Selected Links

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Mozillazine.org - The Mozilla Magazine
This is the place to go for easily consumable, up to the minute news about Mozilla, the open-source project responsible for creating the next version of Netscape Navigator (5.0). Includes discussion forums, links etc.

Slashdot - News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters
News on the latest computer stuff, tidbits, massive discussion forums. This page is tarted more towards Linux users than those of Microsoft Windows 95, but its still an interesting read.

The Onion - America's Number One News Source
A laugh a minute. Corny news has never been quite this good. Headlines such as "Republicans demands Monica Re-blow Clinton on Senate floor" and "Clinton takes leave of absence to wait in line for Star Wars Part I" Stay up to date, read the Onion.

ABCNews.com - Real News
My favourite news site. Lots of multimedia for those blessed with faster connections, good news, graphics, etc.

Allaire - Software Publisher
The company responsible for Allaire HomeSite and ColdFusion Go. Download.

ZDNet - Mystical Publishing Giant
Lots of net news. Lots of software and hardware reviews. Lots of stuff. The only problem is that the damned thing is often slow and loads wrong.

Download.com - Free Shit
Well not quite, although you can find a lot of stuff here. I'm not a fan of C|Net as a lot of their articles are more than a little bubble brained, and they're very much in bed with Microsoft.

PC World NZ - Local PC rag
I both love and hate this magazine. I get it every month. It has strangely addictive properties, despite the fact that a good deal of the content is from the thicker US version, and they have far too many references to Star Trek for my liking. Also, their idea of "budget scanners" leaves something to be desired. Nevertheless, there are some good local stories, and the Dumb Terminal page is good for a laugh (except the lame Star Trek stuff ;P)

Hotbot - Search Engine
Very underrated search engine. Its my favourite. It doesn't always return the results I want, but it also doesnt return a zillion hits all from the same server like Alta Vista does.

Webreference.com - Webdesign Resource
A very large, very good webdesign site. Loads of tutorials, examples, widgets, splidgets and splogets.

Devedge - Netscape Developer Site
Netscape's huge developer resource, contains a huge number of pages and demos display Netscape Navigator 4.0's (rather weak) scripting ability, but also includes a useful, downloadable JavaScript 1.3 reference.

SiteBuilder Workshop - Microsoft Webdesign Resource
One of the best CSS resources around, if you happen to like Microsoft. This is of course, tailored towards Microsoft Internet Explorer. But the site is so damned usable its instantly likeable. Navigation of the immense CSS and DHTML resource is easy, intuitive and a pleasure to use. You'll want to make sure you're using IE4+ when you visit this, as it doesnt like any version of Netscape Navigator.

MSDN Online - Microsoft Developer Network
This folks, is the mother load when it comes to Windows programming. Includes the gargantuan MSDN Library, which contains details of the Microsoft Foundation Classes, manuals for the Visual Studio tools (for those people who broke their MSDN CD, want updates, or pirated it)

Warning: If you've got the actual MSDN CD, use that instead. The Java applet for the menu is a little slow and using the HTML Help docs on the CD is much faster. Besides, the CD has search and bookmark ability.

Also, the library isn't a tutorial. To actually create anything with Visual C++, you'll need classes or a good book.

Trade & Exchange - Trading Mag
Eat this, Ebay. Okay, so the T&E isn't exactly an auction site, nor does it represent online trading, its just an online edition of their $2.50 print edition which comes out on Mondays and Thursdays. Its better than Ebay because its local, and has a print edition readily available for those times when my eyes get screen burn, or I want to draw on it. Probably not of much interest unless you live in New Zealand (especially Auckland)

Linux Server @ Dept of Electronic Engineering, Auckland University
Some useful Linux software, links to other good linux resources whose addresses I can't remember since I'm in Win95, not Linux, and I don't have my bookmarks on me.

Mozilla.org - The Mozilla Project
Despite what the retards at C|Net say, Netscape 5.0, whenever it is eventually released, will absolutely bury Internet Explorer 5.0 when it comes to standards support. Mozilla.org is the headquarters of the open source development project. If you're a code guru and can figure out Netscape's weird idea of C++, this place will be a dream. It makes my head hurt.

For everyone else however, there are articles outlining exciting new features supposedly supported by Netscape 5.0, including downloadable skins/themes that have the ability to completely change the appearance of the browser, faster page rendering, file system integration, etc.

Also available are Milestone releases (binaries that you can download, install and run), and nightly builds. Yes, you can test the new lizard yourself!

Craccum - Auckland University Student Magazine
A weekly does of insanity, student news, a few interesting ads, columns, all the usual stuff. Numbered backwards. Must be the work of Satan.

 


F R I E N D ' S   S I T E S

People who were kind enough to appear on the tracker stats of my old site as referrers.

Dazzle - Andrea Slate

Mouldy Old HomePage - Ben Gregory

Yay Bubble - (formerly Simon Chong)

The Master's Chambers - "Xplo Eristotle"

Blockbuster - Amer Delic

apathetic.nu - "Lee"

KSMC - Koy Kragh

Millennium VII - My Old Site

 


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