Components
  • Mushkin Enhanced Memory Systems: A quality outfit, providing various grades of quality RAM to meet your needs. Excellent Technical Support to answer your questions. Specials are run constantly, check back often.
Graphics
  • GIMP: A freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems. Unless you know you really need PhotoShop, this established Imaging program may be just the ticket.
  • SWiSH: The easy and affordable way to Flash™. SWiSH has over 150 built-in effects like Explode, Vortex, 3D Spin, Wave and many more. SWiSH has tools for creating lines, rectangles, ellipses, Bezier curves, motion paths, sprites and rollover buttons. All in an easy-to-use interface.
  • Fractal Explorer: A freeware fractal generator that can produce mysterious and beautiful mathematically-based images. You'll want this killer tool.
  • Alchemy Mindworks:  Cutting edge graphics software developers. The libr /ary includes the world's most popular GIF animator, GIF Construction Set, and the infamous ScreenSaver Construction Set, to name just two.
Audio
  • WinAmp:  The Team is constantly improving the classic mp3 player. Version 5.09 now in release. Visualizations included. Plug-ins and skins are also available at this address. The only cost is your time. Have some available when you review all the plug-ins. Yes, check out "The Team" page and see just what sort of developers we are recommending.
  • Mike Richter's CD-R Resources:  When you really do want to know the answer to burner related questions.
Security
  • Script Sentry: An effective solution to the Windows Scripting Host vunerablities, by Jason Levine. Freeware, though donations are always welcome.
  • Reticulated Toys: rmbox has stashed away a number of playthings to help you control Trojan infestation.
  • Hideaway.Net: Is an Internet security portal for novice PC users and network administrators alike. Features daily news coverage, software, tutorials, vulnerability alerts, and more.
  • Secure your E-Mail:  Did you know you can send your email in a sealed envelope? Verisign Digital ID uniquely identifies you as the sender and can be encrypted for added security. 60 day FREE trial.
  • Gibson Research Center:  Think your downloaded software may be phoning home? There's a good possibility you may be right. Gibson Research Center has some excellent solutions.
Performance
  • Axcel216's Max Speeed: Over 100 pages of Windows tweaks and tips. This site will help your PC reach maximum performance.
  • LockerGnome Home Page:  Quality web information compiled daily. Your choice of free subscription options.
  • Bud's TroubleShooter:  Need answers to questions about the Old Operating System? A true compendium of solutions for the Windows 98 era at your fingertips.
  • Fred Langa's List: Additional information to make the most of your hardware, software, and time online. Subscribe to the free and lively, award winning, twice-a-week e-newsletter from the noted computer author and editor. The LangaList will join with Windows Secrets. The wider distribution will be edited by Mr. Langa.
Utilities
  • BartPE: Build a Bart Preinstalled Environment bootable Windows CD or DVD for PC maintenance tasks.
    It will give you a Win32 environment with network support, a graphical user interface and FAT/NTFS/CDFS support. Very handy for burning in systems with no OS, rescuing files to a network share, virus scanning and so on.
    This is a Dos bootdisk replacement.
  • UltraEdit-32 Text Editor: A feature laden editor for those times when you need to tag or code, and Notepad just won't do. Ian has other great programs available as well. Give his place a visit.
  • NoteTab: A leading-edge text and HTML editor. Winner of software industry awards since 1998, this application does it all: it easily handles a stack of huge files; lets you format text to your heart's content; does system-wide searches, and multi-line global replacements. Free Version Available.
  • Xteq Systems:  State of the art Tweaker for the current Operating System.
  • MemTest86: A thorough, stand alone memory test for x86 architecture computers. BIOS based memory tests are only a quick check and often miss many of the failures that are detected by Memtest86. Is your RAM bugging you ?
  • Karen's Power Tools: Karen Kenworthy's free programs that make life with Windows a lot easier. Cookie Viewer and Replicator are all time favorites.
HTML
  • Home Page of Paul McFedries:  This site is provided by the talented computer reference author. Lots of tips, information and Ramblings.
  • CIGHTML Member's Pages:  Just a list of links to the pages of folks who contribute to the "Complete Idiot's Guide to HTML" mail list.
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