Other Cool Sites
ALL THE WEBSITE I MENTIONED ARE FREE SERVICES_
Specific Search Engine
4MegaUpload
http://4megaupload.com/
- Search files in Megaupload
- Not accurate results even ( especially ) if you search for long keywards
FileDic
http://filedic.com
- Search files from ClubBox, a Korea's filesharing site
Brief Description of Clubbox:
Download agent is required
Registration Requirred
Downloading speed is slow, but can find some good stuff, such as old games, etc
FINDBOX
http://www.findbox.tw/
- Search files from GoGoBox, a Taiwanese version of Korea's filesharing site , ClubBox
Toogle
http://c6.org/toogle/
- Create logos/screenshots of popular website/names/etc.( most be popular, otherwise, irrevalant "text" will be shown )
text
( simply for fun )
example:
DotHomes
http://www.dothomes.com/
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- Search apartments/flats for sale or rent in US, Africa, England, Canada by intergrated results in different database
- Show the location of each flat by using Google Maps
- During my testing, some of the flat is out of date, but it can really help to search some of the flat easily on the web
pLoL
http://www.plol.org/
- Find reference site and books of US law
- Include cases since 1997
Spam Prevention
- The following sites create a temporary/random email address for the use of registration of unknown websites, to prevent spaming of your real email addresses.
- Some require you to enter your real address so that they redirect emails to you, some don't. The advantage of those who don't need an real addresss is that in this process, you never submit your email to any company in the risk of exposing your email address to any spamming bots
Skills
- Install a Site Advisor ( McFee SiteAdvisor for example )
Check whether the site you are browsing is green labelled ( safe )or red labelled ( warning )
* Remeber sites with green label doesn't mean 100% safe.
NowMyMail
( recommended )
http://www.nowmymail.com/
- Real email address is not required
- Receive emails in its own temporary email account
Spambox
http://spambox.us
- Real email address required
- Redirect emails to your real email
tempoaryinbox
www.temporaryinbox.com/
- Real email address is not required
- Receive emails in its own temporary email account
- A firefox plugin ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2650 ) avaiable for immediate generation of email
Virus Scanners
Notes: In order to get a full support for the following scanning services, it is better to use Internet Explorer 5.0 or later with ActiveX.
VirusTotal
http://www.virustotal.com/
- upload and scan files using various antivirus engines online
- uploading speed is slow and system was down very frequently, especially uploading large files
Comments: though there are cons, but it's worth to try as it scan your files with many famous scanner which has different virus defination
F-Secure Online Scanner
http://support.f-secure.com/enu/home/ols.shtml
- It will first download and install a 18MB package before it find out if your computer is infected.
Mcafee FreeScan
http://us.mcafee.com/root/mfs/default.asp
- Based on the McAfee VirusScan engine
- Displays a detailed list of any infected files
- Gives you an option to clean your system
- Requires IE with ActiveX
Trend Micro HouseCall
http://housecall.antivirus.com/housecall/start_corp.asp
- Scan your computer for viruses and spyware
- Able to remove detected infections
- Provides links so you can download missing security patches
- Works with Firefox and IE, requires Java
Panda ActiveScan
http://www.pandasoftware.com.tw/freescan/activescan.htm
- Detect Dialers, hacking tools, jokes, security risks
- Disinfects viruses, worms and Trojans only
- Requires Internet Explorer 5.0 or later
BitDefender Online Scanner
http://www.bitdefender.com/scan8/ie.html
- Scans your system's memory, all files, folders and drives' boot sectors
- Automatically cleans the infected files
- Requires IE with ActiveX
Symantec Security Check
NOT RECOMMENDED
http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/default.asp?langid=ie&venid=sym
- Include Security Scan and Virus Detection.
-The Security Scan performs the tests and offers
recommendations based on the results
-Virus Detection identifies any known threats infecting your system
-No option to delete the virus infected file or repair it
Analyse your site value
Page Strength
http://www.seomoz.org/page-strength/
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Consider the following of a site
Links pointing to full URL
Links pointing to domain
Position at Google for first four words of title tag on target URL
Age of Domain
Links from domains with .edu TLDs
Links from domains with .gov TLDs
Alexa Rank
Domain name visibility
Internal Link Percent
Number of links according to Technorati
Number of search results for URL search at del.icio.us
Listings in DMOZ (ODP)
Links found in Wikipedia
Google Pagerank of full URL and Domain
- And according this, it give each site a rank called Page Strength
- 10 is the maximum
- Page Strength of google.com is 8/10, yahoo.com and microsoft.com are 7.5
- xanga's blog/most sub domains will not work
dnScoop
http://dnscoop.com
- Enter a domain name,
- Check the following:
Domain Age
Google PageRank Check
Inbound Links
Traffic Rank by AlexaRank
Indexed Pages
HTTP Status
- And according to these factors, it calculates the site value ( in $ )
- Will not work properly if the site is a sub-site, for example, this site.
Free Blog, Forum, Wiki
Wetpaint
http://www.wetpaint.com
- Provides a website with the function of blog, forum, wiki.
- Any people from the Internet can edit your website in order to achieve a better webpage. ( like Wiki )
- Provdes free and beautiful templates
Blogger
http://www.blogger.com
- Famous blog publishing website, powered by Google.
- About 200MB picture storage ( but some claim that it has UNLIMITED amount of picture storage )
- Edit the html of the whole blog
- A easy-to-modify function to edit the outlook of the site
My blogger : http://astroboy1928.blogspot.com
Wordpress
http://wordpess.com
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- Another blog publishing website
30MB pictures upload
- Create Password-protected post
- Have photo manager
- Can modify your sidebar , adding objects like calender
- CAN"T EDIT YOU SITE'S HTML unless you have paid ( about US$15.00 )
Xanga
http://www.xanga.com
- Lots of Hong Kong people use this
- Another blog publishing website
- 200MB picture storage
- Can only add a little html unless you have paid
- Ads appear on the top of your blog
My Xanga:
http://www.xanga.com/astro_boy1928
Lefora
http://www.lefora.com/
- Automaticatlly drag avatar from Gravatar
- There is a guiding at the top to show the progress of completing the setting up process
- Administrator can import RSS to personal blog provided by the site
- Adjust the user interface using CSS
phpBB
http://armleg.com
- Templates and languages
- Unlimited bandwidth and posting
My phpBB: http://www.armleg.com/astroboy1928 ( nothing in there... )
Sending Free SMS
GoFreeSMS
http://www.gofreesms.com/freesms.html
- Send unlimited SMS message from the net or cellphone to phones around the world
- Provide your country or city name, then select the mobile carriers
Entertainment / Imaging
Playing Chinese Chess 中國象棋
http://www.chesscape.com/
- Java based platform, verse users online
- Instant messaging included
- Gain score during playing and get into the ranking
Create new look of yourself online
http://www.taaz.com/
- Upload a photo and outlines of the eyes and mouth
- Modify makeup, hair styles with varying real life products
- Useful for "trying out" makeups virtually, you can printout the photo and hand it to your stylist
Search for non-copyrighted photos - Yotophoto
http://www.yotophoto.com
- Search for free photos and images from the internet
- Quite slow to load those pictures
Make your unique icon - ImageChef
http://www.imagechef.com
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- Provides a number of funny pictures
- Add your own text and some symbols in it
- Download it for free
- Sign up to store in its site
Free fonts
Typenow.net
http://www.typenow.net/
- Lots of movie-related , music-related and company-related fonts
- For example Starwars, Lord of the Rings, IBM, etc
- Needs of considering the copyrights
better fonts
http://betterfonts.com/
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- Lots of cool, and amazing font
- Review the font by clicking "change preview text", and type the word you want to test
- Should state clearly the source when using them in public
Dll files
Dll-files
http://www.dll-files.com/
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dll-download
http://www.dll-download.net/
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- Download dll files if any dll files of your computer is lost/damge/out-dated
( mostly because of installation & un-installation of software )
- Confirmed by McAfee SiteAdvisor that both is Green site ( i.e. Safe )
Note: Most of the dll files are located at C:/Windows/System32 - C <- the name of the hard disk, if you can't find any instructions for where to place your missing dll files, just try to put it there and try, it won't hurt a bit ( for my computer, at least )
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