POWER LINKS

PHOTOSHOP ACTIONS

Author Al Ward's Action Effects www.actionfx.com

free brush sets, actions and layer styles, as well as links to other Photoshop sites

FREE E-MAIL, SITE-HOSTING, WEB STORAGE

E-mail and Web Storage

Microsoft's Hotmail www.hotmail.com

2 MB of storage, requires you to use a Web browser to get your e-mail messages

Mac.com iTools

5 MB of storage, free forwarding of your e-mail to another POP address, lets you use a standard e-mail client such as Outlook Express or Eudora

Yahoo Mail http://mail.yahoo.com

6 MB of storage, free forwarding of your e-mail to another POP address IF you agree to receive unsolicited messages from Yahoo and its advertisers, requires you to use a Web browser to get your e-mail messages

FREE FONTS

Erik Carlson's Macintosh Font Vault www.erik.co.uk/

free and shareware PostScript and TrueType fonts

FontFreak www.fontfreak.com

free and shareware PostScript and TrueType fonts

FREE MUSIC & PLAYERS (legal)

Players

Apple's iTunes www.apple.com/itunes/

QuickTime Player is able to play MP3s, but it doesn't let you gather of a bunch of MP3s in a playlist and play those tunes in order. Go here for a true MP3 player. The new iTunes can play and encode MP3s.

Casady & Greene's SoundJam MP www.soundjam.com

The free version of SoundJam MP allows you to encode up to 30 MP3 files and then reverts to a simple MP3 player.

Music

Internet Underground Music Archive www.luma.com

This site distributes music in MP3 and RealPlayer formats and specailizes in bands that are unsigned or independent labels.

Classical Music Archives www.prs.net/midi.html

Go here for classical music that you can play with QuickTime Player or through a MIDI synthesizer.

MP3.COM www.MP3.com

Lots of ads, but free music

 

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DISCOUNTED COMPUTER BOOKS and SOFTWARE

I will list discounts as I hear about them.

For the Fall 2001 semester, Adobe offered an outstanding educational software package: Photoshop 6, Illustrator 9, GoLive and LiveMotion, all for $299. That offer expired 10/31/01, but keep an eye out for future offers. Go to www.journeyed.com.