1. Share your pictures on free sites set up just to let you post and share your digital images. These sites
make it easy for you to upload your pictures and let others know where they are, and let the family add, too.
| [+] Hewlett Packard Photo Sharing |
| [+] Community Webshots |
| [+]Tripod-Lycos Free Web and Picture Service. Need a little more experience for this |
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2. Create a Website from these and other free Website hosts. If you have a purpose, a desire to learn more technology, and possibly something to sell, tell or just inform, these are waiting for you to start using.
| [+] 1 ASP Host - sign up at [+] This service provides ASP as a free technology. |
| [+] Cox Free Web Site for current Cox High Speed Internet Cable customers - Frontpage capable |
| [+]Tripod-Lycos Free Web/Photo/Blog Service. Popup Adds can be irksome. |
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3. Web Radio - Beautiful music by genre and locale. All you need are speakers. The music player software can be downloaded from the site at no cost. The radios are playing all over the world and piping music and conversations into the Web. Check out a few examples.
| [+] A collection of my favorite stations from Carmel, San Mateo, Seattle, Paris and New York |
| [+] Another general collection of Web radios |
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4. Web Calendar, private for you and any other selected individuals in your family to enter dates. Full of all the notification and date-timer displays you would expect. Even email notification of up-coming events you entered. You select the icons, number of days in advance for email reminder, list facilities, view by day, week, or month. A host of great features.
| [+] Probably the best on-line calendar I have ever seen for the Web. |
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5. Web Weather - Watch the weather patterns from a host of services. View visual charts from satellites as well as radar and infrared enhanced images.
| [+] AZ Central Weather Loop - Simple and easy to understand |
| [+] Accuweather for Rio Verde - Fountain Hills area. If it looks like a green amoeba, its a storm |
| [+] Arizona Flood Warning System (SRP) |
| [+] NOOA Weather Service |
| [+] Maricopa County NOOA Weather Service |
| [+] Maricopa County NOOA Weather Service Doppler Radar Imagry |
| [+] Maricopa County NOOA Weather Service Real Time Satellite Images |
| [+] Maricopa County FCDMC rain stations |
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6. Topology - Satelite Digitized Globe - Find anyplace in the world by satellite. Fly over and zoom in to your favorite dream sites. Try looking a Honolulu, Hawaii, Santa Barbara, or Rio Verde.
| [+] Digital Globe. |
| [+] Quick Bird - Absolutely stunning detail from outer space zoom-ins |
| [+] Quick Bird satellite views of the Tsunami. |
| [+] Quick Bird images of famous landmarks |
| [+] More Quick Bird images of famous landmarks |
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7. Web Search Engines. Not just Yahoo. Lots more features and power in these. Most powerful is Google.
| [+] Google. The best Web search engine. |
| [+] Google Map. The best Web Map search engine. |
| [+] Amazon A9. Rich in helpful features. |
| [+] Dogpile. Heck of a name, but I would′t recommend it if it were not good. |
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8. Dictionary for translating from one language to another - German, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, etc..
| [+] Dictionary at AltaVista.com (Multilingual From - To) |
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9. Plant Seeds. Very rare, very common. Dioons, cyclids, palms, pansies, lettuce. Whatcom Seed company in Oregon.
| [+] Whatcom Seeds, the seedrack. |
| [+] Rocky Mountain Rare Plants |
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10. Waterfalls in the Pacific N.W. and around the world. Everyone enjoys looking a waterfalls. Here is a cult if I ever found one. Nearly every waterfall in the world has been documented and photographed. Especially those in my old stomping grounds, the Pacific Northwest. Enjoy the secenery.
| [+] waterfallsnorthwest.com |
| [+] world-waterfalls. A slightly different take but very interesting picture links |
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11. NASA′s Astronomical Pictures of the Day.
| [+] List of Pictures of the Day |
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| 12. Maps.
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