Web Tools
A few sites to help you with your web pages.
Is the net slow or is it just me?
Internet Traffic Report
North America Internet Traffic Report
Internet Backbone Status
note: MSN test page has to load about three times to do the test.
note: i-Bench takes about 45 minutes and you have to have several plugins installed.
Check your cable modem with Performance Test, use all the locations!
Explain | Bondage | NetBeui and Rebinding Win 95/98
Internet Connection Security for Windows UsersTest your PC's internet security online, "Shields UP!", finds open ports on your system.
Find IP Port Numbers or see Full Port Number Listings (~300K).
L0pht dedicated to security vulnerabilities, check out the advisorie sectiion.
Zone Alarm is Freeware Firewall Sortware for the PC.
Free Go!Zilla Download Manager, be sure and set the options to put downloads in a specific folder.
{Warning: The free version of this program is Spyware!}
Bandwidth Chart
DSLreports everything about Digital Subsriber Lines and Modems and also a Line Distance Finder.
AnalogX has an assortment of very good Audio, Network, Programming, and System Software programs.
Sign up for the AnalogX List Server News Letter.
Netstat Live - monitors incomming and outgoing data, also system performance. (new version is really nice).
SimpleServer.WWW - the easiest server to use in Windows.
SimpleServer.Shout - streaming MP3 server, more difficult to use.
IP Tracing:
ZDTV IP Tracing Article.
Geektools Whois
ARIN: Whois
File Extentions:
Webpedia - (PC) Data Formats and Their File Extensions
Matisse Front Door - Matisse's Home Page, Glossary of Internet Terms, Common Internet File Formats, Pearl CGI Templates, Convert between bits/bytes/kilobits/kilobytes/megabits/megabytes/gigabits/gigabytes
A Picture of Weblogs
Add the favicon.ico (Favorite Icon) to your Web Site, using this Online Icon Maker that e-mails you the icons that you make.
The icons only work with IE-5 and above, favorite list, for now. It does not work on Netscape or the Mac (yet).
Frames: An Introduction
Geektools some great network tools, works on any browser.
The Hayes Modem Command Set
W3C The World Wide Web Consortium HTML verify and link checkers etc.
Traceroute, Ping, Domain Name Server (DNS) Lookup, WHOIS, DNS Records Lookup, and E-Mail relay Check.
Mindspring / How to interpret E-mail Headers
MSN Eight Tools for Web Users
A Beginner's Guide to HTML
RGB Hexadedcimal Color Chart
Hacking HTML
HTML Special Charaters L.S.N. Hosting, and WIK Annotated Table of Charaters
GIFWorks creates rotating animated text and some other cool stuff.
Gif Tools has some links to Gif compression and flaming text.
Website Attractions and FreewareJava both have some Java Scripts to add to your site.
Wave Central has lots of wave files and sound effects.
AOL PRESS is a free downloadable web page editor with spell check.
Still not enough for you?
Then try these too:
Making Animated GIFs (part 1 of 3)V
ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) Characters List
Awesome Web Links--HTML Java JavaScripts CGI Graphics Midis Advertising
Links to Some Useful Web Tools
Hot Web Tools
Web Tools! - Free Home page, Free Guest Book, Free CGI Scripts, Free Graphics, Free
ColorMix
Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing
Yahoo! Geocities Information:
Yahoo! Geocities - Home
Yahoo! Geocities - System Status
Yahoo! Geocites - Help Page
More Computer Help:
ZDTV has some very informative computer shows called The Screen Savers and Call for Help with on-lineInteracvtive Chat, and a Net-Cam Network where you call in and they answer your questions right on the show.
The Screen Savers [Home] |
Screen Savers Show Notes |
Screensavers Show Notes ArchiveCall for Help [Home] | Subscribe to Call for Help Show Notes
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