Computer Related Links
- StatCounter
This is a free yet reliable invisible web tracker, highly configurable hit counter and real-time detailed web stats. Insert a simple piece of our code on your web page or blog and you will be able to analyse and monitor all the visitors to your website in real-time. Unlike many, this one DOES NOT require you to run ads with the counter, and YOU are allowed to set the parameters of the data collected.
- AVG Anti-Virus
This is a link to the free version of AVG Anti-Virus... yes, that's right, FREE...
F R E E (for personal use).
- CGI Reference
This is a link to a guy who has all kinds of useful CGI scripts available... some free and some for a nominal fee.
- Crucial.Com
This is possibly the best source of RAM on the net... frequently the cheapest, but their process of matching the right memory to your system is absolutely the best.
- DriverGuide.Com
Most often in the new OS world since XP it is not necessary to search for a driver, but there are occasions when even Gates the Holy One cannot fulfill the software needs for your hardware. This site requires (free) registration, but is a resourceful community of computer people all supporting each other.
- PriceWatch.Com
PriceWatch.Com is a database resource for comparative pricing of (primarily computer gear) all kinds of stuff.
- DYNAMIC DRIVE!
In their own words... "Welcome to Dynamic Drive, the #1 place on the net to obtain free, original DHTML & Javascripts to enhance your web site!"
- Gibson Research
Gibson Research is an awesome resource for plugging holes (protection) in your internet connection, and SpinRite6 is the industry's #1 hard drive data recovery software.
- SpeakEasy Speed Test
A speed test for your internet connection...
- IBM Symphony office suite
This is an office suite from IBM that is free... yes, FREE
F R E E (absolutely, completely and totally). IBM Symphony is a very clean and simple office suite, and is available for Windows, and other OS formats. It has no data-base software and no email client, but may be used to create documents, spread sheets, and presentations all from one single window using tabs. Symphony also allows web links to be viewed in the same window. It is the most efficient suite design I have ever seen.
- Open Office
This is an open source code office suite that is free... yes, FREE
F R E E (absolutely, completely and totally). Open Office rivals MS Office for functionality and comprehensiveness, and is available for Windows, MAC, Solaris, and Linux.
- Mozilla FireFox
An alternative to Internet Explorer, Mozilla FireFox has everything one might need in a browser and so much more. Be sure to scan through all the add-ons available. CoolIris is a very cool, very useful utility available for FireFox. For web publishers, Fire FTP is a very efficient, easily integrated add-on. Other add-ons such as ColorfulTabs & TabEffect are just for fun. Check it out...
- Mozilla ThunderBird
An alternative to Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla ThunderBird is all you need. Once you are comfortable with the layout (and it is quite user friendly), you may want to delve into all the add-ons available.
- Ubuntu Linux
LINUX for the common user. Ubuntu is a powerful, free... yes, FREE
F R E E (absolutely, completely and totally). Included is the OpenOffice.Org suite which rivals MS Office for functionality and comprehensiveness. Ubuntu has Mozilla FireFox as the browser with built-in pop-up blocker and search... and you can add site searches to the listing of available engines.
- World Wide Web Consortium
This is the community of geeks and code junkies who gave us this non-existent, existential nightmare we call "The Internet."
- End with a laugh...
Okay, this is not a computer related utility. This is a video from Blimp TV making an editorial comment on Microsoft Vista.
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