Web Sites of Extraordinary Interest for Surfers and Web Developers
World Time Server - Correct, Current, Local Our favorite new toy here at the WIZARD, fkap is our new ATOMIC CLOCK SYNC, a free shareware program that will check your computer clock against the Atomic Clock in Boulder, Colorado. At the touch of a button it will ping the atomic clock and tell you the "error" in your computer clock and another touch of a button will automatically correct it for you. This slick program is a free download at the World Time Server Website.
But we've found the World Time Server Website itself is a valuable tool in our international business. At the website you can get the exact correct local time for any country or city in the world. We often need to make international phone calls and need to know the local time (folks hate to be awakened at 3 in the morning). With this excellent service, the exact local time in seconds away.
Hummingbirds.net Lanny Chambers has turned his hobby into the world premier web site for the study and tracking of hummingbirds. Here you'll find histories, lore, photographs, migration charts, feeding tips, health and care information and more in an easy-to-navigate and use web site. The site is interactive and allows (in fact, REQUESTS) you to participate. classrooms all over North America are linked to this wonderful site.
L.D. Helwig's 360vegas.com Photographer L.D. Helwig has created the the best "sightseeing" web site we've ever visited. With a dozen 360 degree panoramic views of every major attraction in Las Vegas he has captured the spirit and wonder of the town (and definitely shown off his ability as a photographer).
The Complete Works of Shakespeare You're not surprised are you? What might surprise you is that this is not the only site offering the complete works of Shakespeare. Other's are linked from here, along with other resources for students of the Bard. Most of the plays and other works are now in html. You know what this means, don't you? Your child can really claim to do his "required reading" on the Internet. By the way, plain text versions are also available for easy download.
TOYS FOR BIG BOYS AND GIRLS....
The first few sites shown here are sources for enhancements to your own personal or company web page. Properly integrated, these features can make your page sharper, more professional and more interesting to web surfers. In the end this means more visitors and more return visits.
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AddMe.com Site Submission Service Based on e-mail you probably receive, its easy to assume that everyone is selling site submission service for $50.00 or $75.00 or more. But guess what? AddMe.com gives you submission service and link analysis service for FREE!! Their Link analysis is fast free and very valuable. Give it a try right now.
Microsoft Investor Active X Stock Ticker. The visitor (surfer, viewer?) can select the stocks they want to view. Click on a stock or news article and they are whisked away to Microsoft Land....... but... Microsoft will allow you a 60 by 170 pixel logo on the destination site. Warning, this requires a "little more" programing than the casual amateur" may be able to do....
7@AM.com has an interesting and innovative approach to web advertising. By creating a powerful and expansive web server/file manager/Java program, they have a worldwide news service offered FREE to all websites. You can view the news ticker on MAIN PAGE. And you can see the news server on our HEADLINE NEWS Page You can add either the news ticker. server OR the clock to your page.
Today's Weather from THE WEATHER CHANNEL
The Weather Channel has joined the parade of Web Sites that makes it's content available to other companies or web site operators. You can specify the city or area of weather covered. The co-branding opportunities give your web site credibility. Naturally, links on your page will take your readers on the The Weather Channel Home Page.
Angel's Free Web Graphics What possesses the tens of thousands of web aficionados to build magnificent and very helpful web sites. It's not money (although Angel does sell to commercial users). It's not fame. Perhaps its just the love of the hobby. After all golfers practice and play for hours, days, weeks, years. Here is a really excellent FREE GRAPHICS site with a zillion images, backgrounds, borders, buttons and more - with no annoying advertising, etc. A tip of the Wizard hat to Angel.
iSyndicate.com has the most advanced and extensive FREE page add-ons. You can choose from Full News Servers like the new NEWS RESOURCES PAGE to Weather Boxes like the one on our MAIN PAGE to inset news, sports or feature boxes. And using these services actually adds credits to your Microsoft Link Exchange Credits as discussed below!! Many of these features require extensive programming and instructions are not as clear as could be desired, but the results are well worth the effort.
Microsoft's B Central is a FREE and easy way to add advertising from 'the Big Boys" to your site and to get your advertising posted around the Internet on web sites large and small. Link Exchange makes it very easy and holds your hand through the entire process. You receive one exposer for every two banners hits from your site(s). And you can buy additional exposers very inexpensively. Plus, as mentioned above, using the "iSyndicate.com" features actually adds to your banner credits.
Computer Virus Myths Rob Rosenberger has worked tirelessly for several years listing and debunking computer virus myths. And he has, over this period of time, built a magnificent web site that updates users almost daily and myths and real computer virus threats. Check out this site and you'll feel a little better about your computer and a little worse about your fellow man.
The Rail It is sooo tempting to be cute and write about the rail lines expansion throughout the frontier in the 1800's and then compare it to the expansion of "The Rail" network throughout the Internet. But to do this would vastly understate the rapid growth of this link system of webpages. It seems every webmaster is adding a "Rail Station" on his or her webpage.
Here's a quote from The Rail's "Central Station" home page: "The Rail engine was built by the eccentric folks at Glacier Point Software who, incidentally, wish you a safe and happy journey through the howling wilderness of the Internet frontier."
The Rail now has 29 different rail lines you can follow from webpage to webpage (they call each page a station). The web pages are each independent creations of individuals or corporations.
Have you found a great new web site? One that is doing, trying and creating something entirely new? Let the staff at the Wizard, fkap know about it. Write to us at wiz@wizardfkap.com
L.D. Helwig's 360vegas.com
Angel's Free Web Graphics
Microsoft's B Central
Computer Virus Myths