What's New on the Useful Links website

What's New on the Useful Links website

Search Engines

9th October 2003 Vivisimo A new concept in Search Engines. Clustering is a good way to sort those results

22nd June 2001 IXQuick Another new Meta-Search Engine. Fast and good.

9th September 2000 Brightgate New Search engine that looks through multiple search engines for you.

24th February 2000 Lycos MP3 Search Engine Lycos now provides an MP3 Search Engine with 500,000 MP3 titles to choose from. Just enter the track name or Artist.

9th February 2000 RankThis Website Rankings This site enables you to check where your site is ranked with 8 of the largest search engines. Also describes how these search engines do the ranking.

5th February 2000 ArribaVista Picture Finder This site allows you to search for pictures on the Internet by a normal search word, category or a list of word pictures.

5th February 2000 Google Google is a new search engine. It uses a complicated mathematical analysis, calculated on more than a billion hyperlinks on the web, to return high-quality search results so you don't have to sift through junk.

15th January 2000 Switchboard (Yellow and White Pages etc) A resource for locating people, places and businesses etc. Also a good stepping off point for locating other sites.

8th January 2000 UK Max UK Max is a primarily UK focussed search engine but with the ability to search worldwide also.

Utilities

11th June 2001 Font Identifier This site is a great resource for identifying Fonts using a question and answer format. Also provides links to free fonts etc.

27th January 2001 WHOIS Advertised as "the Smartest Who Is Interface on the Internet". Look up any .com, .net, .org and .edu domain names here.

26th April 2001 Dictionary (English etc) Good site for looking up words. Includes links for Jargon and Writing.

8th March 2001 Acronym Finder Want to know what that acronym means? Here is the site which explains them all. You can even add new ones if not already there YMMV.

8th March 2001 Homework Helper A fantastic collection of references for any subject you wish including dictionaries of all kinds. A one-stop shop for not just doing the homework.

25th November 2000 How Stuff Works How Stuff Works is a great place to come to learn about how things work. Have you ever wondered how the engine in your car works, or what gears do, or what makes the inside of your refrigerator cold or how the internet and servers work or how CD players work? Then How Stuff Works is the place for you! A new article gets added every week.

19th November 2000 Today's Calendar and Clock page This page lists everything you want to know about today's date and time. An incredible collection of information and links about the date and time.

17th November 2000 Speaking Clock (Multilingual) A Multilingual Speaking clock for your PC. Just a bit of fun.

25th September 2000 Lookup in Almanacs, Encyclopedias etc. Look up all kinds of interesting information and facts from this good selection of resources.

Web Development

27th January 2003 Web Design Helper Free web design templates and many links to web design resources

30th November 2000 XML parser (Microsoft) Microsoft's XML parser written in Java

30th November 2000 XML (Developer.com guide) Web site Developer.com's tutorial on XML

16th November 2000 Buttonz and Tilez The B-Zone, home page of Bjoern Ischo, the author of the very excellent program Buttonz and Tilez which makes designing Web buttons and Tiles a snip and also Khaos Rhei, a fractal generator. Also has other great downloads.

13th November 2000 Webreference Site (DHTML etc) Great DHTML examples, HTML, Web Design Tutorials, Graphics and much more

30th June 2000 Web Resources Raphael Pirker's well constructed Web Pages about webpage design offering lots of information, tutorials, examples, source and a newsletter

24th June 2000 Netscape Navigator 4 Object Roadmap Very comprehensive graphical document on the Netscape Document Object Model.

20th May 2000 FAQs
(HTML ,Java, Javascript & XML) This is the home page of irt.org with links to several excellent FAQs including HTML, Java, Javascript and XML. There are also several tutorials and articles as well as other great links.

9th February 2000 Image Mechanic/Graphics Workshop The Image Mechanic is one of the premiere online graphics workshops. Here you'll find powerful imaging tools which you can use for free to create your web-graphics as well as helpful articles about web-design.

3rd February 2000 CGI programming Tutorial CGI online programming class. Helps people learn CGI. CGI is thought of as some cryptic, difficult thing, but it's really not. Everything you need to do to learn CGI programming, step by step. Introduction to writing Perl CGI scripts, the basics of writing CGI's, and several examples of common CGI programming applications for the Web.

13th January 2000 Bobby (Web Page Checker) Bobby allows you to check your Web Pages for accessibility and validity against many versions and makes of browsers.

Miscellaneous

9th September 2000 AddAll Bookfinder Amazing bookfinder site. It will find all references to your required book by title, author, ISBN or keyword and display all the places you can buy the book in ascending order of price. Deals with used books also.

12th April 2000 Network for IT Professionals This site hosts IT news articles and links to all the latest IT stories.

12th April 2000 IT Library The IT Library contains the full text online for a large number of IT books. It is all free.

10th March 2000 CompInfo (Computing News) CompInfo has links to What's News in Information Technology. If you want to find out the latest information about products, companies or product strategies, then this is the section to read.

15th February 2000 FAQs and more FAQs This site hosts links to just about every FAQ you would ever wish to view (except one for the HP3000!).

9th February 2000 Ultimate Directory of Gratis Software (Tudogs). Download software includes Authoring & Web Design, Graphics software, Clipart, Animation, WebTools, Windows, Music, Games, Education, Business & Finance, Health, News, Special Recipes.

28th January 2000 Softseek Explore and download a ton of shareware, freeware and evaluation software.

Windows

4th february 2000 Windows2000 readiness analyzer The Windows 2000 Readiness Analyzer tool analyzes your system and reports potentially incompatible hardware devices and software applications. The tool compares the devices and applications on your system against a list of known issues. Although this check also occurs during Windows 2000 Setup, you can download and run the tool before installing Windows 2000 to help ensure your installation will succeed.

24th June 2000 Visual Basic Helper (& Links) Great starting page for all things Visual Basic. Tips and tricks, articles and links etc.

18th May 2000 Winfinder. Windows Resource Search Engine This is THE search engine for Windows NT and Backoffice. It indexes nearly 2.5 million pages dedicated to MS Windows NT and Backoffice.

12th April 2000 Windows NT Magazine Online Catch the latest Windows NT industry news and information.

7th April 2000 Codename: Windows X This site has links to many major Windows resources. It also has tips and tricks, news on Windows 98 and 2000 and a download section.

24th February 2000 Euro Enabled Fonts for MSOffice Download additional fonts with the Euro symbol included from the Microsoft page. Fonts include Arial Black, Arial Narrow, Book Antiqua, Bookman Old Style, Century Gothic, Comic Sans MS, Garamond, Haettenschweiler, Impact, Monotype Corsiva, Tahoma, Tahoma Bold, Trebuchet MS and Verdana.

10th February 2000 Windows 98 Central A great resource, mainly dealing with Windows 98 but also News and Reviews etc

10th February 2000 Windows 98 Lots of Windows 98 news and reviews but also much more.

10th February 2000 Ultimate Windows Resources ActiveWindows - Activating The Ultimate Windows Resources. Here is the latest news about Microsoft Windows, along with Tips & Tricks, Downloads, Articles and more.

10th February 2000 Netigen Web - The Online Source Windows Tech news, Reviews, Editorials, Tips and Freeware all available here.

Linux (New)

22nd March 2000 GNOME Desktop GNOME stands for GNU Network Object Model Environment. The GNOME project intends to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. GNOME is part of the GNU project, and it is free software compliant with the OpenSource (tm) definition. The desktop will consist of small utilities and larger applications which share a consistent look and feel. GNOME uses GTK+ as the GUI toolkit for all GNOME-compliant applications.

11th March 2000 Linux Online! Probably the best online resource for Linux. There is so much information here, leave yourself plenty of time to browse.

3rd March 2000 LinuxBerg (Tucows) Tucows ultimate collection of free Linux software. Ranges from Games to Utilities.

9th February 2000 Linux Applications The Linux Applications and Utilities Page is a listing of Linux open source, commercial, shareware and freeware applications, utility programs, development tools and servers having their own web pages.

9th February 2000 Linux Databases A list of SQL databases and toolsfor Linux. An increasingly large number of databases are available for Linux. The list has tripled in size since Dec 1996, and continues to grow weekly! And it is still not a complete listing.

9th February 2000 Linux Software Applications and Utilities for newer Linux users. This site is directed towards the newer Linux users who are looking specifically for the most user-friendly, FREE apps out there.

Search Engines
9th October 2003	Vivisimo	A new concept in Search Engines. Clustering is a good way to sort those results
22nd June 2001	IXQuick	Another new Meta-Search Engine. Fast and good.
9th September 2000	Brightgate	New Search engine that looks through multiple search engines for you.
24th February 2000	Lycos MP3 Search Engine	Lycos now provides an MP3 Search Engine with 500,000 MP3 titles to choose from. Just enter the track name or Artist.
9th February 2000	RankThis Website Rankings	This site enables you to check where your site is ranked with 8 of the largest search engines. Also describes how these search engines do the ranking.
5th February 2000	ArribaVista Picture Finder	This site allows you to search for pictures on the Internet by a normal search word, category or a list of word pictures.
5th February 2000	Google	Google is a new search engine. It uses a complicated mathematical analysis, calculated on more than a billion hyperlinks on the web, to return high-quality search results so you don't have to sift through junk.
15th January 2000	Switchboard (Yellow and White Pages etc)	A resource for locating people, places and businesses etc. Also a good stepping off point for locating other sites.
8th January 2000	UK Max	UK Max is a primarily UK focussed search engine but with the ability to search worldwide also.

Utilities
11th June 2001	Font Identifier	This site is a great resource for identifying Fonts using a question and answer format. Also provides links to free fonts etc.
27th January 2001	WHOIS	Advertised as "the Smartest Who Is Interface on the Internet". Look up any .com, .net, .org and .edu domain names here.
26th April 2001	Dictionary (English etc)	Good site for looking up words. Includes links for Jargon and Writing.
8th March 2001	Acronym Finder	Want to know what that acronym means? Here is the site which explains them all. You can even add new ones if not already there YMMV.
8th March 2001	Homework Helper	A fantastic collection of references for any subject you wish including dictionaries of all kinds. A one-stop shop for not just doing the homework.
25th November 2000	How Stuff Works	How Stuff Works is a great place to come to learn about how things work. Have you ever wondered how the engine in your car works, or what gears do, or what makes the inside of your refrigerator cold or how the internet and servers work or how CD players work? Then How Stuff Works is the place for you! A new article gets added every week.
19th November 2000	Today's Calendar and Clock page	This page lists everything you want to know about today's date and time. An incredible collection of information and links about the date and time.
17th November 2000	Speaking Clock (Multilingual)	A Multilingual Speaking clock for your PC. Just a bit of fun.
25th September 2000	Lookup in Almanacs, Encyclopedias etc.	Look up all kinds of interesting information and facts from this good selection of resources.

Web Development
27th January 2003	Web Design Helper	Free web design templates and many links to web design resources
30th November 2000	XML parser (Microsoft)	Microsoft's XML parser written in Java
30th November 2000	XML (Developer.com guide)	Web site Developer.com's tutorial on XML
16th November 2000	Buttonz and Tilez	The B-Zone, home page of Bjoern Ischo, the author of the very excellent program Buttonz and Tilez which makes designing Web buttons and Tiles a snip and also Khaos Rhei, a fractal generator. Also has other great downloads.
13th November 2000	Webreference Site (DHTML etc)	Great DHTML examples, HTML, Web Design Tutorials, Graphics and much more
30th June 2000	Web Resources	Raphael Pirker's well constructed Web Pages about webpage design offering lots of information, tutorials, examples, source and a newsletter
24th June 2000	Netscape Navigator 4 Object Roadmap	Very comprehensive graphical document on the Netscape Document Object Model.
20th May 2000	FAQs (HTML ,Java, Javascript & XML)	This is the home page of irt.org with links to several excellent FAQs including HTML, Java, Javascript and XML. There are also several tutorials and articles as well as other great links.
9th February 2000	Image Mechanic/Graphics Workshop	The Image Mechanic is one of the premiere online graphics workshops. Here you'll find powerful imaging tools which you can use for free to create your web-graphics as well as helpful articles about web-design.
3rd February 2000	CGI programming Tutorial	CGI online programming class. Helps people learn CGI. CGI is thought of as some cryptic, difficult thing, but it's really not. Everything you need to do to learn CGI programming, step by step. Introduction to writing Perl CGI scripts, the basics of writing CGI's, and several examples of common CGI programming applications for the Web.
13th January 2000	Bobby (Web Page Checker)	Bobby allows you to check your Web Pages for accessibility and validity against many versions and makes of browsers.

Miscellaneous
9th September 2000	AddAll Bookfinder	Amazing bookfinder site. It will find all references to your required book by title, author, ISBN or keyword and display all the places you can buy the book in ascending order of price. Deals with used books also.
12th April 2000	Network for IT Professionals	This site hosts IT news articles and links to all the latest IT stories.
12th April 2000	IT Library	The IT Library contains the full text online for a large number of IT books. It is all free.
10th March 2000	CompInfo (Computing News)	CompInfo has links to What's News in Information Technology. If you want to find out the latest information about products, companies or product strategies, then this is the section to read.
15th February 2000	FAQs and more FAQs	This site hosts links to just about every FAQ you would ever wish to view (except one for the HP3000!).
9th February 2000	Ultimate Directory of Gratis Software (Tudogs).	Download software includes Authoring & Web Design, Graphics software, Clipart, Animation, WebTools, Windows, Music, Games, Education, Business & Finance, Health, News, Special Recipes.
28th January 2000	Softseek	Explore and download a ton of shareware, freeware and evaluation software.

Windows
4th february 2000	Windows2000 readiness analyzer	The Windows 2000 Readiness Analyzer tool analyzes your system and reports potentially incompatible hardware devices and software applications. The tool compares the devices and applications on your system against a list of known issues. Although this check also occurs during Windows 2000 Setup, you can download and run the tool before installing Windows 2000 to help ensure your installation will succeed.
24th June 2000	Visual Basic Helper (& Links)	Great starting page for all things Visual Basic. Tips and tricks, articles and links etc.
18th May 2000	Winfinder. Windows Resource Search Engine	This is THE search engine for Windows NT and Backoffice. It indexes nearly 2.5 million pages dedicated to MS Windows NT and Backoffice.
12th April 2000	Windows NT Magazine Online	Catch the latest Windows NT industry news and information.
7th April 2000	Codename: Windows X	This site has links to many major Windows resources. It also has tips and tricks, news on Windows 98 and 2000 and a download section.
24th February 2000	Euro Enabled Fonts for MSOffice	Download additional fonts with the Euro symbol included from the Microsoft page. Fonts include Arial Black, Arial Narrow, Book Antiqua, Bookman Old Style, Century Gothic, Comic Sans MS, Garamond, Haettenschweiler, Impact, Monotype Corsiva, Tahoma, Tahoma Bold, Trebuchet MS and Verdana.
10th February 2000	Windows 98 Central	A great resource, mainly dealing with Windows 98 but also News and Reviews etc
10th February 2000	Windows 98	Lots of Windows 98 news and reviews but also much more.
10th February 2000	Ultimate Windows Resources	ActiveWindows - Activating The Ultimate Windows Resources. Here is the latest news about Microsoft Windows, along with Tips & Tricks, Downloads, Articles and more.
10th February 2000	Netigen Web - The Online Source	Windows Tech news, Reviews, Editorials, Tips and Freeware all available here.

Linux (New)
22nd March 2000	GNOME Desktop	GNOME stands for GNU Network Object Model Environment. The GNOME project intends to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. GNOME is part of the GNU project, and it is free software compliant with the OpenSource (tm) definition. The desktop will consist of small utilities and larger applications which share a consistent look and feel. GNOME uses GTK+ as the GUI toolkit for all GNOME-compliant applications.
11th March 2000	Linux Online!	Probably the best online resource for Linux. There is so much information here, leave yourself plenty of time to browse.
3rd March 2000	LinuxBerg (Tucows)	Tucows ultimate collection of free Linux software. Ranges from Games to Utilities.
9th February 2000	Linux Applications	The Linux Applications and Utilities Page is a listing of Linux open source, commercial, shareware and freeware applications, utility programs, development tools and servers having their own web pages.
9th February 2000	Linux Databases	A list of SQL databases and toolsfor Linux. An increasingly large number of databases are available for Linux. The list has tripled in size since Dec 1996, and continues to grow weekly! And it is still not a complete listing.
9th February 2000	Linux Software	Applications and Utilities for newer Linux users. This site is directed towards the newer Linux users who are looking specifically for the most user-friendly, FREE apps out there.