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SCOUG OS/2 For You - October 1997
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Webfoot,
The
Duck
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Copyright ©1997 Webfoot, The Duck. All Rights Reserved.
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On the web, content is king. Far more important than glitzy
graphics, content makes people come back again and again.
Let's see how WebFoot measures this month's chosen web sites:
Ratings |
Info |
Content |
Links |
Glitz |
Type |
Site (url) and Comments |
A |
C+ |
B |
Team OS/2 |
Master OS/2 Warp Update List (http://www.cincyteamos2.org/masterupdate.html). Review this heavily visited site and you'll feel like an IBM "insider". Is your copy of OS/2 up to date? |
A |
A |
A |
User Group |
Team Java (http://www.teamjava.com). Java on OS/2 beats anything Mr. Gates can pontificate about. Lookee here for a hot cuppa. |
B |
F |
B+ |
Hardware |
Tandberg Data Tape Storage (http://www.tandberg.com). These are great tape drives, but yes they're pricey. |
A |
B- |
B |
Software |
Practice Corporation (http://www.practice.xo.com/). QuickTime on OS/2? Yes! Try their QuickMotion and QuickFlick. |
F |
A |
C- |
Programming |
The Rexx Language (http://rexx.hursley.ibm.com/rexx). One darn good link site to visit if you're learning or using Rexx. |
A |
F |
A |
Software |
V Communications, Inc. (http://www.v-com.com). System Commander boots any OS. |
B |
A |
D+ |
Personal |
Timur Tabi's Programming Links (http://www.edm2.com/common/links.html). Timur is OS/2-centric, and if you're a code rocketeer there's something here for you. |
A |
C |
B+ |
Magazine |
EDM/2 - The Electronic Developer Magazine for OS/2 (http://www.edm2.com/). Check out this online monthly's back issues for some programming gems. |
F |
A |
A+ |
Personal |
SpiceWare OS/2 Entertainment and Programming Home Page (we don't do windows) (http://www.geocities.com/~spiceware/). The "links" icon is the road in the left column. |
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B |
Magazine |
Hungarian OS/2 Times (http://www.alarmix.net/os2times/index.htm). Heard of Hungarian notation? |
This month's Duck Feather
Need a picture of something?
There are search engines which find images rather than words.
Try http://www.lycos.com/lycosmedia.html
or http://isurf.yahoo.com,
then enter a keyword.
Example: Searching on "duck" returned 869 duck pictures from Lycos, and 26 from Yahoo.
Comparing the Hits
(search engine results for various words or phrases)
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http://www.*.com |
Search on |
AltaVista.Digital |
Excite |
HotBot |
Infoseek |
Lycos |
Webcrawler |
Yahoo |
WarpStock |
39 |
113 |
10 |
32 |
26 |
15 |
39 |
Teledesic |
773 |
1,144 |
1,051 |
420 |
192 |
51 |
3 |
hiking |
271,200 |
83,026 |
104,966 |
46,508 |
33,577 |
14,612 |
1,026 |
Halloween |
97,180 |
34,196 |
40,375 |
15,492 |
9,418 |
3,604 |
207 |
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Santa Ana, CA 92799-6904, USA
Copyright 1997 the Southern California OS/2 User Group. ALL RIGHTS
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SCOUG is a trademark of the Southern California OS/2 User Group.
OS/2, Workplace Shell, and IBM are registered trademarks of International
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All other trademarks remain the property of their respective owners.
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