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.

eMuleeMule - a fabulous client for the astounding eDonkey2000 network. At last - a visually beautiful, FREE, efficient client program for the classy eDonkey 2000 peer-to-peer file sharing network.
AstalavistaAstalavista has all the information you'll ever need for ...er... evaluating the security of 'protected' software. You'll find serial numbers, key generators and more. The premier hacking and cracking search engine. It's fast, has a nice clean interface, and is very thorough. Act ethically, now ...
GoogleGoogle is an unbelievably fast, efficient search engine. Since its release, this newcomer has quickly come to dominate the whole scene - it's simply the fastest and best search engine.
ZDNetZDNet's vast DOS / Windows 9x / ME / NT / 2k / XP software library. Mac and Linux, too! 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