Links Alive: Internet

• Yahoo! Games (++)
  Yahoo has a pick of fun online and downloadable games including Huntsville, Pirate Poppers along with traditional puzzles, card games, board games, arcade games and others.
• Webroot Antivirus (++)
  Webroot, a firm from Boulder, offers the best protection against viruses, spyware data theft and hackers.
• Go To My PC (++) - review
  Access your Personal Computer securely from anywhere with GoToMyPC.com
• Net Nanny (++) - review
  Net Nanny and Content Watch have combined to provide a selection of tools and filter that can filter unwanted porn or content from the computers in your control.
• Mozy Remote Back Up (++) - review
  Mozy offers automated remote online computer backup services. The program backs up your files to a secure remote location. You get the first 2GB of storage free.
• AVG AntiVirus (++) - review
  AVG offers an affordable, low profile system with antivirus, firewall and anti-spyware to help keep your computer safe while browsing the net.
• US Search (++)
  US Search's Intelligent People Search & Background Check solution accesses billions of public records, returning only the most accurate and relevant results available online today.
• Stop Badware (www.stopbadware.org) - review
  A site opposed to internet companies that do bad things to people ... like install adware, spam and bad things.
• Alexa (info.alexa.com)
  Alexa is an intersting search engine. Volunteers download the Alexa toolbar. The toolbar records all web sites they visit. Alexa then ranks the web sites by popularity. This link shows the popularity (or lack there of) of Protophoto.com
• Annomate Online Calendar (www.annomate.com)
  Provides an online personal organizer featuring calendars, contact manager, file and photo sharing, invitations, bookmarks, and more.
• National Broadband Plan (www.broadband.gov)
  The National Broadband plan is an initiative by the Obama administration to establish Federal control of the Internet.
• Opera Software (www.opera.com)
  The Opera Web Browser is designed from the ground up for speed, and is one of the most promising alternatives to Internet Explorer and Netscape. The free version has an ad in the corner. The adless version is about $40.00.
• mozilla.org (mozilla.org)
  Mozilla is a solid alternative to internet explorer. Mozilla contains the base code used by AOL/Netscape.
• XML Sucks (xmlsucks.org)
  Sick of the Internet Hype. A paper on the most over-hyped of all technologies: XML.
• Copyscape (www.copyscape.com)
  Stop Plagiarism. Copyscape is a site designed to help you find copies of your web site on the net.
• Internet Society (ISOC) (www.isoc.org)
  The internet society compiles information on the internet. It includes several histories of the internet, and some statistics.
• Chilling Effects (www.chillingeffects.org)
  This site explores the chilling effects of receiving a cease and desist orders and provides information on copyright and trademark laws.
• Copyright Website (www.benedict.com)
  A web site with information on copyright laws, fair use, etc.
• Web Robots (www.robotstxt.org)
  A list of robots crawling the web. You see these guys showing up in your web logs all the time.
• ESRI - The GIS Software Leader (www.esri.com)
  
• Teoma Search (teoma.com)
  Teoma is a new internet search engine that ranks pages by relevancy
• Clueless Mailers (www.cluelessmailers.org)
  The Latest Ugly Trend in Spamming. The site shows how different companies end up encouraging the deluge of spam that makes our email boxes worthless.
• DNS Stuff (www.dnsstuff.com)
  Site lets you do DNS lookups, trace routes and a few other cool things.
• Comprehensive guide to .htaccess- intro (www.javascriptkit.com)
  a tutorial on .htaccess files.
• Linking and Crawling Issues (www.ivanhoffman.com)
  This web site by Ivan Hoffman includes several pages on the legal issues plaguing the Internet.
• Complete CSS Guide: Introduction (www.westciv.com)
  A CSS tutorial by John Allsopp, edited and designed by Maxine Sherrin
• BrainJar.com: CSS Positioning (www.brainjar.com)
  Has a fairly good article on CSS Positioning.
• Internet Health Report (www.internetpulse.net)
  The Internet Pulse report shows the overall current health of the Internet. It measures this by latency between nodes. Unfortunately, the site does not show a history; so it is difficult to tell if it is a good day or bad day.
• Matrix NetSystems (average.matrix.net)
  Information on packet loss on the Internet. The packet loss goes up if there is a break somewhere on the Internet.
• IPv6: The Next Generation Internet! (www.ipv6.org)
  Short on IP addresses. The Internet will be moving to IPv6. So prepare for longer Internet addresses in the near future.
• The Spamhaus Project - ROKSO (www.spamhaus.org)
  Site has a list of some of the worst spammers on the net. I receive 700 spams a day. I wish it would stop!
• easy messagerie (www.easy-messagerie.com)
  flash ecard and videogames
• Search Engine Dictionary: (www.searchenginedictionary.com.)
  Has the vocabulary used in search engine optimization.
• ODP Weblog (dmoz.theblob.org)
  A web log for the open directory project.
• U.S. Copyright Office (www.copyright.gov)
  Web site for the US copyright office.
• Web Hosting (www.newbiewebhosting.com)
  Web hosting tutorial for the beginners. Also provides how to register a domain name and hosting solutions.
• Internet Traffic Report (www.internettrafficreport.com)
  Overview of the current status of the internet.
• Internet Service Providers (www.ispshakedown.com)
  Search for and compare ISP plans, test your Internet connection speed, and checkout the latest security news and updates.
• Live Journal (++) - review
  Live Journal, Movable Type and TypePad provide tools to publish your blog and photo online.
• Web Safety Ratings from McAfee SiteAdvisor (www.siteadvisor.com)
  This page by McAfee lists safety ratings and tests downloads from web sites.
• Rex Swain's HTTP Viewer (www.rexswain.com)
  This useful tool lets you see the HTTP Header sent along with web pages from your site.
• AboutUs (www.aboutus.org) - review
  AboutUS.org is a wiki developing pages about web sites on the internet.
• Anti-Phishing Working Group (www.antiphishing.org)
  Industry group working against internet scams.
• Citizen Media Law Project (www.citmedialaw.org)
  A site with information on laws affecting "citizen media".
• Spam Arrest (www.spamarrest.com)
  SpamArrest uses a challenge response method to stop spam emails.
• SimpleURL (www.simpleurl.com)
  Simple URL offers a simple system for domain registration.
• Global Information Security Certification (www.giac.org)
  Information Security Certification [GIAC) provides information security certifications for IT managers and security professionals.
• SANS Institute (sans.org)
  SANS provides information security training.
• Twitter - CommunityColor (twitter.com) - review
  This is the Twitter account for the CommunityColor. I will tweet on things relevant to this directory.
• Visualize Traffic (www.visualizetraffic.com)
  Visualize Traffic shows estimated visitors for web sites. I linked to the visualization for this site. Just change the URL for your site.
• DNS Propagation Checker - ViewDNS.info (viewdns.info)
  ViewDNS has tools to check how well a DNS change propagated across servers.
• ZippoZap Domain Name Appraisals (zippozap.com)
  Appraise unlimited domain names instantly for free using ZippoZap.com. Find out how much a website is worth before selling or buying for free instantly on ZippoZap.com.
• Why FireFox is Blocked (whyfirefoxisblocked.com)
  Apparently some people are blocking FireFox browser for including adblock software. Full adblocking destroys the only revenue source small sites can obtain.

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