Mac-Site-list, HTML Version 4.8.1
Mac WWW Section
World Wide Web
sites
Large Mac
Web, links, and archive sites
Apple computer Web
sites
Info-Mac and related Web
sites
- Info-Mac's home page - While some parts of the site have not seen an update in years the files and search engine are kept up to date.
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- Umich's main web
site - This is the web site of the Umich archive. The ftp site
disappeared around August 1998 and there was a formal announcement
of the site no longer being updated nor maintained at the home page
(which is itself now defunct).
- Arizona Mac Users
Group
- Associated
Services - An AMUG mirror that also has a huge collection of
Christian files and carries the CyberChurch Christian network
online.
- Jumbo - Collection of Mac,
IBM, OS/2 programs
- MacShare Com - This
website contains recommendations for Macintosh shareware that is
worthwhile to download, and information to help you get the most
out of your Mac.
- Planet Mirror
- mirror of many sites not just macintosh.
- UNSW Mac Archive collection,
au
Mac Web
sites with specific files, programs, or subjects
- Game Sites
- News and Review Sites
- Utility Sites
- Allume Systems inc. -
Home of StuffIt compression
utilities
- CreativeMac -
“News, Tools and Techniques for Savvy Creative
Professionals”
- Emulators for MacOS -
Computers, consoles, arcade, and handheld devices
- Joliet
extension home (MacOX 9.x) - Home site of the Joliet extension which is needed for reading some Windows based CDs
- MacOS X Hints - Get
tips on MacOS X
- macscripter.net -
“Your best source for things Applescript”
- Home of the Volume Access extension (MacOS 9.x) - needed to read DirectCD formatted CDs. There has been a conflict noted with DVD
player.
- ResExcellence -
customize your MacOS.
- ScriptWeb - MacOS
scripting, last updated June 2, 2001
- Simprograms, Mac -
Third party programs for the Sims
- Learn about UNIX on a Mac, from its history (MacMinix site), MacOS X Apps, and MacOS X ports) as well as
running Linux on
assorted platforms in addition to the PPC.
- Xicons - With 5000+ icons to
choose from you can improve the look of your desktop even to the
point it would have been better if you had not.
- X Overload - Home site
of x overload; the extension, control panel management utility for
the ClassicOS folder
Computer companies that deal with Macs and Mac Specific program sites:
Miscellaneous Mac or special interest
Web sites
- Altavista
babelfish and Google
translator - Useful tools for translating non-english Mac
sites
- Voyager
CD-ROMs
- C|net
- Internet Archive - The
Wayback Machine is the prefect tool for finding information on now
long gone websites. As long as you still have the URL that is.
- Emailman
- Macintosh word processors
- Kisekae World - Home of a java-baced Kiss-file reader called UltraKiss. UltraKiss will open and run many kiss files that French Kiss had problems with and doubles as a Kiss file creator. Author is very prompt in trying to fix bugs.
- Low-End Mac
“Value Computing”
- Macfixit -
“Troubleshooting solutions for the Macintosh”
- “NetBSD is a free,
secure, and highly portable UNIX-like operating system available
for many platforms...”
- newsreaders.com -
“a site about newsgroups and software related to
them.”
- os9forever.com When you
need to run MacOS 9.2.x on an unsupported Mac.
- GNU MacOS X Public Archive
- “Our Goal is to produce Tools for the OS X Package
Installer/Maker and to port all Free/Open source software to the OS
X Installer system as is possible.”
- Project Gutenberg -
Public Domain etext archive, not really a Mac specific site but a
IMHO resource important enough to include.
- Python - “Python is
an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language.
It is often compared to Tcl, Perl, Scheme or Java.” Wxpython GUI toolkit for
Python.
- ScamBusters - If there is a
cornicopia of information to deal with scams and spam on the
internet this is the place. Not only does this site have a wealth
of usefull information but it links you to equally good sites
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- Rip-off
Report aka Bad Business Bureau - Much better source than the
BBB because “ALL, complaints remain public in order
to create a working history on the Company or Individual in
question; unedited. ”
- SpamCon and CAUCE (CoalitionAgainst Unsolicited
Commercial Email) - You are not a lone voice yelling in the
wilderness and pulling your hair out. There are others trying to
get rid of spam and the more people support them the sooner we take
our e-mail boxes back from the jerks clogging them.
- Spam Abuse Net - Need
ideas on how to fight spam? This is the place to go.
- Want to report a spammer? Time to talk to your friendly Spamcop.
- The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was
set up in October 1994 to ensure the Web's interoperability by
created a standard series of “specs” for HTML. I firmly
believe that web designers should use the tools and information
provided rather than trying to deal witht he lates glitch on
broswer x. The standards for HTML are there for a reason guys.
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- No matter what tool one uses to create a web page chances are
that there will be errors. The open source HTML Tidy Library project
will help eliminate the majority of them as well as the bloat
generated by many HTML authoring programs. W3C provides an online HTML validator and an online Link checker
to check a page you already put up.
- Not familiar with HTML or style sheets? Dave Raggett's Getting
started with HTML will provide good if somewhat brief
information on doing it right.
- Not sure how to layout your web page? Learn from other’s
mistakes so your page is not one of the Web Pages That Suck. Web
designers will find futher useful tips at DevWebPro
- Think following the W3Cs specs means boring web pages? Let Web Design Group show you that
these ideas are not mutually exclusive. They also have a list of
validators.
- Eric S. Raymond's
HTML Hell site is quite colorful in it voicing of the way many
of us feel about boneheadingly designed web sites.
- Odds are you don't know that there is even stricter version of
HTML out there. Created by ISO (International Organization for
Standardization) and IEC (the International Electrotechnical
Commission) this version of HTML (International Standard ISO/IEC
15445) is outlined in the ISO-HTML (FAQ)
summary and explained in great detail in the users guide and
actual specification.
Search
Engines
Recommended search engines for individual files and programs are
strong. Sites that also contain lists of search
engines are emphasized.
| Alta Vista |
C|Net's downloadable
files search engine | C|Net shareware Search
engine | Excite |
Google and Newsgroups | Lycos | WebCrawler | Yahoo |
mac-site-list-html and related files maintained by Bruce
Grubb.
Last updated Oct 1, 2004
BruceG6069@aol.com