IBIS Inc Useful Links

Search Engines

  1. Google the best
  2. Dogpile several at once
  3. Altavista sometimes very good
  4. C4 another meta engine
  5. CUSI collected meta engines
  6. MetaCrawler meta search engine
  7. Pick from a categorised collection
  8. Larger list of engines
  9. About.com worth a try
  10. Yahoo
  11. Excite
  12. Lycos
  13. Specialised engines
  14. Hotbot
  15. Search quick, efficient meta search
  16. HotSheet
  17. All in One improved appearance and organisation
  18. Picking a search engine
  19. Robot Information or how the indexes get built
  20. Search Engine Watch information on the engines their use
  21. Web Scout
 

Dictionaries

  1. Onelook multiple dictionaries in one place
  2. Dictionaries, Encyclopaedia, Glossaries, Thesauri
  3. Webster's Dictionary American English
  4. Babelfish translator
  5. Dictionary, Thesaurus, Translator etc find them all here
  6. Jargon Translator computer industry terminology
  7. Acronyms found on the internet (AFAIK)
  8. Dictionary of filename extensions
  9. Computer Stuff
  10. whatis.com more general jargon translator
  11. University of Paderborn links to everything
  12. Mathematical Dictionary
  13. Molecular Biology
  14. Biotechnology
  15. Medicine
  16. Science Encyclopaedia/Glossary
  17. Refdesk a single source for just about everything
 

Newsgroups (Support)

  1. Newsgroup services
  2. DEJA Usenet search engine
  3. Exhaustive List of servers
  4. NNTP list
  5. Public NNTP Servers
  6. Public NNTP Servers another source
  7. Searching Usenet Posts among other things
  8. Free e-Mail Hosts
  9. List of News Groups with descriptions
  10. Country Codes
 

Investigative Aids

Company Information

  1. Company Information dmoz
  2. Thomas Register
  3. McMaster-CARR
  4. Annual Reports
  5. SEC filing information
 

Personal Investigation

  1. Worldwide people locator
  2. Ameridex (pay for use)
  3. Glen Roberts
  4. Equifax
  5. Netmation
 

Maps

  1. Globexplorer (mostly US) satellite imaging with zoom
  2. US Maps
  3. US Topographical
  4. Distance between two geographic points
  5. AnotherDistance between two geographic points
  6. Trip Planner
  7. Microsoft Terraserver
  8. US Gazeteer
 

The Phone Book

  1. World Yellow Pages
  2. Anywho (US & Canada)
  3. 555-1212 general directory residential/business Canada/US
  4. Worldpages (US & Canada)
  5. Canadian Directory
  6. Lycos Whowhere
  7. US Yellow Pages
  8. Infospace Portal
  9. Europages for businesses
  10. USPS finds zip codes among other things
 

Miscellaneous

  1. Oanda Currency Converter
  2. Xe currency converter
  3. Official US time by zone (of course) based on map
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Computing

Web

  1. Canadian domain registration
  2. GANDI (France) registration
  3. Public DNS Service
  4. COTSE Utilities and ID conversions
  5. Speed tests
  6. Cable modem speed patches
  7. Traffic Report Internet usage
  8. another Traffic Report more Internet usage
  9. Weather still more Internet usage
  10. DNS Report to check your DNS
 

CGI

  1. Jargon Translator for computer industry terms
  2. Acronyms found on the internet (AFAIK)
  3. Dictionary of filename extensions
  4. Computer Stuff
  5. FAQ finder (superb.net)
  6. Another FAQ finder (faqs.org)
 

Security

  1. GRC security test
  2. Sam Spade trace attackers
  3. Who is DNS lookup
  4. DNS search DNS lookup
  5. Domain Surfer finds matching domains
  6. Networkice PC firewall
  7. Zonealarm firewall
 

Fixes

  1. Bugnet bug fixes of all kinds
  2. Web Washer excludes banners, ads and pop-ups
  3. Power utilities and lots of general interest
 

Programming Languages

General

  1. Site Experts
  2. Technical Manuals
 

HTML

  1. HTML
  2. HTML building blocks
  3. Web authoring
 

CGI

  1. CGI tutorials
  2. CGI on the WWW - Gundavaram 1996
 

Perl

  1. Quick Perl introduction
  2. Perl tutorials
  3. Astentech Perl
  4. O'Reilly Perl
  5. Wish and Tcl/Tk
  6. Wish examples
  7. Kitchener-Waterloo Perl Mongers
 

C & C++, Java, Javascript

  1. WebMonkey Javascript
  2. Danny Goodman's Javascript
  3. Java applets
 

PHP

  1. PHP resources
  2. PHP Scripts
 

RAD & IDE

  1. Glade manual
  2. Glade tutorial
  3. KDE programming
  4. Trolltech authors of QT-Designer
 

Unix Scripting

  1. Unix programming
 
 

Databases

  1. MySQL
  2. PostgreSQL
  3. PostgreSQL JDBC (7.1)
  4. Progress knowledge base
  5. Progress forum
 

Applications

  1. Minivend
  2. Akopia
  3. Palm applications
  4. Palm emulator
 

Linux and O/S Resources

  1. Linux Canada
  2. FreeBSD downloads
  3. RedHat ipchains
  4. Port Forwarding
  5. Palm OS
 

Hacking and Monitoring

  1. GRC security test
  2. Overview of Cryptography U of W
  3. Security and Hacking
  4. Computer Cryptography
  5. Pretty Good Privacy
  6. Pretty Good Privacy (MIT link)
  7. Secure Communications
  8. Hoaxes, Scares, Scams
 

Other Software

  1. Tucows
  2. Softsearch
  3. Shareware
  4. Jumbo
  5. download.com
  6. Lycos ftpsearch
  7. Filedudes large collection of downloads
  8. Newsgroup services