The 5-Step Binaries Tutor
Step 1. What Are Binaries?Step 2. How Do I Find Binaries?
Step 3. How Do I Download Binaries?
Step 4. How Do I Reassemble Binaries?
Step 5. How Do I Repair Binaries?
Software And Configuration Tips
USENET News Services To Download Binaries
LINKS
USENET News Services
Astraweb.com is a great service with the lowest unlimited "special" I have personally ever found at just $11 per month, for the life of the plan. To get this deal you must follow an ad banner, like the one above. This provider also has competitive prices on pay-as-you-go blocks. Astraweb provides SSL servers free of charge.
Usenet-News.com is another great, low-cost provider of pay-as-you-go Usenet plans. Blocks are non-expiring and competitively priced. SSL servers are also provided, free of charge. (They also offer unlimited service, but Astraweb is cheaper for unlimited plans.)
Giganews.com is considered the Daddy of Usenet Service providers, and some say, the premium provider, though the price is also premium at $24.99 for unlimited, and 5 bucks more to include SSL.
Newshosting.com is a fairly popular, newer company that offers competitive unlimited plans at $14.95 for 30 connections, and $19.95 for 60 connections. (Most people with DSL or cable will be maxed out at 4 connections. That is, your Internet Service Provider only allows you so much bandwidth for downloading, and 4 simultaneous connections to the news server will likely cause you to reach your peak speed, after which more connections might actually slow downloading.)
Supernews.com is another Granddaddy, established in 1995, but at the time of this writing has a binary retention time of just 200 days, far less than the aforementioned companies.
News-service.com is located in Europe, also established in the 90s, and also has a binary retention time of about 200 days. (For the record, Usenet-news.com and Astraweb.com make EU servers available, and I imagine the other providers listed here do too, but the actual company itself is located in Europe in the case of News-service.com.)
Binary Indexes
Following are free-to-use binary indexes.
NewzLeech.comBinsearch.com
BinaryNews.com
Searchbin.com
Valuable, Geeky, and Fun Sites
MajorGeeks.com is a site many will already know about. If you're wondering what freeware is recommended to clean a computer, defrag the drive or discombobulate the registry, using programs recommended by the MajorGeeks community is always a safe bet. They also have an in-depth guide to follow if your computer has slowed.
WebHostingTalk.com hosts forums that discuss and review Web hosts, domain registrars, different types of hosting packages (e.g. shared, virtual private server, dedicated server), and everything else related to running your site or buying/selling domains. Very active forum where people of all levels can get professional and peer help.
Matousec.com is a highly respected, independent company that tests firewalls (free and shareware), and its results are widely regarded in the Internet community. All firewalls undergo a rigorous battery of 84 tests. Click on "our latest tests" from the top of the home page and scroll down to the table to get an eyeful of what firewalls came out on top and which ones performed poorly. A report is available in each case.
Felgall Internet provides a nifty tool for coding HTML to display on your website. As you know, if you try to display a snippet of code, the browser will render it instead of display it. Displaying it requires special characters that are a PITA to manually type if you have more than a line or two. Type or paste the HTML code you want displayed into the upper box, and the tool will spit out the code you need in the lower box. Just cut and paste it into your source page.
Hulu.com where you can watch many TV shows (and even some old movies) on your schedule instead of the network's. Owned by NBC and NewsCorp., it made the entire first season of LOST available for anyone who didn't watch it originally. Hulu normally has the most recent 5 episodes available of any currently airing show that it carries. If the season is just starting, it will only have what has aired so far in the current season, up to the five newest eps. Eps usually post a day or two after the original broadcasting date.
Since there are about a jillion really cool and useful sites, lists are not too helpful if they get too long. But I would like to add handier and maybe more obscure sites here as time goes on.
