Just a few little things to help you design a web page or help
you find your IP Address (Think of it as your location address
on the internet, i.e. 22 Sunnyhill Crescent, Manchester, M23 1DR)
Please feel free to use them and I hope they can help you.
Just use any of the links below for anything that you may require
Test your internet connection speed, if you can't see the Flash Speed Test above try this other link which will open in a new window
| Bandwidth Test |
Click here to run
a quick diagnostic speed test on your connection now!
| IP Address, Browser & OS Details | Click here to display your IP Address and a whole host
of other information
| PHP Scripts
| How to create a .htpasswd script to protect folders with sensitve content, i.e. database connections etc. plus some other useful PHP scripts
| Get
Firefox Now!! | Fed up with your browser being hijacked, slowing
down or locking up? change your browser experience, test drive the new
and improved Firefox Browser!
| Web Colour
Picker | A fantastic little script that helps you pick your
colours for a web page,it takes all the diificulty out of putting colours together
| Favicon Generator
| Don't fool around wasting your time creating favicon icons, use this great
little favicon generator to make your favicon icons for you, it takes all the hard work out of it
| Design
A Web Page | Why not let this javascript design a web page for you in about
5 minutes, it takes all the hard work out of it, a great little utility
| Drop
Down Menu Builder | A superb and easy to use little script to build a drop
down menu for some or all of your web pages
| CSS
Generator | Don't understand CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) you don't need
to with this little utility, let it design a script for some text or a button
to add to your web page
| Colour Inverter
| A fantastic little tool to help you choose the colours and rollover
colours for buttons, or text colours and background colours for the text
| Meta
Tag Generator | With this utility you can automatically generate the Meta
Tags to add into the head of your page to enable search engines to crawl your
site
| Source
Code Encryptor | Use this little script to encrypt the source of any or
all of your web pages making it a little more difficult for someone to duplicate
your hard work and design
| Resolution
Tester | Check to see how your web page design would look in different screen
resolutions without changing your own resolution
| Password
Generator | What it says, a simple little tool to dynamically create passwords
from 1 digit to infinity
| Kb
To Mb Converter | Because a Megabyte is actually 1024 Bytes it can be difficult
to convert one to another, this little tool does it all for you
| Web
Language | Here you can find out what web language, HTML tags or wap tags
actually mean in real english
| View
The HTML Source | A great little tool to view the HTML
Source of most web pages, especially if they are right click
protected
| Download
DHTML Scripts | A great example of DHTML (Dynamic Hyper Text Markup Language)
Its almost as good as Macromedia Flash
| CSS
Styles | A very useful guide explaining CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and
how to write them in to your web pages, Why not try out this
| Button Style Effect 1
| Button Style Effect 2 |
| Server
Side Includes | This page lists all the Server Side Includes(SSI) variables
that you can include on your web page to display or call information on the
page
Download the variables HERE | Hex
Colour Wheel | Stuck for colours for your website, then use this little
tool to help you find the colours you need, the colours are displayed in hexadecimal
values (e.g. #000000)
| Avast Free Anti-Virus | Why pay for an anti virus when you can download this free one from Avast,
it real time scans everything going in & out of your PC
| Avast Anti-Virus
Updates | Update your Avast anti virus definition files from this page to
keep them completely up to date
| Zone
Alarm Free Fire Wall | Download Zone alarms free version of their excellent
firewall or buy the professional version from here
| ADSL Speed
Test | Check out how fast your ADSL connection speed is with this free test
from Bandwidth Place
| The File Extension Source
| Ever wondered which program opens which files? then go to this website and
find out
| Drivers & BIOS Updates
| Find out if there's a driver or bios update for your machine from the Driver
Guide website
| Help With Drivers
| This site explains what drivers are, what they do and what they do if they
are corrupted, plus driver downloads
| Windows Tips & Tricks |
A great site for finding all those little tips and tweaks to enhance your Windoes
XP operating system
| Dabs PC Accessories | Whatever
you need PC accessory wise, you'll find it here and probably a lot cheaper than
high street prices
| IT Definitions Explained
| The definitive site for explanations on everything PC, MAC, technical or web
related
| Get Your Own Domain | Why not find out if your domain name is available, if it is, register it with
2globalmart very affordable web hostiing & domain name registration
| Microsoft Corporation
| The home of the windows operating system, everybody slates Bill Gates, but,
if it wasn't for him would you be sitting there now with the ability to access
this page that you're reading?
| Windows
Critical Updates | Keep up to date with Windows Critical Updates click here
and your machine will automatically be scanned for the critical updates it needs
| The W.W.W. Consortium | The
WWW Consortium was created to lead the World Wide Web to its full potential
by developing common protocols that promote its evolution and ensure its interoperability.
W3C has around 350 Member organizations from all over the world and has earned
international recognition for its contributions to the growth of the Web
| Design A Usable
Web Site | This site is dedicated to cooperative efforts linked toward building
a more usable Web for all, at the present time, there are a number of interlocking
and interrelated efforts
| Amazon
Computer Books | Buy IT or any other kind of book, brand new or second hand
at extremely reasonable prices
| Download
Avant Browser | A great little addon for Internet Explorer, it stops most
pop ups from appearing plus loads of other things, checkit out
| Download
Adobe Acrobat | Download the free Adobe Acrobat viewer here im order to
view and read PDF files (Portabl Document Format files)
| Download
Just ZipIt Free | A totally free zip utiltity which in my opinion is as
good as Win Zip but better because it's FREE!!
| HTML Kit Web Software
| HTML Kit is a full-featured text editor designed to help HTML, XML, and script
authors to edit, format, validate, preview, and publish Web pages
| Get
An ADSL Connection | Why not replace your old slow dial up connection with
an up to 10 times faster always on ADSL connection
| Download WinAmp
| An audio and video player that is free to download, it plays most audio and
video files , completely customisable, check it out
| DBP
MP3 Converter | A great utility for converting WMA orWAV files into MP3
files in order to save disk space on your PC, or for cutting to a CD to listen
to them on an MP3 player
| The Elder Geek |
A great website if you want to know the ins and outs of the Windows XP operating
system, also reviews and forums on XP
| Anonymity
Check | Check your system out to see if it's vulnerable or not, just click
on the link then click the Free Privacy Test link about halfway down on the
right hand side
| Networking Glossary
| A comprehensive glossary of terms about the whole networking environment
explained in everyday easy to understand english
| What Are Meta Tags
| A brief description about Meta Tags and why they are needed at all
in the header of your web page
| JavaScript Snippets
| A few of the javscripts that I use myself to enhance the web pages that
I develop, feel free to use them yourself and, if you have any that you would
like to share then e-mail them to me HERE | The Bootup Process
| A brief overview of the Bootup Process in Windows 2000/XP and a troubleshooting
guide in case of problems at Bootup
| Useful DOS Commands
| Ever wondered what the hell they mean when they say do a ping command?
This is a brief overview and explanation of DOS commands
| Port Security Checker
| Check to see if your ports are open to abuse from the internet or hacker activity
If so you need to install a firewall
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What is Ultr@VNC ? Click
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