KSFO's Web Wanderer

The Links for December 13, 1997

Real time flight tracking: Listener Bill finds some very good sites, and it runs in the family. His daughter Kim found this one.; This one is perfect for the holiday travel season. Tired of endless phonecalls to check flight information? Well, now you can use this web page to check flight status, distance from destination, air speed, altitude, arrival time, and distance to a ground reference point close to it en route.; If you want to give this site a test, you can have it pick a random site so you can see what the information looks like. There is a quick text mode, but the graphical mode is definately worth a look. I won't spoil it for you, but I thought it was neat.; FlightTracker monitors airline flights in the air by accessing real-time FAA radar data. It locates flights by airline, aircraft tail number, flight number or departure and destination cities. Very cool!; Thanks, Kim - this site is a handy, and interesting, one.
National Charities Information Bureau: Surfer Girl sent this one in.; The holidays are a great time for fund raising. People have the Christmas spirit, and love to help the less fortunate. Unfortunately, not all charities are well run. Want to be sure your hard earned money gets to a place that will do the most good? This site is for you.; The National Charities Information Bureau examines and reports on charities. Sadly, there are a lot of scams around. A recent alert on this site warned people about a fraudulent "Lady Di" charity.; You can review a featured charity, and see detailed information about how well they perform. You can look at a summary of over 400 charities, and see how your favorite charity measures up. Detailed reports can be ordered, the first one for free.; Use this site, and make sure your donations go to places which really serve the people they claim.; Thanks, Surfer Girl!
The Phoenix Gate Shareware Pages: This one's from Randy.; It's a good software site for several operating systems - OS2, Mac, Microsoft, Linux and Unix.; The site is an interesting mix - it features software the web page author acutally uses, and lots of links to other sites. I was surprised at the number of "freeware only" sites listed here.; There's quite a bit more. Other areas include winks for sites containing Web Images, Cool Stuff, Free Stuff, and Kids Stuff. All worth a look.; Well worth a visit. Thanks, Randy!
Yankee Clipper Plus: Taxi Mike found this great utility, and wrote this review:; "Yankee Clipper sits it the system tray and works with the Windows clipboard. Let's say you want to clip the text of the show times for a movie you want to see and while you're at it maybe some URLs you've run across but don't necessarily want to bookmark; just maybe go back to later. Any text you copy into the clipboard will be overwritten with the next copy or lost on restart but not within Yankee Clipper; it saves up to 50 large and easily accessible clipboard entries!"; "Another example... Say you want to quickly print most of the text of a web page you are viewing but not all. Select and copy whatever portions you want and then combine. You can print any copied text right from YC+ without having to first open and paste into a word processor or text editor. Can't do that from the clipboard!"; Yankee Clipper has a boilerplate mode which can be used, e.g., to create a phone list (name and corresponding number) or commonly used paragraphs in a resume (place of work and corresponding info.). It even has a popup calendar.; The program is easy to install but does require some dll's which may or may not be on your hard drive already. The links to these files from the Yankee web page are dead so if you don't have them you might check out http://www.freesoft97.com/vbrun.html, or http://www.filez.com; It takes a little effort to get comfortable with all of the features but it's well worth it! I love using Yankee Clipper and hope Microsoft incorporates "their own" version into W98. See what you think." Taxi Mike.; Taxi Mike - you made it easy for me. Found the software and wrote a great review. Thanks a million - this sounds like a winner!
Cocktail: Nerdly Nullman deserves a plug or two for having a link to my page on his "Welcome to Nerdley's Neighborhood" page, and also for sending in this site.; Cocktail, as you might guess, focuses on mixed drinks. The Drink of the Week provides a little history of this weeks pick (now presenting - the Rusty Nail).; It has an extensive list of recipes. Each recipe shows the basic recipe, plus related variations. This feature makes exploring very easy - start with a favorite drink, and wander around some that are similar. The site is very simple to use, and more than enough recipes to keep your liver pickled.; Check it out. Thanks, Nerdly!