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So you think 'Best sites' lists are 10 cents a dozen? Not when it's the PC User Top 100 Technology Sites Listing. Our team of professional surfers has put together a list that focuses purely on sites that will nurture you as a PC user. By Rose Vines, Philip Moore, Link Harris, Angela Booth and Linda Bruce.
For full reviews and details of the sites, click on the menu, left, or on the sub-caterogies below.
Search sites and directories
Anzwers: www.anzwers.com.au
Web Wombat: www.webwombat.com.au
Yahoo Australia: www.yahoo.com.au
Project Cool: www.projectcool.com
Australian FTP Mirrors Search: www.psy.uq.edu.au/mirrors/search.html
Tile Net's FTP Reference: http://tile.net/ftp-list
Ask Jeeves: www.askjeeves.com
Excite: www.excite.com
HotBot: www.hotbot.com
Infoseek: www.infoseek.com
Orientation: www.orientation.com
Polar Search: www.polarsearch.com
Yelloweb Europe: www.yweb.com
Liszt: www.liszt.com
Dogpile: www.dogpile.com
Inference Find: www.inference.com/ifind
Email-It: www.email-it.net.au
WhoWhere? www.whowhere.com
Download libraries
Mira FTP Site: ftp://ftp.mira.net.au
Telstra Internet Archive Server: ftp://archie.au
Filez: www.filez.com
Shareware.com: www.shareware.com
ZDNet Software Library: www.hotfiles.com
Dave's Central Software Archive: www.davecentral.com/index.html
Windows95.com: www.windows95.com
Computer companies
Adobe: www.adobe.com
Gateway 2000: www.gw2k.com.au
HP Printing and Imaging: www.hp.com/peripherals/main.html
HP Information Storage Group: http://hpcc920.external.hp.com/isgsupport/cms
Intel: www.intel.com
US Robotics Australia: www.usr.com.au
Netscape: www.netscape.com.au
Sausage Software: www.sausage.com.au
Apple: www.apple.com.au
Creative Labs: www.creativelabs.com
Kodak Digital Photography: www.kodak.com/digitalImaging/digitalImaging.shtml
Macromedia: www.macromedia.com
IBM OS/2 Warp 4: www.software.ibm.com/os/warp/html3/index.htm
Microsoft: www.microsoft.com
Caldera: www.caldera.co.uk/dos
Jasc: www.jasc.com
McAfee: www.mcafee.com
Davidson's Home Page: www.davd.com
DK Publishing: www.dk.com
Edmark Home page: www.edmark.com
Third-party games & education
SchoolPC: www.schoolpc.acp.com.au
Ziff-Davis University: www.zdu.com
Adrenaline Vault: www.avault.com
CNet Games Center: www.gamecenter.com
Electric Games: www.electricgames.com
Happy Puppy: www.happypuppy.com
Riven: www.myst.com
Third-party help & technical resources
WOPR: www.wopr.com
Computer Museum Network: www.tcm.org
Internet
Beginner's Guide to Effective E-mail: www.webfoot.com/advice/email.top.html?Yahoo
Browsers.com: www.browsers.com
Learn the Net: www.learnthenet.com
Director Web: hakatai.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/director/index.html
Windows-NT.com: www.windows-nt.com
Master OS/2 Warp Update List: www.cincyteamos2.org/masterupdate.html
The OS/2 Supersite: www.os2ss.com
Windows 95 Annoyances: www.creativelement.com/win95ann
Curt's High Speed Modem Page: www.teleport.com/~curt/modems.html
Driver Headquarters: www.drivershq.com
Motherboard Homeworld: www.motherboards.org
Navas 28,000-56K Modem FAQ: www.aimnet.com/~jnavas/modem
S3 End-User Information: www.s3.com/enduser
Tom's Hardware Guide: www.sysdoc.pair.com
CNet News: www.news.com
VB Tips & Tricks: www.apexsc.com/vb/davem/vbtt.html
Carl & Gary's VB Home Page: www.apexsc.com/vb
Geocities: www.geocities.com
Activex.com: www.activex.com
Builder.com: www.builder.com
Gamelan: www.gamelan.com
How to Create VRML: http://vrml.sgi.com/experts
Javascript Tips: www.webreference.com/javascript
Site Builder Network: www.microsoft.com/sitebuilder
Web Developer's Virtual Library: www.stars.com
Webmonkey: www.hotwired.com/webmonkey
Webreference.com: www.webreference.com
Web Page Design for Designers: http://ds.dial.pipex.com/pixelp/wpdesign/wpdintro.htm
Standards & terms
Channel Definition Format: www.microsoft.com/standards/cdf-f
HTML 3.2 Reference Specification: www.w3.org/TR/REC-html32.html
HTTP Protocol: www.w3.org/Protocols
TCP and IP specifications: http://ds2.internic.net/std/std5.txt, http://ds2.internic.net/std/std7.txt
XML Standard: www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml.html
PC Webopaedia: www.webopedia.com
Internet services
Australian Network Information Centre: www.aunic.net
Hotmail: www.hotmail.com
Web-o-Mat: www.webomat.com.au
Gary Venter: Architecture for Multimedia: www.ozemail.com.au/~venter
Tuneup: www.tuneup.com
Microsoft Security Advisor: www.microsoft.com/security
Amazon Books: www.amazon.com
Plug-ins
Netscape plug-in page: http://home.netscape.com/comprod/products/
navigator/version_2.0/plugins/index.html?
Shockwave: www.macromedia.com/shockwave
MIDIPlug: www.yamaha.co.jp/english/xg/midplug/mplug.html
Realplayer: www.realplayer.com
ClearVideo: www.iterated.com
VivoActive: www.vivo.com
About these links
We've worked hard to ensure these links are correct, but because of the
Internet's dynamic nature, they may change at very short notice. Please e-mail us now if you've found a bad link, or if you
have or have found sites you'd like us to review. Also, for the above reason, users follow
these links at their own risk. PC User takes no reponsibility for any offensive sites or
damaging advice or software that the user might encounter.
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