http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ How-To Geek Forums Topic: Best in breed reference sites en Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:04:33 +0000 http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/best-in-breed-reference-sites/page/2#post-25242 Mon, 19 May 2008 16:03:51 +0000 Lighthouse 25242@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Welcome Tracey, I wish you "No computer problems", but if you do have em, we are always here :) </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/best-in-breed-reference-sites#post-25241 Mon, 19 May 2008 16:00:05 +0000 TraceyK 25241@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>First of all what a great site you have.....just found it.</p> <p>I would rate the following site FOR VISTA BEGINNERS, and those wanting to learn about Windows Vista generally, simply because it does what it says on the box. It teaches you as if you have no knowledge of using a computer/vista.</p> <p><a href='http://www.vistalessons.com/'>http://www.vistalessons.com/</a></p> <p>Thanks GEEK for a great site.</p> <p>TraceyK </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/best-in-breed-reference-sites#post-25200 Mon, 19 May 2008 13:28:22 +0000 whs 25200@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>ScottW, I am no expert on translation programs. I use Lingoes because one day I found it on the web and it does the job for me. A few months ago we had a poster from Vietnam and I was able to translate my posts into vietnamese - AND he was able to red them. I thought that was pretty cool. I have done translations into languages that I know and it does a pretty decent job. But you have to choose the right translation engine (usually Google translation, which is one of the Lingoes options, works pretty good) and you have to post in short sentences. I have translated a few German articles from the German computer press into English and posted or mailed those in the US. I usually had to do some additional editing. So it's not perfect, but helpful.<br /> PS: and as always - I don't think there is any "best". </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/best-in-breed-reference-sites#post-25138 Mon, 19 May 2008 04:29:55 +0000 ScottW 25138@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>whs, glad you like snopes. I had never heard of Lingoes. Would you say it's the best dictionary / translator software that you know of?</p> <p>That reminds me, I'd like to know what's the best dictionary, thesaurus, etc. website? I use <a href='http://www.bartleby.com'>http://www.bartleby.com</a> but I have no idea if there's something better out there. I like the fact that most words have an audio file demonstrating pronunciation. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/best-in-breed-reference-sites#post-25118 Mon, 19 May 2008 02:23:36 +0000 whs 25118@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>ScottW, that seems to be a source of a lot of fun. I'll send it to my wife.<br /> PS: For the word "debunking" I had to refer to my trusted Lingoes </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/best-in-breed-reference-sites#post-25109 Mon, 19 May 2008 01:25:43 +0000 ScottW 25109@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>My wife gets a lot of chain e-mails, some are hoaxes or urban legends. The best debunking site that I know of is:<br /> <a href='http://www.snopes.com'>http://www.snopes.com</a> </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/best-in-breed-reference-sites#post-24546 Thu, 15 May 2008 23:56:08 +0000 jd2066 24546@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I just found the program <a href='http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/file_types_manager.html'>FileTypesMan</a>. It lets you do many of the things you can do with the Folder Options File Types tab (which is missing in Windows XP).<br /> It should be helpful to deal with posts that need File Type work done on Windows Vista that are no longer possible without it. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/best-in-breed-reference-sites#post-21115 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:43:28 +0000 Smashpmk712 21115@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>It is not a site but I love the Hyperwords add-on for Firefox. It allows you to select text and right click it and look up the selected text on websites such as Google or Wikipedia. You can also add you own(How to Geek is one that I added)</p> <p><a href='https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1941'>https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1941</a> </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/best-in-breed-reference-sites#post-20947 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:00:40 +0000 Scott 20947@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Any software or site is submittable as long as you feel its the best in its class. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/best-in-breed-reference-sites#post-20915 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:26:12 +0000 jd2066 20915@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Is diagnostic/fixing software allowed in the list?<br /> If so then <a href='http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html'>ShellExView</a> it great for figuring out what if any shell extension is causing Windows Explorer to be be slow to crash. Or just the context menus acting funny. I used it when the context menu was slow and not working to figure out what extension caused it. You can also use it to disable the extension. You do have to disable extensions with it to figure out which is the problem but it isn't that hard to do.<br /> If not you can just delete this post. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/best-in-breed-reference-sites#post-20565 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:28:28 +0000 WizardJimster 20565@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>From my experience, <a href='http://www.dpreview.com/'>http://www.dpreview.com/</a> seems to have the best review info on different cameras as they come out. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/best-in-breed-reference-sites#post-20427 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:43:52 +0000 Budohorseman 20427@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>For audio/video conversion, including audio extraction, I am a fan of <a href='http://www.erightsoft.com/S6Kg1.html'>Super</a> scroll to the bottom of the page for the download. For such an excellent program, the web site if horrific, think text web sites circa 1988. From my experience, this thing does do any type of file conversion that you need. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/best-in-breed-reference-sites#post-20390 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:30:16 +0000 ScottW 20390@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Probably the best place to post HijackThis logs, for that oh so hard to get rid of malware:<br /> <a href='http://www.bleepingcomputer.com'>http://www.bleepingcomputer.com</a></p> <p>For video tools and info such as codecs, format conversion, and how-to guides:<br /> <a href='http://www.videohelp.com/'>http://www.videohelp.com/</a> or if you're really hardcore:<br /> <a href='http://www.doom9.org/'>http://www.doom9.org/</a> </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/best-in-breed-reference-sites#post-20388 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:57:01 +0000 whs 20388@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>These seem to be helpful <a href='http://www.techsupportalert.com/best_46_free_utilities.htm'>http://www.techsupportalert.com/best_46_free_utilities.htm</a> </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/best-in-breed-reference-sites#post-20368 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:49:23 +0000 jack7h3r1pp3r 20368@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>most of the links that i posted work but some don't. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/best-in-breed-reference-sites#post-20366 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:34:44 +0000 Santo 20366@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>@jack7h3r1pp3r</p> <p>No problem.. But copy and paste will not work as the links are truncated. So, I have posted the correct links again. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/best-in-breed-reference-sites#post-20365 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:33:18 +0000 Santo 20365@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>To find the exact mother board<br /> specification in a computer try Astra32 tool from</p> <p><a href='http://www.astra32.com/download.htm'>http://www.astra32.com/download.htm</a></p> <p>Intel Chipset Drivers<br /> <a href='http://support.intel.com/support/chipsets/'>http://support.intel.com/support/chipsets/</a></p> <p>Realtek AC 97 drivers<br /> <a href='http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&#38;PNid=14&#38;PFid=23&#38;Level=4&#38;Conn=3&#38;DownTypeID=3&#38;GetDown=false%20'>http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&#38;PNid=14&#38;PFid=23&#38;Level=4&#38;Conn=3&#38;DownTypeID=3&#38;GetDown=false%20</a></p> <p>Realtek High Definition Audio Codecs<br /> <a href='http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&#38;PNid=14&#38;PFid=24&#38;Level=4&#38;Conn=3&#38;DownTypeID=3&#38;GetDown=false'>http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&#38;PNid=14&#38;PFid=24&#38;Level=4&#38;Conn=3&#38;DownTypeID=3&#38;GetDown=false</a></p> <p>Realtex Network drivers.<br /> <a href='http://www.realtek.cz/driver.php?realtek=network'>http://www.realtek.cz/driver.php?realtek=network</a></p> <p>ATI, VIA and other drivers.<br /> <a href='http://www.pcpartner.com/pcpartner/products/motherboards.htm'>http://www.pcpartner.com/pcpartner/products/motherboards.htm</a> </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/best-in-breed-reference-sites#post-20364 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:31:15 +0000 jack7h3r1pp3r 20364@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>@santo i hope you don't mind that i am posting this for you</p> <p>santo posted in my thread here is his post</p> <p>To find the exact hardware in the computer try the Astra32 tool from<br /> <a href='http://www.astra32.com/download.htm'>http://www.astra32.com/download.htm</a></p> <p>Intel Chipset Drivers<br /> <a href='http://support.intel.com/support/chipsets/'>http://support.intel.com/support/chipsets/</a></p> <p>Realtex Network drivers.<br /> <a href='http://www.realtek.cz/driver.php?realtek=network'>http://www.realtek.cz/driver.php?realtek=network</a></p> <p>edit: only have the ones that work posted </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/best-in-breed-reference-sites#post-20353 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:52:52 +0000 The Geek 20353@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>For looking up specific event log errors, there's <a href="http://www.eventid.net/">EventID.net</a>. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/best-in-breed-reference-sites#post-20350 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:25:55 +0000 jack7h3r1pp3r 20350@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>well file hippo seems to be one that comes up a lot <a href='www.filehippo.com'>www.filehippo.com</a> </p>