Ultimate list of IT support links

By Kyu Rhee and Bill Detwiler

 

While this list is by no means a complete inventory of IT Web sites, it is a place to start when looking for drivers, updates, patches, or troubleshooting information. If your favorite IT support site isn't listed here, please e-mail us. We will periodically update this list with links to new sites and updates to current sites.

 

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Product reviews, IT news, editorial columns, and how-to guides

CNET.com: CNET offers comprehensive product reviews and pricing information. Find out who sells that new monitor your CEO wants at the lowest price.

Computer Hope: This site offers free support to everyone on a fairly wide range of computer issues, including hardware, software, basic troubleshooting, and drivers. It's also a useful place to find links to other support sites.

Hardware Extreme: This site is geared toward serious IT hobbyists and gamers, but it has plenty of hardware reviews.

HardwareCentral: This site offers hardware information, including reviews, editorials, buying guides, and more.

PC Magazine: At "The Independent Guide to Technology," you'll find reviews, downloads, solutions, and news of the latest PC hardware and software. Participate in peer discussions.

ReviewFinder: A community-run blog, ReviewFinder lets you register and add your own links to reviews for audio-video devices, computers, gadgets, games, photography, and telecommunications.

Slashdot: Slashdot offers a one-stop shop for all things open source, including articles, discussions, and journals.

SharkyExtreme.com: Although this site is aimed at the PC enthusiast/gamer, it has lots for the PC professional, including hardware reviews, weekly CPU and RAM price updates, and handy hardware buying guides.

The Register: The Register is a British site that carries up-to-the-minute news of developments in the IT world, interspersed with some great humor, especially BOFH.

Tom's Hardware Guide: This site is a great source for reviews and guides about the latest computer hardware.

ZDNet: ZDNet offers anything and everything for the IT professional, including technology news, product reviews, and IT commentary.

Programming, Web development, and scripts

4GuysFromRolla.com: If you're looking for the most current information on ASP, this Web site is for you.

Apple Developer Connection: This is Apple’s primary resource for developers, including forums, downloads, a reference library, and an area for developer support.

Builder.com: Created by developers, for developers, Builder.com brings software developers real-world perspective on topics from programming to architecture to management.

HotScripts.com: This site is geared toward Web masters and programmers. It compiles Web programming-related information on topics such as ASP, C, Java, XML, PHP, and Perl.

jGuru.com: On jGuru.com, you'll find forums, articles, FAQs, and more, all focused on Java.

O'Reilly Perl.com: Perl, Perl, Perl, and nothing but Perl. If you're a Perl programmer, this site should be on your Favorites list.

Programmers Heaven: Although this site is mainly a link database to other sites, it compiles links to some of the most useful programming and development sites on the Web.

ScriptSearch.com: This is another great resource for programmers and developers, with information on various languages and technologies, including ASP, C, CFML, PHP, XML, Visual Basic, and Java.

WebDeveloper.com: This site offers forums and articles relating to most aspects of Web development and scripting, including ASP, Java, Perl, and PHP.

Please Note: Although many of the Web sites mentioned above are free, some require you to sign up for an account before you can use their services. This normally requires you to provide the site with an e-mail address. Some sites also only allow you free access to a limited amount of information but require you to pay a fee for total access.

 

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