Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP

Open Command Window Here
This PowerToy adds an "Open Command Window Here" context menu option on file system folders, giving you a quick way to open a command window (cmd.exe) pointing at the selected folder.

Alt-Tab Replacement
With this PowerToy, in addition to seeing the icon of the application window you are switching to, you will also see a preview of the page. This helps particularly when multiple sessions of an application are open.

Tweak UI
This PowerToy gives you access to system settings that are not exposed in the Windows XP default user interface, including mouse settings, Explorer settings, taskbar settings, and more.

Power Calculator
With this PowerToy you can graph and evaluate functions as well as perform many different types of conversions.

Image Resizer
This PowerToy enables you to resize one or many image files with a right-click.

CD Slide Show Generator
With this PowerToy you can view images burned to a CD as a slide show. The Generator works downlevel on Windows 9x machines as well.

Virtual Desktop Manager
Manage up to four desktops from the Windows taskbar with this PowerToy.

Taskbar Magnifier
Use this PowerToy to magnify part of the screen from the taskbar.

HTML Slide Show Wizard
This wizard helps you create an HTML slide show of your digital pictures, ready to place on your Web site.

Webcam Timershot
This PowerToy lets you take pictures at specified time intervals from a Webcam connected to your computer and save them to a location that you designate.

The Twenty Most Critical Internet Security Vulnerabilities (Updated) ~ The Experts’ Consensus

Get Rid of MSN messenger in XP

"If you only want to stop it running and prefer to leave it on the machine in case you ever decide to use it, you can go to Start/Run and enter gpedit.msc. Then go to: Computer Configuration/Administrative Template/Windows Components/Windows Messenger/ "Do not allow Windows Messenger to be run" and choose "Enabled". "

Internet Application Workbook

by Eve Andersson, Philip Greenspun, and Andrew Grumet

Preface
Acknowledgments

Introduction
Basics
Planning
Software Structure
User Registration and Management
Content Management
Software Modularity
Discussion
Wireless (WAP)
Voice (VXML)
Distributed Computing (XML, SOAP, WSDL) -- very rough draft right now
Scaling Gracefully
Search
Planning Redux
Writeup
Glossary

Linux Router Project (LRP) n. A networking-centric micro-distribution of Linux.

LRP is small enough to fit on a single 1.44MB floppy disk, and makes building and maintaining routers, access servers, thin servers, thin clients, network appliances, and typically embedded systems next to trivial.

Exodus is a new Jabber ™ client being developed to be a "successor" to the very popular client Winjab. It's smaller, faster, easier to use, and looks better.

Adding images to your site

Chapter 6 from Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing by Philip Greenspun. An excellent resource on how to add images to your site from the miestro at photo.net.

"Stardock CursorXP is a new program that lets you use and create incredibly cool looking Windows mouse cursors.

It does this by taking advantage of the new visual effects features of Windows 2000 and Windows XP. With it, users can create and use cursors that look and feel far superior to anything you've ever seen before! Best of all, it's really easy to create your own super-charged cursors! It integrates into the standard Mouse interface of Windows and is easy to turn on and off as you need."

For Windows 2000 or Windows XP

ColorMatch 5K

This utility will help you select a matching 6-color palette for your website.
Define a single color that you like. Matching colors will be calculated.
Click a color in the palette to promote it to the primary color.

It is surpassed only by this superb website: Easyrgb.com

Color Matching
Color Harmonies
Search a Tint
Color Calculator
Monitor Calibration
System Colors

Superb

Noisebox.org is a news wire built exclusively for the non-profit community. This community includes social service organizations, political action groups, arts organizations and theatres, health services groups, open source programmers, environmental groups, churches, and the myriad not-for-profit groups whose goals are to affect, improve, educate, and serve.

"From Knowledge Economy to Knowledge Ecology?" - IBM's David Snowden Maps a 'Third Way' for KM at Open University Seminar" By Andrew Everest

Business2.com has an excellent web directory.

Fontscape: An independent directory of typefaces organized into categories

"The Fontscape font directory is designed to help you find the ideal typeface for your application, whether it's a publishing project, graphic design, logo, or simply a font for your document.

It includes fonts from over a hundred publishers, including Adobe, Agfa-Monotype, Berthold, Bitstream, Elsner+Flake, FontFont, ITC, Letraset, Linotype, P22, URW++, and many smaller foundries."

"CSS Code Assembler"

Assemble css code quickly and easily with the CSS Code Assembler.
In minutes you will have the css style you have been looking for in just a few simple point and click steps.

What is the CSS Code Assembler?

The assembler is a tool to help build and create cascading style sheets. The assembler was not intended to be used to learn css but after creating a few styles you will find yourself understanding and learning how css works.

Microsoft Portrait - Version 1.6 has been released. Microsoft Portrait enables two-way full-color video conferencing on PC, Pocket PC and Handheld PC.

Radio-Locator.com: The most comprehensive radio station search engine on the internet. We have links to over 10,000 radio station web pages and over 2500 audio streams from radio stations in the U.S. and around the world.