- People/Business
Search
- Bigbook.
Look up any business anywhere.5/7/05
- College
and University links. Find the websites of colleges and universities
around the world. Once at a a college site, it is usually easy to
find the e-mail addresses of faculty in various departments.3/13/05
- Looking for old friend,
relative? Try the Ultimate White Pages. In addition to phone numbers,
finds e-mail addresses. Sends out multiple search engines at one click
to find that missing someone. 6/5/98
- More help finding people and
businesses.
- Phone numbers. Links
to 23 sources for locating phone numbers and e-mail addresses. 13/13/05
- Switchboard. Find the
phone numbers of both businesses and individuals. Includes access
to driving directions and maps. 1/26/05.
- Technical
support. Having trouble with your computer or software, and you
can't find an email address or a phone number to call for support?
This list gives you the email addresses and phone numbers of dozens
of computer and software companies. 4/9/05
- Zip
code locator from the US Post Office. If you need the zip code
for a street and city address, this site will find the zip code for
you. 4/26/02
- Real Estate
- Apartment
Rental Guide for Florida. 8/29/01
- Condominium Florida rules and regulations. If you own a Florida
condo, especially if you are a board member or thinking of running
for the board, these sources will come in handy making you knowledgeable
of the Florida rules and regulations regarding condominiums.
- Condo
owners manual from the official website of the Florida ombudsman. Helpful
links from the ombudsman. Ombudsman
is defined as a person "who investigates complaints and
mediates fair settlements, especially between aggrieved parties
such as consumers or students and an institution or organization." 5/22/06
- Florida
regulations in 2005 regarding condominiums. From this site,
you can also access statutes passed in previous years, all
the way back to 1997. 5/22/06
- Frequently
asked questions related to condo ownership from My Florida.Com.
Some examples of questions: Do
I have the right as a unit owner to obtain the names and
addresses of all other unit owners in my condominium? Does
the law require me to give the association a key to my
unit? 5/22/06
- Hurricane preparation. A condo association should have special
plans, including evacuation procedures, to prepare the entire
building and its occupants for a hurricane. A
law firm has made
available online a twelve point Hurricane Preparedness Checklist
as well as other related information.5/22/06
- Pending
bills concerning condo associations -- currently under
consideration by the Florida House of Representatives 5/22/06
- Problems and Solutions from
the Florida Ombudsman. 5/22/06
- Domania and Propertyshark
will help you determine what your friends and neighbors paid for
their homes. Propertyshark makes available only results from certain
major
population centers such as New York City, Baltimore, Austin, Nassau
County (L.I., NY), New Jersey. 6/12/05
- Neighborhoods.
Yahoo gives you the opportunity to find information helpful to evaluating
a neighborhood considering such factors as Median Age, Median Household
Income, Average Yearly Utility Costs, Crime Index, plus many more
categories. Makes it easy to compare neighborhoods. Just by inserting
the zip code locations, I was quickly able to find information on
Palm
Harbor, FL and Salem,
MA.7/20/06
- Pinellas
County property taxes from appraisers. 4/17/06
- Real Estate
appraisal, Pinellas County, FL. If you are considering buying
or selling a home, this is a must site to help you come up with a
price. Access to most recent selling prices, square footage of living
space. If you searching for a house, all you need is the address,
but if searching for a condo, you need the parcel number which you
can obtain by calling the appraiser's office at 727-464-3207. 3/8/05
- Real
Estate taxes in Pinellas County, FL. Find out how much the real
estate taxes are for any house in the county. All you need is the
address. 3/8/05
- Realtors
Association — Greater Clearwater Association of Realtors. 12/11/97
- Zillow. Website just coming
online in February 2006. Promises it will allow surfers to get an
estimated value of their own homes or any other homes even though
they are not listed with any realtor for sale.2/14/06
- Answers.com. Get the answers
to thousands of questions. 1/16/05
- Awesome
Library. Links to different
online encyclopedias focusing on diverse subjects such as astronomy,
law and poetry. 3/18/01
- Bartleby.Com. Provides free
access to great literature online. 3/18/01
- Book discussion guides.
ReadingGroups.Com 2/28/02
- Blurb.
Time Magazine May
14, 2007 describes how, using Blurb, you can self-publish and
market your book, and get free software, too, to design your book.
5/12/07
- CIA
World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) keeps information
on every country, and much of this
information is available to the public through this site giving socioeconomic
data, population statistics, and maps. 3/18/01
- CNN five-day weather forecast, spotlighting
Palm Harbor, Florida, but also provides easy access to cities
across the Nation. 2/2/05
- Congressional
record. "The Congressional Record is the official record
of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress."
9/14/06
- Correct
English grammar and usage. Shows how to avoid common English mistakes
that can hurt your writing and speaking skills. From Spectrum publishing.
3/20/05 Another source on common English errors from Washington
State University. 4/13/05
- Copyright
protection. Only takes $30 to register your stories, plays, poetry,
books -- even Websites -- with the U.S. Copyright Office. 2/2/05
- Dictionary.com. Find
the definitions and correct pronunciations; also thesaurus and dictionaries
to many foreign languages. 1/26/05
- Dictionary for computer
terms (e.g.,
fire wall, coo ky, spam) 2/10/05
- Dictionary. Free
Dictionary by Farlex. Includes dictionary of medical, computer, legal
and financial terms. 1/24/07
 Dictionary -- Urban dictionary.
Words and meanings born in the big cities. Might well be called Urban
Slang. 4/20/09- Dictionaries: One Look Dictionaries.
Another great dictionary site. Will search through more than 200
dictionaries
at one shot.3/18/01
- Elements of Style, by
William Strunk Jr. Check out your grammar and usage before turning
in that written report. 3/18/01
- Encyclopedia Britannica.
You can access for free much valuable information her, but for full
access to all the Britannica has to offer, you will have to pay. 5/29/06
- Encyclopedia.com Internet
encyclopedia gives free access to more than 17,000 articles.10/14/98
- English language buffs. The publisher Random
House gives links to sources of information on the English language
including grammar, usage, name origins and more. 1/11/07.
- Florida's Public Library
System. If you have a library card from any library in the state
of Florida, you can use the barcode number on your card to get access
to all kinds of information not available to the general public by
using a search engine like Google or Yahoo. 12/20/04
- Florida's Department of Highway
Safety and Motor Vehicles will tell you if a driver's license is valid,
canceled, suspended or revoked. Especially helpful if someone uses
a license as an ID. You might even want to check out your own license
to see its official status. 7/1/02
- Flower identification. My hobby is photography, and my favorite
subject is flowers. Although I have taken many photos of beautiful
flowers, I seldom can identify them. To help me with this identification,
I discovered these sites that might help you, too, identify flowers.
I selected only sites that allowed you to see large photos. So many
of the sites only show such small photos that it is difficult for
you to make out enough details to actually identify your flower.
- My
Wildflowers.com shows photos of more than 500 different flowers.
The flowers first appear in small (thumbnail) size, but if you
click on small pictures. they enlarge. Instead of skimming through
many photos, you can use certain criteria to
search for the flower you are trying to identify. 7/26/06
- Renny
Parker's Wildflowers. Thousands of photos. Broken into
categories by Common Name, Botanical Name, Family Name, Flower
Color, Location,
and Gallery of select flowers. Since I usually don't know the
name, the first three categories are useless for me, but
the fourth
and fifth are just what I need -- Flower
Color, Location.7/27/06
- Wildflower
photo album from Colorado State University. Categorizes flowers
by color. Remember -- enlarge the small photos by clicking on
them. 7/26/06
- FindArticles. Thousands
of free articles from magazines in addition to many more on a fee
basis. I recently became interested in the author John Dos Passos.
Using FindArticles, I got access to these articles (1);
(2);
(3).
- Free and low cost tools for supporting learning, links provided
by Dr. Andrew
Brovey. Includes anti-virus programs. 7/16/05
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
wrote a story "Bernice
Bobs Her Hair." To understand
why "bobbing hair" created such controversy in the 1920s and turned
Bernice from a wall flower to vibrant rose, I discovered
a site that
does a marvelous job in showing how a hair style could have such
an effect on society. Only after reading this site was I able to
appreciate fully the characterization of Bernice. Famous
entertainers of the 1920s explain their choice to bob or not bob their hair. 4/26/08
- Google
Book Search. What a find! You can download as pdf files
thousands of books out of copyright, including classics. Just be
sure to select "full
view only" so that your book search will only
bring up books that can be viewed in their entirety, not just excerpts.
Some of the books even can be downloaded to your own computer as
a pdf file. .Here
is how I was able to download the entire Bible.12/26/08
- Gutenberg.org.
More than 15,000 books available to be read free on your computer.The
entire texts of such classics as Ulysses, War of the Worlds,
Pride and Prejudice, The Bible, The Koran, 20,000 Leagues Under the
Sea, and thousands more. From the Gutenberg website, you
download or copy entire books to your own computer's harddrive, and
then read them at your leisure, without worrying about return deadlines
or late fees. Concerned about using up too much space on my harddrive,
I transferred the books from my harddrive to CDs. 5/18/05
- High
Tech Dictionary. Includes computer and Internet terms. 8/3/04
- Humbolt
State University offers links for their English Composition faculty
-- links that would also prove valuable to students anywhere. 2/2/05
- Internet
Archives. Thousands of full-length texts available free even to
unregistered users. To try out the site, I did a search on the artists
Allen Leepa. One hit brought me to the title of his book The
Challenges of Modern Art. To read the book online, you can select
one of several choice formats in the red box titled "View the
book" at the left side of the webpage.
I found it easiest just to click on the text that appears in the "View
the book" box. You may be taken to a blank page in the book --
a blank page that may appear between the cover and title of the book.
Don't make the mistake of thinking you have struck out. Just right
click on the empty page to move along to other pages where text will
appear. Clicking on a page, in fact, is the way that you can move
throughout the book on the Internet Archives. 1/27/07
Recently I got very interested in Charlie Chaplin. Look
at the full-length book I found at this site on Chaplin that I
can read free online. 1/27/07
- Internet Public Library (IPL).
Links to thousands of full length articles on every subject that
you
might expect to find in a real library. For these links, click on
the Subject categories on the left of the opening page. Just take
a look, for example, at all these resources on movies,
exercise
and fitness, and psychology.
Also reference sources like almanacs,
calendars,
biographies, dictionaries,
and quotations.
Still more -- full
length books viewable on your computer, classics such as Virgil's
Aeneid and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.
Even journal articles
and newspapers. I
especially liked the information on slavery -- personal narratives
by those who were actually slaves, their testimony given to the Federal
Writers Project 1936-38. 3/7/08
- ITools. One site having all
these research tools: Dictionary, thesaurus,telephone
and zip code finder, foreign language translator, quotations, maps,
currency converter, stock market quotes, and more. 3/18/01
- Job Search in Tampa Bay,
Florida 1/16/2005
- Jewish
Encyclopedia. Catholic
Encyclopedia. 8/18/06
- Library of Congress. Historical
documents, census statistics, workings of Congress. 4/11/00
- Maps 6/18/05
- Maps
around the world. From the University of Texas. 5/23/02
- Maps.com.
Maps as well as key facts and statistics of nations around the
world. 12/30/01.
- Maps from
Google.
- Miriam-Webster dictionary and
thesaurus. 1/26/05
- NetLibrary. Free access
to the classics in literature. 2/2/204
- On
Line Books from the University of Pennsylvania. More than 25,000
books available for free viewing. I just got interested in the playwright
Eugene O'Neill and was pleased to find I could read three
of his plays free online. 3/24/07
- Palm
Harbor (Florida) Library. Includes US residential data, Thomas
Register, e-book collection, magazine article databases. Be prepared
to give the bar code number in back of your Pinellas county library
card. 2/2/04
- Poems by my wife
Fern Gordon 5/1/02
- Post Office -- United States
Post Office. Find zip
codes, local
post offices, change
your address, hold
your mail while away from home.4/30/05.
- Public records database
from Hillsborough County, FL. 3/27/05
Search for court progress dockets (excluding traffic) and also for
traffic citation-related information
- Public
records database from Pinellas County, FL. Both subscriber ($60
sign-up fee) and free
non-subscriber resources. Examples of information available:
Adult Criminal Name/Case Lookup
Civil/Small Claims Name/Case Lookup
Traffic Name/Citation Lookup
Uniform - Pinellas (Reference) Case Number Conversion
Lands Available for Taxes
Tax Deed Sales
Tax Deed Status (Browse certificate listings and display status
report) 3/8/05
- Research
Support Tools. Provides links to dictionaries, encyclopedias,
journals, book reviews, full length texts. 1/18/04
- Salem
(MA) Public Library makes available to its card holders research
resources including genealogy and 300 practice tests for SAT, GED,
and U.S. Citizenship. As a summer-time Salem resident, I can access
these materials and many other research sources by registering with
the barcode number of my Salem Library card. Even though you are probably
not a resident of Salem, you may very well be able to access similar
resources through your own public library. The
State of Massachusetts Library and Information Network gives access
to full-text magazine and newspaper articles if you have a public
or campus library card. You'll be expected to supply your card number.
8/19/06
- SoYouWanna. Just about
whatever you want to do -- from decorating your apartment to getting
a ferret -- this site tells how. 1/16/05
- SparkNotes.
Big help for literature plot summaries, criticisms. I was confused
by O'Neill's play "The
Iceman Cometh," but the act-by-act summaries filled the background
I needed to get more out of this famous play. SparkNotes also helped
me with O'Neill's "A
Long Day's Journey into Night." Be sure to use the drop-down
arrow at the top of the page to view a summary of each act and also
a critical analysis. Don't make the mistake of relying on SparkNotes
to avoid reading the real thing but only as an aid to deepen your
understanding. 3/31/07
- SPC's
Library On-Line. Almanacs, encyclopedias, dictionaries, periodicals,
newspapers -- all the sources you would expect to find in a college
library. You will be required to give your student ID number and a
password that changes monthly. If you are an SPC student, see your
campus librarian for the password. 8/19/06
- Tampa Bay Jobs. The St. Petersburg
Times gives this great resource for finding a job in Florida's Tampa
Bay
- Time. Set your clocks by referring
to Official U.S. time. Includes various time zones. 5/23/02.
- Urban Dictionary.
Certain words, expressions, slang grow out of a city, and people not
from that city would not be able to understand them, even with the
help of the conventional dictionary. Take, for example, the expression
"sliding
pond." For kids growing up in New York City in the 1940's,
they knew sliding pond was just a slide in a park that probably had
a seesaw, too. but no pond at all. Viewers of the website get to add
their own definitions. 1/11/07
- Virtual Reference Desk. 2/2/06
- Weather:
City Rating -- average temperature in cities across the United
States. If temperature is an important consideration determining where
you plan to relocate, this site will help. For average monthly temperature
in Boston,
MA and in Tampa,
FL. Yahoo provides both average and low monthly temperatures for
Salem, MA
and Palm
Harbor, FL (near Tampa). 7/26/06
- Webopedia Dictionary of
Computer and Internet Terms. 8/3/04
- Whatis.com. Look up
definitions of computer and Internet technical terms 3/18/01
- WhitePages. Look up
the both residential and business phone numbers, or if you have the
phone number, find the address that goes along with it. Phone number
information is free, but by paying a fee, you can also get information
on criminal records (State and Nationwide). 8/26/06
- Wikibooks.
Free online books written and edited by online contributors. Be careful
about assuming that what you are reading is always accurate because
anyone is free to make changes, additions to these online books. See
the Movie
Making Manual selected as the best Wikibook for August 2006. 8/8/06
- Wikilivres.
More than 2000 books in the public domain published on this site
originating in Canada. I was taking a class on the author F. Scott
Fitzgerald and was pleased to find his entire work The
Great Gatsby available here. Also available was one
of Fitzgerald's most famous short stories "May
Day." 4/21/08
- Wikipedia.
An encyclopedia compiled by thousands of viewers. You can even edit
an article that already exists or write your own article on a subject
in which you are expert. 11/9/2004
- Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus.
10/6/98.
- Word Origins.
Whenever you're curious about the origin of a word, this is a good
place to go. 1/16/2005
- Your Dictionary.Com.
Includes foreign languages. Helps with translation. 12/28/01
- Zip
code locator. Ready to mail a letter and discover that you don’t
know the correct zip code? 12/24/2004
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