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digital images and pictures

In recognition of the fact that many people connect to the net primarily to access adult material, but are unfamiliar with general computer and Internet issues, I have included links to basic Internet related resources. I hope some of you find these are helpful. After all, we are all newbies at first. Please note these links are not to image providers.

Home page for the Joint Photographic Experts Groups (JPEG)
Optimizing web graphics is an excellent article from webreference.com. Very easy to read, it describes factors that influence image quality in some depth. It includes a high quality links page. Recommended.
Webopedia has some a page with some good link about colour on computers

personal computer security - selected high quality links

Did you know you can get a personal firewall, anti-virus, anti-hacker and anti-trojan software completely free? There is no excuse for not protecting yourself from the most common threats to your computer security (not after visiting this page, anyway!)

Check through the following to find the free tools. You can use Google to seach for independent reviews of these products.

spyware, anti-virus, anti-trojans, hacker detection, firewalls etc:

NB some of the anti-virus companies also do firewalls and other products.

www.anti-virus-software-review.com for review and comparison of different anti-virus software
www.bitdefender.com - BitDefender anti-virus
www.kaspersky.com - Kaspersky Labs anti-virus
www.symantec.com - Norton anti-virus
www.mcaffee.com - McAffee anti-virus (also known as Dr Solomon)
www.europe.f-secure.com - F-secure anti-virus
www.grisoft.com - AVG anti-virus (free for personal use)
www.lavasoft.de - free software for removing spyware from your compute
www.spychecker.com - list of software known to contain spyware
http://scumware.com - information about "scumware" (wot that? - you might be unpleasantly surprised!)
www.wilders.org - excellent information and links about personal computer security, including spyware, trojans, firewalls etc. Includes reviews and links for downloading free software
www.zonelabs.com - firewall to protect your computer from hacker intrusion (free for personal use)
www.pestpatrol.com - Pest Patrol is an anti-hacker and anti-trojan tool (the free version has limited functionality)
www.safer-networking.org - Spybot search and destroy - an excellent free tool, but users are advised to be cautious until you know what you are doing

online checking of your system:

You can scan files on your computer for viruses at these sites. I have not personally tested any of them, but they are all reputable companies.

general:

www.webopedia.com - excellent dictionary of computing terminology, with links to reliable sources of further information