Links to Various Web sites

Maps

Meteorological (Weather) Data

Contacts: Environmental Orgs, Congress, Phone Numbers

Reference Sources

Scientific Journals and Environmental Information

Computer Information: Hardware, Software, Virus Software, & Help

News, Music, Book, Search Engine, & General Information Websites

Travel Sites

Health Info

Maps

Mapquest
Google Maps
Google Earth
Microsoft
1. Terra Server - w/ Lat Long
2. Live Search (Virtual Earth)
Yahoo.com (Data by Navteq)
SuperPages - Yellow Pages (by MS)
Concierge (by Google)
Excite Travel - (by Map Blast)
Maps.com (Maps on Us)
Info Please state maps - major cities (by maps.com)
Rand McNally
Historic Topographic Maps
Pages Jaunes - Maps and photos of France
Trails - 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)
Convert multiple addresses to GPS coordinates -GPS Visualizer
Find location knowing lat long or find lat long
Find the exact Lat/Long for a street address
compute distance between lat longs
Find Lat/Long using a map (not street address)
Old Maps
1. www.sochistdisc.org
2. www.hakluyt.com
3. www.philaprintshop.com/cook.html
4. coombs.anu.edu.au/~cookproj/home.html
5. www.WalkingTree.com
6. www.geography.wisc.edu/histcart
7. www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/mellon
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Meteorological Data

Understanding your weather forecast
The Foliage Network - Leaves Changing
Atmospheric Optics - Rays & Shadows - Water Droplets - Rainbows - Ice Halos
How Valid Are T.V. an NOAA Weather Forecasts? (Forget more than 48hrs out)
Several Weather Sites
1. Today in Raleigh - Set of several maps and info on one page
2. NOAA - Local Weather
  1. North Carolina NOAA Weather Discussion
  2. Cary forecast
  3. Cary Radar
  4. Raleigh, NC Forecast Discussion
  5. Raleigh Area Weather Discussion
  6. Graphical weather forecast table
  7. Current weather conditions at Raleigh Airport
  8. NWS Weather Cam in Raleigh on NC State Campus
  9. Raleigh Forecast Suite
  10. Raleigh Local Climate Data
  11. Site map
  12. NexLab NC
  13. Raleigh Short Term Forecast Discussion
  14. Raleigh Area Forecast Discussion
3. Raleigh, NC- WRAL TV
4. Raleigh, NC - NBC 17 Radar
5. Raleigh, NC - ABC Radar
6. Raleigh, North Carolina - WRAL TV
7. Raleigh, NC - Radar websites
8. Weather Channel
  1. Radar at Weather.com
  2. Satellite at Weather.com
9. Triangle Weather
10. Bob's Weather Page - Links for NC
11. Wunderground.com - The Weather Underground
12. Weather Matrix
13. Hurricane Data
  1. National Hurricane Center
  2. Central Florida Hurricane Center - Other Hurricane Links
  3. See UNISYS below
  4. Weather Underground Hurricane Forecast
  5. Hurricaneville
  6. Links to other hurricane web sites
14. College of DuPage Next Generation Weather Lab
15. 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
  1. Temperature
  2. Radar
  3. Raleigh Forecast
NOAA
1. The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) is the world's largest active archive of weather data
2. 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.
3. Weather and Climate Sites
4. NOAA Degree Day Statistics
5. The Weather Calculator
6. Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
7. Interactive Weather Information Network (IWIN) interfaces: Animated Graphics
  1. Interactive Weather Information Network (IWIN) interfaces: Animated Graphics version (High speed Internet connections)
  2. Not Animated
8. National Weather Service Homepages
9. OSEI - Operational Significant Event Imagery team produces high-resolution, detailed imagery of significant environmental events which are visible in remotely-sensed data - Includes Fires
NASA
1. Geostationary Satellite Server
2. TOMS Aerosol Hot Spots Page
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor Weather Data Source
1. Computer Model Forecasts (and Discussions)
2. USA Weather
3. 700 Weather Cams
4. Weather Maps
5. Radar & Satellite
6. Travel Cities Weather page! From here, forecasts, current conditions, color satellite imagery, and radar are available for over 30 cities
7. Numerous Links to other weather sites
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
Progress Energy outage maps (weather related usually)
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Contacts: Environmental Orgs, Congress, Phone Numbers

Environmental Associations And Organizations
1. Environmental Protection Agency
2. Directions to EPA's Research Triangle Campus
3. Air & Waste Management Association (AWMA)
  1. Allegheny Mountain Section
4. 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
5. State and Territorial Air Pollution Program Administrators and the Association of Local Air Pollution Control Officials (STAPPA/ALAPCO)
6. Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
7. Earth Share AND Conservation & Preservation Charities Federation and Member Organizations
8. Sierra Club North Carolina
9. Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)
10. North Carolina Public Interest Research Group (NCPIRG) - advocate for the public interest
Congress Detail Data on Members of Congress - Biographies, Office Listings, and District Descriptions
Phone Numbers of Public, Yellow Pages
1. How to get a live person at 500 major companies' phone menus at small-scale companies
2. Get a Human when you call for service
3. Dial a Human when you call for service
4. FREE411.com 1-800-FREE411 is a free, nationwide directory assistance service. Catch - you get an ad which generally runs around 15 seconds.
5. Dial 1-800-GOOG-411 from any phone - State the location and business type - Connect to the business for free
6. Several White Page directories at Library Spot
7. White Pages at WhitePages.com
8. AT&T Real Pages Live - White and Yellow pages (looks like phone book) once on yellow page, go to left panel and choose white pages
9. White Pages on Yellowpages.com
10. YellowBook.com
11. Google Local (yellow pages)
12. Superpages.com . GTE Yellow Pages and City Guide
13. Companies Online
14. Yahoo People Search
15. Yahoo Yellow Pages
16. AT&T AnyWho People Search
17. Federal Phone Directory
18. Switch Board
19. Who Called Us
20. Directory of UnKnown Callers
21. Reverse Phone Detective
22. Reverse Phone by whitepages.com
23. phonespell.org - What does your phone number spell?
24. phonetic.com - What does your phone number spell?
25. Pipl people search
26. ZABA search
27. Area Code look up
28. FCC recommends calling the following toll-free numbers to verify your authorized telephone company: 1-700-555-4141 for long distance and international services and 1+your area code+700-4141 for local and local toll services.
Other Contacts
1. Medicare (1-800-633-4277)
2. Social Security (1-800-772-1213)
3. Fed World
4. Credit report (lost or stolen credit cards)
  1. Free Annual Credit Reports (NC in Sept 2005) - If you ask for a report from a different company every 4 months, you can get them throughout the year for free.
  2. Equifax 1-800 525-6285
  3. Experian (TRW) 1-800-301-7195
  4. Trans Union 1-800-680-7289
  5. LexisNexis - Accurint information services report - very detailed (not a credit report)
5. Conference Call Services - Free or $0.10 per minute w/ 800 number
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Reference Sources
1. Reference Desk - (The biggest and best I have ever seen)
2. Financial Calculators
3. Unit Conversion.org
4. Online Conversion
5. Calculators and Converters - Easy Calculation
6. Reference Librarians' Index to the Internet
7. Marylaine Book Dealers and Reference
8. St Ambrose Univ - Best Info On Net (Their title)
9. 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
  1. If not on census site
  2. Fips state and county codes only
  3. All Counties and CMSAs (FIPS Codes) with 1999 MSAs (with C/MSA codes not approved by Census, etc)
10. State Abbreviations
11. Acronyms and Abbreviations
  1. Air Programs
  2. Enhanced Monitoring
  3. From Blue Book
  4. DOE Ames Lab
12. North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is replacing the U.S. Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system
13. File Extensions - database of file extensions and the various programs that use them
14. Area Code look up
15. Postal Info
  1. ZIP Code database(maps, everything you can think of) USPS (limited info)
  2. US Postal Rates, Postage Calculator, Domestic Rates, Fees
  3. Mailbox Locator: find a USPS mailbox in your area
16. The Internet Public Library
17. Calculator - Scientific, Finance, many others.
18. Metric Conversions
19. Time
  1. US Naval Observatory EST Clock (If clock stops, enter Control- F5 to refresh)
  2. 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
  3. Time in Raleigh, NC (link to all other cities)
  4. Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
  5. Time by Phone - dial (303) 499-7111 for WWV (Colorado) This is not a toll-free numbers; callers outside the local calling area are charged for the call at regular long-distance rates.
20. Decimal to Minutes-Seconds Converter and Latitude And Longitude Lookup
21. Univ. of Michigan Reference - Census etc
22. 107 Congress - House Of Representatives
23. 107 - Congress Senate
24. Thomas Register of American Manufacturers
25. Bartleby Library - Great Books Online
26. 435 Mystery Audio CDs at Wake County Library, North Carolina as of Jan 16, 2006
27. The Free Dictionary.com - English, Medical, Legal, and Computer Dictionaries, Thesaurus, Encyclopedia, a Literature Reference Library, and a Search Engine
28. Ask Dr. Dictionary!
29. Misspelled Words, Names and Places
30. Thesaurus
31. Grammar Book
32. An Elementary English Grammar
33. text analysis tool
34. Encyclopedia.com
35. Meanings and Origins of Phrases, Sayings and Idioms
36. Shmoop is a way to get into history, poetry, or classic literature. Developed by masters students and faculty at some of the country's top universities. The service is designed to provide students, teachers, and everyday readers with a resource to help them get engaged.
37. Info Please Almanacs http://www.oddcast.com/home/demos/tts/frameset.php?frame1=talk
38. Text to Speech - enter text (app 200 char) , select a language and hear it spoken Natural Readers Text to Speech 200 characters Free online
39. Translation
  1. Google language translation
  2. Translation.net - Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese.
  3. Free Translation - Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese.
  4. Travlang's Translating Dictionaries (many languages)
  5. Freedict.com - Translator for Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, and Swedish
  6. Balel Fish - Altavista
  7. SYSTRAN
40. Audio Pronunciation of a Name (Pronounce Names)
41. Audio Pronunciation Guide of Names (How to say that name)
42. Currency Converter
43. Barcode - Ultimate Product Search Engine
44. True Cost of Driving
45. Cost of Driving
46. Military Alphabet
47. How many people have your name?
48. Check out Rumors to see if Truth or Fiction Urban Legends (Scopes.com)
49. User Manuals for Consumer Electronics
50. Tax valuation guide for goods donated to charity Salvation Army Fun With Taxes.com
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Scientific Journals and Environmental Information
1. Harvey Jeffries - information of interest on photochemistry
2. Scientific Journals
3. National Journal's Greenwire, The Environmental News Daily
4. Large List of Environmental Web Sites
5. World Resources Institute
6. Earth Trends - World Resources Institute
7. NC Green Power (improve North Carolina�s environment through voluntary contributions toward renewable energy)
8. The Power Scorecard is a rating mechanism that assesses the environmental impact of different types of electric generation.
9. Green-e.org lists energy providers certified to meet certain environmental and consumer protection standards
10. Research green power programs at this Department of Energy Web
11. Piedmont Biofuels
12. Wake Co, NC, TRASH TAKERS online directory
13. NC Swat-A-Litterbug Program 856-5700 or 1-877-DOT-4YOU (1-877-368-4968)
14. Earth911 - Recycling Services
15. Sierra Club in Raleigh
16. Clean Air Visibility Rule - Best Available Retrofit Technology (BART)
17. Green-Label Programs - These 15 green-label programs are recognized as good benchmarks by experts and retailers such as Green Depot and Office Depot.
  1. Green Seal (www.greenseal.org)
  2. Energy Star (www.energystar.gov)
  3. EPA Design for the Environment (www.epa.gov/dfe)
  4. WaterSense (www.epa.gov/watersense)
  5. Forest Stewardship Council (www.fsc.org)
  6. Scientific Certification Systems (www.scscertified.com)
  7. EcoLogo (www.ecologo.org)
  8. Greenguard (www.greenguard.org)
  9. Cradle to Cradle (www.c2ccertified.com)
  10. Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (www.epeat.net)
  11. Global Organic Textile Standard (www.global-standard.org)
  12. Biodegradable Products Institute (www.bpiworld.org)
  13. FloorScore (www.rfci.com)
  14. Totally Chlorine Free (www.chlorinefreeproducts.org)
  15. Carpet and Rug Institute's Green Label/Green Label Plus (www.carpet-rug.org)
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Computer Information: Hardware, Software, Virus Software, & Help
1. Information about Virus Hoaxes from:
  1. Hoax Encyclopedia - About.com
  2. List of hoaxes - Wikipedia
  3. Symantec
  4. McAfee
  5. Vmyths
  6. Urban Myths - Snopes
  7. Break the Chain - Stop junk e-mail and misinformation!
  8. DOE-CIRC provides the U.S. Department of Energy with incident response, reporting, and tracking, along with other computer security support. Has bulletins on computer security vulnerabilities and recommended actions.
2. Anti-Virus Programs
  1. Expensive but Good
  2. PC World Reviews of Antivirus Software
  3. independent comparatives of Anti-Virus software
  4. Symantec Virus List Test Security and Virus Check Free Intelligent Updater PC World 2nd place (I use this one)
  5. McAfee Virus Recent Threats Virus Glossary Test Security and Virus Check Free
  6. PC World number 1
  7. Zone Alarm (2006 C/Net Award)
  8. NOD32 Antivirus Software
  9. 1 Month Free
  10. Panda Antivirus 2007
  11. Norton - Symantec
  12. McAfee VirusScan Plus
  13. Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0.2.621
  14. BitDefender
  15. NOD32 Antivirus Software
  16. On line Scan
  17. McAfee FreeScan
  18. Symantec Security Check
  19. Panda ActiveScan 2.0 - Free Antivirus
  20. BitDefender Online Scanner
  21. Trend Micro's FREE online virus scanner
  22. Virustotal analyzes suspicious files - free
  23. Free Program (I recommend buying a good AntiVirus program and firewall)
  24. PC World ranking of Free anti-virus software
  25. List of free anti-virus software, spyware, firewalls etc
  26. PC Tools AntiVirus Free Edition 3.1.2
  27. Avira AntiVir Personal - Free
  28. Comodo Firewall - Free
  29. Avast Free Home Edition 4.7.1001 (not rated anywhere as good as Symantec, McAfee, etc)
  30. AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition AVG (not rated anywhere as good as Symantec, McAfee, etc)
  31. BitDefender 8 Free Edition (not rated anywhere as good as Symantec, McAfee, etc)
  32. Anti-Virus Guide (No idea of quality of site)
3. Norton Safe Web - Check to see if a Web site is safe
4. Message Labs Virus Information
5. Security Watch Newsletters by PC Magazine
6. Eraser (free) - good for deleting files from an old computer before giving it away.
7. SpyBot Search and Destroy (finds protection against ad-serving software, Trojan horses, and other means of tracking your surfing habits) Free
8. How to read email headers - learn who sender really is
9. Robtex - see if host name, URL, is black listed
10. AntiSpyware
  1. Ad Aware (antiTracking software) Free
  2. SUPER Anti Spyware Free
  3. Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware Free
  4. Spy Sweeper (Webroot) $30
  5. Spy audit (Free)
  6. Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware (Beta) Free for now
  7. Spyware and Adware Removal Help
  8. Anti-Spyware Guide
  9. List of Rogue/Suspect Anti-Spyware Products & Web Sites Is Sony's invasive DRM software running on your Windows PC? Choose Run from the Start menu, then type cmd /k sc querry $sys$aries If the response is STATE:4 RUNNING, you have the software running. If you see The specified service does not exist as an installed service, then the software is not running. If the XCP software is running, use your antivirus software to remove it.
  10. See your Internet Protocol address: ippages showipaddress plotip webyield
11. Adobe Flash Player - Global Storage Settings panel - CAREFUL you are acutally in your Flash player Read PC World article before making any adjustments. - If you want your computer to prompt you for permission to proceed whenever a site wishes to store a Flash cookie on the PC, move the Global Storage Settings slider bar all the way to the left (from ‘100KB' to ‘None').To delete all existing Flash cookies--good or bad--click the Website Storage Settings tab at the far left of the Flash settings interface, and click the Delete all sites button at the tab's base. To delete them individually, highlight an entry and click Delete website.- For Firefox use the add-on Better Privacy
12. Cookienator - cleans bad cookies (found on PC World)
13. How to Manage Online Tracking Programs
14. Hotspot Shield protects your entire web surfing session; securing your connection at both your home Internet network & Public Internet networks (both wired and wireless) (found in PC World)
15. AVG LinkScanner- It scans the pages behind the link you�re interested in to see if it leads to a genuine site.
16. McAfee's SiteAdvisor tests websites for spyware, spam and scams as you use a search engine
17. Anti-Rootkit
  1. Rootkit Revealer - free
  2. Sophos Anti-Rootkit - free
  3. Panda AntiRootkit - Free
18. Strider GhostBuster by Microsoft
19. Bandwidth Speed Test CNET ISP Geeks (1234asdf) Ping Test . Net (1234asdf) Ookla Speakeasy Toast.net Time Warner/Road Runner Speed test by OoKla - can save results Visualware (good comparison to others) - can save results Speet test sites
20. DLL - Lost a DLL file? . Find it here
21. Web-based PC vulnerability tests: Shields Up Sygate Online System Robtex - find you IP address, check if you are blacklisted (will be in red)
22. Guard Privacy & Online Security
23. Secunia PSI is a FREE security tool designed to detect vulnerable and out-dated programs and plug-ins which expose your PC to attacks.
24. Windows Keyboard Shortcuts
25. Teach Your Parents Tech (by Google) - How to do common computer tasks (copy/paste)
26. Net Lingo - definitions of internet and texting terms
27. List of File Extensions
  1. List of file formats
  2. Image file formats
  3. Windows commonly used file types.
28. Online storage and file delivery services
  1. You Send It - send 100 MB files free
29. Free Fax - Ad on the cover page, Fax 1 document - max 3 pages, Max 2 free faxes per day (or $2 for 15 pages)
30. Photo editing tools (online)
  1. PhotoFunia is an online photo editing tool - it automatically identifies the face in the photo and let's you add cool photo effects and create funny face photo montages.
  2. Photo505 (like PhotoFunia)
  3. Aviary - Photo-editing, logos, web templates, filters, color palettes, screen capture
  4. Splashup is the only full-featured, free range, image editor online. Create new images, edit existing images and manipulate layers with filters.
  5. Citrify - enhance your personal photos.
31. MailChimp free newsletter service - Store up to 2,000 subscribers. Send up to 12,000 emails per month. No expiring trials, contracts or credit card required
32. Schedule a meeting/conference call free
33. Email
  1. Yahoo Mail
  2. Yahoo! Mail blog
  3. Fast Mail
34. FireFox Extensions
  1. AdblockPlus -- Blocks Ads
  2. BetterPrivacy -- "Super-Cookie Safeguard"
  3. ContextHighlight -- Lets you highlight words on the page via the context menu.
  4. DownThemAll -- The mass downloader for Firefox.
  5. DownloadHelper -- Download videos and images from many sites
  6. EasyYoutubeVideoDownloader -- Add easy to use video download links in FLV, 3GP, MP3, MP4 and 720p HD and Full-HD qualities on Youtube pages.
  7. ErrorZillaMod -- Implements a useful error page when a website cannot be reached.
  8. FEBE -- Backup your Firefox data
  9. FirefoxShowcase -- Easily locate any browser you've opened in Firefox
  10. Ghostery -- Ghostery identifies and allows you to block the 3rd parties (web bugs) that are hidden on the current page you're visiting. Web bugs include ad networks, behavioral data collectors and web analytics providers.
  11. HighlightAll -- Highlights all occurrences of the selected text
  12. HtmlValidator -- Adds HTML validation to the View Page Source of the browser. The validation is done by Tidy or a SGML Parser from W3c.
  13. ImageZoom -- Adds zoom functionality for images
  14. LazarusFormRecovery -- Recover lost forms with a single click
  15. ListAllImages -- List url, size and dimension properties for all images in a page.
  16. Microsoft.NETFrameworkAssistant -- Adds ClickOnce support and the ability to report installed .NET versions to the web server.
  17. NoScript -- Extra protection for your Firefox: NoScript allows JavaScript, Java (and other plugins) only for trusted domains of your choice (e.g. your home-banking web site). This whitelist based pre-emptive blocking approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities (known and even unknown!) with no loss of functionality.
  18. PDFDownload -- Allows you to choose what to do with a PDF file: download it, view it with an external viewer or view it as HTML.
  19. SaveImages -- Save images in open page.
  20. ScrapBook -- Helps you to save Web pages and organize the collection.
  21. SessionManager -- Saves and restores the state of all windows.
  22. TabMixPlus -- Tab browsing with an added boost.
  23. Table2Clipboard -- Allow to copy to clipboard an HTML table rows/columns selection correctly formatted
  24. UnhidePasswords -- Shows contents of password fields in cleartext.
35. Check your password � is it strong? - Microsoft Online Safety another checker - How secure is my password - days required to break password
36. PwnedList you to check if email address or username for an account has been compromised Read about it on MSNBC
37. Find IP address of a website PC Find host by IP address
38. IP-Lookup finds Your current IP address and related details
39. Find your City Zip Latitude Longitude ISP from IP address or any other IP address
40. Gives better Lat/Long
41. PC Decrapifier attempts to remove all of the crap on your new PC that you never asked for or wanted
42. Startup Applications - What's running on your PC
  1. Autoruns - shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them. (I use this program)
  2. Soluto Beta allows you to understand your boot, discover which applications are slowing it down (and keep running later in the background, affecting your ongoing experience), and allows you to significantly improve it.
  3. AnswersThatWork
  4. pacs-portal
  5. Startup Applications List
  6. ProcessLibrary.com: Free Process Information
  7. What Process
  8. Startup Application Knowledge Base
  9. 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.
43. Online Tech Support Services
  1. 5 Star Support
  2. Tech Support Guy
  3. Ask Me Help Desk
  4. Protonic
  5. PC Magazine Review of tech support sites
44. Microsoft Web site that offers the same downloads that are available from Windows Update
45. Build a Web Page
  1. W3Schools - Web-building tutorials HTML
  2. HTML Code Tutorial helpful guide to creating web pages
  3. Special Characters in HTML Web Monkey Degraeve W3 School Natural Innovations
  4. KompoZer - web authoring system with WYSIWYG web page editing.
  5. The SeaMonkey - Internet browser, email & newsgroup client with an included web feed reader, HTML editor, IRC chat and web development tool,
  6. Google Free Web Site
  7. Google's ranking algorithm (the method by which the search engine orders results)
  8. WebImage icon library
  9. Web icon library (Free Icons Web.com)
  10. Clip Art, Photos, Animations, Sounds (MS Office Online) - Click on the down arrow next to search to find more than 150,000 free images and sounds
  11. Digital Images of Yale�s Vast Cultural Collections Now Available for Free Page with more filters
  12. Website Templates (free)
  13. EPA's Web Guide
  14. Footnotes, endnotes, and sidenotes on Web pages
  15. Button Generators My Cool Button Cool Text Buttonator Form Style Generator
  16. Spam
    1. Hide your email address on websites from spam
    2. More info on Spam than you ever wanted to know.
    3. 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) Look at picture 398to417 Lots of colors and fonts also try this plain one.
    4. Encoder transforming your ascii email address into its equivalent decimal entity
  17. Website Monitoring Services - Know if your website is UP - Free
    1. JaGuard
    2. InternetSeer
    3. ServiceUptime
    4. Site24x7
    5. My Server Alert
    6. SiteUptime
46. NY Times - David Pogue on Computers etc
  1. Calling via the Net
47. WSJ - Walt Mossberg's Personal Technology, and buying guide
48. Wiki program and site - create your own Wiki
49. Software (suggested by PC Magazine, PC World, or newspaper)
  1. Adobe Reader - 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. Be sure to choose the correct version for your operating system (Windows Vista or XP, etc). (Unless you need them, I would suggest you uncheck Adobe Yahoo! Toolbar and Adobe Photoshop� Album Starter Edition.)
  2. XnView - view and convert graphic files, 400 graphics formats - free (I have never use it)
  3. IrfanView - graphic viewer - free (I have never use it)
  4. 101 Fabulous Freebies (PC World)
  5. yCopy - a utility that helps you copy files from one place to another.
  6. Double Driver backups your drivers (PCWorld)
  7. Unlocker - solves problem with Cannot delete file: Access is denied
  8. Mouse Jiggler - Keeps your PC from suddenly goes to sleep.
  9. 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.
  10. Cute PDF - Creates PDF file Free
  11. IBM Symphony - Free word processor, spreadsheet, presentation
  12. Zoho - Online Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Presentation (Free)
  13. Google Docs accepts most popular file formats, including DOC, XLS, ODT, ODS, RTF, CSV, PPT, etc
  14. HP Smart Web Printing - Free - improves upon IE's ability to print what you see on the Web page, combine pages, saves paper
  15. IE7 Open Last Closed Tab is a plug-in for Internet Explorer 7 that reopens the closed tabs
  16. Older Word, Excel and Power Point can open Word etc 2007 documents with Microsoft's Compatibility Pack
  17. Word Viewer - View, print and copy MS Office Word documents, even if you don't have Word installed.
  18. PowerPoint Viewer 2007 - lets you view full-featured presentations created in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 97 and later versions.
  19. Audacity is free software for recording and editing sounds. On-Line help
  20. TinCam - Create a webpage with live pictures or video from your webcams. TinCam can upload pictures to your webserver or serve them directly from your own computer.
  21. Need more Memory? - Scan your computer to find out what is already inside your system and get recommended upgrades.
  22. Stalled Printer Repair is a free utility that purges any stuck jobs it finds, meaning you should be able to resume printing again right away. (PC World)
  23. Photoshop Help and Support
  24. Remote PC Control - Team Viewer (free) - Download "Full Version" for yourself / "Join a Session" for partner
  25. Dreamweaver help
  26. Macrium Reflect - free disk imaging software
  27. VisiPics - finds and deletes all your duplicates photos (free)
  28. 25 GB of free storage on MS Windows Live
  29. PC World - 101 Great Free Sites and Downloads You�ve Probably Never Heard Of
  30. Portable diagnostic programs to keep on your flash drive (PCWORLD)
    1. CCleaner Portable:Aside from finding and deleting broken items in the Windows Registry, the portable version of Piriform's Registry cleaner and repair tool cleans out bits of Internet Explorer that can compromise your privacy (such as the cache and cookies), deletes chkdsk file fragments, manages restore points, and does an assortment of other tasks.
    2. Revo Uninstaller Portable: Windows' own program uninstaller does nothing except launch the uninstall routine that came with the program you no longer want, and those uninstall routines are notoriously sloppy. This portable freebie is much smarter--it also removes what the program's uninstall routine left behind. But Revo has an important limitation: It can't uninstall 64-bit applications. From the VS Revo Group.
    3. EasyCleaner: This free collection of tools from ToniArts overlaps CCleaner in many ways, but it's clearly the better choice for one particular chore: emptying an overloaded hard drive. The Space Usage tool scans your hard drive (or a selected folder) and gives you a breakdown and a pie chart of how much space each folder is taking up. You can drill down to see the size of a folder's subfolders.
    4. SUPERAntiSpyware Portable Scanner portable version of a malware scanners. Oddly, it comes in the form of an MS-DOS program (with a .com extension). Launch it, and it loads the familiar Windows interface (and yes, it works in 64-bit environments). It's updated every day or so, so if you download the latest version just before running it, you'll get something reasonably up-to-date.
    5. HijackThis: This malware fighter from TrendMicro doesn't actually fix anything, but it produces a very thorough, and for most people, thoroughly unreadable report. Click here for a list of online forums where you can upload your report and likely get a helpful answer.
    6. Recuva Portable:Undeleters should be portable, since installing a program lowers the chances that you'll successfully recover that lost file. Ffree portable file recovery program that comes from Piriform, the folks who make CCleaner.
    7. Rescue CD: If your computer no longer starts due to malware corrupting the operating system, or you suspect the security software has been compromised, you can use the F-Secure Rescue CD to securely boot up the computer and check the programs installed.
50. Video Compatibility Matrix Chart - outlines the most popular types of connectors found on modern Home Entertainment and Computer equipment and allows you to look up what other types of connectors are compatible with one another.
51. Hardware
52. Software
53. Excel 2007 Keyboard Shortcuts
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News, Music, Book, Search Engine, & General Information Websites
This is for my personal use only and is not a sales pitch for any web site.
1. Meta-Search sites: Debriefing Dogpile Metacrawler Savvy Search
2. Search: Google Experimental search Google Cheat Sheet (help) Yahoo Dogpile MSN Several Search Engines with Descriptions of Uses About Ask LookSmart
3. Startingpage search engine protects your Privacy by NOT recording your IP address (Google does and uses it to track you)
4. Google Search using Startingpage Privacy
5. Search for Best Prices: Bottom Dollar Price Scan Shopzilla Shopper Shopping
6. Discount Coupons: Current Codes Deal Taker ebates Gotta Deal
7. Find the title of a Song: Lyrics Freak at Yahoo at Find Me a Tune Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
8. News: Drudge Report NY Times LA Times Washington Post CNN Scientific American Environmental News Network
9. The Onion - American news satire website featuring satirical articles reporting on international, national, and local news.
10. Medical Kosmix health search site
11. Web Cams
12. PC Magazine Good Sites
13. USPS Postage Price Calculator Buy Stamps online at USPS
14. Lightning Safety
15. Print Large Photos (up to wall size)
16. Digital Photography Review Digital Camera Resource
17. Publish a Book: Blurb Picaboo SharedInk Lulu
18. Greener Choices (Consumer Reports) Buying cleaner products and recycling
19. National Do Not Call Registry
20. How to stop Unwanted Spam on Your Cell Phone
21. Identity Theft
  1. FTC ID Theft If not available on FTC site
  2. Another FTC Identity Theft site
  3. Ric Edelman's suggestions If not available on Ric's site
  4. Michigan State
  5. World Privacy Forum - responses to medical identity theft
  6. Identity Theft 911
22. MIB will provide consumers with health record disclosure once annually without charge
23. Public Health Service COA Foundation
24. Campbell Interest and Skill Survey (CISS) Vocational interest and skills inventory with career planner (the best)
25. Career Orientation Placement and Evaluation Survey (COPES)
26. Retirement
27. Valuation Guide - determine an estimated value of donated items (Salvation Army)
28. Advanced Directives - Living Will etc
  1. North Carolina Advance Health Care Directive Registry - forms Advance Health Care Directives and Organ Donor Card
  2. Caring Connections provides free advance directives and instructions for each state
  3. How you want to be treated if you are seriously ill and unable to speak for yourself
  4. AARP
  5. US Living Will Registry
  6. Amer Bar - choose Health Care Decisionmaking
29. SaferProducts.gov is the Publicly Available Consumer Product Safety Information Database website of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission http://www.saferproducts.gov/
30. The Writer's Almanac Poetry - Garrison Keillor
31. The Poetry Foundation
32. Poet Betty Adcock
33. Under Milk Wood (Dylan Thomas)
34. Dr. Mardy Grothe's: Aphorisms, Oxymoronica, Repartee, Ifferisms, Neverisms and I Never Metaphor I Didn't Like
35. Celia Rivenbark's latest column Past columns
36. Birthday Messages More Birthday Messages
37. Jokes
38. WebCams
39. Health Info
40. National Association of State Comprehensive Health Insurance Plans (NASCHIP) - state governments to serve the medically "uninsurable" population.
41. NeedyMeds is a 501(3)(c) non-profit with the mission of helping people who cannot afford medicine or healthcare costs
42. RxAssist can help you learn about ways to use pharmaceutical company programs and other resources to help reduce your medication costs
43. 4,500 photographs documenting natural environments, ecologies, and plant communities
44. Perfectly Timed Photos is a collection of Pics taken at just the right moment.
45. Google Art Project - view more than a thousand artworks online in extraordinary detail. Explore museums with Street View technology: virtually move around the museum�s galleries, selecting works of art that interest you, navigate though interactive floor plans and learn more about the museum and you explore. http://www.googleartproject.com/
46. Grooveshark - Free online music streaming
47. Rocky Top Tennessee Mark Easley Kate Campbell The Classical Station WXYC 89.3 FM is the non-commercial student-run radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
48. Vintage Music (free)
  1. Digital Archive of Cylinder Recordings
  2. The Roots Music Listening Room
  3. Library of Congress
  4. The Virtual Gramophone: Canadian Historical Sound Recordings
49. The Speek - finds, rescues and restores classic music performances, captured on film and videotape, of the Rock & Roll Era
50. You Tube type Videos - art, culture, research, how-to, lectures
  1. 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.
  2. ResearchChannel - Remarkable speakers, researchers and professors present revolutionary thoughts and discoveries on ResearchChannel.
  3. University Channel makes videos of academic lectures and events from all over the world available to the public
  4. Research-TV produces cutting-edge research news stories on behalf of universities and research organizations.
  5. Traditional Fine Arts Organization - a comprehensive catalogue of online full motion videos streamed free to viewers - art oriented videos
  6. 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)
  7. Energy Policy TV - video of leaders in energy and the environment as they propose and implement policies and market responses.
  8. uVu is a video sharing website and companion digital broadcast channel powered by WPBT Channel 2, South Florida �s PBS station. - art and culture
  9. Technology, Entertainment, Design - the best talks and performances from the TED Conferences available to the public, for free.
  10. PBS
  11. Teacher Tube
  12. blip.tv Stage6 Brightcove Veoh MSN Soapbox YouTube Vimeo Jumpcut MySpace
51. Text Messages (free) by Joopz
52. Text Messages (free) by Pinger
53. When Is Good - Set Up a Meeting - find out when everyone is free for your next meeting or event
54. Google Images Scholarly papers and books To see a definition for a word or phrase, simply type the word "define," then a space, and then the word(s) you want defined.
55. Instructions for projects around the house
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