Archive for the ‘Computing’ Category.
Anxiety and Computer Choice
Abstract: In a sample of 287 students, Macintosh users had significantly greater anxiety about computers than PC users.
Weblogs
The Index of Political Blogs. Christopher Ian Applegate’s qwghlm.co.uk. Xogij.blogs.com. Alternative Hippopotamus. Spy Blog: “This United Kingdom based blog attempts to draw public attention to, and comments on, some of the current trends in ever cheaper and more widespread surveillance technology being deployed to satisfy the rapacious demand by state and corporate bureaucracies and criminals for your private details, and the technological ignorance of our politicians and civil servants who frame our legal systems.” Newspaper corrections examined at Regret the Error. The Observer Blog. Wind Rose Hotel: Mostly in Italian, with links to other Italian weblogs. Halfway Down the Danube: posts from Bucharest. We Make Money Not Art. Silt3. A collection of Microsoft Excel weblogs: Andrew’s Excel Tips, Automate Excel, Colo’s Excel Junk Room, Dick’s Daily Dose of Excel, Excel Pragma, J-Walk, The Planning Deskbook, van Gelder. R. Robot, the self-writing weblog. Bighappyfunhouse: excellent found photos.
Collections and Exhibits
MoCA: Museum of Chinese in the Americas. Bad Beijing architecture. Drawings by second graders of the human body. A huge collection of Photoshop tutorials. The British Library’s Database of Bookbindings. Stephen Downes’s Index of Logical Fallacies. Kevin Sherry’s Sweater Project. Jason Patient’s cycling images. Edward Tufte’s argument against PowerPoint presented as a PowerPoint presentation.
Computing
File managers for X: X File Explorer and Emelfm2. Xwinman.org compares X window managers and desktops, including Icewm, which is also discussed at Osnews.com. Network security information at Insecure.org, including a list of the top 75 network security tools Wireless network detection information at Netstumbler.com. Kismet, a wireless network sniffer. Graham Williams’s Debian Desktop Survival Guide. Optimize Windows XP in various ways. A Comprehensive Guide to .htaccess. The Vim Outliner. Dotfiles.com. PHPBuilder.com for PHP things. MPlayer plays movies in many formats for Windows and Linux computers. .htaccess tips and tricks. How to read e-mail headers. Donovan Rebbechi’s grep tutorial. Grep for Windows. SQL syntax reference at the home of the Mckoi Java SQL Database. Unix Tips and Tricks. Vim cheatsheet. Edi Weitz’s Regex Coach. Gord Braun’sWindows XP repair page. Introduction to Excel Pivot Tables. O’Reilly’s Unix Power Tools online. GNU Screen resources. How to bypass Internet firewall restrictions. David Rayner’s Vim Tips. Basic tips for administering a MySQL server.
Wireless
Find wireless hotspots at wifinder.com, wi-fihotspotlist.com, or jiwire.com.
QuickBooks
QuickBooks User Community at quickbooksusers.com. QuickBooks FAQs at compasspoint.org. QuickBooks User Forum at network54.com. Keystroke shortcuts for QuickBooks. Intelinfo.com’s Best Free QuickBooks Training Materials. alt.comp.software.financial.quickbooks and biz.comp.accounting on Google Groups. QuickBooks forum at Yahoo! Finance.
Microsoft Windows
Bootdisk.com has boot disks for the various versions of DOS and Windows. The World of Windows Networking, Homenethelp.com, PracticallyNetworked.com, and networking at Annoyances.org. Portable Firefox for Windows.