Comcast Broadband Links

• Gmail
• Windows Live (formerly Hotmail)
• Earthlink web mail.
• Comcast Broadband
• Online help for Comcast broadband.

Bandwidth Tests

• MSN Internet Speed Test.
• Bandwidthplace Speed Test

Handheld (PDA) Computer Stuff

• My links page.

Some Excellent links for Shareware

• FileHippo Download Free Software.
• TuCows Software Excellent site with software descriptions and ratings. Look for a 5 cow rating.
• Download.Com
• NoNags Freeware Shareware
• FreeWareHome
• FreeWareWeb
• Free Anti-Virus Software
  • AVG AntiVirus
    • Free Version
  • Avast! AntiVirus

Just Plain Computing Information

• BootDisk.com . Bootdisks, PC Support and Essential Utilities.
• Bandwidthplace Test your connection speed.
• ZipZoomFly , formerly Googlegear. Buy Stuff.
• Newegg Buy more stuff.
• ZD Net
• PC Magazine online
• The Drivers Headquarters
• Tom's Hardware Guide
• The BIOS Survival Guide
• System Optimization Information
• WinXPnews
• Windows-Help

Microsoft Technical Support

• Microsoft Windows 9X Personal On-line Support Home Page
• Microsoft Windows XP
• Microsoft Windows
• TweakXP
• Windows XP Tips and Tricks

Great Shareware/Freeware Programs

• Old Versions of programs can be found here.
• Editors
  • Professional File Editor Home Page
  • Notepad++ editor.
• Security Stuff
  • Avast Anti-Virus free Home Edition
  • Comodo Personal Firewall. Firewall ratings can be found here
  • PC Tools Firewall Plus.
  • Zone Alarm Personal Firewall
  • Ad-aware by Lavasoft. Ad-aware is a free multi spyware removal utility that scans your memory, registry and hard drives for known spyware and scumware components and lets you remove them safely. It is updated frequently. Highly recommended.
  • Spybot S&D spyware remover.
• Internet editors/FTP
  • Maxthon , Tabbed windows IE based browser.
  • Mozilla 's Firefox.
  • Filezilla FTP client.
  • AceHTML . Version 5 is freeware HTML editor.
  • HTML-KIT full featured free editor.
• Graphics Editing
  • ToneUp S3 image processing studio.
  • DCRAW. Command line RAW image decoder.
    • Francisco Montilla's site for Windows Executables.
    • Other Windows executables can be found here.
  • UFRaw Gui for DCRAW.
    • GTK+2 Runtime environements needed can be found here.
  • GeoSetter is a freeware tool for Windows for showing and changing geo data of image files.
  • PhotoMe Digital Photo Metadata Editor.
  • ExifTool. Command line exif data viewer/editor. A Windows GUI is available here.
  • IrfanView Freeware Graphic Viewer
  • Picasa editor from Google.
  • Paint.net Freeware Image Editer
  • The Gimp . GNU Image Manipulation Program. Installers for Windows.
    Also check out GimpShop to replicate the feel of Photoshop. And another link.
• Audio
  • Audacity freeware audio editor.
  • GoldWave Digital Audio Editor
  • WinAmp MP3 player.
• Utility
  • Open Office fully-featured office suite compatible with leading office products.
  • 7-Zip freeware file archiver.
    Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR.
    Unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS
  • jZip – a free alternative to WinZip based on 7-Zip technology by Igor Pavlov
  • WinZip
  • AutoIT windows scripting program.
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader
  • PDF Creater . Creates PDF files thru a printer driver.

HTML editing resources

• Phillip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing

CAD resources

• 2D
  • ProgeCAD IntelliCAD LT.
  • IntelliCAD by CADopia.
  • IntelliCAD Technology Consortium homepage.
  • CADinfo.NET
  • Cadalyst Magazine
  • Autodesk
  • Autodesk Discussion Groups
• SolidWorks
  • SolidWorks Express
  • SolidWorks Forums
  • SolidWorks Customer Portal
  • YahooGroups SolidWorks
  • Blogs
    • The SolidWorks Geek
    • The SolidWorks Legion
    • SolidSmack
    • Lenny' SolidWorks Resources