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Welcome to the 'Latest Nuggets" page. You will find in these pages all the latest homepages, software and applications etc I have found in my travels through the Net. Nuggets award winning pages will also be listed here. Most of the entries here will first have been announced in a Compuflash Bulletin but not necessarily so.
| This enormous graphics resource has something unusual for anyone's homepage tastes. An Omega Latest Jewels Award winner. |
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| Optimize your GIF files with this neat application. Easy to use. You can now up-load GIFs directly from your computer hard disk using the Browse/Up-load feature. This means you no longer have to up-load a GIF to your internet web server before using GIF Wizard. |
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| This is a great, no-nonsense HTML editor, the type of application you always go back to, after trying all the others!. The original Version 1.0 was great. This latest version available since Jan 12, 97 makes it indispensable. Very powerful, yet easy to use. Makes homepage authoring a pleasure. A must-have tool. |
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| Norton Music Home Page Bob "Notes" Norton is a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, music instructor, arranger, master sequencer, musical software programmer, composer, author, and the owner of Norton Music. During his "road years", he had either backed up or warmed up for scores of headliners like: Little Anthony & The Imperials, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Cyndi Lauper, Bob Seger, Diana Ross & The Supremes, and too many more to list here. He has performed extensively throughout the continental United States, on several cruise ships, and abroad. What more can I say? Anyone with an interest in Midi, whether as a listener, arranger, composer should make this site his top bookmark! |
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| Note: This site was featured a while back and is brought back to the front because the authors have since added other similar 'ferrets', all of them worth using. WebFerret has to be the neatest and fastest way ever to search the Net. Fast to download, easy to install and even easier to use. A check of 'Compunews' produced 64 hits, all relevant, in less than a minute! Running your mouse over each 'hit' gives you a summary of what you can expect to find at that URL. Double-click on the URL and you're there. You call Ferret from the Start Menu, enter your search term and off you go. A 'must' for every serious surfer |
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| Nickel and thyme shoppe Besides offering a wide variety of herbs, spices, teas, and more, which you can order, online, this extremely well-done site offers free recipes (over 2100 of them),and a section called 'The Herbal' .This is a collection of their knowledge about herbs. How to use a particular herb, its history, how to grow it, etc. Definitely worth a visit! |
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The Pocket Internet As I do not publish a 'regular' newsletter anymore (only special issues) I thought the least I could do was to lead you to what I believe is one of the best e-zine on the Net. It is new, it is fresh, it is.... well, I suggest you go see for yourself. I think you'll love it.
World Kids Network This is an incredible site! Now, kids of all ages from around the world can justly claim they have a place to go which competes with the very best of adults' sites. The quality and professionalism demonstrated throughout the entire site rates a top ten! Children from 2 years old to 95 years young will feel right at home here! A must visit site.
Great New Day Planner! Looking for a great new Day Planner with multi features, easy to install and easy on the pocketbook? Here it is. The Visual Day Planner 5.0 for Windows 95 provides a fast way to schedule appointments, and display monthly or weekly listings at a glance. You easily enter data simply by clicking on a date and typing. You also have control over the font, color, and strike-through of completed tasks. You can even set your calendar as Windows wallpaper. This application has won several awards from trade magazines such as PC Mag, Windows Mag and more. For users of Windows 3x, there is a similar application available. I have used the program for a short while and like its many features. Highly recommended.
The Safety Patrol Here is one site any parent with young children should, not only bookmark, but make their 'Homepage'. It includes one of the most comprehensive listing of sites suitable for children I have ever come across. I mean.... it is awesome. This new feature is but one of so many other outstanding pages of Bruce's Web Page Help (see below).
Silicon Valley Web Directory This is a hierarchical index and directory with its own search engine to over 5,500 world wide websites about Silicon Valley, the computer industry, and the San Francisco Bay Area. This is a non-commercial directory that features primarily non-commercial home page links. Highly recommended!
Eureka! Internet Search Engine Eureka! is a simple and easy to use internet search engine that still provides all of the powerful and complex features of all the major search engines on the web. It is the ideal starting place for the beginner and the final stop for the expert. Eureka! also provides an easy interface to add your URL address to all of the major search engines on the internet. You can submit your site to the engines where 99% of all searches take place in a simple, but effective results oriented fashion.
Not only do you get a terrific free service in Eureka!, but you also get some of the best advise, free or otherwise, on how to search the internet and to promote your website. Bottom line: If you haven't looked with Eureka!, you haven't looked at all.
The pro-surfers will love this application! A web spider that does it all and, in style. Put simply.... you can retrieve an entire site (or just specific files) or create an exact mirror of any web site, anywhere on the Internet. You can even download just the filenames of a web site if you so wish. I use this latter function to 'check' the currency of all the hundreds of URL's contained in Omega. See Compuflash 11 Sep 96 for more details.
The HTML Goodies Domain Home Page Although I featured that page some months ago, I thought it appropriate to feature it again, if only for the benefit of those new subscribers who might not otherwise find out about it. It is a gem! If you are into HTML authoring at all, you should visit it. Loaded with good tips!
The Last Lunar Eclipse.. The last total lunar eclipse for North Americans until the year 2000 takes place on Thursday night, September 26th. For a complete dossier on the subject, read the current issue of Sky Online Magazine, your Astronomy source on the World Wide Web. Besides the info on the eclipse, this issue is loaded with interesting articles including Tips for Backyard Astronomers, a good article on the Russian Space Station Mir,
and tons of good astronomy-related links.
Here is one page worth a visit by anyone attempting to write his/her first homepage. While devoid of any time-delaying fancy doodads, it loads fast, contains much useable information and links and includes several features which should be common to any well-designed page. For example, it gives the visiting surfer a choice of navigation: normal or map.
If you are worried about picking up a virus on the Net this little app might help. Called ViruSafe WEB, it becomes part of your browser and will first scan any file you select for downloading. It works on executables, ZIP files and other types of files. Only when the scan is completed will you be prompted to save the desired file. This could slow down your downloads a little but then, if you are concerned about virus'....
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Another one of those where you can send a nice present to friends and loved ones, all for free! How can one resit? And this one has hilarious presents. Loading is fairly fast, considering all the graphics and delivery is even faster.
MidiMaster is a Windows95 app. Plays Midi, WAV and RMI's. You can also use it to organize your Midi files. It has one feature I like very much:whenever you play long lists of Midi files, you can glance at and control what is playing by glancing at a tiny control bar sitting wherever you choose. A joy to use.
There are several sites offering the latest shareware available on the Net and Slaughterhouse can be ranked right up there with the best. Give it a try; you'll be back daily!
Netscape users will want this money-saving app. Basically, the Cache Explorer allows you to read your cache offline with one mouse click! Too many features to list... Try it and you will soon make it one of your favorite browser utility.
My Yahoo Once in a blue moon you come across a site that is so hot, so new, so good that you have to tell the world about it and share the good news.What is 'My Yahoo'? I could easily write ten pages about it but why should I because, after loggin on their page, they take you on a five-page conducted tour that explains it much better than I could. Use it for two days and you'll wonder how you ever operated before!
The good folks at PKWare now make it even easier than ever to obtain their products.
Tired of downloading huge files and discover the program is 'time-limited' or filled with 'nagware'? This site lists shareware applications free of such limitations. Updated daily, it contains the latest in both 32 and 16 bit apps. A good candidate for your 'hot list'.
Beyond the bones of HTML, a Tutorial.
Superb Tutorial on the the subject. Short, precise and to the point!
Doctor HTML retrieves a Web page and performs several tests to see if your document is in tip-top shape. The very best. Produces a complete record of your coding with suggested corrections and much more. The best I have encountered!
Where to go to get the myriad of plug-ins and players now available.
If you use Eudora, this is for you!
You have a problem with your computer? Or any other subject related to the Internet, or major software applications? Who better to ask for help than to a group of professionals who voluntarily offer their services. Hard to believe? Check it out!
Music Search is the newest search engine on the block! It actually is much more than just a search engine. If you can't find what you are looking for with Music Search it probably just ain't there!
This is a program that will save your favorite keywords and also your URLs, check them periodically, and send you email to tell you whether they have been updated. Your personal agent on the Web.
Explore the world with the best!
Beam yourself into space. One of the most `well put together' page I have seen in a long while. Superb graphics. The author is a Computer Science major... two years away from graduation. I would love to see what he'll come up with then!
Loads of nice graphics. Auto-music. Animated GIF's
If you got this superb news provider when I first mentioned it weeks ago, now's the time to get the upgrade. Simply fantastic improvements on an already top of the line product. Although the file is huge (almost 2 Megs) it loaded very fast and is very easy to install. A winner!
PowerLinks
PowerLinks is a database of Internet links. The downloaded file is quite large (>2Meg) but worth the wait. Once installed in its own directory, you load the HTM file and off you go. Thousands of links and extremely easy to use. This is a Canadian application and the registration fee is quite reasonable. One caveat: it is quite easy to spend an hour trying the various links!
