Monday, September 29, 2003
IMDB
The Internet Movie Database is a good place to quickly look up information about a movie (or several thousand). There's a "pro" and free version. Reviews and rundowns of movies new and old. Even trailers. Very handy for those times you hear a title and can't place it. One caveat.....beware of the many pop-ups.
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Wednesday, September 24, 2003
SamSpade.org
SamSpade.org
Reviewed on CNN, #5 on their Spam control tools list. This is a multitalented network query tool with extra utilities built in to handle spam mail. It includes the typical utilities such as ping, traceroute, whois, and finger
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Reviewed on CNN, #5 on their Spam control tools list. This is a multitalented network query tool with extra utilities built in to handle spam mail. It includes the typical utilities such as ping, traceroute, whois, and finger
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Free Donations?
While I (am forever cynical and) question the validity of such sites, the fact that it's free, appears to be legitimate, and if so, is ultimately for a good cause, I recommend visiting FreeDonation.com and making some "virtual donations" when you can. If its legit, then we're all doing a good thing. Might as well contribute a moment of surf-time. Just in case.
From their site:
FreeDonation.com is a web site with the mission of making the world a better place. At FreeDonation.com, you can make donations free of charge to important causes such as AIDS and cancer research, food for the hungry, shelter for the homeless, vaccines for children and more. All you have to do is to click on the donation button and our sponsors will pay for your donation. The entire process takes only a few seconds.
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From their site:
FreeDonation.com is a web site with the mission of making the world a better place. At FreeDonation.com, you can make donations free of charge to important causes such as AIDS and cancer research, food for the hungry, shelter for the homeless, vaccines for children and more. All you have to do is to click on the donation button and our sponsors will pay for your donation. The entire process takes only a few seconds.
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Finding things...
Websites like Yahoo.com, and Switchboard.com offer comprehensive online yellow pages. (on Yahoo, much more than that). Visit Mapquest.com or better yet, Yahoo!Maps) for online maps so you can get to all these newly found places.
Bloglines.com
Bloglines is a free service that makes it easy to keep up with your favorite blogs and newsfeeds. With Bloglines, you can subscribe to the RSS feeds (or RSS) of your favorite blogs, and Bloglines will monitor updates to those sites. You can read the latest entries easily within Bloglines.
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Sunday, September 21, 2003
Disposable E-mail
Disposable E-mail? Yes! But no, NOT for spamming purposes! Don't abuse the privilege! Seriously. Sometimes it's necessary to give your e-mail address in exchange for a program or information. Why? Well, for reasons often undisclosed. And that's rather questionable don't you think? But you can protect your privacy by creating a short term e-mail address here. Please note, this is not an anonymous e-mail service. It's just a very helpful way protect yourself. For now, this is a free service. (love those freebies!)
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Mozilla
I'm not one easily open to change. I still miss the Netscape 4.x that was available before all the fancy upgraded versions. The 7.x versions freeze from time to time (among other problems experienced) and just generally annoy me. I don't like MS Internet Explorer.
I do like the Mozilla browser. Very much. It's similar to Netscape (what Netscape was based on?) only better. It's easy to use, offers a variety of themes (my favorite for this version is BlueZilla), and most importantly, the Mozilla browser loads all of my web pages faster than either NS or IE.
There's a version for most OS's and the program uses much less hard drive space than IE or NS. (great for laptops!) Read the FAQ for more information.
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I do like the Mozilla browser. Very much. It's similar to Netscape (what Netscape was based on?) only better. It's easy to use, offers a variety of themes (my favorite for this version is BlueZilla), and most importantly, the Mozilla browser loads all of my web pages faster than either NS or IE.
There's a version for most OS's and the program uses much less hard drive space than IE or NS. (great for laptops!) Read the FAQ for more information.
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Saturday, September 20, 2003
What's it look like for you?
You can see how your website looks to other visitors by checking Anybrowser.com. Visit their home page for other website testing tools.
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Freeware & Shareware
Download.com, ZDNet.com, and Tucows.com are great sites to find freeware and shareware programs. Users can register and rate the programs or just download at will. :)
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JALBUM
JALBUM is a free web photo album generator. I haven't actually tried it yet but I plan to!
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Sunday, September 14, 2003
Blogger Unofficial FAQ blog
Blogger Unofficial FAQ blog The blog formerly known as Blogger archive/template troubles, featuring fixes for problems with Blogger's archives, templates, and more.
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Friday, September 12, 2003
Modern Minder: RSS
Keep track of your favorite blogs and news sites all in one place. At Bloglines.com you can add a number of RSS feeds to your profile, and this site checks the feeds to see if there are any changes. They claim to check for updates hourly. Free service. Sign-up required.
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Slashdot
Slashdot.org
News for nerds. Stuff that matters. For my delusional moments of intelligence.
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News for nerds. Stuff that matters. For my delusional moments of intelligence.
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TinyUrl.com
Make long URLs postable! A must with some of today's monstrous URL's. Go to TinyURL.com and you can shorten those annoyingly long URL's into something tiny and manageable.
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Saturday, September 06, 2003
Ad-Aware
Ad-aware is one of the best spy-ware detection programs out there. And it's free. Make sure the only programs on your pc are programs you personally downloaded. There is also a paid Professional version available. Be sure to check for updates.
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