SITE OF THE DAY ARCHIVE

This is the archive for the Site of the Day feature on Alpha-Pro.Net.

11/30/2000 Ad-Aware from LavaSoft This is a completely free program for Windows that scans for, and can remove, spyware on your system. Spyware often accompanies freeware programs, and "phones home" over your network connection. In most cases, the purpose of these spyware is to update its database of ads. But unfortunately, its not possible for an end-user to guarantee the spyware isn't sending sensitive information to a third party. And unless you have a security program on your computer, these spyware can--but mostly do not--access any file on any part of your machine. Worst of all, these potentially dangerous programs are often installed without the knowledge or permission of the user. Ad-aware scans your memory, registry, and hard drive for known spyware and gives you the choice of removing it. The program has a stable scan engine and updatable database--much like modern antivirus programs.

11/28/2000 XDrive.com There are many free "Internet hard drives" out there, including FreeDrive.com, Driveway.com, IDrive.com, and others. But XDrive has it all. You can sign up for up to 100 megabytes of free space. You can download tools that integrate XDrive with your Windows desktop. For example, you can treat XDrive just like another drive. You can also arbitrarily put Web and download files into your XDrive with a click. The service is also Palm VII compatible. No other service I've seen has the amount of space, features, flexibility, and ease of use.

11/27/2000 ThePaperBoy.com Ever wanted to find a newspaper in a particular city with a website? This site is the answer. Simply use the drop down menus to search for newspapers in cities and states in the U.S., or in countries around the world. On the results page, there are links to the newspaper's site. The language of the site is specified. This site is very easy to use.

11/17/2000

Many online stores offer coupons and promotions, but unless you're targeted by them, you wouldn't know about these. This is where these three sites come in handy. They offer hundreds of coupons that you can use to get discounts at popular online stores. Typically, you can search by store or browse different categories. The coupons either link to the coupon at the store, or provide a coupon code to enter at checkout. Some coupons are good for only first time shoppers, but there are still plenty of coupons for returning customers.

11/15/2000 WinKey Put the Windows key to good use. Newer keyboards have a couple additional keys on the keyboard. One of these keys, called the Windows key, is just to the left of the left Alt key and just to the right of the right Alt key. Windows has some built-in keystrokes for this key, for example Windows+R to run a program, Windows+E to start Windows Explorer, etc. But this key has great potential. This little user-friendly utility allows you to assign programs, files, or folders to the Windows key. It is as simple as that. The program also includes a task manager.

11/13/2000 AutoSite.com Get info on new and used cars. This site offers detailed reports on new car models. Information in the reports include the base prices, available options, and detailed specifications. All prices include the retail price and the invoice price--the real price the dealers pay. One can also get value estimates for used cars too. The calculator takes into account almost every detail, including mileage. The site also has a repair and maintenance section as well.

11/10/2000 The World Wide Web Consortium If you are a web architect, or interested in open web standards, the World Wide Web Consortium is an authoritative site. The consortium (W3C) is a group of companies and interest groups that collaborate to write the open standards of the World Wide Web, such as HTML and CSS. You can browse its recommendations, view its drafts, and participate in the comments process. The W3C actually has many more committees and working groups, working hard to enhance and refine the Web. For example, the consortium has released recommended standard guidelines to make web sites more accessible to people with disabilities.

11/9/2000 Gibson Research Corporation This is a data security hodge podge. On the free side, there is Shields Up, a free series of pages that scan your network connection for the most common security holes. Documentation on how to fix these holes is plentiful and easy to understand. Also free are miscellaneous programs that neutralize known spyware--programs put onto your computer by unscrupulous companies to track your browsing and otherwise intrude on your privacy. There is also a program to examine your ZIP drives and disks for the click of death problem. Finally, there are articles on various data security subjects, such as the click of death and the Netscape/Real/AOL spyware. GRC is also the home of SpinRite, an advanced data recovery program.

11/7/2000 Google.com Google is a search engine with some unique qualities. First, it is devoted to searching the Web. It is not a portal. Second, its search algorithms are intuitive. For example, it will only return results that contain all of your search terms. Third, it analyzes the quality of a page by how many pages link to it, with each linking page like a vote. Of course, the votes are weighted so that the votes of important pages get more weight. Fourth, many search engines will display the heading of a possible hit, but Google will display the part of the page that contains your search terms. This gives you a better idea whether the page is relevant. All this makes Google very fast, efficient, and relatively clean.

11/2/2000 WebFerret A meta search engine in a desktop program. This handy utility makes searching the Web simple. Simply type in your query, choose the type of search (all keywords, any keywords, exact string, Boolean expression), and WebFerret will search for your term in several popular search engines, such as Altavista and Excite. There are many advanced features, including filtering out duplicates and objectional material. Simply click on a link, and your Web browser will launch the page for you. WebFerret is supported by banner ads, and therefore is a free program.

10/31/2000 The Debate Referee The U.S. presidential election is fast approaching. However, some people have not made up their minds. Here is an unbiased source of hype from both major candidates, and perhaps an insight into their credibility. This Washington Post feature examines the validity of the many charges and claims made by Bush and Gore. Who was exaggerating? Who was fudging those numbers? Who really was using "fuzzy math"? Find out here. One can also get the text of the three debates.

10/26/2000 Index Librorum Liberorum The title refers to a Latin phrase, List of Free Books, which is a play off of Index Librorum Prohibitorum, or List of Prohibited Books. The site is a collection of (mostly) public domain documents and interactive content geared towards the sciences. There are articles on everything from cryptography to physics, but the most intriguing part of the site is the astronomy area, with its rounded collection of online and offline tools. You can view the solar system, Earth, and Moon from different viewpoints on Earth (by longitude and latitude) or from space. You can create custom sky charts from any viewpoint on Earth, on any reasonable date, within a few thousand years. One can aim a virtual telescope at specific interstellar objects, or by coordinates. You can download several of these tools as programs for Windows or Unix. There are also Windows screen savers, such as for the sky chart, where you can tell the screen saver (in its settings) what the viewpoint on Earth is. The astronomy area alone is very cool.

10/25/2000 Expita.com This site is devoted to ways of accessing Internet services by e-mail. Why would you want to do this? For one thing, many people have only e-mail access to the Internet. Also, e-mail can be an easy interface for some tasks. Generally, one sends a message to a server with specific commands. With these servers, one can retrieve files by FTP, web pages, search FTP sites, search for mailing lists, read and post to Usenet, perform network diagnostics, and access other parts of the Internet--all by e-mail.

10/24/2000 EHow.com This site is chock full of little tutorials and "how-tos" articles. Articles are not long but are very "down to earth". There are about 20 centers, such as finance/business, personal care/style, computers, automotive, Halloween, and more. Each center is further subdivided, and the whole site can be searched. EHow claims to have 14,000 articles online, and readers are encouraged to submit their own articles.

10/23/2000 4Anything.com This is a guided portal. 4Anything.com has registered 4,000+ domain names, mostly beginning with the character 4. More than 1,300 of these sites are active. About 800 are interest sites, anything from 4Notebooks.com to 4Twins.com to 4Candles.com. The rest are sites for towns and cities around the world. At each site a guide edits links to relevant information, with commentary on the site.

10/20/2000 TellMe.com TellMe.com is quickly becoming the premier phone portal. This is because of its powerful combination of decent voice recognition, diverse array of features, and its commitment to expand and to keep up to date. Recently, they have added driving directions as well as the ability to load your favorites from other portals, such as Yahoo and Netscape. This portal is also up on current events, such as during the Olympics and now the presidential election. TellMe also has an extensions program where daring programmers can try their hand at building Web applications accessible by phone.

10/19/2000 ComputerProblems.com This is a site where volunteer computer experts answer the questions of ordinary computer users. You can browse previous questions in a couple dozen categories (such as Windows, error messages, Internet, networking, DOS, HTML, memory, and more) or ask your own question.

10/17/2000 PHP Home Page PHP officially stands for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor", but it really has a lot of potential as a server side scripting language for Web pages. It is a cross between the limited functionality and ease of use of server-side includes and the more powerful but harder to learn Perl. Like SSI, PHP is usually embedded into the HTML document. Like Perl, it can be used to do a lot of heavy processing. For example, you can send form data to a PHP page, and the PHP will run on the server and its output is put into the document, like SSI. Properly integrated on a server, you can easily send e-mail with a simple function. The possibilities are endless. This site lets you download the program, explore its documentation, join its mailing lists, and more.

10/16/2000 Project Vote Smart Project Vote Smart is an organization dedicated to informing voters (U.S. only) about their officials and candidates. Simply enter your ZIP + 4 code and you'll see a list of current officials and candidates. Click on a candidate and a dossier is displayed. You can get biographical information, campaign finance information, and learn about their positions on the issues, how they are rated by special interest groups, and past votes they have cast. This is a very helpful site for all voters in general, and undecided voters in particular.

10/13/2000 Newbie.org Newbie.org is a computer site that can be valuable for newbies and more advanced users alike. The site is divided into newbie, intermediate, and advanced areas, but its not necessary to surf that way. The site is full of little articles and snippets of information. For example, there are articles on recoverying from Windows crashes and some code snippets for Web developers.

10/6/2000 IPrint.com A premier print shop for stationary and novel printing services. Whether you need customized business stationary or want a special print on anything from a clock to golf balls to a mug, or a magnet, T-shirt, or teddy bear (you get the idea), IPrint can come through. They have low prices and good service.

10/5/2000 The CIA World Factbook 2000 The Central Intelligence Agency of the United States publishes an annual publication containing detailed information about every country's geography, people, economy, government, communication, transportation, military, and international disputes. The next time you need to know a quick fact about a country--from its approximate longitude and latitude to its head of state to how many radios are in use to how many men are military age, check this site out first. You can browse the site by country--to see all the information about a country--or by field, which displays information for every country about one category--such as land area or telephone system.

10/4/2000 PC Pitstop PC Pit Stop is, well, a pit stop for your PC. The site uses advanced (but safe) ActiveX and other controls to probe your computer and make recommendations. The test is quick and user friendly. PC Pit Stop will test, among other things, your hard drive performance, memory, Internet connection speed, video, Windows operating system, and more. For many of its recommendations, there are automatic fixes that you can run which fixes the problem.

10/3/2000 Personal Digital Certificates from Thawte When we send paper mail, we usually sign our names and use envelopes. We use envelopes so that no casual snooper can read our mail. We sign our names so that the receiver has some confidence that we really wrote the letter. So why not bring these customs to e-mail, for free? Digital certificates are like digital IDs. Interfaced with popular browsers and e-mail programs, they can digitally sign your e-mail and allow others to send "for your eyes only" messages to you. Unencrypted e-mail isn't guaranteed to be private. It may be stored on intermediate servers outside of your control. And people on your LAN can decode the raw traffic and reproduce your messages. Thawte is a well-respected certifying authority now owned by VeriSign. They issue free IDs. Compared to their parent company, VeriSign, they are cheaper and better for the casual user. Thawte's certificates are free, and seamlessly integrate into Internet Explorer, Netscape, Opera, and several other programs.

10/2/2000 Batch Cleanup Your Windows programs are quite messy. If your hard drive was a bedroom, there would be a huge pile of stuff in one part of the room (the occupied portion of your hard drive). Most of this stuff is organized and necessary, but there are some infamous areas. Chief among these are a lot of "temporary" files that you simply no longer need, but they are taking up a lot of drive space. Fred Langa, the noted freelance computer writer, has posted four batch files that clean up many of these temporary areas. According to his articles, these files can free up many megabytes of disk space. Some users have reported that gigabytes of space has been freed up. So read the simple documentation and consider trying these batch files on your hard drive. You may be surprised how much junk was cleaned out.

10/1/2000 Matt's Script Library Matt's Script Library is an excellent resource if you are looking to make a Web site more interactive. Not only does Matt Wright (a student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) provide scripts for download, he also has two resource indeces: CGI and PHP. These resource indices contain thousands of links to other sites. The scripts available on Matt's site include scripts for searches, random images, form to e-mail, a web message board, a guestbook, and other neat miscellaneous stuff.

9/28/2000 AcronymFinder.com Acronyms and abbreviations are everywhere. Whether its a computer term, a government agency, or a colloquial invention, this alphabet soup is often confusing. That's where Acronym Finder comes in. It claims to have 165,000 acronyms in its database. Just go to the site, type the letters into the search box, and Acronym Finder will tell you what the acronym stands for. Its very simple and fun.

9/27/2000 The Web Developer's Virtual Library This is a massive site whose subtitle is The Webmaster's Illustrated Encyclopedia of web technologies and design principles. For webmasters, web designers, and Internet developers, this is a goldmine of documentation on everything related to Web architecture. With over 2,000 pages, the WDVL covers all the bases with extensive articles on HTML, Perl, DHTML, ASP, SSI, PHP, and everything else. The site also has thousands of links to sources on other sites. Next time you want information on a Web technology, check here first.

9/26/2000 Gist.com Gist is one of the Internet's premier TV entertainment content providers. Besides the typical editorials and features, Gist provides TV listings for any ZIP code and TV system in the U.S. Simply enter your ZIP code on the home page, and choose your TV setup. Whether you are watching "over the air" TV, have a cable service, or have a satellite dish, Gist can deliver accurate listings.

9/25/2000 FirstGov.gov In the age of portals, its not surprising that the U.S. federal government has one too. There are approximately 20,000 federal government web sites, with over 27 million pages. Some of these sites are very useful yet obscure, and you can even do certain transactions and queries online. FirstGov.gov is a portal to the federal government. The site has a search engine and a topical directory, just like any good portal. So the next time you want information from the federal government and don't know where it is, go to FirstGov.

9/23/2000 CNet's Builder.com This is CNet's portal for web architects and developers. Here you'll find product and service news, discussion boards, columns, reviews, and various primers on advanced topics, including ASP, Perl, and PHP. There are also several e-mail newsletters you can subscribe to which will inform you of special features on the site.

9/22/2000 The Urban Legend Combat Kit An urban legend is a story that circulates around that is totally false but very persuasive. In the age of the Internet, urban legends are often spread by e-mail. Often, e-mails containing urban legends will ask any reader to forward the message to all of their friends. Since some people pay for every message they receive, and most people do not like receiving urban legends, one should check out the veracity of such e-mails before passing them on. The Urban Legend Combat Kit can help with this. The site lists dozens of urban legends with canned e-mail responses. Whenever you receive an urban legend, simply copy and paste the response into a reply.

9/21/2000 The Interactive Currency Table Ever wanted to know the exchange rates for major currencies? Then check out this site. You can choose among dozens of base currencies. The data is very current and you can even specify what date for which you want the rates.

9/20/2000 Translate Web Pages or Text This is an on-line demo of translation software from Lernout & Hauspie. You can translate a web page by URL or text that you type or paste in. You can choose among several languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. For text, you also specify a category such as general, computers, business, legal, or medical.

9/19/2000 The Mob Shop The Mob Shop is an online store with a twist. Consumers get together to purchase an item at significant discount because the sale is in a large quantity. This is how it works. The site is divided into various categories, such as electronics, small business, and PDAs. At any given time there are dozens of items in "buy cycles". Consumers sign up to buy the item before the buy cycle closes, and the product is processed and shipped after the end of the cycle. The discount depends on the number of buyers. There are also nice customer-friendly features, such as e-mail notifications when cycles are about to close, and specifying a price before your order is counted.

9/18/2000 ScamBusters Keep informed of the latest scams, urban legends, and viruses with this monthly e-mail magazine. The web site also includes an archive of past issues, and information on various scams, including credit card fraud, the 809 area code scam, counterfeit items, and more. Get wise with ScamBusters.

9/17/2000 SpamCop Are you tired of spam? Is "just hit delete" not a good enough solution for you? Then fight back with SpamCop. Spammers leave a paper trail in the junk e-mail that they send, and more often than not, they do face consequences for sending spam--if its reported. The trouble is, spammers often fake their e-mail addresses so it can be difficult to report spam abuse to the right administrator. This is where SpamCop comes in. Just paste in the entire message--headers and all--and SpamCop analyzes the headers and automatically generates detailed spam reports. Then just hit send and the right admins will get a detailed report of the abuse of their system, and chances are the spammer will get kicked off the service. Spammers usually treat this as a necessary cost of their business, so they'll probably move onto another account. But reporting them at least slows them down and frustrates them. SpamCop is nagware--there will be a little hastle each time you use it unless you pay and register. Payment is $0.50 per megabyte of processed spam.

9/16/2000 BrowserTune.com Browser Tune is a site designed to put your browser and Internet connection through its paces, testing its endurance and capabilities. The site is thoughtfully designed and logically arranged. You can thoroughly test your throughput, basic feature support (images, tables, windows) to more advanced features (scripting, DHTML, CSS, and much more). The site is so extensive that it would take a couple hours, at least, to run every single test, but this isn't really necessary. You can stop and return to the tests later. You can run the tests in sequence, or jump to specific categories. Browser Tune is designed by Fred Langa, the noted freelance computer writer, and is safe--it will not harm your system. So, to torture your browser and see what it can do, check out Browser Tune.

9/15/2000 Neat Net Tricks Neat Net Tricks is a free newsletter that arrives in your e-mail inbox twice a month. Each issue contains more than a dozen short tips featuring "neat" programs or web sites. You never really know what you might find in there each time.

9/14/2000 HostSearch.com This site lists dozens of web hosting services with detailed information, user reviews, and more. You can search for prospective hosts by price, features, or platform. Each company has a profile with its name, address, connectivity, server, and service plan information. There are also user reviews, articles, hosting news, a buyer's guide, a very handy glossary, and a discount zone with special offers and promotions. One caveat: It seems that the web hosting companies lists their own information on the site. Although the site is not biased, it probably isn't complete with all web hosting services. Also, the hosting companies may not update their information everytime they change their pricing structure, so be sure to visit the company's own website. Nevertheless, this is one of the better such sites on the Web.

9/13/2000 Web Workshop on ZDTV Have you ever wanted to create a website but didn't know how? Well, here's your chance. For those people who have ZDTV on cable or satellite, Call for Help has a new Web Workshop segment every Thursday. But if you don't have ZDTV, don't worry. All the articles are on the Web. Each week, there is a new lesson in web design, such as adding hyperlinks or images, finding a web host, and transferring your site online. You'll soon discover that it is relatively easy to make a few web pages of your own.

9/11/2000 ABellTolls.com This is a very handy site for people with long distance service. ABellTolls.com has an exhaustive and searchable database of rate plans from long distance companies. You can search for the plan that most closely matches your calling patterns. For example, search for the plans with the lowest intrastate rates or the lowest calling card charges or the lowest international rates to a specific country. Uncover the various marketing tricks long distance companies use. There are also links to various governmental and non-governmental "watchdog" agencies.

9/9/2000 Euphoria Programming Language Euphoria (End User Programming for Robust Interpreted Applications) is a programming language for 32-bit Windows, 32-bit extended DOS, and Linux. It is very easy to learn with only four built in data types--integer, atom (any decimal number), sequence (flexible arrays), and object (generic term used for any type). It is easy to learn yet very powerful. The language is supported by a core group of users who write and freely distribute useful libraries, such as those for Windows GUI design and for Internet sockets in Windows. A version of the program is public domain and totally free, but some debugging features are disabled. The registration cost for the full version depends on the platform.

9/8/2000 Stratfor.com Stratfor is a company that specializes in analyzing international relations and geopolitics. Media have referred to the company as a non-governmental intelligence agency. For each region and country, Stratfor puts out special reports, news, and commentary on economic, political, and military issues. You can also subscribe to the Global Intelligence Update, a daily feature that arrives in your inbox each weekday. Each GIU focuses on a significant (but usually little-known) geopolitical issue.

9/7/2000 Dr. Math This is an impressive site for math students of all levels. This site includes links to web sites for specific math disciplines, a discussion area, and Dr. Math. You can ask Dr. Math any math question, and a group of volunteer college students will try to answer it. They call themselves the SWAT team (after Dr. Math's HQ at Swarthmore University). Of course, Dr. Math can't answer all the questions submitted, so there's also a searchable archive of Dr. Math's answers.

9/6/2000 HomeworkSpot.com HomeworkSpot is a site geared to help pre-college students with their homework. The site is divided into elementary, middle, and high school sections, with topics under each division such as English, fine arts, foreign language, health, math, and more. Each subject page has links and resources for that topic. Under the high school math section, for example, there's links to many math sites, calculators, and various subtopics including algebra, calculus, and geometry. There's also a section on the site for parents and teachers.

9/5/2000 Homestead.com The best free web hosting provider. You get a short address (yourname.homestead.com), 16 megabytes of disk space, and no ads on your pages. Rich web-based tools for the beginning to intermediate web designer, and FTP access for experts. Advanced site functions are available. You can point your existing domain name to Homestead. Homestead.com has a lot of partnerships with related service providers to provide value-added services such as search engine submission.

9/1/2000 Tourbus.com The Internet Tourbus by Bob Rankin and Patrick Crispen is one of the oldest e-mail newsletters around. This newsletter comes to your inbox twice weekly and covers sites and topics of interest. For example, the most recent issue of the Tourbus as of this writing was about finding online tutorials and discounts for educators. Also a good source for debunking Internet hoaxes and urban legends.

8/31/2000 RefDesk.com A truly massive site that specializes in linking to other sites based on category. You can just click the Site Map and spend days going through the dozens and dozens of categories and the sites they feature. Categories are as diverse as Biographies, Indispensable Sites, Homework Helper, Windows Sites, Humor, Search Engines, Free Stuff, Conspiracy Sites, Databases, and a lot more (no understatement here). Make RefDesk your first stop to looking up everything from area codes to ZIP codes, astronomy to zoology. They link to sites based on a rather strict criteria, including the site's credibility, knowledge depth, and accuracy.

8/30/2000 MapQuest.com This is one of the better (if not the best) site for driving directions. Just enter your starting and ending points, and MapQuest will give you turn-by-turn directions. You can e-mail and print these directions and detailed maps as well.

8/29/2000 ZoneLabs.com Zone Labs is a computer security software company that was the first to make its personal firewall, Zone Alarm, free for download. Zone Alarm is free yet effective--it blocks hacker attacks by making your computer invisible to hackers, and it cuts off unknown transmissions from your computer (i.e spyware). Now, some power users may find the free Zone Alarm a little too simple, but for most people Zone Alarm is exactly what they need. If you want to protect your Internet connection from hackers, especially a "always on" connection, and you don't want to study about port scanning and stealthing computers, Zone Alarm is perfect for you. For the advanced user, Zone Alarm Pro is available for purchase.

8/28/2000 HotFiles.com This is ZDNet's download site. Thousands of downloads in a searchable database. There are also featured downloads. Many downloads are rated and/or reviewed. If you're looking for a program, start your search here. You can usually download programs without giving any contact information.

8/6/2000 MandyMoore.com Did you know you can email Mandy Moore on her site? She says she replies to every email and you can even request something on TRL! The intro to the site plays a music clip. You can read news about her and also see cool pics! She'll talk about her new album "I Wanna Be With You" and show the cover. It's an exciting site.

8/5/2000 Nick-Carter.com "What a hottie!" you say. BSB Nick Carter has a family that has SUPERSTAR written all over them. He's a singer with his brother following in his steps, sister BJ modeling, and sister Leslie modeling/singing!!! It's a family that everyone adores. The site gives thorough info on all of them! Including clubs for Nick and Aaron Carter!!!!!!!

8/4/2000 WhatIs.com A site with definitions of technology-related words. File formats, Internet terminology, and basic computing concepts--its all there. If you're ever confused by what a geeky word means, like hard drive, DS3, and TCP/IP, try this site first. Along with an explanation, links are provided to more information.

8/3/2000 BlueMountain.com You can send e-cards with a personal message containing cartoons, photograph pictures, and animation! Over twenty themes including friendship, hi, woman to woman, and more. Blue Mountain is great for sending invitations and get well cards too.

8/2/2000 AGirlsWorld.com This site is only for girls. It has a Gold Key Club to chat with exclusive members of the club, a newsletter in which you may win a free membership to the Gold Key Club, and a penpal program you can join that's entirely safe! The newsletter has all kinds of information from boys to family. Everything is safe at this site!

8/1/2000 DeathClock.com Have you wondered when you are going to die? Well, you can find out. On the homepage of this site you can enter your birthdate, click the button, and then you are told the date when you will die. Of course this is just for fun! They even tell how many seconds you have left to live.

7/31/2000 MTV.com Like the television network, MTV.COM is one of the coolest places to visit. It covers everything on MTV and more! From famous shows like TRL, to movies like Jailbreak, to celebrities like 98° and Carson Daly! It lets you vote on TRL and find out info on the cool celebs!

7/30/2000 ZDNet Web Developer Area This site has tons of goodies for web developers. For beginners, there is a lot of info on HTML and basic Web design to get you started. For more advanced web architects, there are hundreds of free, pre-tested JavaScripts, Java applets, and Perl scripts to enhance your site.

7/29/2000 HowStuffWorks.com This site has hundreds of articles about, well, as the name implies, how stuff works. Everything from CDs to cell phones to automotive engines to the radio spectrum to cruise missiles! Marshall Brain, who runs the site, also has a Question of the Day feature where he answers a quick little question each day. Absolutely a great site!

7/28/2000 MamaMedia.com This place is where kids on the net can do anything, like send animated cards and solve puzzles and create your own character! You can make cartoons and do something called Flip Sticks to move your character and email it to someone! You'll love this site!

7/27/2000 Teen.com A definite place for teens of both genders, with info on friendship, relationships, and even homework help!!! It includes a poll that everyone can answer. In addition, it provides you optional email if you want and also has a program for meeting new teens called "Teen PenPal". This site is a most definite site to visit!

7/26/2000 Wired.com Wired.com is the home of Wired Magazine, a magazine full of news and features on technology. You can read the entire monthly magazine a few weeks after the print edition is released. Besides the magazine, Wired.com features daily news stories on technology, business, culture, and politics. You can subscribe to various e-mail postings, such as a daily brief of news and a financial market summary.

7/25/2000 VirtualDog.com These dogs aren't the same as real life dogs. They're actually on the computer! You can pick your own dog and name it as well. They take you to your virtual home and you have a virtual kitchen! Everything is virtual! You keep your own money and you have to poop it too like a real dog. You can even win lottery tickets and chat with other dog owners. But you need to remember your 7 digit licence number to visit your dog.

7/24/2000 RollingStone.com No, this is not the site about the band. This is the site of one of Brittany's favorite magazines. It contains thorough info on all kinds of celebrities and hot stars. With pictures of stars like Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, BSB, Natalie Portman, and more!!!!!!! "I always have a great time visiting and I know you will too!!!!" Brittany says.

7/23/2000 TheHungerSite.com This is a site where you can donate food to hungry people at no cost to you. The Hunger Site has agreements with various sponsors who have agreed to donate some cents per visitor. Just go to the site, and click on the Donate Free Food link. One donation per visitor per day. You can also save some rain forests.

7/22/2000 Purple-Moon.com This is a place for girls only, where they have things to do like sending postcards and picking your own screen name! And they let you pick 24 treasures for your collection, such as stones with a theme. And it has characters which you can send as postcards. Find buddies to add to your buddy list! And many more activities! You girls will love this Site of the Day!

7/21/2000 Autodream.com A fun and cool site that has all kinds of games, dances (including the Hamster Dance), and magic tricks that will blow you away! There's also an intelligence quiz to see how smart you are!

7/20/2000 The Langa List on Langa.com A free email newsletter from Fred Langa that helps you get more from your hardware, software, and time online. No computer user should do without this twice weekly newsletter with information about patches, security, operating systems, hot programs, and much more!

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