Free Downloadable PDF Tech Guides and Tutorials


Updated 14. June 2012 - 15:41 by gizmo.richards
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These PDF files were acquired by this site from the journal "PC Support Advisor" which is no longer published. The quality is outstanding though some articles are showing their age. The most dated articles have been placed at the bottom of the page.
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How to Buy Motherboards
How to Choose a Scanner
Understanding Drive Technology
Linux on the Desktop
Understanding WAP Security
Wireless Networking Update
State of the Market: Biometric Security
Deploying Office 2000
Supporting Outlook Express
Frontpage 2000 Tips and Tricks
Troubleshooting Word 2000
Office 2000 SP2
Office XP Tips
Understanding Word Field Codes
Supporting Excel
Microsoft Word XP Tips and Tricks
Windows CE Support Tips
Automated Windows 2000 Installation
Inside  the Windows 2000 Registry
Free Technical Support on the Web
Outlook 2000 & 2002: Tips and Tricks
Office 2000 and Intellimirror
Customizing Outlook 2000
10 Useful NT Resource Kit Utilities
Upgrading a Server from Windows NT to Windows 2000
Windows 2000 Tips
Windows 2000 Top Networking Issues
Windows 2000 Tips and Tricks
Bandwidth Control by Web Management
Office 2000 Support Tips
How to Speed Up your Network
Troubleshooting CISCO Routers
Troubleshooting a Switched Network
NT Service Pack 6
Installing Network Support Packs
Important Windows NT Security Patches
The Outlook Security Patch
How to Deal with Spam
Introducing Borland Kylix
The Pentium 4
Understanding IA-64 and Itanium
Supporting Users with Disabilities
Microsoft TechNet: New Features
Understanding Digital Dashboard
Third Party Windows Defrag Tools
Understanding Visual Interdev
Introducing Macromedia Flash 5
Introducing Microsoft Office XP
Introducing Adobe Acrobat 5
Hard Disk Partition Managers
Office XP Data Recovery
Hard Drive Encryption Software Reviews
How to Buy Motherboards
10 More Useful NT Resource Kit Utilities
Open-Source Network Monitoring Software
Understanding Virtual Network Computing
Benchmarking Software and Resources
Understanding Sharepoint
Software for Internet Access Control
Review: Netware 5.1
Introducing Netware 6
Introducing Whistler
Online Backup Providers
Understanding Firewalls
Understanding JavaScript Tutorial
Understanding JavaScript -  Introduction
Understanding CPU Upgrades
Understanding Processor Slots and Sockets
How to Brand Windows and Internet Explorer
Understanding Office 2000 Document File Formats
How to Create Office XP  Smart Tags
How to Buy Motherboards
How to Create Bootable CDs
NT to 2000 Workstation Upgrades.
How To Dual-Boot Windows 2000
Windows 2000 Group Policies
How to detect forged email
Web Site Design for Accessibility
How to set up a Linux mail hub
Understanding Bluetooth
Understanding Intrusion Detection Systems
Understanding MS Access Security
Windows 2000 Encrypting File System
Windows 2000 Offline Files and Folders
Managing NT Domains
Securing Windows NT
The Win2000 Active Directory
Removing NETBIOS from Win 2000
Windows 2000 Security Features
Windows 2000 Remote Storage Devices
Understanding Windows 2000 Disk Quotas
How to Deploy Windows XP Professional
How to Build and Run a Firewall
Understanding Mailing List Servers
Port Scanning Tools for Windows and Linux
Multimedia Conferencing over IP
Understanding ASPs

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MOONFRUIT
Over other website builders I’ve tried, Moonfruit is far and away the best when it comes to its versatility at accommodating particular layouts and positions for content and its ease of use. In all it’s a great choice because of:
  • Click and drag functionality, allowing text, buttons or images to be placed anywhere on a web page
  • Over 60 templates to choose from
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Moonfruit Do-it-yourself website builder with lot of social networking tools like youtube, facebbok, twitter integration.

WEB HOSTING HUB – WEB BUILDER

Did you know that Web Hosting HUB offers its customers a FREE Premium Web Builder with all of their hosting accounts? So on top of getting the web hosting services that you need anyways, Web Hosting HUB also incorporates the ease of their web builder into their hosting bundle. Choose from over 500 Website Templates! Customize the color scheme, header, upload your own logo, create a flash intro and add or remove pages. Using our point-and-click interface website editing interface is as easy as using a word processor. Once you’re happy with your site, publish it with a single click and you’re site is ready to go. Be up and running in as little as 5 minutes!

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Squarespace is a great choice for creating a Blog or portfolio site and its a real alternative of using WordPress site. Squarespace is a hosting option that offers an easy way to set up a blog, or even a full website if you’re so inclined, and manage it remotely. Squarespace easily has one of the best interfaces for designing, customizing and personalizing your blog without needing to know programming language or finding third party templates. You have more freedom to move widgets, columns and plug-ins around than you find in other services and it’s much easier too. Squarespace is also one of the few blog services that gives you website traffic statistics.

WEBS.COM

Webs.com is the leading website builder with more than 50 million sites already built. You get hundreds of templates to choose from with a ton of unique features. Best of all the interface is drag and drop and there is no coding necessary so it is easy for anyone to have their own website in minutes.

IMCREATOR

IM Creator is a drag n’ drop website creator with cutting edge templates. Create beautiful websites in a trouble-free, accessible and pleasant experience. No need for coding. You can create your own site under i-m.co subdomain, totally free, and it will be compatible with all devices, including mobile phones and tablets. If you decide to use your own domain, premium packages with unlimited hosting starting from 5.95$/month. SEO, analytics and email accounts included. This is one of the easiest site builders and you should definitely check it out.

YOLA

Yola’s award-winning Sitebuilder is fast, free, flexible and makes it easy to create a professional-looking website without third-party advertisements! Create and post your ad-free website in under 30 minutes! With Site Creation Wizard, getting online is as easy as 1-2-3. Customize your page easily with drag and drop Sitebuilder Or let Yola do it for you. Yola’s easy-to-use Sitebuilder provides infinite possibilities. No technical experience necessary. Yola gives you the power to take complete control of your website. Advanced users can easily edit images online, as well as add HTML, Javascript, and sitewide CSS. Express yourself and choose from hundreds of different styles. Make it your own by adding photos, videos, maps, forms and much more. You don’t want your website to be a billboard. Unlike other website builders, Yola helps you build a website that doesn’t bombard your site visitors with third-party advertisements.

WEEBLY

Weebly was named one of TIME’s 50 Best Websites of the year in 2007. Add pictures, videos, music and audio, maps, and photo galleries. Sell products, accept online bookings, create a contact form, or arrange your pages in multiple columns. Drag on slideshows, files, forums, games, RSS feeds, or any other HTML embed code, all by simply dragging and dropping.

JIMDO

Making your own online store has never been easier. With a shopping cart, secure payments, and all the essential features, you’ll be making money faster than you can say “shop!”. # Excellent support for accessiblity. While this is a more advanced area, it will help you with SEO and in support of disabled users. It also might be a legal requirement depending on your business. Jimdo offers multiple layouts including direct access to the HTML, CSS and images for full-featured editing. I’m not a fan of their default designs, personally, and it might require more design work than the others reviewed. On the other hand, if you have your own design, moving it into Jimdo looks dead simple.

FREEWEBSITE.COM

Customizing your website is easier than ever with FreeWebsite point-and-click web builder! No coding needed. Register a new custom domain name, or point / transfer one you already own. Use simple drag-and-drop website editor to publish changes to your website in minutes. FreeWebsite use the latest web technology, including HTML5, CSS3, responsive design, and jQuery. Attract mobile visitors with a mobile version of your website. No third-party ads on your website, no matter which website plan you choose.

WEBNODE

Webnode is a Free & Easy website builder. By using Drag-and-Drop from the toolbar you can add new content such as polls, forums, articles, catalogues, widgets such as PayPal and much more. Webnode contains more than 40 beautiful templates or you can make your own.

UCOZ

Create an unlimited number of free websites with uCoz, one of the most powerful website builders in the world and #1 in Eastern Europe. Whatever you want to build – a personal or business website, a forum or e-shop, anything is possible with its numerous features. It offers customization along with a template builder, visual editor, FTP access, unlimited bandwidth, free website domain attachment, full HTML5/CSS3 compatibility and much more. Security is high with the uID user management system, its capabilities are fueled by the existing 22 modules including E-shop, Blog, Forum while the users form a vibrant community ready to welcome new members.

BREEZI

With Breezi, you can now easily create and manage a mobile optimized, fully custom website online, with absolutely no coding needed. Just sign-up for a free trial, and select a professionally designed starting point to get started. You’re then taken right into the visual, drag-and-drop online website editor. Breezi’s intuitive WYSIWYG editor gives you full control over the design, layout, and content of your pages, and you see each change take form on the fly as you bring your website to life. All of the content you add is managed through a growing library of Apps, which you can drag-and-drop anywhere on your page, and simply click them to change the content.

BLINKWEB

BlinkWeb is definitely targeted toward Internet Marketers. BlinkWeb is a bit like Google Pages. The features of both are similar. The components supported by BlinkWeb right now include a contact form, a guest book, Google Maps integration for showing where an address is, Google Adsense integration, and a custom HTML widget.

WIX

Create stunning and interactive flash websites for free, myspace layouts and flash widgets. Easy to use drag and drop editor – No technical skills required – Search engine friendly. Simpler, faster, better way to create stunning free Flash web content. good support.

AIRCUS

In Aircus you can set up a free business or personal oriented one-page website which works on all devices (responsive) very easily without IT skills. You only fill in structured forms and follow a simple wizard. It’s specially designed for non-IT people and very easy to use. You can set it up on your own domain or get the domain and also connect it to your other internet profiles to keep them up to date.

350 PAGES

350 Pages Free is a free version of 350 Pages Lite. You can post one website with 15 pages total. It is primarily a demo of their paid service, but if you have a small site you could maintain it with this.

GOOGLE SITES

Google Sites is a free and easy way to create and share. Single-click page creatio, No HTML required, Customizable look and feel, Settings for accessing and sharing information And it’s free!

EDICY

Competition to Edicy comes from websites such as Blogger, Homestead and also Weebly. Blogger is primarily designed for blogging, but many people use it to build a general website. The Edicy site is much more versatile than Blogger, however. Homestead and Weebly offer services similar to Edicy, with Homestead being a bit more difficult to use than Edicy, while Weebly is easier to use than Edicy. This is a crowded field, and there are a host of other free website builders available on the web.

NEXCESS ECOMMERCE HOSTING

There are few famous open-source ecommerce application available like Magento, Prestashop, OScommere, we strongly recommend NEXCESS. Among all plans, the Magento SIP Plans are newest, cutting edge E-Commerce hosting solution. Each SIP is an entirely self-contained hosting environment. Each comes with a pre-installed and optimized Magento store – running the most recent Magento software and optimized for increased performance, stability and security. All SIP plans also include unlimited e-mail mailboxes (POP/IMAP), full FTP access, InterWorx control panel, R1Soft file backups.


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Free Manuals & Guides

    The Incredible Free Manual for Every Mac User

    Jackson Chung, devoted Mac writer and Assistant Editor on MakeUseOf wrote this slick, sixty-odd paged monster; based on Snow Leopard ““ the latest release of the Mac OS X operating system. In it, he tells you everything you need to know about Mac. Jackson supplies you with numerous tips, tricks and free applications. Get the hang of the interface and discover what your Mac is really capable of.
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    The Underground Guide to the iPhone

    Written by Stefan Neagu. Read about the basic user interface and a ton of incredible iPhone features you would’ve otherwise missed. Stefan explains in detail how to perform both the very simple and the most tedious tasks. Find out how to get your hands on fresh applications, how to keep your device synchronized and even how to jailbreak your iPhone!
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    Twitter: Best Practices & Tips

    In this massive guide, our very own publishing editor Mark O’Neill, tackles every Twitter feature and tips and tricks you can think of. Learn to work the interface, to Tweet from your desktop, cool Twitter bots and funniest people to follow. With this free manual, Mark will make sure you get your black belt in Twitter.
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    The Ultimate Guide to your Windows Mobile Phone

    If you have a Windows Mobile phone, you will know that stuff can occasionally get pretty difficult. These devices, which are basically mini-computers, have endless possibilities “” and thus endless possible difficulties as well.
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    A Computer Geek’s Smart Productivity Guide

    In this free twenty-paged PDF, Stefan Neagu (yes, he wrote quite a lot of manuals back then) will show you the most common productivity mistakes, as well as a number of applications to improve your touch typing, your time organization, and your global workflow.
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    Building a Media Center for your Home

    Active MakeUseOf contributor and eBook writer Stefan Neagu, will walk you through all the steps of understanding and creating your own media center.
    Read all about the different hardware components, software candidates and media extenders, in this manual for geek to techno-deprived.
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    The Only Easy Guide To Computer Networks

    To help you set up your networks, as well as with all that comes after, MakeUseOf proudly presents the MakeUseOf Network Manual.
    In 33 illustrated pages, Stefan Neagu familiarizes us with the networking knowhow, from Adapters to Zimbabwe-proxies. It’s a great place to start off as a newbie, or to pick up as an already more advanced user.
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    The Big Book of BitTorrent

    BitTorrent, is a great, perhaps even the best way to download files, both in concept as in use ““ that is, once you’ve got the hang of it. Saikat Basu takes newcomers by the hand and guides them in their first steps. Initiates, but also the more experienced users get their fair share of information.
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    A Newbie’s Getting Started Guide to Linux

    In this free ebook you’ll be introduced to the basics of the Linux operating systems. Get to know what it is all about, and familiarize yourself with the practical side. Basically, if you’re a complete Linux newbie and looking for a quick and easy guide to get you started – this is it.
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    The Idiot’s Guide To Photoshop

    An Idiot’s Guide To Photoshop is the starter’s manual for every Photoshop initiate to carry! This guide starts right at the very bottom, assuming no knowledge at all, and walks you through all basic aspects of the application. The guide even comes with three full pages of shortcuts, cheat sheets covering all the application’s possibilities!
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    The Big Book of iTunes

    50+ pages of great iTunes tips and tricks along with illustrative screenshots, written by our very own Mac writer Jackson Chung. The iTunes book has got plenty of cool iTunes tips and tricks for you, some were published on MakeUseOf before and others were collected from different parts of web.
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    The Idiot’s Guide to Building Your Own PC

    With the complete amateur in mind who has no technical knowledge whatsoever, we show you how to build your own PC! This is a guide where we literally “˜hold your hand’ every step of the way.
    MakeUseOf has teamed up with our very own Karl Gechlik to bring you nearly 50 pages full of screenshots, links to video demos and easy how-to instructions for every step involved. The result? The Idiot’s Guide to Building Your Own PC.
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    Laptop Buying Guide for 2009

    MakeUseOf teamed up with Laptopical.com to give you a Laptop Buying Guide for 2009. It’s a quick 20 page guide with an abundance of screenshots and links to video reviews. This guide is intended to help buyers make an informed choice regardless of previous computer knowledge.
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Internet Guide for the Movie Addict

    Written by Saikat Basu, this entirely free PDF production will show you anything you’ve ever dreamed about knowing related to movies on the web. Whether you want a quick heads-up, are looking for download and streaming possibilities, or even want to fix broken AVI’s “” you’ll find it in there!

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