Jim's Favorites

This is a list of some of the items that I have in my favorites folder. Just remember, you came here of your own accord, so no griping about my favorites!  All of these open a new web browser window when you click them.

• Open Relay Database Open SMTP Relays

• NASA J-Track Spacecraft/Satellite tracking

• New York Times

• KBAlertz - Free e-mail alerts for newly published Microsoft KB articles for your favorite technology.  Most excellent.

• Capsicum: All about chili pepper plans

• Church of the Swimming Elephant - Computer Professionals Reference (2 thumbs up!)

• CodeFlux - Network and DNS troubleshooting tools

• Annoyances.org is an awesome site for learning the tricks to customizing Windows, Office, and Outlook.  This site is a "must visit" for all techies.

• Beverly Hills Software (bhs.com) - Tons of Windows shareware and tools

• WHOIS by Network Solutions

• SpamCop - Spam prevention and reporting tools

• UltraTech Knowledgebase is one of the best collections of technical hints and tips on the Internet

• CERT coordination center

• Search engines, reference, language, education and more links

• Desktop Engineer's Junk Drawer - Handy information and tools for networking folks!

• Hawaii Real Estate Center (Hawaii Board of Realtors)

• Metric prefixes used in electronics

• E.K. Fernandez's Game God arcade video game sales

• World Time Zone converter

• Paul Thurrott's WinInfo Windows news and information site.  Great!

• Incredibly Useful Sites - Just what the name says

• Acronym Finder

• Valley of the Geeks - Technical humor and technology news

• YourDictionary.com (my favorite!) and Dictionary.com (also good)

• Yahoo Phone Numbers and Addresses

• Network Application Tutorials (technologies such as FTP, HTTP, POP3, SMTP, IMAP4, etc...  Very good!)

• Mortgage Calculators

• Activity Calorie Counter

• Metric / English Unit Conversions

• ASCII / Decimal / Hex / Oct table and descriptions

• And We Danced... - Music index from the 80's

• All the Tests - A directory to tests such as IQ, EQ, Career, Health, Personality, etc...  Kind of fun!

• Internet bumper stickers - Looking for a banner for your web site or a image for you e-mail signature?

• Internet Traffic Report

• Easter Egg Archive - Looking for Easter Eggs in software, movies, music, books, TV, or art?  Annoying pop-ups, though. Turn on your Pop-Up Stopper!

• EventID.Net has an exceptionally useful archive of Windows NT/2000/XP/.Net event ids and suggested resolutions to problems.

• HammerNode (hn.org) provides dynamic DNS service.  Very useful if you want to register your home IP, but use cable modem services

• World's Smallest Political Quiz - Are you a liberal? Centrist? Conservative? Libertarian? Authoritarian?  You might be surprised.

• Major Geeks - Shareware, freeware.  Tons of cool tools.