Apple Computer

Apple Computer.

• Apple Computer
  • The New iMacs - Faster, Cheaper, More Powerful
  • Apple Cinema Displays
• Apple Mac App Store (MAC)
• Apple Computer Technical Support
• Apple Software Updates
• Apple Developer Services and Products
• Education
• iMac Support Site
• Open Transport

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Be Computer

Be, Inc., went out of busines in 2001. Although BeOS was never released to the public domain, it is best represented by Haiku, open-source operating system inspired by the BeOS

• Be, Inc. - A mirror of the old, defunct Be, Inc., web site
• The Haiku Project - Open Source
• ars technica: Hands-on: Haiku, the future of BeOS, is pure poetry 2009
• BeForever - Current News
• BeBits - BOS Software - Site is still operating with Haiku apps
• Haikuware - Software for Haiku
• BeGroovy - A blog on BeOS & Haiku
• BeOS Wiki
• The BeOS Bible - Now free online book

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College Oriented Sites

PColleges & University sites interest to me 8-)

• Purdue University - site of one of the top 5 engineering school in the USA and aluma mater to several Earlys
• Purdue University Athletics - Go Boilers! Boiler Up!

Books and Book Clubs

Here are some online bookstores and clubs.

• Amazon.com Books and Kindle Family of e-Ink readers
• Barnes and Noble Books - On-line books and the nook e-ink readers
• Best Book Buys Search  - Search for best Price
• Yahoo!'s List of Book Price Search Sites 

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• Banned Books Online - Books that have been the subject of Censorship
• The Great Books of Western Civilization - Mercer University's Great Books Program
• New York Times Books - The consumate book review site (requires username/password which is free)

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Desktop Pictures, Wallpaper and Theme Sites

If you're a desktop picture/wallpaper/theme junkie, like I am, theses are the sites for you.  (See also my other page here.)

• Cognitive Distortion - Another nice Wallpaper site, both photos and computer art
• Desktop Consoles - Shareware Wallpaper and icons
• Desktopia - Collection of all types of wallpaper
• Digital Blasphemy - Computer art for everybody - landscapes, space and 100s of 3rd party pictures
• Edenpics - Free nature wallpapers and nature pictures
• Iconfactory - Premier place for icons to enhance you mac experience  
• ilicon - nice computer art - I like the Holiday
• MacDesktops - Great Desktop Pictures Archive!
• Rampant Mac - Very Good Wallpaper!
• ResExcellence - Mac Site devoted to modifying the MacOS with icons - Not for the Faint-of-heart!
• Themes & Schemes are for both Macintosh, MS Windows and UNIX/LINUX computers
  • Macintosh
    • Kaleidoscope - Home Site; get K and see hundreds of schemes
    • RAILhead Design - Not only Schemes, but wallpaper, icons and fonts
  • MS Windows - Lots of Windows theme places out there, but here are my favorites
    • Copland Icons - Mac like icons for Windows 9x/ME/2000
    • E-Icons - Icons & a program to change them
    • Window Blinds - Best way to get a PeeCee looking like a Mac (Aqua), but more Windows looks too - customize the whole Windows GUI with Desktop X and other software
    • WinBack Scratcher - Change System level icons and many other attributes
    • IconPax - Very nice icon sets and some very nice patterns in .bmp format
    • Icon Street -
    • WinMac - Add a Mac menu-bar to your PC
    • Virtual Plastic - Windows GUI info can be found here
  • UNIX/LINUX
    • Themes.org - All themes for the alternative OS

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Desktop Publishing

Sites that are involved with desktop publishing.

• Esselte Online - Get a free font every month!

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Development and Scripting

Stuff for Macintosh programmers and scripters.

• Apple Developer World
• Apple Tech Info Library
• Apple's AppleScript
• Frontier Manual
• Frontier Outpost
• MacTech(tm) Magazine
• Metrowerks Worldwide
• scripting.com

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Digital Camera Sites

Photography and Digital Cameras sites.

• Digital Camera Resource Page - The First Site to Visit/Read
• American Museum of Photography - Exhibits a variety of artistis, research center, bookstore, shops & cafe
• Battery City - Rechargeable Battery Kit for Digital Cameras and other portable devices
• Cameraid - Program to download digital camera images
• Cicada Photography Resource - For the Serious Photographer
• Digital Cameras & Imaging 
• Digital Review - News and Reviews with a buying guide & links to other sites
• Eastman Kodak 
• Masters of Photography - An excellent site for your personal use of the great masters
• Photo.net - Philip Greenspun (MIT) extensive site
• Steve's Digicams - Another excellent site with reviews and more

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Entertainment Sites

TV, Radio and Movies

• TV Sites
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  • PBS ONLINE 
• Radio Sites
  • AppleTalk Radio Show - Wednesday Nights 6-8 pm Pacific Time (9-11 Eastern Time)
  • MacRadio - Sunday Nights 7-8 pm Central Time - MacRadio.net
  • A Parrie Home Companion - Saturday Nights Live 5-7 pm Central or Sunday Repeat 12-2 pm Central
• Movie Sites
  • CineMachine - Movie Review Search Engine

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Financial Sites

Stocks and Bonds! Oh, my!

• Armchair Millionaire - Goal is to help you build a million dollar portfolio
• Brill's Mutual Funds Interactive - Famous Mutual Fund Site offering lots of information on funds
• CNNfn - CNN's Financial News
• Daily Stocks - Stock and Fund seacrch site
• Fund Focus - Fund information and search site
• Invest-O-Rama - Easy to use investiment site (Everything you wanted to know)
• INVESTools - Financial Newletters for Sale.
• MacTicker - Mac tickertape program ($25 Shareware) Cool!
• Money Magazine - Money Mag's excellent site
• Mutual Fund Investors's Center - a nonprofit group site with lots of Good Stuff!
• Smart Money - The magazine's web site
• Upside Today - Another site dedicated to stocks & analysis

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Fun Sites

Sites with some entertainment value.

• Answering Machine - Get Answering Messages Here!

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Game Sites

Neat Macintosh Games that are fun to play and the sites that support the games.

• Ambrosia Software - Home of Mars Rising Shareware
• Dark Forces Homepage - Star War Games: Dark Forces, Jedi Knights, etc.
• DogFight City - The Fighter Pilot Trainer
• Game Codebook - Shareware database with hints and stuff about games
• InfoMac Games Directory 
• Mac Game Gate - Site with good Mac Game News and links to game sites galore
• Mac Gamer's Ledge - The Best Mac Game Web Site!
• Myst Hint Site and Riven Hint Site 
• WarBirds for the Mac! - Internet pay-for-play WWII fighter simulation
• University of Michigan Mac Archievs Game Directory 

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GarageBand

Sites devoted to Apple's GarageBand Subjects

• Apple Support for GarageBand 
• Apple's Discussion Forums for GarageBand versions 
• Bullets and Bones - Although a rock band site, this link has more GB info than any other site! 
• LoopaMac - Hundreds of Free GarageBand loops 
• The GarageDoor - All Things GarageBand 
• MacJams - Mac music community with Free musician web hosting, music downloads, forums, loops, chat, and more
• MacLoops - Free GarageBand and Logic loops
• MonsterZero - For guitarists who use GarageBand and Line 6 Spider III amp 

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Hardware

Sites devoted to Hardware Subjects

• All Firewire - Firewire (IEEE 1394) Products News and Information site
• All USB - USB Product News and Information site

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Info-Mac & University of Michigan Macintosh Archives

HTTP versions of the Info-Mac archive for Macintosh Software

• Info-Mac Digest (Frames) - Web Browser Format - Digester (Non Frames)
• Info-Mac HyperArchive - THE INFO-MAC Archive

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Mac OS X

Sites for Macintosh OS X Resources - Programs, Reviews and other information

• General Information Sites
  • The GNU Mac OS X Public Archive - Open Source software for Mac OS X
  • Installation Instructions for Mac OS X OldWorld Macs (Pre G3) - For the Pre G3 PCI Macs
  • MacAddict OS X SuperSite - MacAddict Magazine's All-In-One site.
  • Mac OS X 10.0 Resources - Latest Apple Technical Information Library (TIL) notices
  • Mac OS X Hints - Information Clearing House on Mac OS X Tips
  • Mac OS X Review - Continueously updated review of OS X
  • MacOSXUsersGuide - A young Daily News Site
  • Native OS X Applications - All the app's for Mac OS X & Darwin X
  • Project Freedom - tips for bringing Classic Mac OS feel to Mac OS X
  • The X Files - OS X Information From Around The Net
  • WebMonkey - Web Developers site with articles on Web Serving from Mac OS X
  • X Appeal.org - News, discussion forums, etc.
• Darwin Sites - Darwin is Apple's flavor of UNIX, which is the engine of Mac OS X
  • MacInstruct: Intro to Darwin Part I  - Good site if you want to learn about Darwin (Part II)
• X Windows (UNIX) with Mac OS X - This is for UNIX knowledgeable individuals
  • XFree86 for Darwin - Mainly dealing with running X Windows instead of Aqua
  • Xfree86 Instructions For Running X on Darwin/Mac OS X  - For UNIX Users
  • XFree86 On Darwin - Info & Patches to get XFree86 working with Mac OS X
  • XonX Project - A Sourge Force Project; not for the timid
• Mac OS Applications, Utilities, etc.
  • Docking Maneuvers - [F] Re-orient the Dock from the bottom of the screen and change other settngs
  • Mac OS X Icons (Xicons.com) - Great 132bit Mac OS X icons (Part of the MacNN sites)
  • Resources Mac OS X - Shareware programs NFSManager, LookupManager, TinkerTool, PreEdit - GUIs for setting/changing/using non-GUI Darwin utilities/apps/setings
  • Sharity - [Commercial] Access Windows file servers from Mac OS X & other Unix computers
  • Freshmeat for Mac OS X - The Mac OS X version of the UNIX/Linux world for daily updates of Apps
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Mac Software

Home pages and information for various applications.

• Mac FTP/Web Sites - Extensive List of Mac ftp and Web Sites
  

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• Aladdin Systems 
• Bare Bones Software, Inc. 
• ClarisWeb 
• Control Click - The premier place if you're looking for Contextual Menu Plug-ins  
• Eurdora  - Home of one of the best Email Freeware and commerical programs
• Internet Explorer 
• Internet Starter Kit
• Gnuplot 
• Greg's Shareware 
• Mac Ghostscript 
• Mac Orchard  Latest and Greatest S/W
• Mac OS Zone - Site for utilities and other enhancements  
• MacPlay Home Page   
• metrowerks 
• Peirce Software, Inc.
• WebStar 

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Magazines

Electronic Magazines or electronic versions of Magazines on the Web

• SALON: www.salon1999.com
• WORD -

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Microsoft Office Sites

Sites to help you work with MS Office

• Microsoft's Office for Macintosh and Windows 
• Macintosh Office Sites
  • Word 98 Bug Site - Misery loves company; not many solutions
  • Macintouch Office 98 - Ric Ford's Great Site's Office 98 Reports & Issues
  • MacFitit Office 98 - If there's a way...
• Windows Office Sites

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Miscellaneous Mac

Sites devoted to Macintosh computers

• Absolute Mac Index 
• Ambrosia Cafe 
• Appleinsider - Another news and reviews site with OS and Hardware tips
• AOL Mirrors 
• Complete Conflict Compendium 
• Macintosh E-m@il Resource Page - One Stop Shopping about all Mac Email Clients
• Macintosh Extensions Guide 
• Macintosh Printing Tips - The Palomar Co.'s IrDA, TCP/IP & USB Knowledge Base
• Macintosh WWW Frequently Askd Questions (FAQ) 
• MacintoshOS.com 
• POWERBOOK ARMY 
• Ultimate Macintosh - Something for everyone
• Unoffical Microsoft Outlook Express Page - News, Applescripts & Tips on the Email Program
• Olde Mac Sites
  • Apple History -
  • Apple's System 6.0x from Apple's ftp site
  • Daystar PowerPro and MacOS 8.6/9.1 -Using MacOS 8.5/8.6 or 9.1 on
    PPC upgraded Macintosh computers
  • Running MacOS 8.5 on PPC-Upgraded 680x0 Macs -
  • giantmike's OLD shareware - The best gaming gems of another era, according to Giant Mike, from Amp to Zork
  • Herb's Mac Stuff - Good h/w at good prices for the for the "compact" or "9-inch" Apple Macintosh line and the Mac II series
  • Gamba's - Old Mac OS, h/w projects and s/w.
  • Illustrated Mac IIci Teardown - Just what it says.
  • Illustrated Power Mac 7500 Teardown - Got a Mac 7200/7500/7600? This will look familar
  • Jag's Classic Mac Info - One guy's guide to all the "classic" Mac s/w and other info
  • Low End Mac's - Site devoted to out of production Macs & clones
  • Mac 512 Users Group - An Internet user group for everything Classic in the Macintosh tradition
  • The Mac Driver Museum - A Collection of Orphaned Drivers for all Macs
  • Macintosh SE Support Pages - Chris Adams famous SE and SE/30 site
  • old school browsing - Old version of web browsers include Alpha & Beta versions, PC too
  • PowerPro 601 Homepage - Unofficial Daystar PowerPro 601 upgrade PPC card site
  • Printer Model Index - Manufacturers - A stand alone site with printer specs, part of the Ultimate Printer Manual site
  • Resources for the Older Macintouch - A site with links to other sites & a FAQ
  • SE/30 CD - How to add an interal CD to an SE/30 - Cool!
  • System 6 Heaven - The last free Mac OS that runs on older Macs
  • The Tech Page's Hard Drive & Jumper Specifications - For those old Hard Drives
  • Underground Resistance - Another Macintosh Driver Archive
  • Unofficial Turbo 601 Site - A resource for users of the DayStar Digital Turbo 601 accelerator card which fits IIci, IIsi, IIvi, IIvx and Performa 600 Macintoshes.

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Music

Places to buy or check out music.

• MP3 Sites - For your Diamond Rio listening pleasure
  • MP3.com - The MP3 resource on the Internet
  • Macintosh MP3 Info Site - For Rest of Us! News on S/W
  • MPEG Audio Page - Macintosh Oriented
  • Goodnoise - The premier source on the net for high-quality, downloadable music
  • MusicMatch -
  • Audio Explosion - 
  • CyberTropix - Looks like a full feature site, but I couldn't read the small print!
  • MP3site.com - New site with not all links working yet (10 Jan 98)
• CD Recordings Sites
  • Compilation Direct (UK) - Mainly Classical
  • The Music Connection - Jazz, Blues, Rock and Classical
  • Customdisk.Com - Lots of stuff here
  • CDuctive - Some FREE CD's, but mainly for the real young
  • superSonic Boom - More expensive than other sites, but good blues collections
• Traditional Music On-line Stores
  • Chesky Records
  • Music Boulevard
  • Windham Hill Records

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Networking Sites

Wired and Wireless sites with information on networking for us home multi-computer owners.

• Practically Networked - Site with reviews, tutorials and tips for SOHO networks
• Small NetBuilder -
• Slashdot | The Myriad Ways of Wiring Your Home - A very good article with comments
• Cable Modem Info - cable and DSL information site
• Cable Sense - provides simple help with sharing a broadband Internet connection including DSL
• Home Network Security - Carnege Melon's CERT's tutorial on making home networks safe
• ThreeMacsDotCom - Networking Macs for beginners & not so beginners
• chrisp - Mac OS X and VPNs - vailable VPN protocols and solutions for Mac OS X
• Wireless Sites
  • FreeNetworks.ORG - a news site for free wireless networks
  • free wi-fi hotspots list - shows were all the known free wireless sites are in the US
  • Washington DC Wireless Access Points - both free and pay for use
  • HotSpotList.Com - a public (free/paid) wireless hots around the world
  • WiFi Planet - news, reviews, tutorials, hot spots and lots of ads

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News and Information

News and Essays.

• The Chicago Tribune
• CNN Interactive
• CNNfn - the financial network
• DaveNet '96
• Destination: Dayton
• Marketplace
• The New York Times
• San Jose Mercury Center
• Suck - "The last word on the Internet"
• TidBITs
• USA TODAY
• Washington Post
• ZD net

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PDAs

Palm Pilot, the new Visor and other Handheld PDAs of Interest.

• Palm Pilot for Macintosh - 3Com's Palm Pilot for Mac Page
• Handspring - Visor by the developers of the Palm Pilot
• MemoWare - The PDA Document Repository <- A Neat Site!
• Palmac - Palm Pilots with Mac's
• PalmGear - Everything Palm for Software, Accessories and News
• PDA Buzz - Lots of Info and Discussions on PDAs
• PilotMac - One Guy's Experiences and Latest News for Mac Palm Pilot Users
• Wireless Dimension - Compare Wireless Phones & Service Plans

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Shopping on the Internet

Sites that are great for shopping or provide information on Internet shopping.

• Consumer Oriented Sites
  • Better Business Bureau - BBB's Central Web Site for US & Canada
  • Consumer World - Site has consumer resources available on the Internet
  • Dolloar Stretcher - Describes was to save $$$
• Shopping Sites
  •  Amazon - The world's leading on-line retailer
    
  • CarPoint Online Car Buying - Microsoft's site previews car models and more
  • Crutchfield - Audio & Electronics.  Check out the Specials!
  • Eddie Bauer - Clothes for the Preppies like me!
  • J&R Audio/Computer/Music World - Mail order Electronics of all types
  • Lands End - Casual and business clothes for the whole family <-- My favorite!
  • L.L. Bean - The Sporting Appearel & Gear Outfitter from Maine since 1912
  • PriceLine.Com - Bid on Airline Tickets, Hotel Rooms, New Cars and Mortgages
  • RedTag - Site devoted to Close Out and Factory Reconditioned products
  • Talbots - Women's classic clothing site
  • Trade Out - For businesses seeking to buy and sell excess inventory and idle assets

UNIX on Mac's & PC's

The other free operating system for Mac's and PeeCees.

• DistroWatch - A news site for *nix running on multiple platforms
  
• Linux Ports - List of sites for other computers running Linux
• Linux-68k - Project to port Linux to 68K Macs
• Linux Today - A cross platform Linux News Site
• MkLinux.Org - The MkLinux Developers' Site
• NetBSD - Berkley version of Unix that runs on 68K Mac's
• PenguinPPC - Linux on the PowerPC family of processors
  
• Ubuntu - A very popular Linux distruction
  

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Weather Sites

More than one way to find out about the weather.

• Weather.com - The Weather Channel On-line
• Weather Underground - Weather and Ski Info and the Weather Store!
• Pudue University's Weather Processor 

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Web Search Engines

Find Information Quickly.

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Woman's Topics

These sites are devoted to woman's topics and issues.

• Cybergrrl Welcomes You!
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WWW Resources

Sites that have help for creating web pages

• Learning HTML - Table of Contents
• Rutgers Icon Archive
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