Guide to THE BEST computer hardware stores, BEST computer software stores, BEST ISPs, BEST free-webhosting
providers, BEST free computer-technical-support, and BEST used-vs.-new computer stores in San Francisco!!!

                                                                         Copyright Danny Chan 2009

  If you live in San Francisco in California in North America and want to to buy THE BEST computer hardware/software/etc.
possible, this WWW site tries to list THE BEST computer hardware stores in San Francisco, THE BEST computer software
stores in San Francisco, THE BEST computer ISPs aka Internet Service Providers in San Francisco, THE BEST
free-webhosting providers in San Francisco, THE BEST free-computer-technical-support places in San Francisco, and
THE BEST used-vs.-new computer stores in San Francisco.

  This is a message to the owners of all computer hardware/software/etc. stores that are listed below: this website has banner
ads and pay-per-click ads, but all income from them goes to the founders of Fortune City webhosting company and I don't get
anything at all (I just get a free ad-supported website from Fortune City webhosting company)...I make no money at all (be it
through banner ads, pay-per-click ads, commission-based direct links to other WWW sites, etc.) for publicizing your
companies on a mass basis or attracting thousands of new customers to your companies or trying to get thousands of new
customers to patronize your businesses on a long-term ongoing basis (vs. short-term temporary basis), and am only doing this as
a public service to the entire population of the city of San Francisco (along with the entire population of the San Francisco Bay
Area) so they know where the best computer hardware/software/etc. stores are.  If you want to sue me for financial damages
because I supposedly make money  from your names or information about your companies, please contact staff members at
Fortune City webhosting company to prove/verify that I just get a free ad-supported website and that none of the ads on my
website financially benefit myself.   If you don't want your company to be listed, please email me at
[email protected] and I'll IMMEDIATELY remove your company from the listing.
 
  This is a message to all people in San Francisco and the San Francisco Bay Area that visit this WWW site: this WWW site is
just a directory listing of all computer hardware/software/etc. stores in San Francisco that are good vs. bad, and I don't
personally vouch for or endorse for all of them.  If you patronize a computer hardware/software/etc. store listed here and you
got ripped off by the store (e.g. you  bought computer hardware or computer software from a store for several hundred dollars
and it was defective and when you tried to return it for an exchange or a refund the store refused to give you an exchange or
refund, you bought a product from a store while thinking that you only had to pay a low price but the store ripped you off for
a much-higher price and you can't get a refund for the difference in money, etc.), you patronized a computer hardware/sofware
store to upgrade or repair your computer and the store damaged your computer to the tune of hundreds of dollars or even
thousands of  dollars (e.g. you brought your computer into a store for upgrades or repairs, and then the store upgraded or
repaired your computer but simultaneously irreparably damaged other parts of your computer to the point that your computer
 isn't fully-functional anymore, and the store won't give you a refund for damages incurred), you subscribe to an ISP or
webhosting provider and the ISP or webhosting provider suddenly terminates your account without giving you a refund (e.g.
you subscribe to a 56k-or-DSL-or-cablemodem ISP for one year in a row, and you use the ISP for one month and then the
ISP terminates your account for unwarranted reasons without giving you a refund for the 11 months of time that you didn't use at
all), etc., don't blame me while holding me legally liable and financially liable for damages indirectly or directly incurred to you.
By reading this website and/or using the information used in this website, you agree to release me from all legal liability and
financial liability that may be sustained to you.

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SECTION ONE:  COMPUTER HARDWARE (e.g. computers, monitors, keyboards, computer mice, computer printers, DSL
  modems, etc.).

  If you want to buy computer hardware, you could buy famous-brand-name computer hardware (e.g. HP/Compaq-brand
IBM-clone desktop/laptop computers -HP aka Hewlett Packard is currently the top brand name of IBM-clone desktop/laptop
computers in North America, and HP incidentally bought Compaq in 2002 with a corporate merger but kept the two different
brand names separate-, or Apple iMac desktop/laptop computers) or generic-brand-name IBM-clones.

  If you want to buy brand-name computer hardware, THE BEST places in San Francisco to buy brand-name computer
hardware are:
1.  Best Buy (Best Buy is currently the largest electronics retailer in North America).
       Best Buy sells computer hardware (Best Buy sells brand-name IBM-clone desktop/laptop computers -e.g. HP/Compaq-
     along with Apple iMac desktop/laptop computers...Best Buy also sells computer monitors, computer keyboards, computer
     mice, computer printers, DSL modems, etc., for both IBM-clone computers and Apple iMac computers), sells computer
     software (for both IBM-clone computers and Apple iMac computers...Best Buy sells operating systems, productivity
     software, utility software, educational software, and entertainment software for both IBM-clone computers and Apple
     iMac computers), computer accessories (e.g. a surge protector for your computer), and computer supplies too (e.g. blank
     DVD-RW discs and printer paper for a computer printer).
       Best Buy has an official WWW site at http://www.bestbuy.com (you can check out Best Buy's current selection of
     products/services for sale there,  along with accompanying price tags), and currently has two stores in San Francisco: the
     first one is at 1717 Harrison and 14th Street (that's Best  Buy's main flagship store in San Francisco, and it's the largest and
     best Best Buy store in San Francisco), and the second one is at 2675 Geary Boulevard and Presidio (there's a big shopping
     mall there called City Center, and Best Buy is inside City Center shopping mall -specifically it's on City Center shopping
     mall's third floor aka top floor-...City Center Shopping Mall has a Office Depot on the first floor too).
2.  Office Depot.
       Office Depot sells computer hardware (Office Depot sells brand-name IBM-clone desktop/laptop computers -e.g.
     HP/Compaq-,  and doesn't sell Apple iMac desktop/laptop computers but I think you could special-order Apple iMac
     computers from Office Depot -just goto a Office Depot and ask a staff member about it-...Office Depot also sells computer
     monitors, computer keyboards, computer mice, computer printers, DSL modems, etc., for IBM-clone computers), sells
     computer software (for IBM-clone computers only, there's no Apple iMac software but you might be able to special-order it...
     Office Depot sells operating systems, productivity software, utility software, educational software, and entertainment software
     for IBM-clone computers), computer accessories (e.g. a surge protector for your computer), and computer supplies too (e.g.
     blank DVD-RW discs and printer paper for a computer printer).
       Office Depot has an official WWW site at http://www.officedepot.com (you can check out Office Depot's current selection
     of products/services for sale there, along with accompanying price tags), and currently has three stores in San Francisco: the
     first one is at 2675 Geary Boulevard and Presidio (there's a big shopping mall there called City Center, and Office Depot is
     on the first floor of City Center shopping mall...City Center shopping mall has a Best Buy on the third floor and a Office
     Depot on the first floor), the second is at 33 3rd Street and Market, and the third one is at 2300 16th Street and Bryant
     (there's a big shopping mall at 16th Street and Bryant called Potrero Center, and the Office Depot is inside Potrero Center
     shopping mall...Potrero Center shopping mall has a Radio Shack and Ross Dress for Less inside too, Radio Shack sells
     IBM-compatible computer hardware/software and Ross Dress for Less sometimes sells IBM-compatible computer
     software-).
3.  Office Max.
       Office Max sells computer hardware (Office Max sells brand-name IBM-clone desktop/laptop computers -e.g.
     HP/Compaq-, and doesn't sell Apple iMac desktop/laptop computers but I think you could special-order Apple iMac
     computers from Office Max -just go to a Office Max and ask a staff member about it-...Office Max also sells computer
     monitors, computer keyboards, computer mice, computer printers, DSL modems, etc., for IBM-clone computers), sells
     computer software (for IBM-clone computers only, there's no Apple iMac software but you might be able to special-order
     it...Office Max sells operating systems, productivity software, utility software, educational software, and entertainment
     software for IBM-clone computers), computer accessories (e.g. a surge protector for your computer), computer
     accessories (e.g. a surge protector for your computer), and computer supplies too (e.g. blank DVD-RW discs and
     printer paper for a computer printer).
       Office Max has an official WWW site at http://www.officemax.com (you can check out Office Max's current selection of
     products/services for sale there, along with accompanying price tags), and currently has two stores in San Francisco: the first
     one is at 1750 Harrison Street and 14th Street  (right across the street from Best Buy's main flagship store at 1717 Harrison
     and 14th Street), and the second one is at 3700 Geary Boulevard and Arguello.
       Right now Best Buy is the largest electronics retailer nationwide in North America, Best Buy's main flagship store is at 1717
     Harrison Street and 14th Street, and -because Office Max at 1750 Harrison and 14th Street is right across the street from that
     Best Buy- that Office Max at 1750 Harrison Street CONTINUALLY tries to compete against Best Buy's main flagship store
     in San Francisco by offering identical or similar products at lower prices, or offering totally different/new products that Best
     Buy's main flagship store doesn't offer at all.  As a result, if you ever go to Harrison and 14th Street, what you should do is
    -instead of just shop at the Best Buy there- shop at the Best Buy there and shop at the Office Max there too because that
    Office Max is actually REALLY good (for instance, that Office Max almost always stocks IBM videogames that the Best Buy
    doesn't stock at all, and the IBM videogames only cost $10 each brand new).
4.  Staples.
       Staples sells computer hardware (Staples sells brand-name IBM-clone desktop/laptop computers -e.g. HP/Compaq-, and
     doesn't sell Apple iMac desktop/laptop computers but I think  you could special-order Apple iMac computers from Staples
     -just go to a Staples and ask a staff member about it-...Staples also sells computer monitors, computer keyboards, computer
     mice, computer printers, DSL modems, etc., for IBM-clone computers), sells computer software (for IBM clone computers
     only, there's no Apple iMac software but you might be able to special-order it...Staples sells operating systems, productivity
     software, utility software, educational software, and entertainment software for IBM-clone computers), computer accessories
     (e.g.. a surge protector for your computer), and computer supplies too (e.g. blank DVD-RW discs and printer paper for a
     computer printer).
       Staples has an official WWW site at http://www.staples.com (you can check out Staples' current selection of  products/
    services for sale there, along with accompanying price tags), and currently has two stores in San Francisco: 300 California
    Street and Battery, and 1700 Van Ness and Sacramento.
5.  Radio Shack.
       Radio Shack originally just specialized in radios, but now specializes in all types of home electronics ranging from digital-TVs
     to home computers.  Radio Shack sells brand-name IBM-clone desktop/laptop computers -e.g. HP/Compaq- and doesn't
     sell Apple iMac desktop/laptop computers (I  also don't think Radio Shack can special-order Apple iMac computer
     hardware/software at all, because it exclusively specializes in brand-name IBM-clone computers-), and it also sells IBM-
     compatible software but the selection tends to be pretty limited.
       Radio Shack has an official WWW site at http://www.radioshack.com (you can check out Radio Shack's current selection
     of  products/services for sale there, along with accompanying price tags), and currently has eighteen stores in San Francisco:
     the first one is at 3200 Geary Boulevard and Spruce, the second one is at 5644 Geary Boulevard and 21st Avenue, the third
     one is at 652 Market Street and Montgomery Street, the fourth one  is at 989 Market Street and 6th street, the fifth one is at
     2288 Market Street and Noe Street, the sixth one is at 300 Pine Street and Sansome, the seventh one is at 1799 Lombard
     and Laguna, the eighth one is at 350 Bay Street and Mason (there's a big shopping mall at 350 Bay called Northpoint Center
     and the Radio Shack is inside Northpoint Center shopping mall), the ninth one is at 1841 Polk Street and Jackson, the tenth
     one is at 123 West Portal Avenue and Vicente, the eleventh one is at 1567 Sloat Boulevard and 33rd Avenue (there's a big
     shopping mall there called Lakeshore Plaza shopping mall, and Radio Shack is inside Lakeshore Plaza shopping mall...
     Lakeshore Plaza shopping mall also has a Gamestop and Ross Dress for Less, Gamestop sells IBM-compatible software
     and Ross Dress for Less sometimes sells IBM-compatible software), the twelfth one is at 2710 Mission and 23rd Street, the
     thirteenth one is at 4626 Mission Street and Ocean Avenue, the fourteenth one is at 2300 16th Street and Bryant (there's a
     big shopping mall at 2300 16th Street called Potrero Center, and Radio Shack is inside Potrero Center shopping mall...
     Potrero Center shopping mall also has a Office Depot and Ross Dress for Less, Office Depot sells IBM-compatible
     hardware/software and Ross Dress for Less sometimes sells IBM-compatible software), the fifteenth one is at 4049 24th
     Street and Noe Street, the sixteenth one is at 827 Irving and 9th Avenue, the seventeenth one is at 2490 San Bruno and
     Felton, and the eighteenth one is at 701 Clement Street and 8th Avenue.
6.  Costco Wholesale Warehouse at 450 10th Street and Harrison.
       Costco is mainly a supermarket warehouse that sells food and drinks and housewares in bulk quantities, but it also sells
     home electronics ranging from digital TVs to brand-name IBM-clone desktop/laptop computers -e.g. HP/Compaq-.
     Costco tends to have really low prices, but you need to buy a club membership card before you can enter the store to shop
     inside.
       Costco has an official WWW site at http://www.costco.com (you can check out Costco's current selection of products/
     services for sale there along with accompanying price tags, and find out how to buy a club membership card and how much
     the club membership card costs).
7.  Fry's Electronics computer superstore isn't based in San Francisco (it was founded in Sunnyvale in California in 1985,
     created a second store in Fremont in California, later created another store in San Jose in California, and currently operates
     34 computer superstores nationwide throughout North America), but because many people in San Francisco continually
     bought computer hardware and computer software from Fry's Electronics  from 1985 to the present day I'll mention it.
       During the 1980s and 1990s and millennium Fry's Electronics computer superstore advertised in every single issue of
     "Computer Currents" magazine and "Microtimes" magazine with multiple adjacent full-page ads, and right after that many
     people from San Francisco  immediately drove to Fry's Electronics in Sunnyvale or Fremont or San Jose to buy computer
     hardware/software (or many people from San Francisco bought computer hardware/software from Fry's Electronics
     through mail-order).
       If you want to buy a brand-name IBM-clone computer (e.g. HP/Compaq), generic-brand-name IBM-clone computer, or
     Apple iMac computer, Fry's Electronics computer superstore sells all of those things (or could immediately special-order
     them).  To find out more about Fry's Electronics computer superstore and the exact addresses of all of its store locations
     and its current selection of products/services for sale along with accompanying price tags, visit Fry's Electronics' official
     WWW site at http://www.frys.com (Fry's Electronics is a multi-billion-dollar business that existed in North America from
     1985 to the present and currently operates 34 computer superstores nationwide throughout North America, so you know
     it's a good store).
8.  Dell Computers:
       Dell Computers only sells Dell-brand IBM-clone computers, and doesn't sell other brand names of IBM-clone computers
     (e.g. HP/Compaq) or sell Apple iMac computers.
       Dell Computers has an official WWW site at http://www.dell.com, and you can check out Dell Computers' current
     selection of products/services for sale along with accompanying price tags), and currently has one store in San Francisco:
     there's a big shopping mall at 3251 20th Avenue and Buckingham Way called Stonestown Galleria, and Dell Computers
     -specifically "Dell Kiosk"- is inside Stonestown Galleria shopping mall (it's on the first floor).
9.  If you're a college student that attends a college in San Francisco (e.g. you attend City College of San Francisco, San
     Francisco State University, UCSF aka University of California at San Francisco, etc.), your college might sell brand-name
     IBM-clone computers (e.g. HP/Compaq desktop/laptop computers) and IBM software (e.g. operating systems and the
     academic edition of "Microsoft Office") at a huge educational discount, and might sell Apple iMac desktop/laptopcomputers
     and Apple iMac software at a huge educational discount too.  If you're a teacher that works for a school in San Francisco
     (ranging from nursery school to college), the school that you work for might sell brand-name IBM-clone computers
     (e.g. HP/Compaq desktop/laptop computers), IBM software (e.g. operating systems and the academic edition of
     "Microsoft Office"),  Apple iMac desktop/laptop computers, and Apple  iMac software at a huge educational discount too.
10. Hannspree at 400 Sutter Street and Stockton Street is a digital-TV store vs. computer store (Hannspree sells digital-TVs
     vs. computer hardware/software), but Hannspree doesn't just sell digital-TVs and also sells Hannspree-brand
     IBM-compatible laptop computers and Hannspree-brand computer monitors that work with IBM-clone computers (these
     computer monitors tend to be in novelty shapes that are cute and appealing, for instance a computer monitor might be shaped
     like an apple/orange or a dog/cat or baseball/football/basketball).  For more information about the types of laptop computers
     and computer monitors that Hannspree sells, visit Hannspree's official WWW site at http://www.hannspree.com.
11. Apple Computers.
       Apple Computers (which was created by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak) just sells brand-name Apple iMac desktop/laptop
     computers, and doesn't sell brand-name IBM-clone desktop/laptop computers (e.g. HP/Compaq) at all.
       Apple Computers doesn't just sell Apple iMac hardware, and also sells Apple iMac software too (Apple Computers sells
     operating systems, productivity software, utility software, educational software, and entertainment software for Apple iMac
     computers).
       Apple Computers has an official WWW site at http://www.apple.com (you can check out Apple Computers' current
     selection of products/services for sale there, along with accompanying price tags), and currently has three stores in San
     Francisco: the first store is at 1 Stockton Street and Market Street, the second store is at 2125 Chestnut Street and Steiner,
     and the third store is at 3251 20th Avenue and Buckingham Way (there's a big shopping mall at 3251 20th Avenue and
     Buckingham Way, and Apple Computers is inside that shopping mall -it's on the first floor-...that shopping mall also has a
     Gamestop on the second floor, Gamestop sells IBM-compatible software).
        If you want to buy an Apple iMac desktop/laptop computer and/or Apple iMac software, Apple Computers is literally the
     ONLY place in San Francisco that REALLY specializes in Apple iMac computers and Apple iMac software.  Best Buy
     stores in San Francisco also sell Apple iMac computers and Apple iMac software but the selection is more limited, and
     Create More in San Francisco also sells Apple iMac computers and Apple iMac software but the selection is more limited.
12.  Create More at  689 3rd Street and Townsend.
       Create More specializes in Apple iMac hardware/software, and doesn't sell brand-name IBM clones or
     generic-brand-name IBM-clones.
       Create More has an official WWW site at http://www.createmore.com, and you can check out Create More's current
    selection of products/services for sale along with accompanying price tags.
13. Sweet Memory at 100 1st Street and Mission.
        Sweet Memory doesn't sell brand-name IBM clones (be it desktop computers or laptop computers) or generic-brand-
     name IBM clones or Apple iMac computers, and only sells RAM chips/upgrades for those three types of computers.
       Sweet Memory has an official WWW site at  http://www.sweetmemory.com, and you can check out Sweet Memory's
     current selection of products/services for sale along with accompanying price tags.
14. Cow Palace convention center at 2600 Geneva Avenue and Rio Verde Street in Daly City (it isn't actually in Daly City
     so much as it's in the border between Daly City and San Francisco, but it's still listed as being in Daly City anyway)
     occasionally has major computer swap meets that sell computer hardware and/or software (these major computer swap
     meets might be annual events or might happen semi-annually, and these major computer swap meets mainly just sell
     IBM-compatible hardware/software but sometimes sell Apple iMac hardware/software too)...these computer swap meets
     generally charge an admission free vs. offer free admission, but might be good enough to actually pay admission for.
       Cow Palace convention center has an official WWW site at http://www.cowpalace.com, and if its website doesn't list when
     the next computer swap meet will happen at Cow Palace then just email Cow Palace's staff members while asking about
     when Cow Palace will have a computer swap meet again.
15.  If you want to buy a brand-name IBM-clone desktop/laptop computer (e.g. HP/Compaq) or Apple iMac desktop/laptop
     computer, I recommend visiting ALL of the forementioned stores (vs. just one or two of the stores) because they continually
     have product wars and price wars with each other (while trying to offer better products and/or offer lower prices than their
     competitor companies do), and if you shop at all of the stores  long enough you can find out which store offers the best deal.

  If you want to buy generic-brand-name IBM-clone computers (vs. buy a brand-name IBM-clone desktop/laptop computer
-e.g. HP/Compaq-; many people buy generic-brand-name IBM-clone computer parts because they want to assemble their
own computer from scratch -e.g. they buy a computer case, computer motherboard, computer CPU, RAM chips, video card,
sound card, DVD-RW drive, etc., and then assemble everything into a working computer-, and many people buy generic-
brand-name IBM-clone computers because they want a custom-built computer with a very specific design -e.g. they want a
custom-built computer designed for usage as a RAID server or whatever-), the best thing to do is this.  During the 1980s and
1990s when people in San Francisco wanted to buy a generic-brand-name IBM-clone computer they got the latest issue of
"Computer Currents" magazine and "Microtimes" magazine so they could look at all of the ads there ("Computer Currents"
magazine was founded in 1982, originally offered free printed copies but ceased print production as of 2004, originally was
called "Computer Currents" magazine but later changed its name to "CompUser" magazine and now "Computer User" magazine,
and is now only available through the Internet at http://www.computeruser.com..."Microtimes" magazine was founded in 1984,
originally offered free printed copies, and apparently went out of business at an unknown date while having no official WWW site
right now).  Right now, because "Computer Currents" magazine (now called "Computer User" magazine) is only available in
online form (aka a WWW site that you visit) and "Microtimes" magazine no longer exists in printed form or online form, if you
want to buy a generic-brand-name IBM-clone computer the best thing to do is just visit "Computer User" magazine's official
WWW site at http://www.computeruser.com and look at all online ads there).
  If you want a list of all generic-brand-name IBM-clone computer stores in San Francisco along with their official WWW sites,
here is a list of THE BEST generic-brand-name IBM-clone computer stores in San Francisco (all stores are listed in alphabetical
order vs. another type of order...if I accidentally left any stores out, please tell me and I'll IMMEDIATELY include them):
1.  Actnet at 2207 Judah and 27th Avenue has an official WWW site at http://www.actnetonline.com.
2.  Atman Computer at 5860 Geary Boulevard and 23rd Avenue has an official WWW site at http://www.atmancomputer.com.
3.  CBE Systems at 1487 Pacific Avenue and Larkin has an official WWW site at http://cbes.ecrater.com.
4.  Central Computer Systems at 837 Howard Street and 5th Street has an official WWW site at
      http://www.centralcomputers.com.
5.  Computer 5000 at 5000 Geary Boulevard and 14th Avenue has an official WWW site at http://www.computer5000.com.
6.  Cosmic Computer at 1133 Taraval and 21st Avenue has an official WWW site at http://www.cosmicpc.net.
7.  Gigabit PCs at 390 2nd Avenue and Geary Boulevard has an official WWW site at http://www.gigabitpcs.com.
8.  Premier Computer Systems at 630 Kearny and Clay has an official WWW site at http://premcomsys.com/default.aspx.
9.  Solrun Computer Sales and Services at 1804 Polk Street and Washington Street has an official WWW site at
     http://www.solrun.net.
10. Spectrum Computer Depot at 303 12th Avenue and Clement has an official WWW site at
     http://www.spectrumcomputerdepot.com.
11. Toptek at 1520 Taraval and 25th Avenue has an official WWW site at http://www.toptekcomputers.com.
12. MoniServ at 1600A Noriega St and 23rd Avenue has an official WWW site at http://www.moniserv.com.  PLEASE NOTE
     that MoniServ DOESN'T sell generic-brand-name IBM-clone computers at all, and just repairs/replaces computers for
     brand-name IBM-clone computers (be it desktop or laptop), generic-brand-name IBM-clone computers (be it desktop or
     laptop), and Apple iMac computers (be it desktop or laptop).
13.   If you want to buy a generic-brand-name IBM-clone computer, I won't recommend any specific stores to you because I
     don't know which ones are best, but will say this.  The most-established and most-successful generic-brand-name
     IBM-clone computer stores in San Francisco are Atman Computer and Central Computer Systems: Atman Computer was
     founded in San Francisco in 1987 while existing to the present day, and advertised in every single issue of "Computer
    Currents" magazine and "Microtimes" magazine throughout the 1980s and 1990s and millennium (while using full-page ads vs.
     half-page ads)...Central Computer Systems was created  in San Francisco in an unknown year while existing to the present
    day, and advertised in every single issue of "Computer Currents" magazine and "Microtimes" magazine throughout the ?1980s
    and 1990s and millennium (while using full-page ads vs. half-page ads)...San Francisco historically had many IBM-clone
    stores from the 1980s to the present day, and most of them went out of business for varying reasons but some of them
    (including Atman Computer and Central Computers) survived to this day while being very successful too.

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SECTION TWO:  COMPUTER SOFTWARE (e.g. computer software might be for IBM-clone computers or be for Apple
  iMac computers, and might be in the form of operating systems or productivity software or utility software or educational
  software or entertainment software).

  If you want to buy computer software for a IBM-clone computer or Apple iMac computer, the best places to visit are:
1.  Best Buy.
      Best Buy sells IBM-clone software and Apple iMac software, while selling operating systems and productivity software and
    utility sofware and educational software and entertainment software for both IBM-clone computers and Apple iMac
    computers.  Please see above for information about Best Buy's official WWW site and Best Buy's store locations in San
    Francisco.
2.  Office Depot.
      Office Depot sells IBM-clone software (it doesn't sell Apple iMac software but I think you can special-order it), including
    operating systems and productivity software and utility sofware and educational software and entertainment software.  Please
    see above for information about Office Depot's official WWW site and Office Depot's store locations in San Francisco.
3.  Office Max.
      Office Max sells IBM-clone software (it doesn't sell Apple iMac software but I think you can special-order it), including
    operating systems and productivity software and utility sofware and educational software and entertainment software.  Please
    see above for information about Office Max's official WWW site and Office Max's store locations in San Francisco.
4.  Staples.
      Staples sells IBM-clone software (it doesn't sell Apple iMac software but I think you can special-order it), including
    operating systems and productivity software and utility sofware and educational software and entertainment software.  Please
    see above for information about Staples' official WWW site and Staples' store locations in San Francisco.
5.  Radio Shack and Costco both sell IBM-clone software (they don't sell Apple iMac software but I think you can
    special-order it),  including operating systema and productivity software and utility sofware and educational software and
    entertainment software...however, the selection tends to kind of limited because Radio Shack and Costco mainly focus on
    selling computer hardware and don't focus that much on selling computer software.  Please see above for information about
    Radio Shack's official WWW site and Radio Shack's store locations in San Francisco, and see above for information about
    Costco's official WWW site and Costco's store location in San Francisco.
6.    All generic-brand-name IBM-clone stores listed above (e.g. Atman Computer and Central Computers) sell IBM-clone
    software, but the software tends to be OEM -aka "Original Equipment Manufacturer"- vs. brand-name versions of operating
    systems and productivity software and utility software (e.g. you could buy an operating system, but it isn't the brand-name
    version and is the OEM version; this is the difference between brand-name versions of operating systems and OEM versions
    of operating systems, brand-name versions of operating systems have regular amounts of documentation/packaging and the
    DVD disc looks brand-name and the software on the DVD disc looks brand-name, whereas OEM versions of operating
    systems have little or no amounts of documentation/packaging and the DVD disc has a generic OEM brand-name and the
    software on the disc might seem generic OEM brand-name too)...most generic-brand-name IBM-clone stores don't sell
    OEM or brand-name versions of educational software or entertainment software at all (they just sell OEM or brand-name
    versions of operating systems and productivity software and utility software), but some do.  Please see above for information
    about generic-brand-name IBM-clone stores' official WWW sites and stores locations in San Francisco.
7.  Fry's Electronics.
       Fry's Electronics computer superstore isn't based in San Francisco (it was founded in Sunnyvale in California in 1985,
    created a second store in Fremont in California, later created another store in San Jose in California, and currently operates
    34 computer superstores nationwide throughout North America), but because many people in San Francisco continually
    bought computer software from Fry's Electronics from 1985 to the present day I'll mention it.
      During the 1980s and 1990s and millennium Fry's Electronics computer superstore advertised in every single issue of
    "Computer Currents" magazine and "Microtimes" magazine with multiple adjacent full-page ads, and right after that many
    people from San Francisco immediately drove to Fry's Electronics in Sunnyvale or Fremont or San Jose to buy computer
    software (or many people from San Francisco bought computer software from Fry's Electronics through mail-order).
       If you want to buy IBM-compatible software or Apple iMac software, Fry's Electronics computer superstore sells both
    of  those things (or could immediately special-order them).  To find out more about Fry's Electronics computer superstore
    and the exact addresses of all of its store locations and its current selection of products/services for sale along with
    accompanying price tags, visit Fry's Electronics' official WWW site at  http://www.frys.com (Fry's Electronics is a
    multi-billion-dollar business that existed in North America from 1985 to the present and currently operates 34 computer
    superstores nationwide throughout North America, so you know it's a good store).
8.  Egghead Software.
      During the late 1980s and early 1990s San Francisco had a computer-software store at Market and Third Street called
     "Egghead Software" (the company Egghead Software was founded in Bellevue in the state of Washington in North America
     in 1984, created a nationwide chain through America with around 200 stores total, created a store in San Francisco during
     the late 1980s or early 1990s -while competing with B. Dalton's Software Etc. computer store in San Francisco, which later
     went out of business and doesn't exist anymore-, closed all stores  nationwide in 1998 while just selling online through its
     official WWW site http://www.egghead.com, and was acquired/bought by Amazon at http://www.amazon.com in 2001,
     Amazon at http://www.amazon.com currently owns and operates Egghead Software and if you log onto
     http://www.egghead.com you get redirected to the Amazon URL about computer software for sale).
9.  Gamestop (Gamestop is the world's largest videogame retailer).
       Gamestop only sells IBM-compatible software, and doesn't sell Apple iMac software...also, Gamestop only sells
     entertainment software and educational software, and doesn't sell operating systems or productivity software or utility
     software.
       Gamestop has an official WWW site at http://www.gamestop.com (you can check out Gamestop's current selection of
     products/services for sale there, along with accompanying price tags), and currently has five stores in San Francisco: the
     first one is at 151 Powell and O'Farrell, the second one is at 3251 20th Avenue and Buckingham Way (there's a big
     shopping mall there called Stonestown Galleria, and Gamestop is inside Stonestown Galleria shopping mall -it's on the
     second floor-...Stonestown Galleria shopping mall also has Dell Computers on the first floor), the third one is 1501 Sloat and
     33rd Avenue (there's a big shopping mall there called Lakeshore Plaza, and Gamestop is inside Lakeshore Plaza shopping
     mall...Lakeshore Plaza shopping mall also has Radio Shack and Ross Dress for Less, Radio Shack sells IBM-compatible
     hardware/software, and Ross Dress for Less which sometimes sells  IBM-compatible software), the fourth one is at 2673
     Mission Street and 23rd Street, and the fifth one is at 4625 Mission Street and Ocean Avenue.
10. Big Lots at 3333 Mission and 29th Street (it isn't specifically a computer store and is a variety store -which sells clothing,
     housewares, home electronics, food/drinks, etc.-, but at the same time it sells computer software/hardware too) sells
     computer software ALL THE TIME for just $4 to $6 each on average (Big Lots only sells IBM-compatible software and
     doesn't sell Apple iMac software, just sells entertainment software and educational software and doesn't sell productivity
     software or utility software, and all IBM-compatible software sold are brand-name brand-new titles but everything is
     REALLY cheap at just $4 to $6 each...if you visit Big Lots and there's no computer software for sale -because everything
     totally sold out- or the selection of computer software is poor -because the good stuff totally sold out and the not-as-good
     stuff didn't sell out yet-, just come back one week later and most likely Big Lots will have a totally-new inventory of
     IBM-compatible software to choose from -Big Lots literally gets new inventory once a week or once every
     one-and-a-half-weeks on a nonstop ongoing basis-).  Big Lots also often sells computer accessories and computer supplies
     at really low prices too (for instance, you can buy a computer keyboard for $6, computer mouse for $4, USB-2.0 cables at
     really low prices, blank CD-RW discs and blank DVD-RW discs at really low prices, printer paper for a computer printer
     at really low prices, etc.), and occasionally sells brand-name IBM-clone laptop computers and brand-name computer
     printers too at really low prices.
       Big Lots has an official WWW site at http://www.biglots.com (you can find out more about the company's history from
     there), and has one store in San Francisco (aka the store at 3333 Mission and 29th Street).
11. Ross Dress for Less (Ross Dress for Less has an official WWW site at http://www.rossstores.com, and it has four stores in
     San Francisco; the first one is at 799 Market and 4th Street, the second one is at 5200 Geary Boulevard and 17th Avenue,
     the third one is at 1545 Sloat Boulevard and 33rd Avenue -there's a big shopping mall there called Lakeshore Plaza, and
     Ross Dress for Less is inside Lakeshore Plaza shopping mall...Lakeshore Plaza shopping mall also has a Radio Shack and
     Gamestop, Radio Shack sells IBM-compatible hardware/software and Gamestop sells IBM-compatible software-, and the
     fourth one is at 2300 16th Street and Bryant -there's a big shopping mall there called Potrero Center, and Ross Dress for
     Less is inside Potrero Center shopping mall...Potrero Center shopping mall also has a Office Depot and Radio Shack-),
     Marshall's department store at 901 Market Street and 5th Street (it has an official WWW site at
     http://www.marshallsonline.com), and Burlington Coat Factory at 899 Howard and 5th Street (it has an official WWW site
     at http://www.burlingtoncoatfactory.com) occasionally have software (they just have IBM-compatible software and don't
     have Apple iMac software), so you might want to check them out too (go to those stores'  toys section, the toys section
     sometimes has IBM-clone software -the selection of software varies all the time, but most of the time it's just entertainment
     software or educational software and there's no productivity software or utility software at all-).
12. Apple Computers.
       Apple Computers only sells Apple iMac computer software (including operating systems and productivity software and
     utility sofware and educational software and entertainment software), and won't sell IBM-clone software at all.  Please see
     above for information about Apple Computers' official WWW site and Apple Computers' store locations in San Francisco.
13. Create More at  689 3rd Street and Townsend sells Apple iMac software, and doesn't sell IBM-compatible software at all.
      Please see above for information about Create More's official WWW site.
14. If you're a college student that attends a college in San Francisco (e.g. you attend City College of San Francisco, San
     Francisco State University, UCSF aka University of California at San Francisco, etc.), your college might sell IBM software
     (e.g. operating systems and the academic version of "Microsoft Office") and Apple iMac software at a huge educational
     discount...if you're a teacher that works for a school in San Francisco (ranging from nursery school to college), the school
     that you work for might sell IBM software (e.g. operating systems and the academic version of "Microsoft Office") and Apple
     iMac software at a huge educational discount  too.
15. Cow Palace convention center at 2600 Geneva Avenue and Rio Verde Street in Daly City (it isn't actually in Daly City so
     much as it's in the border between Daly City and San Francisco, but it's still listed as being in Daly City anyway) occasionally
     has major computer swap meets that sell computer software (these major computer swap meets mainly just sell
     IBM-compatible software, but occasionally sell Apple iMac software).  Please see above for information about Cow Palace
     convention center's official WWW site.
16. If you don't want to buy commercial programs (e.g. productivity software, utility software, educational software, and
     entertainment software), and just want to download  freeware/shareware programs instead, the best place in San Francisco
     to download freeware/shareware from are  http://www.download.com and http://www.freeware.com and
     http://www.shareware.com (all three places are owned by CNET in San Francisco -"CNET" is short for "Computer
     Network"-...CNET was founded in San Francisco in 1993, became one of the top nationwide authorities about computer
     software and computer technology while creating several nationwide TV shows about computers, originally was named
    CNET but later on it changed its name to CNET Networks, and was acquired/bought by CBS Corporation in 2008 but
    continued to keep the name CNET Networks).
      These places aren't in San Francisco but are still represent the top/best places to download freeware/shareware from:
    a.  Simtel.net at http://www.simtel.net (Walnut Creek CDROM at  http://www.cdrom.com used to compete with Simtel.net,
         but later on Simtel.net acquired/bought Walnut Creek CDROM...if you log onto http://www.cdrom.com, it redirects you
         to http://www.simtel.net).
    b.  Tucows at http://www.tucows.com.
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SECTION THREE.  ISPs (including 56k ISPs and DSL ISPs and cablemodem ISPs).

  If you want to subscribe to an ISP, here is a list of THE BEST ISPs in San Francisco (they offer 56k dialup, DSL, and/or
cablemodem)...all companies are listed in alphabetical order vs. another type of order).
1.  America Online at http://daol.aol.com/join-aol (the word "DAOL"  is short for "Discover AOL").
       America Online is currently the most-popular ISP nationwide in North America.
2.  AT&T Internet has an official WWW site at http://www.att.net.
       AT&T is the world's largest telecommunications company  in terms of assets and profits, is North America's largest local
     and long-distance telephone-services company, and also is North America's largest local and long-distance Internet-services
     company.
3.  Comcast Internet has an official WWW site at http://www.comcast.com.
       Comcast is North America's largest cable-TV company, and it provides cable-TV services and Internet services and
     telephone services.
4.  Compuserve at http://www.compuserve.com (Compuserve is currently owned by America Online, and if you log onto
     http://www.compuserve.com, it redirects you to http://webcenters.netscape.compuserve.com/menu).
       Compuserve was founded in 1979 and was the first major online service in North America, America Online bought
     Compuserve in 1998, and Compuserve is now totally-owned by America Online.
5.  Earthlink ISP has an official WWW site at http://www.earthlink.com.
       Earthlink specializes in creating ISP services that are easy to use and easy to learn, and previously bought PeoplePC
     ISP.
6.  Fry's ISP has an official WWW site at http://www.frys.com.
       Fry's ISP is owned by Fry's Electronics computer superstore (Fry's Electronics computer superstore was founded in
     Sunnyvale in California in 1985, later created a second store in Fremont in California, later on created another store in San
     Jose in California, and currently operates 34 computer superstores nationwide throughout North America while earning
     billions of dollars a year), which advertised in every single issue of "Computer Currents" magazine and "Microtimes" magazine
     during the 1980s and 1990s and millennium (Fry's Electronics didn't just place one full-page ad, and placed multiple adjacent
     full-page ads in "Computer Currents" magazine and "Microtimes" magazine...Fry's Electronics computer superstore wasn't
     located in San Francisco and was located in Sunnyvale in California and in Fremont in California and in San Jose in
     California, but because it was so good people from San Francisco and all over the San Francisco Bay Area continually drove
     to Sunnyvale or Fremont or San Jose just to be able to shop at Fry's Electronics (or they bought computer hardware/software
     through mail-order from Fry's Electronics).
       Fry's Electronics computer superstore was founded in 1985 and originally just sold computer hardware/software, but started
     operating a nationwide ISP named Fry's ISP from the year 2000 to the present.  Fry's ISP has local dial-up telephone
     numbers specifically for San Francisco and specifically for cities throughout the San Francisco Bay Area (including Marin
     County and Oakland), but also has local dial-up telephone numbers for cities nationwide throughout North America (there are
     even local dial-up telephone numbers specifically for New York City, Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, etc.).  If you live in San
     Francisco and subscribe to Fry's ISP, you basically have your computer's modem call the local dial-up telephone number
     that is specifically for San Francisco (even though Fry's Electronics computer superstore is in Sunnyvale and Fremont and
     San Jose, you pay no long-distance telephone fees at all and everything is a TOTALLY-FREE local call).
       Fry's ISP is currently the CHEAPEST top-quality ISP nationwide in North America (Fry's Electronics computer superstore
     has been world-famous for reliability and quality and low prices from the year 1985 -aka the year that Fry's Electronics was
     founded- to the present, and Fry's ISP is no exception), and just charges $5.99 a month for regular-speed 56k dialup (you
     get unlimited time each month and unlimited bandwidth each month -you can upload/download as much as you want-, the
     ISP is online 99.9% of the time to 100% of the time with almost no/zero downtime, the ISP's  local-dial-up telephone
     numbers are free/open 99.9% to 100% of the time with almost no/zero busy signals, the ISP works at top speed with no or
     almost no slowdown even if tens of thousands of people are online the ISP simultaneously, there are no ISP-generated
     timeouts or disconnections or advertisements, you get free live 24-hours-day/7-days-a-week customer support, and the
     ISP is specifically designed to be fully compatible with and work perfectly with IBM-compatible computers and Apple
     Macintosh/iMac computers and Linux computers -if you have an IBM-compatible computer you can call/use this ISP with
     no problems, if you have an Apple Macintosh/iMac computer you can call/use this ISP with no problems,  and if you have
     a Linux computer you can call/use this computer with no problems-...you can do email -through Fry's Webmail, or you can
     do email through Yahoo Mail at http://mail.yahoo.com or Gmail at http://mail.google.com or Hotmail at
     http://www.hotmail.com-, call WWW sites while uploading/downloading files from WWW sites, call webcam chat  rooms,
     call ftp sites and telnet sites and IRC sites while uploading/downloading files from them, and there's no Usenet newsgroups
     but you can go to http://groups.google.com for Usenet newsgroups) or $8.88 per month for high-speed 56k dialup (you get
     all the amenities listed above for regular-speed 56k dialup, except that everything is high-speed vs. regular-speed while being
     up to five times faster than regular-speed).  If you want more computing power, Fry's ISP also sells "Fry's Wireless
     Broadband" for $39.95 a month and up (that's basically wireless/mobile broadband, so you can use a laptop computer with
     wireless modem or PDA with wireless modem to call the Internet while you're traveling around an office building doing sales
     presentations or driving around in a car or traveling in an airplane or sailing in a yacht), and sells "Fry's Personal WI-FI
     Hotspot" for $69.95 (if you need a WI-FI hotspot, you don't need to randomly hunt all over your city to find a WI-FI
     hotspot and can carry a WI-FI hotspot in your own shirt pocket..."Fry's Personal WI-FI Hotspot" is a device that lets you
     connect up to five WI-FI enabled devices to the Internet simultaneously -no telephone line is needed-, for instance you can
     connect five WI-FI-enabled desktop computers or five WI-FI-enabled laptop computers to the Internet simultaneously, or
     you can connect five WI-FI-enabled computing devices to the Internet simultaneously -including a WI-FI-enabled desktop
     computer, WI-FI-enabled laptop computer, WI-FI-enabled cellphone, WI-FI-enabled PDA, WI-FI-enabled digital camera,
    WI-FI-enabled music player, WI-FI-enabled home videogame system like Playstation 3 or Xbox 360, or something else-).
       For more information about Fry's ISP (which offers regular-speed 56k dialup, high-speed 56k dialup, wireless broadband,
     and a WI-FI hotpot device which sends a wireless broadband connection to five computers or five computing devices
     simultaneously), check out Fry's Electronics computer superstore's official WWW site at http://www.frys.com (log onto
     http://www.frys.com, look at the upper-left corner of the screen and you can see a banner ad about "Fry's ISP: $5.99 a
     month", and click on the banner ad...if you log onto http://www.frys.com. http://www.frys.com actually specifically states
     that its regular-speed 56k dialup and high-speed 56k dialup work with IBM-compatible computers and Apple Macintosh/
     iMac computers and Linux computers -it isn't just me that is claiming it, but http://www.frys.com claims it too-, but I don't
     know if Fry's wireless broadband and Fry's WI-FI hotspot device work with IBM-compatible computers and Apple
     Macintosh/iMac computers and Linux computers too -the best thing to do is to ask Fry's ISP's staff  members about it,
     Fry's wireless broadband and Fry's WI-FI hostpot device might work with IBM-compatible computers but might not work
     with Apple Macintosh/iMac computers and Linux computers-).
7.    ISP ISP at http://www.isp.com.
        ISP ISP calls itself "A leader in high-quality Internet access solutions", and is a member of the BBB aka Better Business
     Bureau.
8.    Juno has an official WWW site at http://www.juno.com, and NetZero has an official WWW site at
     http://www.netzero.com (Juno and Netzero both offer free Internet access -specifically ten hours a month- and if you like
     the free access you're encouraged to subscribe to Juno and Netzero...Juno and Netzero are both owned by the same
     company aka United Online, so you can only get a free account at one of the two places -you can't get a free account at
     both places because the company that owns these two places aka United Online won't let you-).
9.   MSN ISP (owned by Microsoft, aka the world's most-famous and most-successful operating-system/productivity-software
     company from the time IBM released the IBM PC in 1981 to the present day) has an official WWW site at
     http://www.msn.com (go to http://www.msn.com, the bottom of  your computer monitor screen says "Services: MSN Dial-Up
     Free Trial" so click on "MSN Dial-Up Free Trial").  MSN ISP (owned by Microsoft) is currently the second-most-popular
     ISP nationwide in North America (America Online ISP is #1 nationwide,  and MSN ISP is #2 nationwide).
10. PeoplePC ISP at http://www.peoplepc.com.
       PeoplePC ISP is owned by Earthlink ISP.
11. Verizon Internet has an official WWW site at http://www.verizon.com (when you log onto http://www.verizon.com, it
     redirects you to http://www22.verizon.com).
       Verizon previously bought MCI Worldcom (which operated MCI Internet) and is the second-largest telecommunications
     company in North America right now (AT&T is the largest telecommunications company in North America).
12.  There's an ISP in San Francisco called Monkey Brains ISP at http://www.monkeybrains.net, and I actually have no idea if
     it's a good ISP or bad ISP.  All I know is that the ISP has an unusual name, and it apparently caters to the punk-rock-music
     crowd and alternative-rock-music crowd and heavy-metal-music crowd (vs. cater to college students attending college and
     cater to white-collar professionals working in corporate America) but I could be wrong.
13. If you want to check out something neat, The World ISP at http://www.theworld.com was founded in ?Boston in
     Massachusetts in North America in 1989, was the first Internet Service Provider (aka ISP) on the entire planet earth to
     provide dialup to the general public, and exists to this day.
14. If you want to call the Internet but can't afford to subscribe to an ISP, just go to the San Francisco Main Library at Market
     Street and 8th Street in San Francisco (or just go to any public library in San Francisco that is related to the San Francisco
     Main Library) and use the Internet computers there.  The San Francisco Main Library has Internet computers that let you
     call the Internet TOTALLY FREE (you stand in line to use Internet computers, and can only use Internet computers up to
     15 minutes at a time -then other people waiting in line behind you get their turn- but can use the Internet computers as many
     times as you want in a row -so long as each session is just 15 minutes maximum each-).
       There incidentally is a free ISP that you could use, but I don't know if anything is weird about it so I won't mention too much
     about it.  In the year 2008 a free ISP named FastFreeDialup had a grand opening in the state of California, has local dial-up
     telephone numbers for most cities in the state of California, only offers a free 56k connection and there's no DSL connection,
     gives you unlimited time and unlimited bandwitdth, and only lets people living in the state of California call the Internet for free
     (if you live in another state outside of California you can't call it).  For more information about FastFreeDialup ISP, visit its
     official WWW site at http://www.fastfreedialup.com so you can find out about how you can call the Internet totally free and
     get a list of local  dial-up telephone numbers in your area....after FastFreeDialUp free ISP had a grand opening in the state
     of California in 2008, thousands of people throughout California actually used FastFreeDialup but I didn't use it that much so
     I won't say anything good or bad about it (because of lack of experience with it).

  If you want to call the Internet, the best Internet browser to use is Microsoft's "Internet Explorer" but the fastest Internet
browser is "Opera" Internet browser.
  The latest version of "Opera" Internet browser doesn't just work with Windows XP computers or Windows Vista computers,
but also works with Windows 98 computers too!  If you have a Windows 98 computer (e.g. you work in San Francisco's
Financial District,  have lots of DOS programs like the DOS versions of Wordperfect's "Wordperfect 5.1" wordprocessing
program and Lotus' "Lotus 1-2-3" spreadsheet program and Ashton-Tate's "dBase III" database program, and these programs
only work with Windows 98 operating system and don't work with Windows XP/Vista operating systems so that's why you
use a Windows 98 computer), just go to "Opera" Internet browser's official WWW site at  http://www.opera.com, download
the latest version of "Opera" (choose the version that has "Classic Installer", and don't choose the version with "English Language
Installer" or the version with  "International-Language Installer"...the version that has "Classic Installer" actually works with
Windows 98 computers, but the versions with "English language Installer" and "International-Language Installer" only work
with Windows XP computers and Windows Vista computers), and install the latest version of "Opera" that has "Classic
Installer" on your Windows 98 computer...the latest version of  "Opera" Internet browser (which has "Classic Installer") loads
up but basically tells you that you need  to get a certain DLL file otherwise it won't work right, so just go to
http://www.google.com, type in the name of that DLL file -or type in the name of that DLL file along with the word "Opera",
so you can find a version of that DLL file that is specficailly for use with "Opera"-, download that DLL file, and then copy that
DLL file into your computer's appropriate hard drive subdirectory ("Opera" Internet browser specifies which hard drive
subdirectory to copy the DLL file to).

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SECTION FOUR:  FREE-WEBHOSTING PROVIDERS.

  Free-webhosting providers let you create a website for free, vs. charge you money for doing so.  Free-webhosting providers
might have a built-in website builder (the entire website builder program is hosted through the free-webhosting provider, you use
the website builder program online through the Internet and don't download anything or install anything on your own computer,
and are very easy to use), or might just have an ftp uploader (you basically have to get a commercial website builder program
or freeware website builder program and then install it on your computer, create a website offline vs. online while naming it
"Index.html", and then upload that "Index.html" file to the free-webhosting provider along with any accompanying
graphics/animations/videos/etc.)...free-webhosting providers that have built-in website builders are aimed at beginners at
creating web pages (aka people that never created a web page in their life before), and free-webhosting providers that have ftp
uploaders are aimed at veterans at creating web pages (aka people that created dozens of web pages throughout life, and might
even work as a professional web page programmer for a living).  Free-webhosting providers that have a built-in website builder
tend to be easier to use, but the websites you make tend to be more simple, you have less control over what your website looks
like and does (because the built-in website builder program is too simplified), and if your free-webhosting provider goes out of
business your website can't be immediately uploaded to another free-webhosting provider (that's because your website was
made with a proprietary program aka your free-webhosting provider's built-in website builder, and that proprietary program
creates websites and html code that is only compatible with your original free-webhosting provider and is totally incompatible
with and doesn't work with other free-webhosting providers) and you need to recreate your entire website from scratch again
(that could take several hours or several days or several weeks).  Free-webhosting providers that have a ftp uploader tend to
be harder to use (you can't use a built-in website builder online through the Internet because there is none, and thus need to buy
a commercial website builder program -like "Microsoft Expression Web" or "Adobe Dreamweaver" or "Easy Web
Professional"- or download a freeware/shareware website builder program -like "Amaya" or "Kompozer"-, create a website
while naming that website "Index.html", and then upload that "Index.html" file along with any accompanying graphics/animations/
videos/etc. to the free-webhosting provider -most of the time the just-uploaded newly-created website doesn't look right after
you upload it to the free-webhosting provider because the page margins got changed and all text/graphics/etc. got moved around
or the free-webhosting provider doesn't support certain features unless you subscribe to the free-webhosting provider and you
thus get upgraded webhosting-related features/capabilities, so you need to continually edit the just-uploaded newly-created
website nonstop to make sure the newly-created website looks normal after you  upload it to the free-webhosting provider-),
but the websites you make can be more complex vs. greatly simplified, you have more control over what your website looks like
and does, and if your free-webhosting provider goes out of business you can immediately upload your website to another
free-webhosting provider and everything is business as usual minutes later.
  This is a list of all free-webhosting providers (some have built-in website editors -that let you create websites while online the
Internet-, and some only have ftp uploaders -you basically have to create a website offline while calling it "Index.html", and then
upload that "Index.html" file to the free-webhosting provider-).  Only one of them is actually based in San Francisco (Weebly is
located at Battery and Washington in San Francisco's Financial District) while the others are located in cities outside of San
Francisco, but I'll list all of them anyway so you have more available options to create a free website with.  All free-webhosting
providers are listed in alphabetical order vs. another type of order.
1.  50webs at http://www.50webs.com.
       50webs is a world-famous world-class webhosting company, is located in London in England, and -because it's located in
     London- I won't create a direct link to it because I greatly respect and and greatly fear and greatly don't want to anger
     top-ranking international-government officials in London (if you'd like to visit 50webs at http://www.50webs.com, please
     copy/paste the URL into your Internet browser's window).  If you do visit 50webs, try to be as polite and civilized as
     possible because the royalty and nobility of London is there.
2.  100WebSpace at http://www.100webspace.com.
       100WebSpace is an award-winning world-class webhosting company that won many major awards from many major
      computer-related organizations, and is good enough for global Fortune 500 firms to host websites at.
3.  110MB Hosting at http://www.110mb.com.
       110MB Hosting is an award-winning world-class webhosting company that won many major awards from many major
      computer-related organizations, and is good enough for global Fortune 500 firms to host websites at.
4.  200MB Host at http://www.200mbhost.com.
       200MB Host  is an award-winning world-class webhosting company that won many major awards from many major
     computer-related organizations, and is good enough for global Fortune 500 firms to host websites at.
5.  AgilityHoster at http://www.agilityhoster.com.
       AgilityHoster is an award-winning world-class webhosting company that won many major awards from many major
     computer-related organizations, and is good enough for global Fortune 500 firms to host websites at.
6.  Angelfire at http://angelfire.lycos.com (if you have an account at Tripod, you can't get an account at Angelfire too...that's
     because Angelfire and Tripod are owned by the same company aka Lycos, and Lycos only lets you create a free website
     at Angelfire or Tripod -you can't create a free website at both places-).
       Angelfire is a world-famous world-class web-hosting company that pioneered webhosting services, and is good enough
     for global Fortune 500 firms to host websites at.
7.  AtHost at http://www.athost.net.
       Athost calls itself "one of the best free web hosting providers worldwide", and is good enough for global Fortune 500
     firms to host websites at.
8.  Atspace at http://www.atspace.com.
       Atspace is an award-winning world-class webhosting company that won many major awards from many major
     computer-related organizations, and is good enough for global Fortune 500 firms to host websites at.
9.  Awardspace at http://www.awardspace.com.
       Awardspace is an award-winning world-class webhosting company that won many major awards from many major
     computer-related organizations, and is good enough for global Fortune 500 firms to host websites at.
10. ByetHost at http://www.byethost.com.
       ByetHost is rated as "the fastest free-web hosting service in the world" (in regards to benchmark speed), and is good
     enough for global Fortune 500 firms to host websites at.
11. Ecrater at http://www.ecrater.com.
       Ecrater doesn't actually let you create websites so much as it lets you create an online store that sells products/services
     through the Internet (so you can do Internet e-commerce and online business), is literally THE BEST free online store
     builder available on the Internet right now, is so good that "BusinessWeek" magazine and "SmartMoney" -which was created
     by "The Wall Street Journal" newspaper- and "CNN Money" -which was created by the cable-TV company CNN- and
     greatly praised it, and is good enough for global Fortune 500 firms to host online stores at.
       If you want to create an online business, THE best places to visit are Ecrater at http://www.ecrater.com (which lets you
     create an online store vs. website) and WebStarts at http://www.webstarts.com (which lets you create a website vs.
     online store) and TopCities Startup Labs at http://www.topcities.com (which lets you create a a website or online store).
12. Edicy at http://www.edicy.com.
        Edicy calls itself "Edicy was created in order to provide businesses and individuals a straightforward service that they
     could use to create professionally designed websites quickly without any technical knowledge", and is good enough for
     global Fortune 500 firms to host websites at..
13. Fortune City at http://www.fortunecity.com.
       Fortune City is a world-famous world-class webhosting company that pioneered webhosting services, and is good enough
     for global Fortune 500 firms to host websites at..
14. FreeHostia at http://www.freehostia.com.
       FreeHostia calls itself "The hosting paradise on earth", and is good enough for global Fortune 500 firms to host websites at..
15.Google Sites at http://sites.google.com.
       Google Sites is owned by Google at http://www.google.com which is currently the #1 search engine worldwide, and is so
     world-famous and world-class that it hosts websites for thousands of global Fortune 500 firms..
16. Jimdo at http://www.jimdo.com.
        Jimdo calls itself "Pages to the People", and is good enough for global Fortune 500 firms to host websites at.
17. LeadHoster at http://www.leadhoster.com.
        LeadHoster is an award-winning world-class webhosting company that won many major awards from many major
     computer-related organizations, and is good enough for global Fortune 500 firms to host websites at.
18. LimeDomains at http://www.limedomains.com.
        The corporate CEO of LimeDomains previously got a MBA from Harvard Business School and used to work as for
      "two U.S. Department of Defense thinktanks, where he advised the Offices of the Secretary of Defense, U.S. Air Force
      and other agencies in the development, acquisition, test and evaluation, launch and operation of various national security
      satellites" before he started LimeDomains free-webhosting company.
19. Moonfruit at http://www.moonfruit.com.
        "PC Magazine" calls Moonfruit "Without a doubt, Moonfruit is the slickest of these online builders", and Moonfruit is
     good enough for global Fortune 500 firms to host websites at.
20. MySite at http://www.mysite.com.
        MySite is owned by United Online which also owns Juno ISP and NetZero ISP, and is good enough for global Fortune
     500 firms to host websites at.
21. MySpace at http://www.myspace.com.
       MySpace is one of the world's largest social-networking websites (it's mainly about promoting friendship), and is good
     enough for global Fortune 500 firms to host websites at.
22. T35 at http://www.t35.com.
       "BusinessWeek" magazine rates  T35 as "Top 101 Web Freebies" and "Best 25 Entrepreneurs", and T35 is good enough
     for global Fortune 500 firms to host websites at.
23. TopCities Startup Lab at http://www.topcities.com.
       Top Cities Startup Lab calls itself "Launch your own startup company, FREE!",  and is good enough for global Fortune
     500 firms to host websites at.
       If you want to create an online business, THE best places to visit are Ecrater at http://www.ecrater.com (which lets you
     create an online store vs. website) and WebStarts at http://www.webstarts.com (which lets you create a website vs.
     online store) and TopCities Startup Labs at http://www.topcities.com (which lets you create a a website or online store).`
24. Tripod at http://tripod.lycos.com (if you have an account at Angelfire, you can't get an account at Tripod too...that's because
     Angelfire and Tripod are owned by the same company aka Lycos, and Lycos only lets you create a free website at Angelfire
     or  Tripod -you can't create a free website at both places-).
       Tripod is a world-famous world-class webhosting company that pioneered webhosting services, and is good enough for
     global Fortune 500 firms to host websites at.
25. Webs.com at http://www.webs.com.
       Webs calls itself "Webs.com is the easiest way to build and manage a professional looking website for your business,
     group, or personal interest", and is good enough for global Fortune 500 firms to host websites at.
26. WebStarts at http://www.webstarts.com.
       WebStarts specializes in making websites about Internet e-commerce, you can easily create a website with PayPal and
     Google Checkout and Google AdSense and Amazon Payments and Ebay (this is the best place to go if you want to create
     a website related to Internet e-commerce or online business), and is good enough for global Fortune 500 firms to host
     websites at.
       If you want to create an online business, THE best places to visit are Ecrater at http://www.ecrater.com (which lets you
     create an online store vs. website) and WebStarts at http://www.webstarts.com (which lets you create a website vs.
     online store) and TopCities Startup Labs at http://www.topcities.com (which lets you create a a website or online store).
27. Weebly at http://www.weebly.com.
       If you're a beginner at creating websites, THE best free-webhosting provider for you is Weebly at http://www.weebly.com
     because Weebly is REALLY easy to use, teaches you how to create a website while connecting it to Google Webmaster
     Tools and Google Analytics and Google AdSense (Google Webmaster Tools proves that you're the owner of the website,
     Google Analytics tells you how many people called your website and from which cities and on what dates/times, and Google
     AdSense lets you earn money through pay-per-click ads...PLEASE NOTE that if you create a website at Weebly or create
     a website at another free-webhosting provider, if you want to add Google Analytics to your website you can't just add
     Google Analytics to your website right away because it won't work -you need to register with Google Webmaster Tools to
     verify that you're the legitimate owner of a specific website and after you prove that you're the legitimate owner of a
     legitimate website then and only then can you add Google Analytics to your website, you could just add Google Analytics to
     your website without registering with Google Webmaster Tools but right after that Google Analytics won't track traffic to
     your website at all and literally nothing happens at all in regards to tracking/monitoring traffic-), and offers no ads and
     unlimited space and unlimited bandwidth.
       Weebly is so good that "Time" magazine named Weebly as number four of the fifty best websites of 2007, and Weebly is
     good enough for global Fortune 500 firms to host websites at.
28. Wetpaint at http://www.wetpaint.com.
       Wetpaint specializes in creating websites that other people can edit and add information to (in the same way that Wikispace
     does), also hosts many websites about major TV shows/series that are currently airing on digital TV vs. analog TV (if you
     like watching TV shows/series on digital TV you might want to visit Wetpaint), and world-famous movie-making companies
     from Hollywood in California in North America would actuallly host websites here.
29. Wikispace at http://www.wikispaces.com.
       Wikispace specializes in creating websites that other people can edit and add information to (in the same way that Wetpaint
     does), is very useful for schoolteachers that want to host online classes with many students interacting and participating, and
     is good enough  for global educational organizations to host websites at.
30. Wix at http://www.wix.com.
       Wix specializes in making websites based on Flash videos (vs. make websites based on text and jpgs), and is good enough
     for global Fortune 500 firms to host websites at.
31. X10 Hosting at http://x10hosting.com.
        X10 Hosting calls itself "When it comes to free web site hosting, X10Hosting is an industry leader", and is s good enough
     for global Fortune 500 firms to host websites at.
32. Yahoo Geocities -which is owned by Yahoo at http://www.yahoo.com- historically was the world's largest and world's best
     free-webhosting service while providing webhosting for thousands of global Fortune 500 firms, but starting on 10/26/2009
    Yahoo Geocities no longer is free and is subscription-only (Yahoo Geocities also changed its name to Yahoo Webhosting
    as of 10/26/2009).  Even though Yahoo Geocities -now called Yahoo Webhosting- is no longer free, it's so world-famous
    and world-class that it's DEFINITELY worth subscribing to.  
      For more information about Yahoo Webhosting which is world-famous and world-class enough for global Fortune 500
    firms to host websites at, please visit http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting.
33. Yola (formerly called SynthaSite) at http://www.yola.com.
      "BusinessWeek" magazine refers to Yola as "Fifty Tech Startups You Should Know", and is good enough for global
    Fortune 500 firms to host websites at.
34. PLEASE NOTE that I only tried to list the most-established and most-reliable free-webhosting providers which will stay in
    business for many years in a row (vs. just a few years in a row) while being totally reliable (vs. be partially unreliable.or
    totally unreliable), and didn't list free-webhosting providers that might be free and at the same time might go out of business
    sometime within the next few years.  Many people that historically created websites often complain that they created a
    website and hosted it at a free-webhosting provider, a few years later that free-webhosting provider went out of business so
    they had to change their host to a second free-webhosting provider, a few years later that second free-webhosting provider
    went out of business and they had to change their host to a third free-webhosting provider, etc. ...those people were angry
    that their free-webhosting provider only lasted a few years before it went out of business (those people basically created a
    website with a loyal following of callers, and everytime those people switched to another free-webhosting provider while thus
    having a totally-different URL they lost a sizable portion of their loyal following of callers because not everybody  in the
    loyal following of callers knows about the new URL and might not know about the new URL for a very-long period of time
    ranging up to several months or even several years), and wanted a free-webhosting provider that would stay in business for
    many years (if those people created a website, because that free-webhosting provider would stay in business for many years
    then the loyal following of callers that frequented that website would stay intact while increasing in size vs  split apart while
   decreasing in size).  If I accidentally left out any free-webhosting providers that are actually established and reliable, please tell
    me and I'll  IMMEDIATELY include them!!!

  If you want to get free-webhosting, the best thing to do is to visit all of the free-webhosting places mentioned above, create
accounts at all of the them,  learn about the capabilities and limitations and flaws/bugs for all of them, and see which one works
best for you (some free-webhosting places are easier to use and some are harder to use, some offer more features and
capabilities while some offer fewer features and capabilities, and some are more reliable while others are less reliable).  Please
note that some of  the free-webhosting providers listed above only work if you have a DSL modem or cablemodem (you could
call in with a 56k modem but everything moves really slowly while freezing/locking up nonstop, and as a aresult you can't
create a website at all), while others work regardless of whether you have a 56k modem or DSL modem or cablemodem...
also, some of the free-webhosting providers let you call in while using any Internet browser, but some only let you call in if you
use a specific Internet browser (e.g. they only allow "Internet Explorer", and don't allow "Opera" or "Firefox" or ":Safari" or
"Google Chrome").
  If you create an account at a free-webhosting provider and later on don't want that account, DON'T delete the account
because you might not be able to come back and recreate an account again (l learned that lesson the hard way).  For instance,
if you create an account at a free-webhosting provider and later on you think you don't need it so you delete your entire
account, later on if you return to the free-webhosting provider to create a new account again you can't because your email
address already got registered once and you can't register it again, your real name and home address already got registered once
and you can't register it again, your IP address already got registered once and you can't register it again, etc.  If you email the
free-webhosting provider while asking if you can create an account again, the free-webhosting provider might never reply at all
because you're a non-paying customer (who got a free website) vs. a  paying customer (that subscribes to the free-webhosting
provider on a monthly basis or annual basis).
  Also, most free-webhosting providers actually give you free websites, but some free-webhosting providers pretend to give you
free websites but -when you actually try to create a free website- one of three things happens: you can't create a free website at
all -be it with a built-in website builder or through ftp uploader- until you pay subscription money to subscribe to the
free-webhosting provider (for instance, you might visit a free-webhosting provider for the first time in your life, and the option to
create a free website doesn't work at all while the option to subscribe to the free-webhosting provider does work...or you might
visit a free-webhosting provider for the first time in your life, you actually create an account there to create a website, and when
you try to create a website with a built-in website builder or ftp uploader everything originally looks normal but later certain
things start moving randomly or don't work at all while thus making it totally impossible for you to actually create a website-),
you can create a free website but if you don't subscribe to the free-webhosting provider within three days or so the
free-webhosting provider immediately deletes your entire account along with logon name and logon password (when you try to
log onto the free-webhosting provider to check up on your website, your logon account doesn't work at all), or you can create
a free website but if you don't subscribe to the free-webhosting provider within three days or so the free-webhosting provider
continually deletes all data from your website (including html code, CSS graphics, etc.) while keeping your logon account with
logon name and logon password intact (when you try to log onto the free-webhosting provider, your logon account with logon
name and logon password still work but all data for your website and the website itself got totally deleted in permanent vs.
temporary ways).  If you encounter a free-webhosting provider that pretends to be free but really isn't free, the best thing to do
is don't use it at all and just use another free-webhosting provider that actually is free.

  If you want to create a website at a free-webhosting provider but don't know how to create a website, you need to do four
things:
1.    Go to the San Francisco Main Library at Market and 8th Street in San Francisco or any related public library in San
    Francisco, and find  books related to how to make a website and then read them.  If you want to find out what type of
    books the San Francisco Main Library has, visit its official website at http://sfpl.lib.ca.us and view the online catalog of all
    books that it has (if you don't know which ones are best, just ask a staff member at the San Francisco Main Library
    -through Internet email or in person- to recommend the best possible book for you).
      You could also go to a computer store (e.g. Best Buy or Office Depot or Office Max or Staples) or bookstore (e.g. Barnes
    and Noble, or Borders) and buy paperback or hardcover books about to make a website, but that costs money.
2.    Go to The Site Wizard at http://www.sitewizard.com (it teaches you how to make a website, and is detailed enough for
    novices at creating webpages and advanced users at creating webpages) to learn how to make a website.
      You could also go to a computer store (e.g. Best Buy or Office Depot or Office Max or Staples) or bookstore (e.g. Barnes
    and Noble, or Borders) and buy a IBM tutorial program (for IBM-compatible computers) that teaches you how to make a
    website, but that costs money.
3.    Download a freeware/shareware website-creator program (e.g. go to http://www.download.com -which is owned by
    CNET in San Francisco- and find/download "Kompozer" or "Amaya" -http://www.download.com doesn't just let you
     download "Kompozer" and "Amaya" but also reviews them, and the reviews are VERY useful/informative-..."Kompozer"
     and "Amaya" are the best WYSIWYG -aka "What You See Is What You Get"- freeware/shareware website-creator
     programs available right now, "Kompozer" is easier to use but is less full-featured, and "Amaya" is harder to use but is more
     full-featured) or buy a commercial website-creator program (e.g, "Microsoft Expression Web", "Adobe Dreamweaver", or
     "Web Easy Professional") and read the accompanying documentation about how to make a website.
       If you download "Kompozer" from "Kompozer"'s official website at http://www.kompozer.net, http://www.kompozer.net
     says that the "latest stable version" is version 0.7.10 which was released on 8/20/2007, and says that newer versions aka
     the "latest development releases" aren't as stable.  In reality, the version of "Kompozer" which was released in 2007 is
     actually VERY BUGGY (everytime you create a website, everything looks normal but once you save the website,
     "Kompozer" leaves out text or adds text or adds spaces or moves text around, you thus need to load/edit the html file to
     fix everything, after you fix the html file and save it you discover that "Kompozer" left out text again or added text again or
     added spaces again, you thus need to load/edit the html file a second time to fix everything again, and on and on in a
     nonstop repeating pattern), and the latest version of "Kompozer" removes almost all -or even all- of the bugs that exist in
     the 2007 version of "Kompozer".  All earlier versions of "Kompozer" released prior to 2/11/2009 were beta vs. alpha
     versions (aka everything was in beta-testing mode), the first public alpha version of "Kompozer" was "Kompozer 0.82"
     which was released on 2/11/2009, and the latest version of "Kompozer" removes/fixes most or even all bugs present in the
     beta versions of "Kompozer" released prior to 2/11/2009 and removes/fixes most or even all bugs present in the first alpha
     version of "Kompozer "which was released in 2/11/2009).  I actually use "Kompozer" all the time (along with various other
     html editors and website building programs), originally used the 2007 version of "Kompozer" but it discovered it's
     REALLY buggy, and just use the latest development release of "Kompozer" (which is alpha vs. beta) instead because it's
     MUCH less buggy.
        You can also download "Amaya" from "Amaya"'s official website at http://www.w3.org/Amaya.
        You could also go to a computer store (e.g. Best Buy or Office Depot or Office Max or Staples) and buy a commercial
     website-builder program like "Microsoft Expression Web" or "Adobe Dreamweaver" or "Easy Web Prfessional" (instead
     of download a freeware/shareware website-builder program like "Kompozer" or "Amaya") and read the accompanying
     documentation, but that costs money.
4.    Go to http://www.google.com and type in the name of your freeshare/shareware-or-commercial website-creator program
     along with the word "tutorial" to find web-based tutorials about how to use your website-creator program (for instance, if
     you use "Kompozer" then go to http://www.google.com and type in "Kompozer" and "tutorial", and if you use "Microsoft
     Expression Web" go to http://www.google.com and type in "Microsoft Expression Web" and "tutorial").
5.    Visit all free-webhosting providers listed above, create an account at ALL of them (so you can create free websites at ALL
     of them), and read the online documentation about to create a website.  I personally suggest visiting Weebly at
     http://www.weebly.com because it's THE BEST free-webhosting provider for novices at creating webpages (Weebly isn't
     just easy-to-use and easy-to-understand and user-friendly, but it also clearly explains what a website is and clearly teaches
     you how to create a website).
6.    Attend free computer classes that teach you how to make a website.  San Francisco currently only has two places that
     offers free classes about how to create a website: the San Francisco Main Library at Market and 8th Street in San Francisco
     occasionally offers free classes about how to create a website (each class only lasts a few hours maximum, vs. each class
     lasts up to six months in a row), and City College of San Francisco (it has multiple campus locations throughout San
     Francisco) offers free noncredit-vs.-credit classes about how to create a website (these classes last up to six months in a
     row aka an entire school semester, vs. just last a few hours total; credit classes cost money to attend, but non-credit classes
     are totally free)...for more information about these free classes, visit the San Francisco Main Library's official website at
     http://sfpl.lib.ca.us and City College of San Francisco's official website at http://www.ccsf.edu.

  If you create a free website at a free-webhosting provider listed above and the website seems to work fine, then add web
analytics to your website so you can track how many people visit your website each day, submit your website's URL to as many
major Internet search engines as possible so those Internet search engines list your website when other people search those
Internet search engines, and advertise your website's URL all over the Internet to get people all over the Internet to visit your
website.
  If you want to add web analytics to your website so you can track how many people visit your website each day, there are
many types of free web analytics that you can use but the two BEST web analytics are Google Analytics (from Google at
http://www.google.com, aka the world's #1 Internet search engine right now) and Yahoo Web Analytics (from Yahoo at
http://www.yahoo.com, aka the world's #2 Internet search engine right now).  Google Analytics is totally free for everybody
worldwide, whereas Yahoo Web Analytics is only free for Yahoo advertisers (aka people that buy advertising space on Yahoo
Internet search engine for hundreds of dollars or thousands of dollars and up) and people that subscribe to Yahoo Small
Business Web Hosting website-hosting services at http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting (aka people that buy webhosting
services to operate a e-commerce website with)...even though Google Analytics is totally free and Yahoo Web Analytics is
only free for customers of Yahoo, at the same time Yahoo Web Analytics is MUCH more accurate and
technologically-advanced/sophisticated than Google Analytics and Google Analytics is MUCH less accurate and less
technologically-advanced/sophisticated (many people actually say that Yahoo Web Analytics was designed for
multi-billion-dollar Fortune 500 firms that operate a major website for global e-commerce purposes, and that Google Analytics
was designed for computer hobbyists that make a website for fun)...if you don't believe me, just go to http://www.google.com
or http://www.yahoo.com and type in "Google Analytics vs. Yahoo Analytics" to see which is best...Google actually sells a web
analytics program called Google Urchin that is REALLY accurate and is good enough to use for major Fortune 500 firms'
websites and may be even better than Yahoo Web Analytics, but it costs ?$3,000 flat-rate (vs. $3,000 monthly fee or $3,000
annual fee) and as a result most people can't afford to buy it...I think Yahoo also sells a web analytics program similar to
Google Urchin, but dunno what its name is and how much it costs.
    If you want to add web analytics to your website, most people just add Google Analytics because it's totally free, and most
people might want to add Yahoo Web Analytics instead but they can't because they aren't a Yahoo advertiser or subscriber to
Yahoo Small Business Web Hosting.  If you want to add web analytics to your website and you want to add Google Analytics,
this is what you need to do:
1.    Go to Google Webmaster Central at http://www.google.com/webmasters, create an account there, and use Google
     Webmaster Tools to prove/verify that you're actually the owner of a specific website (you need to use Google Webmaster
     Central/Tools to prove/verify that you're the owner of a specific website to Google otherwise Google won't let you add
     Google Analytics to that website, you could actually add Google Analytics to a website without using Google Webmaster
     Central/Tools to verify your ownership of the website first but right after that Google Analytics won't do anything at all like
     report data -Google Analytics literally does NOTHING, and sits there nonstop day after day and week after week and
     month after month-).
2.    Go to Google Analytics at http://www.google.com/analytics, create an account there, and install Google Analytics on
     your website.
3.    After you install Google Analytics on your website, you need to wait up to or more than 24 hours for Google to send
     Googlebot (that's basically an automated robot) to your website to scan your website and create a clone/cache of your
     website's contents (that's bsically called website cloning).  After Googlebot scans your website and does website cloning on
     your website, then Google Analytics should start reporting data about how many people visit your website and whjich cities
     they call from and so forth.
4.    After you install Google Analytics on your website and want to see data about how many people call your website and
     from what cities they call from, you need to log onto Google Analytics at http://www.google.com/analytics each day to see
     data reports (Google Analytics only updates the data report once every 24 hours, so you basically need to wait until
     midnight of each day before you can get a new data report).
5.     THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST-COMMON PROBLEMS THAT PEOPLE HAVE WITH GOOGLE ANALYTICS SO
      I'LL MENTION IT RIGHT NOW!!!
        If you create a website and install Google Analytics on your website, Google Analytics originally reports all people that visit
      your website but later on -e.g. around one month later or so- the total number of visitors to your website starts going
      backwards vs. forwards (for instance, if you created a website and your website originally had zero callers but later got more
      and more callers until there are 100 callers total, later on Google Analytics will -instead of list more and more callers in a
      forward chronological order, aka there's caller 101 and 102 and 103 and 104 and so forth- Google Analytics starts
      reporting fewer callers to your website -aka your website originally had 100 callers total, then the next day Google Analytics
      says 80 people total visited your website, the third day Google Analytics says 60 people total visited your website, and the
      number of total callers keeps dorpping lower and lower every single day on a nonstop basis-).
        To fix this problem with Google Analytics listing a gradually-decreasing number of total callers vs. a gradually-increasing
      number of total callers, you might think that the Google Analytics tracking code installed in your website is faulty and you thus
      replace it but that STILL WON'T SOLVE THE PROBLEM (you could replace the Google Analytics tracking code
      thousands of times in a row but the problem with Google Analytics having a gradually-decreasing vs. gradually-increasing
      number of total callers keeps continuing), you might think that your computer got infected with spyware/viruses so you
      use anti-spyware/virus programs to scan your entire computer for spyware/viruses but that STILL WON'T SOLVE THE
      PROBLEM (you could use anti-spyware/virus programs to scan your computer thousands of times a in a row but the
      problem with Google Analytics having a gradually-decreasing vs. gradually-increasing  number of total callers keeps
      continuing), or -if you had Google Analytics track two or three or more websites simultaneously, vs. just track one website
      total- you think that the act of tracking more than one website created the problem -you basically think that if you have
     Google Analytics track just one website then Google Analytics works totally perfectly, but if you have Google Analytics
      track more than one website simultaneously like track a second website and third website in addition to the first website
      simultaneously then Google Analytics starts malfunctioning- so you remove tracking for the second website and third
      website and forth website and so on until only the first website still has tracking but that STILL WON'T SOLVE THE
      PROBLEM (you could remove the Google Analytics entry and/or Google Analytics tracking code for the second website
      and third website and fourth website and so forth thousands of times in a row -while keeping the Google Analytics entry
      and Google Analytics tracking code for the first website intact-, but the problem with Google Analytics having a
      gradually-decreasing vs.  gradually-increasing number of total callers keeps continuing)...to fix this problem, all you have
      to do is log onto Google Analytics at http://www.google.com/analytics, look at the upper-right corner of the screen, the
      upper-right corner of the screen should say something like "Day"/"Week"/"Month"/"Year" (those four things basically list
      how many people total call your website each day, each week, each month, and each year), click on "Year", and then
      Google Analytics should IMMEDIATELY list the correct/accurate total numbr of callers to your website (Google
      Analytics is set by default to only list how many people call your website each week or month, and if you want to see the
      total number of people that call your website each year you need to click on "Year").
        The only reason why Google Analytics displayed a continually-decreasing going-backwards total number of callers vs. a
      continually-increasing going-forwards total number of callers is because -since Google Analytics was set by default to just list
      the total number of people who called the last week in a row total or the last month in a row total,. vs. list all callers that
      called your website from the time it was created to the present day- Google only listed everybody that called your website
      during the past month or whatever and didn't list everybody that called your website from the time it was created to the
      present day.
6.     If you want to create a website but don't understand the process of how to register for Google Webmaster Central/Tools
      and register for Google Analytics, just go to Weebly at http://www.weebly.com (it's a free-webhosting provider), create an
      account there so you can create a website there, and Weebly doesn't just teach you how to make a website but also
      explains the process of adding Google Analytics to your website.
7.      Finally, if you want to add Yahoo Web Analytics to your website instead of Google Analytics, visit Yahoo Web Analytics
      at http://web.analytics.yahoo.com for more information.  Many people worldwide consider Yahoo Web Analytics to be
      MUCH more accurate and MUCH better than Google Analytics is, and you might agree too.

  After you create a website and add web analytics to your website (e.g. Google Analytics or Yahoo Web Analytics) so you can
count how many people visit your website, you need to submit your website's URL to all major Internet search engines so you
can get more visitors to your website and need to advertise your website's URL all over the Internet so you can get more visitors
to your website.
1.    If you want to submit your website's URL to all major Internet search engines like Google at http://www.google.com and
    Yahoo at http://www.yahoo.com and Bing at http://www.bing.com (Bing is owned by Microsoft), just go to
    http://www.google.com and type in "Google" and "add URL", type in "Yahoo" and "Add URL", type in "Bing" and "Add
    URL", or just type in "Add URL" so you can learn how to submit your website's URL to all major Internet search engines.
      PLEASE NOTE that after you submit your website's URL to a major Internet search engine, the major Internet search
    engine might not actually list your website for other people to visit until several months later or many months later (or the
    Internet search engine won't list your website at all for varying reasons, like the Internet search engine doesn't think that your
    website is good enough for inclusion in the Internet search engine).
2.    If you want to get other people to visit your website at a faster rate, the best thing to do is just advertise your website all
     over the Internet while inviting people all over the Internet to visit your website (just go to other websites and post a public
     message about how you created a brand-new website and how you want to invite everybody at the first website to visit
     your own website).

  If you create a free website at a free-webhosting provider listed above (while adding web analytics to your website to count
how many people visit your website each day, and visiting the place that hosts the website analytics every single day so you can
see/view daily reports about how many people visited your website each day), operate the website for several years and feel
comfortable with running/maintaining the website and want to subscribe for paid webhosting instead (vs. continue to get free
web-hosting) so your website has upgraded capabilities (e.g. your website can be physically-larger in regards to megabyte size,
your website can accomodate a larger total number of callers each month, your website can -instead of just have text and jpgs-
it can have flash/streaming-videos/animations and searchable online databases and so forth, etc.), you could subscribe to any of
the free-webhosting providers listed above or you could also subscribe to Hostgator at http://www.hostgator.com and
GoDaddy at http://www.godaddy.com.  Hostgator at http://www.hostgator.com and GoDaddy at http://www.godaddy.com
don't offer free-webhosting (they only offer paid hosting,  aka you need to pay monthly subscription fees), but are so good that
you might consider them if you subscribe to a webhosting provider (vs. continue to get free webhosting).
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SECTION FIVE:  FREE COMPUTER TECHNICAL-SUPPORT.

  If your computer doesn't work right (because of a operating-system freeze/lockup, hard drive crash, computer viruses/spyware,
human error, etc.) and you want to get free computer technical-support so you can fix/repair your computer (vs. you
immediately go to a computer-repair store to pay hundreds of dollars or thousands of dollars for repairs), THE best place to get
free computer technical-support from is ComputerHope at http://www.computerhope.com (ComputerHope isn't based in San
Francisco, but it's so good that I had to list it...ComputerHope at http://www.computerhope.com teaches you how to fix/repair
IBM-compatible computers and  Apple Macintosh/iMac computers, and provides such useful detailed information that nine
million people visit it every single year!!!).

  This is one of THE MOST COMMON problems that people encounter with their brand-name IBM-clone computers (be it
desktop or laptop) and generic-brand-name IBM-clone computers (be it desktop or laptop), so I'll list it first.  Most of the time
when you use your computer, everything works normally...however, sometimes when you place a program CD or program
DVD into your computer's DVD-ROM drive (this program CD or program DVD basically contains a commercial vs.
freeware/shareware program, and might be the IBM version of  "Microsoft Office" or just be a IBM videogame) OR you place
a data CD or data DVD into your computer's DVD-ROM drive (this data CD or data DVD just contains data, like
wordprocessing files for "Microsoft Office") OR you place a music-CD into your computer's DVD-ROM drive (this music-CD
is just a regular music-CD from a music store, like a George Michael pop-rock music CD or Britney Spears pop-rock music
CD), your computer's DVD-ROM drive won't boot/load the program CD/DVD or data CD/DVD or music-CD and when you
shell from Windows operating system to DOS mode so you can type the "Dir" command -"Dir" is short for "Directory"- your
computer's DVD-ROM drive won't list the regular contents of the CD/DVD and just lists a single file named "Track01.cda"
(when your computer's DVD-ROM drive won't list the regular contents of your CD/DVD and just lists a single file named
"Track01.cda", that problem might exist with just one or two of your CDs/DVDs or it might exist with ALL of your CDs/DVDs).
You could  try inserting and loading the CD/DVD hundreds of times into your computer's DVD-ROM drive but the
"Track01.cda" problem still exists, you could try inspecting the CD/DVD for physical damage and wiping off all dust from it but
the "Track01.cda" problem still exists, you could try using "Norton WinDoctor" -assuming you previously installed "Norton
SystemWorks" or "Norton 360" on your computer, while simultaneously installing "Norton WinDoctor" too- to fix your
computer's hard drive registry but the "Track01.cda" problem still exists, you could  try using "Norton GoBack" -assuming you
previously installed "Norton SystemWorks" or "Norton 360" on your computer, while simultaneously installing "Norton
GoBack" too- to restore your computer to an earlier state but the "Track01.cda" problem still exists, you could try removing all
drivers for your computer's DVD-ROM drive and then re-install the drivers but the "Track01.cda" problem still exists, you
could try updating all drivers for your computer's DVD-ROM drive with newer versions of the drivers but the "Track01.cda"
problem still exists, etc. ...after you tried hundreds of times in a row to boot/load your CD/DVD and your computer's
DVD-ROM drive won't boot/load your CD/DVD at all, you actually think that your computer's DVD-ROM drive partially or
totally died and as a result you want to bring your computer to a computer-repair shop to repair your computer's DVD-ROM
drive or replace your computer's DVD-ROM drive with a brand-new DVD-ROM drive (while thus paying up to or more than
$100 for the computer repair).
  Did you know that your computer's DVD-ROM drive won't boot up or load the CD/DVD properly (while simultaneously
only displaying a single file named "Track01.cda") not because the computer's DVD-ROM drive is damaged or the CD/DVD
is damaged, but because your computer's DVD-ROM drive is too dusty or dirty inside and you need to clean it before it'll
properly read the CD/DVD while displaying/loading all files of the CD/DVD (vs. improperly read the CD/DVD -because of
dust or dirt obstructing it- and thus only display a single file named "Track01.cda"...the main reason why your computer is dusty
or dirty inside is because your computer has a fan inside that blows air throughout the computer for cooling purposes, and after
the fan blows air throughout the computer the fan simultaneously blows dust and/or dust into your computer's DVD-ROM drive
...when I first started buying IBM-clone computers I didn't know about how to fix this problem, and I actually thought that
several IBM-clone computers had CD/DVD-ROM drives that were irreparably damaged so I threw them away -the
computers weren't actually irreparably-damaged so much as the computers' CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drives were dusty and/or
dirty inside and needed cleaning-)?  If your computer's DVD-ROM drive won't boot up or load CDs/DVDs properly and
continually only displays a single file named "Track01.cda", just go to Best Buy or Office Depot or Office Max in San Francisco
and a buy a "CD/DVD lens cleaning kit" for your computer (the "CD/DVD lens cleaning kit" might come in dry format or wet
format -the "CD/DVD lens cleaning kit" is basically this thing that looks like a blank CD-ROM disk or blank DVD-ROM disk,
you place it into your computer's DVD-ROM drive and shell from Windows to DOS mode to use the "Dir" command to make
the thing spin around inside your computer's DVD-ROM drive a few times while thus removing dust and/or dirt, the dry format
basically is this thing that looks like a blank CD-ROM disk or blank DVD-ROM disk except that it has miniature
super-soft/gentle brushes on the bottom to brush/sweep away dust and dirt, and the wet format is basically this thing that looks
like a blank CD-ROM disk or blank DVD-ROM disk except that you add several drops of a cleaning liquid to wash dust or
dirt away-, and I suggest buying the dry format because it's less likely to damage your computer's DVD-ROM drive and don't
suggest buying the wet format because it's more likely to damage your computer's DVD-ROM drive as with moisture or
whatever)...if you don't want to spend lots of money for a "CD/DVD lens cleaning kit", just go to a $1 discount store
anywhere in San Francisco and buy a "CD/DVD lens cleaning kit" for $1 (most of the time the $1 versions come in wet format
vs. dry format, but sometimes they come in dry format).
  If your computer's DVD-ROM drive won't boot up or load the CD/DVD properly (while simultaneously only displaying a
single file named "Track01.cda"), the act of using a "CD/DVD lens cleaning kit" (specifically the dry version vs. wet version) on
your computer's DVD-ROM drive just one time should IMMEDIATELY solve the problem.  However, if your computer's
DVD-ROM drive is REALLY dusty and dirty inside you might need to use the "CD/DVD lens cleaning kit" (dry version vs.
wet version) two times in a row or three times in a row before your computer's DVD-ROM drive will read CDs/DVDs normally.
In extreme cases of dustiness/dirtiness, you could use a "CD/DVD lens cleaning kit" (dry version vs. wet version) many times in
a row but your computer's DVD-ROM drive still won't read CDs/DVDs normally, so as a result you need to buy a "CD/DVD
lens cleaning kit" that is the wet version vs. dry version (the wet version should fix the problem amd IMMEDIATELY remove
all dust/dirt that is stuck on too tightly, but at the same time -because it's wet- the wetness/moisture might damage your
computer's DVD-ROM drive).

  If your computer's hard drive registry gets too many entries and your computer starts running slowly or starts malfunctioning,
you could try downloading a freeware/shareware program form the Internet that fixes your hard drive registry...however, I've
literally NEVER found a single freeware/shareware program that actually fixes your hard drive's registry well (they actually fix
your hard drive's registry, but at the same time they remove certain entries from your hard drive's registry so your computer's
CD-ROM drive or computer's DVD-ROM drive don't work at all (you could try downloading a patch from the Internet that
restores and re-installs the missing/removed CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drivers, but I've NEVER been able to find a patch that
actually works at all) and the only way to fix the problem is by re-formatting your computer's hard drive and re-installing the
operating system again...I've extensively tested/tried every single freeware/shareware program that supposedly fixes your hard
drive's registry, and they all have this annoying characteristic).  If you want to fix your computer's hard drive registry, the best
thing to do is just buy "Norton Systemworks" or "Norton 360" (they have a program called "Norton WinDoctor", which
actually fixes your computer's hard drive registry without making your computer's CD-ROM drive or DVD-ROM drive not
work at all)...you could buy the more-expensive brand-name versions of those programs, or just buy the cheaper OEM
versions of those programs.  If you don't want to buy "Norton Systemworks" or "Norton 360" because they cost too much,
the best thing to do is just go to any Office Depot or Office Max in San Francisco and buy a program named Cosmi
Software's "Cosmi Windows Cleanser" (it comes in a shrinkwrapped jewel-CD-ROM package vs. a regular-sized cardboard
package, and costs $5 or $10 -some places charge $10, but some places charge $10 for two separate programs which is
basically $5 each-; only Office Depot and Office Max have this program for sale, and Best Buy and Staples and all other
computer stores in San Francisco don't sell this program at all)...Cosmi Software's "Cosmi Windows Cleanser" actually fixes
your computer's hard drive registry without messing up your computer's CD-ROM drive or DVD-ROM drive, and I highly
recommend it.
  PLEASE NOTE that I've never been able to find a freeware/shareware program that can fix a computer's hard drive registry
like "Norton WinDoctor" does or can make a computer revert to a earlier state like "Norton GoBack" does, but if I do I'll
IMMEDIATELY list them here.

  If your computer gets infected with spyware/viruses and the anti-spyware/virus program that was previously installed on your
computer's hard drive won't load/boot up at all or work at all (that previously-installed anti-spyware/virus program that won't
even load/boot up because it got infected by spyware/viruses might be a commercial program like "Norton Internet Security" or
"McAfee Internet Security" or "Spyware Doctor", or might just be a freeware/shareware program like "Spybot S&D" or
"ClamWin"), you don't need to immediately visit a computer-repair store and pay $100 to $300 to remove the spyware/viruses
from your computer and can do it yourself totally free.  Just use another computer to log onto http://www.download.com (it's
owned by CNET in San Francisco), use the built-in search engine to type in "Panda SafeCD" (the company that makes the
anti-spyware/virus program "Panda Internet Security" -which is available from all major computer stores in San Francisco
including Best Buy, Office Depot, Office Max, Staples, etc.- created this freeware program called "Panda SafeCD", which
automatically scans your spyware/virus-infected computer for spyware/viruses and then removes them), and then download
"Panda SafeCD" from http://www.download.com ("Panda SafeCD" comes in ISO format vs. *.exe/*.com format, so after
you download "Panda SafeCD" in ISO format you need to burn the ISO onto a blank CD-ROM disk or blank DVD-ROM
disk -if you don't know what a ISO is, a ISO is just is a compressed file like a *.zip file or *.arj file or *.rar file, except that
in order to decompress this type of compressed file aka ISO file you need to use a special ISO-burning program to burn it
onto a blank CD-ROM disk or blank DVD-ROM disk-...if you want to get a ISO-burning program that burns ISOs onto a
blank CD-ROM or blank DVD-ROM, THE BEST freeware ISO-burning program that I know of is Infrarecorder at
http://www.infrarecorder.org, so just go to http://www.infrarecorder.org, download Infrarecorder and install Infrarecorder, and
then use Infrarecorder to burn that ISO of "Panda SafeCD" onto a blank CD-ROM disk).  After you download "Panda
SafeCD" from http://www.download.com and used a ISO-burning program like Infrarecorder to burn the ISO of "Panda
SafeCD" onto a blank CD-ROM disk or blank DVD-ROM disk, then take that CD-ROM disk or DVD-ROM disk -which
just had a ISO of "Panda SafeCD" burned onto it-, place it into the CD-ROM drive or DVD-ROM drive of the computer that
was infected with spyware/viruses, and boot up the computer...after you boot up the computer, the CD-ROM disk or
DVD-ROM disk in the computer's CD-ROM-drive or DVD-ROM drive loads up while thus running the anti-spyware/virus
program "Panda SafeCD", after the anti-spyware/virus program "Panda SafeCD" finishes scanning your computer for
spyware/viruses and removes everything then boot up your previously-infected computer again to see if it works right or not
(most of the time "Panda SafeCD" removes all spyware/viruses, but in extreme cases of spyware/virus infestation you might
need to re-format your computer's hard drive and re-install the operating system again).
  If you want to protect yourself from spyware/viruses, you might want to download "Panda SafeCD" in ISO format right now
and burn it onto a blank CD-ROM or DVD-ROM.  Later on, if your computer gets infected from spyware/viruses and the
anti-spyware/virus programs that you previously installed onto the computer's hard drive won't even boot/load up or work at
all because they got infected by spyware/viruses, all you have to do is bring out the CD-ROM or DVD-ROM which already
has "Panda SafeCD" burned onto it, place that CD-ROM or DVD-ROM with "Panda SafeCD" into your computer's
DVD-ROM drive, and then turn on your computer...right after you turn on the computer, the CD-ROM or DVD-ROM with
"Panda SafeCD" will immediately start scanning your computer for spyware/viruses.  In case spyware/viruses cripple your
computer so your computer's DVD-ROM drive doesn't work at all, you might want to burn "Panda SafeCD" not just onto
a blank CD-ROM or blank DVD-ROM but also onto a removable USB zip drive (which you connect to your computer's
USB 2.0 port)...even if your computer's DVD-ROM drive won't work because of spyware/viruses, your computer's USB
ports -which you attach a USB zip drive to- still work.

  If you use your computer to call the Internet and your computer CONTINUALLY gets infected with spyware/viruses ALL
THE TIME (e.g. your computer gets infected with spyware/viruses at least once a week or twice a week, you need to
continually load/run your anti-spyware/virus program to remove spyware/viruses from your computer so your computer works
normally again, and your computer occasionally gets infected with spyware/viruses that can't be detected by the anti-spyware/
virus program at all and you literally have NO way of removing the spyware/viruses because their design is too new and
cutting-edge), the best way to deal with the spyware/viruses isn't to install better anti-spyware/virus programs on your computer
(that's because the latest spyware and latest viruses are so technologically-advanced that they can immediately infiltrate/bypass
your computer's anti-spyware/virus programs and firewall programs while entering and harming your computer even if you have
the latest anti-spyware/virus programs, and even if you buy the latest version of "Norton 360" for a really high price the latest
spyware and latest viruses will still bypass the latest version of "Norton 360" while infecting/harming your computer) or install
more anti-spyware/virus programs on your computer (it's best to just run one or two anti-spyware/virus programs maximum on
your computer simultaneously, and if you add more all of those anti-spyware/virus programs then they start conflicting with each
other because they need to access the same memory spaces in RAM or whatever) or use "Panda SafeCD" (which is detailed
above) but to just get/buy two computers total (use the first computer -e.g. a older less-expensive computer- to call the
Internet and download programs/files from the Internet and install/test programs that you downloaded from the Internet -if you
download programs/files from the Internet and your computer gets infected with spyware/viruses and your anti-spyware/virus
program can't remove the spyware/viruses at all, just re-format the computer's hard drive and re-install everything because that
computer does non-important things...if you download a program/file from the Internet and then install it on your first computer
to see if it works or not, if the program/file actually works then keep it, but if the program/file doesn't work while possibly
installing spyware or viruses into your computer and your computer's anti-spyware/virus program can't remove the
spyware/viruses then just re-format the computer's hard drive and re-install everything because that computer does
non-important things-, and use the second computer -e.g. a newer more-expensive computer- for doing important
mission-critical work like wordprocessing/databases/spreadsheets and so forth -that computer does important things, has your
most-important productivity programs and most-important data files on it, NEVER calls the Internet just in case
spyware/viruses travel from the Internet to the computer to infect it, and has a anti-spyware/virus program installed to do
real-time scanning for spyware/viruses even though the computer NEVER calls the Internet at all-; if you use the first computer
to download programs/files from the Internet and you want to copy/transfer the downloaded programs files from your first
computer -which does non-important things- to the second computer -which actually does important things-, DON'T connect
a USB zip drive or external USB hard drive to the first computer so you can copy downloaded programs/files from the first
computer's hard drive to the USB zip drive or external USB hard drive so can you later unplug the USB zip drive or external
USB hard drive from the first computer and then connect the USB zip drive or external USB hard drive to the second
computer and copy the downloaded programs/files from the USB zip drive or external USB hard drive to the second
computer's hard drive, that's because when you connect a USB zip drive or external USB hard drive to the first computer
sometimes the first computer might be infected with spyware/viruses -but the anti-spyware/virus program installed on your first
computer wasn't able to detect the spyware/viruses- and spyware/viruses thus immediately travel from the first computer into
the USB zip drive or external USB hard drive, and after you connect the spyware/virus-infected USB zip drive or
spyware/virus-infected external USB hard drive to the second computer then spyware/viruses immediately travel from the
spyware/virus-infected USB zip drive or spyware/virus-infected external USB hard drive into your second computer and your
second computer thus gets infected with spyware/viruses so much that you need to re-format the second computer's hard
drive while simultaneously losing all productivity applications and data files on the second computer's hard drive...if you use the
first computer to download programs/files from the Internet and you want to transport them to a second computer, DON'T
use a USB zip drive or external USB hard drive, and the best thing to do is just to buy a laplink cable with accompanying
laplink program to laplink programs/files from the first computer to the second computer, you could also use a
CD/DVD-burning program to burn downloaded programs/files from the first computer's hard drive onto a blank
CD-RW/DVD-RW disc and then place that CD-RW/DVD-RW disc into the second computer and copy the
CD-RW/DVD-RW disc's contents into the second computer's hard drive, but that takes longer to do).

  If you want to make a backup copy of your computer's hard drive (so you can restore your computer in case it crashes from
spyware/viruses or whatever) and at the same time you don't want pay lots of money to buy "Norton Ghost" or "Acronis True
Image" ("Norton Ghost" and "Acronis True Image" are the two BEST commercial disk imaging/cloning programs available, but
they cost much money to buy), THE best free computer-backup program that I know of is "Macrium Reflect" ("Macrium
Reflect" is actually just as good as "Norton Ghost" and "Acronis True Image" are).  To find out more about "Macrium Reflect",
please visit Brian Bondari's WWW site at
http://www.tipsfor.us/2008/10/17/ghost-windows-for-free-with-macrium-reflect-a-visual-guide (or just go to
http://www.google.com and type in "Ghost Windows For Free" to find all related WWW sites by Brian Bondari; Brian Bondari
discusses how to ghost Windows for free with "DriveImage XML" and "Macrium Reflect" and "Paragon Drive Backup Express"
..."DriveImage XML" doesn't work that well  because it might make a backup copy of most parts of your computer but doesn't
make a backup copy of other essential areas like the hard drive's master boot record, and as a result you could make a backup
copy of your computer's hard drive but when you try to restore the backup copy it doesn't work because certain parts of the
hard drive's contents are missing..."Macrium Reflect" works perfectly on 32-bit Windows XP computers or 64-bit Windows
XP computers or 64-bit Windows Vista computers..."Paragon Drive Backup Express" comes in *.msi format vs. *.exe format,
and thus doesn't work on 32-bit Windows XP computers at all -32-bit Windows XP computers can only use *.exe files and not
*.msi files- but works perfectly on 64-bit Windows XP computers and 64-bit Windows Vista computers), and please visit
Macrium Reflect's official WWW site at http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp.
  If you use "Macrium Reflect" to make a backup copy of your computer's hard drive and later on (e.g. a few months later or a
few years later) your computer crashes, don't just use the "Format c:\" command or the equivalent to format your computer's
hard drive before you try to restore the backup copy of your computer which you previously made with "Macrium Reflect".
That's because the "Format c:\" command or the equivalent doesn't get rid of ALL hard-drive-crash-related problems (e.g.
corrupted hard drive registry, corrupted FAT tables -aka your computer's hard drive's FAT aka File Allocation Tables are
damaged/corrupted- on your computer's hard drive or whatever, spyware/viruses that infected your computer's hard drive,
etc.) and it only gets rid of most of them, and if you use the "Format c:\" command and then try to restore the backup copy of
your computer which you previously made with "Macrium Reflect" then the original problems with hard-drive-crash-related
problems might still exist (because you didn't actually TOTALLY format/delete/erase everything) and/or you can't actually
restore the backup copy of your computer which you previously made with "Macrium Reflect" at all (you try to restore the
backup copy but it doesn't work).  The best thing to do is to use a disk-wiping program which TOTALLY formats/deletes/
erases EVERYTHING on your computer's hard drive, and after EVERYTHING on your computer's hard drive is totally
formatted/deleted/erased then and only then do you try to restore the backup copy of your computer which you previously
made with "Macrium Reflect".  There are many disk-wiping programs available, but THE BEST free disk-wiping program
that I've found so far is "KillDisk", which has an official WWW site at http://www.killdisk.com (the company that makes
"Killdisk" is a "Microsoft-Certified Partner" and creates products good enough for nationwide military organizations in North
America to use).

  If you call the Internet and find a jpg that you like and then download the jpg for viewing later on, THE BEST freeware/
shareware jpg viewer to view jpgs/gifs/bmps/etc. is XNView, which has an official website at http://www.xnview.com.
XNView is the fastest jpg viewer available, offers the best colors/pictures/displays, and also offers a full-screen mode which
can zoom in for closer detail.

  If you call Youtube at http://www.youtube.com and find a music video or another type of video that you like, you don't need
to buy a video-ripping program to download videos from Youtube and can download it totally free.  Just go to Youtube at
http://www.youtube.com, use the built-in search engine at Youtube at http://www.youtube.com to find a music video or video
you like (e.g. if you like music videos by pop star George Michael, use the built-in search engine to type in "George Michael"),
go to Keepvid at http://www.keepvid.com, and copy/paste the URL for the Youtube video into Keepvid (to find out where
the URL for the Youtube video is located, go to Youtube at http://www.youtube.com, find a music video or video you like,
click on it, and the upper-right corner of the screen should say "URL" and "Embed", copy/paste all data from the "URL" vs.
"Embed" section to Keepvid at http://www.keepvid.com, and then Keepvid should convert that URL into a downloadable
video file called "video.flv" or "video.mp4"...if that music video or video is a regular video file like *.mpg/*.wmv/*.mov then
Keepvid will convert that music video or video file into *.flv format, if that music video or video file is a "HD/HQ" video file
-"HD" is short for "High Definition" and "HQ" is short for "High Quality", to find videos that are "HD"/"HQ" just go to Youtube
at http://www.youtube.com and use the built-sn search engine to type in "George Michael" and "HD", or type in "George
Michael" and "HQ"- then Youtube will convert the video file into *.flv format or *.mp4 format -*.flv format is
lower-resolution, and *.mp4 format is higher-resolution-, and if that music video is copy-protected or missing then Keepvid
won't retrieve/convert anything at all -if the music video is copyrighted by a major music company then you can watch it
through Youtube at http://www.youtube.com but can't use Keepvid to download it because it's copy-protected, and if a music
video is listed on Youtube but the file itself is missing then Keepvid can't retrieve/convert the file because it's missing to start
with-).
  If you download a music video or video from Keepvid in *.flv format then use a *.flv player to play it (THE BEST freeware *.flv
player that I know of is NFLVPlayer, which has a official website at http://www.snapfiles.com/get/nFLVPlayer.html but also
can be downloaded from http://www.download.com) , and if you download a music video or video from Keepvid in *.mp4
format then use a *.mp4 player to play it (you can use "Windows Media Player" from Microsoft to play *.mp4 files, or you
can use the freeware/shareware program "GOM Player" -which has an official website at http://www.gomlab.com but also can
be downloaded from http://www.download.com- to play *.mp4 files -"Windows Media Player" plays most *.mp4 videos
perfectly but it can't play some *.mp4 videos at all or can't play them well for varying reasons, "GOM Player" actually can play
those *.mp4 videos that "Windows Media Player" can't play, and as a result that's why you need to use both programs if you
want to play/view *.mp4 videos).
  PLEASE NOTE that if you have a Windows XP/Vista computer and you want to play *.mp4 videos, "Windows Media
Player" and "GOM Player" might be able to IMMEDIATELY play them or you might need to download/install *.mp4-related
codecs for your computer first before you can play/view the *.mp4 videos (the best way to download/install *.mp4-related
codecs for your computer is to go to http://www.download.com and use the built-in search engine to type in "codecs pack", THE
BEST codecs pack for Windows XP/Vista computers is "Media Player Codec Pack" but you can also use "K-Lite Codec Pack"
which isn't as good, after you download "Media Player Codec Pack" or "K-Lite Codec Pack" it's best to just use the "express
installation" aka you have the programs automatically install codecs for you vs. you customize/choose which codecs to install
because if you customize/choose which codecs to install you might accidentally install the wrong codecs and as result your
computer doesn't work right anymore and you need to re-format your computer's hard drive while re-installing everything).
  PLEASE NOTE that if have a Windows 98 computer (vs. Windows XP/Vista computer), you can actually use Keepvid to rip
videos from Youtube into *.flv-format videos and *.mp4-format videos (Keepvid doesn't just work with Windows XP/Vista
computers, and also works with Windows 98 computers too), use NFLVPlayer to view *.flv videos (NFLVPlayer actually
works with Windows 98 operating system), and then have "Media Player 9" by Microsoft (that's the final version of "Media
Player 9" ever released for Windows 98 operating system) and "GOM Player" (the latest version of "GOM Player" should work
with Windows 98 operating system, if it doesn't just download/install a earlier version of "GOM Player" that does work with
Windows 98 operating system) to play *.mp4 videos.  PLEASE NOTE that "Media Player 9" for Windows 98 and "GOM
Player" for Windows 98 generally can't play *.mp4  videos at all (you could try to play them but all you see is a black screen,
aka your computer monitor just displays a totally-black screen), and the only way to make them actually play *.mp4 videos
is by doing the following four things:
1.    Download and install DirectX 8.1, which is the final version of DirectX ever released for Windows 98 operating system.
     To find DirectX 8.1, just go to http://www.google.com and type in "DirectX 8.1".
2.    Install "Media Player 9": by Microsoft (that's the last version of "Media Player" designed for Windows 98 operating
     system) and whatever version of "Gom Player" works with Windows 98 (the latest version should work, but if it doesn't
     just use an earlier version).  To find "Media Player 9", just go to http://www.google.com and type in "Media Player 9".
3.    Install a *.mp4-related codecs pack so "Media Player 9" and "GOM Player" can actually play *.mp4 videos.
       THE BEST -and actually THE ONLY- *.mp4-related codecs pack for Windows 98 operating system that I ever found
     was "K-Lite Codec Pack Full 3.45" which was released in 9/2007, is the "Full" version vs. another version, and is the last
     version of "K-Lite Codec Pack" to work on Windows 98 operating system (all newer versions of "K-Lite Codec Pack"
     only work with Windows XP)...to download "K-Lite Codec Pack Full 3.45" (which is specifically designed for Windows
     98 computers vs. Windows XP/Vista computers), go to
     http://k-lite-codec-pack.download3000.com/k-lite-codec-pack-3.45-(full).
4.    After you download "K-Lite Codec Pack Full 3.45", you might notice that "K-Lite Codec Pack" comes with "Media
     Player Classic".  DON'T INSTALL "Media Player Classic" at all ("Media Player Classic" is too old and won't play the
     latest *.mp4/*..mpg/*.wmv/etc. video files, and you need "Media Player 9" to play the latest video files), just install
     "Media Player 9" and "Gom Player" first and then download/install "K-Lite Codec Pack Full 3.45" (just install the codecs
     themselves, and DON'T install "Media Player Classic"...when you install the codecs themselves turn on ALL codecs except
     for codecs which are specifically listed as only working with Windows XP and up -PLEASE NOTE that you need to turn
    on ALL codecs by yourself, vs. you do a "express installation" in which the program automatically installs all codecs for you-
    ...after you finish installing "K-Lite Codec Pack", then "Media Player 9" for Windows 98 and "GOM Player" for Windws 98
     should play all .*.mp4 video files and other types of video files TOTALLY perfectly).
    .   PLEASE NOTE that you could actually install "Media Player Classic" (which comes bundled with
     "K-Lite Codec Pack Full 3.45"  instead of "Media Player 9", but you'll immediately discover that "Media Player Classic" is
     too old, crashes or has conflicts all the time because it's too old, and won't play *.mp4/etc. video files right...as a result, you'll
     immediately uninstall/delete "Media Player Classic" and just use "Media Player 9" instead.

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SECTION SIX:  USED VS. NEW COMPUTER HARDWARE/SOFTWARE.

  If you don't want to buy brand-new computer hardware/software and want to buy used vs. new computer hardware/software
(so you can save money), the two best places in San Francisco to buy used computer hardware/software are:
1.    The Goodwill flagship thrift store at 1580 Mission and South Van Ness (it's one block away from Market and Van Ness).
       The Goodwill flagship thrift store sells computers at overly-high prices (e.g. up to or more than $200 each) and computer
     software at  moderately-high prices (around $8 to $10 each), but computer monitors tend to be relatively cheap (averaging
     around $15 to $30 or so) and computer keyboards tend to be REALLY cheap (the prices fluctuate all the time, but you
     generally can get a PS/2 keyboard for $2 and USB keyboard for $3, and they're famous-brand-name keyboards too vs.
     generic-brand-name keyboards).  Goodwill is good because it lets you examine computer hardware/software before you buy
     it, and if anything is defective you have a several-days-long warranty to return it for a exchange or maybe refund.
       Other Goodwill thrift stores might sell computer hardware/software too, but because I don't know what they stock and
     when they stock it I won't mention anything about them (their inventory of computer hardware/software changes too often
     to track).
       Goodwill has an official WWW site at http://www.sfgoodwill.org, which describes the organization in general and lists the
     exact addresses of all Goodwill stores in San Francisco.
2.    The Salvation Army Family Store at 1500 Valencia and 26th Street, and the Salvation Army Family Store at 3921 Geary
     Boulevard and 4th Avenue.
       The Salvation Army Family Store sometimes stocks computer hardware and/or computer software, but the selection tends
     to be VERY limited so it's better to just visit the Goodwill flagship thrift store at 1580 Mission and South Van Ness instead.
       The Salvation Army Family Store has an official WWW site at http://www.salvationarmyusa.org, which describes the
    organization in general.
3.    Go to Craig's List WWW site at http://sfbay.craigslist.org,  go to "For Sale: Computer", click on "Computer", and right after
     that you can see lots of classified ads by people selling used vs. new computer hardware/software (some of it is
     IBM-compatible hardware/software, and some of it is Apple Macintosh/imac hardware/software).  Some of the stuff at
     Craig's List WWW site is overpriced, but some of the stuff is REALLY cheap.  If you do buy used vs. new stuff from Craig's
     List WWW site, most of the sellers there are honest reputable people who sell perfectly-working products but some of the
     sellers there sell products that supposedly are totally working but actually are partially non-working (or even totally
     non-working), are supposedly brand-new but actually are used vs. new, supposedly have all physical parts but actually are
     missing various physical parts (you need to get those additional physical parts otherwise the computer hardware/software
     won't work at all), aren't actually what is described in the ad (what they sell is similar to the description but it's actually
    different from the description, for instance somebody might sell you a computer that supposedly has a one-terabyte hard drive
     but it's actually two separate hard drives -one is 700 gigabytes and one is 300 gigabytes-),  is a "bait and switch" scheme (you
     see an ad for something that is really cheap, and when you try to buy it the person says that thing already got sold and wants
     to sell you something else for a much higher price), or is actually a "fly by night operation" (you pay money to somebody for
     computer hardware/software, and they keep the money without giving you anything at all)...as a result, if you do buy anything
     from Craig's List WWW site, try to visit the person at his/her home address before buying the product (don't meet in some
     public area like a sidewalk to do the sales transaction or have the person visit your home to do the sales transaction because
     if you buy a product and the product is bad vs. good, you don't know how to contact the person to get a refund or exchange
     -you could try calling their home telephone number while asking to get a refund or exchange but they could just hang up
     everytime you call, so it's best to find out their home address vs. just their home telephone number-), visually inspect and
     thoroughly test the product before you buy it (don't just buy it without inspecting it beforehand or testing it beforehand,
     otherwise you might get conned/swindled of much money).
       If you want to get computer hardware/software TOTALLY free (without paying a single cent), just go to Craig's List
     WWW site at http://sfbay.craigslist.org, go to "For Sale: Free", click on "Free", and right after that you can see lots of
     classified ads by people that are giving away lots of stuff TOTALLY FREE (most of this stuff isn't related to computer
     hardware/software, but some of it is)...if you see free stuff and want it, email the person that posted the ad RIGHT AWAY
     otherwise somebody else will get it (all of the free stuff is given out on a first-come-first-served basis, and if you wait too
     long other people get all the free stuff first and you get nothing at all).
       Finally, the founder and staff members at Craig's List WWW site are totally honest hardworking people and most of the
     people that post classified ads at Craig's List WWW site are totally honest too, but some of the people that post classified
     ads at Craig's List WWW site aren't totally honest and might try to deceive you in order to make money.

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SECTION SEVEN:  ENDING, AND INVITATION TO MY FACEBOOK GROUP ABOUT SAN FRANCISCO BBSES.

  Thank you for visiting this WWW site about THE BEST computer stores and computer-related companies in San Francisco,
and I hope the information here was very useful to you!  If you like a certain computer store listed above and want to visit it but
don't know how to travel to it, just go to Google Maps at http://maps.google.com or Yahoo Maps at http://maps.yahoo.com to
get a overhead-view map of the computer store's business address, go to Google Earth at http://earth.google.com to see a
photograph of what the front of the computer store looks like (Google Earth only works if you have DSL or cablemodem, and
doesn't work if you have 56k), and go to http://www.511.org to find out the fastest travel route from your house to the computer
store (if you go to http://www.511.org. you can enter one location and enter another location and right after that
http://www.511.org tells you the fastest travel route from the first location to the second location...I won't create a direct link to
http://www.511.org because it's owned by top-ranking government agencies related to public transportation and I don't want to
get into trouble with them, but you can copy/paste the URL into your Internet browser's window).
  Finally, if you called San Francisco BBSes from 1990 to 2001 (e.g. you called Wayne Gregori's S.F. Net BBS, Laszlo's Wave
BBS, Dansyr's TicTacToe BBS, or another San Francisco BBS), please join my Facebook group about all of those San
Francisco BBSes (so you can have a reunion with BBS sysops and BBS callers while having Facebook Chat or multi-user chat
with them)!!!
  If you'd like to join my Facebook group about San Francisco BBSes (so you can do Facebook Chat and multi-user chat with
other people), just go to Facebook at http://www.facebook.com and create an account there.  Then go to
http://www.facebook.com/groups.php, and use the built-in search engine at the top of the screen to type in "BBS"...Facebook
should list a Facebook group named "San Francisco BBSes: 1990 to 2001 - All BBS Sysops and BBS Callers Invited!!!", just
click on that group and join it (so you become an official member and thus do Facebook Chat with other members) and post a
message on the blog to introduce yourself (e.g. describe whether you used to be sysop of a San Francisco BBS, describe which
San Francisco BBSes you used to call, etc.).  My Facebook group about San Francisco BBSes also has a related WWW site
at http://sanfranciscobbses.awardspace.us, so it'd be REALLY nice if you could visit that WWW site too!!!  Thank you!!!
  This is a message to the owners of all computer hardware/software stores listed above: if you want to sue me for financial
damages because I supposedly use your companies' names or information about your companies to get people to visit and join
my Facebook group about San Francisco BBSes, please note that most sysops of San Francisco BBSes and callers of San
Francisco BBSes historically spent THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS to buy computer hardware/software from computer stores
like the ones you own, and the act of connecting computer hardware/software stores with BBS sysops/callers that historically
LOVED buying computer hardware/software will EARN LOTS OF MONEY for computer hardware/software stores.  San
Francisco historically had 200 to 300 BBSes total from 1990 to 2001 -with thousands of people or tens of thousands of
people calling those 200 to 300 BBSes from 1990 to 2001-, many BBS sysops in San Francisco historically spent up to or
more than $4,000 to buy a computer to run their BBS on, spent up to or more than $1,000 for a single computer monitor to use
with the computer that ran their BBS, spent up to or more than $3,000 for a ultra-high-capacity data-recording device to make
a backup copy of their computer's hard drive on a daily basis, spent up to or more than $300 for a modem to connect to their
BBS, and spent up to or more than $300 for a Digiboard card to connect to the computer that ran their BBS (assuming they ran
a multi-line multi-user chat BBS vs. a single-line BBS), etc. ...those BBS sysops historically ran BBSes from 1990 to 2001 but
now run dedicated website servers (to host their official websites), and those BBS sysops -who are now sysadmins of dedicated
web servers- actually spend up to or more than $4,000 to buy a computer to run their dedicated web server on, actually spend
up or more than $1,000 for a single computer monitor to connect to the computer which hosts the dedicated web server,
actually spend up to or more than $3,000 for a ultra-high-capacity data-recording device to make a backup copy of their
dedicated website server on a daily basis (e.g. the latest version of a ultra-high-capacity Bluray-RW drive that literally costs
$3,000 each), actually spend up to or more than $300 for the latest type of modem to connect to their computer which hosts
the dedicated web server, and actually spend up or more than $300 for a networking card to install in their computer which
hosts the dedicated web server (so the dedicated web server can receive more callers total).  If all of those BBS sysops -who
are sysadmins of dedicated web servers- got a directory listing of all computer stores in San Francisco, all of those BBS sysops
-who are now sysadmins of dedicated web servers- would spend THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS at those computer stores in
San Francisco so they can turn their dedicated web servers into a true dream system fit for the gods (they'd actually spend up or
more than $4,000 per visit), and as a result all of those computer stores in San Francisco would EARN LOTS OF MONEY
REALLY FAST.