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WotW or Websites Of The Week is where we want to encourage you to take part in trying new and interesting things that you can do on the Internet. It may be something you’ve known about already, or it may be something absolutely new. Benjamin Rockwell, our stalwart explorer and leader, has found a variety of websites that will keep you informed and entertained with. Every Tuesday, Benjamin or one of the team, will present a website that is perfect for you to check out and learn more. Read below to find out more…
WotW – Opera
Website Of The Week – Opera.com It would be nice if we all just had one browser… NOT! Well, each browser out there has their own ups and downs, and Opera is just one of the alternatives to Internet Explorer and Safari (the default browsers if you are running Windows or Mac (respectively). Opera turns out to be one of the “skinniest” browsers available, using up very little overhead, loading information quickly, and just bringing the information to you without bloating your computer. If you are on the web...
read moreWotW – PopCapGames.com
Website Of The Week – PopCapGames.com Web based gaming is one of the cheaper ways to have fun while at your computer. Exercising your brain, your mouse hand, and your fingers, as you look over some very fun games, and play them, is one way that people manage to keep the brain active. Obviously, you need to make sure that you don’t do this at work… well, other than break time, of course. PopCapGames.com is one of those places where you can find some of the brightest and best games available for casual play. It’s...
read moreWotW – Box Office Mojo
Website Of The Week – BoxOfficeMojo.com OK, I’m a numbers junkie, a sucker for statistics, and I love the movies as well… so what fits in better? Well, what about a website that covers the latest weekend box office numbers. It lists how all of the movies are doing: how many theaters, the dollar per theater, the overall gross, etc. That’s this weeks website of the week, but there’s more as well. For instance, recently Liam Neeson’s movie called “The Grey” came out… and it’s...
read moreWotW – DailyInfographic.com
Website of the Week - DailyInfographic.com I’m just enthralled with statistics, well, actually with information about all kinds of things. Trivial Pursuit? I usually win. I also enjoy seeing how other people portray the information that they try to share with other people. Infographics are therefore, my cup of tea. If only there were a place where I could find infographics onall kinds of topics… BUT THERE IS!!! hahaha… DailyInfographic keeps you posted on all kinds of things that involve cool statistics, wierd...
read moreWotW – ErasingDavid.com
Website of the Week - ErasingDavid.com This Saturday is Data Privacy Day, a day that is set aside for us to all recognize the dangers of too much information being released. David Bond did a documentary in 2009 about his venture into going missing for 30 days, with top level detectives on his trail, all of the issues pertaining to privacy, about how governments track us, and more. This documentary was done in England, but the truths behind this documentary apply to us everywhere around the world. This is not some drug-fueled paranoia...
read moreWotW – Craigslist
Website of the Week – Craigslist.com By now, I am sure a lot of people have heard about Craigslist, but have you actually been there? This simple little website is a source for almost any purchase imaginable. From cars, to video cameras, to business cards, to… even your next job! Craigslist has long been a Wild West kind of area, and it’s not perfect, but it does serve a very important niche that has been left void by the demise of the newspaper. Classifieds have moved on-line, and they are free. It’s a good...
read moreWotW – CarBuyingTips.com
Website of the Week - CarBuyingTips.com Through life, we all tend to buy a car, or two… or… OK, I think I’m on car #12. Some were private parties, but a number of them were from a dealer. I’ve been to the dealer, and I’ve been fleeced, swindled, lied to, and robbed blind. Many of us have been. Even if you don’t think you have… you’ve either been lucky, or very naive. After a number of times of dealing with all of this, I’ve taken a hard stance against the dealers. I’ve...
read moreWotW – Gutenberg.org
Website of the Week – Gutenberg.org With the passing last year of Michael Stern Hart (2011′s Computer Talk Radio Nerd of the Year), we chose to also list Gutenberg.org as a Website of the Week. Gutenberg.org is a valuable resource for people who are interested in reading. Over 30,000 books are contained within the digital walls of this library which allows you to check out classics, but you don’t even have to return them… as they are eBooks. Whether filling your e-reader, or reading on-line, the power exists at...
read moreWotW – D-PAN.org
Website of the Week – D-PAN.org My grandfather, in his later years, became increasingly hard of hearing. As a person who talks with their hands a lot anyway, I’m fascinated by American Sign Language… and as a person who loves to hear, I find myself heartbroken that there are things that many deaf people will never hear. Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, written when he was almost deaf, in itself is a testament to the awesome things that anyone on this planet can achieve. 2 months ago, I was drawn to the website by...
read moreWotW – NoradSanta.org
Website of the Week – NoradSanta.org Santa Claus gets some serious help each year from a wide variety of folks. Some of the folks that help keep him on schedule, are the same folks that protect our country. NORAD ensures that Santa can bypass the many problems with Air Traffic Control (hypersonic vehicles like Sleigh1 require special guidance to avoid other airplanes). Their partnership with the ELF Team (Extreme Little Flying Team), ensures that Santa can make all of the stops that he needs to within the roughly 24 hours he has to...
read moreWotW – LifeHacker
Website Of The Week – Lifehacker.com Coming from me, as a nerd, but sort of a DIY guy, but also a guy that is about making myself better… well, hacking your life is cool and fun. There’s so much here to look at to improve and change your life for the better. From your desk, to your home, your lunch, your mind… your LIFE can be made better by reading this website, and exploring the new things that you can do. In any given day, you can learn cool new tips and tricks for your resume, your diet, your pet, and even...
read moreWotW – Critical Past
Website Of The Week – CriticalPast.com With Pearl Harbor day here, we move to the past to see what happened. I must confess that frequently fascinated by the different films from the past. Historical films reveal some of the issues that we take for granted, or overlook, and sometimes those films reflect propaganda, or how the other side viewed the situation. A website that presents 57,000 videos from the past is a valuable website indeed. The concept of CriticalPast.com is to provide a resource to teachers, presenters, and the...
read moreWotW – HubbleSite.org
Website of the Week – HubbleSite.org The Hubble Space Telescope has provided astounding images of space since it was launched in 1990. Even in it’s early years, when they found a mistake in the glass, they still gained amazing pictures of far off galaxies. Today, the telescope constantly kicks out colorful images of what we could never hope to see with the human eye within our lifetime. HubbleSite.org is devoted to keeping the thrill alive for astronomers of all ages, highlighting great pictures, but also exploring the...
read moreWotW – Epicurious
Website Of The Week – Epicurious.com Ahh, the time of the year when we are scrambling to put the turkey in the oven, make stuffing and cornbread, cook the corn, squash, and sweet potatoes. And did we forget pumpkin pie? Never! But so many of us are not sure how to handle these things. Grandma and Grandpa used to do the cooking, but with families becoming more separated, the passing along of information from one generation to the next in regards to cooking, baking, and kitchen tasks, has dwindled. Enter Epicurious, which gives...
read moreWotW – Wayback Machine
Website Of The Week – Archive.org The Internet Archive, through the Wayback Machine, delivers you to a time when the web was a lot less of a web. Archive.org has spent a large portion of time, crawling the internet (technically, as well as figuratively), to keep track of the information as it used to be. One can easily look at their favorite website from 15 years ago, and see how it progressed. Yahoo.com did not always look the way it did, for instance. Yahoo.com, when it started, was a small assembly of hyperlinks that were...
read moreWotW – 2 offbeat political sites
Websites of the Week - 2 offbeat political sites OK, so there are folks at all ends of the political spectrum, and these two websites are some of the most talked about websites by the other side of the spectrum as being wacky, insane, fringe, and more. I actually like to check out both sites regularly to see what the hardcore people think, even though my own political views are more centrist. One site proposes that Obama is not a “natural-born citizen”, and the other site proposes that GW Bush was Satan incarnate. One site...
read moreWotW – IMDB
Website Of The Week – IMDB.com You’re sitting there, watching a movie or a TV show, and you want to know where you know that actor from? Well, one of the best resources for anything having to do with movies and TV, is none other than the Internet Movie Database. Started by this guy who was just keeping track of his interests and pastimes (movies), this website has developed into so much more. From actor biographies, trivia about your favorite movie, info on upcoming movies, and even some of the more arcane information like...
read moreWotW – Indeed
Website Of The Week – Indeed.com Everyone has likely had to look for a job at some point in time. Job hunting on the Internet can be tough if you go to all of the websites that are available. Fortunately, Indeed.com siphons the information from a bunch of resources that list jobs, placing them all in one nice need location. They post thousands upon thousands of jobs every week, but you can narrow the results to different things, like looking for a geographic area, or a particular keyword. This is a valuable tool for anyone in the...
read moreWotW – Kideos
Website Of The Week – Kideos.com There are so many websites out there for videos, but what do you do if you have children? YouTube doesn’t cut it, and there are plenty more that are worse. Kideos serves up a great option for parents who are looking for video content that their kids will love, and that will be save. Kideos breaks up the options into all kinds of age groups, and the site is colorful for kids, which helps maintain interest. The videos may be pulled from other websites, but they stay within their control, so...
read moreWotW – Lulu
Website Of The Week – Lulu.com I’ve got a half dozen ideas for books, but no time to make them. Alas, I know other people in the same boat, but I also know folks that have completed their books, but don’t know where to publish them next. Additionally, there are folks who are great authors, but haven’t been signed yet, so they need someplace to publish their works in the meantime, for friends and family. After reviewing a few different places, I came across this oddly named site called LuLu.com. A calculator is...
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