Alex's Favourite Computer Sites
| Fun Stuff | Computer/Internet | Generally Useful | Science Fiction |
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A good site for finding information on Visual Basic. |
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This site conatins links to all of the majr UK computer fairs. |
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A good place to buy linux CDs, and other products. |
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The is the official site for the squid proxy cache. |
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The internet is comprosed of a number of servers(computers) that store files and other information, when you access something online you connect to a particular port on that server. |
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A large shareware libary for both Windows and Linux. |
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Compact Disk Database - Nowdays most software CD players will atempt to download the tracklist for the CD that you are playing.
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This site contains alotof information on playing DVDs though a computer. It covers topics such as macrovision & region free DVD playing, playing DVDs on PCs, Macs & Linux, and making backups of your DVDs. |
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If you are looking to buy somnething (ok, this site covers a lot of stuff) check here first. This site has customer reviews of many different products as well as reviews of online retailers. |
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This site has lots of news and information regarding Linux; a formation regarding Linux; a free operating system which is an alternative to windows. |
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A good guide for using and setting up Linux. Although it is aimed at the distrubtion most of the the guides seem applicable to other distributions. I found this site especialy useful in configuring Mandrake to run as a text only server. |
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This site tells you how to send email from your mobile phone as sms messages, you just enter the email adress you want to send to at the start of the message then send to the number they give you, if you sign up on their site they will attact a reply-to adress to your emails. This is sendng only, try using genie to receive. |
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Great shareware libary, they also have howto guides for Linux and HTML. |
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This is site does free online computer problem solving using a network of volunteers (I'm one of them), just go the the site to ask them a question. |
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Virus Encyclopedia. |
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Jabber is a unified instant messaging client, which combines ICQ Yahoo Messenger and MSN Messenger into a single program. These are all instant messaging chat programs, basicly they let you talk to your freinds over the web. There are versions of Jabber avaible for a number of operating systems, as well as a version that can be accessed via the web and even from behind proxy servers (this means it should work at universities etc.) |
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This is good site to by UTP network cables from, they're about half the price of cables from most other places, and they will custom make cables. |
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This site contains information on virus hoaxes. |
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A good list of free web hosts. |
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Lots of virus information. |
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Lots of registry tweaks. |
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This site as lots of info about computers, including lists of driver updates and patches. |
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This site explains computer terms, and has a list of file types (filename extentions).
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Will check sites for updates, and let you know by email. |
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A very good onlie store, for music games videos, and computer equipment. They are quite cheap, but now charge for all items regardless of price. |
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cgi-bin and ssi support. Unfortantly they now put advert banners on your pages. |
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A large collection of Win9x/ME/NT/2000/DOS/Win 3.x Tips & Tricks, takes a while to find what you're after though. |
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Lots of tips not as focused as my tips page but that's just my opinion. |
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Easter eggs, this includes hidden features in films etc. An Easter Egg is something that has been hidden in a product by it's creator. |
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Type in the URL and they will email it to you it's faster. There is a limit of 3Mb in general it is good practise not to send attachments over 300Kb as it clog up the email server. This is useful for peiople who get charged fror downloads, but not emails. |
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 Driver Resource! |
Will find device drivers for use with windows and dos. |
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Where I got the random link script, they've got lots more. |
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Beginners guide to HTML. |
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This site allows you to send electronic greeting cards for almost every occasion. The service works by sending the recipient an email asking them to go to 123's site to collect their card.
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This sites contains several comparisons of search engines, a guide to basic HTML and much more. |
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The counter that I use its quite good. |
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This site contains a very large list of url submit pages, in other words links to places where you can add links to your site. |
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This site will reduce the number of colours in a GIF graphics file. It includes support for transparencies and animations. |
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This site run by w3.org the organisation you determine the standard used in webpages. It contains lots of tools and references for those writing webpages. |
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This site contains tutorials relating to programming and web development. Including Java. |
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This site contains some great freeware. |
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Randy did the title graphic on my main page for me and will do the same for you. He'll do banners etc. |
Metacrawler for Files |
This is a search engine for files that will search other download site. It is realy quite good. |
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This site contains listigs of most of the 'free' i listigs of most of the 'free' isps in the U.K. |
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This site acts as a virtual harddrive over the net, allowing you to store up to 50mb of files online, the upload speeds are quite good too. |
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Netwhisle will notify by email when your site goes down. |
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This site tells you how do stuff on webpages that I didn't think was possibly. It's where I learnt how to do the hotkeys on the redirection page generator. |
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This site lets you send faxes by email. |
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Has info on all of the latest viruses. |
Last Updated 22/02/00