Christopher's Cool Site Tools!

Listed below are the tools I have used in the creation and evolution of this site, including the players and plug-ins used to test multimedia links. If you have any cool tools you use that I may be interested in trying, please click the mailbox below.  :-)

CONTENT CREATION, CONVERSION, & MAINTENANCE

 1)  AT&T Personal Web Pages Quick Template editor.  (Initial creation)
 2)  Microsoft FrontPage Express v2.0, included with Internet Explorer.  (Original table format tweaker)
 3)  Microsoft Web Publishing Wizard v1.53 and 1.6x, included with IE.
 4)  Microsoft Sound Recorder, included with Windows 95/98.  (Original WAV generator)
 5)  Creative Wave Studio v3.19, from the SoundBlaster utilities.  (Current WAV generator)
 6)  RealEncoder v5.1, from RealNetworks.  (WAV to RA/RM converter)
 7)  Microsoft NetShow Encoder v2.0 and 3.0.  (WAV to ASF generator)
 8)  Microsoft NetShow ASF Indexer v3.0.  (ASF customizing tool)
 9)  Microsoft CDF Generator v0.31, from MSDN Online Web Workshop.  (Channel Definition File editor)
10)  Microsoft WordPad, included with Windows 95/98.  (Minor offline HTML editing)
11)  Microsoft Word 97.  (logo and old counter text)
12)  Microsoft Paint, included with Windows 95/98.  (Bitmap generator)
13)  IrfanView 32, by Irfan Skiljan.  (Bitmap to GIF/JPG conversion and scanning)
14)  Ribbons of the USAF v2.1 by Don Durbin.  (Generating basic ribbon image)
15)  Stupid Web Tricks (ISBN 1-57231-922-4), by Jim Buyens, from Microsoft Press.  (Drop-down list ideas)
16)  Map This! v1.30, by Todd C. Wilson.  (Image map code generator)
17)  WS_FTP (LE) v4.50, 4.60, and 5.03 by Ipswitch.  (FTP alternative to WPW)
18)  EditPad Classic v3.4.1, 3.5.1, and 3.5.3, and EditPadLite v4.3.8, 4.5.0 and 4.5.4 by Jan Goyvaerts.  (WordPad alternative!)
19)  Scanport parallel port scanner (Scans made in October, 1999).
20)  UMAX Astra 2100U USB port scanner (Scans made May, 2000-March, 2002).
21)  Creative VideoBlaster WebCam Control v2.1.1.0 and WebCam 3 USB.  (Video recorder)
22)  Microsoft AVIEdit v4.00 for still frame and audio extraction.
23)  Adobe PhotoDeluxe Home Edition v3.0 and Photoshop Elements v2.0. (really cool image colorizing and repair)
24)  Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 5500c USB 2.0 port scanner (Scans made March, 2002-Present).

PAGE & MULTIMEDIA CHECKING

 1)  Microsoft Internet Explorer v4.0, 4.01, 4.01 SP1, 4.01 SP2, 5.0 (OSR, SP1, SP2), and 5.5 (OSR, SP1, SP2).
 2)  Netscape Communicator v4.04, 4.50, 4.60, 4.61, 4.70, 4.72, 4.76, 4.78, 4.79, 4.80, 6.0.1, 7.0, 7.01, and 7.02.
 3)  RealAudio Player v4 (Windows 9x), RealPlayer/RealPlayer Plus v5.0, RealPlayer/RealPlayerPlus G2 v6.0, 7.0, 7.1, and 8.0, and RealOne Player v2 from RealNetworks.
 4)  Microsoft Windows Media Player v5.2, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2b2, 6.4, 6.4a, 7b1, 7b2, 7.0, and 7.1.  (ASF/ASX NetShow files)
 5)  QuickTime v2.12, 3.02, and 4.0 MIDI browser plug-ins, from Apple.
 6)  Crescendo! v3.0, 4.0b9, 4.01, 4.02, 5.0b, and 5.1 MIDI browser plug-ins, from LiveUpdate.
 7)  ESS Technologies ESS1869 sound card.  (original)
 8)  Creative SoundBlaster AWE 64 (former) and Live 5.1! Platinum (current) sound cards.
 9)  Dreamweaver v1.2a and 4.0, by Macromedia.  (Code cleanup, editing, and table tweaking!)

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