This is a collection of links to ICT-related sites that I have found
interesting.
Two other links pages
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page. With Windows XP Pro, Service Pack 2 and Windows Media Player 10
installed, left-clicking on the speaker icon causes the MIDI file to be
downloaded, media player started and music played. XHMTL doesn't support
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| Apache | The Apache Software Foundation. |
| .htaccess Tools | On this site you will
find various generators to create .htaccess files for IE hotlink protection, password protection, or blocking
of hitbots. |
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The 21st Century evenually reached Findon
at the beginning of December 2004, when the local telephone exchange
was enabled for broadband by BT.
My 1,152Kbps connection was enabled on 16th December, so I was then able to set up a wireless network.
All our PCs could access the Internet and we could talk on the phone, all at the same time.
Better still, on 30th December 2004 our connection was upgraded to 2Mbps, so we could work even more efficiently.
It was wonderful!
Initially, when we moved to France in 2005 we didn't have a landline, so I accessed the Internet by means of a wireless
Vodaphone
Mobile Connect 3G/GPRS data card in my laptop. I used OnSpeed
to boost the 56Kbps dialup speed. Nowadays we have a landline with a 2Mbps connection to the Internet.
You can use Broadband|checker to find which ISPs
can provide you with broadband.
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Jeff Nutbeem ran a campaign called
Broadband for Findon.
Contact: Jeff Nutbeem
broadband4findon@yahoo.com
www.geocities.com/broadband4findon
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Satellite-based broadband access to the Internet is also available in Findon.
using technology provided by
Webrental
(ie a Findon Village based company) offers a free site survey and to get
you broadband enabled. Some Findon residents are
connected to the Internet via Webrental's satellite broadband service.
Webrental has satellite dish linked to the Internet that was supplied
in by a company called
Aramiska).
The signal is distributed around the village
using 802.11b
wireless technology (ie
Wi-Fi
or Wireless Fidelity).
Wi-Fi,
by its nature, is inherently a line-of-sight technology.
The signal strength is required by law to be very low, however but the PC card
in my laptop picks up the signal at about 54% strength, at the southern end of the village.
A site survey is necessary in order to test the
signal strength, to ensure that a high enough quality service can be provided.
The equipment required varies according to the location of the property
in the village, consequently the installation costs are variable
(typically £80-£150 for installation that includes a rooftop aerial).
A good line of sight to School Hill would be an advantage. For example,
you could try looking toward the clock tower on
St John the Baptist Primary School.
If you have a notebook or laptop computer that already has built-in
Wi-Fi
capability then you
might not need to pay any setup charge. If you have a desktop PC and
the signal is sufficiently strong enough, then you might not need an outdoor
aerial at all, rather you might find that a small
indoor aerial will suffice, in which case the installation charge would
be lower (approximately £60).
The signal can be distributed around the village by repeater aerials to
give the required coverage.
Reception usually requires an aerial on your roof and a wireless network card to be
installed in your PC (which requires a spare
PCI expansion slot).
Webrental claims that almost 100% of Findon village is covered by their
service and hopes to be able to extend coverage to the residents of nearby
Nepcote
and The Quadrangle during the next few weeks.
According to Mike Frater, both the
Gun Inn and the
Village House Hotel
are now
hot spots
, so guests will soon be able to send
SMS
text messages to gain a day's access
for airtime. Webrental would then send them a text message with details of
their guest user name and password.
Webrental claims to be up to 4 times faster than BT broadband
(ie with 512 Kbps
upload / 2,048 Kbps download).
According to Mike Frater, their download speed averaged 1,904 Kbps
(ie nearly 2 Mbps) during the first week of March 2004.
Your existing e-mail might still work. Users would need to change their
SMTP
server setting to
Aramiska),
but apart from that
POP
boxes should work as normal. Users of companies like
AOL would probably not be
able to keep their present e-mail address(es) unless the account was still being
paid for, but
Freeserve
type accounts should still work. Web rental also
offers e-mail addresses etc, as a part of their service. They would become
your
ISP,
so if you join their service it would be the same as someone moving
from
AOL to
Freeserve,
for example, so the same rules regarding e-mail addresses
would apply.
The monthly cost is £29.99 for home users and £34.99 for businesses,
with a 12 month agreement.
Contact: Mike Frater
Tel 01903 877 503
Mobile 07748 741224
mike@webrental.co.uk
www.webrental.co.uk
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are a
WISP,
or Wireless Internet Service Provider.
They specialise in providing wireless broadband access to rural communities.
In order to connect you to the Internet without having to lay cables,
they use a WLAN,
or Wireless Local Area Network. For the technically minded,
this operates at 2.4 GHz - to the
IEEE 801.11 standards.
According to Martin Carter, they would only require a threshold of 50 customers in Findon and could be operational
in as little as 8 weeks.
moO broadband offers home users data transfer speeds of 256 Kbps
upload and
500 Kbps
download. All your high speed surfing would be covered in a single monthly
fixed price. It doesn't use your phone line, so no more missed calls while you
surf. You could share files and webcams across the community network with your
neighbours, or use a webcam to talk to your friends anywhere in the world
moO broadband offers business users transfer speeds of 500 Kbps
upload and 1 Mbps
download.
According to Martin Carter, satellite broadband can suffer from high
latency
and can also easily be affected by bad weather. Mike Frater (Webrental)
says bad weather could adversely affect the service, however such weather
conditions would affect any
Wi-Fi
network, so both services are equally as
susceptible. He says it's a bit
like TV interference caused by atmospheric conditions. As regards
latency,
he says he has
been advised by Aramiska that there is a delay to traffic but it is only
really noticeable if you wish to play online games.
Satellite Internet Explained In Plain English: Latency
Apparently, moO broadband's service would not involve satellite, rather it uses
one of the best network providers in the country (the name of which is unknown to the webmaster) and
aims to provide a service equal to, or better than, that provided by BT. Users would
be able to access their existing e-mail accounts.
The monthly charge for the standard package is £26.99
View or print moO broadband's
brochure
as a PDF file ...
Contact: Martin Carter
Tel 0845 450 0200
martinc@moobroadband.co.uk
www.moobroadband.co.uk
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MyBlueDish is a US-based provider of satellite Internet.
WildBlue Satellite Internet Glossary
How it Works
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ADSLguide.org.uk
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Find the latest and greatest broadband news in the UK, service provider information, views and
comments from users like you.
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Broadband4Britain
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Broadband 4Britain is a pressure group and information centre that aims to keep you up to date with developments
on the British broadband situation.
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Broadband Checker
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Compare UK Broadband Providers.
Check Broadband Availability and Services.
Easy comparison of broadband services from UK Internet service providers.
Broadband Checker performs a live availability check for broadband ADSL, Cable and Satellite.
Compare offers from several major service providers including AOL, BT, BT Yahoo!, Virgin.net, ntl:home,
Telewest blueyonder and more.
You can save yourself endless hours checking and searching for the best offers available in your area.
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Broadband-Help
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This website provides a comparison of all the broadband providers in the UK, plus lots of other information.
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Broadband Reports
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US-based website with UK forum, broadband tweaking tools, etc.
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Broadbandmap UK
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This website shows how BT broadband is being rolled out across Britain.
See information from other users to gain a realistic view of if you can receive broadband.
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ISP Review
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This website provides information on broadband ISPs from R/ADSL to Wireless technology, etc.
It contains ISP lists, information guides, sorted news, top reader rated ISPs, reviews, forum input and much more
per provider type.
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| Chatzy | Chatzy is a free private chat service.
Fill out the form to create a chat room immediately - only for you and the people you invite!
Why is Chatzy a good alternative to traditional chat sites as well as ICQ, Yahoo, MSN and AOL Messenger?
- Chatzy has no registration steps - your friends can join instantly.
- Chatzy is free and has no popup ads.
- Chatzy does not require any installation on your computer (= no spyware).
- Chatzy works on any PC, with any language and through corporate firewalls.
- Chatzy is simple and easy to use.
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Screen Ruler is a superb virtual ruler, that can be dragged
around your computer screen. This application is invaluable
for measuring objects in pixels, inches, decimal inches,
picas, centimetres, percentage of length and in multiple
custom settings of your own design. It features horizontal
and/or vertical orientation, dynamic mouse tracking
measurement, adjustable length, a square tool, a magnifying
screen loupe, plus it can float above all other windows.
It measures diagonals, displays angles and square areas,
which is incredibly handy when designing Web Pages, or any other screen layout.
Named "Cool Tool" by
Internet World Magazine
(for good reason).
For years, Screen Ruler has provided
many worldwide users the ability to measure virtually
anything on their computer screens. The latest version is packed with
even more features, thus surpassing anything similar found
elsewhere. It is highly recommended.
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| FAST | Federation Against Software Theft. |
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| DNS Stuff | DNS timing, WHOIS lookup, Abuse lookup, WHOIS search, URL de-obfuscator, Spam database lookup, Reverse DNS lookup, IPWHOIS lookup, NetGeo IP lookup, IP routing lookup, CIDR/Netmask lookup, e-Mail test, DNS lookup, Tracert, Ping, ISP cached DNS lookup, Decimal IPs, and more ... |
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| Hushmail |
Hushmail provides secure e-mail, document storage, instant messaging,
and communication services to individuals, small businesses,
and enterprises around the world. Hushmail uses industry standard algorithms
as specified by the OpenPGP standard (RFC 2240) to ensure the
security, privacy and authenticity of your e-mail. With Hushmail,
users need only create and remember their own passphrases, and
the secure Hushmail server does the rest. Encryption and
decryption are transparent to the user, making Hushmail the
most user-friendly secure mail solution available. Hushmail
provides a free webmail service for individuals.
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| ReturnPath |
Return Path provides services that make e-mail work better,
including an e-mail finder, e-mail forwarding and e-cards.
Looking for someone? Need to find their new e-mail address?
Find your friend's new e-mail address using
Return Path's e-mail finder directory.
Don't miss an e-mail sent to your old e-mail address.
If your old account is still active, you are eligible to us
Return Path's e-mail forwarding service. They will move the
e-mail from your old e-mail address to your new e-mail inbox ...
for a price.
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The Spamhaus Project
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Spamhaus tracks the Internet's worst spammers, known spam gangs
and spam services, provides realtime anti-spam protection for
Internet networks, and works with law enforcement agencies to
identify and pursue spammers worldwide.
There is federal law in the USA, concerning spamming: CAN-SPAM Act of 2003
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| Python | Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. It is often compared to Tcl, Perl, Scheme or Java. |
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HackerWhacker
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Another on-line security scanner. Includes information on how to make your computer safe from hackers.
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Lavasoft Ad-aware
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While the Internet is a powerful
resource and provides users with many useful and often entertaining
things to see and do, it also has its dark side.
Most people are familiar with freeware, shareware, cookies, media players,
interactive content, and file sharing. What they may not realize is that some
of the aforementioned may contain code or components that allow the developers
of these applications and tools to actually collect and disseminate information
about those using them.
They can track your surfing habits, abuse your Internet connection by sending
this data to a third party, profile your shopping preferences, hijack your
browser start page or pages, alter important system files, and can do this
without your knowledge or permission. The security and privacy implications
of these exploits should be quite obvious and undesirable on any system or
network!
Lavasoft is the industry leader and most respected provider of anti-trackware
solutions. They have developed several applications that will provide you with the
means to keep your computer or network free of these compromising and intrusive
threats to your privacy.
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MailTracking
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Full tracking, so you can reliably find out when your e-mail gets opened, how long it gets read for, whether or not it gets forwarded to someone else or published on the internet, where the reader is located, and much more.
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McAfee
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Antivirus software used by Hotmail.
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Panda ActiveScan, the FREE online antivirus from Panda Software.
If you want more information about Panda ActiveScan contact
activescan@pandasoftware.com
Simple, light* and practical, it can scan and disinfect more than 63,000
viruses and Trojans directly over the Internet.
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Practically Networked
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Network security.
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Pretty Good Privacy
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Free e-mail encryption software that will keep your messages safe from prying eyes.
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Security resources
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A very useful directory of security related websites, provided by the-it-resource.com
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Shields Up!
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On-line security scanner. Is your computer vulnerable to attacks from hackers? Test your computer here.
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SP2
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A free update to Microsoft Windows XP called Service Pack 2, which is
almost entirely focused on security. It's free
(you can get it by calling the company, or applying online),
it's quick to install and it will render your machine far less vulnerable
to online attack than before. SP2 will be free with many PC magazines
from September 2004 onwards. PC World and other high street retail
chains will offer SP2 free from Friday 3rd September 2004 onwards.
By default, SP2 turns on the firewall in XP.
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The Cleaner
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The Cleaner is the most powerful trojan detection and removal program in the world. It can detect every
known trojan and keep your system from being infected. Unlike anti-virus programs, The Cleaner can also
remove trojans already in your computer. The Cleaner is available as a free 30-day trial.
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Xteq Systems
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The master of all OS tweakers, which is completely free. Once you have used it you will wonder how you ever did without it.
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Zone Labs
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Practice 'Safe surfin'! Download this free firewall.
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SOPHOS
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The very latest information about computer viruses, Trojans and worms.
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Sophos is a world leader in anti-virus
protection, focused on defending
businesses of all sizes from virus
attack. Sophos is committed to
raising the awareness of both general
virus and anti-virus issues. Sophos
provides a comprehensive range of
material and information about new
viruses, hoaxes and white papers.
Sophos also keeps its customers
informed with monthly updates on
new and revised virus threats, as well
as providing information on its website
and via email about current issues.
The entire Sophos product suite is
underpinned by a sophisticated virus
detection engine, which provides
protection at all key points in a
company's IT infrastructure. Sophos
anti-virus software protects every IT
tier in an organisation - from the
desktops, laptops and servers at its
heart, to the e-mail servers at its
boundaries and the managed services
beyond.
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Page website.com | Development tutorial & information. |
Web Pages That Suck | Where you learn good Web design by looking at bad Web design. Any resemblance to my website is purely coincidental! |
Search Engine Watch | All about search engines and metacrawlers, plus lots more. |
FreeWebmaster.com | Useful site tools. Nice design. |
Webmasters Tools Central.com | Useful website tools. |
Self Promotion | If you want more people to visit your website, you must know how to create search-engine-friendly Web pages, and then submit your URL to all the major search engines. That's what this website is all about.
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Trellian SubmitWolf
| Award winning website promotion software that can dramatically increase your website traffic. Submit your website details to thousands of Search Engines, directories and link pages.
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w3schools | The best things in life are free!
HTML Tutorials: HTML, XHTML, CSS
XML Tutorials: XML, XSL, DTD, DOM, WAP, Schema, XPath, XForms, SOAP, WSDL
Browser Scripting: JavaScript, DHTML, VBScript, WMLScript
Server Scripting: SQL, ASP, ADO
.NET (dotnet): .NET Microsoft,.NET ASP,.NET Mobile
Multimedia: Media, Flash
Web Building: W3C, Web Browsers, Web Software, Web Graphics, Web Careers & Web Hosting.
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SpiderPro |
If you are serious about your website, SpiderPro offers the information you need.
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Bravenet |
Lots of Web tools for webmasters including free polls for your website.
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Free-Web-Polls.com |
Free polls for your website.
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ALXNET |
Free polls for your website.
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freetools.com |
Free polls for your website.
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Votations.com |
Free polls for your website.
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Global Guest |
Free polls for your website.
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Pollhost |
Free polls for your website.
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| Domains, e-mail, hosting & e-shops made easy by 1&1. |
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A Real Validator
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HTML & XHTML Validator.
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<HTML>fixit.com
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HTMLfixIT is the place for you to get help with your HTML
and Web Design related topics.
Franki and Don welcome you to explore their on-line tools,
look through their tutorials, even visit their live chat help.
If nobody is answering in the chatroom, post to their forum
so that others might benefit from the question.
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Index DOT Html |
An advanced HTML reference by Brian Wilson.
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TildeMH.com |
HTML index generator.
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Web Wonk
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Useful HTML tips.
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| w3schools
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The best things in life are free!
HTML Tutorials: HTML, XHTML, CSS
XML Tutorials: XML, XSL, DTD, DOM, WAP, Schema, XPath, XForms, SOAP, WSDL
Browser Scripting: JavaScript, DHTML, VBScript, WMLScript
Server Scripting: SQL, ASP, ADO
.NET (dotnet): .NET Microsoft,.NET ASP,.NET Mobile
Multimedia: Media, Flash
Web Building: W3C, Web Browsers, Web Software, Web Graphics, Web Careers & Web Hosting.
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W3C
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World Wide Web Consortium.
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W3C's HTML Validation Service
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HTML & XHTML validator.
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| FreeWebmaster.com | Flash tools. Nice design. |
HotScripts.com | JavaScript script collection. |
| Java Scripts | Recently revamped JavaScripts.com provides a large database of free scripts that cover all the bases - objects, properties, methods, events and functions. |
| JavaScript.com | An excellent website with lots of free cut and paste JavaScript examples with source code. |
| JavaScript Kit | Constantly updated, this website contains free scripts, tutorials, Q&As and Java applets. |
| New Architect | Commentary and updates on current events and technologies. |
| Page website.com | Learn the basics of JavaScript, and how to create some nifty scripts for your site. |
| The JavaScript Source | An excellent website with tons of cut and paste JavaScript examples for your web pages. All free! |
| Web Teacher: JavaScript | A good tutorial for beginners, this website walks you through the basics of JavaScript. |
| Web Monkey | Webmonkey's JavaScript library has code fragments, function packages, tutorials and articles galore. |
w3schools | The best things in life are free!
HTML Tutorials: HTML, XHTML, CSS
XML Tutorials: XML, XSL, DTD, DOM, WAP, Schema, XPath, XForms, SOAP, WSDL
Browser Scripting: JavaScript, DHTML, VBScript, WMLScript
Server Scripting: SQL, ASP, ADO
.NET (dotnet): .NET Microsoft,.NET ASP,.NET Mobile
Multimedia: Media, Flash
Web Building: W3C, Web Browsers, Web Software, Web Graphics, Web Careers & Web Hosting.
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 | Sun Microsystems - The Source for Java Technology. |
 | BlueJ is an integrated Java environment specifically designed for introductory teaching. The BlueJ environment was developed as part of a university research project about teaching object-orientation to beginners. |
| Java Boutique | Tutorials, applet downloads, plus lots more. |
| Java Programming Resources | Java books, compilers, browsers, resources,
JSP and servlets, FAQs and tutorials, development environments and editors,
examples, applet and class library collections, documentation, free tools,
security, programming courses, HTML and JavaScript. |
| Don't fear the OOP! | A java tutorial that shows you why coding Java (or any other object-oriented programming) is just like writing a trashy Western novel. |
| Programming Network | Java beginner's guides. |
| Neal's Java Page | The Java mistakes page. |
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| Linux is a free Unix-type operating system originally created by Linus Torvalds with the assistance of developers around the world. Developed under the GNU General Public License , the source code for Linux is freely available to everyone. |
| GNU General Public License | The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free software - to make sure the software is free for all its users. |
| Red Hat | Red Hat is a leading provider of Linux and open source technology. |
| The Fedora Project | The Fedora Project is a Red-Hat-sponsored and community-supported open source project. It is also a proving ground for new technology that may eventually make its way into Red Hat products. It is not a supported product of Red Hat, Inc. |
| FedoraForum | Fedora Linux support community. |
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| MySQL | The world's most popular open source database. |
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