Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 03:13:55 -0500 Reply-To: TOURBUS-Request@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Sender: The Internet TourBus - A virtual tour of cyberspace From: Bob Rankin Subject: TOURBUS - 04 Feb 1997 - FILEZ! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII /~~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~~~/~~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~~~/~~~|~~\ | MAKE YOUR OWN 3D MUSIC AT WWW.MEDIADOME.COM / | \ |__________|__________/___________|__________|__________/ | \ / /______|-----\ | Herbie Hancock, the jazz luminary who electrified |//////| | | pop music with his hit, 'Rockit', takes on hip hop |//////| | | music in his Billboard Music Award winning video |//////| | | for 'The Melody'. After exploring the 3D street |//////| | | scene, you can get in on the action by mixing a |//////| | | version of the song, & creating your own 3D video. |//////| | ~~~/~~~\~~/~~~\~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/~~~\~~~~~ \___/ \___/ T h e I n t e r n e t T o u r B u s \___/ TODAY'S TOURBUS STOP: FILEZ! In this issue we check out Filez, which claims to be the biggest software search site on the Internet and promises to simplify the hunt for software and other specialized types of files on the Internet. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- FREE Coupons on great apparel brands like Timberland, Duck Head, Woolrich, and Calvin Klein. Just sign up at Aardwulf Apparel's web store. Since they're electronic, they'll never clutter your drawers! ---------------------( http://www.aardwulf.com )---------------------- Visitors to Filez can search for software programs, games, graphics, fonts, sounds, movies - you name it! Since they index a huge percentage of the files on the Net (over 4000 servers), chances are you'll find that Lion King video, Eiffel tower picture, or a new version of your favorite game. While most search engines concentrate on WWW pages, Filez indexes thousands of software sites and amasses the largest database of files on the Internet. Their search system permits users to search through a list of over 75 million files (yes, I counted them) for specific titles and types of files in just seconds. From one web form, searches can be performed for software, games, graphics, sounds, movies, midi files, and more. And category headings make it easy for Windows, Mac, OS/2, Amiga and other computer users to select only titles applicable to their needs. Choosy Surfers Chew GIFs? ------------------------- Users can search all of the servers catalogued by Filez or select only servers with certain domain endings such as sites geographically located close to them. (If you download from a site that's closer, you'll get your files quicker!) Besides searching, users can also peruse the holdings of popular FTP sites at Filez. This allows you to check out notoriously busy sites that typically deny access because of limitations on the number of users or simply do not offer searching capabilities. All these advanced searching features, along with related sites such as Shareware.Com (http://www.shareware.com) seem to put a few more nails in the coffin of Archie, the not-so-friendly tool that has long been in use for indexing and searching FTP sites. The Filez service can be located at http://www.filez.com and can be accessed from any forms capable World Wide Web browser. Hey, I finally found that "Mission Impossible" theme song in MIDI format - cool! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Get FOUR FREE CD-Roms! Find out how by visiting this site: ----------- http://www.worldvillage.com/freecds.htm ---------------- Stupid Computer Joke of the Week -------------------------------- Thanks to all who sent their favorite SCJ's! Robert Payes sent me these two, which will cause all true geeks to chortle heartily. :-) * 10 PRINT Waiter there's a BUG in my LOOP! : GOTO 10 * if (odor(litterbox)>"Yuk!") newlitter(litterbox); else catpoop++; See you next time! --Bob ======================================================================= Join : Send SUBSCRIBE TOURBUS Your Name to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Leave : Send SIGNOFF TOURBUS to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Archives: On the Web at http://www.worldvillage.com/tourbus.htm Advertising: E-mail BobRankin@MHV.net w/ Subject: SEND TBRATES =----------------------------------------------------------------------= Get The Scoop On --> "Doctor Bob's Painless Guide To The Internet" <-- Send e-mail to BobRankin@MHV.net w/ Subject: SEND BOOKINFO or browse reviews & sample chapters at http://biz.mhv.net/drbob ======================================================================= TOURBUS - (c) Copyright 1995-97, Patrick Crispen and Bob Rankin All rights reserved. Redistribution is allowed only with permission. Send this copy to 3 friends and tell them to get on the Bus!