Past Meetings
- May 2003
- April 2003
- March 2003
- February 2003
- December 2002
- November 2002
- October 2002
- September 2002
- August 2002
- July 2002
- June 2002
- May 2002
- April 2002
- March 2002
- February 2002
- January 2002
- December 2001
- November 2001
- October 2001
- September 2001
- August 2001
- July 2001
- June 2001
- May 2001
- April 2001
- March 2001
- February 2001
- January 2001
- December 2000
- November 2000
- October 2000
- September 2000
- August 2000
- July 2000
- June 2000
- May 2000
- Martindale Reference Check out their calculators!
- www.google.com Search engine
- Inference Find Search engine
- www.yahoo.com for greeting cards
- www.ohmygoodness.com (also greeting cards)
- Blue Mountain greeting cards
- www.passiton.com (this is currently "under construction)
- www.copernic.com search engine
- howthingswork... just what it says
- www.eboard.com Use this for posting photos for friends (rather than attaching to email)
- the Mayo Clinic site
- members.aol.com/wmjbkr some entertaining java applications
- www.lifemag.com/lifeLife Magazine on-line at. Note in particular "the century's best pictures".
- www.excite.com - Freelane, a free Internet Service Provider
- www.startpage.com/html/quotations.html Great source of quotations
- www.city.kawarthalakes.on.ca" Transition Board for new City of Kawartha Lakes
- www.avp.com a good anti-virus program
- www.search-save.com comparative pricing for computers and components
- Computer security
- Chris Greaves' "City of Kawartha Lakes" rant (Note: This is a 1.4MB MP3, about 9 minutes to download at 28.8)
- http://www.kawartha.net/~apanter/scanning.htm Scanning photos for the Internet
- http://www.tipworld.com Variety of subjects. Most popular computer gossip, books and writing.
- http://www.google.com a good search engine
- http://www.alltheweb.com ... and another good search engine
- http://www.pricewatch.com current prices for computers and peripherals
- http://www.artbell.com Weird stuff, UFO's, weather, lots of pix
- http://www.napster.com Download the latest music. It was pointed out that this is illegal, and exposes you to security risks (Come to next month's meeting!)
- http://www.infospace.com Contents of white pages for all countries.
- http://www.arrow-alliance.com Correction re Avro Arrow address.
- http://www.infospace.com/info.go555/reverse_ca.htm Reverse telephone directory. Or try
- http://www.sprint.ca for reverse directory.
- www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 Security check -see if your computer ports are open to access by others. (again... more on this at the next meeting)
- www.webmillions.com - lotteries - scroll down, click play. Read official rules!
- www.webshots.com selection of pictures you can have for screensaver
- www.avroalliance.com - nothing came up.
- www.travlang.com - vocabulary for travelers, translating dictionaries, voice.
- www.tae2000.com- transversing the antarctic in November 2000. Daily diary.
- www.everest2000.com - watch what's happening.
- www.ehow.com - how to do all sorts of things..
- www.about.com - expert information. Find people all over.
- www.webmail.nexicom.net - will get your mail from a distance.
- www.markcullen.com - a good gardening site, also buy garden equipment here.
December 1999 Meeting Our "C&W" entry in the Bobcaygeon Festival of Trees
July 8 1999 Meeting
www.azinet.com/starshine. and http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/ Project Starshine
Follow the Voyager 'round the world
Keyboard shortcuts (Also check out the Help files in Windows)
June 10 1999 Meeting: Mike Rick's Tour of the Universe
Mike on Manitoulin Island at last year's "Star Party"
Solar eclipse photo by Mike & Ellen, Feb '98
the moon photo taken through Mike & Ellen's telescope
NASA's solar system simulator When prompted, you can choose one or several views.
Star pix of the heavens on the current dateTry: Tonight's sky, Skywatching centre, Mars & Spica
Messier objects
Pix of some Messier objects Click on M31 to show additional views of the Andromeda galaxy
From here you can click on JSP Home Page, Astronomy Pages, and select from several choices for neat pictures of stars and deep space objects
From NetScoop May 19, 1999
http://www.freedomparty.org Freedom Party of Ontario
http://www.greenparty.on.ca Green Party of Ontario
http://www.ontarioliberal.on.ca Ontario Liberal Party
http://www.libertarian.on.ca Ontario Libertarian Party
http://http://www.natural-law.ca/ Natural Law Party
http://www.ontariondp.on.ca Ontario New Democratic Party
http://www.ontariopc.on.ca Ontario Progressive Conservative Party From the January 1999 meeting
http://store.infocus.com/lp725/index.htm The InFocus projector demonstrated at the meeting (on loan from Nexicom)
http://www.infind.com Inference Find: search engine
http://www.metacrawler.com Metacrawler: search engine
http://www.acs.ryerson.ca/~journal/megasources.html "Megasources" - a comprehensive list of internet sources maintained by a Ryerson professor of journalism
http://www.canoe.ca "Canadian Online Explorer" - current versions of the Sun newspapers, and Macleans magazine
http://www.torstar.com The Toronto star
http://www.orlandosentinal.com The Orlando Sentinal
http://www.c-span.org C-SPAN - a TV network sponsored by American cable companies. It is currently showing the US senate hearings on the impeachment of the president.
From the November 1998 meeting
http://www.theultimates.comOnline Phone books (including lookup by phone number)http://www.htmlguru.comA great source to learn dynamic HTML
From the February 1998 meeting
http://www.webgrrls.com/ Web Grrlshttp://www.patents.ibm.com/ibm.html IBM Patent server
From the November 1997 meeting
http://www.mirabilis.com/ ICQ Home pageFrom the October 1997 meeting
http://www.mbanx.com mbanx - shown at October meetinghttp://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/~martindale/RefCalculators.htm Every calculator imaginable.
http://www.planplus.com PlanPlus (financial calculators)
http://www.bmo.comBank of Montreal
From the September 1997 meeting
http://www.cibc.com CIBC online banking - demonstrated at September meetinghttp://www.yellowpages.com Canada's Yellow pages
http://www.inference.com/infind Inference Find - a quick and intuitive search engine
http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/traveller/compass/camera/cammain.htm Traffic on the 401 (where we're not)
From the August 1997 meeting
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett/ Bartlett's Quotationshttp://www.lanacom.com/ Lanacom Headliner - an excellent news program
http://www.onelook.com/ OneLook Dictionaries - the faster finder
http://www.imdb.com/ The Internet Movie Database
http://www.ipl.org/ The Internet Public Library
http://www.schoolnet.ca/collections/waterway/main_e_i.htm Trent-Severn Waterway Main Menu
http://www.dogpile.com/ Dogpile Search Engine - Simultaneously submits search to numerous search engines.
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