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This thread is for all those incredible websites you find that you want to share with others (no downloads please, there is a thread! ) Please would you not just post a url, but give a bit of background to it as well. Sometimes one finds something not dealing with computers that can be of interest to others other times its all pc related.. (or Mac for those who can afford it! )

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http://isc.sans.org/ is a security site. Don't know if its been mentioned on this forum, cause search brings up Sans the member 8O
It has the SANS Internet storm centre where everyday a volunteer is on duty to watch out for lurking threats, discusses it and where people globally send in warnings. This then is an early warning place where you can find the security trends that might be hitting your network. It "gathers millions of intrusion detection log entries every day". It has lots of security related stuff to read, as well as a great security glossary

I'm not sure who but it was someone on this forum that told me about this site

http://maddox.xmission.com/

The articles are funny as h#ll I've read nearly all of them. But please note, it's all very controversial, and definately to be taken with a dried out ocean of salt, so if you get offended easily, don't even bother

I dunno if anybody has already poted this one, but you can get some sofware, freeware too.
http://www.tucows.com/

I've been working with PCs for quite some time now, and realised that actually having a site with a proper design and layout, and most important for me, a good interconnection. The best site, with access to drivers and the likes is undoubtely the old but still legendary ESS technology. I worship their webmasters, just for having such a clean layout, paired with good and not bloated design. 5/5 star award.
http://www.esstech.com

Nice thread jee! It's only a matter of time, before somebody posts their own site, lol!

I have my eyes set on one continuous spammer, I have a feeling he will...

Here is a nice stuff to find out how things work, www.howstuffworks.com

On the entertainment side, I like:

www.homestarrunner.com / My favourite cartoon

www.ucomics.com / Comics galore.

www.happyt.... Wait, rather not.

Im surprised that nobody thought about starting a thread like this.

cap

here is 1 that has been mentioned under another topic!

http://3564020356.org

a must c if u r interested in complex riddles!!

http://www.hardwarebook.net/ This is the best collection of connector pinouts and cable descriptions that I've come across. Use this quite alot with me being a hardware girl.


http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php? ... ffset=2650 MSConfig startup applications explanations. If you see something in your msconfig startup list that you don't recognise, you can look it up here and it tells you which are the good and bad (virusses, worms, etc.) applications.

http://www.onecomputerguy.com/about.htm This site provides accurate, understandable and easy to find information regarding all versions of Windows.

neon_chameleon wrote:Nice thread jee! It's only a matter of time, before somebody posts their own site, lol!

I reserve the right to delete any post that leads to anything unsavory or to information that is not of interest (to me) Fortunately for you I have an insatiable yearing for knowing different things...

Please guys and gals, like the download thread, use it to share

thanks

btw Jane, great sites! I've added to my del.icio.us site. (its an online bookmark site ) You will like the Elder Geek on Win XP, where he runs a blog, downloads, security update info and many other XP questions and how-tos in simple understandable language.
http://www.theeldergeek.com/index.htm

www.google.com (find anything)

Tolklein wrote:I'm not sure who but it was someone on this forum that told me about this site

http://maddox.xmission.com/

The articles are funny as h#ll I've read nearly all of them. But please note, it's all very controversial, and definately to be taken with a dried out ocean of salt, so if you get offended easily, don't even bother

I can honestly say that I have spent, literally, 4 hours today reading what this guy has to say. What a legend. He is the best.

And dont forget

www.tomshardware.com

Tiza wrote:www.google.com (find anything)

I cant believe I never heard of this search engine. Its so fast! Is it well known?

jee wrote: btw Jane, great sites! I've added to my del.icio.us site. (its an online bookmark site ) You will like the Elder Geek on Win XP, where he runs a blog, downloads, security update info and many other XP questions and how-tos in simple understandable language.
http://www.theeldergeek.com/index.htm

That site is just filled with goodies! I've bookmarked it. Thanks Jee.

http://www.kyrn.org/studio/

All kind of art on this site, but I have been reading her Tempest of the soul comic, about oppressed Elves....

There is a very good site called WebThang at http://www.webthang.co.uk that might be worth a look. It has some great tuts, particularly for Dreamweaver users that can take you through the entire process from the basics to more complicated stuff. There are also stuff on ASP and MS Access, PHP, MySQL etc.

www.hellopeter.com

If you feel like complaining. For real though, they'll follow it up and post a response for you.

www.ebaumsworld.com

Collection of very funny flash animation, videos, prank calls and audio's

http://www.morecrayons.com/palettes/web ... orcube.php
A great little website that explain colour use and your website.

Now here's the one link you have all been waiting for:

http://myweb.absamail.co.za/cono/

Check our Book Three and make your post.

"It's A Good Day To Die....but the day is not yet over"

http://myweb.absamail.co.za/cono/ItsaGo ... 60">[/img]

And then a few websites to help with your colour selections:

http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/style/color/wheel.html

http://www.webwhirlers.com/colors/spinwheel.asp

http://colorblender.com/

http://www.easyrgb.com/index.html

http://wiki.ehow.com/Main-Page
Excellent how-to add to Wikis, with all sorts of wikis that you can look up.

WiKi is an abbreviation for "What I Know Is". Most popular is the Wikipedia, a free encyclopedia.

Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wiki supports hyperlinks and has a simple text syntax for creating new pages and crosslinks between internal pages on the fly.

Wiki is unusual among group communication mechanisms in that it allows the organization of contributions to be edited in addition to the content itself.

http://wiki.org/wiki.cgi?WhatIsWiki

http://games.saix.net

The place for SA Online Gaming.

Dunno if this has ever come up but:

http://www.angryalien.com

Bunnies re-enacting movies in 30 seconds....nuff said