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Ad Aware
from LavaSoft
If there is a software package I trust, it's this one. Gets rid
of all those nasty spy-ware cookies, registry hacks and DLLs.
Stays current with all the tricky ways information is harvested
from your use of the Internet. While the free version takes care
of most problems, the inexpensive pay-for-use version really stomps
out the things that make the Internet experience so shady.
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Kim Kommando
Great site for advice and discoveries. Good radio show if you
can catch it on WGN-AM.
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Adobe
Acrobat Reader
Everything from instruction books for hardware to tax forms are
in *.PDF files. It helps to stay with the most current version,
as they add more and more tidbits of useful tools.
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Telephone
Prefix Locator
A handy page for figuring out where calls or listings in the
newspaper are located. My biggest use for this site was in job
searching; sometimes all you knew about a listing was it's phone
number. I found it helpful for limiting my searches and not go
out of my travel area.
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Reverse
Phone Number Lookup
Everyone gets calls they can't identify. With so many of us having
caller ID on our phones, if you don't immediately recognize a
number, this link provides a good resource for finding out who
call.
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Free Email
Addresses Directory
The name explains it all. Tired of having to give out your personal
email address to access an important site? Only to have it sold
to every overseas spammer? Make yourself a spam email drop. It's
someplace you can check for those purchase confirmation emails,
but most spam will go there. Let's face it, even when a website
says it will never share or sell it's lists, somehow your address
gets out there. This practice will not totally eliminate spam
to your personal account, but it will limit the amount sent there
by sites who sell addresses for profit.
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Microsoft's
List of Issues Encountered after and Explorer or Windows Operating
System Update
That's right. They've got a known list of possible problems a
user could face when updating your IE software or the OS. It's
listed in date order to help isolate which update may be giving
you problems. If your computer seems to act different just after
you've done an update, this is where you might find the problem's
cause.
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Snopes
Aside from being a character from William Faulkner, this reference
page of Urban Legends will dispel many of those annoying chain
emails that declare a vendor will send you money for forwarding
it to hundreds of your friends and family. Not only describes
the original cause of the rumor, but researches all the reasons
why the rumor continues.
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Biz Rate
Rating of just about every on-line vendor. Tracks consumer complaints
and recommendations. An index of over 30 million product offers
from more than 40,000 stores. Search engine prepares millions
of shoppers to make smarter, more confident purchases and sends
them directly to the checkout page of thousands of online merchants
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Online Conversion
Convert just about anything to anything else. Over 5,000 units,
and 50,000 conversions.
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Campaign
Search
More than 75 percent of Americans rely on broadcast news sources
for information about the presidential campaign. Voters have had
few ways to search these audio/video outlets for news and topics
that are critical to them — until now. CampaignSearch.com
has gathered campaign-related video and audio files from a number
of Web sites: party election sites,
C-SPAN, PBS, NPR and more. CampaignSearch.com uses complex spoken-language-analysis
software created by StreamSage to automatically identify the sections
of audio/video news and speeches that are relevant to a voter's
interests.
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The
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Look into the night sky and what do you see? A bunch of stars,
right? Not necessarily. You may be looking at a planet, comet
or meteor. HSCA posts current sky information. It explains what
celestial bodies are brightest in a given month and how to locate
them
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