Internet Webmaster resources from Free Pint - Excellent

Free photo collections on the web

DHD Photo Gallery
U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency Photo Library
Lockheed Martin Digital Photo Collection
NASA Photo Gallery
Freefoto.com
Freeimages.co.uk
Freestockphotos.com
U.S. Department of Energy Digital Archive
istockphoto.com
Philip's House of Stock Photography

FreeAnswers.com allows users to solve computer-related problems quickly and easily simply by asking questions in plain, everyday language. FreeAnswers.com provides access to the comprehensive knowledge bases from vendors such as Microsoft, Adobe, and Intuit.

The Encyclopedia of Computer Security

Girobill Billpay

BillPay allows business and personal customers to make online bill payments.

If you hold a debit card from any UK bank you can now pay your bills via the Internet free of charge.

[Also see: CharityPay...a brand new service from Girobank, allowing you to make secure on- line donations to the listed Charities completely free of charge.]

MrProject is a project planning, scheduling and tracking tool for the GNOME Desktop aiming to act as a better replacement than available proprietary tools.

MrProject is part of GNOME Office, a productivity suite composed of entirely free software, integrated with the GNOME Desktop.

XML Editing: A WYSIWYG XML Document Editor

Summary: Describes Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 behavior used to implement a demo WYSIWYG XML document editor, shows features that make WYSIWYG XML content editing easy and familiar to word processor users, and makes native XML editing available with edit view icons to access control attributes or fields in the underlying XML document. (13 printed pages)

Searching for facts (adapted and bowlderised from resources suggested by Reid Goldsborough)

"Say you're writing a report and need to double-check a fact or two. Or say you just heard something on TV or the radio and want to make sure it's correct. What do you do? In the past, you reached for an almanac or encyclopedia or headed to the library. Today, in the Age of the Internet, these facts are as close as your computer screen...." [more]

InfoPlease.com as a source for free online almanacs. It offers a range of almanacs on world and domestic issues, history and government, business, society and culture, biography, health and science, arts and entertainment, and sports, not to mention a dictionary, concise encyclopedia and atlas.

Britannica Online includes the full text of Encyclopedia Britannica, the world's best encyclopedia, along with a dictionary, thesaurus, atlas, audio and video clips, and links to other Web sites. Also see Encyclopedia.com

The best biographical encyclopedia on the Web is Biography.com, with more than 25,000 articles on both current and historical figures.

Dictionary.com...offers a dictionary and thesaurus as well as translation tools for Spanish, French, German, Italian and Portuguese.

YourDictionary.com. Along with English language and foreign language dictionaries and various thesauri, it provides links to 60 specialized glossaries, from business and computing to law and medicine.

Acronym Finder offers definitions of more than 242,000 acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms. Also see CMP's TechEncyclopedia, definitions of more than 20,000 acronyms and other terms related to computers and the Internet.

HowStuffWorks provides descriptions, diagrams and photos of more than 2,500 devices and processes in categories from automotive and electronics to health and money.

Statistics.com: Numbers from government and other sources on a range of different topics, though you'll be more likely to find regularly published data there than private market research. Also see University of Michigan's Statistical Resources on the Web.

Excellent sites for checking general health information are Harvard University-affiliated InteliHealth and MayoClinic.com. RxList and the National Library of Medicine's Medline Plus Drug Information both provide information about brand name and generic pharmaceutical drugs.

Sites compile links of reference materials, best is University of Michigan's Internet Public Library. There you'll find links to almanacs, calendars, dictionaries, style and writing guides, quotations, biographies, encyclopedias, atlases, books, magazines, and newspapers, among other materials.

Another good general reference site is Researchville. It conveniently lets you do "meta searching" of multiple sources at once with just a single query...You can search multiple almanacs, encyclopedias, dictionaries, newspapers, newswires, magazines, health sources, education sources, government sources, and discussion forums.

UselessKnowledge.com is a great trivia resource, letting you search for arcane information by keyword.

Business Central's Computer Security page - Excellent

Also see:

The Windows XP Security page

Photobox.co.uk - a highly rated online album and digital to photo conversion site.

Paper CD case

Use this website to create a PDF file which can be printed and folded to create a paper CD case. For folding directions, see the about section. To add more tracks, a mailing address, or graphics to the case, use the advanced form. Mix CD cases created with the advanced form can be optionally added to our public mix CD database. To create a case for an existing CD, use our CD search engine to find the CD and it will fill in this form for you. Jewel case inserts can also be created.

Botspot; Bots for every occasion and purpose

Robot-Manager™ 3.0 Professional Edition

Complete control over search engine spiders and robots that visit your website:

Easily create robots.txt files to direct spiders and robots to the pages you want them to index Identify spiders and robots in your log files to see which search engines have sent spiders and robots

Analyze your log files to see exactly which pages have been visited by search engine spiders
and robots

No more guessing if your website has been indexed after submitting to search engines, and no more inadvertent spamming.

5 Tips for Managing Your Outlook Mailbox

Managing your Microsoft Outlook® 2002 mailbox can eat up a lot
of your time. Use these five quick power tips to manage your mailbox with ease.

WebLog Expert is a powerful access log analyzer. It will give you information about your site's visitors: activity statistics, what files visitors accessed, paths through the site, information about referring pages, search engines, browsers, operating systems, and more. The program produces easy-to-read HTML reports that include both text information (tables) and charts. View the WebLog Expert sample report to get the general idea of the variety of information about your site's usage it can provide.

Office XP Tips & Tricks Center - CTRL+XP! Try these shortcuts and become an Office XP pro.

WyvernWorks NetTweak Pro

"Pro v3.42 an easy to use software tool that is specially engineered to optimize your Internet connection
by up to 300% faster. This utility is attractive, easy to use and well suited for both beginner and
advanced users. This product does not only boosts normal dialup modem performance, but also
local area network (LAN) connections, cable modem, integrated services digital network (ISDN), xDSL,
Broadband, T1, T3 and other types of connections. It supports Windows 95,98,98SE,NT, 2000,Me
and XP.It provides easy access to a handful of settings that improves your Internet connection.
These settings include MTU, RWin, TTL, NDI cache, and Black Hole Detect.

You can easily tweak individual settings or select one of several presets based on your modem and
connection type for better performance without having to upgrade your hardware. If you're unimpressed
with the results of your modifications, you can easily restore the default settings. Other features include
Security options, Modem options, AOL support, Registry backup, logging support and own IP detection"

Genuinely interesting map application from Map24.com

XP Tweak sites from Extreme Tech

TweakXP (www.tweakxp.com): Affiliated with the Tweak-XP utility discussed above, this site is dedicated to helping users get the most out of Windows XP. Most of the data is raw and lacks sufficient explanation, but the site is updated frequently with tips and tweaks of all natures.

Windows Guide Network (www.winguides.com): Great stuff about security, registry editing, tweaking third party apps, and more can be found here.

TweakTown (www.tweaktown.com): One of the first sites to post a complete XP tweaking guide, TweakTown is full of genuinely useful information for all manner of hardware and technical stuff.

Bink Windows XP (www.windowsxp.nu): Its scattershot approach to good information and fluff produces some great nuggets of info. This site also has a huge list of XP-related links.

Microsoft TechNet Online: (www.microsoft.com/technet/): More WinXP stuff is appearing every day, in very raw technical form.

XP PowerToys (www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp): The latest token PowerToys collection.

Excellent samples from Privacy Defended: Protecting Yourself Online can be found at http://hackingexposed.com.

Visio Viewer 2002

"The Microsoft Visio® Viewer 2002 allows anyone to view Visio drawings and diagrams (if created with Visio 5, 2000, or 2002) inside their Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5.0 or later Web browser.

Visio users can freely distribute Visio drawings and diagrams to team members, partners, customers, or others, even if the recipients do not have Visio installed on their computers. Internet Explorer also allows for printing, although this is limited to the portions of the drawings that appear in the current view.

The Visio Viewer 2002 enables users to discover the advantages of using Visio drawings, charts, and illustrations in a Web-based environment. It is particularly useful for teams that need to collaborate from different locations."

Outport

Outport aims to be a generic program for exporting date from Outlook (Outlook + export = Outport. Original eh? :-) ) to various email/pim programs. It currently it can export to the Contact, Calendar and Task formats of Evolution, plus a number of generic formats supported by Outlook itself (Rich Text Format, HTML, vCalendar, vCard, iCalendar, etc). I've tested this specifically with Outlook 2000 and Evolution 1.0, and it works reasonably well with those. I have not tested this with any other version of Outlook, nor the recently released Evolution 1.01; I assume it will work with those, but don't be surprised if it doesn't.

Beautiful NASA online photo library

The 2002 edition of the CIA's World Factbook is available

Odd half-social engineering, half-worm virus

According to Sophos, users get an e-mail inviting them to pick up an e-card. "If users follow the link in the email, they are invited to install an ActiveX control onto their computer. An end-user license agreement (EULA) is displayed stating that by installing the application the user is giving permission to send a similar greeting card to all addresses found in the user's Outlook address book.

Of course, many users will not read the EULA with enough attention and simply give permission for the ActiveX control to be installed, and thus the emails will be sent."