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Really Important Links

CIAC Internet HoaxBusters -- Please read before sending me a chain e-mail, PLEASE
Credit Agency Initial Fraud Report Equifax fraud division 800-525-6285 (no online reporting available) Experian TransUnion Fraud Victim Assistance Department 1-800-680-7289 (no online reporting available)
Do Not Call Registry -- Official Do Not Call Registry site from the FTC
Opt-Out Prescreen -- Official Consumer Credit Reporting Industry Opt-Out Prescreen website (ie MUCH junk mail)

Software Links

Crucial Software

Antivirus Software Avast! 4 -- FREE AVG Antivirus -- FREE Norton Antivirus -- $40
Mozilla.org -- OPEN SOURCE -- FREE browser, e-mail, editor, address book, and calendar (& no popups)!
OpenOffice.org -- OPEN SOURCE -- FREE Office Software (word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing)!
Spyware/Adware Detection and Removal Spybot Search and Destroy -- FREE Ad-Aware -- FREE
Zone Alarm -- FREE and really good firewall

Highly Recommended

Graphics Software

The GIMP -- OPEN SOURCE -- FREE photo and picture editor (think Photoshop)!
     The GIMP at SourceForge.net - A (sometimes) better source for windows installers
     Grokking The GIMP - A great GIMP resource
     UFRaw - UFRaw Plugin for RAW camera files
Inkscape -- OPEN SOURCE -- FREE vector graphics editor (think Illustrator or Freehand)
Picasa -- FREE image viewer/manager (for those who don't have ThumbsPlus!)
ThumbsPlus! -- HIGHLY recommended graphics software

Other Software

Colossal Cave Adventure Page
Font Creator
Foto-Mosaik
Printer's Apprentice
SETI@home BOINC! -- the new screensaver
Leech FTP -- a nifty, if old, free FTP program
SourceForge.net -- OPEN SOURCE -- THE open source software source
     Audacity -- sound editor
     Bid-o-Matic -- an eBay sniper tool
     JBidwatcher --Another eBay auction tracker and sniper, in beta but looks promising
     Opcion Font Viewer
PolderbitS -- Sound recorder and editor (transfer recordings from LPs or cassettes)
Scribus -- OPEN SOURCE -- FREE desktop publishing software (page layout: think Pagemaker)
Video Editing Software (Open Source)
Jahshaka
VirtualDub
ZDNet Shareware Downloads
Zork I: The Great Underground Empire

Computer Security

Active@ Kill Disk -- erase a harddrive - completely
Autoruns - a nice utility if you've been hacked
Microsoft Sysinternals -- some really handy utilities from Microsoft
RootkitRevealer
Shields Up Homepage -- OK, this is a really tricky site, and very hard to navigate. Just keep looking for Shields Up, or call me to walk you through it.
Silent Runners - another nice place to check if you've been hijacked
Trojan TCP/IP Ports -- a great security site
What's Running -- a really nice utility for examining and customizing your system

My Open Office Templates

James' Perpetual Calendar 1.0 - a highly-customizable, printable twelve month calendar; updated with 2008 holidays (and corrected moon phases...) No further updates to this template will be made Updated 12/2/07
James' Perpetual Calendar 2.0 - even more highly-customizable, printable twelve month calendar; updated with 2008 holidaysUpdated 12/2/07

Web Page Resources

1&1.com -- Good and inexpensive web hosting, multiple (unlimited) domains
Clipart ETC from Florida's Educational Technology Clearinghouse
ColorCombos.com -- test out various web color combinations
CSS Play -- a great CSS resource, lots of example coding
CSS2 Reference Guide -- wonderful list and explanation of CCS2 elements
Designed to a T-Clipart -- Free Graphics, Backgrounds, Dividers and Bullets
HTML Elements Cross-reference
HTML & CSS Editors: Amaya -- Open Source CSS editor from W3C; NVU -- Open Source CSS & HTML editor (my favorite so far); tsWebEditor -- Open Source HTML editor
Java Technology Home Page
LeechFTP -- Though no longer updated, a really good FTP software client
OpenClipArt.org -- OPEN SOURCE -- FREE Clip Art

W3C - The World Wide Web Consortium
W3C HTML Validation Service
Whois.org
Wikipedia: Public Domain Image Resources

Website Server-side Applications & Style Sheet Design Add-ons

Lightbox JS -- free simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page
phpBB -- high powered, fully scalable, and highly customizable free bulletin board package
WordPress -- OPEN SOURCE Blog (and more) software