SCOUG OS/2 For You - March 1999

On the web, content is king. Far more important than glitzy graphics, content makes people come back again and again.

Let's see how this month's chosen web sites measure up:

Ratings			Info
Content	Links	Glitz	Type	Site (url) and Comments
A+	A	A	Notebooks	Notebook/2 -- The OS/2 Notebook Site (http://www.os2ss.com/users/DrMartinus/Notebook.htm).  A notebook computer that runs OS/2?  There's more info here than feathers on a duck.
A	B-	B+	OS/2-Linux	OS/2 and Linux in Focus (http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/4301/).  Do not miss this site.  Programmers:  do not miss the Programming Information page.
A	B+	B	OS/2	UFO's OS/2 Warp Information Resources (http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Haven/4537/).  Some excellent tutorials with some very useful tricks here.
B	F	B-	Finance	Electronic Teller (http://www.travel-net.com/~phcaron/).  The screen shots show a slick interface (and great graphs) for this inexpensive home accounting package.
A-	C-	D+	HTML	W3C HTML Validation Service (http://validator.w3.org/).  Now, this thing isn't perfect.  But if you write HTML code, it will catch a lot of your errors.
A	C	B	Prolog	Visual Prolog (http://www.visual-prolog.com/) or Visual Prolog (http://www.pdc.dk/vip/).  The language of Artificial Intelligence runs quite happily on OS/2.  Start with the freeware version.
A+	B+	B	Programming	Dennis Bareis, OS/2 (http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~dbareis/index.htm).  We gave this guy a good quack in June '98, but he's got a new url and the free software and source code make it a good site.
A	F	C	Search	FTP Search (http://ftpsearch.lycos.com/).  When all you want is a file . . .
B	F	C-	Word	Word2x for OS/2 -- The MS-Word Converter (http://www.d3.net/joerg/word2x.html).  "Converts" MS-Word 6.0 and later.  Freeware.
B+	C	B-	Utilities	Welcome (http://members.tripod.com/~Goran_Ivankovic/).  Goran Ivankovic's free OS/2 utilities.