THE H-REPORT

Internet

by Daniel P. Dern

'Book' Of The Month

"The WebMaster's Resource" CD-ROM from Today Eve, Inc. contains applications, browsers, CGI-scripts, HTML editors, helper apps, tutorials, FAQs and more for Windows, DOS, OS/2, Mac and Amiga, plus 10,000 icons, bullets, backgrounds and other graphics and the Linux Slackware distribution. More info: info@access.eve.net, http://www.eve.net/ or (304) 697-6770.

Pick Of The Month

Ants in your Web. Steve's Ant Farm, at http://sec.dgsys.com/antfarm.html features real ants, a fresh JPEG snap every 10 minutes and a 52-KB MPEG movie.

Hop The Web Tour Bus

Relatively new to the Internet? Hop on a quick guided tour of the Internet with the Internet TOURBUS, by "Doctor Bob" Rankin and Patrick Douglas Crispin. The TOURBUS comes to you as ASCII e-mail. You'll "visit" (be given a description of) the Net's most important and coolest WWW, Gopher and FTP sites and services, plus addresses to check out on your own. (Everything on the Tour is also reachable by e-mail.) Back issues of TOURBUS postings are available from: http://csbh.mhv.net/~bobrankin/tourbus. To subscribe, send e-mail to majordomo@colossus.net containing (only): SUBSCRIBE TOURBUS.

New SLIP Emulator FAQ

Lynn Larrow's comprehensive "SLiRP/TIA/Trumpet Setup" at: http://www.webcom.com/~llarrow/tiarefg.html.

Setup information for MacPPP and SLiRP at http://www.rahul.net:80/uplink/slirp/macppp.html.

Setup for InterSLIP and SLiRP at: http://www.rahul.net:80/uplink/slirp/interslip.html.

If you're a Web developer, it's probably time to revisit Alan Richmond's Web Developers Virtual Library, where there's more than 1,200 URLs' worth of Web developer resources, graphics, images and icons, all at: http://www.stars.com.

Consuming Mass Quantities Of Web Pages

To grab an entire group of Web pages to your disk in one fell swoop, try WebWhacker, from ForeFront. (Windows and Mac versions available.) Info and demos at: http://www.ffg.com/internet.html.

Hot Information Resources

Here's a great pointer list for reference resources on the Internet including telephone, Internet, package-tracking, employment and other directories, plus dictionaries, encyclopedias and more: http://www.addressbook.com/ToolsResources/.

You know the times they've a-changed when you can get Izvestia (one of the best known Russian newspapers) directly on the Web, from Russia OnLine. (It's in Russian, so you'll need the HOI-8 fonts.) Bop over to http://www.online.ru/mlists/izvestia/izvestia-izvestia/.

For a comprehensive window into the trade book industry, rather than just one publisher, see BookWire. It includes a database of Publishers Weekly Bestseller Lists, links to the Internet sites of 200+ publishers and 150+ booksellers. Also an event calendar, resource pointers and much, much more. I could spend a day browsing this site productively, if I had the timeƒSee you at: http://www.bookwire.com.

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

November 15, 1995