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Technical Information
A CALL manager is typically an educator forced to wear on occasion a techie's hat (and we should be thankful that it's not the other way around). Fortunately there exist a number of sites where technical information is readily searchable and available. Here are some which I have found useful (but note that this page has been minimally maintained since 2007):
Server back online Aug 2007: Quick answers to real classroom technology questions. Tech-Ease for Mac < http://etc.usf.edu/te_mac/index.html> and Tech-Ease for Win < http://etc.usf.edu/te_win/index.html>.On this date, the portal listed: Internet Getting connected, searching, bookmarks, cookies, plugins, and other Internet mysteries solved. Hardware What to try when your computers or printers aren't behaving. E-Mail Send, receive, forward, and manage your email accounts while gaining a few victories in the Spam War. Files & Sharing Keep track of all your files and get them from one place to another safely and easily. Chat & Conferencing Making chat & videoconferencing work in the classroom against all odds. Images Everything you need to know about saving, creating, scanning, or sharing image files. Classroom Practice Find out how other teachers have successfully managed technology in their classrooms. Video & Print Tutorials How-to videos demonstrating how to perform specific tasks on the computer.
May 2007, I encountered http://www.zolved.com/, from its <title> bar: Zolved - Support and help for problems with iPods, computers, XBox, email, cell phones, PDAs, wireless networks, game consoles and Windows Vista
There are a couple of sites where you can upload files and have them picked up by someone else at a later time. Recipients you specify are sent an email with instructions on how to download the file. Files are removed from the system after 7 days, regardless if they have been picked up or not. You can upload any type of file, mp3, movies, docs, pdfs, and file size might be 100 mbytes or more. Recipients can be anyone with an email address." May 12, 2005
Click here for a list of Windows 95 / 98 / NT resources
SiteInspector, "the webmaster's ultimate resource", with HTML validation, DNS Query, NS Lookup, Ping, Whois, Traceroute, etc on one page: http://www.siteinspector.com (visited May 2001)
From the MSDOS Prompt if you type in "ipconfig" , your ip address will display.
A good WhoIs service, allowing entry of either domain name or IP address, is http://www.arin.net/whois/. Some more are listed here: http://www.vancestevens.com/searchen.htm
Check connectivity bandwidth here: http://webservices.zdnet.com/zdnet/bandwidth/
From Today's Headlines from NYTimes.com Tuesday, August 14, 2001: 'Web Bugs' Are Tracking Use of Internet
"Many people who have personal Web pages are unknowingly tracking people who visit and sending the information to third parties. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/14/technology/ebusiness/14WEB.html?todaysheadlines." This article cites AOL and Yahoo/Geocities as being two web hosts guilty of using 3rd party software that tracks visitors to sites such as this one. When users click events or conceivably even pass something as innocuous as a hit counter, data can be sent to these 3rd party entities. If the same 3rd party is being used by another site, a pattern can be discerned as the user browses from site to site. The practice is exposed here as being inethical because users are not informed that data is being collected on them.
These tend to come and go. Here's the url for a Google search on
'extended ascii character'
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=extended+ascii+character&btnG=Google+Search
Here
are some found on May 20, 2001 ...
To type any of these characters into Word or any text editor,
Voila, your symbol will appear.
4Teachers - http://www.4teachers.org/ - Technology 4 teachers (seen January 18, 2000) - This site focuses on technology for educators: Internet Safety, Lessons & Webquests, Web Page maker, etc. (visited May 2001)
Cisco's Layer Two Forwarding Page includes links to news releases, technical tips, and articles: http://cio.cisco.com/warp/public/732/L2F/ (visited May 2001)
Computing.Net, "The original tech support site" at http://computing.net/. Forums for Windows accessible by type, collections of drivers, how-tos etc. (visited May 2001)
CSS Internet News (John Walker) at http://www.networx.on.ca/~jwalker for resources, getting help, all aspects of Internet(visited May 2001)
Drivers dot com - download from a library of hardware device drivers, http://www.drivers.com
Hardware Book; e.g. for diagrams and descriptions of connectors, adaptors, cables, circuits: http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/etext/hwb/ (visited May 2001)
Deborah Healey's Technology Tips of the Month: http://www.orst.edu/dept/eli/prevtips.html, now organized by topic (visited May 2001)
Roger Kenner posts a few "How-to" Guides at http://132.205.43.32/Documents.html (visited May 2001; times out in LinkSleuth Aug 2007)
MyDesktop - http://www.mydesktop.com - has sections on Windows, Linux, Hardware, Shopping, Web Building, Downloads, and Tech Support. Also posts articles, tutorials (visited May 2001)
Multimedia and Digital Commentary Online - Mike Bush's impressive outpouring can be found at http://moliere.byu.edu/digital/ (visited May 2001)
Multimedia Bluffer's Guide - Site under construction, topic headings proposed are audio, video, and graphics, but May 1999 to 2000 only these topics have been hyper-linked: Audio Signals, Wires and Connectors, Microphones, and Studio Equipment) http://home1.pacific.net.sg/~firehzrd/bluffer.html - Philip Tan, site author, may be bluffing here. (visited May 2001)
Netscape Netcenter is at http://home.netscape.com/netcenter/. Netcenter News is a monthly newsletter with tips and information for Netcenter members: http://home.netscape.com/netcenter/newsletter/archive.html (visited May 2001)
Network Magazine - an ezine with lots of linkshttp://www.networkmagazine.com/ (visited May 2001)
The PC Guide: http://www.pcguide.com/ref/ - This "Systems and Components Reference Guide ... contains comprehensive descriptions of the major parts of a modern personal computer ... The intention is to provide you, the reader, with a complete understanding of how the PC works and what the issues are in designing and building one, while still being understandable by someone who isn't a PC expert." - Charles M. Kozierok. (visited May 2001)
PC Mechanic; e.g. multimedia, ins and outs of IRQs, DMAs: http://pcmech.pair.com/ Processors Motherboards Memory Video Cards Monitors Hard Drives Floppy Drives Multimedia Modems BIOS Operating Systems PC Cases Networking Expansion Cards Optimization Troubleshooting How it Works (visited May 2001)
Sharpened.net is a project of Per Christensson, holder of B.S. degrees in both Computer Science and Communications with over seven years of professional experience (in 2005) in Web site development, graphic design, and consulting. The site is easily navigable with three main sections: Home: Home Page, About Sharpened.net, Contact Page, Site Map, Copyright Information Glossary: Computer Terms, Chat Acronyms, Emoticons Help Center: Computer Questions, Categories of Questions, File Extensions, Domain Suffixes Resources: Online Shopping, Developer Resources, Sharp Sites Reviews: Product Reviews, Movie Reviews, Music Reviews. One of the pages is a nicely organized Site Map.
PC Computing has changed to Smart Business, but the site is still there: for e.g. products, cool stuff, help: http://www4.zdnet.com/smartbusinessmag/ (visited May 2001)
Tom's Hardware - http://www6.tomshardware.com/consumer/01q3/010803/ is about Windows XP
Web Developer's Journal - http://www.webdevelopersjournal.com/ (seen January 18, 2000) - an online journal that appears to point often to sponsoring products, but also contains informative articles in the style of PC Magazine. Check out Wacky HTML for example - my favorite: http://www.webdevelopersjournal.com/wacky/zoom.htm (visited May 2001)
Web Developer's Virtual Library: An astoundingly comprehensive compendium of web development, should be in the bookmark list of any serious web developer. Here you can get tutorials, resources, links, covering all imaginable aspects of web development; sections on authoring, design, graphics, software, and internet issues, plus WDVL Resources, with entry points for Beginning and Intermediate users; comprehensive: http://www.wdvl.com/ (Seen January 18, 2000) -
Webmonkey - http://www.webmonkey.com/ - Start-from-basics descriptions on just about anything related to web development. HTML, DHTML, XML, Audio/MP3, Shockwave/Flash, JavaScript (e.g. how to steal it), Java, ASP, PHP, ColdFusion, and Perl/CGI are all covered in readable, easy to understand, tutorial style. The HTML Cheatsheet, a JavaScript code library, and a color chart with color swatches and what they look like in your current browser are all linked from http://www.webmonkey.com/reference/
Webopedia; a personal favorite, simple explanations hyperlinked to other topics: http://www.pcwebopaedia.com/ Webopedia's Quick Reference Area http://webopedia.internet.com/quick_ref/ to find common information about computers and the Internet - Webopedia's Did You Know? http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/_index.asp to find the answers to some commonly asked questions regarding computer technology and the Internet - Webopedia Search Box Available! http://www.webopedia.com/partner_programs.asp Put this customizable search box on your Web site, and give your users access to over 4,000 terms and definitions. - Webopedia Search Tool http://www.webopedia.com/searchtool/ sits in your personal bookmark toolbar ready to be used when you need the definition of a technical term!
Wired News, http://www.wired.com/ (visited May 2001)
ZDNet is chock full of information for technicians, developers, and people who just like fooling around with Pc's. Ziff-Davis are publishers of PC Computing, noted above, and do the Webopaedia, also listed above. To search on a database of downloadable solutions to almost anything, try http://www.zdnet.com/downloads/. To get a steady stream of often useful information headed your way; i.e. to subscribe or unsubscribe to ZDNet email newsletters, visit http://www.zdnet.com/chkpt/expa19980108/www.zdnet.com/cc/email.html (visited May 2001)
There is a description of Windows 95 Startup at http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q174/0/18.ASP - "Explains the 5 basic steps of the Windows startup process. Shows where the win.com and VMM32.vxd files fit and how they relate" (per WEBOPEDIA NEWSLETTER; Vol. 4, Number 3, 1/25/00) (visited May 2001)
The Windows 95 / 98 / NT Troubleshooting site, http://www.fixwindows.com/ (visited May 2001)
The following are taken from the Focus on Windows NT/2000 eLetter published by Executive Software, Volume 4, Issue 10, May (C) 1999 Executive Software International, Inc., back-issues at http://www.executive.com/eletter/eletter.asp. I have reproduced this list here for my own convenience and for that of others who use NT. Permission to post this information was granted by the folks at executive.com.(visited May 2001)
Executive Software make the Diskeeper defragmenter and Undelete for Windows NT. Fully functioning versions of both can be downloaded free from their web site at http://www.executive.com.(visited May 2001)
There is a Caching Tutorial for Web Authors and Webmasters at http://www.wdvl.com/Internet/Cache/index.html that tells you about all types of caches. (visited May 2001)
There is a good listing of firewire products at http://www.allfirewire.com/
CableLabs Web site at http://www.cablemodem.com/ - Defines interface requirements for cable modems involved in high-speed data distribution over cable television networks. (visited May 2001)
Protocol Directory at http://www.protocols.com/pbook/ - Site contains information on all known networking protocols from ATM to IPX and TCP/IP. Well laid-out with HTML and PDF versions of protocol information.
Scan converters, how to connect them, where to buy them, and approximate cost: http://www.4teachers.org/techalong/scan/
In TCP/IP and UDP networks, a port is an endpoint to a logical connection and the way a client program specifies a specific server program on a computer in a network. This list of well-known port numbers specifies the port used by the server process as its contact port: http://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/portnumbers.html
University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development is at http://www.internet2.edu
Faq: http://www.internet2.edu/html/faqs.html# posted on teslca-l 02 Nov 1999
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