PC World Review of Best Mapping Sites
Mapquest
Google Maps
Google Earth
Maps Ask (Aerial)
Yahoo.com (Data by GeoEye)
Info space (by MS)
NBCi- click on Maps/Directions (by Mapquest)
Concierge (by Mapquest)
Lycos - (by Map Blast)
Excite Travel - (by Map Blast)
Maps.com (Maps on Us)
Info Please state maps - major cities (by maps.com)
Rand McNally
Amazon A9 - Maps and Photos of US
Pages Jaunes - Maps and photos of France
Topo Zone - Make a topo map
MyTopo - Make a topo map
NC DOT's Traveler Information Management System - Maps and Road Problems
Wake County and the City of Raleigh's Online Mapping Service
Population and Household Data - 1970-2002 (RealEstateCenter)
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Understanding your weather forecast
The Foliage Network - Leaves Changing
Atmospheric Optics - Rays & Shadows - Water Droplets - Rainbows - Ice Halos
Today in Raleigh - Set of several maps and info on one page
North Carolina NOAA Weather Discussion
Cary forecast
Cary Radar
Raleigh, NC Forecast Discussion
Raleigh Area Weather Discussion
Graphical weather forecast table
Current weather conditions at Raleigh Airport
NWS Weather Cam in Raleigh on NC State Campus
Raleigh Forecast Suite
Site map
NexLab NC
Raleigh Short Term Forecast Discussion
Raleigh Area Forecast Discussion
Raleigh, North Carolina - WRAL TV
Weather Channel
Triangle Weather
Bob's Weather Page - Links for NC
Wunderground.com - The Weather Underground
Weather Matrix
College of DuPage Next Generation Weather Lab
UNISYS Weather - Satellite Images- Surface, Upper Air and Radar Data - Forecasts Models -10 day forecasts - Local Weather - Hurricane Data and History of all hurricanes - USGS Maps
The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) is the world's largest active
archive of weather data
Weather, Warnings, Forecasts, Model Products, Climate information,
Facsimile Charts, Observations, links to government web sites, documentation
on meteorology, meteorological standards, Telecommunication protocols,
WMO Abbreviated Headings, NWS organization, NESDIS Imagery, hydrometeorologic,
hydrologic.
Weather and Climate Sites
NOAA Degree Day Statistics
The Weather Calculator
Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
Interactive Weather Information Network (IWIN) interfaces: Animated
Graphics
National Weather Service Homepages
OSEI - Operational Significant Event Imagery team produces high-resolution, detailed imagery of significant environmental events which are visible in remotely-sensed data - Includes Fires
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor Weather Data Source
Penn State Real-Time Weather
Forest Service - Stagnation maps
World Wide Web Weather Interface (W-4), created and maintained by meteorologist Eric Luebehusen.
Guidance on the Use of Models and Other Analyses in Attainment Demonstrations for the 8-hour Ozone NAAQS (PDF)
Wind data at North Carolina - National Weather Service Meteorological
Data Sets
NC Meteorological Links - Satellite, Trajectories and other weather
sites
WRPLOT View
Atmospheric Optics - Atmospheric refraction - Views of the Sky - Rays/Shadows - Water Droplets - Rainbows - Ice Halos - Aurorae - Clouds
Links to others
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Environmental Protection Agency
Directions to EPA's Research Triangle Campus
Air & Waste Management Association (AWMA)
Clean Air World. Learn about air pollution, find the latest news and information on important air topics and link to governmental air pollution control agencies around the world
State and Territorial Air Pollution Program Administrators and the Association of Local Air Pollution Control Officials (STAPPA/ALAPCO)
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
Earth Share AND Conservation & Preservation Charities Federation and Member Organizations
Sierra Club
North Carolina
Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)
North Carolina Public Interest Research Group (NCPIRG) - advocate for the public interest
Representatives Listed by State
Representative Listed by Name with link to their web site
by State then County
by State then District with Counties
by State then County - Draft
by State then District with Counties and C/MSAs - Draft
by State, C/MSA then County - Draft
Databases (Zip) - Draft
Senators Listed by Name
Detail Data on Members of Congress - Biographies, Office Listings, and District Descriptions
How to get a live person at 500 major companies' phone menus
at small-scale companies
FREE411.com 1-800-FREE411 is a free, nationwide directory assistance service. Catch - you get an ad which generally runs around 15 seconds.
Bell South
YellowBook.com
Google Local (yellow pages)
Superpages.com . GTE Yellow Pages and City Guide
Companies Online
Yahoo People Search
Yahoo Yellow Pages
AT&T AnyWho People Search
Federal Phone Directory
Infospace White and Yellow Pages
Infospace Reverse Phone Lookup and Address Lookup
phonespell.org - What does your phone number spell?
phonetic.com - What does your phone number spell?
Reference Desk - (The biggest and best I have ever seen)
Financial Calculators
Unit Conversion.org
Online Conversion
Reference Librarians' Index to the Internet
Marylaine Book Dealers and Reference
St Ambrose Univ - Best Info On Net (Their title)
This file lists all counties and equivalent areas in the United States defined as of January 1, 1990, alphabetically by State with related codes. There are several codes shown: FIPS MSA/CMSA/NECMA code, PMSA, FIPS State and County, then State and County Name
State Abbreviations
North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is replacing the U.S. Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system
ZIP Code look up
Area Code look up
US Postal Rates, Postage Calculator, Domestic Rates, Fees
The Internet Public Library
Calculator - Scientific, Finance, many others.
Metric Conversions
(If clock stops, enter Control- F5 to refresh)
National Institute of Standards and Technology CLOCK - TIME
Clock using Java
Clock without Java (In Netscape do View, Reload to update clock)
Clock using Internet Explorer
Another Clock
Time Zone Conversion
Time in Raleigh, NC (link to all other cities)
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
Decimal to Minutes-Seconds Converter and Latitude And Longitude Lookup
Univ. of Michigan Reference - Census etc
107 Congress - House Of Representatives
107 - Congress Senate
Thomas Register of American Manufacturers
Bartleby Library - Great Books Online
435 Mystery Audio CDs at Wake County Library, North Carolina as of Jan 16, 2006
The Free Dictionary.com - English, Medical, Legal, and Computer Dictionaries, Thesaurus, Encyclopedia, a Literature Reference Library, and a Search Engine
Ask Dr. Dictionary!
Thesaurus
Grammar Book
An Elementary English Grammar
text analysis tool
Encyclopedia.com
Meanings and Origins of Phrases, Sayings and Idioms
Info Please Almanacs
http://www.oddcast.com/home/demos/tts/frameset.php?frame1=talk
Text to Speech - enter text, select a language and hear it spoken
Google language translation
Translation.net - Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese.
Free Translation - Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese.
Travlang's Translating Dictionaries (many languages)
Freedict.com - Translator for Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, and Swedish
Balel Fish - Altavista
SYSTRAN
Currency Converter
Barcode - Ultimate Product Search Engine
True Cost of Driving
Cost of Driving
Military Alphabet
How many people have your name?
Check out Rumors to see if Truth or Fiction
Urban Legends (Scopes.com)
Salvation Army
Fun With Taxes.com
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Harvey Jeffries - information of interest on photochemistry
Scientific Journals
National Journal's Greenwire, The Environmental News Daily
Large List of Environmental Web Sites
World Resources Institute
Earth Trends - World Resources Institute
NC Green Power (improve North Carolina’s environment through voluntary contributions toward renewable energy)
The Power Scorecard is a rating mechanism that assesses the environmental impact of different types of electric generation.
Green-e.org lists energy providers certified to meet certain environmental and consumer protection standards
Research green power programs at this Department of Energy Web
Piedmont Biofuels
Wake Co, NC, TRASH TAKERS online directory
NC Swat-A-Litterbug Program 856-5700 or 1-877-DOT-4YOU (1-877-368-4968)
Earth911 - Recycling Services
Sierra Club in Raleigh
Clean Air Visibility Rule - Best Available Retrofit Technology (BART)
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PC World Reviews of Antivirus Software
independent comparatives of Anti-Virus software
Symantec Virus List
Test Security and Virus Check Free
Intelligent Updater
PC World 2nd place (I use this one)
McAfee Virus Recent Threats
Virus Glossary
Test Security and Virus Check Free
PC World number 1
Zone Alarm
(2006 C/Net Award)
NOD32 Antivirus Software
Panda Antivirus 2007
Norton - Symantec
McAfee VirusScan Plus
Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0.2.621
BitDefender
NOD32 Antivirus Software
McAfee FreeScan
Symantec Security Check
Choose PandaTotal Scan
BitDefender Online Scanner
Trend Micro's FREE online virus scanner
Virustotal analyzes suspicious files - free
List of free anti-virus software, spyware, firewalls etc
PC Tools AntiVirus Free Edition 3.1.2
Avast Free Home Edition 4.7.1001 (not rated anywhere as good as Symantec, McAfee, etc)
AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition
AVG (not rated anywhere as good as Symantec, McAfee, etc)
BitDefender 8 Free Edition (not rated anywhere as good as Symantec, McAfee, etc)
Message Labs Virus Information
Security Watch Newsletters by PC Magazine
Eraser (free) - good for deleting files from an old computer before giving it away.
SpyBot Search and Destroy (finds protection against ad-serving software, Trojan horses, and other means of tracking your surfing habits) Free
How to read email headers - learn who sender really is
Robtex - see if host name, URL, is black listed
Ad Aware (antiTracking software) Free
Spy Sweeper (Webroot) $30
Spy audit (Free)
Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware (Beta) Free for now
Spyware and Adware Removal Help
Anti-Spyware Guide
List of Rogue/Suspect Anti-Spyware Products & Web Sites
ippages
showipaddress
plotip
webyield
Strider GhostBuster by Microsoft
Bandwidth Speed Test
CNET
Speakeasy
Toast.net
Time Warner/Road Runner
Speed test by OoKla - can save results
Visualware (good comparison to others) - can save results
DLL - Lost a DLL file? . Find it here
Shields Up
PC Flank
Sygate Online System
Robtex - find you IP address, check if you are blacklisted (will be in red)
Windows Keyboard Shortcuts
PC Decrapifier attempts to remove all of the crap on your new PC that you never asked for or wanted
AnswersThatWork
pacs-portal
Startup Applications List
ProcessLibrary.com: Free Process Information
What Process
Startup Application Knowledge Base
WinTasks Process Library - The WinTasks Process Library contains information about all common Windows processes and is continuously updated with new information. On this page you can find a subset of the most popular processes listed in WinTasks Process Library. The categories available online are: Security Risks, System Processes, and Applications.
Microsoft Web site that offers the same downloads that are available from Windows Update
W3Schools - Web-building tutorials
HTML
Google's ranking algorithm (the method by which the search engine orders results)
WebImage icon library
Create a Graphic Email address for your web page to help keep spam down. (Used by webmasters - You do not need this if you don't have a webpage)
EPA's Web Guide
NY Times - David Pogue on Computers etc
WSJ - Walt Mossberg's Personal Technology, and buying guide
Wiki program and site - create your own Wiki
Adobe Reader for Windows XP - Adobe Reader is a MUST HAVE program on your PC. It lets you read Adobe PDF files that most companies and the government uses to distribute documents that will print correctly on your printer.
If you do not have Windows XP, click on "Choose a different version".
(Unless you need them, I would suggest you uncheck Adobe Yahoo! Toolbar and Adobe Photoshop® Album Starter Edition.)
XnView - view and convert graphic files, 400 graphics formats - free (I have never use it)
IrfanView - graphic viewer - free (I have never use it)
101 Fabulous Freebies (PC World)
yCopy - a utility that helps you copy files from one place to another.
Unlocker - solves problem with Cannot delete file: Access is denied
Recase - folder and filename case-conversion tool - Highlight one or all of the files--whether upper-, lower-, or mixed case--and Recase will change them to the case that's just right for you.
Cute PDF - Creates PDF file Free
IBM Symphony - Free word processor, spreadsheet, presentation
HP Smart Web Printing - Free - improves upon IE's ability to print what you see on the Web page, combine pages, saves paper
IE7 Open Last Closed Tab is a plug-in for Internet Explorer 7 that reopens the closed tabs
Older Word, Excel and Power Point can open Word etc 2007 documents with Microsoft's Compatibility Pack
Audacity is free software for recording and editing sounds.
On-Line help
Hardware
Software
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This is for my personal use only and is not a sales pitch for any web site.
Debriefing
Dogpile
Metacrawler
Savvy Search
Google
Experimental search
Google Cheat Sheet (help)
Yahoo
Dogpile
MSN
Several Search Engines with Descriptions of Uses
About
Ask
LookSmart
Bottom Dollar
Price Scan
Shopzilla
Shopper
Shopping
Current Codes
Deal Taker
ebates
Gotta Deal
at Yahoo
at Find Me a Tune
Drudge Report
NY Times
LA Times
Washington Post
CNN
Scientific American
Environmental News Network
Medical
Kosmix health search site
Web Cams
PC Magazine Good Sites
Buy Stamps on line from USPS Cost of stamp + $1.00 shipping (saves a trip to the post office)
USPS Household (stamps calculate postage etc)
Lightning Safety
Digital Photography Review
Digital Camera Resource
Blurb
Picaboo
SharedInk
Lulu
Greener Choices (Consumer Reports) Buying cleaner products and recycling
National Do Not Call Registry
MIB will provide consumers with health record disclosure once annually without charge
Public Health Service
COA
Foundation
Retirement
Valuation Guide -
determine an estimated value of donated items (Salvation Army)
Rocky Top Tennessee
Mark Easley
The Classical Station
WXYC 89.3 FM is the non-commercial student-run radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Writer's Almanac Poetry
Under Milk Wood (Dylan Thomas)
Jokes
Health Info
National Association of State Comprehensive Health Insurance Plans (NASCHIP) - state governments to serve the medically "uninsurable" population.
NeedyMeds is a 501(3)(c) non-profit with the mission of helping people who cannot afford medicine or healthcare costs
RxAssist can help you learn about ways to use pharmaceutical company programs and other resources to help reduce your medication costs
4,500 photographs documenting natural environments, ecologies, and plant communities
FORA.tv delivers discourse, discussions and debates on the world's most interesting political, social and cultural issues, and enables viewers to join the conversation.
ResearchChannel - Remarkable speakers, researchers and professors present revolutionary thoughts and discoveries on ResearchChannel.
University Channel makes videos of academic lectures and events from all over the world available to the public
Research-TV produces cutting-edge research news stories on behalf of universities and research organizations.
Traditional Fine Arts Organization - a comprehensive catalogue of online full motion videos streamed free to viewers - art oriented videos
TotalVid allows you to select from thousands of videos in over 50 categories, for as little as $1.99. Browse through our library of hard-to-find videos in categories like action sports, martial arts, how-to, anime, travel, etc (not free)
Energy Policy TV - video of leaders in energy and the environment as they propose and implement policies and market responses.
uVu is a video sharing website and companion digital broadcast channel powered by WPBT Channel 2, South Florida ’s PBS station. - art and culture
Technology, Entertainment, Design - the best talks and performances from the TED Conferences available to the public, for free.
PBS
Teacher Tube
blip.tv
Stage6
Brightcove
Veoh
MSN Soapbox
YouTube
Vimeo
Jumpcut
MySpace
Google
Images
Scholarly papers and books
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