When you want to run more than one operating system on a single machine: Multi-boot.

TweakBIOS: The Ultimate BIOS Configuration Utility, including when, where, how and why to tune your chipset, CPU and video card.

Track that Mainboard back to its source at The Motherboard Homeworld.

Almost faultless on new hardware, USB is what Plug and Play was meant to be. Trouble shoot, when necessary, with help from the USB Workshop.

Chipinfo is an online guide for semiconductors.

The Industrial Electronics Corp. of Wisconsin distributes free part substitution/lookup software from from NTE, who provide a similar resource online.

Find laptop & notebook hard Drives and memory at Micro Sense.

Download DisplayMate, the industry standard for setting up, tuning up, testing and evaluating video.

The HSP Micromodem 56 is becoming too popular to suffer bad drivers. Try one that's custom built.

CD-R media doesn't have to be plain or round: Sculpted CD.com.

Keep up with things Macintosh at MacWeek's QuickLinks, MacOS Resources, and for older Macs, Old Macs!.

A Paint Shop Pro lover shares her Paint Shop Pro Toybox.

Paint Shop Pro's Top 10 Very Frequently Asked Questions (& a couple of dozen more).

Teph's Tricks and Simple Filters: plug-in filters for Paint Shop Pro.

Tutorials and more at Paint Shop Pro Tutorial Links.

Windows Magazine 2000 has created an Outlook and Exchange Channel to help you find the latest tips, tricks and fixes for your Windows messaging software (even if you're not running Windows 2000).

For Outlook Express users: Tips, tricks and technical information are Inside OE5.

Go to NTCompatible for the latest reviews of drivers, software and hardware compatibility trials for WindowsNT and Win2K. If you're already running Win2K, Optimize It!

Even if you're not a programmer, Programmers' Heaven is worth a visit for insight and inspiration into Win32 applications.

From Microsoft: Office 2000 tips and tricks! You won't find support for earlier versions but many of these work in all MSOffice applications.

Instead of starting from a blank document, customize one from the Microsoft Template Gallery.

From Firewallguide.com: a detailed online security resource guide to personal firewall software and Internet security hardware appliances.

If you're already behind a firewall but you'd like to use ICQ or check POP/IMAP e-mail accounts, load HTTP-Tunnel & ICQProxy to route around that inconvenience.

When DNS fails, websites can't be found and email can't be delivered. Look to the DNS Resources Directory for information and explication.

"CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) is a flexible, cross-platform, standards-based language used to suggest stylistic or presentational features applied throughout entire websites." They've been around for years but they're new here.

Reference Data: Your compliance with the W3C's CSS1 and CSS2 specifications can be checked by loading your webpage into their Validator, online or off. The Web Design Group provides a CSSCheck online tool.

The CSS Pointers Group promotes the practical use of CSS. A top-drawer resource.

Tools: The Master List identifies differences in browser support of the specifications and the Glossary that is linked to it is a keeper.
Look into the HTML Compendium for all the tools in one kit.

Tutorials: The Web Developers' Virtual Library collection provides great depth and is still growing. HTML With Style from WebReference is on its 27th Tutorial. The Webmonkey's CSS Tutorial gets pretty verbose, but has some neat tricks and easy to follow tips.

For more Tips, Tricks and Tutorials there's

Browser Statistics: Which browser are you writing for? The Browser Stats page in the ElegantHack toolbox contains a representative list of links to tracking results. The following links are self descriptive: pages displayed show most recent stats for each server:

PlanetPDF provides easier access to Portable Document Format resources than its creator, Adobe Systems.

Look for help with your Apache Server installation inside the Apache Toolbox.

The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. --Geoffrey Chaucer

Very Impressive (and educational!): Outline of The Web Design Process describes the complexity involved in commercial site development...applicable, within reason, to all. I think Metagrrrl's whole site is golden.

Information Architects are in the process of defining their profession and Jesse James Garrett, Peter Morville and Christina Wodtke are leading the discussion.

Another good reason to love your librarian: from the Association of College and Research Libraries, a list of information architecture tools.

Joel Spolsky's book, User Interface Design for Programmers is online; a surprisingly pleasurable and informative read. He provides concrete examples for some very cerebral concepts.

When you need Web Graphics, 10,000 items are available for download from the Absolute Archive.