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| HARDWARE RESOURCES |
- 2wire Gateways (modem,
router, wireless access points in one)
- AT&T and others resell 2wire gateways. These power adapters are notorious
for failing. Replacement power adapters can be found many places, such as:
- Amazon
- AT&T Equipment Shop
- Google Shopping - look for 2wire power adapter or 2wire power supply
- AT&T and others resell 2wire gateways. These power adapters are notorious
for failing. Replacement power adapters can be found many places, such as:
- Apple Computer
- Customer Service: 1-800-767-2775
- Technical Support: 1-888-500-7078
- Apple Store
- Apple Support
- Apple Support Communities - Share tips and solutions with fellow Apple product users from all around the world.
- Backup (Clock) Batteries Information
- Exchange and Repair Extension Programs
- FireWire Booting: What Computers Support It and How To
- Macintosh computer
- Batteries (Back-up, clock, CMOS, laptop, and more)
- eBatts.com - Batteries for computers, camcorders, and UPS's.
- ePower2Go -All types of batteries. Reseller for Rayovac.
- Fedco Electronics - Computer batteries of all shapes and sizes! Plus adapters, chargers, and more.
- We Love Macs - Macintosh batteries
- Priority Electronics - Laptop batteries and more.
- Vidtek Battery Canada - Large selection of laptop batteries, AC adapters & accessories
- Computer Stores (Hardware and Software)
- Amazon.com
- Apple Store
- Computer Discount Warehouse (CDW)
- CompUSA
- DealMac.com - Macintosh hardware and software
- Fry's Home Electronics
- Hardcore Mac
- J & R Electronics
- MacConnection
- MacGurus
- MacMall
- MacZone
- Other World Computing (OWC)
- PC Connection
- PC Mall
- Pricewatch.com - "Street price" search engine for new and used computer hardware, as well as software and electronics.
- Small Dog Electronics
- Data Recovery Services
- DriveSavers Data Recovery Service - Recover from any type of drive or disk failure - for all computer platforms and media types. Recovery Tips
- ESS Data Recovery - The "world's best data recovery services," from hard drives to RAID and SAN storage arrays.
- Monitor Calibration
- The sites below offer quick and easy ways to calibrate monitors:
- For a more accurrate calibration:
- Monitor calibration and gamma
- Macintosh Use the Calibrate feature in the Displays system preference.
- Windows:
- Windows monitor calibration
- Software:
- Monitor Calibration Wizard free calibration utility
- QuickGamma a small, free calibration utility
- General artcicle on monitor calibration.
- Also see your monitor's manual, contact your monitor's
manufacturer, or your local computer professional.
- Used Macintosh Computer Hardware and Software
- Baucom Computers
- DataTech Remarketing
- DealMac.com
- Discount Mac Computer.
- Gainsaver
- Hardcore Mac
- MacInTheBox
- Macintosh OS.com
- MacOf AllTrades
- MacPrices
- Mac-Pro.com
- MacResource Sales & Service
- MegaMacs
- Nexcomp
- Operator Headgap's Mac Resale Store
- PowerMax
- PowerON Services
- SecondHandMac.com
- Shreve Systems
- TekSale.com
- We Love Macs
| RESOURCE and SUPPORT WEB SITES |
- ATI Consulting - Consulting and Training for the Internet, Macintosh, and Windows. Custom Web Site Design. Onsite service. Based in Benzie County, MI.
- Bleeping Computer - An online community devoted to providing free original content, consisting of computer help and tutorials, in such a way that the beginning computer user can understand.
- Computing.Net - Get Solutions to your Issues. This is "one of the biggest and oldest technical support Web sites. It can help almost anyone obtain technical support for their computing needs."
- Dictionaries of Computer Terms
- FOLDOC Computer Dictionary - Searchable dictionary of terms from computing and related fields.
- Webopedia - Online dictionary and search engine for computer and Internet technology definitions.
- What Is? - Computer glossary.
- HowStuffWorks - Computer section
- Monitors: LCD vs CRT
- Recommendations For Macs and PC's -Tips for keeping your computer healthy and happy.
- Smart Computing - Computer articles, computing reviews, tips, and advice in plain English.
- About Macs
- Apple-history.com - A history of Apple and details for all its models.
- AppleInsider - Insider News and Rumors
- AppleLinks.com - Mac, iPhone, iPod new, reviews, and how-to's.
- CNET's Mac Forums
- EveryMac.
- Everything Macintosh
- Low End Mac - The no foolin' guide to older Macs.
- Mac Parts from iFixit - Fix your Mac using our parts, tools, and free Apple repair manuals.
- Mac OS X Hints
- MacDirectory - A one-stop Macintosh information site, including, news, releases, software, hardware, employment, training and more.
- MacFixIt - CNET's troubleshooting resource for all things Mac.
- MacInstruct - Free news, Macintosh Tutorials, Tech Support, and more.
- Macintosh News Network
- Macintosh Product Specifications - this page from DataTech takes you to Apple's product specification pages.
- Macintosh Resource Page
- MacInTouch - The best source for Mac news.
- MacSurfer's Headline News - links daily to almost every Mac-related news article
- MacSurfer's Headline News - Daily Macintosh news, and other Mac resources.
- Macworld
- Magical Macintosh Key Sequences - All the magic key sequences to make your Mac do various things.
- My First Mac - Help buying and getting started with your new Mac.
- PowerbookMedic.com - Mac parts and Mac repair for your Macbook, Powerbook, iPod and iPhone.
- Recommendations For Macs and PC's - Tips for keeping your computer healthy and happy.
- Recovery Tips - Come back alive after disk problems. Offered by DriveSavers.
- SecureMac.com - The MacOS X and MacOS Security Information Site.
- Spinning pinwheel; Avoiding unresponsiveness/slow-downs in Mac OS X
- TechSurvivors - Free Mac Computer Technical Help and More.
- The Apple Core - Jason D. OGradys Apple blog.
- TidBITS - Apple news for the rest of us.
- UsingMac.com - Mac tips and tricks, software and wallpaper.
- Answers That Work - PC tuning and troubleshooting.
- Driver Guide - Large collection of Windows drivers for all device types.
- Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows - Provides information needed to evaluate Microsoft's upcoming Windows platform technologies.
- PC Hell - Computer help, tips, troubleshooting, online tech support links, and information for Windows computers.
- ProcessLibrary.com - free and comprehensive online resource of processes running on Windows.
- Recommendations For Macs and PC's -Tips for keeping your computer healthy and happy.
- Security Issues (and Solutions) for Windows and Internet Explorer
- Task List Programs - Database of Windows Task Manager processes.
- WinDrivers.com - The world resource For Windows tech support & drivers
- Windows Startup Online - A database source of Windows startup programs with information on each, including if it's a normal startup program, or potentially spyware.
| SOFTWARE RESOURCES |
- Ecofont - Free font based on Bitstream Vera sans-serif containing little holes designed to reduce ink consumption when printing.
- GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Program. Free image editor with many Photoshop-like tools. Can perform such tasks as photo retouching, image composition, and image authoring.. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. For UNIX, Windows and Mac OS X.
- LibreOffice - A power-packed free, libre and open source personal productivity suite for Windows, Macintosh and GNU/Linux, that gives you six feature-rich applications for all your document production and data processing needs: Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math and Base.
- Lynda.com - Software training - online-tutorials for Adobe, Microsoft, Apple & more.
- Online Convert - Transforms a wide selection of file formats (documents, images, audio, video), and it doesn't require you to download or install any new software. Free.
- OpenOffice - Free productivity / office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. Available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.
- Zamzar - free online file conversion site. Convert images, documents, music files, video files, and more from one format to another.
- GENERAL
- GraphicConverter - Shareware. An all-purpose, graphic editing program that will open almost any graphic format, and in turn save to just about any format. Includes powerful image-editing tools.
- Lemke Software - Source for CADintosh, FontBook, GraphicConverter, and more.
- MacUpdate - Macintosh and iPhone software
- MicroMat - Makes of TechTool and more.
- Microsoft software for Mac
- ZipIt - a Mac program that zips and unzips
archives in a format fully-compatible with PKZip for the Windows and zip implementations
on other systems.
- Apple Computer and Mac OS Software
- Apple Customer Service: 1-800-767-2775
- Technical Support: 1-888-500-7078
- Apple Downloads
- Apple Manuals
- Apple Product Security
- Apple Security Updates
- Apple Store
- Apple Support
- Apple Support Downloads and Updates
- AppleCare Tech Info Library - Source of Apple technical information, product information and software updates for Apple customers and support for the Mac OS
- Firmware Updates
- Fonts and Font Tools
- How to Release and Renew a DHCP Address
- Mac OS X:
- Data Cleaning software
- CCleaner - see the Drive Wiper feature - Free. Wipe the free areas of your hard disk so that deleted files can never be recovered.
- GENERAL
- Belarc Advisor - Free. Builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware, network inventory, missing Microsoft hotfixes, anti-virus status, security benchmarks, and displays the results in your Web browser.
- EASEUS Todo Backup - Free back-up software, does cloning and system images, too.
- Everything Search Tool - Windows file and folder search tool. Free, Very fast.
- Macrium Reflect Free - Free system image creation and recovery tool. Can also make a bootable rescue disk.
- PagePlus Starter Edition - Free desktop publishing/layout program that offers a wide range of features at an excellent price: free. It meets many expectations for high-quality software, including the ability to intuitively perform some complex tasks.
- Revo Uninstaller - Free uninstall utility. There's alos a paid, Pro version. It is not just an uninstall program it also includes other tools and features that will help you to clean your Windows based computer system
- Secunia Personal Software Inspector (PSI) - Stay secure by patching and updating insecure programs. Secunia PSI is a security scanner which identifies programs that are insecure and need updates. It even automates the updating of many of these programs, making it a lot easier to maintain a secure PC.
- Total Uninstall - $30, but 30-day trila
version available. Completely remoces unwanted programs, leaving no remnanat behind.
- Data Cleaning software
- Active@ Kill Disk - Hard Drive Eraser - Free. powerful and compact software that allows you to destroy all data on hard and floppy drives completely, excluding any possibility of future recovery of deleted files and folders. It's a hard drive and partition eraser utility.
- BCWipe - Prevent deleted files from being restored by someone else. Delete files forever. Use military-grade procedures to surgically remove all traces of any file.
- CCleaner - see the Drive Wiper feature - Free. Wipe the free areas of your hard disk so that deleted files can never be recovered.
- Eraser - Free. An advanced security tool for Windows that allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns.
- Sure Delete - Free.
Security file shredder
- Microsoft Software
- Contact Microsoft
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Safety and Security Center
- Microsoft Security TechCenter - the latest security bulletin and advisory information.
- Microsoft Support (800-936-5700)
- Process Explorer - Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.
- Troubleshoot problems installing
and uninstalling programs on Windows-based computers
- Windows OS
- General
- Windows Service Pack Center - Get the latest service pack for your version of Windows
- Windows Update Home Page
- Windows 3.1
- Windows 95
- Windows 98
- Windows ME
- Windows XP
- Windows Vista
- Windows 7
- General
- PDF Related
- DoPDF - Free PDF converter - converts any printable document.to a PDF document.
- PDF to Word Converter - Free. Quickly and easily create editable DOC/RTF files from PDF files.
- PrimoPDF - Free. This program is a printer driver that creates PDF files from your documents, rather than printing them to paper. After install, whenever you choose the print option from an application, PrimoPDF will be listed along with your physical printers, print to file, etc. It's extremely easy to use and produces excellent PDFs--without the watermarks that some programs add.
- Photo / Image editors
- Paint.NET - free photo editing software for Windows.
- Photo Pos Pro Photo Editor - a free photo editor offers users a wide variety of possibilities in the fields of Image Enhancing and Image Editing and in the field of Computer Graphics Design.
- Recover Deleted Files
- Data Recovery from Pareto - Free. Recover lost files and data in minutes.
- FreeUndelete - Rescue files accidentally deleted from a Windows XP, 2000, and NT file system.
- Recuva - Free. Restores files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer.
- Restoration - Free, for Windows. Recover files you've deleted from the Recycle Bin.
- General (Any OS) Shareware & Freeware Sources
- Softpedia - the encyclopedia of free
software downloads for Macs, Windows, and more.
- Softpedia - the encyclopedia of free
software downloads for Macs, Windows, and more.
- Macintosh Shareware & Freeware Sources
- CNet Download.com - Free software for Macs
- Tucows - An extensive collection of Mac
shareware and freeware
- Windows Shareware & Freeware Sources
- CNet Download.com - Free software for Windows
- Tucows - An extensive collection of Windows shareware and freeware.
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