Links to Various Web sites
- Maps
Mapquest
Google Maps
Google Earth
- Microsoft
Terra Server - w/ Lat Long
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)
- Old Maps
www.sochistdisc.org
www.hakluyt.com
www.philaprintshop.com/cook.html
coombs.anu.edu.au/~cookproj/home.html
www.WalkingTree.com
www.geography.wisc.edu/histcart
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
- Several Weather Sites
Today in Raleigh - Set of several maps and info on one page
- NOAA - Local Weather
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
Raleigh Local Climate Data
Site map
NexLab NC
Raleigh Short Term Forecast Discussion
Raleigh Area Forecast Discussion
Raleigh, North Carolina - WRAL TV
Weather Channel
Radar at Weather.com
Satellite at Weather.com
Triangle Weather
Bob's Weather Page - Links for NC
Wunderground.com - The Weather Underground
Weather Matrix
- Hurricane Data
National Hurricane Center
Central Florida Hurricane Center - Other Hurricane Links
- See UNISYS below
Weather Underground Hurricane Forecast
Hurricaneville
Links to other hurricane web sites
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
Temperature
Radar
Raleigh Forecast
- NOAA
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
Interactive Weather Information Network (IWIN) interfaces: Animated
Graphics version (High speed Internet connections)
Not Animated
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
- NASA
Geostationary Satellite Server
TOMS Aerosol Hot Spots Page
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor Weather Data Source
Computer Model Forecasts (and Discussions)
USA Weather
700 Weather Cams
Weather Maps
Radar & Satellite
Travel Cities Weather page! From here, forecasts, current conditions,
color satellite imagery, and radar are available for over 30 cities
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
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- Contacts: Environmental Orgs, Congress, Phone Numbers
- Environmental Associations And Organizations
Environmental Protection Agency
Directions to EPA's Research Triangle Campus
Air & Waste Management Association (AWMA)
Allegheny Mountain Section
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
- Congress
Detail Data on Members of Congress - Biographies, Office Listings, and District Descriptions
- Phone Numbers of Public, Yellow Pages
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.
Several White Page directories at Library Spot
White Pages at WhitePages.com
White Pages at WhitePages.com
White Pages on Yellowpages.com
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
Switch Board
Who Called Us
Directory of UnKnown Callers
Reverse Phone Detective
Reverse Phone by whitepages.com
phonespell.org - What does your phone number spell?
phonetic.com - What does your phone number spell?
Pipl people search
ZABA search
- Other Contacts
Medicare (1-800-633-4277)
Social Security (1-800-772-1213)
Fed World
- Credit report (lost or stolen credit cards
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.
Equifax 1-800 525-6285
Experian (TRW) 1-800-301-7195
Trans Union 1-800-680-7289
Conference Call Services - Free or $0.10 per minute w/ 800 number
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Reference Sources
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
If not on census site
Fips state and county codes only
All Counties and CMSAs (FIPS Codes) with 1999 MSAs (with C/MSA codes not approved by Census, etc)
State Abbreviations
- Acronyms and Abbreviations
Air Programs
Enhanced Monitoring
From Blue Book
DOE Ames Lab
North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is replacing the U.S. Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system
ZIP Code look up
Area Code look up
File Extensions - database of file extensions and the various programs that use them
US Postal Rates, Postage Calculator, Domestic Rates, Fees
The Internet Public Library
Calculator - Scientific, Finance, many others.
Metric Conversions
- Time
- US Naval Observatory EST Clock
(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
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.
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
- Translation
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
Auio Pronunciation of a Name (Pronounce Names)
Audio Pronunciation Guide of Names (How to say that name)
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)
- Tax valuation guide for goods donated to charity
Salvation Army
Fun With Taxes.com
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Scientific Journals and Environmental Information
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)
- Green-Label Programs - These 15 green-label programs are recognized as good benchmarks by experts and retailers such as Green Depot and Office Depot.
- Green Seal (www.greenseal.org)
- Energy Star (www.energystar.gov)
- EPA Design for the Environment (www.epa.gov/dfe)
- WaterSense (www.epa.gov/watersense)
- Forest Stewardship Council (www.fsc.org)
- Scientific Certification Systems (www.scscertified.com)
- EcoLogo (www.ecologo.org)
- Greenguard (www.greenguard.org)
- Cradle to Cradle (www.c2ccertified.com)
- Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (www.epeat.net)
- Global Organic Textile Standard (www.global-standard.org)
- Biodegradable Products Institute (www.bpiworld.org)
- FloorScore (www.rfci.com)
- Totally Chlorine Free (www.chlorinefreeproducts.org)
- 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
- Information about Virus Hoaxes from:
Hoax Encyclopedia - About.com
List of hoaxes - Wikipedia
Symantec
McAfee
Vmyths
Urban Myths - Snopes
Break the Chain - Stop junk e-mail and misinformation!
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.
- Anti-Virus Programs
- Expensive but Good
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
- 1 Month Free
Panda Antivirus 2007
Norton - Symantec
McAfee VirusScan Plus
Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0.2.621
BitDefender
NOD32 Antivirus Software
- On line Scan
McAfee FreeScan
Symantec Security Check
Choose PandaTotal Scan
BitDefender Online Scanner
Trend Micro's FREE online virus scanner
Virustotal analyzes suspicious files - free
- Free Program (I recommend buying a good AntiVirus program and firewall)
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)
Anti-Virus Guide (No idea of quality of site)
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
- AntiSpyware
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
- 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.
- See your Internet Protocol address:
ippages
showipaddress
plotip
webyield
- Anti-Rootkit
Rootkit Revealer - free
Sophos Anti-Rootkit - free
Panda AntiRootkit - Free
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
- Web-based PC vulnerability tests:
Shields Up
PC Flank
Sygate Online System
Robtex - find you IP address, check if you are blacklisted (will be in red)
Windows Keyboard Shortcuts
- List of File Extensions
List of file formats
Image file formats
Windows commonly used file types.
- Online storage and file delivery services
You Send It - send 100 MB files free
- Email
Yahoo Mail
Yahoo! Mail blog
Fast Mail
PC Decrapifier attempts to remove all of the crap on your new PC that you never asked for or wanted
- Startup Applications - What's running on your PC
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.
- Online Tech Support Services
5 Star Support
Tech Support Guy
Ask Me Help Desk
Protonic
PC Magazine Review of tech support sites
Microsoft Web site that offers the same downloads that are available from Windows Update
- Build a Web Page
W3Schools - Web-building tutorials
HTML
HTML Code Tutorial helpful guide to creating web pages
Google's ranking algorithm (the method by which the search engine orders results)
WebImage icon library
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
EPA's Web Guide
Footnotes, endnotes, and sidenotes on Web pages
- Button Generators
My Cool Button
Cool Text
Buttonator
Form Style Generator
- Spam
Hide your email address on websites from spam
More info on Spam than you ever wanted to know.
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.
Encoder transforming your ascii email address into its equivalent decimal entity
- Website Monitoring Services - Know if your website is UP - Free
JaGuard
InternetSeer
ServiceUptime
Site24x7
My Server Alert
SiteUptime
NY Times - David Pogue on Computers etc
WSJ - Walt Mossberg's Personal Technology, and buying guide
Wiki program and site - create your own Wiki
- Software (suggested by PC Magazine, PC World, or newspaper)
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.)
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.
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Cute PDF - Creates PDF file Free
IBM Symphony - Free word processor, spreadsheet, presentation
Zoho - Online Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Presentation (Free)
Google Docs accepts most popular file formats, including DOC, XLS, ODT, ODS, RTF, CSV, PPT, etc
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
Word Viewer - View, print and copy MS Office Word documents, even if you don't have Word installed.
PowerPoint Viewer 2007 - lets you view full-featured presentations created in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 97 and later versions.
Audacity is free software for recording and editing sounds.
On-Line help
Need more Memory? - Scan your computer to find out what is already inside your system and get recommended upgrades.
Photoshop Help and Support
-
Remote PC Control - Team Viewer (free) - Download "Full Version" for yourself / "Join a Session" for partner
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Dreamweaver help
-
Macrium Reflect - free disk imaging software
-
VisiPics - finds and deletes all your duplicates photos (free)
-
25 GB of free storage on MS Windows Live
-
PC World - 101 Great Free Sites and Downloads You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
Hardware
Software
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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.
- Meta-Search sites:
Debriefing
Dogpile
Metacrawler
Savvy Search
- Search:
Google
Experimental search
Google Cheat Sheet (help)
Yahoo
Dogpile
MSN
Several Search Engines with Descriptions of Uses
About
Ask
LookSmart
- Search for Best Prices:
Bottom Dollar
Price Scan
Shopzilla
Shopper
Shopping
- Discount Coupons:
Current Codes
Deal Taker
ebates
Gotta Deal
- Find the title of a Song:
at Yahoo
at Find Me a Tune
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
- News:
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
- Publish a Book:
Blurb
Picaboo
SharedInk
Lulu
Greener Choices (Consumer Reports) Buying cleaner products and recycling
National Do Not Call Registry
- Identity Theft
FTC ID Theft
If not available on FTC site
Another FTC Identity Theft site
Ric Edelman's suggestions
If not available on Ric's site
Michigan State
World Privacy Forum - responses to medical identity theft
Identity Theft 911
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)
- Advanced Directives - Living Will etc
North Carolina Advance Health Care Directive Registry - forms Advance Health Care Directives and Organ Donor Card
How you want to be treated if you are seriously ill and unable to speak for yourself
AARP
US Living Will Registry
Amer Bar - choose Health Care Decisionmaking
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
WebCams
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
- Vintage Music (free)
Digital Archive of Cylinder Recordings
The Roots Music Listening Room
Library of Congress
The Virtual Gramophone: Canadian Historical Sound Recordings
- You Tube type Videos - art, culture, research, how-to, lectures
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
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.
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