Links of Interest Contributed by TCS SIG Members

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Earthquake Information http://www.goes.noaa.gov/browsw.html http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/bulletin.html
Sun's Latest Activity from NOAA-plain English explanations of all things solar http://www.maj.com/sun/noaa.html
National Weather Service Doppler Radar Sites http://www.srh.noaa.gov/radar/national.html
Surface-Water Data for Arizona with tabular and graphical data http://az.waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/sw
Arizona Business Resources ... go to top
Arizona Small Business Association is the Tucson connection to a wide variety of resources for the small business owner such as workshops, discounts, networking opportunities, health care options and a conference center. http://asba.com
Pima Community Access Program: "PCAP provides access to professional health care at discounted prices that the uninsured adult can afford." http://www.pcap.cc
Finding it on the Web ... go to top
From PC World "Beyond google ... the best data sources on the web." http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,114725,00.asp
An excellent Subject Directory tool http://www.searchengine.com/
"The ultimate internet resource" http://www.internet.com/home.html
Radio-Locator is the most comprehensive radio station search engine on the internet. Formerly the MIT list of radio stations on the Internet. http://www.radio-locator.com/
Find an article from a variety of publications http://www.findarticles.com/PI/index.html
Search for Newspapers and Magazines by Title OR Search for U.S. Regional News. Links are by Area Code. Links also for browsing by region and country, subject, and area code (with city lookups). http://www.ecola.com/
Computer & Internet Terms Defined http://webopedia.com
Do you all know about the Asknow service? Anyone can ask a question. AskNow! is a pilot initiative of the Council of Australian State Libraries. http://www.asknow.gov.au/public/
Internet Tools ... go to top
NYTimes.com Article: The Web by Modem, a Bit Faster http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/10/technology/circuits/ 10stat.html?ex=1051002572&ei=1&en=7e5b83e49b5ccbc2
PC Wellness ... go to top
What are those mystery programs on your startup items list (msconfig) ? http://www.3feetunder.com/krick/startup/list.html Windows startup programs, an excellent overview with links. http://www.lafn.org/webconnect/mentor/startup/
If your PC’s performance is being impacted by all those startup programs… what they are and what to do! http://www.lafn.org/webconnect/mentor/startup/PENINDEX.HTM The author of the above page, John Mayer, recommends starting at Mr. Collins' "Startup Content" page for a comprehensive look at “how to un-bloat your computer (or at least minimize the bloat)". Mr. Collins shared his research data with John Mayer for use in the PENINDEX page. http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_content.htm
jv16 Power Tools: all the tools you need for cleaning, controlling and tuning up your computer. Including a registry cleaner, duplicate file finder, temp file finder and much much more! Free for non-commercial use. http://www.vtoy.fi/jv16/index.php
"The 26 Best-ever Freeware Utilities" My favorites are the DLL cleaner and the dual-pane file manager. http://www.techsupportalert.com/best_free_utilities.htm
CNET Community help and how-to weekly newsletter picks ... go to top
Q: 6/3/05 Is a firewall absolutely necessary? A: Submitted by: Miguel K. of Columbus, Ohio http://ct.cnet-ssa.com.com/clicks?c=209997-42757864&brand=cnet-ssa&ds=5
Tutorials ... go to top
Learn the Net http://www.learnthenet.com/english/index.html
Atomz Search Tips http://center.atomz.com/support/search_tips.htm
Computer Knowledge has tutorials, info, acronyms,a file extension list, a virus tutorial and more. http://www.cknow.com/
Monthly Meetings ... go to top
Links to the monthly meeting notes by subject
Searching the Web (March 03) Mozilla (April 03) Blogs (May 03) Modem Accelerators (May 03) Trillian Chat Client (May 03) Email Headers & *S@P?#A%^M** (June 03) Managing Email Messages & Data (August 03) Internet Firewalls (September 03) The TCS Listserv (October 03) Mailing Lists & Newsgroups November 03) Viruses and Spyware (December 03) The Google Toolbar, The Google Deskbar & The MyIE2 Shell (February 2004) Yahoo GeoCities Free (March 2004) The TCP Optimizer & Spam Filtering Software (April 2004) What is WiFi? (May 2004) What is SpyWare? (May 2004) Newsgroups (June 2004) HTML (HyperTextMarkupLanguage) Basics (Aug 2004) Mozilla Firefox (formerly FireBird) Revisited (Aug 2004) Configuring Mozilla Firefox (Oct 2004) Gmail Links (Nov 2004) An Intro to Mozilla Thunderbird (Nov 2004) Bill Bosmeny, President of local Tucson ISP ultraSW.com,Presents ... (Dec 2004) Online Banking and Bill-Pay With Bank1One (Feb 2005) Tech Training & Tech Help at help.com (Mar 2005) Web Hosting 101, HTML/XHTML Basics & the Nvu HTML Editor (Apr 2005) HTML Tags: Anchors & Images (May 2005) Baseball Statistics on the Web! (June 2005) Anatomy of an HTML Table (June 2005) Are Your Shields Up ?with Les Johnson, TCS Computer Professionals SIG leader (July 2005) Beam me up Scotty! (FTP) with Paul Scott, TCS Linux SIG co-leader & Iris Yoffa (Aug 2005) Build a Photo Album for the Web(Oct 2005) ApacheFriends-put an Apache Web Server on Your Windows Machine!(Oct 2005) PC Security with Free for Personal Use Software(Nov 2005) Phishing, Pharming, Urban Legends and Hoaxes (Dec 2005) Voice over Internet Protocol (Jan 2006)

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