Useful Links

General Information Resources

• On-line reference shelf.
• Alta Vista is a very flexible and comprehensive search engine.
• Use Google Groups to find any past usenet article.
• Need an email address, phone number or address? Try Yahoo People Search, Bigfoot, or Switchboard
• AnyWho has something scary: a reverse phone book, which gives you the person based on the number.
• The Lycos search engine provides a quick and intensive way to find everything about anything on the net.
• Yahoo can help you find anything by subject.
• The Library of Congress is well, the Library of Congress.
• The University of Virginia Internet Library (Quick UVa access: Inspec Engineering Index Springer-Verlag on the web Science Citation 1993-1999 (Citrix database) Science Citation 1987-1992 (Citrix database) Web of Science IEEE Journals online
• Looking to buy a book? Try E-compare, AddAll, and BestBookBuys.

Computer Science Resources

• The CORA computer science paper search engine
• NCSTRL the multi-institution Computer Science technical report search engine.
• UCSTRI a similar tech report index that actively searches the net.
• The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies.
• The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, with 7900 definitions.
• Information and Computation bibliography at MIT.
• Programming Language Research index at Carnegie Mellon University.
• The Python Quick Reference.
• The Comprehensive TeX Archive Network mirror at Duke University, Document Preparation with Latex, Latex Homepage, and On-line help
• The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network Perl 5 Manual.
• Fight Spam on the Internet!
• Bookpool can save you 25-30% on technical books.
• Be sure to check out the book price searching agents at Best Book Buys and Dealtime.com
• GNU software at MIT.

HTML Authoring and The WWW

• The Bare Bones Guide to HTML has all those weird HTML tags compiled in quick and dirty fashion, as well as links to many other development tools.
• BODY ColorMaker allows you to try out colors and backgrounds for Netscape, just as they would look on an actual page. The author also has similar tools for tables and frames.
• The HTML Writer's Guild and Anthony's Icon Library are a good source of WWW icons.
• WebSeek, a content-based index of Image and Video information on the web.

Miscellaneous

• Hotwired's electronic version of The Rough Guide for the U.S.
• FAQS.org has a FAQ for every newsgroup.

Last changed May 11 2007 14:54:06. David Coppit, david@coppit.org
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