Category: The Web
WebCasting tools and related technologies
Web audio, video and conferencing tools make long-distance get-togethers possible. There are many tools you can use, but be sure the tool is suited for the task you have in mind.
Webcasting as in one-to-many? Our favorite low-cost, easy-to-configure webcasting solution for live video and/or audio is IVISTA...
Radio Free Internet - Audio Programming on the Web
Introduction
There are a number of computer-based-based Internet radio players and services from Microsoft, Apple, Real, Yahoo and many others. The revenue models vary, but typically, the content is subsidized by advertisements. In this report, we'll note new technologies and some of the legal...
New tools make a paradigm shift all but inevitable
The entertainment industry is more than a little worried about piracy
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has been wielding lawsuits against Internet search engines since 1999, when it sued Lycos over that company's search engine, which the RIAA claimed was facilitating piracy....
Introduction
Asking which format(s) were most popular on the Net a few years ago is a question that will get you different answers depending on who you ask, and where the experts were looking. Arguably, Apple QuickTime format movies were the most popular format during the first few years of the Web's explosive growth. Apple users had an early head...
Choosing an ISP: A guide to selecting a dial-up Internet service provider
Whether you are just at the stage of trying to decide how to get connected to the Internet, or you are a long-time user evaluating whether another company's service might be better suited to your needs, the table that accompanies this article should address most of your...
Internet service providers: now you can update your own listings. This is good news for those shopping for an ISP, too, as it means that the listings are more up to date than ever.
If you are an ISP, visit our Canadian ISPs page and enter or update your listing.
This is a large database which contains not only the reseller's information, but also...
Here are some tips on how to pick an Internet Service Provider.
Here is a list of questions to ask a prospective Internet provider. More advanced users might want to examine this longer list (collected using a "search engine" -- a skill every web user should learn!) as well.
(Ask a friend or business associate to print out this...
A free Mac emulator
Basilisk II is a free, open-source Mac emulator. It is well documented, thanks to a manual offered as an Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format) document on a "shareware" basis (you like, you send US$20) at: http://www.kearney.net/~mhoffman/basiliskII/manual/BasiliskII_Windows_Ma... II is available in several binary...
Introduction
A growing number of webmasters are finding that the effort to manually manage content becomes greater as a website grows until, eventually, the site is practically unmanageable. Old content must be moved into archives, pages must be formatted, and news posters given access to upload and/or edit content. A Content Management System (...
Products:
Macromedia Dreamweaver
NetObjects Fusion
Design Intelligence Ipublish
Microsoft FrontPage
Terry Morse Myrmidon (Mac only)
Astrobyte BeyondPress
HexMac HexWeb XT
Product: Fusion
From: NetObjects
For: Win95/NT or Mac
Pros: Easy to use, allows rapid creation and editing of design-intensive websites. Hides HTML from the user. Pixel-level...
Products mentioned:
FrontPage (Win9x/NT/2000/XP)
Macromedia Dreamweaver (Win/Mac)
Allaire HomeSite (Win)
PageMill (Win/Mac) (discontinued!)
BBEdit (Mac)
PageSpinner (Mac)
Myrmidon (Mac)
BeyondPress (Mac)
Advanzio Creatoré DB Publishing (updated)
Removed and discontinued:
Symantec Visual Page (Win/Mac)
Claris HomePage (Win/Mac)
Product:...
Preview:
Product: GoLive 5
From: Adobe, www.adobe.com
For: Macintosh, Windows
Price: TBD
Pros: Relatively easy to use, intuitive drag & drop interface. A complete tool set for Web site design, layout, and maintenance. Powerful features for visual layout and design, advanced site management, HTML source code and JavaScript editing, as well as...
New tools enable dynamic font support in Netscape Communicator 4.0
As many web surfers know, each version of Netscape's browser adds new features. With version 4 of Netscape Communicator (available for download from www.netscape.com), the company has added a support for an interesting font embedding technology called TrueDoc. With TrueDoc, you can...
What it is
In one of the many in-depth XML sessions at Microsoft Tech-Ed 2000 (June 5-8, 2000 in Orlando, Florida), Microsoft XML Product leads Eric Schmidt and Zak Davies began with a tongue-in-cheek demonstration of just how misunderstood this meta-markup language really is. "XML is cool. Let's go buy some XML," they bantered, before...
Intro
SQL Server 2000 is Microsoft's top-of-the-line database and analysis tool, designed for rapid delivery of scalable e-commerce, line-of-business and data warehousing solutions.
SQL Server 2000, officially released Sept. 26th, 2000, is one of numerous Microsoft Server efforts that have reached new levels of maturity this year. It, like several...