CS403 Useful Links Sections 01, 03, 04 Fall 2011

Useful Links

Color Pickers

Color Scheme Designer: http://colorschemedesigner.com
ColorPicker 3.1: http://www.pagetutor.com/colorpicker/index.html
VisiBone: http://visibone.com/colorlab
ColorSchemer: http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html

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CSS

A List Apart: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/css-positioning-101
This article provides a very good description of the CSS position property.
w3schools.com CSS Tutorial: http://www.w3schools.com/css
CSS Zen Garden: http://www.csszengarden.com

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Email

Email at UNH: http://it.unh.edu/index.cfm?ID=17DA434D-C007-7331-FCBC98AF0073E057
Spam Filtering with SpamAssassin: http://pubpages.unh.edu/notes/spamassassin.html
A description of the SpamAssassin automatic email filtering software package that is installed on the CIS Unix mail handling machines.
To Start or Stop Spam Filtering of your CIS Unix Email: https://webmail.unh.edu/cisunix/spamfilter.html
Links that allow you to alter spam filtering of your CIS Unix email.
ASCII Generator: http://www.network-science.de/ascii
A figlet server for your e-mail signature.
Ascii Art Gallery: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/indexjava.htm
Some ascii art created by Joan Stark.
Monty Python's Spam: http://www.detritus.org/spam/skit.html
The script and sound clips from the infamous Monty Python "Spam" sketch.
Hormel's Spam Museum: http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/MNAUSspam.html
Visit Hormel's Spam Museum on-line.
List of Top Level Domain Names: http://www.thrall.org/domains.htm
A list of top level domain names.
Pine History: http://www.washington.edu/pine/overview/project-history.html
A history of the Pine mailer.
Pine Tutorial: http://www.washington.edu/pine/tutorial.4
A how-to introduction to the Pine mailer.
MIME Information: http://www.hunnysoft.com/mime
Contact State Senators: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Contains a list of e-mail addresses for all U.S. Senators and a tutorial on how to send e-mail to them.

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Internet and WWW Info

Cookie Central: http://www.cookiecentral.com
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF): http://www.ietf.org
Internet Society (ISOC): http://www.isoc.org
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C): http://www.w3.org
W3C- PICS: http://www.w3.org/PICS
Information from the W3C about the Platform for Internet Content Selection.
Web Style Guide: http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/contents.html
The on-line version of the Web Style Guide by Patrick Lynch and Sarah Horton offers basic design principles for creating Web sites.
WebPagesThatSuck Site: http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com
Vince Flanders' site where you "learn good Web design by looking at bad Web design."

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Graphics Tools

Cool Text: Logo and Graphics Generator: http://cooltext.com
"Cool Text is a free graphics generator for web pages and anywhere else you need an impressive logo without a lot of design work. Simply choose what kind of image you would like. Then fill out a form and you'll have your own custom image created on the fly."
picnik: http://www.picnik.com
Easy to use photo editor that works in your browser.
Shrink Pictures: http://www.shrinkpictures.com
A site that allows you to resize images and offers a video tutorial for first time users of the site.

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Software Links

FileZilla: http://filezilla-project.org
A free FTP client with a graphical user interface. Make sure you select the "Download FileZilla Client" option and not the Server option!
WS_FTP LE: http://www.wsftple.com
Another free FTP client from Ipswitch File Transfer.
PuTTY: http://pubpages.unh.edu/~cs403d/403/putty.html
A page describing how to download and use Putty.
Mac Terminal application and ssh: http://pubpages.unh.edu/~cs403d/403/mac_terminal.html
A page that describes how to find the Terminal application on a Mac and then use it with ssh to connect to a host computer.

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Search Tools and Search Info

Search Engine Watch

http://searchenginewatch.com
Lots of excellent information about search engines.

Search Engine Land

http://searchengineland.com
Offers the "latest search news, research and analysis, commentary, and expert advice" by Danny Sullivan and Chris Sherman.

Search Engine Decoder

http://www.search-this.com/search-engine-decoder
Provides a visual display of search engine relationships.

Note: some of the information on this site is out-of-date but is still interesting...

Yahoo!

http://www.yahoo.com
The first search engine and directory service.

Classic Yahoo!

http://dir.yahoo.com
The Yahoo! Directory home page.

Altavista

http://www.altavista.com
Was the Google of its day (late 1995).

Bing

http://www.bing.com
Formerly MSN Search until the Summer of 2009. It provides a nice alternative to Google.

Blekko

http://www.blekko.com
Just launched in November 2010, users fine tune search results by "slashing the web."

Google

http://www.google.com
A favorite - the search engine that ranks sites by hyperlink popularity.

Ask

http://www.ask.com
Gained fame in late 1990s as the natural language search engine called Ask Jeeves. More recently (2010) reverted back to being a questions and answer service.

AllTheWeb

http://www.alltheweb.com
Previously owned by Fast (aka Fast Search) and now powered by Yahoo!

HotBot

http://www.hotbot.com
Provides easy access to the Web's major search engines (but does not merge results like a metasearch engine).

Lycos

http://www.lycos.com
One of the oldest search engines on the Web (since about 1994).

Mahalo

http://www.mahalo.com
A human powered search tool that uses a committee of editors to evaluate content.

Open Directory Project

http://www.dmoz.com
A human compiled directory of sites that uses volunteer editors to manage categories. Used by many other search tools.

Metacrawler

http://www.metacrawler.com
One of the oldest metasearch engines, it was developed at the University of Washington in July of 1995.

Dogpile

http://www.dogpile.com
A metasearch engine.

Yippy

http://search.yippy.com
A metasearch engine formerly known as Clusty and before that, Visisimo. Yippy retrieves results from Ask, Open Directory, Gigablast and others.

Web Crawler

http://www.webcrawler.com
A metasearch engine: "The Web's Top Search Engines Spun Together."

IceRocket

http://www.icerocket.com
A metasearch engine for blogs. Check out IceSpy to see what others are searching for right now.

Other Resources:

WolframAlpha: http://wolframalpha.com
A computational knowledge engine - just enter what you want to calculate or know about and WolframAlpha will perform the computations from its own internal knowledge base instead of searching the WWW.
Yahoo! People: http://people.yahoo.com
White pages from Yahoo!
WhoWhere: http://www.whowhere.com
White pages from Lycos.
Webopedia: http://www.webopedia.com
Encyclopedia resource for information about computers and technology.
The Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org
Keeps snapshots of Webpages in an archive.
Rollyo: http://www.rollyo.com
Offers the ability to search the content form a list of Websites that you select. You can then make your list public to share with others, if you choose.