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Why bother trying to remember 1000's of website URLS - Bookmark our page and come here instead, most of them are here anyways !

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* E-Card, E-Postcard, and Picture Card Sites (*) = updated or corrected links
(send a card to a friend and family !)

* American Greetings.com   Angelwink PostCards   ICQ Greeting Cards Jan Brett Postcards   * Zen Garden eCards
Card Fountain    Talking Holiday Cards
* Hallmark Cards Other Hallmark Divisions: ( Maxine's    Revilo    * Shoebox )   List of all Hallmark websites

- Search for 'E-cards'

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Webmail (Email) Service Links
Sampling

Common Popular: MSN - Hotmail or AOL - Webmail Yahoo Webmail and Yahoo UK Webmail Google Gmail or Earthlink Webmail Verizon Webmail or Comcast Webmail Charter Webmail	Some University: Univ of Vermont Webmail and Cornell Univ Webmail Harvard Webmail and Norwich University Webmail Boston College WebCT and Brandeis University Webmail
Misc'l: Crocker Webmail and FairPointNE Webmail	Email to Fax Services (vice/versa): New Beta Savetz Good small articles Roadnews.com - Search for 'email to Fax free'

Weather Information Sites:

There's no doubt that there is no end to the amount of weather related services there are on the Internet. Go to any local television or radio station website for example and you can obtain weather information for your area, most ISP startup pages now contain custom weather lookup services as well. For quick no nonsense customized weather lookup in your area click on one of the links below.

Plug-in your zip code for weather & related info local to your area !

- WEATHERFORYOU.com

- The WEATHER Channel

* - WONDERGROUND Weather

Try this one, launch
enter the term 'Weather followed by a space
then either a zip code or city/town/state' and enter.

- Search for the term 'Weather'

Allergy Related Sites:
Pollen.com
(Information on local Pollen Counts, Allergy Alerts etc)
AllergyNursing.com
International worldwide pollen and mold (mould) spore counts

Earthquake, Hurricane, Tornado, and Fire
Information Related Sites:

* The Disaster Center
(Information on storms, fire, drought, hurricanes, volcanoes, air quality etc)

The USGS - Earthquake Center

Earthquake! - Did You Feel it?
Click here and help, report it to the USGS

The National Weather Service (NOAA) Hurricane Center

- Search for 'Hurricane Center'

The Disaster Center (Tornado and Severe Weather)

The National Weather Service (NOAA) - Tornados

- Search for 'Tornado Center'

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Great Search Engine - Sites ! ^{Doc's Picks}

Some of The Top - All around Search Engines:
most used
Web - News - Pictures - Audio - Video

* Altavista Alltheweb AskJeeves eXcite Hotbot
* Google NorthernLight WebBrain Yahoo

Answers.com
A great web Search Engine. With look ahead
technology topics suggestions appear in the
search box as you type. A hybrid somewhere between
google, about, and wikipedia.

Fagon Finder
Versatile search engine tools, options, and more.

* Wikipedia
Reference Searches

World Star
Free World Search Engine lists
Dictionaries, Translators, Encyclopedias, more.

Google Web Search features
In addition to providing access to billions of web pages,
Google has many special features to help you to find exactly
what you're looking for. Click here to see what they are and how
to get to them.

Multiple Search Engine Sites:

Multiple Search - Search Engine Sites allow you to check across many engines at once using a single site. The idea is good, it's a fast/comprehensive way to cast a wide net over several search engines. The bad news is that you cannot always narrow your search effectively because the different engines use different programming techniques. Use multiple searches if you are hunting for something obscure and cannot find enough hits when you use your favorite single search engine:

Dogpile Ixquick MetaCrawler ~~Inference~~
MetaIQ Mamma Super Seek

Search.com
Savvy Search is now Search.com

KillerInfo
(Page Previews and Table Of Contents)
Ez2www
(1,000 specific search engines in 40 different languages)
WebCrawler
The webs top search engines spun together
AlltheSites

FACTS
Search Engine Related Link and Facts Sites:

Librarians Internet Index Search Page
LibrarySpot.com - Great Starting Place almost anything
* Univ of Albany Library - Internet Search Engine Lists
Yahoo - Reference
Numerous links to references on a variety of subjects
* The Search Engines Colossus
International Directory of Search Engines
Major Search Engines List

Meet Dennis Hwang the guy behind the Art
CNN - Google's unknown artist has huge following .
Visit Logoogle
Google Logo Art, Fun Pic's, Fake Logos'

Early 1996-97
Ever Wonder about Google's Start?
Project Backrub
Pictures of early Google Hardware

* Search Wikipedia
(Get a bunch of information about a topic, name, company, etc)

Next Generation Search Engine Site Tools:

A9 - Provides Page Result Previews
Clusty - Categorizes/Clusters Results
*KartOO - An amazing Visual Search engine
Gigablast - Categorizes/Clusters Results
PageBull - Provides Page Result Previews

Jux2 - Most people think that the major search engines serve up similar results. In fact, tests show as many as 6 of the top ten results can be different. This web site allows you to compare the top 10 results on Google, Yahoo and Ask Jeeves. Instead of just seeing 10 highly ranked results from one search engine, you see 16-17 highly ranked results from the two combined on a single page. You can also install a browser button to have Jux2 right at your fingertips.

Teoma - A new search engine which offers impressive results by using a new technology they call "Subject-Specific Popularity." They ask experts within a specific subject community about who they believe is the best resource for that subject. You almost always get very relevant results, neatly organized and tips on how to refine your search.

Wisenut - Categorizes/Clusters Results

Specialty Search Engines:

Picture Search Engines:
* PicSearch
Flickr - Pic Search

* Video Search Engines: Updated

Agnostic Video Searches are searches not affected by the hosting of video, where results are agnostic no matter where the video is located:

Truveo, AltaVista, blinkx, Dabble, Everyzing (formerly Podzinger until May, 2007), Picsearch

Non-agnostic Video Searches are results which are modified, or suspect due to the large hosted video being given preferential treatment in search results:

AOL Video, (In December of 2005, AOL acquired Truveo Video Search), Google Video, (Searches its own hosted content, and that of YouTube, which it bought it October, 2006, Yahoo Video Search, examines video files on the internet using its Media RSS standard.
See Wikipedia - Video Search Engines for a more in depth explanation of Video Search Engines. Note, most of the Top General Search engines have Pic and Video search options on them as well.

Other Specialty Search Engines
Google Scholar   Google Blog Finder
Google Local   Google Labs   Google Book Search
Monster Local.com    BlogSearchEngine

JournalismNet
Need to find something?
Check out Julian Sher's - JournalismNet.com

One of the best Search Engine/Fact Finding sites we have seen yet.
With literally 100's of well organized search engine, news gathering,
reference finding, tutorial, fact sites we've seen.

* Looksmart - Find Articles.com
Search for information on a number of categories. Over
10,000 articles, outcome in both video and text results.

Wikimedia Commons
A database of 1,958,157 freely usable media files
(images, sound, video) to which anyone can contribute.

Search Engine Watch

* Search Engine Watch List
See who's who and what's what in search engines
Ratings-Stats-Opinions-Blogs-and more

* Search Engines.net
Search engine link lists categorized
Best, General, Meta, Specialized, Reference, Foreign Language
People Finders, News/Weather, Search Your Site

* Search Engines.Showdown

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Maps & Directions Sites

Good General - All around Map Sites:
(Directions, Maps, From - To, What's Nearby)

Google Maps
* MSN Live Search
(Formally MSN Mapblast)
* Mapquest
National Geographic - Maps Online
Rand McNally
Yahoo Maps

* See our Travel Page also
(Travel Advisories, Airports, Airlines, Hotels, Roadways, etc.)

Specialty - Map Sites:
EmbassyWorld World Maps
Maporama Worldwide
(over 26 Languages)
World Atlas.com
Univ Texas Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collections
ReiseNet - (City,State,World,Historical,Weather Maps)

3D Map & Aerial - Map Sites:
Google Earth
Get Google Earth Download (Free Edition)

Google Earth Maps Mania
Unofficial Google Maps blog tracking the websites, ideas
and tools being influenced by Google Maps

* MSN Live Search - GlobeXplorer - TerraFly

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Ahhh - The Television-Movies-Broadway, is that Doc Dingley I hear in the background or the director?

Entertainment:

(Jump to our new Entertainment page)
for many more entertainment subjects and links.

The following represents a sampling. The new entertainment page will eventually replace all the Entertainment/TV/and Movie information here on this page in these three sections. It will contain more information on Television listings, on going Theatrical and Musical Events, Music Searches, Movie Listings, Concert Events, Air Shows, Car Shows, Auto Auctions, State & World Fair Schedules, Places to Go, Arts and Artists, Comedy, Theme Park Links, Casinos, Blues-n-Jazz, Motion Picture Studio info, Sound Bites, etc.

*Click here and visit our Entertainment Page
find further links, more updates, current events, venues, etc.

* IMDb - The Internet Movie Database
Fun facts about Movies, TV, actors, actresses, etc.

Other IMDb Related Stuff:

The IMDb Resume - IMDb History
The IMDb Top Movies (all Time) - Voted by Users

* PopCultures Upcoming Movie News & Reviews

See reviews, trailers, and news about upcoming movies about to be released (see the left column of their website for selection of upcoming releases of movies by upcoming months up to a year in advance).

Wikipedia
Great companion to IMDB
(enter name of people, movies, research, etc and click on search)

Another great companion to IMDB
(Find movie release date, box office earnings, cast, forums, more)

IBDB - Internet Broadway Database
Fun facts about Broadway Shows, actors, actresses, etc

* ITDB - Internet Theatre Database
Fun facts about Theatrical Shows, actors, actresses, etc

Movie Listings
See what's playing at the Theaters near you
what they are about, and more !

Movie Theater Lookup Sites:
(Enter a zip code to see what's playing in that area)

*

Movies now playing

- Search for Movie Listing

Find an IMAX Theaters:
IMAX Theaters -Think Big!

Drive-In:
Mendon Twin Drive-In (Mendon,Ma)

Cinema Treasures.org - Home Page

Find a favorite Cinema or Drive-In near you, find out it's status as to whether or not it is still open or has been closed by clicking on one of the links below.

Cinema Treasures - (Search By State)
Cinema Treasures - (Search By Country)

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Yes - If you had your sound on you heard Monty Python !

Television Listings:
What's On? - Who's on? - and When?

Did You Know !

Most local stations, cable, and satellite systems also provide TV grid listings as well.

Most TV listing sites provide you with the capability of sorting by categories (e.g sports, news, etc), that you can find relevant information about a show by just clicking on a shows title, you can find out if a show/movie/actor or actress is going to be on during a specific month, that you can tailor the TV-Grid for your area and system (Air/Cable/Satellite), and that you can change the time or date views?

* ZAP2it
Our new choice! - What to watch and where to watch it

ExciteTV
See what's on TV and where to watch it

(Recommend Zap2it instead!)

Update 12-05-06: The old Yahoo TV Listings Grid has changed (not as quick and user friendly as it used to be) sadly it will be missed. The above link reflects the new Yahoo TV address.

Advanced Search
Find out when an Actor/Actress/or Movie may be ON TV (use keywords)

*TV.Com
What's on TV, Listings, News, features

Reinstated TV-Guide.Com
OK they've tuned down their pop-ups, costs etc
so we're allowing the link back. Let us know if this changes
See what's on TV, Listings, News, features, etc

*New

TV Zap
See What's on TV Worldwide
(Not to be confused with Zap2it above)

* Want to checkout some Radio Stations?
Whether it's Over the Air or on the Internet come
visit our Radio Stations Section
of our Entertainment Page by clicking here.

* Wikipedia - List of Television Channels/Networks (Worldwide)
Television Stations Around the World by High-Tech Productions

-Coming Soon-
The truth and facts about DTV (Digital TV) and it's impacts ...

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The $90 Million Dollar Oops mistake !
Phone Directory Information

Directory Services:
most used
Lookups / Online Phone Directories
(local, yellow pages, toll-free, reverse lookups)

411.Info
AT&T Anywho
Google Directories
* Infobel - World Telephone Dir
* Superpages.com
(By Person, Reverse Phone, Reverse Address, Area & Zipcode)
** Switchboard
Whitepages.com
* YellowPage City.com
Toll Free - Service Lookups

411 Services:
*Note: Did you know most phone companies $charge
you every time you use 411?

* * Goog411
Checkout Google's new, it's free, fast, and easy to use
1-800-GOOG-411 (1-800-466-4411).

Free411 has adds
Try 1-800-FREE411 (1-800-373-3411).
Come see their website here as well

U.S National Do Not Call Registry:
National Do Not Call Registry - US Government
Offers registration for consumers to stop telemarketers from calling,
(for-profit commercial calls only). You can register your phone number for free,
and it will remain on the national do-not-call list for five years

FCC Consumer Facts on Do Not Call Rules
Also checkout this link for the FCC rules on Do Not Call

* Customer Service - Shortcuts & Bypasses:
Tired of being routed around company customer service phone systems?
Want to speed things up? Try these!
Gethuman 500 Database
See the tips section here also
IVRHacks.com

* Word Translations:
1-800-Whats-That?
Translate words to phone numbers
and visa versa.

Ever try to guess what the phone number is from those catchy word phrases companies use? Do you get annoyed trying to translate them into useable numerical phone numbers especially when they don't provide a translation for you? Sounds easy but most people would in fact tell you how frustrating it can be when it comes time to dial the number. Here are a few sites to help simplify your life in translating catchy word phrases into numbers and vise versa

DialABC
Phonespell.org
Vanity Number Lookup

Reverse Phone# Address Lookup:
A number of phone directory services provide for reverse phone#
lookup. But have you ever needed to lookup a phone number
by street address? then check this out.
Reverse Phone Directory^popup

Area Code Prefix Lookup's:
* Fone Finder - Area Code & Prefix Lookup
NPA - Area code finder & exchange Lookup

Time Zone Finder:
(Need to know what time it is someplace before making a call?)
The World Clock Time Zone Lookup
WorldTime Server Lookup

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Sports:
(Jump to our Sports page)
Sports News, Sports by Category, Olympic, College Stats, Etc

Visit our incredible Sports Page by clicking here.

Recipes:
(Jump to our Recipes page)
Great Delicious Recipes, Famous Leading Brands, Healthy Eating, Etc

Visit our Recipe Page by clicking here.

Health:
(Jump to our Health page)
Health News, Phys Lookup, Search Engines, Hospitals, HMO's Etc

Visit our incredible Health Page by clicking here.

$ Tipping Guide: $
(Jump to our Tipping Guide page)

Need help figuring what to tip a server, waiter, bartender, bay sitter, valet, etc?

Visit our Tipping Guides Page by clicking here. For information on who and what to tip, informative links and other articles related to the subject.

Hiking - Walking - Running - RailTrail
Biking, Nature, Camping, Astronomy, Zoo
Aquarium, Canoeing and Kayaking Links:

Find links and maps for Hiking, Walking, Rail Trails, Running, and Bicycling. Locate useful information and links about Birds, Tree's, Flowers, Insects, Astronomy, Zoo's, Aquariums, Canoeing and Kayaking. Locate Campgrounds, Park Services, and Botanical Gardens nationally and worldwide by clicking on the link above.

Visit our Hiking - Walking - Running - RailTrail- Biking
Nature - Camping - Astronomy - Zoo - Aquarium
Canoeing and Kayaking Links Page by clicking here.
The last two recently added, Wow - now it's really a mouthful !

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Time Sites

Atomic Clocks:
* Find the Official U.S. time - (Atomic clock)
US Navy - Master Clock Time
Read more about Atomic Time & Clocks here.
* Greenwich Mean Time Official Homepage
(Locate your time zone and see the correct time)
NIST - Nat'l Institute of Standards and Technology

* World Time Zone Lookups:
The World Clock Time Zone Lookup
World Time Server Lookup
World Time Zone Converter
Time Ticker - Map

* * Network Time Protocol Sites Worldwide:
Set your PC's Servers etc to sync to NTP servers

There are any number of sites with software shareware and freeware which you can use to locate and use with NTP Atomic Time Clock Servers around the world. Windows itself has a sync feature built into the system Clock. On your PC go to the system clock in the system tray, right click on the time - then select Date/Time Adjust, and select the Internet Time Tab. There you will find a check box, to enable auto synchronization check the box which says Automatically Synchronize with an Internet Time Server. *Note time.windows.com belongs to the international community organization known as the NTP Pool Project, you can read more about them and NTP below:

What are NTP Servers
NIST - Nat'l Institute of Standards & Technology
(Set your computer clock vai Internet)
NIST Time Servers List
List of Internet Time Servers

Modify the Internet Time
Synchronization Servers (Windows XP)
Modify the Internet Time Synchronization Schedule

Miscellaneous:
Complete Sun and Moon Data (worldwide)
Find sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset times

* Checkout the Human Clock
Hilarious pictures of people/objects posing in the current time

Postal Services & Zip Codes

* US Postal Service (zipcodes)
* US Postal Service (postal rate calculators)
US Postal Service Tracking
* Yahoo - State Abbreviations

EscapeArtist.com
zip codes & postal codes around the World
Royal Mail - International World Incidents
A roundup of any events which might affect mail services around the world.

* Melissa Data
Do a number of things with zip codes
(Locate, distance between, demographics, maps, etc)

Shipping and Tracking
* Jump to Our Shipping and Tracking Service Locators
for services such as Federal Express, DHL-Airborne, UPS, & USPS

Books and Reference Related

*

Book Search (BETA)
Search/See the full text of books and discover new ones.

The Pulitzer Prize Organization
(The Pulitzer Prize Organization)

Shopping:
Amazon.com
ABE's Books
Barnes & Noble
Borders Books
The Harvard Book Store
Tatnuck Bookseller-Westboro MA updated

Selected Bookstores Worldwide

Associations - Lists & Organizations:

American Book Sellers Association
Book Fairs & Festivals (Worldwide)
Digital Rights Management
Publishers Catalogues List
Selected Publishers Worldwide
* US Copyright Office - LOC
Wikipedia - Definition of Digital Rights Management

Wikibooks Portal
Thousands of open source text books in over 50 languages

Book Reviews:
Epinions.com - Read reviews about specific books.

- Search for 'Book Reviews'

Online Internet - News & Events:

There is undoubtedly no limit to the amount of news related services on the Internet. Go to any local television or radio station website for example and you can obtain news information you want, most ISP or Email startup pages contain custom news services as well. Below is a sample of news services available on the Internet.

Internet News Posting Services:
* GOOGLE NEWS
(Checkout Google News email Alerts have custom alerts
sent to you on any number of topics/locations/interests etc.)

TOPIX.Net
(Similar to Google World News - Even look for Local News)

New Scientist

NewsTran.com
(News from world news sources translated in many languages)

Infoplease
(News, History, Atlas, Encyclopedia, Dictionary, Thesaurus, etc)

Weblogs Compendium
(Everything you need to know about weblogs, blogs, etc)

World News Network
(Similar to Google World News

Television News:

CNN	CSPAN	FOX
BBC News	MSNBC	*NewsLink (Radio, TV, & Papers)

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LIBRARIES:

Worldwide
IFLANET - Int'l Feder of Library Assoc & Inst (World)
LibWeb - Libraries over 125 Countries Worldwide
LibDex - An Index of over 18,000 Libraries
The Virtual Library
U.S Library of Congress

U.S The National Archives

* Worldcat.org
Search for an Item in Libraries near you
(e.g books, music, videos, articles, and more)
Over 1-billion items in more than 10,000 libraries worldwide

- Search for 'World Libraries'

Local
The Boston Public Library
MARS - Central Western Mass Library Sharing Sys

On This Day:
History !

On-This-Day.com
History Channel - Today in History
HistoryNet.com
NY Times - On This Day
BBC - On This Day in History
BrainyHistory - Today in History and Birthdays
Wikipedia - On This Day
World of Quotes - On This Day

Weatherforyou - Weather History On This Day
USGS - Earthquake History On This Day

	Things currently new or in beta on this page:
*	PopCultures Current and Upcoming Movie News and Reviews See reviews, trailers, and news about upcoming movies about to be released (see the left column of their website for selection of upcoming releases of movies by upcoming months up to a year in advance). Click on the link here or go to our Entertainment Section below. May 6th 2008
*	Learn the difference between Agnostic and non-Agnostic Search Engines in our Specialty Search Engines Section of our Main Links Page below.
*	Checkout some of the most recent additions of our Time Sites section below like Greenwich Mean Time Official Homepage Locate your time zone and see the correct time or the NIST - Nat'l Institute of Standards and Technology, and how to auto synchronize your systems PC clock with Internet NTP Servers, etc
*	1-800-What's-That? - Word Translations. Ever try to guess what the phone number is from those catchy word phrases companies use? Do you get annoyed trying to translate them into useable numerical phone numbers especially when they don't provide a translation for you? Sounds easy but most people would in fact tell you how frustrating it can be when it comes time to dial the number. Click on the link here and go to our Phone Directories section below. Find a few sites which can help simplify your life in translating catchy word phrases into numbers and vise versa.
*	Checkout Google's great new Goog411, it's free, fast, and easy to use 1-800-GOOG-411 (1-800-466-4411).Click on the link here or in our Phone Directories section below.