The free Whip! viewer plug-in allows you to view true scaleable vector drawings in AutoCAD’s .DWF (Drawing Web File) format on the web. You can pan, zoom, and turn layers on and off. Some of the maps on this website are extremely detailed and are designed to be viewed closely at sizes as large as 10 feet by 3 feet. If you do not have this driver, you are are missing the most interesting portions of this site.

All of the maps and many of the drawings on this site were created in AutoCAD or AutoCAD Map. Most of the Sexton Geographic software titles are written in AutoLISP, bringing the power of the language of artificial intelligence to geographic information systems.

Continually routes a subscription URL to a dynamic IP address. About $35/year, versus $90/month for a static IP address. Useful for self-hosted websites, remote control applications, web-based video and audio conferencing, Virtual Private Networks, etc. Be found at yourname.dynip.com. For a little more money, you can even be found at yourname.com, still without paying for a static IP address.

The most powerful and simplest to use free and low-cost firewalls available. ZoneAlarm protects the SextonGeographic server from an average of 50 hacker attacks per week.

Hosted with Microsoft Internet Information Services and Personal Web Manager. Windows 2000 Professional has a hard-coded limit of 10 concurrent visitors.

This site is designed to work best with Internet Explorer 4.0 and above, preferably with a screen resolution of 1024x768 or higher.

Connected to the internet via a Road Runner high speed cable modem. Download speeds approach 4MB/sec. Upload speeds are throttled to about 128KB/sec. The cost is about what you would pay for dial-up plus a second phone line, and it’s about 50 times faster.  Comes with 5MB of high-bandwidth hosting for your non-commercial homepage.

Free and low-cost website visitor counters.

Use the free Adobe Acrobat viewer plug-in to view PDF files. The Adobe PDF format is the lingua franca of digital document archiving. Documents written in PDF are viewable by any browser exactly as you meant them to be: the same fonts, the same sizes, the same layout. They cannot be editted, but that is precisely the point.

NetObjects Fusion is not just another page editor. It is a full-blown website creation and management application. Nor is it an HTML debugger. Someone at a bar asked me if I write my own HTML. My answer: I write in 25 languages. I don’t have to prove that I can write HTML. It’s kind of like asking a novelist if he writes his own Postscript. That’s what word processors are for. About $90. I used it to create this website (my first) in about 3 days.

Modern Minds, Inc. offers high-quality Java Scripts, many for free, including the ripple effect on my welcome page.

The Apollon Project is the freeware component collection of German NetObjects Fusion enthusiast Ingo Fischer. I use his ImagePreloader5.0 to improve response time by preloading raster world maps.  I also use his password protector for age verification.

Free CGI scripts by Paul Williams, including the Guestbook script that I use. Remarkably easy setup, with sophisticated administration routines, so the scripts practically install themselves.  Thank you Paul!

Free Dynamic HTML scripts. The mini-window in my guestbook came from here.

Free aerial photos, like the one on my Contact Info page.

Avanimation

Plane-in-flight animation, which I adapted as moving clouds to illustrate the Tin Man story.

Clever erotic clipart.

Gay.com is the premier gay chat destination, and it is free. Meet me there in one of the Austin chatrooms (under Texas, in the Central Time Zone). I can also be found in the Intellectual chat (Central Time).

Gay.com has over 600,000 members, and typically over 15,000 are chatting at any time, day or night.

ASCIIMation -- Too cool to describe

Leonard Nimoy Should Eat More Salsa Foundation.  I included this link just to prove that, indeed, some people have even more time on their hands than I do.