Slade's Computer Links

Directory Freedom (Complete ZIP file) DF.COM only (configured with sensible colors)
My favorite program. I have used Directory Freedom daily ever since the days of DOS 5.0 (a long time ago). It is an old DOS program but I've used it (in full-screen DOS/COMMAND mode) under INW95/WIN98 and I'm still using it under Windows 2000. It is a powerful but simple DOS-based file manager. One thing to note - it will copy files with long WIN95/98 filenames, but the long filenames will be lost. Formerly shareware, the author later released it as freeware.

SLED
My other favorite program, also used daily. SLED is a simple but powerful DOS text editor. Formerly shareware, now freeware. TOTALLY ELEGANT.

DOSINFO.TXT
A giant text file I wrote about DOS. A bit dated, but if you have some need or interest in learning about DOS, there is A LOT of concentrated DOS knowledge here.

F-PROT Antivirus www.f-prot.com
F-PROT was top-class (and free!) backl in the DOS days. As of 2007, they still seem to be top quality, simple, and reasonably priced.

Pegasus Mail www.pmail.com
I use and recommend Pegasus for email. Pegasus is freeware and can be found here.

NoteTab - www.notetab.com
A notepad replacement.

AVS Antivirus - www.grisoft.com

PC Wizard - www.pcwizard.com
ID's all your hardware.

www.arsdigita.com/books/panda
Phil and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing
This is an online book about website design. Very interesting. Explains why websites should be kept simple.

www.useit.com
This is Jakob Neilson's giant website covering web design usability issues. The weekly AlertBox columns are the heart of the site. The most classic of these is the Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design
Also be sure to see the column from 1999: Top Ten Mistakes Revisited 10 Years Later

Technical documents at Micro Firmware, Inc.

I wrote all these documents when I was the manager of the technical support department at Micro Firmware www.firmware.com.
Well- I guess the site is gone. You could probably find it with the wayback machine. Maybe I'll post some docs here someday.

Here is an HTML table that shows the 216 colors of the "color safe" palette with HTML hex values. Can be used to help select colors for backgrounds, etc. Also shows a 16-color chart. I never really understood the issues behind this, but anyway, for what its worth... (it was great fun learning about Tables to create this document)
COLORSAF.HTM

Y2K Links
Tons of way-old Y2K-related links. (I compiled this back in 1998 or so when I was working at a company that was involved in Y2K issues).

DVD-CD stuff:

www.cdrfaq.org - Andy McFadden's CD-Recordable FAQ

DVD FAQ www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html

Mike Richter's CDR Primer at www.mrichter.com

ImgBurn - freeware DVD burner

DVD Decrypter - freeware DVD ripper

DigitalFAQ.com

01ftp.com

GoDaddy.com - Domain Name Registration

Half Price Hosting

GWD Hosting

Yahoo - Computers and Internet

MIT Laboratory for Computer Science

Alan Turing Home Page

HTML Writers Guild

Kelly Jelly Factory (a web designer)

Compgeeks

Computer Links
Some PC-related links. Taken from a list I maintained at my old job. (I don't do much maintenance on this anymore, probably lots of broken links)

System Vendors: Packard Bell / Gateway 2000 / Micron / Acer / ALR / Apple / AST / Compaq / CTX / Dell / DEC / DTK / emachines / Everex / Fujitsu / Hewlett Packard / Hitachi / IBM / Midwest Micro / NCR / NEC / Quantex / Sharp / Samsung / Sony / SuperMicro / Tandy / Tangent / TI Notebooks (Acer) / Unisys / Wang / WinBook / WYSE / Zenith /