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Computing and Technology Resources

Please let me know if any of these links are broken, obsolete, or inappropriate.

DISCLAIMER: Although I have made every attempt to ascertain the worth and appropriateness of these sites, neither Pender County Schools, Cape Fear Middle School, nor myself can accept any responsibility for the content of any site listed below, or of any site linked to any site listed below. If you come across a linked site on this page or any page in this site that you consider inappropriate, please inform me ASAP and I will re-evaluate it. Thank you.

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Troubleshooting and Resource Guide for Windows (my own non-technical help site)
www.toejumper.net/


5 Star Support (excellent site that offers a comprehensive amount of technical info, tutorials, newsletters, and forums)
www.5starsupport.com/

About.com (if you don't mind a good bit of poking around, you can usually come up with some answers from this site; there's more here than you might think)
www.about.com/

Answers that Work (go here for lots of tips, how-tos, and documents)
www.answersthatwork.com/

Apple History (history of Apple Computers)
www.apple-history.com/

Artificial Intelligence with Denis Susac
ai.about.com/

ASCII Art (home of so many of those cool ASCII art files people love to disseminate)
www.ascii-art.com/

Ask Mr. Excel (take your Excel questions here)
www.mrexcel.com/

Beginners Central (a User's Guide to the Internet, just what it says, and very comprehensive)
northernwebs.com/bc/

Bob Cerelli's Windows Page (an excellent site for Win info)
www.onecomputerguy.com/

C|NET (a big, splashy "techie portal" full of useful information and links)
www.cnet.com/

Computer History and Emulation
www.komkon.org/fms/comp/

Computer History Association of California
www.chac.org/

Computer Museum History Center
www.computerhistory.org/

Computer Museum of America
www.computer-museum.org/

Computer Tutor (nicely designed site with lots of valuable info and an emphasis on fun things to do with your critter)
www.personal-computer-tutor.com/

CyberAngels (good site for parents concerned about their kids' Net safety)
www.cyberangels.org/

Devhead (online resource community for Web developers)
www.zdnet.com/devhead/

DigitalThink (provides a library of computer-related and college courses)
www.digitalthink.com/

Drivers Headquarters
www.drivershq.com/

EasyDOS (a guide to using DOS -- lots of definitions, tips, walkthroughs, and so on)
www.easydos.com/

EasyWindows (a guide to using Windows -- lots of definitions, tips, walkthroughs, and so on)
www.easywindows.com/

Glossary of Technical Terms
support.microsoft.com/support/glossary/

History of the Internet
www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/ivh/frame_theorie.html

Hobbes' Internet Timeline
www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/

IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
www.computer.org/annals/

Internet for Beginners (just what it says; good compendium of info from About)
netforbeginners.about.com/mbody.htm

Internet Web Archive (thousands of gone-but-not-forgotten Web sites are archived here -- you know you gotta go)
www.archive.org/index.html

Internet ScamBusters (a site devoted to debunking the waves of Internet myths and frauds circulating throughout the Net)
www.scambusters.com/

Jan's Illustrated Computer Literacy 101 (fine source of introductory material)
www.jegsworks.com/Lessons/index.html

J.R. Mooneyham's Illustrated Speculative Timeline of Future Technology and Social Change
kurellian.tripod.com/

Kim Komando's Komputer Klinic: Windows (very novice-friendly)
www.komando.com/help/

List of the Keyboard Shortcuts That Are Available in Windows XP
support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q301583

Lockergnome (highly useful newsletters, discussion groups, etc.)
www.lockergnome.com/

Microsoft Internet Guide and Web Tutorial
www.microsoft.com/insider/internet/default.htm

Microsoft Knowledge Base
support.microsoft.com/ or
search.support.microsoft.com/kb/c.asp

Microsoft Office Resource Kit Site
www.microsoft.com/office/ork/home.htm

Obsolete Computer Museum
www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/

PC Guide (enormous site spawned from an attempt to organize FAQs from the alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt newsgroup; lots and lots of info, including walkthroughs and reference guides for every PC component known to man)
www.pcguide.com/

PC World Magazine
www.pcworld.com/home/index.html

PC World Online Tips
www.pcworld.com/heres_how/

PC911 (lots of PC info here, along with message boards and the usual extras)
www.pcnineoneone.com/

PowerPoint FAQ
www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/

Retrocomputing Museum
www.tuxedo.org/retro/

Rob Rosenberger's Computer Virus Myths
www.vmyths.com/

SitePoint Webmaster Resources (great site for Webmasters, and besides, I write for these guys!)
www.sitepoint.com/

Smart Computing (online presence of the monthly publications -- lots of info here)
www.smartcomputing.com/

Surf Swell Island (Disney-owned site that teaches younger kids how to Web-surf safely)
www.surfswellisland.com/

Tech Museum Interactive Site
www.thetech.org/hyper/

TECHtionary (Flash-driven online technical dictionary that often gives you animated illustrations of a phrase or concept)
www.crosstouch.com/techtionary/index_in.html

Tom's Hardware Guide (an excellent source for chipset information, etc)
www.tomshardware.com/

W3Schools (excellent site to learn HTML, CSS, DHTML, XHTML, WML, DOM, WAP, Flash, JavaScript, and other Web necessities)
www.w3schools.com/

Web Wise Kids (site for teen Web surfers who want to surf safely -- or whose parents want them to)
www.webwisekids.com/

WebChron: The Web Chronology Project (hyperlinked histories of various areas of the world, cross-related to each other)
campus.northpark.edu/history/WebChron/

Where Is It? (compendium of technical sites, links, reviews, etc)
dubber6.tripod.com/whereisit/

Windows Guide Network (lots of info, mostly on the Registry, scripting, and security)
www.winguides.com/

Windows Shutdown and Restart Center (very informative site)
www.aumha.org/a/shutdown.htm

Windows XP FAQ (the latest info on Microsoft's latest OS)
www.winsupersite.com/faq/whistler.asp

Woody's Office Portal (help for users of Microsoft Office and other Microsoft products)
www.wopr.com/

ZDNet (a huge techie site featuring all the resources of the Ziff-Davis publishing group)
www.zdnet.com/

More to come...

 


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