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http://www.apple.com Home page, with links to loads of Macintosh information, services, and online support. |
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http://www.macchamp.org Home page of the Burlington, Vermont, Macintosh user group |
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http://www.wiredwomen.com/ Home page of the Burlington, Vermont, Macintosh user group for women |
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http://mugstowe.org Home page of the Stowe, Central Vermont, Macintosh user group |
| http://www.macintouch.com Highly recommended Macintosh news site. |
| http://www.maccentral.com Tthe site I usually check first for Macintosh news. |
| http://www.macfixit.com The site Stephen Farber uses when he needs to find technical information, and one I look at for news. |
| http://www.macnn.com My favorite Macintosh news site, one of three I check regularly. |
| http://www.versiontracker.com A good site to find out if a program has a newer version, and to see announcements of new software. |
| http://www.smalldog.com A Vermont based source of Macintosh information, hardware and software. Sign up for their e–mail newsletters |
| http://www.apple.com/macosx/
General information about Mac OS X Jaguar straight from Apple. |
| http:/www.apple.com/education/hed/macosx/
To learn about the many advantages of Mac OS X in a Higher Education environment |
| http://www.macosxhints.com/
This one comes on the Bookmarks Bar in Apple's Safari when you download it. That ought to be enough to recommend it. As th ename indicates, the site features hints related to the operating system. It also lists the software pick of the week. The current pick is a multipurpose utility called Cocktail - a program Stephen recommended to me. I believe this site is a bit technical for the beginner, and some of the material is definitely advanced |
| http://www.macosxapps.com/
A good source of Mac OS X software. I downloaded IE Cache Trasher 1 and freed up a bunch of hard disk space even though I have tried to avoid using Internet Explorer. Many programs are listed including Cocktail and a free Web Page Translator to navigate foreign web pages in our native language. |
| http://www.macfixit.comstaticpages index.php?page=20021025143249142
Currently this page contains a listing of 70 utility programs that Mac FixIt recommends. The site grows over time. If this URL does not work, you may be able to find it by starting at http://www.macfixit.com. (http://www.macfixit.com ) |
| http://www.xicons.com/
Xicons.com has something like 8252 quality icons in 629 sets. New sets are posted dailly. Frequent downloaders are asked to donate to support their bandwidth fund. |
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http://www.ilenesmachine.com/macos/osxrelease.shtml
The author of this site describes and explains it. "I created these pages because a search on Apple's support site often does not bring up all the articles related to an issue, and it frustrates me - so here you can do a 'browser find' and see all the related articles on one page." It appears to have all of Apples Knowledge Base articles. |
| http://developer.apple.com/unix/index.html
If you understand any of the following or it interests you, you will be interested in this web site. "Mac OS X and the Power of UNIX Beneath the appealing, easy-to-use interface of Mac OS X, you'll find an industrial-strength, UNIX-based foundation called Darwin. This open source core of Mac OS X is highly stable and built on mature technology: -- Mac OS X APIs, UNIX developers can factor an application to keep its core logic intact and use Cocoa's rapid application development frameworks to build a native Mac OS X interface" |
| http://www.osxfaq.com/MAN/index/A.ws
Alphabetic index to all MAN pages (manual pages for Unix). Tip or the day for Mac OS X and Mac OS X Unix with a file of past tips, etc. |
| http://www.oreillynet.com
In addition to publishing some of the best technology books including Macintosh books like The Missing Manual series, O'Reilly is a champion of open source software, Peer to Peer applications on the Internet, and supporting developers of software, administrators of networks, and designers of web sites. If you are interested in running Unix programs on your Mac using the X 11 operating system, developing software. or the next revolution in using the Internet, this site is for you. |
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http://www/macosxlabs.org/resources/resources.html
The longest list of links for more information about Max OS X that Stephen could find (although not all up to date. |
| http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0103/24.primer.shtml
Dennis Sellers put up this Mac OS X Primer on March 24, 2001. Return to Top Digital Photography URLsfrom Bill AmosSteve’s Digicams
http://www.siliconfilm.com A new digital recording unit to take the place of film in such cameras as the Nikon F3, F5, and a couple of other top model cameras. Abut 2.1 megapixels, aprox. 24 images per soot, and probably expensive. |
| http://www.shortcourse.com
A number of instruction books on different subjects: digital photography in general; choosing a camera; a few specific high-end cameras; digital darkroom techniques. Written by a knowledgeable photographer. Reliable information. |
| http://dartbook.com
(800) 624-8800 A number of books on digital photography (inbasement photography section). They vary from simple “Dummies” to more comprehensive books. Shown at NVMUG: THE DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY MANUAL, Philip Andrews, Carlton Books, 2000. |
For members thinking of investing in a digitcam, check out the following two sites for comparison shopping (also good for different, non-photo items):
DealTime
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http://www.dealtime.com
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NexTag
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http://www.nextag.com
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Enter the specific camera you are interested in, then see the listing of stores, prices, etc. A valuable feature is the rating of each store and customer satisfaction.
Bill says that, not only do they list a wide range of new camera prices, but often show sources and prices for GOOD discontinued models. For example, a Coolpix 990 is a great camera and superior (in my judgement and that of others) to the subsequent CP 995. By many digicam specialists the CP 990 is regarded as a classic, possessing everything necessary up to 11 x 14 prints, and is the most desirable of all swivel-body models to date. (I know Richard & Midge have a CP 990--don't give it up!!!)
The current CP 4500 is good too, but by departing from the original body size and configuration of all previous swivel-body Coolpix cameras, removes itself from a number of excellent third party accessories (some from England) that greatly expand the usefulness of previous models. It also has lost several extremely valuable features of the CP 990 and, to a lesser degree, the CP 995.
Bill continues: The current CP 4500 is good too, but by departing from the original body size and configuration of all previous swivel-body Coolpix cameras, removes itself from a number of excellent third party accessories (some from England) that greatly expand the usefulness of previous models. It also has lost several extremely valuable features of the CP 990 and, to a lesser degree, the CP 995.
Digital Photography Review| http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/
This is the most complete and detailed, by far) |
| http://www.steves-digicams.com/2002_reviews
A popular and widely-visited site, not as complete as the other. |
WWW.SterlingTEK.com
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http://www.sterlingtek.com
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