in Win2k and XP too.

Cathy - perhaps the world's fastest and easy to use FREE media cataloging tool, great for CDs etc, by Robert Vasicek.

Cathy - scroll down for a great 'how to automate this great tool, from VP - Software alternatives.

CatView 2000 - an ASCII text-file Price List, Database, or general purpose Text List file searcher utility, Win32 and DOS. It's great, free, and Australian!

Clean 'n' Go - clean your mouse and keyboard without turning off!

ClickOff - a FREE utility to automatically take care of those 'are your sure you want to exit the program' prompts.

Context Edit - a terrific, powerful and FREE utility that provides complete control over adding, disabling, removing or changing Context Menus in Windows, including XP.

CoolTicker - FREE - the first generic display system for realtime alarms, monitoring and instant messaging.

Dialog Navigator - another enhanced replacement for the standard Open ~ Save dialog box of Windows.

DTemp - FREE HDD temperature meter utility.

EclipseCrossword - the fast, easy, FREE way to create crosswords in minutes.

EditPad - Text Editor for Windows and Linux. Columbus likes and recommends this one. Great syntax colouring.

EditPad™ Pro - widely considered the best text editor out there. Features nice custom syntax colouring schemes.

File-Ex file dialog box expander utility

FinePrint 2000 - Windows printer driver. Print 2, 4, or 8 pages on a single sheet; booklets; with or without watermarks etc. Columbus finds this utility INDISPENSABLE.

Freeware by Sam Francke - some nice stuff, including the excellent button maker, DeKnop

Girder - InfraRed Receiver program, control your PC with an InfraRed remote, just like a VCR

Interface Improvement.Com - utilities to auto-hide those screen-hogging Palettes and Toolbars within big applications

JavE - Java ASCII Editor. Terrific, FREE Java tool for easily creating splendid ASCII art. Great for NFOs!

Kleptomania - captures and OCRs that 'uncapturable' Dialog Box text when nothing else can!

LanguageIdentifier.com - The Lextek Language Identifier is capable of identifying what language some text is written in. A FREE, downloadable utility.

Mediamat - interesting menu launcher utility

Miha's utilities - some nice FREE stuff here.

MWSnap is a small yet powerful FREE Windows program for snapping (capturing) images from selected parts of the screen. Better than many similar utilities, by Mirek

Ninotech Software - famous, free utilities like PathCopy

Orphan Applications at Skinnables.org - great. old, FREE utilities that have been abandoned by their authors

PowerOff, shutdown power in MS DOS with APM ( Advanced Power Management ) from the commandline

QNX 1.44Mb Demo self-booting DOS browser!

RUNit - a simple, FREE but powerful launchpad for Win95 & 98 and NT

SenLab v1 free address labelling software, uses simple text file format too

SequoiaView - FREE - uses a visualization technique called cushion treemaps to provide you with a single picture of the entire contents of your hard drive.

ShellGEM right mouse click menu utility

Sizer - a nifty FREE utility to accurately and painlessly resize and position your windows in Windows! ESSENTIAL.

SoftCAT is a FREE database program designed to help you organize your software very thoroughly.

Software Design - several clever little utilities by Gregory Braun

Some interesting utilities for DOS and Windows

Startup Control Panel - a FREE utility from Mike Lin to control Windows start-up applications.

TClockEx - Taskbar Clock Enhancer

Uconeer Freeware Units Conversion for Engineers

URL2File - a FREE 32bit Windows console-mode application able to retrieve a given World Wide Web or FTP URL to a local file; use it in neat batch files or scripts.

WCPUID is the program that displays the CPU information of your personal computer.

Webcelerator and misc. internet utils

Windows PowerPro - a FREE, multifaceted, compact and powerful launch bar, menu, and tray icon facility for Windows 95 - XP.

Wink - FREE tutorial, presentation etc. maker. Export to Flash, PDF and more.

WinKeySim -The Windows Keyboard Simulator - a FREE utility that uses a simple text script to execute keystrokes.

WinRescue 95 & Win2k - Super Win Software

Xenu's Link Sleuth - FREE utility to find broken links on your site.

Xteq X-Setup Plug-ins

Video, VCD, DivX & Computer Video-related

Apple - QuickTime EMBED reference.

Buffyverse Music Video Database

Digital Now, Australia - Digital Video Broadcasting - terrestrial (DVB-T) cards.

Divx Light Decoder - only 250 kB, contains 'just a decoder'.

DivX.com Home Page

Doom9.net - The Definitive DVD Backup Resource

Embedded RealPlayer Extended Functionality Guide.

ffdshow - a DirectShow decoding filter for decompressing DIVX movies.

FRAPS - Measure framerates in DirectX and OpenGL!

FREE monitor utility - test and adjust the picture size and position, color convergence and purity, white balance, brightness and contrast, focus, moiré and interference, and HV regulation

GLdomain.com - Steve's FREE, downloadable OpenGL demos, tutorials and more.

Gotcha Covered - a Cover Art and Profile fetching utility that is used for fetching CD and DVD cover art.

GSpot- FREE utility to determine what codec a file uses and what codec your system will use to play it.

KL Codec from megacodecpack.com. Apparently this pack covers just about everything.

NCAM-Media Access Generator (MAGpie) - a fabulous FREE java-and-quicktime utility to create perfect CAPTIONS, especially for Windows Media Player.

Oscar's Multi-Monitor taskBar. FREE utility for Windows 2000 - XP.

PowerStrip - sophisticated video card utility - precisely control gamma, resolution, refresh rate etc.

RenderSoft CamStudio -- Captures Screen Activity as Video - FREE download

Series 9 Windows Media Player SDK

VCDHelp.com - helps you to make your own VideoCDs, SVCDs or DVDs from sources like DVD, Video, TV, Cam or downloaded movie clips like DivX, MOV, RM and ASF.

VideoLAN - OpenSource video streaming solution for every OS!

VidRes - a FREE Video Resolution Switching Application.

VirtualDub - FREE, powerful video manipulation software.

What is deinterlacing The best method to deinterlace movies - 100fps.com

Windows Media Recorder - allows you to record stream video and audio clips from the Internet and save them to your hard drive.

WAVs

Clay's Sound Emporium- Wav Files (Simpsons, Blazing Saddles, etc.)

SoundAmerica

The Movie Sounds Page

Time for Teletubbies - Goodies - Sounds

Web Logs that Columbus Doesn't Find Tedious

Boing Boing.

Turning the Tide - official weblog of Noam Chomsky.

Website Authoring

A Scary WebPage Design - by Netmechanic

A Simple Interactive Test Page for exams etc, using only clever HTML and lists.

AbsoluteCross.com A one-stop resource for webmasters, programmers, and graphic design professionals.

Accessibility Tip Designing Accessible Tables Part 1 - Netmechanic

Accessibility Tip Designing Accessible Tables Part 2 - Netmechanic

Ad Banner Design - Webmonkey

ALT texts in IMG

ASP Tutorials & Code Snips - ASP tutorial, script, programming, code

Avoid Duplicate Form Submissions - from Net Mechanic

Benjamin Lupu's 1ppl website - heaps of great FREE scripts and tips. Recommended.

Best Viewed With Any Browser

Cacheability Engine

CNet BUILDER.COM - Web authoring

Colour combinations and moods - a great 'fine Art' site with colour-themed collections. Unintentionally invaluable for web colour designers! From the Web for Education Foundation.

Comprehensive guide to .htaccess.

CONTENTIOUS Web-zine for writers, editors, and others who create content for online media

dack.com's hilarious Web Economy Bullshit Generator.

Design Tip Build Print-friendly Pages

EchoEcho.Com - JavaScript Tutorial - HTML tutorial - CSS Tutorial - Flash Tutorial - Online for free!

Extreme HTML Optimization - WebReference.com Jan 2000

Fix Your Site With the Right DOCTYPE! from a List Apart. Clears up some of the WC3 confusion.

Frames Suck Most of the Time (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox December 1996)

Free Stuff Center (good use of animated gif array code)

Hints for Web Authors, by Ted Steele

History of Print Standards - comparison to the Web today (Alertbox Sidebar)

Home of the GUIguy®

How people read on the Web

How we converted to XHTML - W3Schools

HTML Help by The Web Design Group

html help for you

htmlgoodies.com Home Page

iBoost - Basic HTML Tutorial

irt.org - useful Q&A's, tips, samples of all kinds of HTML

Is Navigation Useful (Alertbox Jan. 2000)

Jakob Nielsen - a summary of 'Designing Web Usability' Part 1 - WebReference.com

MSDN Online Web Workshop - DHTML, HTML & CSS Home

MSDN Online Web Workshop

NetMechanic Browser Tip - Your Standards Or Mine - Even Version 6 browsers are picky about CSS and HTML Standards!

PageResource.Com - by The Web Design Resource

PageResource.com- by The Web Design Resource

Promotion Tip Manual Vs. Automated Submission - Netmechanic

Response-O-Matic automatic FORMS for your website

RSACi - now known as Internet Content Rating Association - read all about how to get your page rated.

SatireWire - Cubists Launch Unnavigable Web Site - quite amusing!

SitePoint.com - Resources to Build and grow your Website

SitePoint's active forum on HTML and XHTML.

Sizzling HTML Jalfrezi - HTML by Example. A nice HTML resource site for 2004.

Style Guide - XHTML and CSS guide by the New York Public Library people.

Sucky to Savvy, by Jeffrey M. Glover

Text-friendly Authoring

The Ten Commandments of HTML FAQ

Top 3 HTML Straw Man Arguments

Top-10 New Mistakes of Web Design - Jakob Nielsen May 1999

Web Building Clients From Hell - 10-19-99 - CNET Builder.com

Web Design Tutorials - Color Considerations. A good reference guide for sensible use of colour on your website.

Web Mastering Bookmarks - Dreamweaver, CSS etc

Web Page Design for Designers

Web Pages That Suck

Web Standards Project (they now say Browsers are more Standards compliant, but too many authors aren't.

Web-o-Tron

WebReference.com - The Webmaster's Reference Library Web Site Design Tips and Tutorials

Why XHTML anyway - Jeffrey Zeldman's seminal article, 'Better Living Through XHTML' from his A List Apart.

Website Authoring - CSS, Cascading Style Sheets

Colored Scroll Bars

Controlling background images positioning with CSS - Webmonkey

Cover Your Tables With Style Sheets to eliminate Netscape problems - Netmechanic

CSS Design Ideas from nontroppo.org. Some good links are articles.

CSS Enhancements in Internet Explorer 6

CSS Filters - CSS-only Filters Summary (dithered.com). EXCELLENT resource. Corrects many myths about the @import rule.

CSS Frequently Asked Questions - The HTML Writers Guild

CSS Pointers Index Page

CSS Tabs - nice navigation tab CSS design, from Kalsey Consulting Group.

CSS Tip Get Any Font You Want

CSS Tip Netscape And Empty Table Cells

CSS Vault » The Web's CSS Site.

Easy Table Formatting with CSS - Netmechanic

Fast rollovers, no preload needed! Using single images and clever CSS.

Fixed Positioning For Internet Explorer On Windows - it can be done, with just CSS!

Floated columns and more, from CSS Enterprise - XHTML-CSS - 3 column layouts - Netscape 4 compatible.

Guide to Cascading Style Sheets - WDG

Guidelines for cross-platform CSS Support

Images, Tables, and Mysterious Gaps - dealing with Mozilla's CSS 2.0 table rendering quirks.

Little Boxes - advanced table layout without tables, using only CSS.

MaKo's CSS-P Tutorial on Positioning

Mid Pass Filter - an ingenious method for advanced CSS authors to deal with IE 5.x's CSS limitations.

Netscape and CSS - DOCUMENTATION - All HTML-TAGS & BUILT-IN JAVASCRIPT OBJECTS framed at echoecho.com

Position Is Everything - a great site devoted to detailed browser CSS behaivour analysis and solutions, without using tables for layout purposes.

Print-friendly pages ... CSS expert Eric Meyer shows how to conceive and design print style sheets that automatically format web content for off-screen delivery.

Star html Selector Bug - a cunning way to present specific CSS only to IE, and exploit it for bug fixes.

Stopdesign's A Design Process Revealed - a detailed look at the process of designing for a CSS Zen Garden submission.

Style Sheets vs. Frames as Web Extensions (Alertbox Sidebar)

The CSS Pointers Group

The famous CSS Box Model Hack for IE-Windows.

The Layout Reservoir - BlueRobot - cutting-edge CSS.

The Little Shop of CSS Horrors - a look at the darker side of CSS rendering.

Typesetting practices and history, with interesting notes on how these have manifested in CSS.

UDM4 - Accessible Website Menu - Ultimate Drop Down Menu by Brothercake. An ambitious, FREE, cutting-edge menu system for XHTML and CSS purists. Pretty darn neat.

WDVL Style Sheets Fonts reference

Web Building - Web Authoring - CSS Reference Table and basic lessons

Webmonkey authoring stylesheets

Webmonkey - positioning and layering using CSS

Webreference.com - HTML With Style HTML Help, Tutorials on Web Page & Site Design with HTML and CSS

Website Authoring - Dreamweaver

About.com - Dreamweaver Tips & Tutorials - a good list of reviews and free tutorials

Building a DHTML Drop Down Menu with Dreamweaver - from InformIT.com

Dreamweaver Bible

Dreamweaver Extensions Database (searchable)

Dreamweaver News and Information (private website)

The Dreamweaver Supply Bin (Flash site)

Website Authoring - FREE On-line Services & Tools

BCL Gohtm.com - publish your document into PDF or HTML file format for free

Bobby HTML checker (assesses Web access for the disabled)

Browser News Statistics - find the browser stats you want to know.

Button Maker - a pretty darn good user interface to Bill Zeller's brilliant button maker application, by Kalsey Consulting Group. FREE and online. Neat.

Cacheability Query (online service)

Color Schemer - Online Color Scheme Generator.

ColorMix - websafe color dithering

Create Adobe® PDFs Online from your uploaded files - the first 5 (at least) are FREE!

CSS Creator - a place for you to learn about and create CSS, Cascading Style Sheets.

CSS Creator's fabulous Page Layout Creator, using Douglas Livingstone's brilliant 3 column design. Recommended.

CSSCheck, a Cascading Style Sheets Lint

desktoppublishing.com - The ultimate electronic publishing resource.

Doctor HTML - Web page analysis tool

DynDNS.org - get your own FREE domain name so visitors can connect to your computer's served local website no matter what your IP address is, as long as you are online.

FREE NetMechanic HTML on-line check

Free Search Engine for your website - PicoSearch.com

FreeFind Search Engine - add searching to your site!

Geobutton service - find out where your visitors come from geographically

GO online Translator

GUIStuff.com - Free Graphical User Interfaces

HTMLizer 1.0 - FREE service to convert text with special characters into HTML readable text!

JavaScript Crunchinator - FREE tool from BrainJar.com

'mailto' Encoder (very clever, free, spam-avoiding 'mailto' encryption service)

Netcraft - What's That Site Running - useful ISP interrogation tool.

netwhistle.com (watches your website, and checks it's 'up')

Pollhost.com Free Polls - Get a free poll for your website.

SelectORacle - a FREE online service from The OPAL Group to decipher CSS into plain English.

ShortNews - the News-Community - put a news ticker on your site

The Color Schemer's useful 'The Color Wheel' tutorial.

W3C - the definitive HTML Validation Service

W3C CSS Validation Service.

W3C MarkUp Validation Service - Upload File.

Web Page Purifier (checks for text readability etc)

Website Authoring - FrontPage 2000 & 2002

11 Advanced Tips for FrontPage 2000 - Web Building - CNET.com

Brad Berson's FrontPage Tips 'n Tricks

Build a Cross-Broswer Drop-down Menu Using JavaScript in FrontPage 2002+.

Build a Drop-down Menu Using JavaScript (Microsoft FrontPage 2002 Technical Articles)

Creating a FrontPage Table of Contents using the NAME tag. Clever.

ErrOmi2 - a FREE FrontPage 2000-2002 plug-in utility to check and add META tags.

Freestuff for Frontpage - useful scripts, clipart, themes. All FREE from at-frontpage.com

FrontLook.com

FrontPage 2002 FREE download -- web site tune-up utility. Doctype, Meta and ALT tags and more.

FrontPage Macro spots missing Meta Tags and more

FrontPage Misc Macros - some useful ones here.

FrontPage World - Web Design with Microsoft FrontPage 2000, FrontPage 2002, FrontPage Training, FrontPage Books, Web Design, Microsoft FrontPage, E-Commerce

How do I get rid of new_page1.htm in FrontPage 2000 - use this VBA add-on.

Image Ready rollover in FrontPage by Scott Reynolds

Integrating HTML Tidy into Microsoft FrontPage

Integrating Offline XHTML Validation into Microsoft FrontPage using the FREE SP SGML parser - by Michael Suodenjoki

Microsoft FrontPage tips and tutorials - SiteBuilder.

OFF2000 Program Quits Immediately After Starting When SR-1-SR-1a Update Is Applied (Q255503)

outfront.net - Microsoft FrontPage Learning Community

Re-use Your Code Using the Microsoft Script Editor in FrontPage 2000 - a nice Java movie applet.

Spider Web Woman Designs - FrontPage 2000 Database Results Wizard - Tips, Tricks and Tutorials

VB UserControl is flexible 3D component container for use with FrontPage.

Website Authoring - Hosting & Domain Names

Bravenet Web Services - Free Guestbooks Free Web Forums Free Hit Counters Free Greeting Card Hosting

Bulk Names Register - Domain Names $15 Each

Doteasy.com - Bannerless Free Web Hosting for Individuals & Small Businesses

Go Daddy Domain Services - cheap domain registration

Hosting Bay - The Cheapest Business Hosting Service in Australia - from $AUD 3.97 per Month, including Win 2003 and ASP. Not bad.

NameBoy, the home of intelligent domain name generation and registration on the web

TopCities.com - Free Homepages For Everyone

Whoix Free, unclaimed domain names!

Website Authoring - HTML & Coding Utilities

Arachnophilia - a FREE, superb, minimalist but powerful HTML editor. Columbus used to love this one. Recently shifted to Java coding as an MS protest!

Aurelion - make slick, cross-browser compatible web pages from any Windows application using this pseudo printer driver. Unbelievable CSS results!

Color Cop - FREE eyedropper, magnifier, color scheme. One of the nicer colour grabbers Columbus has seen, and there's a MyIE2 Plug-in for it too.

Developer's JavaScript Editor - FREE editor with colour code hilighting.

DHTML menus with AllWebMenus - create awesome, cross-browser compatible DHTML menu & Javascript menus.

DHTML menus with xFX's very slick DHTML Menu Builder - easily generate highly sophisticated DHTML menus which are amazingly cross-broswer compatible

Do-it-yourself Offline HTML Validator using the FREE SP SGML parser, by ktmatu

Good Keywords - a downloadable utility to help you find the best keywords for your website.

HTML Preprocessor. PPWIZARD includes external files, templates

HTML Tidy - TidyGUI - a friendly Windows front-end GUI for the HTML Tidy utility from the WC3.

HTML TIDY from the WC3 itself - a very useful, FREE, HTML cleaning tool. Validates and surgically strips junk out of your HTML pages. Converts to CSS too!

HTML Tidy Project Page new for 2002

HTML-Kit Tree View Plugin

HTTrack Website Copier - fabulous FREE website offline browser and downloader.

Hydra PHP is FREE and by far the most RAPID, POWERFUL and COOLEST PHP-HTML authoring environment designed for both average and hardcore users - Coldmind Software

Q-HTML text-to-HTML utility homepage - Siliconglen

SmartyPants is a free PERL web publishing plug-in that easily translates plain ASCII punctuation characters into “smart” typographic punctuation HTML entities.

Text2Web Pro - converts ASCII text file to HTML. A powerful, customisable utility - can run in command-line or batch mode.

TidyCOM - a FREE VB COM Wrapper for HTML Tidy.

TransURL - URL Translation Utility which will edit out the escape codes (those three character sequences beginning with %) commonly found in web links and addresses.

tsWebEditor -- FREE text editor for PHP, HTML, VB, C, Java, you name it. Powerful syntax hilighting, code completion, and integration with HTML Tidy!

URL Links Extractor - FREE download to extract and list URLs from downloaded web pages etc.

Web Site Test Tools and Site Management Tools

Website Authoring - JavaScript & DHTML

Banner Rotator Script with JavaScript, by Mark Ganson.

Bookmarklets Home Page - free tools for power surfing

Brian Lesser's Hands On JavaScript Course

Build an Object-Oriented Tree Control using JavaScript

Creating a JavaScript site map - great DHTML Explorer-tree Frame example.

DHTML screen and body properties - Measure for Measure - a terrifically helpful page demonstrating most of these properties, at MSDN.

DHTML Shock.com - Free DHTML and JavaScript

Doc JavaScript - JavaScript Tutorials, JavaScript Tips, and JavaScript Tools

Drop-in content box - crossbrowser DHTML from Dynamic Drive DHTML Scripts

Dynamic Drive- 3D text

Dynamic Drive DHTML(dynamic html) code library!

EchoEcho javascript tutorials and references - very thorough

EchoEcho.Com - a nice FREE cross-browser floating layer script

Gecko DOM Reference

HierMenus - an on-line work-in-progress, a slowly developing cross-browser compatible DHTML project at Dynamic HTML - dhtmlab.com

irt.org - JavaScript Windows FAQ Knowledge Base

IRT.org's terrific search page - JavaScript, DHTML and more.

JavaScript Reference - from WC3 Schools.

JavaScript Source Free JavaScripts, Tutorials, Example Code, Reference, Resources, And Help

JavaScript tutorial by howtocreate.co.uk, quite good.

JavaScript Tutorial Links

Javascript Tutorials with Tips, Tricks And Free Source Code Secrets, from Webreference

Joe Barta - Javascript Tutor (very good, but now no longer entirely free)

JS-DOM Object Quick Reference - by Danny Goodman.

Just JavaScript by Mike McGrath ©2001

Milonic's FREE and powerful Cross Browser DHTML Menus (PERFECT functioning in Opera too).

Net Mechanic's Tip - Animation With JavaScript

Netscape 6 compatible JavaScript and DHTML tutorial detecting browsers and using layers

New JavaScript Mouse Events onMouseDown, onMouseUp - webreference.com

onMouseOver graphic how-to

Peter-Paul Koch's JavaScript section

Popup Box (DHTML Announcement Box), cross-browser, from Dynamic Drive DHTML

Scriptygoddess Javascripts

setTimeout data

SmartMenus - FREE - the most supported, flexible, easy to use and smallest DHTML menus script on the net.

The Dynamic Duo - Cross-Browser DHTML

The JavaScript Source - spectacular, silly analog clock FREE code - Silly Clock 4.

The JavaScript Weenie, JavaScript Articles and Tutorials - Web Developer's Journal

The Ultimate JavaScript Client Sniffer

Timestamping an HTML Document

TwinHelix - some great FREE DHTML scripts - Cascading Popup Menu, DHTML Scroller, Tooltip

Universal Related Popup Menus - change select menu option text on the fly - by WebReference.com.

Web Building - Writing Cross-Browser Dynamic HTML

Web Building com - JAVA - JAVASCRIPT - SOURCES

WebCoder.com - Your home for JavaScript and Dynamic HTML on the Web.

Webmonkey JavaScript Tutorials

Webmonkey reference - preloading images

Webpedia - Java Starter

youngpup.net - a gorgeous DHTML site, home of the famous ypChaser DHTML javascript. The latest version supports Mozilla at last!

ZDNet Developer ScriptLibrary -- JavaScripts

Website Authoring - Reference

Cascading Style Sheets, Level 2 WC3 Reference

CSS Properties WDG

DevEdge Online - Netscape Reference For Developers

HTML 4.0 Reference

Index DOT CSS reference

Index of the HTML 4 Elements

ISO 8859-1 character set

META, REL and REV Tags - a thorough listing.

Standard Banner sizes - EchoEcho.Com

WC3 - The World Wide Web Consortium

WC3's reference page - Cascading Style Sheets, Level 2

Windows 95, 98, 98SE, ME & DOS

3DSpotlight - well-indexed, up-to-date OS Updates listing for your Windows system

98lite - dramatically speed up Win9x by removing IE!

AutoIt - a FREE tool that can simulate key presses, mouse movements and window commands to automate any windows based task (or even windowed DOS tasks).

Bob Cerelli's Windows Page

Celebrating OS 2 2.0’s 10th birthday. Just how did Windows beat it, anyway ...

Christopher's Windows 95-98-ME Install & Customization Tips

Columns at Winmag.com archives

Compguys Techweb Technical Support Portal

DevEdge Netscape Technical info

Dial Up Networking 1.3 Performance & Security Update

DOS Batch Programming

DOS Batfiles - DOS Programming

DOS Batfiles - Downloads

DOS Command Index - EasyDOS

Dr.Tips

EasyDOS Command Index

Font smoothing download for Win95 - Microsoft

Fred Langa's article on Resource Leaks, Part One

Free FDISK - the official FDISK of FreeDOS

Gord's World of Batch Files

Harddrive Related Terms and Tricks - all about FAT 32, interleaving etc

Hardware Tune-Up Archive

Horst Schaeffer's Batch Utilities & Tools for the DOS Box

How to Perform Clean-Boot Troubleshooting for Windows 98 (Q192926)

Infinsource - Windows Help.Net

inQuare Software - Full Screen for Netscape etc

Inside Microsoft Windows 95 - ZDJ

Interesting DOS programs (a big list of great DOS utilites, most for free)

John Woram's Windows Registry Page

Lockergnome's Free Windows 95-98-NT eZine

Make sure your PC is really secure from 'Net-based hacker attacks

Parallel Port Central

PC Magazine PC Tech

Q148336 - Memory Leak in Windows 95 Kernel Using Windows Sockets

Q250928 - How to Reinstall Microsoft Windows 98

Radified FDISK Guide - Tutorial on How to Create & Delete Hard Drive Partitions

Radified User's guide to Norton Ghost by Symantec - how to create & restore an image tutorial

SHELL EXTENSION CITY--The finest free windows 95-98 shell extensions

SiSoftware Sandra

TechTV Windows Tip - Give Your Computer the Dual Boot

The Ancient Art of DOS Batch Files

The new Tweak UI 1.33 for Windows 2000, 98, 95

The Roadmap96 Workshop Homepage

UMBPCI - a hardware UMB-driver for DOS and Win95

UniRefresh - DOS screen refresh rate utility

Use this simple Debug routine to erase all partition information on a HDD - PC Computer Debug Routines

Virtual Dr

Windows 95 Y2K Updates etc - (Microsoft downloads)

Windows 95-98 Setup Error Message List

Windows 98 Second Edition Shutdown Supplement

Windows 98 Tips and Tricks

Winmag.com Explorer Save Your Butt With DOS

WinPlanet

Woody's WINDOWS Watch - Archives

ZDNet Tech InfoBase

Windows Media Center Edition

A great, FREE Music CD Plugin by Ady for myHTPC.

Girder - a FREE Windows automation tool. Use a remote control on your PC.

myHTPC - The best Home Theater PC frontend.

The Green Button - The Premier Windows Media Center Community.

TVHarvest - a FREE, small .NET application for downloading XMLTV TV guides for Australia, for use with myHTPC.

uICE - the universal Infrared Control Engine from MediaTexX.

Windows NT, 2000, XP

3DSpotlight - Windows 2000 Services Tweak guide - which Services do what, and which you can disable

ActiveWin Microsoft Windows XP Section Tips

ADAM - MS tool which enables you to create a practice environment for developing ADSI scripts, without having to install Active Directory. Great for scripters and application developers.

Ars Technica ERD Commander Professional - recovering from unbootable NT problems (4-99)

ASTALAVISTA.COM - technical article on WPA - WinXP product activation cracked

Bink Windows XP - a Dutch site on XP. This guy's use of English is DREADFUL, but content is good.

Bootpart - FREE utility which lets you add partitions in the Windows NT-2K-XP Multiboot menu.

Creating an unattended installation of Windows 2000-XP-.NET (Part 1) (Windows 2000-XP-.NET) - TACKtech Corp.

Dave Navarro's FREE command line tools for 32-bit Windows.

Doug's Windows 95-98-Me-XP Tweaks and Tips (some very handy vbs admin scripts)

Exploiting design flaws in the Win32 API for privilege escalation. A worrying NT-2000-XP desktop possible security flaw.

Fast Boot-Fast Resume for the Windows Platform (Microsoft)

File-Ex - File Dialog Extensions program. Finally updated for XP.

FireDaemon is a FREE utility that allows you to install and run virtually any application as a Windows NT-2K-XP service.

Great Digital Media with Windows XP by Paul Thurrott

Home of the XP-AntiSpy - disables the MS phone-home spyware in XP

How To Change The Windows 2000 Boot Logo

How to remove Windows Messenger from Windows XP

ieXbeta.com - one of the coolest beta related sites on the web

Inuse.exe File-In-Use Replace Utility.

Kernel fault diagnosis - 5 Star Support January 2002 Newsletter

LittleWhiteDog Forums - advanced technique for modifying the Win 2000 logo screen

Microsoft Windows Update - Corporate - downloadable, for re-use another time

Moddin'.net'x XP Tips and Tweaks list

MSKB - Configuring Page Files for Optimization and Recovery

MSKB - HOW TO Restore Windows XP to a Previous State

NT Batch Programming - cases where DOS6 and Win95 batch code won't work on NT and what to do about it.

NT Compatible - Windows XP FAQ

Old Apps Find A New Home On Windows XP - an excellent introduction to 'shims' and other tricks of XP compatability modes.

Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows

RefreshForce - a FREE utility to universally and permanently fix the 2000-XP refresh rate problem on ANY graphics card. It WORKS and it's SIMPLE!

RefreshForce universally and permanently fixes the Windows 2000-XP refresh rate problem on ANY variation of graphics cards, monitors, or drivers.

Rob van der Woude's Scripting Pages Batch Files for DOS, Windows (all flavours) and OS-2; Rexx; Kix; Perl; JavaScript; HTML.

SavillTech Ltd - CmdInfo - a command line utility to determine your NT - 2000 - XP core information, including WPA

Skins for the XP Media Player - WindowsMedia.com Media Guide

Slipstreaming Service Pack One To Windows XP - from T h e   D D R Z o n e

StyleItXP - FREE utility to enable XP styling in most older 32 bit applications

Sysinternals Freeware - Information for Windows NT and Windows 2000 - NTFSDOS Professional Edition

Sysinternals Freeware - Information for Windows NT, 2000, SP - PageDefrag - defrag your pagefile!

TGT Soft LLC - makers of Style XP and StyleBuilder for customising XP's look.

The Tech Guide - Modifying your Windows XP Boot logo

The VDMSound Project - FREE NT - 2000 - XP soundcard driver emulator for old DOS games, from SourceForge.net

Unlocking WinXP's setupp.ini

WDumpEvt - an administration tool that makes it easier to take advantage of the Windows NT & Windows 2000 logs.

Windows 2000 Patch for AGP Applications

Windows IT Library, a member of Windows 2000 Magazine Network, gives you free access to books and other technical content online

Windows XP - Guidelines for Applications and Visual Guidelines

Windows XP Memory and Page File Tweak guide - the guys at 3DSpotlight try to strip away the myth of this topic and provide a sensible 'howTo'.

Windows XP Professional Home Page (Microsoft)

Windows XP Professional How-to Articles - Microsoft

Windows XP Professional Services 411 - BlkViper.com - a thorough Guide to Services in XP that one can disable for improvements with resources, RAM usage, and system performance.

Windows XP Shutdown Troubleshooter

Windows XP SP1 – Updating Tips ‘n’ Tricks - how to deal with the SP1 and serial number issue - from TweakTown

Windows XP Tweaks + Secrets - by Axcel216

Windows XP Utilities - some handy stuff by Doug Knox. Most work with XP-SP1.

Windows XP's kernel history and improvements - ExtremeTech

wmplugins.com - The place to find and share plug-ins, skins, and visualizations to enhance your Windows Media Player 9 experience.

Woody's WINDOWS Watch article on Win2000

XPInfo FREE downloadable utility - compares your WPA and hardware, reveals your WPA info

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