Interesting Links

Books

Free Science Books: Courtesdy of physicsdatabase.com, a host of free science books.

Communications

Call Management:

Do Not Call Registry: Stop annoying telemarketting calls by registering your telephone number with the CRTC's Do NOT Call Registry.

Directory Assistance:

Canada 411: Canada's directory assistance telephone directory service.
Inforspace: Infospace takes you to the Superpages search service.
Switchboard: A person/business digital directory service.
Whitepages: A personal telephone directory.
Yellow Pages: A business telephone directory.

Facsimile (FAX) Services:

eFax: eFax provides you with a non-local fax line and up to 10 incoming fax pages.
FaxAway: FaxAway, according to Bob Rankin, is a bargain at $1/month. FaxAway provides you with a phone number through which incoming faxes may be received and forwardsed to your email address. According to Bob, "it just works every time".
FaxBetter: FaxBetter offers a free toll free fax number to anyone. Faxes are received in your email inbox as a PDF attachment where they can be viewed online.
FaxZero.com: FastZero.com provides a free online Canada/U.S. fax service.
GotFreeFax: GotFreeFax allows you to send 2 free banner-free faxes daily to Canada or the U.S. Supports .PDF, .ODT and .RTF file formats.
HelloFax: With HelloFax, you can send & receive faxes,request signatures and fill out forms. Works with Google Drive.
K7: K7 is a voicemail/fax messaging system which provides you with a free phone number. This number enables you to have your voicemail messages and faxes delivered directly to your computer via email or you may access them on the K7 Web site..

Internet Service Providers:

295.CA: When your only option is dial-up, 295.ca provides unlimited 56k dial-up internet service for $2.95/month.

Long Distance Service Providers:

Worldline: Worldline provides Canada-wide unlimited long distance calling for the low cost $3.95/month.
First Row Sports: First Row Sports provides a variety of links to various live sporting events.

Streaming Sources:

Current Compilation of Reliable Media Streaming Sources: A reasonably current compliation of reliable media streaming sources. Every attempt is made to keep this compilation upsate however as the streaming market rapidly changes links are subject to unexpected changes.

Video Content:

Vidvir: Vidvir is a Youtube-like repository of online video content.

Games, Amusement & Trivia

Free Brain Games: Calcultate your brain age.
How Many Days Old Are You?: How old are you in days?
Middle East Map Game: Test your knowledge of the middle east as you drag and drop your way through the middle east.
NukeMap: Simulate the damage and fallout by detonating a few nukes on your favourite locations.
Reverse Conception Calculator: You know your birthday but what day did conception occur?

Health & Wellness

Chest-Compression-Only CPR: A video outlining the continuous chest compression CPR, a life-saving technique.
Exploring the Spine: Explore the Amazing Phenomenon of the Spine and Central Nervous System.
How Old Do You Look?: Microsoft has created a website with a computer algorythm that tells you how old you look just by analyzing your photo.
Life Span Calculator: A quick & simple 13 question survey that calculate your life span.
Rate MDs: Find out how others rate your doctor or dentist.

Home & Business

Consumer Related:

Account Selector Tool: The Financial Consumer Agency of Canada's account selector tool allows consumers to compare bank fees and banking alternatives.
Canadian Consumer Handbook: The Canadian Consumer Handbook website offers information on consumer topics to help you build your buying skills.; Couponmatch.ca is dedicated to helping CANADIANS save money on grocery expenses.
StudioTax: StudioTax is an excellent free Canadian personal income tax preparation software package.A personal favourite!
Taxman: Taxman is a free personal income tax preparation software package.
UPC Code Lookup Database: With over 136 million unique UPC/EAN numbers, UPCitemdb.com is the largest UPC lookup database where you can search a broad range of UPC numbers to find related product information, images, barcodes, online shopping guide and more.

Maps, Measurement, Meteorology & Time:

7-day Forecast -Ottawa: Ottawa's 7-day forecast from Environment Canada.
AccuWeather: Accuweather provides real-time weather with many configurable options.
Digital Dutch Unit Converter: This site allows you to converts angle, area, bits & bytes, density, electric current, energy, force, fuel consumption, length, mass, power, pressure, speed, temperature, time and volume units.
Earth Wind Map: Up to the minute winds from around the world. Click & drag to rotate the globe, double click to zoom in, clicking on location gives the numerical values. Change the elevation to 850 KPa to see the upper winds to locate the Jetstream and the High or low pressure centres.
E-Wall: The Electronic Map Wall: Pennsylvania State Univeristy's Department of Meteorology e-Wall contains numerous computer simulated animations of the weather from various countries around the world.
FlightRadar24.com: Flightradar24 is a flight tracking service that provides you with real-time info about thousands of aircraft around the world.
Franktown Weather Station: Franktown Weather Station provides updated satellite imagery in real-time for Ottawa from Environment Canada.
Gismeteo: A robust forcast website with comprehensive details. Very good.
Income by Postal Code: A web-based mapping resource tool which maps Canada's richest and poorest neighbourhoods.
Long John Index: The Long John Index gives Canadians a daily national indication as to whether or not they should be wearing their long johns.
MarineTraffic: Marine Traffic provides free real-time information to the public about ship movements and ports.
Meteobox: Meteobox allows you to obtain the five-day forcast for any city in the world.
ShowMyStreet.com: ShowMyStreet is a Google map alternative which provides you a street level view of any strett address.
TimeAndDate.com: TimeAndDate provides information on time zones, time changes, and all things chronological around the globe.
VPike Virtual Tour Guide: VPike Virtual Tour Guide provides street view photographs of most municipal addresses.
WeatherSpark: A fresh take on weather reporting.
Weather Underground: Weather Underground weather forcast for Ottawa and environs.
WorldView Weather Map: NASA's WorldView weather map provides a real-time view of current weather patterns around the globe.
World Wind Map: World Wind Map shows the wind in almost real time all over the Earth. You can drag the map around and zoom right in.

Printing & Publishing:

Cover Century: Download the latest Album Art CD and DVD covers. Cover Century archive contains over 500.000 Album Art covers.
Online Chart Tool: The online chart tool in an excellent online resource which allows you to create various forms of charts and graphs for use in your reports, documents or presentations.

Software:

PDFCreator: Create PDF files from nearly any application. PDFCreator is free for companies and private users.

Travel:

Rome2Rio: Rome2Rio offers a multi-modal, door-to-door travel search engine that returns itineraries which may include air, train, coach, ferry, mass transit and driving options to and from any location.

Interactive:

Quick IQ Test: A quick test which gives you a good approximation of your true IQ..

Internet Resources:

USTREAM.TV: U Stream.TV is an internet resource which allows you to create your own webcasts.

Market Watch

Ottawa Gas Prices: Ottawa Gas Prices provides you with the lowest gas prices across the city.

Search Tools

Search Engines:

All The Web: All The Web uses the Yahoo search engine to search some of the web.
Ask: Looking for something? Just Ask.
Bing: Microsoft's futile attempt to wrestele control of the world away from Google.
Blingo: The Blingo search tool.
Dogpile: Sniff it out like a hound using Dogpile.
Ecosia: Search the web and simultaneously save rain forest.
Exalead: The Ecaclead search tool.
Google: The worlds most popular search engine. More than just a search engine... it's a verb!
Lycos: The Lycos search engine.
Metacrawler: Metacrawler searches webpage for meta content.
MSN: MSN's excuse for a search engine.
Netscape: The Netscape search tool.
Seachworm: SearchWorm ferrets out web pages for content.
Webcrawler: The webcrawler search tool.
WHO IS: WhO IS is a domain name registry search tool.
Yahoo: The Yahoo search engine.

Search Engine Guides:

Search Engine Guide: A guide to hundreds of search engines by topic.
Search Engine Guide: A guide to 70 search engines.

Search Engine Tools:

Set Google Search Preferences: Use this link to disable the Google Instant feature.

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