THE H-REPORT

Internet

by Daniel P. Dern

New Yahoo Debut

The new business-ized Yahoo is out, at least in beta, with reorganized categories and new features; take a hop over to www.yahoo.com and check it out!

Book of the Month:

An oldie but goodie: The New Hacker's Dictionary, 2nd Edition, compiled by Eric Raymond, MIT Press. The definitive collection of hacker jargon, Internet-speak and other computer slang. You may have seen this on the Net as the "Jargon file." This is more recent and comprehensive. Every organization needs a copy, every Internet user should at least familiarize themselves with the book. Once you start browsing it, you'll keep coming back for more helpings until you've read it all.

I Think Icon, I Think Icon

Web page designers can spruce up their pages with decorative icons including arrows, buttons and "assorted doodads" from Daniel McCoy's Icon Archive. Find them at http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/ ~mccoy/Icons/index.html

Also check out the WorldWide Web application icons and file symbols, at Tony Sanders' Favorite AIcons: http://www.bsdi.com/icons/AIcons/fav.html

Deborah McIntosh has collected pointers to resources including icons and graphics, HTML authoring, Netscape background GIFs, mail to's, the Internet Font Archives and more, at http://fox.nstn.ca/~nstn1439/html auth.html

Resources for Inter net Users

Netscape Navigator bookmarks out of control? Windows users may want to check out Sextant, a new shareware ($15) bookmark editor, at ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/win3/internet/sextnt10.zip

Cyberfinder, a program by Leonard Rosethol and Victo Tan, should turn your Mac's Finder program into a URL database--it's at ftp://coriolis.esm.psu.edu/pub/gray/Mac_stuff/networking-comm/CyberFinder.sit

Want to get Web files from the Unix prompt? Try out WebCopy, an interesting little PERL program that does non-interactive retrieval of Web files, including form output, in-line images and anchors. You can find it at http://www.inf.utfsm.cl/~vparada/webcopy.html

Pick of the Month

Netscape Hall of Shame. Actually, not so shameful. An interesting rating of home pages by how well they use design, graphics, and the Netscape 1.1 extensions. http://www.europa.com/netbin/netscape_hos.htm

Especially for Windows Folks

Mike Dixon's QAIDs offer topical Question-Answer-Information-Database information such as documented and undocumented info, quick tips and tricks, news, rumors and topically-sorted Q&As. Current QAID topics include Windows95 and Visual Basic, at http://www.whidbey.net/~mdixon/qaid0001.htm. You'll also find links to other Internet documents and collections on these topics. Additionally, Dixon provides a user interface and full-text indexes, for users who want to download the databases and use them locally.

Robert Mashlan has assembled several Web pages worth of Internet resources for Borland, Microsoft, Symantec and Watcom development products including Visual Basic, OWL, TurboPascal and Delphi, plus Windows device drivers, Windows NT, Wind ows95, TurboPascal, Delphi, WinHelp and WinSock stuff, at http://www.csn.net/~rmashlan/windev/windev.html

Daniel P. Dern can be reached at ddern@world.std.com

October 1, 1995