I love
knowledge and everything about them! Below are my favorites
knowledge-base Web sites:
Information, Technologies & Sciences
Programmer's Ground
Object Central, founded by Dr. Bruce E. Wampler, to advance
object-oriented programming, provides you with good information
about object-oriented (OO) programming and available OO resources,
including free software and source code, guides, tutorials, and
links. It also offers help information for the VC++ GUI, the V IDE,
and general information useful to C and C++ programmers.
Learn to Program
This Scottsdale Community College site is geared towards students
desiring to become computer professionals, and computer
professionals wanting to expand their computing skills. Providing
an interactive learning environment, its lessons are based on
teaching C, C++, Java, internet programming (client-side,
server-side, database), software engineering, GNU tools, open source
programming.
Art of Code Masters
As a
treat for hardcore programmers, this site offers hundreds of useful
Microsoft resources and free technical documentation for download
about ASP, ASPX, .NET, Active Directory, C++, C#, Visual Studio,
Data Access, BizTalk, Security, Data Mining, BI, PocketPC, Tablet
PC, SQL, TSQL, and even more.
Computer Education for All
TechTeutorials provides a database of free tutorials covering all
aspects of computing. Aimed to be a complete computer guide site
for IT professionals as well as beginners and hobbyists, it delivers
the best of freely available resources, including tutorials,
whitepapers, tips, FAQs, Howtos to users, by integrating content and
functionality. It also provides links to free practice exams, study
notes, etc.
Tech Watchdogs
This blog-style site keeps an eye on the tech industry's most
anti-competitive practices giving close look to the topics, such as
the fun Flash animation to the snarky commentary on SCO's bizarre
shots at Linux to the Intel-AMD wars.
Linux Lesson
Here is a free online Linux system administration training, giving
you a well structured overview of the Linux OS for both average
users and system administrators. It covers many kinds of activities
that a Linux user and Linux system administrator has to be concerned
about. Also it has some helpful links to online Linux resources.
Digital Tech Books
This tech e-library site contains over 100 full-text ebooks for you
to have online access. It offers 62 programming books, 20 operating
system books, and 10 application ebooks, including the following:
XML Complete, Red Had Linux Unleashed, UNIX Unleashed, and Teach
Yourself Photoshop in 14 days.
Develop an Eye for Graphics
On this
site, you will over 6,000 tutorials on graphic design and graphic
arts. Besides it provides techniques, tips and tricks covering many
graphic software applications including: Photoshop, Illustrator,
CorelDRAW, PhotoPaint, Flash, After Effects, Fireworks, 3D graphics,
and other graphics tutorials.
The Lab that Never Sleeps!
MadSci
Network is a scientific repository that provides answers to all your
science related queries. The replies are given by a collective
cranium of a bunch of mad scientists. This lab also allows you
virtually run some crazy experiments and browse the collection of
oddities and other ends as well.
Ask Dr. Universe
If you
are an inquisitive explorer, this website maintained by Washington
State University is a must visit source for you. It enlightens
kinds of all ages on the most mind boggling issues. It proves
fields’ questions in a variety of areas, science and non-science.
Bits from the Tech Front
This vendor-neutral site is considered to be the most comprehensive
and trusted source of security issues on the net. It provides
objective, timely and comprehensive security information to all
members of the security community, from end users, security
hobbyists and network administrators to security consultants, IT
Managers. Find out which virus is doing the rounds at this simple
yet practical site.
Coolest Tools
Times's
this edition provides an overview of innovative side of technology
to show how innovation has surpasses even the imagination barriers
of a layman. Much to your amazement, in its animatronics category,
you will find dander-less lap cats, bi-pedal personal agents, and
the perfect beach-blanket companion, Robo-lobster and much more.
Master Thy Art
Tessellations.org is a dedicated graphics site and not intended as a
mathematical treatise. It provides you a chance to learn the secret
of tessella (mosaics of ancient Rome). Its DIY tutorial invites you
to dust off the ruler and pencil and start making your own shapes.
You can also peruse several sterling instances of the form and brush
up on a little art history.
Home Automation Knowledgebase
This site provides a precise look at the way technology is
changing our work and home. Technocopia explains how you can record
your old vinyl records onto CDs or organize your photos using a PC.
It encourages the readers to anticipate ubiquity in home automation:
computers in the cutlery, robot pets, and GPS transmitters on the
kids. Also you will find articles on digital television recorders
and PC jukeboxes.
Robots in Victorian Era
Here is
the most extensive collection of images and information on
Victorian-era robots to be found on the internet. The information
dates back to the world's first robot, the Steam Man, created in
1865! So go back in time and get an illustrated accounts of
automatons such as the Electric Man and the Automatic Man.
Sun-Earth Media Watch
Mars this site provides a fiery portraits of the great ball of fire,
the sun. In detail, it tackles questions such as what exactly is
extreme UV illustrations of its interior. So don't miss movies of
coronal mass ejections, solar flares, and gigantic waves that roll
over its surface.
Sound from Space
If you
ever wanted to listen to the queer sounds of offworld entities, such
as those of radiowave bursts, mainly, though much of it is as
synthesizer-swirly as any Hearts-of-space could hope, this resource
provides you with an opportunity to fulfill your desire. If you
have a liking for the images of space retrieved by the Hubble, let
this offering by the University of Iowa give your ears something to
enjoy.
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
This valuable source provides a virtual tour of the Brookhaven
National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and provides
you a chance to find out what happens when an ion is smashed. Also
learn about particle physics and the cutting-edge research being
done in the field. Multimedia animation gives you true picture of a
collision and the construction of th3e collider.
What is Nanotechnology?
By now you must have heard a lot about nanotechnology. But do you
understand the fundamental concept? For many of us, the
Nanosciences are as obscure as the internet was to the generally
population a decade ago. Steve Lenhert's overview can help you
grasp the history of the field, the ideas behind it, and what its
partisans believe it can accomplish.
Be a Seti Team-member
Watch
out! Seti is online to provide you a chance to help in the search of
extra-terrestrial life. Based around a software, downloadable from
their website, which enables your PC to analyze astronomical data
and participate in the Seti's quest to explore the universe. So hit
the link to get full details of the project.
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Health & Care
The Biotech World
This website by University of Texas is designed for students of
biology and chemistry. It includes an illustrated dictionary of the
life sciences, a chemical acronyms database, fundamental information
on Glycolysis and Bioinformatics. Its Cyberbotanica link describes
the various botanical compounds used in cancer treatment and the
plants that produce them.
Reviving the Extinct Animals
This
site provides an interactive look at using reproductive technology
to make clones of extinct animals. For your understanding the show
is presented in simple interactive format. If you are a student or
someone interested in biogenetics process reach out for your
computer and try your hand at the process on this easy-to-understand
site.
An Insight into Anatomy
Andrew McGann's this website is designed for children interested n
learning a lot about human body. It provides explanations and
diagrams on each of the seven physiological systems (skeletal,
muscular, circulatory, immune, nervous, digestive, and
respiratory). There's also a segment on the five main sense,
explaining how each works and pointing out a number of things that
are not even found in anatomy textbooks.
Visual Dictionary of Anatomy
Drawn
mainly from the repository of the National Library of Medicine, this
website peeks into the unusual world of anatomical imagery in some
of its most astonishing incarnations, from 1500 to the present. It
allows you to play with cadavers, see body parts as art, and learn
how science never got in the way of good entertainment.
Science & Health Education
This educational website focuses on subjects such as stress and
physical fitness using easy to understand language, games, quizzes,
and several interactive features. It also serves as an aid to
teachers and parents, providing them with interactive, educational,
and fun activates that are linked to the national education
standards for science and health.
What is
Alzheimer's Disease?
This tremendous site is a guide to how you can spend quality time
with your Alzheimer's-suffering loved one is not to be missed. In
detail it provides useful information on what we currently know
about Alzheimer's, documents how one family deals with the genetic
issues with one strain of the disorder, and attempts to explain what
the experience of Alzheimer's is like for both victims and family
members.
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Kid's Zone
Kids Special
Dive Deep into Eco-Friendly Life
Through
this site you will learn how our disposable habits can be converted
to positive changes for planet Earth. It pulls useful ideas
straight from the air, water, and earth to help us lead a more
eco-friendly life by offering us a healthy dose of awareness and
small adjustments to habits. It touches on topics such as
advantages of growing your own food, or alternative-fuel cars and
how they affect the air we breathe.
The Wild Realm
Omaha who has a long-standing commitment to conservation that dates
back more than 40 years provides detailed information on protecting
the world's natural resources for professionals and general
information seekers. It gives greatest depiction of wild life using
wonderful multimedia clippings.
Red Planet for Kids
This
kid-friendly site puts visitors very close to the Mars. So if you
are one of those looking for any signs of life here? This link
should do the trick. It allows the visitors to start their
adventure with an informative and fun look at how the "robotic
scientists" do their job by being an explorer, chemist, geologist,
meteorologist, and photographer all-in-one. Of course, the photos
and video section is required viewing.
All about Dinosaurs
Dinobase is a remarkable repository on dinosaurs that includes
species lists and references, plus heaps of never-seen-before images
of dinosaurs. The site also provides access to some superb
articles, discussing what were the dinosaurs, and how did they
live? Everything from their eggs and nests, to why cause these
remarkable creatures to eventually extinct.
Valley of Dinosaur
This
site answers to many interesting questions about dinosaurs, such as
what was teh largest dinosaur? If dinosaur is male or female? The
info presented caters kids of all ages, with loads of clearly
indexed data on every aspect of the prehistoric creatures. The
content also in clude a brilliant coloring book, picture gallery,
quizzes, printouts, jokes, jumbled images and more.
