Links
Welcome to the links page. This is where we list various other web sites or other reading material that may be of interest to you. No endorsement of these sites or products is implied.
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Holidays
| Two Spanish Holiday Apartments | Fancy a break in Spain? Visit the Murcia region on the Costa Calida, an area with fantastic sailing, water-sports and superb golf. We have two air-conditioned/heated apartments available for short or long breaks. One (sleeps up to 6) on the La Manga strip overlooking the Marina with nearby beaches, and the other - a penthouse with solarium - on La Torre Golf Resort(sleeps up to 4) overlooking two pools and suitable for golfers and non-golfers alike. |
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Hardware
| Tom’s Hardware Guide | An up-to-the-minute site reviewing all sorts of PC hardware. Gives advice on chips and over-clocking too. |
| Upgrading and Repairing Pc’s Web Site | This site is all about Scott Mueller’s excellent book Upgrading and Repairing PC’s (see the Book Reviews page on our site). Also on this site you can read lots of FAQs concerning hardware and software problems, and if you still need answers you can e-mail Scott himself. He will reply! |
| Pinouts, Connectors, etc | Claimed to have the largest collection of hardware pinout guides on the net. All types of electronic device not just PC’s. Techie heaven! |
| Virtual Doctor | No, not for humans - this site is where you can get answers to all those computer problems. |
| Motherboard Monitor | An excellent freeware utility that displays various motherboard temperatures within the system tray. Works with Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP. |
| SiSoftware Sandra | SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility. It should provide most of the information (including undocumented) you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software. It is a native 32-bit Win32 application. It also provides information on 16-bit Windows and DOS unlike many other system information programs. |
| Broadband Speed Test | Test your broadband connection and see the actual speeds you are achieving rather than the speeds you pay for. |
| SeaTools Diagnostic Suite | This is Seagate's exclusive disc drive diagnostic software designed to troubleshoot most Seagate hard drive issues. The Desktop edition works with most ATA, SATA, or SCSI drives in desktop systems, even those of other manufacturers, and has a 98% accuracy rate. |
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Internet Security
| Test your firewall | This takes you to the Gibson Research Corporation. It is a very useful site where you can test the effectiveness of any firewalls on your network. Check out how visible your computer is on the Internet by looking at their Shields Up page and scrolling down to the Hot Spots section half-way down. |
| E-Mail Security Test | This site is useful if you want to test the security of your current e-mail package. |
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Software And Development
| Office 2007 Compatability Pack for Office 2003, Office XP and Office 2000 | By installing the Compatibility Pack along side of Microsoft Office XP, or Office 2003, you will be able open, edit, save, and create files using the Open XML Formats new to the 2007 Microsoft Office system. |
| Foxit Reader for Windows (An alternative PDF Reader) | A small, fast PDF file reader that is a superb antidote to the bloated size of Adobe Reader. A great piece of software that is available for free download, or pay for the Pro version with more features. |
| PC Tools Guides for Windows Guide Network | A super site covering the Windows registry, scripting, and security. Also a large number of support forums covering these and general subjects. |
| A Superior Registry Editor | RegAlyzer is a tool to browse and change the registry. It was created because of missed features in the original regedit tool, from support for exotic value types over background and regular expression search to better bookmarks, displaying .reg files in the accustomed style and a history view. |
| Systernals Freeware | The Sysinternals web site (now part of Microsoft) provides you with advanced utilities, technical information, and source code related to Windows NT/2000/XP/2K3 and Windows 9x, Windows Me internals that you won't find anywhere else. Created by the developers of Winternals software. |
| Ultimate Boot CD for Windows | UBCD4Win is a bootable recovery CD that contains software used for repairing, restoring, or diagnosing almost any computer problem. |
| Freeundelete File Recovery Software | FreeUndelete is a freeware data recovery program for deleted files. In case of accidental deletion of files on a NTFS file system (used by default in Windows XP, 2000 and NT) FreeUndelete is the utility to help. |
| SpyBot - Search and Destroy | SpyBot - Search and Destroy detects and removes spyware, a relatively new kind of threat not yet covered by common anti-virus applications. Take a look. |
| BootIt Next Generation | BootIt NG, or BING, is a partition and multi-boot manager with a powerful and simple-to-use set of tools for partitioning, imaging, and multi-booting your computer. |
| WinHex | This is a collection of data recovery and computer forensic tools. |
| MS Access FAQs | This FAQ site is designed to help Microsoft Access developers find answers for some common questions. All code, utilities, and add-ins are provided free and you are allowed to use them as part of your own applications. |
| MSDN Online | Keep pace with technological change and innovation and have the right tools at the right time. MSDN really is the essential resource for developers. It contains much more than a web site and newsletter. |
| W3Schools Online Web Tutorials | Intended as a site for web developers but useful tutorials on SQL, XML and ASP. |
| MZ-Tools | MZ-Tools 3.0 is a freeware (donations welcome) all-in-one add-in editor for Visual basic 2005, Visual Basic .NET, Visual Basic 6.0 and VBA which adds several features missing in the IDE. It provides a main menu, a toolbar, handy context menus or customisable shortcuts to access those features. |
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Bookstores
| Amazon.co.uk | Probably the best on-line bookstore. Computer books are particularly good value. |
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Miscellaneous
| Shropshire Business Womens Society | The SBWS is a Shropshire-based local support network for business women in Shropshire |
| Monkhouse Granary Conference Centre | We use Monkhouse Granary for our scheduled courses. If you have had enough of using Shropshire hotels the we can heartlily recommend here. Superb. |
| Companies House | Information for, and about, companies and their directors. |
| The Information Commissioner's Office | Everything you want to know about the Data Protection Act and also freedom of information. |
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Book Reviews
For the technically minded, or the programmers amongst you, check out some recommended books.
