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Titanic History

Tuesday, October 22, 2024
1886 - 1st class survivor Mr George Achilles Harder was born to Victor Achilles Harder and Minnie Mehl Harder in New York City, New York, USA.

1974 - 2nd class survivor Mrs Antonine Marie Mallet died in Paris, France at the age of 86.

1888 - 3rd class passenger Mr Nils Martin Ödahl was born to Ola Öhdal and Hanna Nilsson.

1887 - 3rd class passenger Mr René Aimé Lievens was born in Heldergem, Belgium.

1926 - Able Seaman and survivor Mr William Henry Lionel Weller died in a shipwreck at the age of 44.

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Programs I Love


I figured you would all benefit from my endless searching for programs to help in creating websites. Some of them are free, my favorite price. Visit their websites if you have questions, since I don't know everything there is to know about all of them.

IrfanView
This program is an easy way to manage your graphics/images. The latest version includes Copying, Renaming, Moving, many ways of viewing (fit to desktop, fit only big images to desktop, etc.), capturing, a few filters and effects, rotating, resizing, adding text, cropping, and much more. As complex as that sounds it's a pretty fast download and a quick install. I use it whenever I'm looking through my images, finding out the dimensions, and minor editing of images if it's not worth opening Photoshop just for one thing. Something that's pretty special is that when you have the "File | Open" dialog box open you can drag and drop the icons right into Photoshop. Saves a little time.
Free
http://www.irfanview.com

FTP Explorer
When you're building your site with Geocities, Crosswinds, etc. you're building through webpages. That means you don't only wait for your files to upload, you're also waiting for each webpage (to tell you what you just uploaded, to show you yet another banner ad and so on). Why not just go in the "back way"? This would be known as FTP. Commonly used are WS_FTP or CuteFTP for uploading to websites, but I prefer FTP Explorer by far. You can keep profiles so you don't need to enter your password again and again. Uploading is as simple as hitting the upward pointing arrow and selecting the files. It's very intuitive. To upload multiple files, hold down the Ctrl key as you select the files. Excellent for faster uploads and fast login.
Free
http://www.ftpx.com

Photoshop (from Adobe)
Hands down the very best graphics/photo manipulation program in the world. If you ever want to make money making websites or doing graphic design, Photosop will be the thing they want you to know. Learn everything you can, see every tutorial you can find online.
A few hundred dollars - Far from free
http://www.adobe.com

Micro-Angelo
This program can make icons and cursors from your bitmaps, gifs (opaque and transparent), and freehand designs. Not everything about this is easy to figure out, but after a bit you will be able to navigate your way around. I've enjoyed using it a lot.
$60
http://www.impactsoft.com/muangelo/muangelo.htm

WinZip
This one might seem like a no-brainer, but I think it's necessary to tell everyone to download WinZip. If you have this program you can easily compress files when sending multiple/large files. Nearly every site out there has zip files to download and without WinZip you are out of the loop. This includes many of the sites offer the programs I've listed above.
Free trial version
http://www.winzip.com

HomeSite
I've always avoided HTML editors like FrontPage and Dreamweaver, but this is not one of those. Homesite cuts way down on the repetitive parts of formatting with HTML. You can highlight entire pages of text and get break tags added in automatically. Imagine! Think of Homesite as being the involuntary part of your brain (the part that controls things like your digestion, breathing, and heartbeat) so that you are free to do the more interesting things. Homesite will free you up to work on your dHTML, Javascript, and even JSP skills. It just goes on and on. Worth actual money.
$99 (packaged) or $89 (electronic)
http://allaire.com/Products/HomeSite/





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