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THE H-REPORT: Internetby Daniel P. Dern A Bunch O' Web StuffStarting Points: For "starting-point" lists such as "newspapers and magazines on-line," see http://www.stpt.com.Tips for getting a home page up and running quick? Try http://www.inetdirect.net/ghake/w3.index.html . Want to Retrieve WWW files without using a browser? Get Jeffrey E. F. Friedl's HTTPGET Perl script, at http://www.wg.omron.co.jp/~jfriedl/perl/ . Be sure to check out the other interesting tools and the Japanese-English stuff while you're there! For info on HTML filters and converters--and lots of other good Web page-creation tools and tips--see http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Tools/Filters.html , and while you're there, bounce up a level or so and browse the other areas. Pick Of The MonthThe "Internet Resources" newsletter from Heriot-Watt University Library, is now available free by accessing it at http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/irn.html .Book Of The MonthNetLaw: Your Rights in the Online World, by Lance Rose (Osborne/McGraw-Hill). Planning to plug your company--and employees--into the net? Prepare for--and prevent--legal hassles by learning a little cyberlaw.Marketing: Sponsors And 'Rate Cards'Sponsoring Internet stuff has become the "in" thing. For a list of sponsorable Internet sites and resources, see http ://www.i-traffic.com/resource/ . Be sure to browse the rest of the site while you're there!To price-shop what leading Internet sites want for links and sponsorship, hop to the Web site for Rosalind Resnick's Interactive Publishing Alert newsletter, http://www.netcreations.com/ipa/adindex.html . Update : Larry Chase's WDFM Web Digest for Marketers is now available free of charge at http://nyweb.com/webdigest . One-Click' Account Set-up With UsefulWareSLIP/PPP providers and companies plugging in as new sites can bring up new users easily by using a two to four disk pack of Internet applications and a custom-configured installer, from UsefulWare (Atlanta). All the user has to provide is his or her ID and password; the UsefulWare turnkey package can do the rest, including installation and configuration of up to a dozen Internet apps. (See http://www. usefulware.com/~jfoltz .)UsefulWare also offers ICC, a shareware Internet Control Center application manager. UsefulWare's Web site includes its "Best Internet Clients for MS-Windows" pointers to leading shareware Windows Internet applications--and some great icons. (Think of it as a short relative of Forrest Stroud's Consummate WinSock Apps List: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~neuroses/cwsapps.html .) More Windows Info On The WebIf you're looking for comprehensive write-ups of the leading freeware and shareware Internet-oriented (TCP/IP) Windows applications and suites, check out Ed Sinkovits' "WinSock Client Listing" document, issued periodically as a ZIP file both Windows .WRI and MS-Word .DOC version. Main places to find it: URL=ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/ win3/winsock URL=ftp://ftp.cica.indiana. edu/pub/pc/win3/winsock as winterXX. zipm, where XX reflects the version number. Number 13 was out as of June '95, and listed more than 80 packages. Highly recommended! Lois Laulicht's Window Watch, "The Windows Magazine of the Internet," http// www.channel1.com/users/winwatch/WindoWatch.html , available in zipped Adobe PDF, Reader (DOS) and ASCII versions.Daniel P. Dern can be reached at ddern@world.std.com. Or, you can e-mail Daniel directly . |
