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Digital Cameras | Kodak | Kodak is a very familiar name in the camera trade and they will not be left behind in the digital world. | | Sony | Very well known electronics giant that is trying to crack the computer world with it's quality and price. | | Konica | Not as well know as Kodak and Nikon and better known for not as good quality but is an active player in the affordable camera market. | | Epson | Not our favorite printer supplier, but has been a name in the computer filed for years. They must be doing something right. | | Nikon | For years known as one of the best camera makers in the world. | | Agfa | Agfa has been building a name for itself with quality photographic supplies. |
General | Creative Element | Some very good insight to Windows 95 and network problems. Not for the weak of heart, but don't chicken out. | | Internic | You will find more information here on the Internet than you could ever possibly read. The request for comment section has all the gory details. | | Microsoft Corporation | Love em/Hate em, but they are Microsoft. | | Microsoft Knowledge Base | The best place to solve Microsoft product problems (also see Windows95.com and Creative Element). | | Novell Inc. | Still one of the best Client Server products on the market today. | | Windows95.com | A very good and independent site. |
Global Positioning (GPS) | Introduction to GPS Applications | Provides an excellent overview of GPS and great Links | | Prodgenious Home Page | A nice look at everyday possibilities of GPS including Child Find. I haven't been able to get Prodgenious to respond to my E-mail requests, but the Personal Locator is worth seeing. | | Auto Track SPS Technologies Corporation | A nice approach to Fleet tracking and using multiple technologies to accomplish a single task. (Do all GPS companies like Black backgrounds?) The demo download is worth looking at. |
Mail Order | CDW | Computer Discount Wharehouse is a large national company offering competative prices and | | Insight | Insight is another large firm that we use to ensure competative bids and occasionally to take advantage of their discount and auction section for great deals. | | Surplus Direct | Surplus direct offers some great deals on products that they buy in large job lots. This products are usually last months computers, factory refurbished, discontinued items, etc, but most come with factory warranties or Surplus Direct Warranties. |
Newsgroups | | Use these search engines to research postings in all the newsgroups: |
| Used by other search engines for newsgroups | | Uses it's own engine - select Usenet search |
| | Good Microsoft Newsgroups |
| Each of these newsgroups can be found in news.microsoft.com. Be sure to download all newsgroups and filter by type of group desired i.e. Word. For the links on the left, you should be able to click on one, and it will open the group in your news reader. |
Printers | Hewlett Packard Printing and Imaging | Excellent products and support | | Okidata | For years, has provided quality dot matrix printers. The most versatile product has been their OKI 320 and 321 9 pin dot matrix printers for everyday accounting applications. |
Scanners | Hewlett Packard | Hewlett Packard excels in many categories of peripheral equipment, and scanners is no exception. | | Agfa | Agfa has been building a name for itself with quality photographic supplies. | | Epson | Not our favorite printer supplier, but has been a name in the computer filed for years. They must be doing something right. | | Storm Primax (EasyPhoto) | A neat little photo scanner that doubles as a hand scanner. |
Search Engines and Indexes | Alta Vista | One of my favorites, especially for Newsgroup searches. | | AOL NetFind | AOL's search engine uses Excite's engine for it's base. | | Excite | Reasonable search engine and categorizations. Excite ranks in the top 8 of all search engines. | | Google | The current top dog in the search engine business | | InfoSeek | My Current favorite. This site adds new listings immediately, has anti-spamming tools built in, robots new sites quickly, has index style listings, and a powerful search engine. Besides, in a recent search for Beaufort South Carolina, our Beaufort On-Line Mall ranked 8 out of the top 20. | | Lycos | Improving Search Site | | Starting Point | A nice looking site with a nice Hot Spots feature section. We were listed in their New Sites section on 12/1/97. | SCIway
| South Carolina's Information Highway - A great index just for our home state. | | Yahoo | No longer my favorite tool. Material is becoming out of date. There are dead links and new sites take up to 6 months to be listed. We are still not in the listing. |
Shareware | TUCOWS | Great Shareware site. This link brings you to an index that lists available sites by state to increase download speed. | | Shareware.com | One of CNET's many sites. This offers a good overview of some of the shareware available for download. | | Windows Magazine | Nicely done shareware site. Look for the many utilities created by the Windows Magazine writers, especially WinTune. |
Teleconferencing Video Capture Boards | Play Incorporated (Snappy) | Snappy set the pace in the portable, parallel port video capture card arena. It does what it's supposed to do, with easy set up and clear instructions. | | Digital Vision (Computer Eyes) | Digital Eyes has been around for several years and has introduced many products for graphic interfacing. | | ATI Technologies | ATI Technologies is a big player in high end video and graphic cards. |
Virus Scan Programs and Virus Newsgroups | Symantec | Purchased one of the real early players in the virus scan business Norton's AntiVirus. | | McAfee | Has become a very popular player in Virus scanning. Is a constant antagonist of Symantec. | | Newsgroups | These newsgroups have good information about the latest virus problems and are not tied to any specific vendor. |
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Networking
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Networks have been a vital part of business for many years and has recently become a standard for many home and home office environments. Our experience includes Microsoft, Unix, Linux, Novell and other networks including wireless access. Networks can be a daunting task, but we can help you get running quickly and easily. Contact us today to see how we can help you with your networking needs. Wireless NetworksWireless networking has come a long way over the past several years, but there are many misunderstandings as to what it can and cannot do. While they have become increasingly easier to setup, many standard installations have conflicts right out of the box that stop the average user from getting on-line quickly. Security has become a major issue in today's Internet environment and the need to protect your systems and data is vital. We can help you setup your system, establish secure access and train you on how to maintain your system. VPNVirtual Private Networking (VPN) is available in many standard router configurations. Successfully implementing VPN is not usually very easy, especially when you have other routers and security settings involved. We can help transition your business or home system to allow secure VPN access. Office NetworksOur senior consultants have been working with business network systems since 1976 when mainframe computers ruled the day. Our extensive experience with networking ensures you rapid deployment, secure communications and a backup stategy to ensure your protection.
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