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Internet

• Excite Personalized web page, includes weather, news, etc.
• My Netscape Personalized web page, includes weather, news, etc.
• World Wide Wed Consortium
• Netscape's Home Page
• mozilla.org
• Vocaltec Inc. - internet voice conversations
• Live video feeds and software

• Cyberus As low as $3.95 per month.
• Primus Internet service provider. Includes former Magma.
• Storm Internet
• Travel-Net
• Sympatico
• 295.ca $2.95/mo
• vif Internet

• wi-fi free spot a listing of Wi-Fi enabled locations that offer Free Wireless High Speed Internet Access
• Also try google maps search something like: free wifi hotspots, lake placid, ny

Freenet (NCF)

• National Capital Freenet
• National Capital Freenet CapitalFind
• msn.ca
• America Online
• Compuserve
• Delphi
• The Microsoft Network
• PointCast Network News and headlines
• Prodigy
• Internet Call Manager
• Talk city Chat rooms
• tinyurl.com Are you sick of posting URLs in emails only to have it break when sent causing the recipient to have to cut and paste it back together? Then you've come to the right place. By entering in a URL in the text field below, we will create a tiny URL that will not break in email postings and never expires.
• Twitter, Trendsmap real-time local twitter trends

  Web based email

  • GMail from Google. Also basic HTML for slow connections.
  • Hotmail From Microsoft. This allows you to check other POP email accounts also from the web.
  • sneakemail Email aliases to avoid spam

  Fax services

  • myFax Send a fax for FREE!
  • The Phone Company The TPC service is a collection of FAX servers you may use to send a fax to many locations around the world.

  Email Greeting Cards, invitations

  • Greeting Cards
  • Hallmark
  • Message Mates
  • LadyLynn's Hugs
  • evite On-line invitations, polls, etc.
  • bluemountain invites

  Search Tools to add on your site

  • Atomz
  • FreeFind

  Web page change monitoring

  • ChangeDetection.com
  • JavElink Monitors your list of web pages for changes

  On-line discussions

  • Yahoo Groups Email list and lots more
  • CommunityZero Email list and lots more
  • Listbot Email lists and archive
  • Coolboard Free message boards
  • clubmode

  DSL Related

  • DSL Speed tests: teksavvy, Magma, speakeasy.net
  • DSL Reports Good technical info, troubleshooting etc. The Tweaks section can have a very significant effect.
  • TelcoData.us Reports location of telephone switch, good for detemining distance for DSL service
  • Bell DSL service status Look to see if Bell has problems which might effect your DSL service
  • Teksavvy service status Provides service to NCF

  Assorted services & stuff

  • GatherRound Sharing of your photos with friends on-line
  • Center for the Easily Amused
  • Steve Gibson's Sheilds Up! site Does a good test of your internet security and suggests improvements. Site also has lots of other good info.
  • Symantec Security Check Also tests internet security
  • the-cloak.com Free anonymous web surfing

See also the Computer Programming section for Java, JavaScript etc.
See also my HTML Samples page.
• W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
• Web Design Group Home of the Wilbur HTML reference. They have guides for HTML 3.2, 4.0, CSS, ISO 8859-1 character set - available in many formats.
• HTML Writers Guild Has very active newsgroup for support
  
  
• The HTML Station (www.december.com/html) Reference information on HTML.
• Advanced HTML Constructor
• Webmonkey
• DHTML Zone
• blooberry Extensive HTML and CSS reference
• developersnetwork.com for web developers
• The Compendium of HTML Elements Extensive resource, set up for on-line access only. Pay for off-line version.
• Government of Canada Internet Guide and Common Look and Feel for the Internet
• informIT.com Online technical books, generally older versions but full online text.
• Netmechanic's HTML toolbox Verifies your website
• BrowserNews Geart place to find out where to get all browsers old and new.

  Security

  • Browser Security Check
  • Shields Up! Security Check Good document on configuring Windows networks for security

  Server Scripts

  • PHP Home Page
  • Matt's Script Archieve
  • Perl scripting Supports various platforms including Win32.

  Domains, web site addresses

  ** indicates ones i find most helpful
  • MarksOnline free trademark and domain name database search
  • Internic
  • Check domain name availability with Internic Check in .com, .org, .net. This also will tell you who has registered a given domain and provide contact information.
  • Check .ca domain name availability Check in .ca
  • uwhois For domains by country
  • Reverse DNS lookup
  • samspade.org Lookup various internet information
  • ** WhatIsMyIP.com, or
    showipaddress.com Displays your current I/P address and info from browser headers, or
    WhatIsMyIPAddress.com
  • DNS stuff.com Lots of quick and easy tools
  • whoistheowner.net Claims to get info beyond just the name of the registrar
  • DNS trace Seems to trace in several places, may be helpful if a site is not working right

  Online services

  • W3C HTML Validation Service Does one URL at a time, results right away. link check
  • HTML Validator Software for validation of HTML offline.
  • Did-it Search engine specialists
  • SubmitNow! Free service to submit your page to web search engines
  • Counters Lets you set up an access counter for your web page
  • FreeFind Add a free Search function to your web site.
  • ListBot Allows you to set up free email lists which maintain subscription lists themselves. Users will recieve advertisements along with messages sent through this service.
  • spamcop.net Check on blacklisted domains and i/p addresses
  • free-webhosts.com A directory list of free web hosting providers
  • No-IP.com Use our No-IP - Free DNS and redirection service to map a static or dynamic IP address or long URL to an easy to remember subdomain such as yourname.no-ip.com
  • CanYouSeeMe.org Open Port Check Tool
  • ip-lookup.net Show your I/P address and some more
  • feedvalidator.org Validates RSS, Atom, KML news feeds
  • ZamZar free online file conversions - most formats!, documents, videos, music etc.
  • Net Mechanic free HTML validation service. Does entire site, results available for each page after email notification. Has newsletter with some tips for coding web pages.
  • Barracuda Central Barracuda Reputation - lookup I/P addresses and see reputaton in regards to spam email.
  • Domain People Domain registrar, appears to be in Canada. Offers email forwarding from your domain.

  Graphics

  • Graphics Resources
  • Alchemy Mindworks Inc. Gif construction set, Graphics workshop etc.
  • GIF Construction Set
  • The Graphics File Format Page
  • Bimsan Graphics They do graphics design for web pages, some good examples here.
  • Corel's Designer.com Information for graphics designers
  • Corel site with free graphics Must register before downloading.
  • Animation Factory Free animated GIFs
  • Cooltext Can be used to generate graphical buttons for you.

  Software

  See also the Computer Programming section for Java, HTML etc.
  
  • Archive of browsers of all sorts Lots of versions available
  • Adobe Systems Incorporated Photoshop, PageMaker, FrameMaker, Acrobat, and many other titles. PDFzone.COM .PDF related web site.
  • Allaire Maker of 'Cold Fusion', Homesite. Alternate address for Cold Fusion
  • Copernic.com web search tool
  • Bookmarklets.com Small JavaScripts which do useful things. These are stored in bookmarks for easy application to any page you are viewing.
  • Ipswitch Maker of WS_FTP
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer
  • NetObjects
  • Opera software Maker of the Opera WWW browser.
  • Web Trends Web site analysis tool, link check, logs
  • Helios Software Solutions make of textpad

  XML

  • XML.com Technical information
  • XML.org News and information
  • XML Site
  • XML FAQ
  • TopXML Developer submitted XML content
  • XUGO XML User's Group of Ottawa

• National Capital Freenet
• National Capital Freenet
• Buffalo Freenet
• Buffalo Freenet
• Compuserve
• Magi.Com
• Delta.Com Deltacomm - Maker of Telix and Telix for Windows
• bbs.Delta.Com Deltacomm BBS

Live Streaming & Web cams, related software

• See MEDIA/Streaming section also for radio and TV
• webcam-index.com Live webcams all over the world
• RSN.COM Includes RSN Resort Cam - live video from resorts. Includes Mt. Washington, see chat section also.
• xingtech - New net server Handles on-demand audio and video
• Vortex - more live video here Not sure what this is about???
• 123cam.com, WebCamCruise.com. Live webcams all over the world - Subscription now required, lots of rude popups!

Podcasts, directories of them

• podomatic

• Clients
  • Larry Church I'm taking guitar lessons from him. He is unique in that he will come to your home!
    
    These were done a while back and the sites have moved or been changed subsequent to my work...
    • Technology Due Diligence Inc
    • LuxurySquare.com I was involved with the design and development of this site. It was an online e-commerce site selling high end jewellery, perfumes, watches etc. Site is no longer running.
    • Treasury Board (http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/fin/) Financial Management and Accounting Policy Network
      and related site (http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/fis_sif/) Financial Information Strategy - [GONE]
    • NHSC - Network for Health Surveillance in Canada
    • ServiceCanada Treasury board
    • ABComm This included a members only area developed using Cold Fusion.
    • Canadian Police College Conference section - May 2000. This page may now have been removed as the content was dated.
  
  
  
• Clubs, volenteer work
  • Mike Cockburn's web site This site
  • Coureurs de Bois Canoe and Kayak Club I paddle with, I've also handled the club membership and webmaster positions for a few years.
  • Ottawa tennis and lawn bowling club

Search for links to some sites I have worked on

• Google - Search WWW for links to larrywaynechurch.com
• Google - Search WWW for links to cdb-ottawa.com
• Google - Search WWW for links to dipix.com

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