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New this week on WebReference.com and the Web:
1. GIORDAN ON GRAPHICS: Exploring the Photoshop Lighting Effects Filter
2. UPDATE: Evolution of a Homepage - Digital Archaeology
3. NEW LINKS: HTML Editors, JavaScript Resources
4. SURVEY: Favorite Internet Newsletters
5. OTHER VOICES:
* Internet Product Watch Giveaway - ipw.internet.com
* Office 2000: What Microsoft's Hiding Inside the Box - PCWorld.com
* Enticing Visitors To Return To Your Site - Internetday.com
* Intro to the Web Application Development Environment - WDVL.com
* JulianCode Encrypts Text Messages Instantly - JavaBoutique.com
6. NET NEWS:
* PrettyPark Virus: Part worm, part Trojan
* Register.com Launches Domain Registration System
* Microsoft forges an agreement to optimize Perl for Windows
* Two Companies Offer Free Message Services
* Skill assesments and certification testing for Web
professionals via the Internet
* Hacker vs. Cracker
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1. GIORDAN ON GRAPHICS: Exploring the Photoshop Lighting Effects
Filter
This week, the spotlight is quite literally on Photoshop's
Lighting Effects Filter. Create professional cast lighting effects
with just a few mouse clicks, or drill deeper to explore the many
facets of this powerful tool. By Dan Giordan.
http://webreference.com/graphics/column15/
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2. UPDATE: Evolution of a Homepage - Digital Archaeology
We've uncovered two long lost versions of our home page! Carbon
dated to July 1995 these artifacts show WebReference.com (then
called the Webmaster's Reference Desk) in its embryonic form, long
before the first Explorers probed the Web. By Andrew King.
http://webreference.com/dev/evolution/
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3. NEW LINKS: HTML Editors, JavaScript Resources
>HTML Editors
Tired of using plain ol' VI or Simpletext to mark-up your Web
pages? Well, Bunky, we've got more HTML editors than you can shake
a stick at.
http://webreference.com/authoring/languages/html/editors.html
>JavaScript Resources
Young Grasshopper, before you can become a true Master you must
learn the Way of JavaScript. I give you these resource to draw
upon. Learn them well.
http://webreference.com/programming/javascript.html
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4. SURVEY: Favorite Internet Newsletters
What are your favorite Internet newsletters? I get this question
a lot, and subscribe to a number of newsletters. As you can imagine
many of them are about Web development (listed online, see below),
but for this week I thought I'd do an informal survey of my favorite
newsletter editors to see which newsletters were *their* favorites.
The results, which I combined with my own, were revealing.
There are thousands of newsletters out there, including many from
internet.com (including the WebReference Update):
*SHAMELESS PLUG*
internet.com's got an ever-growing list of daily and weekly
newsletters for your reading pleasure, including newslinx,
internet day, and internet.com daily, which is a great way to
keep up to date with what's going on at internet.com.
http://e-newsletters.internet.com
*/SHAMELESS PLUG*
Now that I've shored up my job security ;), let's take a look
outside our little universe to seek out "must-read" Net newsletters.
Here they are:
>ICONOCAST - Market Intelligence for Intelligent Marketers
ICONOCAST is a great resource for the facts, figures, trends and
rumors in the Internet marketing industry. A weekly e-mail newsletter
edited by Michael Tchong, founder of CyberAtlas (now owned by
internet.com LLC) and MacWEEK, ICONOCAST features include pageviews,
ISP news, Web trends, and my favorite, the Jacobyte for hot tips and
rumors. Primarily original content, ICONOCAST is that rare newsletter
that informs and also entertains. In my informal survey many editors
cited ICONOCAST as their favorite.
>InfoBeat - Life's too short to miss a Beat
InfoBeat is an news aggregator, you pick the feeds you want (news,
weather, sports, stocks, entertainment, reminders, classifieds and
ski reports), the time(s) you want them (8am and/or 3pm) and you
receive a custom e-mail with just the type of info you selected.
Like the Internet Scout Project with their Net Newsletters service,
InfoBeat also offers InfoBeat Select, a selection of the best
e-mail newsletters.
>Lockergnome - Free Windows 95/98/NT eZine
For Windows users you can't beat Lockergnome. A free daily/weekly
email newsletter for Windows 95/98/NT users, Lockergnome is packed
with the latest new software, Web sites, plus tips, and industry
news. Chris Pirillo's style is informative and amusing.
>Media Grok - A Review of Press Coverage of the Internet Economy
A companion daily newsletter to the weekly print Industry Standard,
Media Grok critiques and gives perspective to the press coverage of
the top few Internet Economy stories and highlights news from the
thestandard.com and the Net.
>Scout Report - Surf Smarter
The Scout Report, part of the Internet Scout Project, is a weekly
e-zine offering a selection of new and newly discovered Internet
resources of interest to researchers and educators. Each high quality
selection (in Research and Education, General Interest, and Network
Tools categories) is annotated.
The Internet Scout Project is a real treasure trove of useful Net
information, and, like infobeat.com, archives other high quality
newsletters (including WEBREF). From the NSF and the University of
Wisconsin.
>Seidman's Online Insider
Biweekly commentary and analysis of major Internet trends and news
by industry pundit Robert Seidman.
>Search Engine Watch Newsletter
A monthly newsletter from Danny Sullivan, webmaster of Search Engine
Watch. Great inside info and news about search engines and search
technology. Yes, I know it's one of ours, so sue me.
>TidBits - All the News that Fits in 30K
One of the oldest and most respected e-mail newsletters around
TidBits is one of the best Macintosh newsletters available.
In-depth analysis and commentary of new Mac products and trends,
Web sites, and news from noted Mac mavens Adam and Tonya Engst.
>TOURBUS - Why Surf When You Can Ride The Bus?
The Internet TOURBUS is a twice weekly virtual tour of the best of
the Internet. Free tickets are available at the site. The bus has
a theme each issue, and makes a couple stops along the way to
interesting sites. Aimed at beginner to intermediate netizens.
Your drivers are the infamous Patrick Douglas Crispen of ROADMAP,
ATLAS, and squirrel fame, and Bob Rankin, freelance writer and author.
http://www.tourbus.com
These just scratch the surface, there are many other great e-zines
but these are the ones that I actually read to the end. Here are some
common features I found in these top newsletters.
1. Original Content - The best newsletters offer something extra,
and analyze the news, not just report it.
2. Inform and Entertain - A sense of humor helps
3. A Staff - The best newsletters generally have a staff
4. Metainfo - Some newsletters offer analysis of the analysts
(Media Grok), or offer customized news to match
your needs (InfoBeat).
ICONOCAST in particular stands out above the crowd. It doesn't
just report or analyze the news, it *makes* news with its Jacobyte
rumors section that's a must-read.
You'll find all of our favorite Internet magazines, including
Internet-oriented newsletters at:
http://www.webreference.com/internet/magazines/
What are your favorite newsletters?
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5. OTHER VOICES: Internet Product Watch Giveaway, Office 2000:
What Microsoft's Hiding Inside the Box,
Enticing Visitors To Return To Your Site,
Introduction to the Web Application Development
Environment (Tools), JavaBoutique: JulianCode
Encrypts Text Messages Instantly
>Internet Product Watch Giveaway
The newly revamped Internet Product Watch has launched a new
contest to pump up their subscriber base. Sign up today for a
chance to win valuable free software. Everyone who signs up has a
chance to win.
http://ipw.internet.com
>Office 2000: What Microsoft's Hiding Inside the Box
To great fanfare, the mother of all office suites has landed.
Microsoft's long-awaited Office 2000 delivers a boatload of small
improvements. But many users will want to steer clear of one of
its most highly touted features. IPW has a review of FrontPage
2000, part of the new suite.
http://ipw.internet.com/development/publishing/916162081.html
http://www.pcworld.com/pcwtoday/article/0,1510,11055,00.html
PCWorld, July 1999
>Enticing Visitors To Return To Your Site
InternetDay has focused quite a bit lately on how to market
your site to increase traffic. But how do you get that traffic
to keep coming back? William Nabaza, of Web Essentials, shows
you how.
http://www.internetday.com/archives/060799.html
Internetday.com, June 7, 1999
>Introduction to the Web Application Development Environment (Tools)
In this tutorial, Selena Sol steps back from the realm of
specific technologies and focuses on a general survey of Web
application development tools.
http://wdvl.internet.com/Authoring/Tools/Tutorial/
WDVL.com, June 2, 1999
>JavaBoutique: JulianCode Encrypts Text Messages Instantly
Better than a secret decoder ring, the JulianCode applet allows
anyone to have relatively secure e-mail by allowing for on-the-fly
encryption/decryption of text messages.
http://javaboutique.internet.com/JulianCode/
JavaBoutique.com, June 1, 1999
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6. NET NEWS: PrettyPark Virus: Part worm, part Trojan, Register.com
Launches Domain Registration System, Microsoft forges
an agreement to optimize Perl for Windows,
Two Companies Offer Free Message Services,
Skill assesments and certification testing for Web
professionals via the Internet, Hacker vs. Cracker
>PrettyPark Virus: Part worm, part Trojan
Anti-virus companies unearth worm/Trojan that reportedly e-mails
PC's Windows Address Book every 30 seconds.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2270411,00.html
ZDNet.com, June 4, 1999
>Register.com Launches Domain Registration System
Network Solutions, Inc. finally has some competition with register.com
accepting new registrations Monday. The New York Times reported today
that register.com, one of the five companies picked by ICANN, is
offering domain registrations at $70 for the first two years, which
includes the use of a server where the domain would reside, something
that Network Solutions charges an additional $119.
http://www.register.com
http://www.nytimes.com
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article/0,1087,3_132441,00.html
Internetnews.com, June 7, 1999
>Microsoft forges an agreement to optimize Perl for Windows
Microsoft Corp. may have its competitive sights trained on Linux, but
it's watching other open-source fronts for openings, as well.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2269078,00.html
Sm@rt Reseller, June 2, 1999
>Two Companies Offer Free Message Services
The buzz on Internet-based unified messaging services is reaching a fever
pitch. Two companies are launching free Internet services that let users
receive voice-mail and fax transmissions in their e-mail in-boxes.
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2270666,00.html
Inter@ctive Week, June 7, 1999
>Skill assesments and certification testing for Web professionals
via the Internet
Gestalt Systems, Inc. (http://www.gestalt-sys.com), a leading provider
of Internet training courseware, announced today that Gestalt, the
International Webmasters Association (IWA, http://iwanet.org), and
Tekmetrics, Inc. (TMI, http://www.tekmetrics.com), are partnering to
provide the first industry-validated Web skills certification program
for Web professionals.
http://www.internetwire.com/technews/tn/tn982908.dsl
Internet Wire, June 4, 1999
>Hacker vs. Cracker
In last week's Update we reported the latest government site's break-in
using the term "hacker." A couple readers pointed out (some vociferously)
that the term should technically be "cracker" not "hacker." The
mainstream media has pejorated the term hacker to mean "one who breaks
into computer systems unlawfully" while we really should be using cracker.
Unfortunately not many folks know the difference, (we've used both on
webref), so I passed on the term from the story. Hey, didn't mean to
offend any of you honest-to-God hackers out there. Coincidentally,
Slashdot ran a story about this very issue over the weekend:
http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/99/06/05/1815225.shtml
Slashdot.org, June 5, 1999
That's it for this week, see you next time.
Andrew King
Managing Editor, WebReference.com
update@webreference.com
Lanie Anderson
Assistant Editor, WebReference.com
landerson@internet.com
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