ASCIi Group

Site Seekers

Each month, a member of the group will give a brief presentation on web sites. Some members present sites based on the same theme (for example, real estate), others tell us about sites that cover a broad range of subjects.

2006

• April - Robert Schulz
  
  
  • Exuberant Software
    http://exuberant.ms11.net/98sesp.html
    
    
  • Behind the Name
    
    
    • First Names
      http://www.behindthename.com/
      
      
    • Surnames
      http://surnames.behindthename.com/
      
      
  • Caedes
    http://www.caedes.net/
    
    

    The Desktop Wallpaper and Artist Community
    
    

  • CoolSites
    http://luem42.com/
    
    

    Cool, Fun, Useful, Informative, Safe and Free
    Websites and Freeware
    
    

  • Gethuman Database
    http://www.gethuman.com/us/
    
    

    helps you get a real person on the phone
    
    

  • Washington Area Computer User Group's
    CDs of the Month
    http://www.wacug.org/lnxindx.html#window...
    
    

    This user group makes CDs of the Month which can be purchased for only a few dollars. They produce CDs for both Linux and Windows.
    
    

  • Images from
    "Teal Weird Fields Contest at MIT"
    http://web.mit.edu/8.02t/www/weird/winne...
    
    
  • Windows vs Linux
    http://opensourceversus.com/modules.php?...
    
    

    a desktop comparison
    
    

  • Cynthia Lanius' Lessons
    http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/frac/
    
    

    A Fractals Lesson
    
    

  • List of factal images from 1995
    http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/fractals/...
    
    
  • Studying Mandelbrot Fractals
    http://mathforum.org/alejandre/applet.ma...
    
    

    A Java-based Mandelbrot set explorer
    
    

  • Interactive Solar System
    http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/academy/spa...
    
    

    A Java applet that lets you explore the solar system
    
    

  • Solar System
    http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/french...
    
    

    Another Java applet that lets you zoom in and out of the solar system
    
    

  • NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day
    http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/
    
    
  • Stop Badware
    http://stopbadware.org/
    
    

    Helps you identify bad programs. In turn, if you find a bad program, let them know about it.
    
    

  • Tech Support Alert's The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities
    http://www.techsupportalert.com/best_46_...
    
    
  • Slovak Antivirus Center
    http://www.sac.sk/
    
    

    A site listing shareware and freeware programs
    
    

  • usaSearch.gov
    http://usasearch.gov/
    
    

    usaSearch.gov (formerly FirstGov.gov) is a government portal you can use to search for government sites: federal, state, and local.
    
    

  • BigFoto.com
    http://www.bigfoto.com/
    
    

    A site with royalty-free pictures