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Other LinksA B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z AreaCodes: Type in an area code, an area code and exchange or a city to get the matching information at http://fonefinder.net/. (John's choice, 8/25/2001)< Books : So many books - so little time. Three of my favorite sources of new books: http://www.amazon.com/, http://www.barnesandnobel.com/, http://www.borders.com/. For used and new books at really great prices, try http://www.half.com/ - a part of Ebay. At Half.com, you're buying directly from individuals, so check their rating just like you would for an auction.To search for the best online price for a book - new or used, try http://isbn.nu/ (John's choice 12/2001) Concerts: Information about you favorite artists and concert venues is available at http://www.pollstar.com/ . The site also provides a service to email you when one of your favorite artists schedules a concert. Currency Converter: To change dollars into euros, lira, pounds, yen or any other of more than 180 currencies, go to the continually updated converter at http://www.xe.com/ucc. (LA Times Top 30, 7/12/2001) Dictionary: Several are available online. At http://www.dictionary.com are definitions from the American Heritage Dictionary and Webster's Revised Unabridged. At http://www.m-w.com you'll find the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. (LA Times Top 30, 7/12/2001) Many specialized dictionaries are available online also. At http://www.nist.gov/dads/terms.html you can find a Dictionary of Algorithms, Data Structures, and Problems in Math and Computer Science. (John 11/3/2001) Encyclopedia: The most widely used encyclopedic source of information on the web is Wikipedia at http://www.wikipedia.com. It is publically edited and sometimes not authoritative, but it's coverage is exhaustive and up-to-the-minute current. The most complete authoritative compendium of general knowledge on the Web is the Encyclopedia Britannica, at http://www.britannica.com, and it's all free (at least as a trial). Microsoft's Encarta, at http://www.encarta.com, is not as comprehensive and parts of it are open only to paid MSN subscribers. (LA Times Top 30, 7/12/2001) Federal Legislation: The Library of Congress site, at http://thomas.loc.gov , provides a searchable database of bills for the current congressional session. Text, sponsors, voting outcomes (if any) and status are provided. (LA Times Top 30, 7/12/2001) Game Cheats: Tired of spending hours trying to make your way through a computer or video game? Make it easy on yourself. Cheat. Tips and walk-throughs for hundreds of games are available at http://www.gamefaqs.com. (LA Times Top 30, 7/12/2001) Hardware: No, the other kind of hardware, as in home improvement. Nails, nuts, bolts, plaster, drywall, batteries, etc. My favorite chains are http://www.truevalue.com/ , http://www.acehardware.com and http://www.lowes.com/ (John's choices 1/16/2002) IRS Forms: Not what you want to think about right now, but when you're ready they are available at http://www.irs.gov. (LA Times Top 30, 7/12/2001) Literary Classics: Looking for some beach reading you can take with you a few pages at a time? Or do you need to quickly look up a Shakespeare passage? Project Gutenberg, begun in 1971, now contains more than 4,000 downloadable fiction and reference books, all in the public domain. The site is at http://www.gutenberg.net. (LA Times Top 30, 7/12/2001) Library: A variety of library services (Article abstracts, full text databases and online catalog) are available at http://www.franklin.edu/students/library/. (John's choice, 8/25/2001) Maps:
(LA Times Top 30, 7/12/2001)(John's choice, 2/14/2008) Metric Converter: In this era of globalization, an instant converter to change, for example, feet into meters or Fahrenheit to Celsius is one of the handiest of all Web tools. One of the easiest online converters to use isat http://www.worldwidemetric.com/metcal.htm. (LA Times Top 30, 7/12/2001) Movies: Search for information on the Internet Movie Database, at http://www.imdb.com, by titles, actors, writers, directors, producers and crew members. Loads of links make this an invaluable research tool for cinemaholics. There are also local show time of current movies. To purchase tickets you can go directly to http://www.moviefone.com. (LA Times Top 30, 7/12/2001, John's choices 12/23/2001) Postage: How much is it going to cost to mail that book that you just sold on half.com (http://www.half.com) or that videotape that you just sold on eBay (http://www.ebay.com)? Check it out at http://postcalc.usps.gov. (John's choices 1/7/03) Quotations: Who said that? Is that quotation really anonymous? Check and see at http://www.brainyquote.com/ (John's choices 1/13/2002) Radio: WCBE-FM(90.5 FM) (http://wcbe.org/) carries the BBC World Service from midnight to about 5:00 A.M. most days. And other times you can listen to the BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/) over the Internet (John's choice, 8/25/2001) School alumni: The largest and best organized of many sites offering you to hook up up with school buddies is http://www.classmates.com. (John's choices, 11/3/2001) Search engines: We don't need to go to counseling yet (at least for this), but my wife loves Google (http://www.google.com) and I have a great fondness for Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com). Can such a marriage survive? (John's choices 12/15/2002) Software: What's the best place to find and download shareware and freeware? http://www.zdnet.com/swlib/< has great selection, summaries and cute little stars to rate them. Another source to focuses on communications software and tools is http://www.tucows.com It uses cow icons to rate the software. (If you use shareware, be sure to register it!) (John's Choice, 1/8/03) Space: The standard reference is http://www.space.com. Wonder what's going on at the Kennedy Space Center? Shuttle launch? International Space Station prep? Look over the technicians shoulders with live video feeds from http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/countdown/video/video.html. (John's Choice, 8/25/2001) Stock Quotes: At http://www.yahoo.com, click on Finance/Quotes (under Media) and enter the stock symbol. If you don't know the symbol for a company, you can get it by using the Symbol Lookup feature. (LA Times Top 30, 7/12/2001) Sunrise/Sunset: The US Naval Observatory provides sunrise and sunset times for any day from the years of 1700 to 2100 at http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneDay.html. The listings are for more than 22,000 cities and towns; if you're in a rural area or foreign country, you can get the times if you know your longitude and latitude. (LA Times Top 30, 7/12/2001, corrected 12/7/2004) Telephone Directory: For businesses near a specific location, the Yahoo yellow pages are very good (http://yp.yahoo.com). At AT&T (http://www.att.com) or Switchboard, (http://www.switchboard.com) you can enter whatever information you have about a person's name and address to look up a telephone number. If that doesn't work, try the similar service at people.yahoo.com. (LA Times Top 30, 7/12/2001 and John's choices 12/15/2002) Television: As if you didn't waste enough time on the Internet. You can check out customized TV listings at http://www.tvguide.com. Just type in your ZIP Code. Thesaurus: Roget's famed reference book is at http://www.thesaurus.com. (LA Times Top 30, 7/12/2001) Time: To look up the time in another part of the world, go to http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock. The correct time (give or take four-tenths of a second) anywhere in the US is at http://www.time.gov. (LA Times Top 30, 7/12/2001) Traffic: The the City of Columbus and State of Ohio have provided a sets of cameras that provide views of many of the important city and statewide freeways. Take a look at http://scripts.ci.columbus.oh.us/trafficcam/ or http://www.buckeyetraffic.org/webcams/nosvg/ (John's Choice, 10/14/2007) Travel: Many sites exist to provide travel planning and discount fares. My favorites are http://www.orbitz.com, http://www.expedia.com, http://www.travelocity.com, http://www.qixo.com. Other sites offer discounts by limiting your schedule choices, auctioning or offer some other pricing model. They include http://www.hotwire.com, http://www.priceline.com, http://www.lowestfare.com, http://www.cheaptickets.com, http://www.lastminutetravel.com (John's Choice, 9/9/2001) Weather: Everyone is interested in the weather. I'm fond of the Weather Underground. The radar allows easy resizing and provides National Weather Service storm cell tracking. Or ou cna get the latest information from the horse's mouth (so to speak), NOAA's National Weather Service. (John's Choice, 10/14/07) World Facts: Few have access to CIA files, but everyone on the Internet can obtain the agency's highly useful basic research on countries around the world. The latest edition of the CIA World Factbook is at http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook. The US State department also provides background notes on the countries of the world at http://www.state.gov/r/pa/bgn/. (LA Times Top 30, 7/12/2001) ZIP Codes: The Postal Service ZIP Code finder is at http://www.usps.com/ncsc/lookups/lookup_zip+4.html. It's also possible to go from a zip code to a town name. If you have a zip code and want to find the place then go to http://www.usnaviguide.com/zip.htm. A rich set of Zip code, county, and related information is available from Melissa Data - http://www.melissadata.com/lookups/index.htm Copyright © 2007-2008 John Fulton. All Rights Reserved. Trademarks and Servicemarks are the property of their respective owners. References to commercial products do not imply endorsement by Franklin University or its Computer Science Program. For questions, comments or errors, contact the owner of the contents, John Fulton, by logging in and clicking here.
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