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WebCasting

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.

Radio Free Internet

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 issues facing Internet radio providers. Legal Issues

Sharing Files with P2P Tools

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.

ISPs

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 questions. Frankly, at a maximum monthly charge of about $20, we're inclined to feel that the big issue is not the price of the service, but the quality and the variety of what is offered.

Q & A - Internet Service Providers

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 ISP, technical companies, manufactures, retailers, distributors...... etc. in the computer industry.

Canadian Internet Service Providers

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 information for you so that you will know the right questions to ask before you sign anything. Shop around!) Ask around -- choose a provider your friends are happy with. CA Domains

Basilisk II

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_Manual.exeBasilisk II is available in several binary forms, and as code that can be custom-compiled on virtually any platform. There are versions for Sharp handhelds, BeOS, Linux, Windows and even Mac OS X.

Web Authoring Made Easy

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 accuracy. Imports existing local or remote websites.

Web Authoring Made Easier

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:

Web Authoring with GoLive

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 several user-defined options.

TrueDoc Tools & Typeface Tricks

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 embed font data in your web pages so that people visiting your web site will see the typefaces exactly as you intend.

An Intro to XML

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 showing a video of a pair of nerdy Web developers in an elevator accosting another passenger, in a scene that went a little like this:

SQL Server 2000

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.