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Commercial Software Sites |
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Hardware Sites |
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Graphics/DTP |
Reviews, Prices, Tricks, Tips |
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| Adobe | Makers of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Pagemaker. This site has some tutorials. | CPU Central | Interesting site to visit. Check this one out and you may learn something (or attempt something) that you've been afraid to try. | |
| Corel | CorelDraw, Photopaint, Painter, Ventura. Corel also owns Micrografx and has recently release Designer 9. | Cnet | For reviews and tech info start here. Also have a good library of software/links to software and numerous tips and tricks articles. | |
| Jasc | PaintShop Pro 7. A few freebies lying around this site. | PC Today | Before you go blow a ridiculous amount of money at an auction, find out what it would cost you to buy it new! | |
| Macromedia | Dreamweaver, FreeHand, Fireworks, Flash. This site has tutorials and online user manuals. | Tom's Hardware Guide | ||
| QuarkXpress | QuarkXpress. What more can I say? |
Vendors |
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| Xara | Remember Corel Xara? Well, these folks have taken on the task of moving that program along and given us Xara X. | buy.com | Another site to look at when shopping for monitors, etc. Occassionally you can get a break on shipping and handling. Prices are competitive. | |
| The Gimp | Photo editor ported to Windows from Linux. | PC Mall | Bought a few things from them in the past. Check the prices. | |
Productivity |
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| Corel | WordPerfect, Quattro Pro, Paradox and if you get tired of PowerPoint try Presentations. | |||
| Lotus | Lotus 1-2-3, Approach, WordPro and yet another alternative to PowerPoint, Freelance Graphics. | Tiger Direct | Never bought from them. I had a friend that did and was pleased. Another place to look at prices and shop for a deal. | |
| Cheapbytes | Distributions of Linux, FreeBSD, etc. | |||
| Microsoft | Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint. | |||
| Sun Microsystems | Star Office | |||
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| Sierra | Cyberstorm, Half Life, Earthseige, Starseige |
Search Engines |
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| Activision | Mechwarrior, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Dark Forces, Heavy Gear II | Altavista | IMHO this is the best search engine on the web. | |
| Microsoft | Mechwarrior IV and Mechcommander 2 | Lycos | That place with the dog that fetches things. | |
| idSoftware | Doom, Quake, Wolfenstein | Dejanews | Good place to search for opinions on products. | |
Utilities |
Manufacturers |
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| PowerQuest | Makers of Partition Magic, Drive Copy, Lost and Found and other assorted disk utilities. | Asus | Want a good, reliable motherboard for your system? Start by looking here. | |
| Symantec | Home of Norton Utilities, Norton Antvirus, Winfax. | AMD | Still the underdog? Makers of Athlon and Duron processors. Anyone remember NexGen? | |
| McAfee |
Makers of McAfee Antivirus and assorted other utilities. |
Intel | Still the processor king. Makers of Pentium III and upcoming Pentium IV. | |
| nVidia | nVidia won the war and the right to use the Voodoo name. | |||
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| Opera | Try something different. You may find you like it! | Maxtor | Good price and value. May not be the fastest, but they've never failed me. | |
| Mozilla | Samsung | Samsung monitors. Good value. | ||
| Explorer | The defacto standard for surfing the web. What's up with this 500kb file to upgrade my 5.0 installation? I'm running at 56K Redmond, not Cable or DSL! | Creative Labs | http://www.creativelabs.com | |
Linux |
Software Sites |
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| Red Hat | The version of Linux I turn to when I get bored with Windows (pick a flavor). (Note: I never said it was the best! It's a matter of convenience.) | Winfiles | http://www.winfiles.com | |
| Slackware | The first version of Linux I ever installed. I think it's still my favorite despite the critics "claim" that it is difficult to install. | No Nags | No Nags maintains information on applications that are free. Sometimes you can find a gem at no cost. | |
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Home of the Underdogs | This site houses many old games. Make sure you follow the rules when you download and practice some netiquette. | |
| Linux.org | Of things Linux. Go here for the latest news and information. | Windrivers | http://www.windrivers.com | |
| Linux Gazette | http://www.linuxgazette.com | Types of DOS | Shell Extension City (see below) had a link for this site a while back. If you want to know about DOS check out the links on this page. | |
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Tools and Utilities |
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| SmartFTP | Very good, free FTP client | |||
| ConTEXT is small, fast and powerful text editor for software developers. Unlimited open files, unlimited editing file size length, 4kB line length, powerful syntax highlighting for C/C++, Delphi/Pascal, 80x86 assembler, Java, Java Script, Visual Basic, Perl/CGI, HTML, SQL, Python, PHP, Tcl/Tk, user defineable syntax highlighter, project workspaces, compiler integration, multilanguage support and many many more features. | ||||
| CDEX | ||||
| AVG Antivirus | Anitvirus application for Windows 95/98, ME, NT, 2000 | |||
| DCEnhance | DCEnhance does the hard job of noise reducing and automatic balance control for you. And it is free! The program works best if you have bad light conditions (indoor, shadows etc..) and your image is somehow off. So if some of your images are already fine, you won't see much difference. DCE makes very delicate changes... One thing makes DCEnhancer different from other tools - reducing the noise and skin smoothing algorithm. It makes DCE ideal for making cool portraits and close-ups! | |||
| X-fonter | This very powerful but easy-to-use tool lets you manage all your truetype fonts (installed and uninstalled). You can test any of those fonts in all color combinations, all styles, all sizes and even a 3D view and a character map with all ASCII and Unicode characters codes are included. There's a built-in image editor to create 3D-text-pictures (jpg) for your homepages or emails. What started out as a simple fontviewer has become a full-blown font toolkit. | |||
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January 15, 2003
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