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AccessScience
- The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology online. Contains heaps of info. Click the "Student Centre" study guides, then click on your subject.
Access this with your library card number and PIN, or at our libraries.
Computers
- Links page at Christchurch City Libraries - includes a section on Linux and several dictionaries
Safari Tech Books Online
- An electronic reference library for programmers and IT professionals. Christchurch City Libraries have subscribed to 55 books.
Access this with your library card number and PIN, or at our libraries.
Color Schemer Online
- Enter a colour value or just click the colour that you want and this handy tool will suggest attractive combinations with that colour.
Computing Technology
- Wikipedia's main category heading for all its computing articles from abacus to ZZT.
How stuff works - computers
- This website contains categories and articles related to computers. The categories cover inside a PC, buses and ports, form factors, memory, networking, software and programming, computer security, and more. The site also contains articles referencing frequently asked questions and topical computer issues.
Internet Archive
- The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. On the day added there were, 85 million web pages, 112,163 movies, 48,221 concerts, 243,673 recordings, and 381,262 texts. You can even contribute your own material.
Learning HTML
- Learn to make web pages from the Internet Public Library
Maran Graphics Computer Dictionary
- Simple, clear definitions and explanations of computer and Internet jargon.
The Museum of Modern Technology
- Created by actDen and Microsoft Corporation, this website offers the new user a very basic 'walk through' some Microsoft products: the operating systems Windows '95 and '98 and Windows NT, Outlook Express, and Internet Explorer.
Netguide guides, tips and techniques
- Turorials include building a website, email and dealing with spam, viruses plus lots more.
NZ Mac
- News, forums, supplier links and other useful stuff for Apple MacIntosh users in New Zealand
PC World - New Zealand
- Web site of the NZ PC World magazine. Includes news, product reviews, how to tips and bug and virus alerts for PCs.
SitePoint
- Thousands of articles, blogs, discussions and newsletters on web design and technologies from use of colour to server side coding. Aimed at professional web developers but very accessible.
Slacker HTML
- Online tutorials to advance your skills into ASP, PHP and Javascript + standard website development.
W3 Schools
- At W3Schools you will find all the Web-building tutorials you need, from basic HTML and XHTML to advanced XML, Multimedia and WAP.
Whatis? Com
- Contains over 2,000 individual encyclopaedic definition/topics about information technology, primarily about the Internet and computers.