KSFO's Web Wanderer

The Links for June 12, 2004

A Birds Eye View Of Webcams - Solinas

I found this on the Neat New Stuff mailing list. A Birds Eye View of Webcams is a site which lists webcams worldwide - currently 2636 webcams in 108 countries. The site contains NO LINKS to either adult, or personal webcam, so it's kid safe.

You can search, or navigate via the main menu.

Country Index
Featured Cams
New Cams
Capital Cams
Webcams in Education
Animal Cams

I spent a good amount of time browsing the webcams. This is a fun site - well worth a bookmark and a visit!

Check it out.

Opte - Solinas

The Opte project is a project to generate maps of the internet - daily.

From the site: "The goal of this project is to use a single computer and single Internet connection to map the location of every single class C network on the Internet. It is obvious that the Internet is not routed as a bunch of class-c networks, but it is easy to see that by treating the Internet IP space as a bunch of class C networks, it will be possible to make a detailed map of the entire Internet."

The project is still under development, but there's already been a few test maps created and uploaded. Beautiful stuff - like a colored map of the stars.

Check it out.

Marfer's Notes for Windows XP - Andantino

Andantino says: "Lots of XP answers and links here on a single page. He leads off with Windows XP newsgroup answers; you click an item and the solution to a problem pops up to the right with an option to copy it to the clipboard. This is about as handy a Q & A format as you could ask for. He then provides links to other XP sites worth visiting and finishes the page off with a large collection of XP MS Knowledge Base links. Lots of information in a very user-friendly format."

This site has a TON of information, including:

links from the Windows XP Newsgroup
links to a couple of good Windows XP sites
bunches of direct links to frequently needed Microsoft Knowledgebase articles

You can find information easily by going to the site and doing a "Control F", since it's all one big page.

Very useful - thanks, Andantino!

Build the best paper airplane in the world! - Thom from Orangevale

Thom from Orangevale says: "Here is a great site if you have a Fax and get a lot of useless ads. It also helps, however, if you have a lot of time to waste."

You either need a fax that gets a lot of useless ads, or a few sheets of paper to spare. This site tells you know to build the best paper airplane in the world. You can either view the instructions on folding the plane online, or go to a printer-friendly version.

And speaking of printers - why fly a plain white plane? The site has about a dozen color graphics files you can download to make colorful paper planes.

Check out this fun site. Thanks, Thom!

Free For All!

"Free For All" picks are hot, FREE items or services. It can be software, online services, you name it - but it's got to be free, with no strings attached.

Santa Rosa Steve says: "Bet my IE browser is better than yours! Internet Explorer has been the leading web browser for a long time--long enough to allow the development of a slew of useful add-ons. Here are ones I've found helpful. I use them all in IE 5.5 with Windows 98 SE, and in IE 6.0 with Windows XP SP1. Every one works well, and they all work well together! While installing Easy Go Back in IE 5.5, I was warned that some features might not work, but so far I have not had a problem. These are all free! Links point to pages with additional program information and download links."

IE Web Accessories - Santa Rosa Steve

Web Accessories for IE5 (and 6) Made for IE5.x, but they also work in IE6. Add much useful functionality to Internet Explorer, including Open Frame in New Window, Image Zoom In/Out, Text Highlighter, Links List, Image List, and more.

Google Toolbar - Santa Rosa Steve

This tool bar allows you to search through Google from any page. It blocks pop-up ads, fills forms, links a Web log to the page you are visiting and can restrict your search to pages located in a specific country. You can also search only within the pages of a site and highlight search terms on a page.

ieSpell Spell Checker for IE - Santa Rosa Steve

ieSpell is a Internet Explorer browser extension that spell checks text input boxes on a web-page (form fields). It should come in particularly handy for heavy web mail and/or forum users.

Picture Ace Lite - Santa Rosa Steve

Picture Ace Lite (formerly SavePicNoAsk) allows you to save images in Internet Explorer without having to select a folder and file name each time. You can specify a default folder once, and then use.

IE Privacy Keeper - Santa Rosa Steve

IE Privacy Keeper automatically cleans up all traces of your Internet activity when the last window of Internet Explorer is closed. You can select to clean the URL history, typed URLs, Temporary Internet .

Easy Go Back - Santa Rosa Steve

Easy Go Back is an add-on for Internet Explorer that enables you to use a mouse gesture to jump to the previously viewed page instead of using the Back button. It also supports the Forward button.

Flash Saving Plug-in - Santa Rosa Steve

Flash Saving Plugging allows you to easily save Flash content from Internet Explorer (and other IE based browsers). It adds a new button to the Internet Explorer toolbar that lets you save Flash movies .

Flash and Pics Control - Santa Rosa Steve

Flash and Pics Control is a simple add-on for Internet Explorer that allows you to enable/disable Flash and image display. It can be accessed from the tools menu and is self-explanatory to use.

Great selection! Thanks, Steve!