http://home.mcom.com/home/welcome.html
This is the most complete set of Internet resources accessible from
one site anywhere on the Web, making it a great default home page, and the
warren of pointers to browsers, Gophers, virtual maps, catalogues and directories
will probably have you lost underground for hours. Tutorials range from
getting started through to designing your own pages. The formerly wonderful
'what's new' has moved to Yahoo but the 'what's cool' is still great.
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http://www.focusmm.co.uk/java/index.html
[pcx - java.pcx] Classic arcade games such as Tetris, Space Invaders
and PacMan are all available as Java applets from this Web site. The games
are unsophisticated, but addictive but the biggest problem with the site
is the length of time it takes to download the games - no less than five
minutes for Pacman! Can you wait that long?
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http://www.java.co.uk
A flashing neon sign announces the Java Centre, allegedly ñdestined
to become the premiere Java resource in the UK.î Could be true. There's
enough applets here to keep you up well past bedtime, and comprehensive
listings of UK Java developers, as well as seminars, tutorials, and exhibitions.
A cute spinning logo and auto-scrolling mini-menu point you to every Java-link
in cyberspace, including online games like Solitaire and Mr Potato Head,
build your own railroad track, stab a cartoon in the neck and watch it bleed,
mix your own six-track audio demo, lust after a bouncy nude, or celebrity
painting by choosing from a galaxy of stars and brushing on Madonna's eyes,
Clinton's chin, Bill Gates' hair, etc. Or relax with a collection of Java
jokes... what's brown and sticky? A stick. Do I smell Reeves and Mortimer?
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http://www.meat.com/textures/
This an extremely popular and much-mirrored site, housing, as it does,
a collection of 298 textured backgrounds for use in your Web pages, 3D modelling
or VRML. Three separate sections concentrate on normal textures (simple
bubbly-surfaced abstracts), abnormal textures (warped spacey landscapes)
and odds 'n ends (close-ups from a class biology lesson). Personal users
get to download them for free but commercial sites should pay a modest fee.
Lastly, to see that it's legible and to check the overall effect ,you can
also link to a whizzy little Windows utility called the Color Manipulation
Device. Just like that!
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http://www.quickvr.com/
QuickTime VRis Apple's latest technology which brings virtual reality
photography to the computer screen. If you've ever fancied a dabble or just
want to see what all the fuss is about, this is the place to visit. You
don't need any silly goggles or gloves and you can see excellent examples
of what can be done. There's also a decent collection of relevant shareware.
And you can download the QuickTime player if you don't already have it.
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http://pollanens-cyberland.com/
Quite what this site is up to I'm not sure but it's tacky in a cute
kind of a way. Essentially it's home to lots of links to other equally quirky
sites. You can search through the database of sites or scroll through the
section headings. You get a different background every time you load up
the site and your surf can be accompanied by some rather lovely ambient
music - imagine, if you will, Smoke on the water played on a stylophone!
All that and some really bad spelling - here instead of here for example
makes for a pleasantly tacky site.
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http://home.netscape.com/comprod/products/navigator/version_2.0/plugins/index.html
Netscape's hosting more plug-ins than you've had hot chips and this
site serves them up from an easy-to-access menu. Never mind the fancy-schmancy...
just click and ride! Among the free/shareware and demo goodies for every
kind of machine are: a plug-in developer's kit, beta downloadables galore
from jolly old standbys like Adobe's Acrobat Reader and the Real Audio player,
to more complex programs like Open2U, which will embed MPEG movies with
synch sound. Links to presentation packs, multi-media players, vector graphic
and VR viewers (thrill to the animated birdie, play the virtual piano, make
the 'copter fly), global time clocks, business software to view Excel graphs
online, all kindsa stuff.
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http://www.netscapeuk.itl.net/
Rapid developments at Netscape's stateside home page have made sure
that downloading software is as quick and easy as somthing that's quick
and easy but for anyone looking to put specific queries to Netscape's European
operations team then this is the place to do it.
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http://www.netgen.com/
The nice people at net.Genesis specialise in designing World Wide Web
server-based applications and offer a few products that might make structuring
your Web site a whole lot easier. net.Thread creates topic-sorted discussion
areas for your pages and net.Form 2.0 simplifies the process of collating
data from your site's users. The company also does Web consulting and has
published a Build A Web Site DIY book.
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http://www.microsoft.com/sitebuilder
If you're building a Web site you simply have to visit this site! It's
big Bill Gates at his most generous - dishing out loads of free booty in
exchange for you simply filling out a form and including the Internet Explorer
logo on your site. On the site you'll find the release version of Microsoft's
Front Page authoring software, a beta copy of Visual J++ and loads more
besides. It may all be part of Bill's masterplan to make Internet Explorer
the world's most prominent browser, but hey you can't complain too much
all the stuff on there is free.
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http://md.simplenet.com/
Marek reckon he's got the top site if you're looking for 32-bit shareware
and Internet resources. He could have a point...there are Net apps, links,hints
and tips...indeed everything you could want to spice up your surfing. Shame
about the crappy design though.
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http://www.stardot.com/~lukeseem/hexed.html
For those of you confused by the complexities of colouring your Netscape-enhanced
Web pages, Get Hexed! provides a very neat solution that stops you from
getting it wrong. Simply select the red, green and blue values you think
you want for your background colour, text and highlighted links and Get
Hexed! does the rest. It shows you how it's going to look (so you can make
sure it's legible and the colours don't clash). It then provides a
tag for you to insert into your next HTML document. Marvellous looking
Web site without all the maths.
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http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/triviaware/index.htm
If you lack imagination and/or time but want to wow your mates and/or
business contacts with your wit and erudition, Email Trivia is probably
the program for you. It will append a pointless piece of prose to your messages
and you can choose from categories including On This Day, Poems, Quotes,
Jokes and Fascinating Facts or, if you value visual impact, Ascii Art. The
full program costs £20 but you can download a 10-day demo here.
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http://www.eliashim.com
The site looks kind of dull, but at least you can download free anti-virus
software. ViruSafe WEB scans files for viruses as files are downloaded from
the Net and works with most of the popular browsers. It's also worth downloading
the utility which removes the particularly deadly Hare.Krishna.7610 virus.
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http://bongo.cc.utexas.edu/~neuroses/xcwsa.html
Like everyone else on the Net, your looking for the latest release shareware,
and alternatives to your present set-up. Her's the place to find just that,
along with ratings and links to the FTP servers.
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http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/square/fv23/index.htm
Well shiver my timbers, Cap'n Fishy is overly fixated with all things
nautical and seafaring and he has trawled the Net for you. His haddock-grabbing
hotlinks to all sorts of Net software are meant for beginners who are also
Windows-users, but sometimes his marine metaphors get in the way of clear
and concise information. Shipwrecked!
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http://www.javaworld.com/
JavaWorld fuels every pumped programmer's caffeine-filled addiction
to Java, one computer language with a real adrenalin buzz Ü tutorials,
trends, tools, applet reviews and cappuccino culture. Just try and keep
it down to one or two cups a day!
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http://www.browserwatch.com/
An excellent service from the bloke that originally brought us Browserwatch,
a service that supplies the latest information on new browsers, servers,
cgi's etc. What with Netscape add-ons and whatnots currently appearing left,
right and centre, now seems an opportune moment to open Browserwatch's Plug-In
Plaza. Essentially it tracks the development of the latest software, telling
you which company it comes from, what platforms it supports, what stage
of development it's at, and then it links you to it. A simple and effective
idea and also a great way of keeping up with the Jones'.
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http://wishing.com/websnoop/ws.html
This site sounds kind of cutsie doesn't it? An affectionate tribute
to your favourite cuddly cartoon dog, perhaps? Well, no Üæthis
is surveillance Ü a simple bit of code that collects the email addresses
of people visiting your Web site. It's like 'thanks very much for visiting
us Ü we know where you live!' Actually it's also a handy way of collecting
data from people visiting, like an audit and an email list generator all-in-one.
Get visitors to answer a few questions or fill out a survey and you've created
an instant mailing list. A free trial subscription is available to try before
you buy.
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http://www.webtalk.com
The snazzy little service on offer here is something that creates public,
private or moderated discussion groups between two or more users on the
Net. A 30-day demo is available from the site.
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http://www.xingtech.com/
Xing is responsible for Real Audio rival Streamworks, which supplies
on-demand audio and video over the Internet and local area networks. Macintosh
is currently audio-only but the Windows PC version is pretty impressive.
Quality over the Net is better than Real Audio and images are updated regularly.
Using a 28.8kbps modem it is still worth the effort ,although as you're
tapping into a stream of audio, as it were, when it gets too busy you're
thrown off. At the moment it's mainly American radio stations that you get
to check out. Go to it.
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http://qtvr.quicktime.apple.com/
Move your mouse and it feels like a point of view shot for some nasty
cinematic serial killer approaching a victim. Check out San Francisco and
feel your head spinning as you look out over the wide expanse of the Bay.
Available for Windows 3.1 and 95 as well as Macintosh, the kinds of sample
environments and objects you can investigate with your QTVR player provide
the kind of groovy gimmicks you'll be calling your colleagues over at work
to witness.
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http://www.worlds.net/
Superb proprietary technology, the potential of which has, as yet, to
be fully exploited. Pick a character or 'avatar'. Choose from stuff like
a penguin, a statue, Alice in Wonderland etc. Give yourself a name. Then
wander around some neat 3D environs enquiring of your fellow Worlds Chat
companions whatsoever you wish. This is the future.
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http://www.netmind.com/
The awfully nice people at NetMind have made a page of awfully nice
links to places that provide fabulous free services for using on the Net.
Examples include a URL-minder that lets you know when your fave pages change
and a Usenet signature generation service. This is for the kind of person
who can't resist a gadget.
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http://www.ffg.com
Two Internet tools that you'll wonder how you did without: first, GrabNet,
which allows you to take text and images off the Web and organise them in
files on your desktop; and secondly, WebWhacker, which enables you to 'whack'
entire pages and their links to a local drive for browsing offline. Available
for Windows and Macintosh. Cool beans.
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http://www.teachersoft.com
A free trial version of TeacherSoft's new Internet software, InterGO,
is available here. Developed from a background of educational expertise,
it is designed to be used in the school environment and incorporates browsing,
searching, email, FTP, Telnet and virus scanning with licensed, integrated
reference sources like The Columbia Encyclopedia, American Heritage Dictionary
and Roget's. In addition to this, InterGO uses either KinderGuard or SafeSurf
to screen for objectionable material. Just how important it is to have the
whole package prepared for you, and just how reliable a censor it proves
to be, is for you to decide.
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http://www.lpac.ac.uk/Trel/
A top little site that takes you to Internet product pages on the Web.
From audio through to censoring software, online conferencing, firewalls,
newsreaders, remote access, Telnet, FTP, Web browers, servers and wireless
products. Take your pick and jump off straight to the vendor's Web site
for further information.
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http://www.realaudio.com
Progressive Networks' Real Audio PC software offers real-time sound
over the Internet. It claims to compress sound files by up to 14:1 depending
on the source material. Unfortunately, to listen to the information on the
site you'll have to be running Real Audio in the first place!
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http://union.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HyperNews/get/www/html/converters.html
Trying to convert something into HTML format to put it on the Web? Here's
where to find help.
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http://gatekeeper.dec.com:80/pub/net/SATAN/
This is the place to find out about, and retrieve, the security hole
sniffing software that all the fuss was about. It only runs on UNIX but
will find imperfections in any system. If you're a network manager, test
your system before someone else does.
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http://www.spry.com
Home of the first commercial version of Mosaic and Internet in a Box.
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http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu
This essential site is the home of Mosaic, the widely used Windows and
Macintosh-based Web browser. It has the latest versions of most Mosaic-related
tools including the GIF and JPEG viewers and multimedia players, along with
documentation in varying degrees of complexity.
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http://galaxy.einet.net/
EInet's Web site not only houses the latest versions of its Macintosh
and Windows Web clients (MacWeb/ WinWeb); it also contains a swag of information
on topics as diverse as architecture and current affairs.
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http://www.indstate.edu/CU-SeeMe/index.html
CU-SeeMe has caused quite a stir around the Internet, because it offers
public domain video conferencing for Macintosh and Windows. To broadcast
video, you need a Video Spigot (Macintosh) or Windows multimedia-compliant
video card (PC).
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http://www.law.cornell.edu/cello/cellotop.html
This is the home page for the Cello Internet Web browser for Windows.
Cello is primarily a Web client, but also has built-in support for FTP,
NNTP news, phone servers and Gopher. Optional utilities can be used to extend
this to WAIS, Hytelnet, Telnet and Telnet 3270.
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http://web.doc.ic.ac.uk/archieplexform.html/
Archie is a popular way to search anonymous FTP sites for specific files.
Any WWW client can do a simple search, but for full searches you need forms-compatible
client software such as Mosaic 2.0 or MacWeb.
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http://www.omnipresence.com/amosaic/2.0/
The Commodore Amiga is one of the many machines able to access the Internet.
To download the latest version of the company's browser, simply click on
the FTP archive link provided on this page. A complete preview of the browser,
including embedded screen-shots, is available if you wish to appraise it
before download. You may join the Amiga Mosaic mailing list by sending mail
to witbrock@cmu.edu
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Telnet: millbrook.lib.rmit.edu.au
(login: Lynx)
A virtual library maintained by the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
in Australia, providing hypertext access to the Web using the Lynx browser.
This features a textual rather than graphical interface, making it very
like a Gopher menu, except with the click-on links expected from Mosaic.
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