What Program Goes with What File Extension
If you have a Windows file it has a File Name and a File
Extension. For example, myfile.txt has file extension, .TXT and so
would be an ASCII text file. The search engine to find out what software is associated with what file
extension is: http://extsearch.com/
Computer Abbreviations, Acronyms, Definitions,
and Glossaries
Too often computer prose is peppered with abbreviations
and acronyms. You can look them up in the following places:
http://www.geocities.com/ikind_babel/babel/babel.html
or http://www.acronymfinder.com/
Sometimes a Dictionary of Computing or Glossary of Internet Terms will also help. Visit these at: http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/index.html and http://www.matisse.net/files/glossary.html respectively.
Also, see Webopedia, an on-line encyclopedia and search engine dedicated to computer technology: http://www.pcwebopedia.com/, http://www.webopaedia.com/ and http://webopedia.internet.com/quick_ref/
Recovering Word Documents
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/RecoverMasterDocs.htm
Another trick not listed in the above is to do an FILE/Open and choose File Type: Recover Text from Any File.
Electronic Statistics Textbook
Need a refresher course in Statistics? A searchable,
indexed electronic Statistics textbook may be found at:
http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/stathome.html. All of these, and many more
"Information" references may be found at:
http://www.personal.psu.edu/hdk/jargon.html .
Windows Error Message Information
The Web page:
http://www.aumha.org/kberrmsg.htm gives Microsoft Knowledge
Base articles by clicking on actual Windows Error messages.
You should use Microsoft Internet Explorer for this. Another trick
to get a particular Microsoft Knowledge Base article is to use the :
MSKB or MSKB kbarticle# in place of a conventional URL.
E.g., MSKB Q273738
File Format Descriptions
The Web site: http://www.wotsit.org/search.asp has a search engine that will send you an information file that is a detailed description of file formats for a rather wide variety of files. You would need this information if you needed to write code to process an application's (binary file) or if you needed to understand better what was included in same.
For example, if you chose "Text File/Documents" and then "Microsoft Word 8" it will offer to download the file: wword8.zip. If you unzip that file you'll get wword8.html which is an indexed description of the many details of the binary format of a MS Word Version 8 file.