+ News
- Newspapers
- US Newspapers - US Newspaper Links
- ABYZ Newspaper Directory Newspaper Directory
- New York Times updated every 10 minutes
- USA Today
- Boston Globe
- The Boston Herald
- Washington Post
- Providence Journal
- Newsweek Magazine
- Time Magazine
- Newport Daily News Newport, RI
- East Bay Newspaper a Rhode Island weekly paper
- NewsMax
- The Patriot Post
- The National Review
- The Daily Signal
- Reason.com
- theFederalist.com
- New York Post
- The Washington Examiner
- The Epoch Times
- TV NEWS Sites
- Financial Sites
- Web NEWS Sites
- Portsmouth Patch
- NewportThisWeek.com
- WhatsUpNewp.com What's Up in Newport, RI
- GoLocalProv.com
- Yahoo News
- Excite NewsTracker can be customized to your taste
- Virtual Reference Desk
+ Directory
- Rhode Island Area Radio & Television
- Medical
- RIFootAndAnkle.com Peter J Sardella
- University Otolaryngology Dr. Robert McRae
- Aguape Dermatology Fall River, MA
- Veterinarian
- Fall River Vet
- New England Equine Jeremy Murdock
- TimeAndDate.com A guide to time zones calendars and more
- Phone
- whitepages.com Foward & Reverse Phone Directories
- anywho.com Foward & Reverse Phone Directories
- How to Find a Phone Number Online: Nine Different Ways from about.com
- Maps
- Maps.Google.com US Maps & Satellite Images
- Mapquest One Source of Maps & Driving Directions to Anywhere
- Nautical Charts free from NOAA
- Marinas.com Aerial Photographs
- earthnc.com NOAA Charts for Google Earth
- map.openseamap.org the entire world in a web browser
- Package Tracking
- UPS Package Tracking Use your tracking number to follow your package.
- FedEx Track your package worldwide; General information.
- United States Postal Service
- Air Travel
- Air Traffic Control System Command Center Airport delays, major USA airports
- Flight Aware Track any flight, any commercial flight, or view airport status
- Providence Airport T.F. Green (PVD)
- Washington Airports Regan National (DCA) & Dulles (IAD)
- Baltimore Airport (BWI)
- Travelocity.com select, book, & track flights
- Building Supplies
- TrueScore.com PVC-based wall and ceiling panels are easy-to-install and high-performance replacements for traditional drywall and fiber-reinforced plastic (FRP) panels
- SunTuf Corrugated Polycarbonite Sheets Manual Installation
- TufTex Polycarbonite Roofing Panels
- RemodelersOutlet.com Fall River, MA
- LumberLiquidators.com
- Sundance Supply Do-It-Yourself Greenhouses, etc
- VersaTube Building Systems Metal Frame for Greenhouse
- Unadilla Laminated Products GlueLam Beams
- Cloud Tops Shade Cloth fabric we use on our deck
- International Greenhouse Company Greenhouse supplies including shade fabric
- Do It Yourself Granite Countertops, etc
- ShadeTreeCanopies.com Retractable canopies
- FutureBuildings.com DIY Prefab Steel Buildings
- FarmTek Agricultural Supplies & Farm Building Supplies
- Lightning Rod Basics from OldHouseOnline.com
- LightningRodSupply.com
- Geodesic Dome Connector Kits user supplies connecting sticks also sold on Amazon
- Solar Calculator
- Movies
- Internet Movie Database Description of every movie
- kids-in-mind.com detailed movie descriptions for many movies
- FilmRatings.com giant database of movies with short descriptions & parental advisory ratings
- Radio Stations
- Radio Stations on the Internet links to over 9000 Radio Stations including a search capability and a list of stations which broadcast over the internet
- WADK -- includes 99.3 Swing FM & WADK AM (1540)
- Local Radio & TV Stations
+ Reference
- Loan Calculator with Extra Payments from MyCalculators.com
- Martindale's "The Reference Desk" Martindale's "The Reference Desk"
- Frank Potter's Science Gems More than 14,000 Science Resources sorted by Category, Subcategory, and Grade Level
- Language Translators
- Language Translation Dictionaries from Martindale's "The Reference Desk"
- BabelFish Language Translator Support for many languages
- Text Message Translation Translate text, sms, chat slang, IM speak and lingo for free... acronyms, smileys, & emoticons, ringtones, games and logos from transl8it!
- Urban Legends
- Urban Legends Reference Pages from The San Fernando Valley Folklore Society (snopes.com)
- UrbanLegends.about.com
- Medicine
- Back:
- How to strengthen the lower back 10 exercises MedicalNewsToday
- Back exercises in 15 minutes a day Mayo Clinic
- Back:
- AskDoctorK.com Dr. Anthony L. Komarroff - also has a newspaper column
- SpineUniverse.com
- MCW Healthlink from the Medical College of Wisconsin
- WebMD - Medical Library A starting point for looking up anything medical
- Martindale's Health Science Guide A "Multimedia Specialized Information Resource" Currently the Health Science Guide contains over 138,250 Medical Cases & Grand Rounds; 63,200 Teaching Files, 1,355 Courses/Textbooks; 1,835 Tutorials, 470 Journals; 4,500 Databases Atlases & Image Databases, & 1,000's of Movies.
- Sinus CT Scans from Sinuses.com
- Cancer in Golden Retrievers Why do some dogs get cancer more than others?
- Lack of Sleep May Shrink Your Brain
- Glycemic index and glycemic load for 100+ foods
- Using the glycemic index to stave off holiday weight gain
- Glycemic index and glycemic load for 100+ foods
- Glycemic Index Food List
- Glycemic Index for Sweeteners List
- Benefits of Coconut Oil
- Eight Home Remedies for DIY (Do It Yourself) Dog Care from PetPlace.com
- 2 Things You Should Be Doing On a Foam Roll (that you aren't doing now) from SittingSolutions.com
- Vaccine for Equine Melanoma - clinical trials approved
- Brain training exercise gives athletes super vision Baseball Players, etc.
- Garden.com from Burpee
- gardenweb.com "The Internet's Gardening Community"
- botany.com "The Encyclopedia of Plants"
- Musser Forests trees and shrubs for sale; ask for their catalog
- New Jersey Weed Gallery a collection of photos and descriptions of weeds found in New Jersey
- FindLaw.com a starting point for researching anything Legal
- AmericanLegalNet.com has all the state & federal appellate decisions; court forms; local statutes
- How To CopyRight a Website The HTML for © is "©"
- Vital Records Information for the United States - how to obtain birth or death certificate, divorce records, marriage license, etc
- Inmate Locator Federal Bureau of Prisons
- NH Criminal Offenders registry
- whatis.com A starting point for any computer research
- PC Hell: BIOS Error Beep Codes How to figure out what that beep sequence means when your computer does not boot
- www.computing.net A variety of information including Tom's Hardware
- www.processlibrary.com Research your PC's processes
- How to Burn any Video Files ot a Playable DVD
- PeaPod.com Groceries to your doorstep from Stop & Shop
- cnet.com product evaluations also
- DealTime.com hundreds of categories
- MySimon.com searches over 2000 online stores
- Shopping.Yahoo.com
- epinions.com Opinions - Database of Consumer Reviews
- AddAll Books - Technical books, as well as everything else, new and used. Searches 40+ bookstores and finds the cheapest source including shipping.
- half.com Half.com: Buy & Sell Books, Music, Movies, and Games... (bargains)
- List of U.S. states by unemployment rate from Wikipedia
- Rich States, Poor States Comparison by ALEC.org (American Legislative Exchange Council)
- ChooseToSave.org Calculators, Resources, Tips
- Write Your Representative Look up your Representative by Zip Code & Send him/her Email
- Internal Revenue Service IRS
- A Basic Guide to American Sign Language
- Consumer Information Center, Pueblo, CO Lots of Good Free and Cheap Information.
- bloomberg.com Bloomberg Financial site - check out the calculators
- Jim Dulley's Home Page A guy with a syndicated newspaper column & a nice web site. Money-Saving, Energy, Conservation, Environmental, Home Improvement. Check out his list Building/Home Products Sources. His column reprints are free; he charges about $3 for downloading a pamphlet.
- BioMagic.com product that degrades organic waste (e.g., bad smells, spetic)
- The Art of Changing Someone's Mind - Blaise Pascal
- CallerCenter.com is a consumer resource that allows consumers to report phone numbers that partake in such phone spam. The site has millions of reported complaints and allows consumers to research calls from unknown numbers.
- Search Options For Locating Individual Federal Employee Salaries using FedsDataCenter.com
- GovSalaries.com
- OpenPayrolls.com
+ Camping
- StateParks.com
- ReserveAmerica.com State Parks & Commercial Campgrounds
- Massachusetts Parks Camping Information
- Myles Standish Cranberry Road, South Carver, MA 02330
- Nickerson Rte. 6A, Brewster, MA 02631
- Scusset Beach 20 Scusset Beach Rd., Sandwich, MA 02563
- Wompatuck State Park Hingham, MA
- Salisbury Beach State Reservation
- Connecticut:
- CT.gov Connecticut State Park Campgrounds
- FriendsCtStateParks.org
- VisitConnecticut.com State Parks
- Specific Parks:
- Friends of Scusset Beach Sandwich, MA
- Friends of Myles Standish Carver, MA
- Bourne Scenic Park
- Salisbury Beach Vistiors Guide
- Fishermens State Park Narragansett, RI
- Charlton Breachway Charlestown, RI
- Cherry Springs State Park Coudersport, PA - A haven for astronomers
- AntennaWeb.org Find local Over-The-Air TV Stations with distance and compass direction
- RV
- RVParkReviews.com
- ReserveAmerica.com
- 10 Correspondents, 10 Drives New York Times
- Just Me and My RV New York Times
- Harvest Hosts Host farmers and winemakers invite fully-independent (no services are provided) motorhomes, fifth-wheels, travel trailers and truck campers to visit their vineyards, farms and other agri-attractions and stay overnight free of charge. ($35 yearly fee)
- The Most Scenic Drives In All 50 States
- FreeCampGrounds.com
- FreeCampSites.net
- TrailerLifeDirectory.com
- Escapees RV Club
- Map of US Rest Areas using Google Maps
- TA Travel Centers
- Walmarts with Overnight Parking from the Walmart Locater
- RoadTrippers.com route planning
- RoadTripUSA.com Routes
+ Homework Research
- Subject Areas
- ChemistryExplained.com Check her first!
- KhanAcademy (OnLine Tutoring)
- Algebra
- PurpleMath.com Algebra Help
- Solve a Quadratic Equation by Factoring Online Calculator ax^2+bx+c=0
- Libraries
- The WWW Virtual Library An enormous list of topics
- Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
- Wikipedia The free Internet Encyclopedia
- Encyclopedia Britannica A classic Encyclopedia
- WordNet an on-line lexical reference system whose design is inspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory. English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept. Different relations link the synonym sets. A languaage-lovers tool for looking up synonymw, anyonyms and more.
- Encyclopedia.com
- Encyclopedia Smithsonian
- iTools Search Tools
- Michigan eLibrary
- The Old Farmer's Almanac
- Webopedia - The only online dictionary and search engine you need for computer and Internet technology definitions.
- YourDictionary.com The dictionary you can understand.
- OneLook Dictionary Search
- The World Factbook from the CIA
- Look Here First: Virtual Reference Desk Table of Contents
- Museums
- Museums All the museums in the world with links to their sites (from the World Wide Web Virtual Library)
- Smithsonian Institution About the Museum, Educational Resources, Shops
- Academy of Achievement brings you face to face with the extraordinary individuals who have shaped the twentieth century
- National Inventors Hall of Fame
- Government Agencies
- NASA
- U.S. State Department Official Web Site
- DefenseLINK Official Web Site of the U.S. Department of Defense
- Library of Congress
- National Archives
- Central Intelligence Agency
- U.S. Census Bureau Provides Population estimates to the Second: US POPClock Projection
- Flags & Government Information
- World Flag Reference
- Fifty States and one District (United States) includes histories - also contains Army (United States) and United States of America
- US Constitution Online includes a lot of presidential & government information
- www.50states.com Lots of basic statistics on each state
- Topics
- Enchanted Learning Software An enormous selection of educational web pages for children from Antarctica, Apes, Astronomy, ... Great Wall of China, ... Sharks, ... Zoom Dinosaurs
- Earth & Sky Go to their Tonight's Sky page to see where the stars will be tonight.
- Literature
- History of the World Wide Web from 1945 to 1995 with links to the Present
- Bible Gateway Search the Bible in Nine Languages and Multiple Bible Versions
- The Bartleby Library - Great Books Online Includes Bartletts Familiar Quotations, Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States, and Emily Dickenson's Poems
+ College Planning
- Academic
- Occupational Outlook Handbook Index: A-Z includes a link to the table that shows salary and employment projections.
- College Board has a great search engine for colleges
- 5 Proven Campus Visit Tips From Rensselaer Polytech
- Accredited Postsecondary Institutions and Programs from the US Department of Education: View Information on Accreditation and Look Up Institutions in the Database
- College Search Sites:
- College Data - College 411 a search site
- PrincetonReview.com can search for colleges that offer a specific major
- www.american-school-search.com a search site
- US News & World Report Rankings
- The Common App A free online undergraduate application used by over 400 colleges and universities
- Sports
- Find Internships & Jobs
- WayUp.com formerly Campus Job
+ Family Links
- Welles Crowther
- Cat Cutillo
- CatCutillo.com
- Free Bird
- Mercedes Pens
- Laughter Fitness
- Cat & Ross: Wedding
- Outerlands Gallery
- Ross Sheehan: RossSheehanArt.com
- Cartoons of Sam Cobean: www.pbase.com/csw62/cobean
- Genealogy
+ Rhode Island
- www.health.state.ri.us RI Dept of Health
- sos.ri.gov RI Secretary of State Website
- www.info.ri.gov (RI State Government Information) has a Alphabetic List of Agencies & Topics
- Newport Airport Current Weather Observations
- Cancellations
- cancellations.com
- Also Check: WPRO (AM 630, FM 92.3) - WHJY (AM 920, FM 94.1) - WSAR (AM 1480) - WADK (AM 1540) - WRX (FM 103.7) - WBRU (FM 95.5) - WPRI TV 12 - WJAR TV 10 - WLNE TV 6
- NUWCDIVNPT Work Status NUWC cancellation listed here or call 832-6892, and follow the on-line directions (press "4" then "1" for closure information). For toll free access from out of the area dial 1-800-669-6892 (1 800 NOW NUWC) and follow the directions.
- Portsmouth, RI town page
- Middletown, RI town page
- Newport, RI town page
- Block Island
- Newport County Convention & Visitor's Bureau
- Newport County YMCA
- Norman Bird Sanctuary
- Aquidneck Land Trust - The Sakonnet Greenway Trail, which will be contained in the Aquidneck Land Trust's picturesque Sakonnet Greenway on the eastern side of Aquidneck Island, will be the longest single public walking trail on the Island at approximately 7 miles long. The trail will extend from the Town of Portsmouth's recreational area known as The Glen, around Newport National Golf Club, and onto the Town of Middletown's recreational complex on Wyatt Road.
- Schools
- Information Works 2005 statistical profile on each Rhode Island school and district
- RI Family Guide Schools
- RI Interscholastic League
- Cox.net for Rhode Island - Use COX to search for a movie playing locally
- Rhode Island Family Guide Includes an Events Calendar
- OnAquidneck.com
- Vision Appraisal Portsmouth & Middletown property appraisals online
- Blue Cross, Blue Shield, RI
- Federal Blue Cross, Blue Shield
- Courts
- Educator Certification:
- State Library - Includes Building & Fire Codes
- RI Transparency Portal RI State financial reports, audits, forms, and other financial information such as contracts, grants and quasi-public agency expenditures
+ Places to Go
- Appalachian Trail
- Edaville Railroad
- Providence Children's Museum
- Roger Williams Park Zoo
- Mystic Aquarium
- Mystic Seaport
- New Bedford Whaling Museum Official Site also check out www.newbedford.com
- New Bedford Whaling National Park
- Woods Hole Research Center They've got a great aquarium
- Woods Hole Town Homepage
- Boston Aquarium
- Boston Museum of Science
- Slater Mill Historic Site the Birthplace of the American Industrial Revolution
- Fantasyland Family Entertainment Center Rt. 6 in Seekonk, MA
- www.islandferry.com Steamship Authority - Home Page The Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard & Nantucket Steamship
- Rhode Island Public Transit runs a High Speed Ferry between Newport, Portsmouth, & Providence
- Restaurants
- Brick Alley Newport, RI
- Bossman Burgers Portsmouth, RI
+ New Hampshire
- Hillsborough aka Hillsboro:
- Hillsborough 250 Celebrations -
- Hillsborough Chamber of Commerce
- Directions to Thompson Hill Map
- www.wildlife.state.nh.us - NH Species
- Hillsborough, NH Town Page
- BridgeVilliage.com - documentation on Hillsborough bridges and cemetaries
- Hillsborough Geneology
- Hillsborough County (Wikipedia)
- Early History of Hillsboro relied heavily upon History of Hillsborough County, New Hampshire Philadelphia: J.W. Lewis & Co., 1885
- History of Hillsborough 1735-1921: Part 1 (town) - Part 2 (people)
- Hillsborough, NH - Google Topographic Map
- Detailed Terrain Map of Hillsboro
- Historic Maps of New Hampshire -
- NH Lidar Stone Wall Mapper -
- Services & Information:
- SimpliSafe - Home Security
- American Guardian Septic
- NeighborhoodScout.com - research neighborhoods by address; includes crime rates
- RepairClinic.com - appliance parts
- New England Forestry Consultants, Inc. (NEFCO) - Surveyers
- Meridian Land Services - Surveyers
- What Tree Is That? - Tree Identification Field Guide
- Timber Harvesting - Regulations
- How to Cut Down a Tree
- Glossary of Logging Terms
- Fisher & Paykel - appliances
- Tick Bourne Diseases - NH
- BanFire.net - spray on fire retardant for fabric
- NH State Forest Nursery.com - one of New Hampshire's treasures. We exist under authority of RSA 227-H:2 to raise and sell seedlings to "...persons who desire to plant them". Our goal is to provide customers with the highest quality, bare-root seedlings for forestry, conservation and education purposes at attractive prices.
- New Hampshire Roads:
- Title III: Towns, Cities, Villiage Districts, and Unincorporated Places - from New Hampshire Statutes - Table of Contents
- Chapter 236: Highway Regulation, Protection and Control Regulations
- Statutes Pertaining to Fire includes Emergency Lanes
- Class VI Roads and Maintenance Issues - from The New Hampshire Municipal Association
- Class VI Highways
- Fact Sheet: Class VI Roads - from Central NH Regional Planning Commission
- Class VI Roads - from NH Transportation Resources
- Standards and Specifications for Upgrade of Existing Class VI Roads to Class V - from Town of Bradford
- Gravel Roads:
- How to Maintain a Dirt Road - from BackWoodsHome.com
- Maintain a Dirt or Gravel Drive or Road - from WikiHow.com
- Gravel Roads Construction - from the Federal Highway Administration
- Gravel Roads: Maintenance and Design Manual - from the Environmental Protection Agency
- Gravel Road Design & Maintenance Planning - from University of New Hampshire
- Gravel Road Maintenance - from the University of New Hampshire
- Center for Dirt and Gravel Road Studies - from Penn State University
- Surface Water Control - from Trail Construction and Maintenance Notebook (US Forest Service)
- Cracking Rock & Concrete:
- EzeBreak.com - NH Hydraulics has sold the Micro-Blaster to 70 towns in New Hampshire
- SierraBlaster.com -
- Kubota Tractor:
- Literature
- Pictures
- Accessories - Cab needs BH92 Backhoe
- Tooth Bars - for the front of the bucket
- Steel Bar Grating replace some deck planking to let snow fall through
- Retirement Planning:
- Investor.gov - A service of the Securities and Exchange Commission where you can check out a financial adviser's background, registration status and more.
- IRS:
- Kiplinger State-by-State Guide to Taxes
- Kiplinger State-by-State Guide to Taxes on Retirees - includes excemptions to retirement income
- U.S. News & World Report/Money Best Places to Retire
- You Dont Know What Youve Lost, Until Its Gone - having a job enhances your life
+ Florida
- Air Transportation:
- Maps:
- Lightning Alley:
- Central Florida - from Tampa to Titusville, especially Tampa to Orlando
- Staying Safe from NASA
- Florida Lightning Map
- World Lightning Map
- Defective Chinese Drywall:
- Installed 2001-2009, especially 2005-2009
- How to Detect from the US Consumer Product Safety Commission
- from Wikipedia
- Sinkholes:
- Maps by County - 52 have sinkholes
- Sinkhole Zones in Florida - Scientific American
- Areas of Sinkhole Occurrence - 2008
- Florida Sinkholes Explained - by CNN
- Real Estate:
- LandsOfFlorida.com
- Century 21 Florida
- Zillow.com - St Augustine (St Johns County) Homes for Sale
- Places in Florida:
- FloridasHistoricCoast.com St. Augustine region
+ Fun Stuff
- Mary Tyler Moore Show Episode - "Chuckles Bites the Dust"
- Scientific American Magazine
- Bill Nye the Science Guy's Nye Labs Online TV Schedule, How-To Do 40 of his Experiments, Science Links
-
Boy Scouts HomePage - viewed 3,000,000 times/month. - Christmas
Claus.com - Shopping
- Douglas Fey Potter
- Cuttyhunk Corner Store
- WarmBelly.com Children's Wetsuits
- sticks.com beautiful furniture
- WindAndWeather.com garden & instruments
- GardenHands.com
- GardenSmiles.com Carruth Studio
- xtremesilkscreen.com
+ Live Cameras, Etc.
- Explore.org Many cameras from the National Park Service
- EarthCam Webcam network - comprehensive set of links to live cams all over the world
- Block Island has a Webcam at the Spring House Hotel
- RhodeWAYS Traffic Camera Center Rhode Island Traffic
- Newport RI Harbor West View -
- Newport Harbor RI - x
+ Boats & Water
- Newport Yacht Club
- NOAA Chart Locator Can Download a free GIF version of a Chart
- map.openseamap.org the entire world in a web browser
- Gougeon Brothers, Inc. Manufacturer of WEST SYSTEM® Brand Epoxy Products and PRO-SET® Brand Composites Fabricating Epoxies
+ Software Download Sites
- TUCOWS The first place to look for freeware/software
- download.com
- Primo PDF It's Free - fast conversions of Office documents
- Open Office OpenOffice is free (libre and gratis) and does a pretty good job with basic MSOffice documents.
- Matt's Pearl Script Archive
- The evolt.org Browser Archive - download from an enormous catalog of browsers, all versions, from Internet Explorer 2 to Bobby to NetForKids; great for obtaining tools to validate your site
- SysInternals.com advanced utilities, technical information and source code related to Windows 9x and Windows NT/2K internals; Hard Disk Recovery Utility
- Calendar Generator by Brent Herring HTML Calendar Generator will generate a full year html calendar ready to publish. Output is both the whole year in one file, and one file for each month of the year. Allows multiple notations for each date, Customizable html attributes - font face, alignment, colors, and so forth. Simple built in FTP client lets you just click on a button to publish to your web site.
- Calendar Home another calendar generator
- HTTrack an easy-to-use offline browser utility described at FreshMeat.net
- joomla.org
Joomla is one of the world’ s most popular open source CMS (content management system). With 2.7 percent of the Web running on Joomla, the software is used by individuals, small & medium-sized businesses, and large organizations worldwide to easily create & build a variety of websites & web-enabled applications. - Online Utilities to Convert Text to Gif's Using the Font You Select
+ Domain Names (e.g., hassel.net)
- We registered the domain name hassel.net in January 1999. This (and $35/year) gave us the "ownership" of the hassel.net domain and address forwarding. All references to our web page via www.hassel.net were fowarded to our site's actual address of "http://members.cox.net/nancy.hassel/". All email to "nancy@hassel.net" were fowarded to our current address of "nancy.hassel@cox.net". After Cox discontinued free website hosting we moved our website and domain registration to www.InMotionHosting.com.
- Hover A registration and forwarding service. $70 for 2 years covers everything.
- InterNIC The organization which used to manage all domain registrations of .com, .net, and .org.
- WhoIs Look up who owns a domain from the Network Solutions registration service.
- Country Codes e.g., www.xyz.uk is from the United Kingdom
- www.domaintools.com forward and reverse WhoIs database
+ Internet Tools and Security
- DeadLinkChecker.com
- Wayback Machine Internet Archive - look up previous versions of a web site
- Netcraft Web Site Finder Gives you the operating system & locates web sites
- WhatsMyDNS.net for a specified URL: displays records from DNS servers all over the world
- network-tools.com has ALL the basic tools: trace, ping whois, wwwhois, lookup, MAPS/ORB check, DNS records, http headers, network lookup
- how to find the best wi fi channel for your router on any operating system on HowToGeek.com
- Wireless Network View by Nirsoft for Windows OS
- wifichannelscanner.com for Windows OS
- WiFi Scan Utility built into MAC Mountain Lion OS
- Free WiFi scanner for 802.11ac networks for Windows 7/8/Vista
- WiFi iPhone App
- Smooth Talker Cell Phone Signal Booster
- Band Width Place measure download and upload speeds
- Powerlink External WiFi Antenna
- WiFi Pineapple by HAK5
+ Internet Technical References
- HTML
- The Bare Bones Guide to HTML Description of each tag
- HTML4 Reference Description of each tag
- Sizzling HTML Jalfrezi A complete HTML reference with tips
- Web Safe Fonts
- www.w3.org W3C - The World Wide Web Consortium - XHTML 1.0 is now a W3C recommendation
- The Annotated XML Specification
- Dreamweaver
- Basics from Wellsley College
- Import A Spreadsheet into a table using Dreamweaver
- JavaScript
- JavaScript Source - Cut & Paste Javascript Library Free Javascripts
- WhichBrowser.net Browser detection web page and code
- Java
- The Java Tutorial from Sun (now Oracle)
- Development Environment: Java and Eclipse: Download/Installation Instructions
- Java Platform Standard Edition Documentation
- Java graphics programming from http://www.landofcode.com/
- freewarejava.com
- XML
- XSL - Transformation Good Example & Starting Point from www.xmlfiles.com XML Files - Extensible Markup Language Tutorials for Developers
- XLST Tutorial from w3schools.com
- Mobile Devices
- Mobile Web @ W3C Includes a tool to check a website for mobile compatibility
- Media Queries for Standard Devices (laptop & desktop, large screen, iPhone, iPad, smartphone, etc)
- A User-Centered Approach to Web Design For Mobile Devices
- How To Use CSS3 Media Queries To Create a Mobile Version of Your Website
- Responsive Web Design
- Use Opera's Small-Screen Rendering to Test Pages for Handhelds A Quick Way to Get Some Sense of How Your Pages Will Look on a Cell Phone
- PHonePHriendly.com Mobile Web Pages
- How to Make Your Own Mobile Web Menu from EHow.com
- Database
- Tutorials
- SQL Tutorial
- Ari Kaplan's Oracle Tips
- DBAsupport.com
- MM Mysql Drivers JDBC for Java
- MySQL Download Page
- MySQL Manuals
- PHP/MySQL Tutorial from the WebMonkey
- MySQL & PHP Tutorial from VtWebWizard.com
- PHP Documentation manuals in many languages
- PHP Tutorial from php.net
- CSS (Style Sheets)
- Strange Banana web design "tool" - just click refresh a few times. Be sure to "save as" if you find one you like, because you'll never see it again.
- Create a Colored Scrollbar Using Stylesheets (works for IE5.5 & +)
- Create a Thumbnail Proximity Effect Using CSS3 from HtmlGoodies.com
- Western Civilisation's House of Style Style Sheets
- www.yourhtmlsource.com/stylesheets/ Excellent coverage of spacing & layout
- CSS Font and Text Style Wizard
- So You Want A Style Sheet, Huh? from www.htmlGoodies.com
- Graphics & Web Layout
- JPEG-EXIF_autorotate fixes image rotation from cell phone pictures prior to website upload Explained Why Your Photos Don't Always Appear Correctly Rotated
- Ghost Gifs How to create
- ColorLab from Visibone (select & preview web colors)
- Colorblind Checker This site shows you how your site will be viewed by a person that is colorblind.
- WebCam Setup
- Miscellaneous
- 3D Printing On Navy Ships
- Webmaster Tools a big variety
- GeekLog "The Ultimate Weblog System"
- W3Schools Online Web Tutorials
- Dynamic Drive DHTML(dynamic html) code library! Free DHTML Scripts & Tutorial
- Web Browsers Open FAQ lots of information about browsers Interesting references site listing skills for a professional web developer in many areas
- WebReference.com The Webmaster's Reference Library: Web Site Design Tips and Tutorials, Part of Internet.com (How did they get that name?)
-
The WebMonkey site has tutorials on virtually every web topic
- Serial Communications
- Introduction to Serial Communications from TALtech
- Chapter 17 Serial Communications from the FreeBSD Handbook
- Specific How-To's
- Create a bootable DVD from a downloaded .ISO
- Create Your Own IE5 Favorites ICON
How to Add a Shortcut Icon to a Web Page
Icon Editor Costs $14 and they let you download a 30-day evaluation copy - Go to Favicon Edit a 16x16 grid to create an icon file (they will email it to you)
- Save it and download it to your server as "my_icon_name.ico"
- insert this text in your index.html file as follows (use your own address)
<html>
<head>
<LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="http://my.address.com/my_icon_name.ico">
<title>Your Title</title>
- OR Save it and download it to the root directory of your server as "favicon.ico" => it will have the address of http://my.address.com/favicon.ico; all of your html pages will benefit from it
- It will be visible in the favorites list and in the address bar when IE5 is used as the browser
- Create Your Own AUTORUN CDROM step-by-step directions
Step-by-Step Directions
- Open CMD prompt as administrator (Press Windows key + X then Click Command Prompt (Admin))
- Type WINSAT PREPOP [Enter]
- Wait for the calculations to complete
- Type Powershell [Enter]
- Type GET-WMIOBJECT -CLASS WIN32_WINSAT [Enter]