WOW according to the emails that I received the last couple of weeks there are apparently many of you who read the column…and really remember what I write. First off, thanks for the emails; I always appreciate them even when you want to disagree with me. That counts for something.
The thing that many of you reminded me of was that I didn’t write a column this year which reviewed the sites I commented about last year. So here it is. You asked for it, you got it with short descriptions when necessary!
- Speakeasy, speakeasy.net/speedtest – determines your connection speed to the internet.
- City of Harrisonburg, harrisonburgva.gov.
- MyDatabus, mydatabus.com – Online file storage facility 10GB
free. - Free Fonts, betterfonts.com.
- Daylight Saving Time, support.microsoft.com/kb/931836 – too late if you haven’t been here yet.
- Free downloadable games at pinheadgames.com.
- DoubleClicks.info – site for this column.
- Google.com – you know this one.
- Spam Calculator, emailsorting.com/SpamCalculator.aspx – find out approximately how much money spam costs your company.
- Amazon.com & PayPal.com, a site where you can buy things and another where you then pay for them.
- McAfee, anti-virus software – mcafee.com.
- Snopes.com & urbanlegends.about.com – find out about fake stories that you get in emails, etc.
- CNN.com – news of all sorts.
- Orbitz.com – buy airline tickets, vacation packages, etc.
- Guestprivileges.com – hotel membership.
- Jott, jott.com – leave voice notes which are converted to text and emailed.
- TigerDirect.com – good technological prices.
- Avast! 4 Home Edition, avast.com – free dependable antivirus software.
- Ad-Aware SE, lavasoftusa.com – free dependable spyware protection.
- Trip Advisor, tripadvisor.com – vacation planning/organization site.
- Jaiku.com, pownce.com, tumblr.com, and twitter.com - my personal twitter – mini-blog sites.
- Project Gutenberg, gutenberg.net – text copies of many books.
- Podiobooks.com – free books in MP3 format by unknown authors and Audible.com – well known books for sale in MP3 format.
- Wikipedia.org – an encyclopedia site that is written by the public.
- Wayback Machine, archive.org – historical copies of web sites.
- Geocaching, geocaching.com – sport or game where you find hidden “things” all over the world.
- Ubuntu.com – a free computer operating system.
- Google Documents, docs.google.com – you can store documents online and then edit them there or on your computer.
- Flash Padlock, corsair.com/, Yego, ritekusa.com & Kingston, kingston.com – different types of flash drives with various features.
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