TOKYO, JAPAN, 1997 AUG 4 (NB) -- By Martyn Williams. This is a roundup of new and updated resources and services on the global Internet including: Internet live - live music tonight; Internet live - Major League Baseball; your best guide to Italian travel; special money saving on fantasy football; music super site opens to the Internet; checking the world's favorite schedules; help figuring out holiday currencies; get a free virtual business card; Net Talk mailing list; new software - Web Weaver 97; new file - Web Tutor.
Internet Live - Live Music Tonight
At 9pm EDT (6pm PDT, 0100 UTC Tuesday), Internet users have the choice of two live music performances. From the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York City, you can hear Larry Gelb, and from WFMT in Chicago, you can hear Chanticleer - an a-cappella male vocal group performs from the Ravinia Festival. World Wide Web: http://www.audionet.com/concerts/bluenote/ World Wide Web: http://www.audionet.com/radio/stations/default.asp?station_id=139
Internet Live - Major League Baseball
Tonight at 7:30pm EDT (4:30pm PDT, 2330 UTC) catch the San Francisco Giants vs. Cincinnati Reds in live Major League Baseball action online. World Wide Web: http://www.audionet.com/sports/mlb/giants/
Your Best Guide To Italian Travel
Planning a holiday in Italy? This could be the best place to plan it. The Guidebook to Italy, just launched by the editor of the Web Travel Guide, includes lots of information and observations on travel in Italy and over 600 images published in the FlashPix format. The system allows users to make high-quality prints from the images without having to wait an eternity for them to download. World Wide Web: http://webtravel.org/italy/
Special Money Saving On Fantasy Football
A new season of Fantasy Football begins on August 12 on the ESPN SportsZone site and the company has teamed up with First Virtual to offer a $5 discount to users that pay with the electronic commerce system. If you have a First Virtual ID number then use it to save and if you don't have one, now is the perfect time to get one and put it to use for secure online transactions. World Wide Web: http://www.vpin.com/shopping/product-spotlight/
Music Super Site Opens To The Internet
If you are, or used to be, a member of America Online then you will surely have come across The Velvet Rope, an online music industry community on the online service. Now, the system has left America Online and is available on the general Internet. The new "Velvet Rope" bulletin board will continue to admit music industry insiders by invitation from the moderator and the producers are working together to expand the site to provide additional music and music industry-related content that will be accessible to every web surfer. World Wide Web: http://www.velvetrope.com
Checking The World's Favorite Schedules
If British Airways truly is the "world's favorite airline" then its new Web site should be a big hit. The service allows Internet users to check availability and make flight bookings from Europe, North America, Africa and the Far East with a credit card. The online payment option is available in some areas while seat availability and offline payment are available in all others. World Wide Web: http://www.british-airways.com
Help Figuring Out Holiday Currencies
If you spend half your vacation shopping time trying to figure out how much something costs in your home currency, here's some help. The good people at Oanda are making it possible for you to create your own wallet-sized cheat sheet for currency conversion. Visit the site and you can design and print out a look-up sheet that shows various denominations of your home currency converted to the currency of the country you're visiting. World Wide Web: http://www.oanda.com/cgi-bin/travel
Get A Free Virtual Business Card
Populus, an Internet people-location service, is now offering search results in vCard form, the virtual business card format. vCards encapsulate traditional business card information into a single icon which can be moved around the Internet with a single click, eliminating typing and errors. This means that you can easily add friends and colleagues, found using the service, to your address book by dragging and dropping the vCard into your Lotus Organizer 97 GS, MS Outlook Express and Outlook 97 or Netscape Messenger address book. World Wide Web: http://www.populus.net
Net Talk Mailing List
Net Talk is a new mailing list designed to discuss issues surrounding the Internet and Internet tools in particular. Discussion will include use of e-mail, IRC, the Web, newsgroups, search engines and more. Anyone can join by sending the message below to the address listed. E-mail: internet1@btinternet.com Message Subject: subscribe mailing list
New Software - Web Weaver 97
Web Weaver 97 for Windows is an HTML authoring tool for creating Web pages. It includes HTML 2 and 3.2 tags, has wizards for forms, tables and frames, and supports all Netscape and Internet Explorer HTML extensions and other utilities for stripping HTML tags from a document and converting existing text to lists or tables. The software is designed for users from beginner to advanced and is now available from SimTel. Anonymous FTP: ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/win95/html/webwv97g.zip World Wide Web: http://www.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/win95/html/webwv97g.zip
New File - Web Tutor
Web Tutor v3.0 is a set of easy to use web page authoring tutorials covering basic and advanced Web page design. The tutorials are in HTML format so you can go through them with your web browser. If you have never created a web page before, the basic tutorial will guide you gently though basics of HTML. If you know the basics, the advanced tutorials will show you how to add additional features to your page. Anonymous FTP: ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/win95/html/wt300.zip World Wide Web: http://www.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/win95/html/wt300.zip
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