PERSONAL CHOICES

• Internet Sites

  • Browser Security Test

  • Free Web Hosting and Disk Storage

    • Yahoo! Briefcase - Free Disk Storage
    • Fate Back - Free Web hosting
    • FreeZope - Free Web hosting
    • Brinkster - Free Web hosting
    
    

  • Science

    • ScienceDaily Magazine -- Your link to the latest research news
    
    

  • Search Engines

    • Lycos

      • Lycos Multimedia Search
      
      

    • Google

      • Google Advanced Search
      • Google
      • Google Image Search
        
        Satelite Maps of Earth
        
      • Google Maps - Maps of USA, BUT SATELLITE PHOTOS of the WHOLE WORLD
      • Earth Google
      • NASA World Wind
      • Virtual Earth

      • Advanced Search Procedures and Syntax

        • Google Help
        • Advanced Google Search Operators
        • Customize your Google Search Results
        
        
      
      

    • Altavista

      • AltaVista - Advanced Search
      • AltaVista - Image Search
      • AltaVista - MP3_Audio Search
      • AltaVista - Power Search
      • AltaVista - Video Search
      • AltaVista- Main Page

      • Advanced Search Procedures and Syntax

        • AltaVista - Special Search Syntax
        • AltaVista - Advanced web Search Help
        
        
      
      
    
    
  
  

• Software

  • Free Alternatives To MS Office

    • OpenOffice.org - Free office suite
    • Software602.com -- Freeware and Trialware
    
    

  • Archivers

    • WinRAR -Shareware - RAR Format Archiver - Better, faster, makes smaller files than WinZIP - All the internet underground fauna uses it
    
    

  • Site Rippers

    • Internet Researcher & Offline Commander - Shareware
    • Offline Explorer -shareware
    • HTTrackWebsite Copier - Freeware
    
    

  • Graphics

    • Paint Shop Pro & Animation Shop - Shareware - Best Shareware Image Editor
    • Ulead PhotoImpact - Shareware
    
    

  • SECURITY & System Tools

    • cafeKlysm - Compilation of USB portable Security programs to use in internet caffes
    • Ad-Aware - Freeware - Spyware and Addware removal - Always verify what it suggests you to delete
    • Spybot - Search & Destroy - Spyware and Addware removal etc.
    • Merijn.org - Browser Hijacking Removal Tools
    • Merijn.org - Mirror
    • SpywareInfo - Forum about Computer security
    • Computercops - Site about secutity
    • RegClean - Freeware - It clears the Windows Registry safely and effectively
    • Registry Detective -Freeware - Very fast registry search
    • Sysinternals - Freeware - Great little programs for system monitoring and maintenance
    • TaskInfo 2002 - Shareware - Task Manager and System Information Utility
    
    

  • System Enhancers

    • MultiRen - Freeware - Right click multiple renamer
    • PicaView - Shareware - Right click multimedia viewer
    • Split Files Shell Extension - Freeware - The easiest way to split files
    
    

  • Browsers and Bookmarks/Favorites Managers

    • Compass - Shareware - Bookmarks/Favorites manager - If you have thousands of bookmarks like me, it's a lifesaver
    • Mozilla FIREFOX- Freeware - SAFEST BROWSER AVAILABLE
    • Avant Browser - Freeware - Internet Explorer shell - Adds tremendous functionality
    • Crazybrowser / AMBrowser - Freeware - Internet Explorer shell - Adds tremendous functionality
    • Fast Browser Pro - Shareware - Internet Explorer shell - Adds tremendous functionality

    • Both browsers have a small bug. When a click opens automatically a window that is specifically sized (example: http://www.macroatie.com/fotocro1.htm) if the content is bigger than the screen, there will be no scrollbars, so you may think that's all, when there's more.

      
      
    
    

  • Downloaders

    • FlashGet - Shareware - Excellent Download Manager
    • Mass Downloader - Shareware - Excellent Download Manager
    
    

  • Editors

    • UltraEdit - Shareware -Text Editor - HEX Editor - HTML Editor - Programmers Editor
    
    

  • Internet Search and Download

    • WebFerret - Freeware/Shareware - Internet Search
    • Copernic - Freeware/Shareware - Internet Search
    • Image Wolf - Shareware - Hunt the net for Pictures, Photos and Movie files - The new version v2.0... is buggy and incomplete, check the old one.
    
    

  • Viewers

    • ACDSee Classic - Shareware - Picture Viewer - smaller and faster than futher versions
    • XnView - Freeware - multimedia viewer, browser and converter - It can read formats other viewers can't
    • Google Search: DVD region free
    • DVD Region-Free - Watch all region DVDs on region-locked DVD drive !
    • IrfanView - Freeware - Graphic Viewer
    
    

  • Our Planet

    • ClockRack - Array of clocks, time arround the world
    • EarthBrowser - Shareware - Meteorological software - 3D Earth (mostly for fun)
    
    

  • Astronomy

    • Celestia - Freeware - Brilliant, brilliant space simulation program!
    • Coeli Stella 2000 - Shareware
    • Sky Charts - Freeware - Astronomy software - Celestial Atlas - I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S FREEWARE
    • StarCalc - Freeware - Excellent Animated Skycharts
    
    

  • Fun

    • Horoscope Interpreter & Astrology for Lovers - Shareware - Horoscopes - Surprisingly accurate for me, surprisingly inaccurate for another person
    
    

  • Misc

    • Resource Hacker - Freeware - Utility to view, modify, rename, add, delete and extract resources in 32bit Windows executables and resource files

    • Bookmarklets

      • 508Compliant Diamond Demo Tools Page
      • Bookmarklets Home Page - free tools for power surfing
      
      
    
    
  
  

• Misc

  • Digital Camera Reviews and News: Digital Photography Review: Forums, Glossary, FAQ
  • Spices are Good for You - Turmeric (Curcuma) antioxydant and anti-inflamatory - against Alzheimer's and various other ailments
  • Gernot Katzer's Spice Pages
  
  

• Nice Pictures

  • Glanzlichter 2003
  • Terra Galleria photography
  • Funny Animals
  • Pictures of the Year International
  • Great Mirror ? images & information
  • Synaptic
  • Jeff Hunter Photography
  • Tribalcog I etools for travellers
  • Nature Photo Index - Nature Photography links
  • Yann Arthus-Bertrand - La Terre Vue du Ciel
  • The Luminous Landscape
  • Skip Nelson's Guilin/Yangshou Photos
  • The Tibet Game: Play your way to Nirvana!
  • Dan Heller's Black and White Photography
  • Steve Razzetti - Image galleries
  • FreeFoto.com - Free Pictures
  • Yann Arthus-Bertrand - Postcards
  • Yann Arthus Bertrand - Wallpapers
  • FocalPoint f/8
  • macroatie
  • La Terre Vue du Ciel
  • Travel & Fine Art Photography Galleries :: Table of Contents
  • Andrew Stevenson
  • free pics pictures photos wallpaper
  • Underwater Images
  • Walz Naturfoto
  • Pictures of Mountains
  • Places of Peace and Power
  
  

• My Articles and Reviews

  • My Writings