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• http://www.picupine.com/ - very simple photo sharing
• http://www.merzo.net/index.html - Museum of Speculative Fiction inspired Spaceships
• http://babelfish.altavista.com/ - Babel Fish Translation
• http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/ - The World Clock - Time Zones
• http://www.antionline.com/tools-and-toys/encrypt-text/index.php - "Encrypt" Text (tool and toy)
• http://www.efunda.com/units/base_n.cfm - Base-N conversion (binary to base-36) Handy!
• http://www.random.org/ - True Random Number Service
• http://cgi.cs.duke.edu/~des/vct/vct.cgi - This VCT (Virtual Coin Toss) page allows multiple parties in different locations to perform a coin toss which they all can verify separately.
• http://www.esolutionsdata.com/ - Just enter the data you need and we'll produce an authoritatve webpage for you to link to or print.

Safer Surfing

• http://www.opendns.com/ - OpenDNS provides a safer, faster, more reliable and smarter DNS service free to any Internet user. Just change your DNS settings to the OpenDNS servers
• SSH tunnel/browser proxy for public wifi hotspots - http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/09/05/190250
• McAfee SiteAdvisor - http://www.siteadvisor.com/ - "We test the Web to help keep you safe from spyware, spam, viruses and online scams."
• Mozilla Firefox -- http://www.getfirefox.com/ - If you're still using Microsoft's Internet Explorer, you pretty much deserve the troubles you're going to have.

Privacy/Anonymity Tools

• http://tor.eff.org/ - "Using Tor can help you anonymize web browsing and publishing, instant messaging, IRC, SSH, and other applications that use the TCP protocol."
• http://torpark.nfshost.com/ - Run Torpark.exe and it will launch a Tor circuit connection, which creates an encrypted tunnel from your computer indirectly to a Tor exit computer, giving the appearance of having the Tor exit computer's IP.
• http://www.gilc.org/speech/anonymous/remailer.html - W3- Anonymous Remailer
• http://dev.allredtech.com/fakename/ - fake identities for testing sites and other random stuff
• http://www.pookmail.com/ - PookMail.com is a disposable email account system. Use PookMail.com to avoid giving your personal email address to suspicious websites.

Network Diagnostics Tools

• http://www.watchmouse.com - WatchMouse -- Check Website / Ping / DNS Analysis / Traceroute

Network Tools

• http://www.domaintools.com/ - Domain Tools - a collection of tools
• http://network-tools.com/ - Network tools
• http://coffer.com/mac_find/ - Vendor/Ethernet MAC Address Lookup and Search
• http://www.fixedorbit.com/ - "Inside FixedOrbit you'll find overall statistics, metrics and tools for comparing networks to one another."
• http://www.internettrafficreport.com/ - "The Internet Traffic Report monitors the flow of data around the world."
• http://www.nanog.org/lookingglass.html - "explore current routing in the Internet"
• http://www.ex-parrot.com/~chris/driftnet/ - Driftnet is a program which listens to network traffic and picks out images from TCP streams it observes.
• http://news.netcraft.com/ -
• http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers - TCP Port Numbers Reference .... just in case
• http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ - very cool network bandwidth test interface
• http://tinyurl.com/ - create a tiny URL that will not break in email postings and never expires
• http://yousendit.com/ - send large files
• http://www31.meebo.com/ - instant messaging web interface (for when you're away from your home/office?)
• http://openrbl.org/ - OpenRBL.org -- is your IP blacklisted?

Demographics

• http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapbrowse-tbl - TIGER/Line® data and 1990 Decennial Census data Maps
• http://www.city-data.com/ - interesting profiles of U.S. cities

Dealing with numbers

• http://www.onlineconversion.com/ - OnlineConversion.com

-- JodyHarris - 10 Jan 2010 (just a few, random updates)