WACUG: Spriggs' Web Sites October, 2002

Lu Spriggs' October, 2002 Web Sites

http://scirus.com/ A search engine for Scientific Information. You can search only journals or scientifically oriented web sites and save the results.

http://worstcasescenarios.com/mainpage.htm How to react in many serious situations. You just never know!

http://www.satirewire.com/index.shtml This humor web site is full of homorous satires.

http://www.netsol.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois Search the Whois data base to learn about the registration for any domain. For example, search on our WAC club website "wacug.org". The database netsol.com is maintained by Network Solutions. You can determine if a new domain that you might like to adopt is currently unused.

http://exectivesoftware.com/ To obtain via download the Home Edition of DisKeeper defragment software: select "Home User", Diskkeeper Buy Home Edition", "Technical Support", "Downloads", then select "Diskeeper 7.0 Trialware - English. Then you willl be asked to register before the download will commence. The 30 day trialware is fully functional. This note refers to the last entry in September Web Sites column. I had a hard time finding the trialware download; thus this note to help you.

http://www.reunion.com/ Look up your old high school buddies. Registration is free. Use Browser 4.+

http://www.altavista.com/ Here is a premier web search site.

http://raging.com/ Here is a text-only search site from Alta Vista.

http://www.homeinstead.com/ World's most trusted Non-Medical source for Senior Care & Companionship.

http://staysafeonline.info/ Are you safe from hackers? Go to this site and click on "Take a Test".

http://hackerwatch.org/ This is the Anti-Hacker on-line community Command Center. This is an active firewall provided by McAfee.com.

http://www.innovation.pharma.org/ Do you benefit by the lower prices of generic drugs, compared to the high cost of name-brand prescription drugs? At this site you can learn about the arguments of big name drug makers to extend their copyright time, thus ruling out generic drugs.

http://questionabledoctors.org/ Public Citizen Foundation provides statistics, by State, of the number of Medical Doctors who have been disciplined over the last ten years. You must register, and pay a $20.00 fee for a full year's of access to detailed information.

http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/home.asp/ Use this site for investing assistance.

http://vip.6to23.com/fadsoft/AlwaysOnTopMaker.htm This program (freeware) will permit you to specify which display you want to see: "Always on Top". 6K download.

http://news.google.com/ Here is the latest in news stories retrieval from the web. You can choose local, national, world news in any category. Try it out!

http://www.orca-live.com/ Live webcasts from the undersea word of the orca whales.

http://www.kidsnewsroom.org/ Kid style news for kid style people. Each week, a new issue is added to the site. Articles are submitted from each state in the U.S.

http://www.spamassassin.com/ eMail Inspector is simple to install, easy to use and works seamlessly with MS Outlook & Outlook Express. eMail Inspector is your Genius defense in the war on spam.

http://www.nabiscoworld.com/ For Kids! This site gives families an avalanche of time-wasters that could garner some prizes.

http://www.newsletter.rd.com/ Sign up here for the free monthly online newsletter about what's new at Reader's Digest.

http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/3000-2350-9498073.html/ Atomic Clock Sync. 2.6, Synchronize your computer's clock with the Government's atomic clock, 475 KByte download. Use Browser 4.+

http://www.seniornavigator.com/ This website and its database offers thousands of resources including information on health resources for seniors, legal and financial assistance and housing facilities. This Richmond based program is a subsidiary of Virginia Healthcare Foundation.

http://realwacky.com/ Need a laugh? Visit this site for free download examples of wacky experiences taken from the CD "Wacky Hits of the Web" (only $14.95) as well as free MP3 download examples from the CD "Wacky 911" calls, seen on national TV.

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